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Do you include spreading lies on twitter about Paul Pelosi as part of "what it takes?"

They can sell the software business to broadcom.

Really? This isn't the first time their automation took down a big customer (UniSuper in 2024) by accident. In that case the automation actually deleted the resources and GCP had t…

Even libraries can only license digital content for a limited period of time/loans before being forced to purchase new licenses. See https://www.spokanelibrary.org/the-true-cost-of…

Vendors are less likely to try and screw you over if they know they can't ban you for a chargeback.

I can believe that, the "eBay stalking scandal" article on Wikipedia is insane.

At least AWS will send people out to your office to tell you which services you aren't using but could.

Comcast actually implemented IPv6 10-15 years ago so that they could unify the management of all of their cable modems. Prior to that they had many regional networks using with mod…

United had a "chairman's flight" between NY and a SC airport that was created so the chairman of the Port Authority of NY/NJ could fly to his vacation home on the weekends.

I think there is some benefit to resigning because you can see the DOJ is already suffering in court from sub-par lawyering. Every departure of a competent DOJ lawyer puts even mor…

Not quite, they built Slack as an internal communication tool while building the game Glitch (RIP) and after the game failed they decided to productize Slack.

> machines will achieve human level output at some point Would you care to put some sort of time scale to "at some point?" Are we talking about months, years, decades, centuries?

Fun fact: For now, adding a boolean search term like -blahblahblah will skip the AI result and just show web results.

Fun Guideline story: I worked for a company that went bankrupt and used guideline for 401k. The first day the website allowed me I withdrew the balance for rollover. Apparently thi…

Not even, in cases where the company couldn't recover funds from misdirected payments they ate the loss. Though obviously I think that's a good thing.

Not even corner cases. I worked for a fintech that launched a dda-ish product that had 16 digit account numbers, issued sequentially, with no check digits. At launch there didn't s…

I think the high-density data centers that are being built to support the hyperscalers are more analogous to the dark fiber overbuild. When you lit that fiber in 2015, you (presuma…

So this will force datacenters that employ "reliability theater" to either actually be reliable or give up the facade and take repeated outages? Ok!

Maybe the "wagyu" chili with a big 'ol squirt of nacho cheeze sauce?

Google was kind enough to give the AI overview a stable CSS class name (to date), so this userscript has been effective at hiding it for me: window.addEventListener('load', functio…

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Democrats see government differently than Republicans.

And it was an antitrust action that unlocked a lot of that value. The consent decree required Bell Labs to license its patents (e.g. transistors) for reasonable royalties. The same…

One funny aspect is that Javice had an employment contract with JPM that stated JPM would pay for legal defense related to her official duties. Her lawyer argued that means JPM has…

They have figured it out, the client is paying for it.