Generations of brilliant engineers have been keeping this marvel of US technology alive for decades.
But you know what's most amazing? That fucking Elon Musk hasn't fired everybody involved in keeping Voyager alive at NASA.
> Bing runs about $7 per 25,000 searches. Which sounds like alot but
It's a lot if you factor in the quality of the search results.
if they hadn't had a raise during the pandemic. Nobody is cheap enough to compete with AI. At least they got to enjoy extra money for the little time they could command it.
Running Fedora natively without the Microsoft privacy invasion-cum-advertisement platform underneath.
Pun intended.
is the topical SF book everybody should read right now.
It's not the open-source VSCode forks that stopped working, it's the closed-source MS extension for C/C++. They now refuse to load on anything than the real McCoy.
Running the extension on third-party VSCode forks was never allowed by the ToS, but now it's actively enforced.
When AI is done fucking up everything, there will be a lot of money to be made fixing the disaster by hand.
is like a DEI initiative from Trump.
for inclusion of this tech into cellphones and vastly enhanced surveillance and privacy invasion.
AI is mostly a US product, and the one thing smart countries should do right now is to avoid becoming dependent on anything from the US.
My hunch is, don't discount India's IT workforce too soon...
The only time - briefly - when Microsoft was ever the good guys is when they coded early basics for early machines. Then Bill Gates shat the bed and it's been a terrible company ever since: they've been consistently technically incompetent, incredibly aggressive,hostile, monopolizing and always ready to do whatever it takes to earn money and principles be damned.
People usually get better with age. Not Microsoft. Fuck Microsoft. I hate them every bit as much now that they reinvented themselves as an invasive Big Data company as when they were an aggressive OS and software vendor.
As for Bill Gates, the sonofabitch has been working hard for years since he retired from being an evil CEO to clean up his image. But reality is, his foundation is just a tax avoidance vehicle and he's just as evil as he's ever been, But somehow people think he and Balmer are nice retired billionaires now. No they're not. Fuck Bill Gates too.
Nothing and nobody good ever came out of Microsoft.
Everything will happen next year for many years until it doesn't happen.
Reminder: you are required to show the appropriate level of excitement at this forced upgrade. Please correct your attitude immediately citizen.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (7) Well, it's an excellent idea, but it would make the compilers too hard to write.
