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OpenAI and Anthropic are bleeding money and both need hundreds of billions of dollars in the next couple of years to break even. Oracle is highly overleveraged and I am hoping that…

The sooner the AI bubble pops and takes all of these companies out, the better the world will be.

So someone re-implemented the Beowulf cluster. I guess the other Slashdot memes are ready to come back.

You should take the L on this one. Even if you got a "Show HN" post about JAI, I don't think the tech bros are going to be keen on a NSFW AI chatbot website. You still don't have a…

You just reinvented the compiler.

The AI bubble will pop in the next year. We are currently in 1998 of the dotcom bubble with another AI winter approaching. LLM and generative AI are this year’s “on the Internet” o…

The story originally came out in 2001. https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server...

I use it all the time for my QEMU VMs. It’s less hassle than OVS and allows you to configure some complex networks with just a few socket files and tunnels. I use one VDE switch pe…

Charities can hide their percentages when they self-deal with people on their board. It's highly unethical. Wreaths Across America is notorious for this. All the money they raise g…

ERAM is multichannel, which is why we do the failover between A-channel and B-channel during APL and OS CUTO. If I remember the SSMs right, we do the update on the B-channel first …

I've been purchasing older O'Reilly books off of Ebay for the past couple of years. My most recent purcahse was Applying RCS and SCCS by Don Bolinger, which is split between RCS, S…

We've been using Guacamole everywhere after OpenText EOLed Exceed OnDemand and tried to charge way too much for their replacement, FastX. The little bastards even demanded to know …

I use a PIV Badge as a FAA contractor. We're told to never use the PIV badge as a means of identification anywhere. The documentation doubles down by mentioning to never use it as …

Chuck E Cheese runs a virtual brand for their pizza called Pasqually's Pizza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OTpHqq6bFg # Comparing Chuck E Cheese pizza and a rebranded CEC frozen…

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2023/11/overtime-staffing-... It took 10 years after Reagan fired the controllers to get the workforce back to pre-1981 levels. This caused a ripp…

The load on the National Airspace System (NAS) has been growing each year, with slight a dip due to COVID. The FAA has provides 20-year outlooks for a set of metrics, including the…

Blaming DEI is a dog-whistle for 'people should know their place' The Free Beacon, Fox News, and the other last four you listed are in the business of telling old white people to b…

It looks like Critque is a branch of Gerrit. The user interface is similar. I assume that Critque is Grerrit with a bunch of Google-specific changes. Gerrit itself is an interestin…

covered quite a few times over the years https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37514601 (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31290789 (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

PACs have been doing these bulk buys for years to get people on the list. As the article mentioned, Mitt Romney did this. Mike Pompeo did it as well. https://www.forbes.com/sites/z…

Before Stackoverflow, they were pretty good. Once they started the anti-pattern of requiring registration to view answers, the quality went down hill pretty quick. In the last few …

There is a video by Soup Emporium on Youtube that compares the uplift of the Yellowstone caldera to Campi Flegrei's. The video is queued up to where Campi Flegrei is discussed. htt…

That is the direction Red Hat has been going for many years now. They position Workstation as the higher-end desktop meant to run key applications, mostly as a developer workstatio…

It's a listicle and a bad one at that. The author considers vi/vim to be an IDE and that Word and Excel also count due to VBA.