Volume over time. Git is designed to allow offline work, so each working copy has it's own repository you commit to. With a monorepo that's a lot of history that isn't being used by any one agent working in only part of the code. So they uninvented Git, removing the "enable off-line work without a connection to a master repository" requirement. Which put them back at the requirements that spawned Subversion. And proceeded to re-implement Subversion. Badly.

Agreed, and centralized coordination is a HUGE simplifying assumption to the task at hand.

I mean, come on. The freezers are on the Internet, no firewalls, fully accessible to anyone with a browser. Their "security" consists of rotating the admin password daily... to the current date. There are guppies out there that could gain access to these. The root cause here is willful negligence by the retailer's IT department.

The way you deal with Flock and their cameras is that you tell them you are terminating your contract with them and will be remitting payment for the remainder of the contract term. They have 30 days to remove the cameras from your property or arrange for removal. If the cameras aren't removed, you will remove them and store them at Flock's expense until Flock comes to pick them up or makes arrangements for pick-up.

Then you send them their money and, if the cameras are still there after 30 days, take 'em down and put them in storage. The cameras may belong to Flock, but it's still your property they're mounted on and Flock no longer has any right to have their stuff on your property. Don't argue with them, don't get into a debate with them, just do as you said you'd do. Sure they could take you to court, but seeing as they've received all the money they'd've been entitled to and their property is sitting there nice and undamaged waiting for them to come get it the court's going to ask why their case shouldn't be dismissed for failure to state a claim.

No, if you read it says that read performance is pretty much equal to uncompressed DRAM so you don't have to take a latency penalty.

Those "very special" use cases are actually fairly common. I routinely deal with data structures in software I write that are read-mostly: large data tables that are accessed in the inner loop (so need fast access) but whose data is updated infrequently (anywhere from minutes to days between changes, and often the changes are in batches so many changes can be applied in one operation). Being able to put them in compressed memory would free up a lot of normal memory for things that do actively change, which would speed up the application noticeably.

I don't think CRAM is a solution to the current memory price crunch, but it's certainly an interesting idea. The Redis cache software, for example, would probably benefit highly from higher capacity. And of course the same techniques can be adapted to flash/SSD drives where the memory itself isn't necessarily the speed bottleneck.

The complaining is rote at this point in the stages of grieving: "that's was never considered 'intelligence' anyways!' The thing we now care (and always did) care about is whatever AI is currently NOT doing because we have souls, just not quite all those dummies at Church used to say!!"

How do you see the future of gaming? Interacting with AI agents with per-programmed personalities and responses to everything? Pick you dialog from a list of 4 choices still? It's not going to be like that any more.

Google says that patent expired in September of 2025, as it was filed in 2005. Yes, we are getting old.

Personally, I prefer the old rectangular Thinkpad charging connectors.

Depends entirely on the numbers and whether those resources are scarce in that place. If the datacenter ends up funding the expansions, and then the community make a profit every month forerever on supplying those utilities, it's a win.

"Past performance is no guarantee of future returns" applies to any recorded dataset.

Not to recorded datasets, particularly. For example, that's the reason to think the sun will rise tomorrow morning - it always has.

When I think about AM radio now, I think about how Alex Jones was successfully sued for $99 bazillion for saying AM radio stuff. Where I grew up, Rush was always to be found on a channel or two.

Depends on "your idea" - was it exclusively yours, does it even constitute an "idea" by that point? I took a tour of Motorola and made a pre-service-launch phone call on Iridium in 1998. SatComms hasn't been an "idea" for many decades, it's a big area that advances with thousands of new ideas every year.

Any reason to disbelieve it or the benefits? Or just emotionally-centered anti-AI-sentiment?

Well if people are successfully blocking data center construction, their objections are a 'factual' problem for big tech. But people are just going to switch to complaining about blocking out the stars.