We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!
This is the tech account of @newt, formerly located at @pureevil. If you reached this place, it's your own fault.
Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
There was an anecdote from someone working at Microsoft in the early 2000s. The story says, Microsoft Office code due to legacy reasons stemming from the 90s was incredibly fragile and building it was a no easy feat. Office team had a bunch of carefully maintained build servers with carefully controlled version of Windows, MSVC compiler, and other software. Whenever a new build server was needed, they simply made a copy from an existing one (literally, copying the HDD contents) rather than install a system from scratch.
I heard this story from someone in my uni and I used to laugh at it, because surely having something like this today would be totally ludicrous. Now I see people use Docker and I don't laugh any more.
There was an anecdote from someone working at Microsoft in the early 2000s. The story says, Microsoft Office code due to legacy reasons stemming from the 90s was incredibly fragile and building it was a no easy feat. Office team had a bunch of carefully maintained build servers with carefully controlled version of Windows, MSVC compiler, and other software. Whenever a new build server was needed, they simply made a copy from an existing one (literally, copying the HDD contents) rather than install...
@icon_of_computational_sin there are 2 kinds of professional programmers. those who don't try to make their life harder for no reason and those who have their first job.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191119-00/?p=103115