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Is there a right millennium? The end of the first millennium had people believing that the tick-over would cause the apocalypse, with all computers everywhere immediately detonating, and the whole economy rendered valueless dust.

Now, is any of this true?

Not really, since keys work by shorting the circuit. That's why pressing multiple keys at once on your keyboard doesn't cause it to blow up. It would just assume the button with the shortest circuit was pressed, and ignore the rest.

It might cause weird things to happen with a mechanical or electromechanical calculator, since there were physical mechanisms engaged and disnegaged for each function, and might break/jam those, but not an electronic, and especially not a transistorised one.

It's more likely that hitting them all confused the CPU, or dropped the voltage down enough that it reset, just in case something strange happened, or to try and fix any bug that might have caused it to register all the buttons being pressed.

In defence of QWERTY, it did a decent job for what it was designed for (reducing the risk of mechanical typewriters jamming by not having two hammers next to each other be pressed at the same time), but really oughtn't have lasted past the point where the risk of jamming was not longer there.

That, and people don't know how to adjust them, or are unwilling to. My parents' cars have a dial to adjust the headlight angle for when carrying weight in the back of the car, or when towing, but they never touch the setting.

Does he think that the demand for AI-accelerating hardware is just going to go away? That the requirement of fast, dedicated memory attached to a parallel processing/matrix multiplying unit (aka a discreet GPU) is just going to disappear in the next five years‽

Maybe the idea is to put it on the CPU/NPU instead? Hence them going so hard on AI processors in the CPU, even though basically nothing uses it.

As is Robotnikinin

The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.

They're not, though. Stark is a rare engineering powerhouse who personally pushed past a lot of engineering boundaries, and Musk is an investor/programmer who mostly puts his name on existing things.

I might change my mind if Musk personally invents AGI, nanobots, and a previously-unknown clean energy source capable of powering a 1/3rd of NYC with a room no larger than a foyer, like Stark did, but I'm not holding out much by way of hopes.

They'll be boggled by hiccough and gaol.

That was his name. Plus, unexpectedly being exposed to that kind of content does leave an impact, more often than not.

Automatic moderation has been a boon in that way. A decent portion of it gets caught by the automatic procedures, instead of having to deal with CSAM and spam yourself.

But this isn't voluntary moderation (though that might also have that issue), this is about the people who moderate for a living. So people on Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter), who see the posts that you report, and have to work with all of that.

Those people typically aren't going around just hoovering up a mod spot for the fun of it.

For a direct answer, he had penetrative intercourse with a horse (receiving). Surprisingly, he survived the attempt, but perished from complications.