If humanity’s first reaction to sapient machines is to blot out the sun without thinking about what would happen to them, that’s on them at that point.
They’re lucky the machines cared enough to try and help humans, rather than leave them to the consequences of their own actions.
Plus people are mean all the time. We don’t live in a comic book world, where a moment of fury at someone on the internet turns people into supervillains.
Wasn’t a lot of their tomfoolery why people relocated to Reddit to begin with?
The old technologies that we used to use for websites never really went away. They’re still around, and you can use them to make websites again if you want.
It’s just that it won’t be as fancy looking as a newer web-site, but you don’t lose too much on functionality.
Burger. Especially if it’s not too tall, and thus a perfect height for eating with.
Sometimes, you just need a flat food structure.
It also stops them from getting attention, and dissuades people who might commit similar crimes for the notoriety.
Especially since servers can do more sophisticated cooling systems than the average home user, like dunking the entire system in oil.
Probably less that and more that he was asked to/promised something if he did.
I’d argue schooling in general. Instead of being something you do because you want to and enjoy it, it’s instead a thing you have to do either because you don’t have the qualifications for a promotion, or you need the qualifications for an entry-level position.
People that are there because they enjoy study, or want to learn more are arguably something of a minority.
Naturally if you’re there because you have to be, you’re not going to put much, if any effort in, and will look to take what shortcuts you can.
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Though the check isn’t very sophisticated, if memory serves. It more or less checks whether / is passed to rm -r.
If you did something like rm -r $VAR/*, but didn’t check to make sure that $VAR was set and not empty, it could still fire, since rm wouldn’t see that root got passed, only a bunch of directories in root.
Or end up provoking someone who might not have the most reasonable reaction to it.
It’s like the Purple Heart all over again.
Though at the same time, it’s not really that much of a surprise, is it? The man loves gold-coloured things.
Just take the app name, for example. From memory, single letter app names aren’t typically allowed in either of those places. X got a special exemption to let them use that name.
At the same time, they could easily be a crutch. Why bother designing a good, accessible website if most of the users are just going to access it via a chatbot?
This feels like it’s going to incentivise developers to either make bad puzzles, or bad hint systems. Why bother with a good one if the platform has a “complete this for me” feature? It is basically impossible for players to get stuck or struggle, when they’re either shown the solution, or the game completes it for them.
I don’t understand the point of sending the original e-mail. Okay, you want to thank the person who helped invent UTF-8, I get that much, but why would anyone feel appreciated in getting an e-mail written solely/mostly by a computer?
It’s like sending a touching birthday card to your friends, but instead of writing something, you just bought a stamp with a feel-good sentence on it, and plonked that on.
Storage. There aren’t enough hard drives, so datacentres are also buying up SSDs, since it’s needed to store training data.
If enough of it is still around. A lot of the old spaces that used to exist aren’t around any more.
Plus things like YouTube and Discord aren’t banned, do chances are, they would end up there instead.
Github may be, strangely enough.
IMO it’s more to do with the Network/producers wanting to play it safe, since Star Trek is a big franchise, and thus a reliable cash cow now. Either that or it’s a victim of its own fame. No-one wants to be the one who ruined Star Trek, for example.
Parts of the US threatened to take the original series off the air because it was so socially progressive, and I feel like the subsequent series haven’t quite lived up to that part of the legacy, because they don’t want to risk much.
The most emblematic of this, I feel, is the shift to the 32nd century. There was a lot of potential there, and a lot of it was just thrown away to reset everything back to something recognisable, just with a shiny new coat of paint. You would expect them to have at least moved on from warp drives, phasers, and quantum torpedoes a millennium after the fact, or that they would be almost entirely unrecognisable.