... the female AIs are more likely to quit in mid project to spawn a child process.

(Ducking and running.)

... Miskatonic University?

Instead, we could have kids playing outside after school in the dark. At least when they are walking* to school, I know where they'll be.

*People actually make their kids walk these days? If you don't drive them in the Land Rover, Child Protective Services will be called.

So, traditional Japanese time.

True, to a point. Perl made _some_ commitments to maintaining the "multiple ways of doing things". Which led to a lot of unreadable code (intentionally, at times). And like Python, Perl was a glue language. And proud of it as well. The problem will become that in the step to Rust, there are things that Rust can't do (efficiently, at all, or without "unsafe" keywords). And then where will we be?*

Larry Wall is a linguist as much as anything else. He didn't have a PhD thesis and associated reputation on the line with "a new thing".

*I lived through the era of things that just worked on various flavors of UNIX and Linux. And then the Microsoft consultants came in, picked up our requirements documents and a red Sharpie and started to cross out anything that Windows can't do. Just to get it in the door.** History repeats itself?

**I worked in a secure facility with armed guards. At one point, I asked the boss how these people even got in the door. "We gave the guards guns. Why can't they use them?"

Except that nobody is really desperate to get on broadcast TV anymore in urban and suburban areas. Other than to get onto the cable systems via "must carry" rules. For free, to boot. There's no quicker way to get your Sunday Morning preacher carried all over the city than to put up a crappy low power transmitter and ask no remuneration. The Word of the Lord spread far and wide is sufficient compensation. Same for the shopping channels. They ask no money, so they can't get bounced off the cable. And they make plenty by advertising cheap jewelry, silver (plated) coins, personal injury attorneys and CBD infused everything.

Somebody needs to look at the economics of cable and broadcast and figure out which way the value is really flowing. Without input (coke and hookers) from cable or the NAB.

The branding became an all encompassing thing and that was a mistake that had to be rectified. People thought of it all as summarising text, generating images and natural English commands (generative model use) and wanted to gut the lot because of it. It's similar to the mistake Mozilla made where they included a toggle to

Chop off the end of the first paragraph before submitting the form?

It's not about bandwidth, it's about latency. These days audio sample libraries are huge and the latency of loading these samples from an external drive causes lots of stuttering during playback. Some libraries have the capability of loading a portion of all samples into memory before playback to account for such latency, but many don't have this capability. And I find it funny that a company that goes to ridiculous lengths to shave off a fraction of a millimeter from their laptops for the sake of portability has fans that state the solution to the problems Apple has created is to carry an external drive and cable everywhere.

What happened to the "must carry" rules? Where the Big, Bad cable companies had to carry local broadcasts? Including every 500 Watt Jesus Channel in town. It's getting so you can't tell who's on the receiving end of this corporate daisy chain anymore.

Here's an idea: Everyone divest themselves of content providers and studios. And become common carriers for local regions. Then let the big boys fight for room on your cable, fiber or r.f. spectrum with their cash. Which will go quite a ways toward funding local news and programming.

Well then, I'm taking my Tannerite and going home.

... take your Mac down to the rifle range and use it as a target.

It's the only way to be sure.

Because she's gonna be rich pretty soon.

As long as it's my hand on the lever, I'm OK with the outcome.

... because when Israeli intelligence breeches FBI security, they don't deface the home page.

The OPM subcontractors "lost" government employee records (including security clearance information) so many times, the issue is moot.