@jessere:
https://blog.fsck.com/2026/03/25/Classical-Software/I think the coinage you are looking for is “algorithmic software”.
Classical Software
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Tinder has been around long enough for children born because of it to be in high school.
If your article opens with an AI slop lead image, my interest drops by a few notches before I’ve even started reading.
The joys of a new system update. Spending some period of time just putting everything back to the way it was.
Something I haven’t seen remarked on is that there is a symmetry in the zero-one-infinity rule: zero and infinity are mirrors of each other. In a sense, zero is another infinity – if you will, infinitely few as opposed to infinitely many, which is the kind we usually think of. (But not infinitely *little*, which gets us into all sorts of infinitesimal headaches… (Luckily you can’t feel those.)) A quantity can be infinitely few, finite as in exactly a unit, or infinitely many: all possible cases.
Huh. I unloaded a sudden hard sneeze into a paper napkin and it disintegrated into a cloud of tiny paper shrapnel showering onto my desk and the floor. Looked like a burst pillow in miniature.
Saw someone suggest that one of the headline IT trends of the last decade is “containerization of trash”.
Happy Snowden Revelations Day everyone.
@craigbox Thank you. The answer is not yet – but the only remaining uncertainty is whether they will be warranted in a few months or weeks, or even as little as days.
It’s odd, the difference between being prepared for it – knowing it’s among the possible outcomes, having braced for it for days, even weeks or months, in some ways years – and then having it confirmed, narrowed from the wingspan of possible futures to a point, set in stone, immovable and final. An entire lifetime of paying for it in dividends no match for it; the weight of a lifetime, found wanting against a moment.
