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The separation is expected to be finished sometime in 2026. Oh, and most of the WBD’s debt, which is nearing $40 billion, will be dumped on the Widenfels TV company, perhaps revealing the actual reason this is happening.

Translation: WB’s management is exiting a legal scam. The smaller company with the debt will file for bankruptcy in a year or two, as it becomes unable to service its debt and maintain operations. It will hold little or no value to be auctioned off and the main WB will have ridden off into the sunset with anything valuable. Anyone with stock in the smaller company will be left holding the bag and lose a bunch of money. And no executives will be harmed in the making of this scam.

Perhaps part of the reason that good ideas die quietly is that the authors can’t resist playing a game of “look how smart I am with all my million dollar words”. This author manages to delve into some amazingly untrod corners of the English language, while doing his level best to stretch the material across as many words as possible. There is some good information in this article, buried by a mountain of useless word-salad. I just wish this article had seen the not-so-gentle touch of an editor before publication.

It’s an interesting format, but I do see one weakness which may slow adoption in the desktop market: upgradability.
With the current memory format, I can buy some amount of RAM for my system, while leaving some slots open for future expansion. In a couple years, when prices inevitably fall and my needs grow, I can add more memory without throwing away the investment I made at the time of system build. With CAMM, you can’t do this. In order to upgrade the memory, you have to throw away the old board. Meaning you need to over-buy now or re-buy later.

Maybe this won’t be a barrier to adoption, but I do think it’s an issue worth highlighting.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

A model of what NOT to do is a model, I guess.

This will be the biggest recession, the best recession. This will be such a bigly recession that the Great Depression will look small and insignificant next to the Trump Recession. Make America Depressed Again!

^{/s for the really slow witted}

Did he seriously not mention BetterHealth selling customer data? We really need the Boards and C-level execs behind these companies to start ending up in jail for this shit (or tarred and feathered, we really need to consider bringing that back for C-level execs of really shitty companies). Unless and until the upper management is actually impacted in a very negative fashion and companies fined out of existence, this will just keep happening.

Maybe the bubble is finally popping and we can move from the Peak of Inflated expectations to the Trough of Disillusionment. I don’t doubt we’ll find real uses for AI, heck AlphaFold is a fantastic success story for AI. That said, in my own work, I find “AI” tends to operate in one of two ways:

1. As a marketing buzzword. Which usually boils down to, it acts like a better version of intellisense for our search query language.
2. It creates false positives for me to run down. With the odd, useful alert that could have probably be found via normal heuristics or Regex.

I’ve become that curmudgeon who rolls my eyes everytime a vendor talks about their product being “AI Enabled”. And I have to preface a lot of my questions with, “I don’t hate AI, but…”. Hopefully, this will all go the way of the “blockchain” hype soon and some real, and useful use cases can be developed for various AI algorithms, which actually work and where the occasional flight of fancy AIs tend to run off in can be well tolerated.

Suggested title replacement: An ode to the Military-Industrial Complex and hyper-nationalism.

What do you call folks using the rhythm method of contraception?
Parents.

This is especially true since most people don’t interact with knots on a regular basis. And those places where we do interact with knots regularly, and the strength matters, there’s already been a lot of work done on determining the best knot(s). So, we will just rely on said previous study. For example, when I tie a rope to my climbing harness, I tie a figure eight knot. Have I done the research to show that this is the right choice? No, I haven’t. But, the climbing community has done a lot of work on it and I trust the work done by the community. Maybe there is a stronger knot. But, the figure eight is good enough, is easy enough to tie and visually confirm.

The few other knots I use, don’t need to be the strongest knots; or, strength is only one factor I care about. Just about every rope I own has a bowline tied at one end. A non-closing, secure enough, loop at one end is great when tying up a load on a vehicle. The other end gets my other common “good enough” knot: a trucker’s hitch. For clothesline type situations (e.g. hanging up towels at a beach), a taut-line hitch gets used. Again, maybe not the strongest, but it gets the job done and is easy enough to work with.

And I would guess this is how a lot of people work with knots. They know a few, use them for everything and only really get specific in the few cases where it matter. And then they rely on information for people/groups who have put the time and study in.

This educational bot will be a continuing lesson to kids on why you don’t buy “cloud driven” shit. It’s also a great conversation starter for teaching kids about corporate greed, designed obsolescence and enshitification.

My bet is a version of silicosis with more bling.

So, we’re making bacon on rye in the lab now. Science was never so savory.

AT&T has only itself to blame here. The minute the Broadcom buyout of VMWare was signed, this was an obvious outcome. They should have been migrating away already. Instead, in typical corporate fashion, they waited until the last moment and let technical debt pile up into a mountain which is about to collapse and bury them in costs. That’s OK though, I imagine a lot of high level managers got their bonus for keeping costs down in previous years and now it’s the current managers who have to deal with the problem.

Best of luck to the IT staff who will have to deal with this shit-show.

I also find a lot of hikers seem to want to move at mach speed on trails. Gods forbid that you actually take the time to look around and enjoy the nature you are passing through.