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It wasn't a parlor trick and could have evolved into a useful product doing a small, basic subset of what LLMs do today. The problem was IBM's leadership didn't have the slightest …

There is a great deal of death in a language.

Gawker flouted the law. They were publicly sharing an intimate video of Hogan without his consent, he got a court order telling them to stop and they just refused to obey it, stati…

Historically, the UK was run for the benefit of an elite and the regions they lived in, but they discovered that that ran counter to their own interests. They reversed the economic…

Viewed in isolation, the number of redundancies might not be unusual, but how it's being presented to the employees is. Before, Zuckerberg rhetorically accepted responsibility for …

He was a Communist until his death in the 1970s, but Communism is a pretty broad spectrum and his beliefs moved about it during his life. His public and financial support for Stali…

Enshittification - they switched to artificial sweetener.

The two companies are not the same; their dominant positions are in different markets which means the anti-trust implications of them extending into a specific market have to be ju…

In general, the more direct the impact of your role on short-term revenue, the safer you are when your company starts sacrificing people to the gods of quarterly accounts. Ancillar…

The role of McDonnell-Douglas is exaggerated. Boeing had achieved pretty close to a monopoly in the mid-1970s, but things had changed by the mid-1990s. 1. Domestic airlines protect…

Social media sites have so many users/viewings that fixed costs for serving all their content don't really matter to them, but since ads don't pay much per viewing, they have to cu…

The CCP really don't want another Tienanmen Square and bend to public opinion when necessary, e.g. the ending of lockdown. Given that a lot of Chinese women feel strongly about thi…

Also, Pascal is a direct descendant of a very, very old language (ALGOL-58 from 1958). In the 1950s, HLL compilation was at the extreme edge of what computers were capable of doing…

No British crime report ever: "Well, the thief lets more people watch my television for free than I did, so it rightfully belongs to him."

Cameron denied that and the two people who made the claim admit their only source was a single anonymous member of parliament. But, because it's so funny and they knew Cameron woul…

OS/2 would have beaten NT in the consumer and SMB markets. 95 dealt with every weakness of NT in those markets and provided developers, consumers and SMBs with a smooth migration p…

"he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board" = "He lied to us about something important" Murati's selection as interim CEO is a surprise and might be an at…

mIRC is very powerful, but most '90s, Windows power-users needed some explanation of how to use it, whereas Slack's design language makes it install-and-play for even basic users. …

Yup. The crew and achievements of 11 are far more famous, but most people couldn't tell you which number their Apollo mission was.

Depending on the political situation in your country, your parents probably got the same knowledge of American life from TV series and films. America's monopoly of popular culture …

I don't think that's a common interpretation of the move. Heaney spent a year as a guest lecturer in UC Berkeley in 1970-'71 and realised there that his daily life in Northern Irel…

If it does, there's zero chance that Microsoft know about it. When your company is worth $2,427,000,000,000 , you'd have to be insane to risk it all like that.

It's one of those tricky irregular verbs in English: We dug our own grave. You are fired. He/She is fired. You are fired. You are fired. They are fired.