But building oracles and such is gross.

You’re talking about a religion whose entire foundation is built on saints and prophets. The whole Jesus story is a big deal because it is fulfillment of prophecy.

The who AI pope question was insane.

It’s certainly heretical to the Catholic Church. But fits comfortably in a bunch of New Age and Technocratic Futurist Protestant understands of their faith.

Ah. Hence the age old adage: “Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got”.

Nonsense. Grok’s been a confused, masochistic mess since at least June.

Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made

You are about 1700 years late to this argument. Christians reconciled with iconography some time in the Byzantium Era.

And after Protestantism? FFS, can you imagine what Joseph Smith would say about an AI Prophet, after spending half his career reading discs out of a hat with special sunglasses?

illegal use of copyrighted materials

It’s quite literally the least bad thing they’ve done across two terms in office.

Given that the use of these songs implies tacit approval from the artist

Who seriously believes that? We’re so beyond “Death of the Artist” at this point. FFS, I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard the chorus line of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The USA” played full on patriotically, without a tinge of irony or self-reflection.

I’ve had more than a few friends do very well in O&G, riding through a downturn, getting a fat severance, taking a prolonged vacation / working in a smaller company for a few years, then getting hired back when the original company rebuilds.

Schlumberger, in particular, has been through this cycle twice. Exxon has done it on and off for a century. My own firm is the reconstituted remains of Enron, now highly profitable thanks to its stake in the Permian Basin.

Lots of these companies have people who know each other and have worked together for decades.

I think some of you younger folks really don’t know what the Internet was like 20 years ago.Shit was up and down all the time.

I worked on a project back in 2008 where I had to physically haul hardware from Houston to Dallas ahead of Hurricane Ike just to keep a second rate version of a website running until we got power back at the original office. Latency at the new location was so bad that we were scrambling to reinvent the website in real time to try and improve performance. We ended up losing the client. They ended up going bankrupt. An absolute nightmare.

Getting screamed at by clients. Working 14 hour days in a cramped server room on something way outside my scope.

Would have absolutely killed for something as clean and reliable as AWS. Not like it didn’t even exist back then. But we self-hosted because it was cheaper.

He’s traditionally been an asshole in his HBO shows - Eastbound and Down, Vice Principles, and Righteous Gemstones

A Danny McBride character calling you an asshole is a bit like Darth Vader calling you a bad father.

proceeds to list 3 separate providers

Just don’t look to hard at the market share or the client composition, sure.

The issue is more so with companies that choose to use cloud providers. They’re the ones attempting to cheap out because they don’t want to pay infrastructure costs.

I mean, do you tell people they’re cheaping out because they hire a plumber rather than spending eighteen months learning to DIY every pipe in their house? There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with outsourcing to cloud services on its face. A couple big warehouses at strategic points in town specifically designed to operate as central hubs for digital traffic makes far more sense than every single office building having a dozen different floors with two IT guys of dubious quality in a badly ventilated closet manning cobbled together rack space.

For anyone downvoting, I’d love to hear what “democratizing” the internet means, how it would work, or be functional.

One of the more successful American models for publicly owned and operated data infrastructure:

EPB of Chattanooga, formerly known as the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, is an American electric power distribution and telecommunication company owned by the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee

The inverse of the old axiom “The cloud is just someone else’s computer” is “Yes, duh, that’s how you get economies of scale”.

In-housing would mean an enormous increase in demand for physical hardware and IT technical services with a large variance in quality and accessibility. Like, it doesn’t fix the underlying problem. It just takes one big problem and shatters it into a thousand little problems.

It’s funny, because I’ve heard a variety of reasons why the outage happened, why it wasn’t caught in time, why it signaled a problem with hardware versus software or human error versus automation.

I think its safe to say the company is increasingly over-managed and under-staffed, no matter how you slice it. Maybe its time to just break the mega-corp up already and let some good old fashioned free market competition fix this mess.

Imagine posting a picture of Danny McBride and calling someone else the asshole.

If you’re the only hater and everyone else likes working in the company

If everyone hates that one guy, they’re probably an asshole. If you’re the one guy that hates everyone else, you might be the asshole.

• Stick around for at least five years and you’re the guru who knows everything, so you’ve got job security

• Change jobs every five years, because managers love to offer “experienced hires” more than the current actually experienced staff

The Two Genders

costing thousands of dollars

If I had a dollar for every $10k my company paid Microsoft…

For Theil, maybe. Howard Lutnick, definitely. But Yarvin and CatTurd2 are both just stuck bitching on the sidelines.

Labor of love, I suspect

My employer keeps saying I can’t do this

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