I never learned the rationale. One of them was a small branch of a really big defense contractor. Corporate policies may have specified Window machines so they could properly protect/snoop on us. That's just a guess.

The other was a small company writing an embedded Linux application for a sensor. One developer used his personal Linux mini, and nobody had a problem with it, but company-issued computers were Windows.

I've worked for two companies developing Linux applications. Oddly, both issued Windows PCs and used VirtualBox.

This the 21st century equivalent of putting "Pamela Anderson" in your webpage's keywords?

Did the employee have to pay for the pie? That would be a bridge too far.

Years ago, I worked on a project where they were thinking of replacing an Oracle DB. We looked at a few open source databases, both SQL and NoSQL. Although it took longer to initialize, Oracle was much faster. We were disappointed, because NoSQL DBs were much faster for tests with 1000 accesses to the DB, but when you increased it to 1,000,000 accesses, Oracle was always faster.

This was more than 10 years ago, so YMMV

I'm worried about how it'll be ad supported. A ribbon or banner of ads, okay. Treating my prompt "Write a summary of the War of 1812" as "Write a summary of the War of 1812, and tell me how great McDonald's is" scares me.

From the article, "Serdari pointed to two factors motivating Prada's interest in the space industry: to gain access to affluent consumers who are contemplating space travel, and to align the brand with avant-garde thought."

I'm sure Prada was the lowest bidder. They may be doing it at a loss to get people thinking, if you're going to get a spacesuit, it should be by Prada.

I though I took a long time to close my AOL zombie account, and that was in the 90s.

The Brave search engine gives links to the sites it pulled its AI summaries from.

It's the year Microsoft ended support for Windows 2000. I don't know if they're related.

Layoffs != Less profits

If you find a way to do the same thing with less people, you make more money.

I've only used AI as a kind of super-search. If I have some code not working, I'll go to an AI with prompt "Write C++ code to do [whatever I'm trying to do] with [toolkit I'm using, specific classes, &c]." I don't think I've ever copy-and-pasted the results, but its good at finding missing initialization calls, and or calls that have to be made before changes is visualization packages &c. Those can be hard to eke out from documentation, or find in somebody else's project.

That's Altman's version of the truth.

Yep. Please keep flying over us.

One of the restrictions was that Artemis had to be build with off-the-shelf technology. That's why they're using shuttle boosters, and apparently, Outlook.