The dark forest is here.
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2 spinning rust drive can store the library of congress. ~ 2,000 drives would store the web (1). How many millions of these drives get manufactured per year? Our technology systems are failing us - all those words are being lost, like tears in rain.
(1)Back of the envelope estimation: https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/ ~ estimates 50 billion websites, with some estimates ~ 6 pages of information per website. Let's say 1mb per page on average. So ~2,000 drives would store the entire web.
ChatGPT is not wrong!
By the way:
~$ bgrep
Command 'bgrep' not found, but there are 20 similar ones.
Amazon unsticks anything that isn't nailed down...
You've broken the full employment theorem for compiler writers.
from some of the people at CDPR
Once the corporation grows beyond Dunbar's number, it probably begins to look and act just like every other corporation...
The only difference is that you're less likely to be sent to Gulag, or worse.
And the fact that both Telus and Bell use Huawei for their 4g/LTE networks?
Also - a good argument for shortening the default time to public domain.
Obviously - it's a tremendously difficult subject - and one that will not be easy to convince the general public on.
Moving away from FPTP is necessary - but how to make it happen? Given that any party in power - got there because of FPTP. they have strong incentive to keep it...
I doubt I'll renew - since the root cause is unlikely to be fixed with any PR expedient move at this point. They have shown the world where their true nature lies - and it ain't good. Cancel yours if you have them...