Re: Denier no more?
Seems obvious you've never heard of Fourier.
But please do show us where Fourier was doing it wrong.
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Disruption is coming one way or the other.
We either do it in a somewhat controlled way or catastrophes and disasters do as they please.
Place your bets on which is more likely. Because you are. Betting your life that is.
As for pipe dreams of solar shading, keep smoking whatever is in that pipe and see where that gets you.
Well written article.
I first became aware of mini computers and then PCs in the mid 1970s. I did not learn how to use them until the mid 1980s. It was far too expensive for me at the time and I had to catch as catch can.
But every word of this article is the truth. I saw it in real time. We now use crippled, overpriced tech every day and nobody knows any different. And the brand stan-bois are the worst.
And it just gets worse every year. Which means this article will eventually disappear down the memory hole and outside of some of us who may remember it in the future, it will be gone and the morons will keep marching while looking at the those of us who know as some kind of cranks.
Much like the article I read about learned helplessness in software writing these days. I can no longer find the article (see reason above), but it detailed how and why software is utter shite these days. This El Reg article makes a great addendum to that lost article.
The company I work for has switched almost exclusively to cloud and subscription from MS.
The on premise service was bad to begin with and now it's almost unusable. That is not hyperbole. I am constantly missing notices and getting very delayed email and messages. The system also does not like that I have accounts across different domains. Does not like it at all. Anything on One Drive has become Schrodinger's cat.
The list just goes on from there.
How anyone thinks MS is fit for purpose is beyond belief. This house of cards WILL utterly collapse one day. And sooner than most people think.