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jeffwask
·30 dni temu·discuss
It's a pretty monumental effort to transport, store, refurbish and show these massive computers. There aren't a lot of organizations even willing to put in the effort which is why most of this stuff gets landfilled or sent to the recycler. I would assume they asked around and no one else was interested.
jeffwask
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.
jeffwask
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
LOL, reminds me of when we had bonuses tied to test coverage at a company and one enterprising dev wrote a single test that flagged as 100% coverage.
jeffwask
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
The thing that struck me most was that for 25 of 27 years, they have relied entirely on machines and computers to manage the condition which means every hard-earned lesson you have experienced they did not and the author likely has very little person knowledge and experience on how to do anything off the pump.

It's the AI argument in a nutshell. We are handing things off to machines and losing the knowledge to do it ourselves.

Imagine if this were a systemic catastrophic failure, that lasted months... how many people would perish just because they weren't taught or never learned how to manage without the machine.
jeffwask
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
The Mad Men AI upscale was such trash. You could see cameras, crew, equipment, etc. total mess that showed no care for the material.
jeffwask
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Go fast; Break things
jeffwask
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I think I've lived through three separate RAM boom cycles at this point. Two for sure...
jeffwask
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
People have reported a decrease in ROI from spending on Google ads already when they no longer control all the eyes and where you rank in what those eyes see when they search, that ROI will drop even more. People will stop paying for Google ads when the ROI is higher on other platforms.

Couple that with the fact that a lot of folks have moved their search to GPT or Claude once those platforms start taking in ad money... that budget will come from somewhere and that's likely existing Google ad buy dollars shifting.
jeffwask
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
They only dominate Ads because they dominate search if everyone leaves Search the ad business grinds to a halt as well. These are the ying and yang of Google.
jeffwask
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
> it's not Google Search

...and it really hasn't been for a good number of years now. I left a while ago when results were all SEO copy pasta blogs this is just a final nail in the coffin.
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
My first tech job coincided with the first season of South Park.
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
These articles always make me think of the South Park BP Oil episode. "We're sorry. So sorry..."
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
We had one do this in San Antonio too. Right across the well labeled low water crossing and whoosh.
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Woz is one of the good one.
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skZXrY-9qf0
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I mean, it is an amphibious exploring vehicle, so it should be fine, right?
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I would like to congratulate Meta on this day as they layoff more people for AI. I hope all your platforms burn to ash.
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
It was one AZ. Kinda surprised those guys are built in a way where a single AZ failure takes them down.
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
The original vibe engineering
jeffwask
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Fixed it for you.

Also looks pretty bad their whole platform was compromised by the same hacker group again.