Comment Mother (Score 1) 103
Darn vague memory but - Yes. Keypunch machinesâ"such as the IBM 026, IBM 029, and IBM 129â"allowed operators to duplicate an existing card up to a specific column to correct errors or edit data without re-entering the entire 80-column sequence.
Comment Re: As we look at history (Score 1) 120
Evolution shows how those defenses also make great mating displays, once the animal figures out it's better to make love than war
Comment Re: Traffic is traffic (Score 1) 78
You da man!
Comment Re:Slavery (Score 2) 236
(taking a step back, it is still a computer program executing bazillions of jumps, moves, adds, etc. Hard to see something conscious in there.)
We are a bunch of neurons meeting action potentials and firing synapses... Hard to see something conscious in there.
(Not that current AI is conscious, just that it's an eventual outcome.)
Comment Seeking new equilibria (Score 1) 90
It's a step function price shock that'll adjust at a stable price. If enough leave there is no point in owning the IP, doubt they'd open source VMware. All it takes, which AI makes easier than ever, is a workable alternative with an easy button. Have done a little proxmox - just attach to an ESXi machine and suck 'em over.
Comment Colossus (Score 1) 11
If the tencent cluster could smoke signal an OAI party somehow it'd be a plot right out of "Colossus: The Forbin Project" from 10 years before "Wargames"
Comment Not totally unprecendeted (Score 1) 49
Massachusets successfully sued the EPA citing global warming and ocean rise.
Next step would be taking China to the world court claiming overproduction could trigger an alien UFO intervention to save us from ourselves.
Comment Magic (Score 1) 64
"The magic of dots is when they bring your boss work done the way you would do it"
FTFY
Comment Re: Freedom to screw weaklings (Score 1) 119
Sure, seems like with the blessedly secular higher education driving themselves crazy we will have all these different schools of thought dedicated to their own peculiar name for and interpretation of the nameless one popping up all over. Conservatives have been coming up with their own private education institutions for a while.
Comment Re: Obvious course of action - watching the watche (Score 4, Funny) 100
A three camera cluster should do - any one goes off line the other two can still coordinate laser fire.
Comment Re: School Requirements (Score 1) 105
It happens - my 6th grade desk just happened to be right next to a wall of books with a couple of "Rick Brandt Electronic Adventure" and we were off to the moon and Tibet.
Comment Huh (Score 1) 31
Purely coincidentally asked Omarchy to clone and build the same just a minute ago - able to record background office noise and play it back ðY
Comment A lot is because he can. (Score 1) 166
Because he is not (currently) a dictator, he can't make his own laws. He's limited in what he can do.
Tariffs are one of the few things in which he is mostly able to do unilaterally. When all you've got is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Comment Drummer (Score 1) 86
Something any serious jazz drummer already knows - getting syncopated rhythms going in each limb independently