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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.
I recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.
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.
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.
The Mad Men AI upscale was such trash. You could see cameras, crew, equipment, etc. total mess that showed no care for the material.
Go fast; Break things
I think I've lived through three separate RAM boom cycles at this point. Two for sure...
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.
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.
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.
My first tech job coincided with the first season of South Park.
These articles always make me think of the South Park BP Oil episode. "We're sorry. So sorry..."
We had one do this in San Antonio too. Right across the well labeled low water crossing and whoosh.
Woz is one of the good one.
I mean, it is an amphibious exploring vehicle, so it should be fine, right?
I would like to congratulate Meta on this day as they layoff more people for AI. I hope all your platforms burn to ash.
It was one AZ. Kinda surprised those guys are built in a way where a single AZ failure takes them down.
The original vibe engineering
Fixed it for you.
Also looks pretty bad their whole platform was compromised by the same hacker group again.
I've worked in edtech and it's terrible. The margins are awful. The PE consolidation hasn't helped. Getting leadership to pay anything but lip service to security was impossible.
Absolutely, they can be but your lawyers at least have a leg to stand on to push for exclusion. If they are just sitting next to the PowerPoint you gave on Tuesday, they will definitely be included.
Because he had them on an OpenAI device and when OpenAI lawyers saw them, they knew they would be penalized more if they hid them. This happens a lot, I believe it was a Sony lawsuit where personal emails on work devices exposed a number of affairs unrelated to the case because it was all part of discovery.
He kept them on his work laptop, and they were swept up in discovery. Don't ignore your security team when they talk about data protection and not doing personal business on work devices.
Remember all those meetings with Fossil Fuels executives prior to the 2024 election... Pepperidge Farms remembers.
So, the same as NFT's and Memecoin from the same people...
It creates the "Ebay Store" from the 40-year-old virgin makes sense if you look at it that way.
We ended up an Azure Pipelines kinda by default because it was there and mostly paid for with the intention of later migrating, but it's been fine. Boring but stable and functional.
A real "Are we the baddies?" moment for them
No bubble to see here, please move along.