Change that to slow release methylphenidate and I'm in!

I'm reminded of a mid-90's Charlie Sheen SF movie called The Arrival. Aliens disguised as humans - some of them occupying positions of power - go about building giant atmosphere heaters to make Earth more habitable by their kind while making it unlivable for humans.

When I think about people like Musk, Karp, and Thiel, it's easy to believe that they are evil ETs looking to overheat the planet with data centres and deforestation, while simultaneously ruining the economy so REAL humans no longer have the strength and health to fight back.

To be fair, the aliens in the movie were more convincing as human beings than most of today's broligarchs are.

Damn! I have a quote from TFA in my clipboard in preparation for a writing a wordier version of what you just said.

Maybe the Finns should just establish a bounty on all wolves, including the human variety.

What if humans started training to become experts at writing like AI? We could end up with a whole industry of poorly paid, not-very-knowledgeable scammers in Indian call centres, cranking out utter fabrications that look like AI output but require a small fraction of the computing power.

Hooray for humanity, I guess?

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So let's postulate a better budget. I'm just guessing, but let's say that $150K yearly per programmer, and $200k per year for the lead guy, would keep them happy and productive. Then, throw in a few junior programmers to do scut work, and a couple of admins to hold it together - add $500K per year to the budget. By my math that's $2.8 million. Round up to $3 million, just because.

Even that somewhat inflated sum is pocket change for just one of the many major corporations which rely on PHP. Hell, it's a rounding error on the annual budgets of the biggest users. So if a half-dozen or so chipped in, they could do it with money pulled out of the couch cushions in the C-suite. And they'd get better maintenance, faster. Plus, they'd spend less money putting out fires, because the extra support would catch more problems before roll-outs. Their reputations would be better, and advertising their "largesse" would be a PR goldmine. So why aren't they ponying up?

IANAP, so I could be missing something here - please tell me if that's the case. But I've worked in tech all my life, I've done a little bit of coding, and I've seen my share of corporate stupidity up close. So I'm guessing that I'm not too far off the mark. And I'm still scratching my head.

Microsoft has probably the most illustrious history of bugs where just visiting a website or opening an email can get your system hacked, but you're right, this is not a problem unique to them.

These days, Lookout asks you before it loads any images from outside your organization...

We should really be building operating systems with more process isolation and clear permissions systems for which apps can interact with which other apps in which ways. There's elements of this in Android, and in capabilities systems like selinux, but the more powerful they get the harder they are to use. This is inevitable, but a lot more can still be done to make this kind of functionality accessible to users.

Not even Python could keep up with having to update from Python 2 to Python 3.

Pocket watch.

Time to start work! Eight o'clock, on the dot!

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In child rapist island world, bad people made deals to grift and graft in between bouts of raping children. One of those people is sitting in the big chair, deciding who gets paid instead of the people the constitution says are supposed to do it. You want to act surprised that people believe the funds are being misappropriated?

The only contractors in the US which have a chance to get anything to the moon are SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Boing. All are hugely problematic for a variety of reasons, and asserting that noticing that is clown shit is itself cuck shit.

That does look pretty good, but I'm not using the network. The only things I want to see are Live TV and HDMI inputs. Everything else is an anti-feature.

Those of you in America who have Ukrainian heritage had best avoid this service. I think Elmo might well throttle your data on a mere whim.

After all, he's already done that in Ukraine on more than one occasion. If he's willing to fuck Ukrainians over half a world away, why wouldn't he do it to the ones in his own back yard?

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then...? Then you serve machines.

Arguably, we started wearing machines with the advent of the smartphone, so I think a case could be made that we're already serving machines to some extent. But with the advent of LLMs - and now a wearable GUI - our servitude may grow by leaps and bounds. Yay!

Fuck your LG stock.

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