No, it's not what is happening, the analogy breaks down because it expects a voluntary contribution from someone outside of the organisation. Nothing about a waitress tipping at any point involves someone doing voluntary work with an expectation of variable income. A waitress is an employee of an organisation, the fact that organisation pays them incorrectly is not analogous to someone not paying for open source software.

If you insist on staying with food and not liking the cake approach, consider maybe someone who volunteers at a foodbank. Open source work prepared for anything other than contracted / full time employment is volunteering. That has nothing to do with tipping a waitress.

Awww don't like it when you are proven wrong and don't have a comeback and someone refuses to let you have the last word? I'm playing the world's smallest violin in honour of your tiny penis.

Yes I absolutely am not smart enough to ask someone to send me their complete project so I can self host it just to do a PR request and then package it up and send it back to them so they can import it - incidentally this process (which would achieve what you want) would lock a project so that only one person can make a single change at any single point in time. This would be very stupid.

Now you have two choices: Either admit that you asked something incredibly stupid, or admit you didn't understand the original problem, and also didn't understand my very simple reply to you.

Either way you look very stupid.

It sounds very much like you spend all your time reading The Daily Mail. In reality the "media" report on a very wide variety of results from a wide variety of people. Maybe a diet of less shock news can set you straight.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that you don't believe the outcome because you incorrectly sumarised it in your head? That you don't believe the outcome because you didn't read TFS or TFA properly? Or that you just ignore everything and make up your own answers to suit what you think people were studying?

Thanks for making my point for me there bro

Yeah, and even native stuff is super bloated now.

I noticed an instance of Brave with all of the features turned off sitting at a new tab page was using 230MB.

I remember doing OK with a version of Firefox that supported xhtml and JavaScript 2 that ran on a machine with 16MB of RAM total.

And the current browsing experience isn't somehow instantaneous on a CPU with 16x the cores running at 10x the clock. The user response time is about the same.

I think that browser itself ran in 4-8MB. Probably with the Flash plugin loaded too.

FWIW that old machine would take about 15 minutes to encode a 3 minute mp3 file and my current machines does it in about six seconds. So the hardware gains are real.

Maybe ML will actually be able to find some optimizations that are too cumbersome for humans to manage.

I'm going to go ahead and assume bad faith on your part, because otherwise you're very stupid. But nobody in your potential audience is stupid enough to believe there aren't lasting effects to being bombed to shit.

I take your point about this being before the dawn of ubiquitous tech companies, but what kind of chilling effect did the Bell monopoly have?

Do you think about me when you're jerking off, too? I know you do.

It would take an AI to not get bored trying to construct working configs for SElinux

Sony never actually made "Compact Flash" cards. They made XDQ, CFexpress Type A and Type B cards. Compact Flash is effectively a legacy format and that market very much is dominated by Sandisk.

in the XDQ and CFexpress space there were a lot of new entrants into the market. Among some of the best are OWC and Angelbird, both of which can punch above Lexar's weight. Sandisk is effectively not competing in this space. They produce only bottom tier cards with their Extreme Pro being about 1/4 of the speed of the heavy weights, and their Pro Cinema line being better but not great. Lexar can match performance but get dominated by OWC on price (historically, not sure about now). Sony are competitive with the high end in this space but nothing to write home about.

No one here is talking about memory sticks. The memory stick was abandoned 7 years ago. We're talking CF express cards and SD cards in Sony's Tough line.

I mean it's a nice guess, but back in reality land a quick google search could have shown that they are price competitive with other CFexpress cards in their class. Yeah you'll find cheaper, but pair that with slower. Many people need memory cards that actually meet performance criteria. For "nobody buying them" they certainly had a very complete product catalogue spanning many different types, mid end to the high end, from last decades capacity, to current cutting edge.

If no one was buying them then they would consolidate their product line, not cancel every possible related storage device type. Your theory doesn't just fail occam's razor, it fails the drunken pub test. It makes no sense.

Then you make the claim and use discover to prove. Your "more likely" case still demonstrates complete negligence.