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Friends who worked at a telecom were told directly by Oracle salespeople that they were all-in on AI and that the software for telecoms that Oracle owns was being put into maintenance or sunset mode.

Funny that back in the day it was considered a “heavy” on resources desktop but now it’s quite lightweight.

His eyes wet…

(I looked up the original script, it’s “Kiazi’s children. Their faces wet.” But I’m gratified that you knew what I meant.)

I used a NeXT mono slab for 8-10 months while working at a NeXT reseller in the mid 1990s. It was a fantastic experience.

Each Nvidia rack is 120 kilowatts, so the power consumption is about the same as 10 racks of GPUs, FWIW.

How much did they make over the years? Is it true that they issued 60 million SSL certificates (I read this but couldn't verify it)?

If I’m understanding correctly, you could sniff the communication between your Smart TV and the manufacturer using this method?

October 7th, 2023, so a bit more than 3 years ago, according to Yoav Gallant, former defense minister.

Impressive - and I have several "Edgar" class Acer chromebooks with full aluminum cases and 1920x1080p sharp screens - will be testing this out.

Media is hard to get right/proper, and tempering the profit motive with social strictures works when everyone is mostly in agreement (I mean inside the organization).

However when the divide is so contentious, essentially binary, appealing to only the profit motive is probably not going to get the desired results.

The CFTC’s refusal to do anything useful serves both parties.

All it would take would be one billionaire who invested in long term bonds, à la Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy…

In a supposedly very conservative red state, Arkansas, the recent TV ad message run by the GOP candidate was “young men who are gaming at home and eating Cheetos all day are why we had to implement work requirements for welfare”; it was a very negative ad that made young men look like slackers, layabouts etc.

Of course, only about one percent of welfare recipients are young men; single moms in middle age are the ones who are a large percentage of those receiving the benefits, for very different reasons than Cheetos consumption.

But it shows how attacking young men when they aren’t even the crux of the problem is en vogue.

BTW House Speaker Johnson has said the same thing on TV about young men.

So Google is getting back $100 million plus per year in rebates for 3 data centers?!?

How does that benefit Nebraska?

Any evidence that it is in a CDN? Some CDNs charge for the unique bytes/files stored only.

It’s been going on since well before recorded human history :-)

I did back in the v2.1 days, but it suffered from needing a bit more RAM and CPU; by the time the Pentium was widespread I had already moved on to Linux. I think in the v3.0 version it got faster and better.

Yeah I have; it needs some polishing but it’s good.

Simply implementing the NeXTStep v3.3 look and feel would immediately solve most problems, I think.

I used an actual NeXT workstation for 8 months as my only desktop in the mid 1990s and it was the most integrated and best GUI I’ve ever used.

Turns out that nature is a lot more efficient at producing meat; I don’t think this will change for a while, if ever.

Bugs for chickens, grasses/grains for cattle and omnivorous pigs are their own kind of bio-reactor…

Interesting to note that Fujitsu did this when the SPARC architecture was popular: they enhanced/developed a CPU for the same ABI.

Seems they have decided they don’t want to create their own architecture, but take the popular architecture and build on it.

Technically you could run OS/2 on it, I think.

Or Plan9 for i386.

Every speaker can be used as a microphone if the circuitry is added to do so.

"The main downside of this is the fact that object storage doesn't have transactions, so you can't make sure that both appending the event and updating the state of the world happen in one atomic unit. We write the state first and the event second, so a process dying in between leaves the state correct and the history missing an entry. Nothing detects that, because detecting it would mean something reads the log and compares it to state, and the entire point is that nothing does. So every entry in the log really happened. What you don't get is a guarantee that everything that happened is in it."

So, they built a thing that pretends to, but does not actually properly handle transactions?

I guess I should be glad they are not a fintech startup...

I think Iceland will find that compliance with the EU regulations would be very expensive and not practical, but that’s for them to decide.

They are selling 10000 gallons a day at some locations, so I find it hard to believe.

More like they don’t have a need to make a profit and they run the station in a barebones manner on real estate that they get as part of the larger site. So it would be a loss leader for anyone else.

One way is to take a “blank” picture which will then show just the noise; then use that as a reference for what can be removed from the image.

AI companies could certainly release the scans of any book that is no longer covered by copyright in the USA, for free download and get some positive publicity for a change.

I do wonder who is running PR at the major AI companies, as they seem rather insensate to how they are perceived...

Note that Enrico Weigelt is the "XLibre" guy and some of his fixes made it into this release, you can search for his name in the message.

Sun Microsystems had hardware and a version of Unix that was POSIX-compliant. This passed the government openness/interoperability test in existence and anyone with authority and budget could buy Sun, and then buy approved applications and run them.

NeXT had a superior development environment, but, Steve Jobs didn't spend the 1 or 2 engineer-years it would have taken to make the OS be POSIX-compliant. Thus, in addition to authority and budget, a waiver needed to be signed off on, in order to buy NeXT hardware.

The "three letter agency" or "TLA" portion of the US government, didn't always need off the shelf apps, but they had to build their own; and they didn't have to pass scrutiny over a waiver for something with a national-security implication.

Thus the CIA, DIA, NSA etc. bought both Sun and NeXT hardware.