I’m not remotely surprised, nor am I particularly impressed by the methodology of this study. DCM remains popular because it’s cheap and has great properties as an organic solvent (not flammable, low polarity, low boiling point). Really the only thing that isn’t great about it is that it’s derived from petroleum and carries a shit load of chlorine.

Without strong incentives to move, like a regulatory tax, where’s the financial incentive to find greener alternatives in reactions where “do it in DCM” has been the canonical answer for a hundred years?

Sorry boss, can’t work today, exploring my feminine side.

I think you’re making a strawman argument here. He isn’t arguing that it’s a binary switch that has failed to throw, he’s arguing that we don’t have compelling evidence that the ends justify the means:

In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they’re working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith.

And this is completely true! Supposedly “data informed” organizations are trying to find a yardstick that shows actual, meaningful improvement in business outcomes from AI. In my own organization we have people touting LOC yet again because “big number”, but anyone who’s ever worked in software can tell you it’s an asinine metric to use as a KPI.

It’s inherently unscientific to start with the answer and work backwards to a satisfactory question. His point that this push is coming from the least knowledgeable of real processes- and more closely resembles religious fervor than business acumen- seems to at least warrant consideration.

A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but after watching the US’s disastrous campaign in Iran I’m not as sure. I think there are quite a few European countries that could lock the US into an unwinnable conflict.

I skimmed the paper and wouldn’t take too much stock in it. One glaring issue I see is that the “control” for their analysis is another cell network that is absolutely tiny by comparison and services a completely different population from AT&T, so they’re not really isolating other variables, they’re cherry-picking data and over-indexing on it.

The other thing that immediately jumped out at me is the format-- it sure looks an awful lot like an academic thesis, and the authors are a professor and a student who started this work during their undergrad. There’s surely no way a respectable journal would publish this document in its current iteration, so why is it in the news? Weird.

The webpage he hosted was a copy of his own blog post explaining the hack. It just about fit into the 20KB of available flash storage.

We can infer that on every request, the whole static page needs to be spooled out of flash onto RAM (in chunks no larger than 3k), then sent out over Ethernet.

That’s an awful lot of work for the chip. I’m not surprised at all that it errors out under heavy load. The request queue probably grows until it collides with the buffer that bucket brigades the web page to the network.

I’m afraid to look up what optimizations were necessary to get that level of performance. It’s damned impressive work.

Bro you can’t even run a publicly traded company. Don’t even say the word “utility”. Fuck outta here.

Truly a “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” moment.

We live in an unprecedented time where American technological hegemony is being rejected globally, but especially in Europe. People want performant, durable, respectful software offerings, and are increasingly looking away from the Valley and the Street for answers.

So let’s jump on board with becoming part of the extended American surveillance state! Yee fucking haw.

Yeah, this pretty clearly isn’t intended to block bots lol

To date, the only countries that have made progress in blocking VPN traffic with some success are authoritarian regimes with ISP-level surveillance.

You know you’re on to something when the only playbook you can find was written by the Chinese government.

I’m not sure how you think they aim to achieve that business lock-in, but many of us suspect it’s by offering a product that replaces workers.