Is “AI” (ie, large language modeling, also known as enhanced word prediction; and with no logical reasoning ability) really so important that this infrastructure needs to be built?
For the love of the gods, let this bubble burst already!
More than Google does
No words
… goes on to write article
I was part of a team that was trained in COBOL to help update code in time for Y2K. We’ve been headhunted by the same company several times in the last ten years to further update and maintain the same code, originally written in the mid-1970s. I’m now 56, and I suspect that code base will live at least as long as I do.
Do people still use Chrome ?
I recognise that reference!
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
Memory isn’t infinite, CPUs can’t process all integers, and Santa isn’t real
Wait, what? Need a spoiler tag.
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Employees make a choice to work there and therefore choose to be part of that problem.
It will be interesting to find out if these words will come back and haunt them.
I’ve been running Linux on all my computers for literally decades. But I’ve just started an online course and the college requires Edge — not Chromium, must be Edge. Yes, I’ve changed useragent, only Edge will work. Grrrr.
Maybe a $10 Uber Eats gift card?
Thanks for the explanation!
Buy a visa/Mastercard gift card from the supermarket with cash? Or have I missed your point?
No, have you?
Just give them a $10 Uber Eats card!
I doubt anything will happen. They’re “too big to fail”. people will still want their products and we’ll move on and forget. Like Boeing or Microsoft or Sony or Tesla, Crowdstrike will issue a media release that basically says, “Oh whoops, my bad!” and just keep going.
The vendors like you to buy a new phone every year so that they can get more money from you.
When they advertise that “only our latest product has smart thingy, or picture erase, or circle to search”, they’re really telling you that they are trying to find a reason for you to throw perfectly good hardware away so that you can spend more money.
If the software lasts that long, and it’s doing what you need, there’s no reason you have to buy a new phone each year.
Every time you keep your phone a bit longer instead of buying a new one, you’re reducing the waste that goes to landfill (let’s be honest, most people throw their obsolete electronics literally in the trash rather than direct them to approved recycling and disposal).