I'll at least agree it more than warrants investigation.

Cut and paste mistake. Please fix in posting.

Mere incompetence derived from overeager hopefulness does not deserve to be mischaracterized as thinking misconduct. Whilst there is plenty of malice in how the companies represent themselves to investors, I suspect this particular case is merely incompetence.

Don't forget to use an LLM to identify the false negatives that you get when you check for false positives....

I agree. I too wish I was entirely joking. I don't even dare to put a sarcasm tag on the comment.

This is the kind of assumption that people are making which shows how this is wrong

* the bigger it is, the directly proportionally higher chance some part of it it will get hit by something, which has a decent chance of having a cascading effect on the other components
* you've pointed out weight, which obviously comes with size - but you haven't pointed out that size =>weight => fuel needed to maintain orbit. Even with ionic thrusters using electricity and very very low fuel use this will matter.

people who are working on optimizing the energy needed by AI models - specifically the Chinese AI researchers and probably Google. If model sizes can be reduced with very limited loss of performance then the costs of putting them in space - especially latency as opposed to a local model - will be hugely damaging.

There's one business model which is absolutely crucial and everyone needs to understand that Elon is fundamentally sucking on the government teat, whatever people pretend. Military people need to run AI models in situations of compromised ground communication. Running, for example target identification and data selection in space makes 100% sense. Elon will be doing this in the knowledge that he's got a series of guaranteed government contracts that will pay for all the development he's doing. The risk in this case is that if a non-corrupt government does ever return in the US, they may audit his contracts and punish him for getting them through what they will consider to be illegal influence.

https://www.theguardian.com/sc...
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/ne...

I really like that Slashdot protects us from this visual vandalism. Do you think there's a hope that as other web sites advance they could adopt Slashdot's solution?

The irony here is that the true evil has been missed from the story. Microsoft was deliberately trying to fund Caldera to damage Linux. This settlement was an effective way to transfer money from one company to another, avoiding taxes, avoiding scrutiny and settling an outstanding potential future Microsoft liability.

Perhaps they should stop supplying Russia then.

However, if we commit the ultimate Slashdot sin and actually read the article, we find out they never claimed to have numbers. The closest they come is

“If we’re seeing a few cases being reported, we’re seeing a lot more cases not being reported,” said Thomas Corbin, lecturer at Deakin University in Australia, who has conducted research around the usage of AI-powered glasses and other smart devices in academic assessment.

which is pretty clearly and openly straight speculation. It is you who have the audacity to accuse CNN of using hard numbers and research, something they are clearly not guilty of.

I'll bow to your better memory. My main real memory is that

a) we could keep many small documents in useful formats that actual software and operations people could benefit from
b) we could auto generate documentation directly from systems data (e.g. dump the DNS)
c) we could combine those and instantly generate formal systems documentation which was up to date, complete and astoundingly, actually useful

Also we could use sed and similar tools for mass updates, corrections and so on. Something which effectively went away with the change to XML because things that, to that point, just worked, suddenly needed actual programming.

Understanding the way they mange to make their billing into a multidimensional exponential equation is just shocking. I assume that one day someone said "there's no way anyone can be more evil than Larry Ellision" and their finance guy, who happened to be a mathematician by trade, said something to the effect of "hold my beer" and came up with their charging policy.

Atlassian appears to completely lack understanding of what's actually valuable in their products. Confluence and Jira used to be markdown backed in important places, which would be perfect for the modern world. They deliberately and in brutal ways destroyed that against the wishes of their users. Think how much value that's destroyed from documents that could have easily fit into both AI and modern human tooling.

That one I might give you. Outside uninvited consultants should *always* be a source of fear. Ones that think they know how to tell you to interact with our coworkers doubly so.