Notices by Thomas Sturm (tsturm@famichiki.jp)

"Our AI hacked another company" is like saying "My gun shot another person".

I first thought it's The Onion, but it's actually the news.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz622647eg3o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

@ai6yr Yep, this is the time of year when I have to start remembering to keep my mouth closed while biking. 😂

So I’m having Xcode open at 2am because my brain decided at midnight to give me a solution to a programming problem I had one full year ago. I hadn’t even thought about that project for months.

Sometimes I really wonder what my subconscious is doing all the time.

@thomasfuchs "Today we are rewiring Mozilla to do for AI what we did for the web"

From what they've done lately for the web, this might be a threat to AI.

@maxleibman This graph is fascinating. Oracle's profit will be entirely eaten by buildout costs if OpenAI's revenue share does not go up by 2027.

If this AI stuff doesn't make huge profits within a year or so, it will literally destroy Oracle.

@clacke Reading documentation is becoming an even bigger superpower.

While walking through Hiroshima we discovered an annex of the Peace Museum - the Fukuromachi School Building.

It is only 400 meters from the hypocenter of the explosion, but the reinforced concrete wing of the building withstood the shockwave, although everything burnable was carbonized instantly.

It was thought that nobody had survived there, but three students had been late changing shoes in a basement room.

They survived while nearly everyone they knew was killed that day 80 years ago.

@bronakins @peteriskrisjanis @davidaugust

Chekhov's Bunker Buster

@ai6yr "LA cant be occupied by armed forces as there is no parking." is the most California take possible.

😂

@nixCraft Lessons were learned that day.

Also, backup. Back. Up.

@mdhughes @clacke There are certainly several candidates. Cobol, Fortran and C have huge code bases and compilers on hundreds of platforms. Basic has hundreds of implementations. The Old Ones will survive us all. 😅

@yogthos What a great contrast in one working life. Really shows how much China has changed in just one generation.

@kims If the other generals would have any spine, they would all quit on the spot.

@bouriquet @ai6yr
People in the US are used to enjoy their parks freely and since these areas have always been maintained to a very high standard, most of us just drive in with a bare minimum of preparations. But those are wilderness areas, and if the guide ropes are removed, they are inherently dangerous.

People. Will. Die.

@ai6yr Laying off all the National Park rangers and the maintenance crews is just shitting all over the crown jewels of the US.

All those extreme conservatives that like to take their giant SUV with a bunch of ATVs in a trailer up to the parks will have to deal with no toilet paper in the overflowing toilets and paths impassable because of landslides and fallen trees.

People will literally die in some of the more remote areas of the parks. If you slip and fall, good luck making it out.

@aral @cstross If they would just talk to a single person under 40 (who is not a “consultant”) before making any technology decisions, the world would be much better off.

@cstross @nyrath Somehow I had no idea that the third stage have attitude control. And apparently it had both solid motors and the hydrazine engine for ullage. Options!

@nyrath I'm seeing there that the third stage of the Saturn V also had a auxiliary hydrazine propulsion system. Wonder what that was used for. Never heard of that.

@nyrath To clarify: Only in the diagram are the ullage motors described as "solid".