Some people may not be as privileged to be immune to being terrorized by violent threats as you are.

Its been decades since it was invented so perhaps we'll find out soon.

I don't know, let's restrict it's use just to be safe. Unproven, unresearched peptides though, we should have the FDA bless them for sell.

>Tinted glass windows are designed to mimic the copper coating that gives spacesuit visors their gold radiance.

Aren't spacesuit visors actually gold plated, not copper?

>You can predict which changes in the source code will lead to which exact changes in the behavior of the compiled program.

A vanishingly small percentage of coders are thinking about this when they're coding. Compilers do so many optimizations that most work-a-day programmers don't think about as well. If you're one of those people who care about the exact instructions coming out of your compiler, you're just inlining assembly.

Maybe read my comment again. I was making a point that the exact machine code output by the compiler isn’t relevant to the argument.

Maybe read my comment again. I wasn't disagreeing with you.

What was the prompt for the widow's bay egg?

I pasted in a concept image (created by ChatGPT images here https://chatgpt.com/share/6ac16336-c288-83e8-9f28-084d184363...) and prompted:

> Use your blender local skill to create a blender model of this faverge egg

The blender local skill is this one: https://github.com/simonw/gpt-6-astra-blender-pelican-bicycl... - which I described here: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender-coding-agents-mac...

>There are airliners that have been in service for over 50 years.

Are there any airliners that have flown for 24 years non-stop?

this is why I find comparing mostly-solid-state stuff with big mechanical contraptions a frustrating exercise.

it's more impressive to me that the electric fans within the Stratus server still operate than it is that the chips still work, and if we're going with the plane metaphor it's the silicon that puts the thing into the air, not the simple fans.

So really it just boils down to "well, the planes work is harder." as to why it fails, which is of course abstract and unsatisfying; comparing the comparative lifetime workloads of a chip that has shifted trillions of bits versus some jet engines that have moved millions of kilograms around the world.

and then another layer comes and makes it even weirder : the vast majority of hardware around the world that has been EoLd and replaced has been in that situation due to software, not the hardware itself; a paradigm that really doesn't exist in the physical engineering world in the same was as it does CS.

Mechanical integrity in industrial processes is often divided into two categories: static equipment (tanks, pipes, heat exchangers...) and rotating equipment.

These two have very distinct failure modes. The failure mechanisms for solid state electronics are much more similar to those for static equipment (corrosion, thermal fatigue, creep, ...)

The chips themselves aren't surprising, but there are other electronic components that may fail earlier like capacitors

Yeah, it’s not a good comparison. Give me endless parts and a maintenance window of 6 months every so often and I can make any server last a century.

That would not be a useful airliner.

Mr Bones wild ride

But really didn't the NSA have something that was roughly an airliner in perpetual flight?

Spy blimp!

You'll find for sure an old DC3 somewhere, and a Cessna 172 also. And according to https://www.oldest.org/technology/planes-still-flying/ there are still 40 year old 737's in the air

Was going to say, there's servers that last several decades, they receive routine maintenance, most people buy a computer, and rarely replace parts, and if enough years pass, you opt to buy a new one instead.

I'm not sure, but I think there are a few submarines that have remained underwater for that long.

Absolutely not. They come up for shift changes at the very least, and more.

Naval vessels are some of the most maintained machines in the world. They get hauled out for hull repairs routinely, or put into long term maintenance facilities for months while they are repaired. Probably second only to airplanes and space craft.

Name one.

I think most of the time the navy does that.

You could have just said “I can’t”

$3500 when you consider they returned $3000 of that back to OpenAI in the form of burnt tokens.

Compared to gemini-cli that they took out behind the woodshed, I hate it.

Or ruin.

Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm.

The name has always made me think it was a bunch of corporate lawyers. I suppose the difference is increasingly academic.

A16Z stands for the first and last letters of their names, 16 is the number of characters in between.

I know, I'm talking about the full name.

The subtext is: "maybe they're pushing the abbreviated brand because they want to sound less like a law firm."