It still demonstrates an obsession with quantity over quality though, along with a desire to measure everything

I think it’s important to be clear about the positives (genuinely useful if used with care) and negatives (ecological disaster, motor for increasing inequality, tech bro millenarian bloviation) of so-called AI, rather than using the term as a kind of catch-all dog whistle

They did eventually make an SH404, but that was 20 years later in 2005. HTTP was created before that, but after the original lineup. I rest my case.

I remember the days when nostalgia wasn’t politicised.

A lot of people forget that aging is a process of letting go of your previous conceptions of the world and building new ones

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Any proffered “argument” is therefore pretty much pro forma: the details are irrelevant. But importantly, it’s not susceptible to counter arguments because it’s actually just a decoy.