prollings

yeah, you just have to flip the wrong switch at us-east-1

cool. and if you're not?

I tried MUTHR from Alien, but had to keep toning it down because it took it too far, and eventually disabled it (in favour of caveman mode) because it didn't seem to be able to function properly talking like that.

With the shoehorning of certain topics into absolutely every conversation on every platform... agree.

Taking away some of the more monotonous and "uncreative" tasks in any job can be taking away some of the variety in the work. Variety is nice. Variety affords us downtime. As the job gets stripped down to its core function, while a machine keeps the pipeline full so that the work can continue uninterrupted, the downtime slips away.

And great for beginners, now they get to pay some chatbot company to cover the gaps left by detereorating software design. Lucky they're already using agents... are they?

Not proprietary.

The pogo connector isn't proprietary.

It isn't proprietary.

I'd really rather they did talk and behave more like classic sci-fi said they would. Far less engaging and fluffy with nonsense.

This is plainly wrong considering many people's complaints about the ridiculous amount of noise these things spew out. The whiring of gas turbines and cooling systems of complete, fully operational, data centres has nothing to do with construction.

Rust requires discipline too. I can go around using Arc, Rc and .clone() everywhere without upsetting the borrow checker, I can use let mut a bunch and pretend if, match, etc. aren't expressions. This results in worse code, and Rust didn't stop me.

The borrow checker prevents a set of errors from being possible, but it doesn't prevent bad code from being written.

Where I am from it is common to use "20 to" and "20 past" too.

You speak as though everyone on HN has the same attitude towards these things, but that's just not true.

There were naysayers then and there are naysayers now.

Why? We know the price was $1300. Doesn't mean anyone would buy it for that much. So try lowering the number and see what you think? The value is what someone is willing to pay for it.

I keep seeing people all over the internet adding the caveat that the data centres are necessary in comments following stories about rollout (and often the stories themselves). But never why that's the case. So the question is why are more data centres necessary at the proposed rollout rates? What actually drives this demand?