4 hours won't cover the average outage, but it's long enough to prepare for it.

Iâ(TM)m not so sure. I have a strong feeling that the oh no, your AI is TOO POWERFUL! stuff is largely bullshit that helps build hype and supports grift. I know AI tools have gotten better but Iâ(TM)m enmeshed in this shit every day and mostly all we keep doing is fixing shit AI results. I have developers whose primary job is now taking AI designed and generated proof-of-concepts (proofs-of-concept?) and fixing (or, rewriting) almost everything about the architecture and code to get it operationalized and scalable. But who knowsâ¦maybe this NEXT version will be the one that solves all our problems. /s

Mixed with first rate marketing.

It's also disingenuous to call a merger "swallowing." While the bigger company (if it was bigger at the time) usually comes out on top, it's not a guarantee. Smaller companies often have far more agile political chops and end up taking control. There are several examples in the banking industry.

Imagine a beowulf cluster...

With a teacher that makes up what you want to hear.

(Sadly, that happens with live teachers, too.)

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

No-haggle dealerships aren't a new idea. They've been around for decades (Saturn was no-haggle at all their dealerships). The ones that have reasonable prices do well, the ones that don't die.

Something that sits between the internet and the browser and alters the page before the browser sees it? Then Google can pound sand.

I hate puppies.

Because running a university is a business. Even a public university. They're going to admit x number of students. They'll choose the top x number of applicants, whether those students score well or poorly on the admission exams. If the top x applicants signed their applications with an "x" in crayon, they'd be admitted, because that's the best the pool has to offer. Because there are quotas.

And yet, we created (or didn't) covid, and the entire world panicked in the most insanely stupid, suicidal way possible for better than a year, causing economic damage that nobody alive today will live long enough to see the full recovery from.

It always comes down to who defines the terms. If a robot can't allow you to come to harm, who defines what constitutes harm? Even "not allowed to harm a human" is easily subverted, in the "Convert to (insert deity of your choice) or die!" "OK, I convert." "Now I have to kill you to keep from going back to your wicked ways and damning your soul for all eternity! It's for your own good!" sort of way.

I'm all for such rules, as long as I, and only I, get to define the terms.

Or...I posted from a stupid device that replaced the standard ASCII 0x22 quote character with UTF U+201C & U+201D quote characters and replaced standard apostrophes with U+2019 "right single quotation mark" characters. It's what I get for trying for Frosty Piss and posting from my phone instead of waiting until I was at a computer that doesn't do that stupid shit.

Also, it sure would be nice if /. would let a user EDIT a fucking comment after the fact.