With the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?

Linux was fixed a long time ago on 64-bit systems, as it uses time_t internally.

Even bad 3rd-party 64-bit code that uses int (or unsigned int) for time MAY work with just a recompile. Any 32-bit code that uses unsigned int for time will fail. Any 32-bit code that uses int for time will have already failed.

Nah, we'll have GTA 6 first. Or maybe even "Duke Nukem For Life."

That reminds me of a funny (to me) story of how I got the job I've been at for nearly 25 years now. When I graduated from College/University, I had thousands of dollars of student loans. I was working on fun software at home, and I didn't want a full time job yet. I substitute taught (babysat) Middle School a day here and a day there for a bit of spending money, but that was the extent of what I wanted.

I had gotten my student loan payments deferred once, and needed to get them deferred again. I needed six job rejections to prove that I was looking for work, and I had zero rejections for zero attempts. The rejection notices were due to be submitted to Sallie Mae soon (in a week, if I remember correctly), so I panicked a bit. I check local employment sites, found six listings for which I was woefully under-qualified, and applied for them all. I got six job rejections in record time! I submitted them to Sallie Mae, and quickly dumped them into the round file. Back to my pet projects.

A day or two later, I got a mailing (physical mail) from one of them asking me to come in for an interview. "Shit, shit, shit!" I told them about the rejection letter I got, and was told it was a clerical error. Translation: the hiring manager arm-swept off his desk, and my application was in that pile of paperwork that went into the trash. It happened to fall on the top of the contents of his trash can, and caught his attention when he went to empty his trash. I went in for the interview, got home, and found a message on my answering machine asking me to sub the next day. I agreed, and thought nothing of it.

I got called in the next day for a second interview, and hesitated because I had told the school I would sub. I canceled the subbing for the day, and went to the second interview. When I got home, I found a message on my answering machine with a job offer from that company. I hesitantly accepted, and have been there for nearly 25 years. I have a reputation there as being a miracle worker.

Moral of the story? There isn't one. I just thought it was funny.

While the computing infrastructures are totally different, the time it took my 8-bit Tandy Color Computer 3 from the 80s to go from power up to usable was about 20-30 milliseconds.

My Linux desktops vary by how much time GRUB takes to launch the system (there's no need to include GRUB's wait time). After it launches Kubuntu, though, the time to a usable desktop is a small handful of seconds.

I had no idea we had the Terminator writing Linux software now.

I remember both of them, and I remember thinking they were full of shit. Aside from Bill Gates and some other forgettable nobody, no one thought the Internet was a passing fad. However, just about everyone on Slashdot thought that most of the companies in the dot com boom were doomed to failure, even (especially?) as paid pundits talked up the brilliance of the companies' CEOs.

I see history repeating. The underlying technology has some cool uses (though not worth the catastrophic cost of building the models), but it's pets.com all over again.

If the programs are given access to phone service and/or email, then it is inevitable. And the people who granted such access should be the ones doing the prison time.

Sports are neither critical or even remotely important to modern life, so of course there is an alternative: don't watch, and break your addiction. There are many things that have become crucial to modern life, but sports are just drug addictions that have no redeeming qualities. It may be enjoyable to people (as addictions tend to be, before they become painful), but you will be better off without them.

That explains why employers are laying off workers by the tens of thousands. Oh wait. It doesn't. If America were in a labor shortage, workers would be revered. The truth is that workers are treated like shit because there are a hundred unemployed for every available job.

That we are at full employment is laughable at best.

So far it has proven itself to be nothing else. This Google lie will reveal itself at some point.

And none of that matters as long as static IP addresses aren't being given out as standard operating procedure. That means IPv4 needs to go, NAT needs to go, and IPv6 needs to be the new standard. Until that happens, there is zero chance any hobby services will be in any way disruptive to big tech.

I can't even find the words to describe how stupid this lawsuit is, and how stupid the public has become who support it. There is a lot of responsibility to be had, but not in any of the directions espoused by this lawsuit or its supporters. The cause is the destruction of the family unit by Feminists, the public school system, and the shitty 8-5 on-premesis work culture. If not for them, there would always be a parent at home to watch over the kids, and the kids would always be at home to be guided by their parents.

There is an entire series of dissertations that can be written about this, but there is no such thing as social media addiction. That bullshit is just a symptom of what I described above (which itself is just scratch the surface of our societal problems).

Researchers have gotten the major models to regurgitate the vast majority of books by starting with a paragraph of the book. The notion that training only tweaks probabilities is complete and utter nonsense. Alsup was 95% wrong in his decision. He was blatantly lied to by Anthropic, and he bought the crap hook, line, and sinker; lock, stock, and barrel.

And everything he typed was entirely true.