What are your thoughts on that?

I hope to hear words like "bollocks" and "bullshit" dispersed equitably.

This might help you understand what should be the priorities for efficient water utilization (and reducing waste): https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-w...

In California during their droughts restaurants wouldn't give you a glass of water unless you asked for it. Maybe there's some compromise between that and pumping groundwater for datacenter cooling.

Plenty of places are using water faster than the aquifers they use regenerate. I hold no issue with banning using that limited freshwater resource for cooling.

When I first came across Linux you would download the code (very slowly) to /usr/src/linux (extract and cd) and run "make config". You'd answer quite a lot of y/n and later y/n/m questions and then copy a binary and later on run a script to put things in place. Then you would fix up lilo and off you trot ... or not 8)

Is that the Linux way you are on about? No obviously not 8)

I think you mean the "unix idealized but never really happened exactly but we are quite close if you squint a bit ... way" where each tool does one job well and the pipeline takes up the slack.

"I could write in brainfuck with ai"

Well, go on and do the experiment! Perhaps LLMs can right code as well in BF as Python but I don't recommend it because hallucinations are really hard to notice in BF.

If you are going to worry about high level computer languages and AI, you are going to have to start with getting to grips with machine code and assemblers and that. Once you know how say some Python code ends up being processed by your laptop CPU(s), then you will know when BF might be best!

> Frontier models score ~90% on Python but only 3.8% on esoteric languages, exposing how current code generation relies on training data memorization rather than genuine programming reasoning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433#48102985

"when Google was trying to get people in with 1-2GB."

The G in Gmail was for a gigabyte and that was what I got in the noughties for "free", when as you say my ISP offered something like 5MB on the end of a POP connection.

To be fair you can cram a lot of ASCII into 5MB. However you can email piccies to a mailbox with a 1GB limit if your modem doesn't melt first.

Obviously, this was during the "don't be evil" days.

Even then the reason they were giving people so much storage space was because they wanted people to get in the habit of keeping their private data on Google's servers so that Google could mine it whenever they felt like it. Giving users effectively unlimited space was a selfish move on Google's part, not a gift.

I think that's rather unkind.

From my perspective: it looks like a coming of age ... blinking into adulthood sort of voyage of discovery.

Nicely said.

Is this supposition or first hand experience?

The latter. I've seen so much unethical shit here, I'd love to give more detail but I'd probably dox myself

Don't let it break you. Take whatever money you made and run.

The rest of big tech isn't much better. Big G is less stressful, but you'll see vicious and cringey behavior left and right. Hyped large startups are cults and 100% cringe. Meta is kind of the worst of both worlds though. "But they pay so well". Yeah, also: life is short.

Try a really daft innovation: a phone line staffed by real people.

This will be considered ultra premium in about 3 years

Hit the Stumble link at the top right of all pages - its as good as a search when the whole thing is made up!

... or it riffs with your nick and rhymes with stunt.

I don't even understand what your comment is about, my dude. Given who a recipe? DENIC?

Look at his previous post. He described how to set up DNSSEC with PowerDNS.