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The data center (when operating) is supposed to be recyling water. Which means the water will go through several rounds of absorbing heat in the data center and then radiating that heat away before the water is returned back into the public water system. This is smart in terms of water...

Just more selling the dream and shipping the nightmare. In the land of AI they call this "Tuesday"

The strategy for building products around generative machine learning appears to be .... "Its better to ask for forgiveness later rather than ask for permission first"

Especially for the "smart home" concept. How long before a home you buy from someone else with smarty-pants tech you were not aware of bricks your front door and now you have to break a window to get in?

Hold it ... so <deity> could have embedded the 10 commandments into our brain constitutions? Well that would have certainly solved a lot of problems! (sarcasm)

Agreed he did pay his debt to society. And this is where his talents appear to lie. So unless we all decide to put people away for life with no chance for rehabilitation, if he can contribute with a gig helping to bring justice rather than avoid it that would be a good next step for him.

Take my response with a grain of salt. I used to work in the streaming business in engineering. There were a couple of ideas that seemed good at the time. #1 customers pay a subscription fee to avoid excessive (or any) commercials #2 content is available over general purpose data networks...

Defense does not get trillions per year. Its not even a trillion (840 billion for 2024) Not to say that wiser defense spending would not be a good idea. But at this point defense is the #4 cost for the federal government. #1 is Social Security, #2 is paying interest on the national debt and...

It's partially because they (Microsoft) have to keep finding ways to make money off of you. Humans love building and buying new things. We don't (in aggregate) like maintaining and paying for maintenance of existing things. Software needs constant maintenance to keep up with hardware changes...

Mayor's are under pressure (here in the States at least) to grow the tax base. As housing costs have risen faster than inflation the cost for providing local services has also risen, This puts pressure on the tax base. McMansions are appealing because of their low density. They put less...

New Jersey's situation is interesting. Flood insurance is legally required for coastal and river areas. However the problem here is that claims tend to be highly correlated correlated with storms. This is not a good model for insurance style products that are best at dealing with uncorrelated...

They probably blew the whole budget on schedule juggling, trailer space shuffles and ego massage therapy!

Wouldn't be the first time a tech company blames us for holding it wrong.

Agreed. Brass, woodwinds strings and percussion as well. All these things can be emulated with synthesizers. But the physicality of playing these instruments and the nuance of sound that can be produced from that physicality can be hard to capture. Electric guitar effects and distortion...

Don't be so sure. I have personally experienced this form of NIMBY. I had a friend who had been trying to develop a 75 acre farm for years, kept getting shot down by the local planning board. 10 years ago he found a partner that wanted to build a "solar farm" on the property rather than...

Check out OpenAPI if you want that for your APIs. Of course you actually have to do it. With gRPC in the mix there are OpenAPI auto-generation possibilities.

AMD signed an agreement and paid a fee to use the standard, a standard that is not available free to "the public". There is another Ars article from 2024 with some details about how AMD tried to deal with this but got shut down by the HDMI forum. Also some speculation (not definitive) that...

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Ok class, look to your left, look to your right, now look at yourself. 33% percent of you will expire from exsanguination before the semester is over. Good luck!

Tech debt is a treadmill that has been speeding itself up for years now. Keeping OSes up to date with janky poorly written software that breaks with the updates along organizations that don't want to pay for the updates leaves personnel responsible for securing systems caught in between...