Remember the 1990s when Java was everywhere and was going to change the world and everything would be written in Java henceforth?
There's a reason the old hands are waiting out LLMs.
(And yes, I'm aware this comparison is unfair to Java.)
I'm typing this on a laptop that came out in 2012. It was high-end then and I've upgraded it as far as it can go, but no piece of hardware that's NINE DOUBLINGS behind should still be usable, let alone slightly more powerful than a modern chromebook.
That's why silicon valley's gone septic. Everything they did was pantomime while photolithigrapic die size shrinks did all the heavy lifting. Now the S-curve's bent back down again there's no more growth to be had, and they're in SCREAMING DENIAL.
Moore's Law is dead.
Intel introduced the 64 bit "Core 2" processor in 2005 so laptops could access more than 4 gigabytes of RAM.
Moore's Law's 18 month doubling time says the following 21 years should have 14 doublings to 64 terabytes of RAM in each $2000 laptop.
That's why silicon valley execs went crazy: they no longer have free growth. Their business model doesn't WORK. They've done regulatory capture, brute force spending inflating a snake oil bubble, and nothing's working.
Kids in the UK are defeating age checks by drawing on a mustache with eyebrow pencil.
It's not that the checks are porous, I"m sure they'll get more expensive. It's that pearl-clutching fascist plutocrats are teaching a generation to rebel against authority en masse because their elders are fucking idiots who have no respect for them, and the only way to be treated like people is to break the geezers' power via direct action. The "law" is bad and wrong.
Australian EV sales "through the roof".
90% of used EVs have already sold.
An example of the kind of nonsense FISA allows: https://mastodon.social/@wchr/116375617333864571
We can't outlaw it while the spy agencies are pouring the black budget into it.
April 15 is the vote in the house to reauthorize FISA, the foreign intelligence surveillance act that allows the US government to spy on the domestic populace by buying everything data brokers collect.
Still time to call upon your lizards to vote no.
Why cults always want to control your underwear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_So2jK02AdY
(Answer: so they can demand spot inspections for compliance.)
The University of California didn't just explain how they're covering their exposed canals with solar panels to save billions of gallons of water from evaporating, they interviewed the woman behind it rather than appointing a man to take the credit.
Any time women make something lucrative, men push them out of the field. A 1983 MIT paper documented that purge in computer science: https://simson.net/ref/1983/barriers.pdf
See also https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109545727584656667 for "beer brewer" becoming "witch", Julia Child giving way to Gordon Ramsey, Sarah Taber's great thread about "egg money", the origin of the word "spinster" and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire...
Once there's money in it, douchebros terf out the founders then claim to have discovered what others invented.
Darn it, state capitol is St Paul, not Minneapolis. Took the green line the wrong way for the 10am protest in support of a moratorium on data centers in minnesota.
There's always a condom shortage at the olympics. Every time.
A journalist went to an ICE hiring event in Dallas to see how their recruiting was going (tl;dr badly)... and got offered a job without ever filling out any paperwork.
https://bsky.app/profile/laurajedeed.bsky.social/post/3mccqbszbdc2r
She points out even what's left of Google immediately finds years of her anti-trump articles, but they clearly never looked. And she failed the drug test.
Her non-paywalled article:
Are they empowering the group they claim to "protect", or depriving them of agency to create an underclass precedent expandable to everyone?
The engineering blog is the modern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_notebook
My wife's "health equity" plan just mailed her a form saying her employer deposited $4 into her healthcare savings account, and they deducted a $2 "paper statement fee" to inform her of this.
This is why the guillotine was invented.
Not all heroes wear capes.
https://bsky.app/profile/joycewhitevance.bsky.social/post/3m3jaon4pks2w
Some are 53 year old women at the largest protest in US history tackled by alabama police for wearing Spirit Halloween's inflatable penis costume.
Did I mention I got a toybox release out?
Every Amazon Ring doorbell camera is now streaming directly to ICE, no warrant necessary.
https://www.theverge.com/news/801856/amazon-ring-partners-flock-video
The point of waymo is to be as boring as possible: https://youtu.be/s9O9fCMq2Ho
Google's devs started work in 2004 and didn't publicly announce anything until 2013: https://youtu.be/7Yd9Ij0INX0
They didn't let their vehicles go faster than 25mph until 2016, and even today cap out at 65mph: https://www.govtech.com/transportation/why-waymos-robotaxis-are-avoiding-freeways-airport
They are intentionally as boring as possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo
Meanwhile some south african apartheid techbro heard "boring" and went "drill baby drill": https://youtu.be/ACXaFyB_-8s