CPUs are getting worse.



We’ve pushed the silicon so hard that silent data corruptions (SDCs) are no longer a theoretical problem.



Mercurial Cores are terrifying because they don’t hard-fail; they produce rare, but *incorrect* computations!

Is this real? Looks like something I would have made in school when we first got computers!

How it started: "Europe is trying to censor us, only we have absolute free speech"

How it's going:

Changing World UNCHANGING MAN A CENTURY HENCE It is fascinating to conjecture what life will be like a hundred years from now, but I feel pretty sure that the most extravagant guesses would, in one respect, fall short of the reality. Material progress will have reached a stage which no one can even imagine. While man himself will remain very much as he is today. --Mullumbimby Star, 18 November 1926

People will be basically the same as today

Someone asked me if I thought a man or a woman invented making fire.
I said neither.
I think it was an annoyed child who had to look after her stupid brother while everyone went hunting and so she started angrily throwing bits of flint around the cave :)

"they needed to hire multiple studios to do what the AI promised to do but was completely unable to perform, and are keeping it hidden from the public" is the real story here

like what are we doing at this point

Is soup gay?

Blimey.
Dorothea Barron, what a gem.
She helped train veterans for the D-Day landings and has a few wisdoms to share that you need to listen to.

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