Changing your upstream repo away from a commercial service like Github to something else like your own upstream takes 20 seconds if you have to look up the command. That M1cr0s0ft would eventually crappify github was just a matter of time.

If you need some web interface thingie for your central Git repo-base, I recommend checking out Gitea.

That is, indeed, one of the problems, but it's not the one the article is discussing.

It was absolutely not the case that "there was always an eye towards how would this get deployed to a market as a product". Look at how much energy went into building Belle, the first chess machine to achieve master-level play. And it wasn't a simple computer program, it had a full-on chess board with pieces. When dignitaries toured the labs the tour guide would have to invent some bullshit reason as to how this chess machine benefited a telephone company.

Or just read the biographies and interviews of the people who worked there. They'd work on things they found interesting and there was no pressure to make commercially viable stuff. Now it sometimes happened that for budget reasons they'd work on particular projects, e.g., the computer science team got the AT&T patent department to pay for a PDP-11 with the promise that the computer science team would develop document preparation software (funnily enough, this same excuse was used elsewhere, e.g. at the University of Nottingham the computer science department got money to help with typesetting exams).

I don't even know what you mean by "long-term tech development is heavily done in an academic setting." When I look at papers from, say, SIGGRAPH these look like exactly the kinds of things you'd get from a handful of grad students and a PI, i.e., work that can be busted out by a few people in a couple years. When I think of "long-term tech development" I think of something like all the work Google did in AI which spanned decades. The projects that were done by Bell Labs in CS mostly took a few weeks and were done by one or two people -- like how much work really went into the first version of "pic." Most of the Unix work at Bell Labs was passed over to the commercial group (AT&T's Unix Support Group, as well as licensees which fed their work back to AT&T) after Version 7 was done.

That was just an excuse. They had years to cut the prices before the tariffs happened. And cutting prices quickly used to be the standard.

"Did you really think we want those laws observed? We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against. We're after power and we mean it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Much better expressed as 5 Kelvin -- who understands Fahrenheit when you are describing temperature close to absolute zero ?

Compare this to what you would have said last year.

Damn, Windows has really improved in the last 25 years. Wouldn't know since my last Windows was Win2k and my computers only run macOS or Linux and have crashed less that 10 times combined in the last 20 years or so. A well, whatever. Good for people still using Windows, I guess.

Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

Somehow "cheap weapons able to target civilians, but not those well protected" doesn't make me feel happier. And such weapon are clearly only useful for attack, not defense.

... Fantasy worlds out there that would look epic as a AAA fantasy blockbuster triology. Raymond E. Feist comes to mind. Bernard Hennen, Guy Gavrial Kay, Brandon Sanderson and countless other top-shelf fantasy authors and epic worlds. Can't we just leave LOTR be? It's gotten an excellent film adaption, one that will stand the test of time if it doesn't get diluted with trash like it already partially has. Please stop right now.

I think we may be truly witnessing the dawn of western culture and it effing hurts.

Well, arguing from the derivation of the word is just silly, but:
https://founders.archives.gov/...
clearly shows that some of them agreed with that point of view. Hamilton, however, was only one side. Others interpreted it differently.

Actually, all that literally means is that you can carry them. It doesn't say anything about ownership or control.

... to all their competitors, grab the deckchairs and some popcorn and watch everybody else tear each other to shreds. Brilliant move if you ask me. 8-)

... in at least one key aspect: The cash going around is almost exclusively from the deep and wide warchests of large megacorps. Which means if a bubble pops it likely will just be a little fart for regular people and we can get rehired for our bullshit desk jobs.