The Reddit hivemind is a bit like AI, now that I think about it.

They’ll give you a confident, reasonable sounding answer. Any accuracy will be completely accidental.

In this accident I’m sure Autopilot disengaged half a second before the crash, that somehow proves it wasn’t Autopilot’s fault.

I wonder if Trump knows that?

That last one.

Apparently there’s a ton of CBT involved in doing anything in the new Settings app, so it makes sense to only bring over the things you absolutely have to and then send people to the old control panel for the rest.

The monetization?

Bro, this is the internet. You don’t need to know anything, just pick a position and angrily defend it.

You turn on parts of the grid at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start

I don’t understand why the fire fighters are upset, he clearly has his park-anywhere lights on.

If you ask an AI image generator for a bed shaped like a pineapple, it’ll give you one without having a single pineapple-shaped bed in the training data. It has beds and pineapples and it can mash the two together.

If you’ve got naked adults in the training data and you’ve got children in the training data, it’s going to be able to generate child porn.

I suspect the stuff Firefox stores in ram is more sensitive, too. A lot of games load tens of gigabytes of textures, but a bitflip in that stuff will lead to a pixel somewhere being the wrong colour instead of a crash.

I actually did switch my gaming PC to Linux because I decided it was going to be less effort than trying to force Windows to obey.

It was the way Microsoft was progressively disabling workarounds that was the final straw. As soon as a way to disable telemetry or something became widespread, it wouldn’t work any more with the next update and you needed to find new methods.

Linux just does as it’s fucking told.

Don’t forget heat. You can’t just drain the local water supply to cool all your systems in space, you need to actually radiate all those kilowatts of power after your chips convert them into heat.

A lot of it hasn’t actually been made, though. The AI companies have put in orders for future production. That future capacity can be redirected with a wave of a pen.

I remember hearing back during COVID when everyone was WFH that sales of business pants had tanked. Sales of business shirts hadn’t. So that tracks.

XP was the first one that had proper memory protection so that badly written programs would just crash instead of taking down the whole system.

It was a dramatic step forward compared to 98, where you’d be lucky to go a whole day without bluescreening. There’s a reason XP hung on for so long. It was the first Windows version that was really good enough for most people.

It’s DSL, so the speed depends on line length. To reliably get 250M you’re probably doing fibre to the footpath outside the building.

Judging from the way AMD got up and spent all their time talking about their data centre products, nobody does.

Smeg-heads do be like that.