As Gilfoyle said when he gives his AI permission to overwrite code: "The most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the software, which is technically and statistically correct."
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As we well know as programmers, technically correct is the best kind of correct.
I can't even imagine the amount of story ideas they have at their disposal now. It really is ripe for a reboot or revival. They were dealing with compression and data efficiency, I think we have surpassed those issues.
Since it ended we have had:
- Crypto currency
- NFTs
- "AI"
- VR
- Wearables
- Hardware shortages
- etc
You're my hero-of-the-day(tm) for putting quotes around AI. Thank you for all you do.
To be fair, they did briefly cover VR on the show. Although they portrayed it as more of a fad and vaporware scam to defraud investors. As times gone on though it has stuck around. While not as much of a buzzword as it once was, it has cemented itself as legitimate tech.
Metaverse was the scam part of VR.
I think maybe it's because almost any vapourwave scam has some legitimate use (NFT is definitely an exception, so maybe I'm totally wrong with other cases, too)
I totally agree. I think what the show wanted to portray was vaporware scams and how they often rely on market trends and buzzwords. VR was in the perfect time and space to be the vehicle for their message. But it doesn’t condemn nor discredit VR as a whole. In fact, what they focused on specifically wasn’t the tech itself, but the requirements to run it in their specific example. And at the time that was definitely the case. Cutting edge VR tech took a lot of raw power. And the specific case of porting a VR application that needed a powerful workstation to a phone focused heavily on that idea. It was very much influenced in current events then, with mobile gaming and VR both being marketing and investment interests at that time.
Except in the show, AI actually solved problems, instead of causing them.
It's not the AI that causes problems. It's the CEOs that INSIST this bullshit needs to not only be part of our lives, but also affect our lives.
We can't buy ram at reasonable prices. I hear storage (hard drives, and solid state drives) are also going to go back to being expensive.
GPUs as well.
This is just like a few years ago when all the crypto bros decided they needed all the GPUs. So prices went from $100 or so, to $700. I've heard of some high end GPUs at tge peak of it going for 3k.
Except this time, when the fad ends, I heard it's going to collapse the entire US economy.
We're being forced to prop up a technology that does not work in the ways they want it to, and never will. It can't. Thats not something a computer can ever do.
It's like saying a plane can fly at 550mph, and a pigeon can also fly. Therefore we're forcing the entire united states economy to be dependant on pigeons flying from New York to Los Angelas in 5 hours.
It can't do that.
So when it fails, it basically creates a global depression.
That's what we're doing here. The CEOs are at fault. The AI itself will only do what you tell it to do.
I'm referencing events in the show.
Did you really watch it? It most certainly caused problems in the show as well.
Eventually.
But the problems were more along the lines "oh no, it's so powetful, it's becoming god".
It also deleted their codebase and ordered hundreds of kgs of meat.
To be fair humans do that too
Unless you're intentionally trying to do harm then not really, no.
I've been in the tech/startup world since the early '00s and I can definitively say you best start believin' in Silicon Valley episodes; you're in one.
Yeah, first time I watched I was like holy shit, are they filming my life? So much they get right in that show, especially the egos and pettiness
I knew from the very first scene. Some company had just got bought so they had a big party and paid Kid Rock to play. But everybody was in polos and khakis and wanted to have quiet conversations and Kid gave up halfway through the first song.
I was at that party. It wasn't Kid Rock, but I was at that party
all the devs at work would talk about how much they love the show.
they all thought they were Bachmans, but were in reality Jareds.
I couldn't watch the show because it was too triggering to me. Imagine working on a team of Jareds...
Personally I always identified with Gilfoyle but knew deep down I was a Richard.
I've had a customer ask for me by saying "get us that guy who looks like Gilfoyle, he's the only one who seems to know what's going on."
Though I am polyamorous, have been associated with the occult, have long hair and a beard, and wear rectangular glasses, so I can understand how they'd be mistaken.
You know Russ, I've been known to fuck myself.
And now I have to rewatch Silicon Valley again...
Suck it Jìng-Yáng
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These were minor outages. Not excusing AI. Just saying
Except that AWS is (for better or for worse) a tier 1 network solutions provider, in part because of advertised uptime. Due to that, it is possible for a minor AWS outage to result in lack of 911 service in an area, for example. Hopefully they have the common sense to try out these new things on less critical nodes though.
If they don't spread their infra across multiple availability zones, they deserve to die
/s
they deserve to die
yeah but their customers sure fucking don't deserve it.
Is joke
isn't funny
across multiple availability zones
Better spread across different providers.
Remember that time a popular cloud hoster lost a customer's data, including their in-service backups? Luckily, they had off-service backups.
I got a couple seasons into this and then for some reason the next season that came on was like 2 seasons ahead of where I was supposed to be. I got through like 3 or 4 episodes until I got really confused and looked at the seasons and realized that Hulu had the seasons mixed up. I got so frustrated I quit watching it :/
Amazon is always smirking at you.