Yeah I don't get it, either. If the exercise relies on the assumption that the agent can't reach the "live internet", whatever that means, there are affirmative steps to realize that assumption. The fact that they failed to take those steps suggests two possibilities: they are idiots, or they think we're idiots who will fall for this marketing campaign.
They decided that instead of having an Android runtime on top of ChromeOS they would port the ChromeOS desktop features to Android. A Googlebook boots Android.
Berkeley is a hotbed of reactionary, far-right, and generally weird behavior. We've got this sex cult of course, and we have Curtis Yarvin, Michael Shellenberger, etc. Our tolerance for deviance acts as a shield that attracts self-depicted contrarians.
At my employer in 1999 we were maintaining home-grown binary modification to the Solaris kernel so that TCP segment send and receive were not O(N^2) where N was the number of addresses on the interface :-/ It was, as far as I could tell, an operating system that nobody had ever tried to use before. For anything where we could avoid Sun we used FreeBSD. One of the nice things about the free Unixes of that time was that process and thread creation or destruction were orders of magnitude faster than on Sun. To me, Sun was obviously in a lower category than Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD.
Right before they fell face-first into the grave, they did finally ship the v20z, which was a completely reasonable way to run Solaris x86. Its management board ran Linux on PowerPC, for irony purposes.
the lab I was at got on this train right around the beginning of the sparc architecture. yellow pages. nfs based swap, nfs based boot. 10Mbit thinnet. we suffered for a few months and then moved to xterms for the cheap seats (which was a much better place to cut services) and went back to buying self-sufficient workstations.
the best was having everyone with a disk cross-mount each other. any failure snowballed into a global failure.
Can we stop acting like selective quoting from discovered materials gives us an unbiased and factual representation of the truth? The plaintiff is always trying to cherry-pick and distort elements from discovered material. And this is exactly why every large corporation without exception tries to train their employees to not draw conclusions of law in discoverable written materials. A computer science professor does not have the requisite knowledge to determine that some act was "theft of labor" nor the knowledge required to contextualize that "in human history".
Yeah, that some shumck of an executive at Microsoft happens to have had similar sentimental notions as other members of the literati who hate AI is not an "admission" or even a particularly interesting fact.
Given the process by which "meritocratic" elites are usually selected and trained, it would be odd if this wasn't sometimes the case.
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