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I remember back in 2016 when we thought satire would always remain satire. Boy. Boy how far we've not come.

You could construct a computer that natively executes neural network weights. It's technically possible.

Optimistic of you to assume that future operating systems will run on local compute. Windows 35 requires datacenter level resources, but cortana will sell you minecraft capes with real-time emotionally personalized unskippable advertisements!

That's the whole point of an operating system - to manage local hardware. That's its reason for existing. The moment task switching starts depending on rtt to a cloud provider's servers, it's just a thin client with delusions of grandeur. Fifty milliseconds per system call, and no amount of tflops on the backend is going to save you from that feeling of working through a proxy in 2005