On the subject of Ted Kaczynski and people in the Epstein files, I get an opportunity to revive this old limerick:

Lewinsky and Clinton have shown,
what Kaczynski must surely have known:
That an intern is better
than a bomb in a letter
of the possible ways to be blown.

That’s fucking hilarious given that SQL was actually invented by IBM

Presumably a reference to David Gelernter for anyone else wondering.

Reform’s poll numbers would suggest otherwise I’m afraid…

She has neither the warmth nor the depth

He would pronounce it “yif” to piss off both sides

I’d just pull Germany and Spain over to GCAP and let France do a Rafale with FCAS tbh. The French have always been a PITA to work with on military aircraft.

How big is your bathtub?

Was that staffer one Jonald T. Drump by any chance?

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It’s named after the greek sky god though, while all the other planets are named after Roman gods. It should be Caelus.

I dunno, the bit about dedicating more data center capacity to customers rather than in-house use seems to suggest that Microsoft are acknowledging that AI is a bubble that doesn’t provide any real value but they think the bubble still has some life left yet and they can make a buck selling compute to other suckers visionary investors.

I used to find slashdot delightful,
but my feelings of late are more spiteful;
my comments sarcastic
the iconoclastic
keep modding to plus five (Insightful).

“You have to build up your own nuclear capability. That costs billions and billions of euros.”

Did no one tell him France has already done this? (And the UK to a lesser extent but we still rely on a US delivery system)

Why this big gap?

Dog storage, obviously.

I wouldn’t trust him not to miss tbh

Trump did but a bunch of his cronies from his first term didn’t (see Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort)

Since I’m in Canada and safe from the five eyes bullshit now…

Hate to tell you this, buddy, but Canada is one of the five eyes countries…

Don’t be so pessimistic, it’s quite possible it’ll be them and us if they take the world economy down with them.