... a new term to describe such people. The malamanteu: wikanon.

The CEO sees other tech companies getting giant boosts and is pissed that isn't him. Line going up for other companies more than his.

When in doubt, blind alignment to the hype of the day should, potentially get there. No room for nuance or actual vision to what would capture the indicated missing value, AI should just provide it... somehow.

... the markets got into trouble in 2007-2009. CDOs and CDSs became "artificial" and it became possible to go long or short a security that really didn't exist. Add that to the creation of "naked" credit default swaps (CDS) and more money was being bet (in the end, shorted) on things than the face value of the things themselves. Naked CDSs are pretty much gamblers bets. Because you aren't buying them to protect an asset that you have. And gambling commissions are much better placed to keep an eye on such markets. And whether a game gets thrown if too many bets are placed against it.

It's like me (and all your other neighbors) buying fire insurance on your house. When there's more money to be made by your house burning down, the invisible hand of the market moves so as to make that happen.

Why the hell bother using an AI when you could just type what you would prompt into the comment directly?

To the point you put into the LLM, it's perfectly plausible that someone wiring up an LLM to their email and their bank account suddenly are at huge risk of a scam working. Whatever problems exist in the technical implementations the fact remains that folks greasing the wheels for their money to go out autonomously incur the risk of..... their money going out autonomously...

Didn't Colossus demand that Dr Forbin be placed under video surveillance as well?

Actually, getting the CO2 out of the atmosphere is easy. Just grow stuff faster than you dump it in. The Keeling Curve slope goes negative every year due to uptake by vegitation.

Problem: To grow stuff, you need more than just the CO2. Plant growth will hit a limit when any one of the necessary nutrients is consumed Right now, we need to introduce more fixed nitrogen (NOx) into the cycle.

Well the answer is of course they are out of touch and I don't actually have a 'right question', I just wanted to fit in.

.. when making presentations to management:

• No more that three bullet points per slide.
• No more than three slides.
• Treat them like three-year-olds.

You just have to keep upping the dosage to get an effect.

echo "#include <stdio.h>" >> Hello.c

No, it's just the sort of thing that the UEFI design kind of does.

You load a bunch of stuff that all initializes, just in case it might be needed. One of the key optimizations in some UEFI implementations is trimming down the things that get loaded based on an early assessment of whether this or that would be relevant to the expected boot. For example, hit key to enter setup and suddenly it has to load all the things to make sure all the various menus work.

Kind of like setting up the NIC in the OS before anything asks for network access, so that every network access isn't burdened with having to set up the network access. If the driver is already loaded then a variety of potential UEFI network code could just use it (PXE, HTTP, iSCSI, various crap from vendors like pre-OS firmware download)

How many tons of CO2 were produced by AI answering your questions?

We will see, but *so far* Ford has not been as aggressive about that sort of thing as BMW or Chevy. The BlueCruise requires actively curated lidar maps, so at least they have a rationale for that being an ongoing subscription. The other subscriptions are similar, updating GPS maps (who needs those with phone) and data connectivity (but if you have a phone, you don't need it). So far they haven't charged for remote vehicle services which arguably could be charged for the SIM service and/or server infrastructure they have.

Note that their point is they state they had the car's onboard system also provide AC to the load side, making the cost lower to incrementally make it a backup unit.

Most solutions provide DC and a separate inverter is required to power the house.

Presumably this came from the desire to consolidate things and wanted to do the 'plug power tools into the truck' feature and the delta to get to 'car side house scale inverter' was appealing.

I haven't looked into this detail, but if you do a network capture, you are likely to see some ipv6 link local activity during boot even if the server is never going to pxe boot. As it boots, it loads a network stack and generally becomes reachable ahead of any actual use. It may refrain from DHCP unless you do an activity that will call for it, but likely will be reachable over ipv6 link local.