I'm truly loving this American experiment in governance. Let the 6 year olds fly the plane for a little bit, why not?

Coen brothers had nothing to do with the dire film Men Who Stare at Goats, although it was pretty evident the tone and marketing traded on making people think that was the case.

A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money

I thought people on slashdot were supposed to be good with math, because 1% of the US Federal Budget is 67.5 billion fucking dollars. Giving a shit about a few *dozen* million here and there amounts to spending effort and resources hunting the couch for coins to save up for a fucking Porsche 911 GT3 RS.

Ah Luckyo. Always reliable for for stupid shit.

There are two kinds of people in the world, people who can listen to somebody - somebody they might even be predisposed to think of as stupid - say something like "buggy whips are completely dead" and nod their head in agreement like a sane, well adjusted adult capable of inferring context and implied qualifiers, or people who just can't help themselves and go, "aaaaakkkkshhuaallly" ...

The latter kind of people are super fucking annoying.

Also, "assembly language" did not go away.

*rolls eyes*

They only need plausible deniability, something 50000BTU_barbecue is all to keen to grant them. "It can't be us, because we didn't try very hard to hide the fact."

In this kind of campaign, it's not all that important how ninjariffic you are. The vast majority of people who will have a reaction to this news are simply not interested in the details - they will assign blame and form reactions based on their political biases:
  - it can't be russia because A
  - it must be russia because B

The system works, people!

I mean, sure, that's the obvious response if Google was in the business of making less money but ... it's not.

Platforms like insta have multiple levels of storage. It's not really about raw disk space but rather different types of space. There are multiple levels of content cache on these massive content delivery architectures, and what he's describing is the strategy to optimise resources. (And like you noted, bandwidth matters too.)

I don't disagree .. this is useful. But I also find it amusing that if this becomes widespread, I can imagine even *less* effort being made to create ergonomic UXes or improve existing ones. "Who cares if it's awful from user perspective, you can get a computer to do all the UX navigation for you!"

Hehehe

could you speak on this more? I would love some more of this word salad

I take screenshots of a bunch of web pages and then just describe to the MML what it's looking at, and how I'd like it combined, arranged, formatted (in markdown, to boot) It's rather impressive how well it gets stuff like that right off the bat. Took a task I used to hate to do, now it takes me a 1/10th of the time, if that. It wouldn't surprise me it works equally well with video, although maybe how cheap it is to do is notable.

Thank you for the product demonstration, AC

"The funny thing is that C and C++ have so many tools to check for pointer issues, and dangerous function calls like scanf(), that show-stopping memory leaks or buffer overflows is pretty much past us, other than for legacy code."

Holy fuck I can tell you don't actually make software for a living

I'm fully prepared to accept that best faith attempts are being made, but ... there seems to be the potential for just a slight conflict of interest here.