I still have a Syquest, in its original zip bag, with a couple of still-shrinkwrapped cartridges. I thought they were cool because you could see the platters through the smoked plastic.

1976 and I can picture it like I'm there today. I enter and ahead to the left is an IBM 1403 line printer, to the left of that is the card reader (forget the model), turn left and you're at the console of the IBM 1130. Turn right and there are two IBM 029 card punch machines. It changed my life.

One of the reasons the late 90s was so strong economically was the massive amounts of money companies and the government were spending for years to ensure Y2K was nothing. Hiring tons of people who had no prior IT experience and training them in the exact steps necessary to find and patch millions of lines of decades-old COBOL code running on banking systems.

Until maybe five years ago, we had a blu-ray jukebox in our data center for archival backup of specific application environments.

125TB discs could definitely put those sorts of things back in the data center.

LLM "chatbots" are not search tools. Generative models like GPT are not search tools. They might have success using embedding models like text-embedding-ada-002, or all-mpnet-base-v2, or even plain old BERT.

Its not dishonest at all. What it alludes to but doesn't specifically address is the simple fact that humanity will almost always utilize what tools make things easiest, regardless of the ultimate cost. And the AI developers are literally banking on this. Yes, the information scraped and collated for AI training is still out there. But the vast majority of humanity would rather pay X amount to simply ask their question and get a result than go digging through multiple sources and work out their solution. And because hosting that knowledge has a cost, at some point the original source will go be forced to go away as utilization drops.

Its Windows (just ask the AI your question) vs Linux (screw the AI, I'll research it myself), but with the potential entirety of human knowledge.

The 10th Amendment states that powers not religated to the Federal government are reserved by the states. And this is the state of Massachusetts setting a minimum wage for rideshare drivers within the state of Massachusetts. What does the US Constitution have to do with it?

So much for using Google Docs to write about Dmitri Borgmann and the Buffalo sentence. Even Slashdot's comment code won't allow quoting it.

It's being developed for the CW, and if they can drag "Flash" out to eight seasons, surely they can get this to at least four. I just have to hope they have a better CG budget than what currently airs on the network.

Why climb Everest? Or go to the moon? Or send probes to Mars?

I wonder how many companies who are currently providing work from are actually mandating it. My employer is currently full time work from home, but it is stated that it is purely voluntary, for legal reasons. Currently, if working from home is mandated by the employer, OSHA says that the employer is still responsible for ensuring the home workspace meets appropriate ergonomic standards, lighting standards, etc. that would be required in the traditional office environment, which is why my current employer has always stated that they cannot mandate that a job be work from home. The current situation is under emergency conditions, and once the appropriate government agencies declare that everything can go back to normal, we're expected to either return to the office, or for all intents and purposes give up Workman's Comp insurance.

But isn't their whole thing that ""... a certain plasma dominated by highly energetic particles should become increasingly better confined and stable as temperatures increase"?

As a friend put it: "Intellectual Property as a concept is meant to start the engine, not run it."

Teams was released as a .deb or .rpm last year, at least in preview.

“The Microsoft Teams client is the first Office app that is coming to Linux desktops, and will support all of Teams’ core capabilities,” explains Marissa Salazar, a product marketing manager at Microsoft.

That use of the work "first" would imply they have more planned.

The rules were actually put in place after the Internet became a thing, and as it was explained to me, its because even though you may be working from home, your position is not exempted from Worker's Compensation Insurance, and so the employer has an obligation to minimize the risk.