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• Post #4463835

  i guess the reason these companies have business plans that are like a madlib of pascal's wager filled out by somebody who can't remember what the different parts of speech are, and all decide at once to do exactly the same our-thing-is-a-hacker no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity routine, is that when you're dogfooding your own prototype huffing-your-own-farts-as-a-service service you don't decide anything, truly no brain cells were harmed in the making of any decision https://futuri...

• Post #2411114

  LB: i used to work at a place where if you left your desktop unlocked people would change your screensaver to shit like this "as a joke". it was about as toxic on the literal first day and rarely let up. my catchphrase became "we're gonna get sued!" which I would say after somebody said something odious, which was regularly. it died without finding a coherent product idea. i guess don't ever let it be said that at any time it didn't alr...

• Post #2411113

  It's wild how these are stumped with as if a combination of an obvious bad land use you could easily put literally anywhere and a purported jobs program with very few actual jobs on location is a sort of valuable regional program https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2026/05/government-of-canada-and-telus-advance-work-to-build-sovereign-ai-infrastructure.html

• Post #2411112

  At risk of joining the club trying to make a big story out of a much smaller potatoes story, the logistics work ain't nothing https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzv77ldpdo

• Post #2411111

  like even if you hand it to people that "if it walks like reasoning it's reasoning" -- which, the devil is in the details of what kind of reasoning we're talking about there, like my desk calculator does reasoned operations after a fashion but i'm not gonna expect it to write a thesis --

• Post #1848216

  shelby going "oh, oh. that. hmm. okay. uhhh...." as a result of deciding to install pc dos 7 for the first time and then trying to run edit is like this whole ibm ps/2 scenario in a nutshell https://youtu.be/0-Py5VzB54s?t=1311

• Post #1848214

  LB: lol, I had to double check they didn't hold a conference in North Bay... I guess it's true what they say about the hard things in computer science

• Post #1848213

  LB: like, totally orthogonally to the question of how the event they are commenting on came about, what a totally unhinged takeaway from a public assassination attempt; like these people saying "well i guess the ballroom is ok then" are clowns through and through and whatever the nature of the forces that compel them to say such things, they continue to push them toward a new undiscovered clownmost

• Post #1848212

  but here's the thing about "what do we do to make a new computing industry": there are an embarassment of possible answers that are not just polishing the silverware on the titanic, but polishing it when it's already 12500 feet below the surface

• Post #1848210

  LB: honestly this is one of those ones that used to hang the emulators and i could go back now knowing much more about their internals to tinker on that somewhat, if it wasn't that I concluded a couple years back that if a trillion dollar company wants to kill the past, who am I as a very very tangentially adjacent person to spend my own forks I have very few of anymore to try to offset that?

• Post #769237

  i'm kinda going to where jeff is at too re the fcc routers thing: it sounds like a step they take before they mandate some kind of creepy inclusions, in addition to presumably being some kind of shakedown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04oL0qVSWJE