This is how they tried to suppress the calculator in schools.

Haha yeah. What?

My point was that defending the pissing contest over standards that gave us consumers six ports instead of one to do all the same tasks really misses the mark, imo.

Yeah.   AI may grind for a while but hardly anyone has put the current stuff to work, yet.   We will be feeling the benefits of what is released right now for a decade to come.   I am working on a very rudimentary application that will use ML at work and it won’t come out for 12 more months, and it hardly does anything but make the most obvious decisions 10m times faster than I can.   But it’s going to fundamentally change our labor model.

There are regular folks applying amazing technologies that go way beyond content generation.

The tech may grind but the application of that tech is barely getting its feet and should run hard for a decade.

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That’s what prisoners say. You are so conditioned to it that you prefer it.

Look at all those ports I’ll never need

We should have had USBC 20 years ago.

We need that connection to your brain in order to $urvive.

I think their point is that Microsoft literally had all the information they needed to prevent this from happening and they just didn’t because they were incompetent or some other human reason that had nothing to do with server capacity or or a missing Ethernet cable. There was nothing “unknown” here.

Scaling to meet demand is literally their job. Supposedly best, which is why they have been awarded military contracts.

They lost situational awareness, or they never had it.

I will RTFM after literally anyone else does.

The corporations are people too!

Yep. My first interaction with GPT pro lasted 36 hours and I nearly changed my religion.

AI is the best thing to come to learning, ever. If you are a curious person, this is bigger than Gutenberg, IMO.

I always tell myself I am reading minds when I read inside parentheses

I agree with everything you say and I am all about the way that you captured the dysfunction of the political apparatus and its inability to deliver for a price and on a date. I think my argument is that that’s exactly why the government should not be in charge of this stuff. It should not be political. I don’t think there’s any way to avoid billboards in space, but at least we’ll be able to finally get out there.

Ship it!

There is a reason we moved this to the private sector. Govt bureaucrats can’t get out of their own way and every project triples in cost, with no single person calling the shots to get the job done. Govt cannot keep up with the pace we need.

Boeing is hot garbage.

SpaceX has a shit face, but they are incredibly competent and effective at iterating their way to space.