BRING IT ON NITPICKY NUKE NERDS

  • @V0ldek
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    182 months ago

    but they must be making money off X if they’re doing this.

    is such a laughable, ridiculous thing to say, like what the fuck dude, where did you get this idea from even

    • @Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
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      -132 months ago

      Yeah corporations love spending massive amounts of money on projects with no return on their investment. Microsoft is signing a 20 year contract for massive amounts of power for funsies, and totally handing out copilot licenses for free to all the other corporations that are adopting it.

      Have you ever sat in a meeting with corporate people? All they every think about is money money and more money. Laugh all you want - MS is doing the laughing as every company scrambles to adopt AI purely out of fear of being left behind, and they are paying for it. The install base is already so huge for the OS, this is the easiest payout they could ask for. They have to shit the bed HARD to fuck this up.

      • @o7___o7
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        Yeah corporations love spending massive amounts of money on projects with no return on their investment.

        This message squirted into the ether from my Zune

        They have to shit the bed HARD to fuck this up.

        Fun fact: The default color for the Zune was brown.

      • @froztbyte
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        132 months ago

        I’ll take “comments posted with extremely definite and concrete knowledge of current operator spend and market dynamics” for 2c, Alex

      • @MBM@lemmings.world
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        112 months ago

        The tech industry runs on investors spurred on by hype and promises of huge profits somewhere in the future

        • @froztbyte
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          72 months ago

          thank you for reminding me of this which I forget

        • @bitofhope
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          112 months ago

          Fortune named Enron “America’s Most Innovative Company” for six consecutive years.

          Some Wikipedia editor has a nice sense of comedic timing, placing this right before the article picture and the infobox before dropping the

          At the end of 2001, it was revealed that Enron’s reported financial condition was sustained by an institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud, known since as the Enron scandal.

        • @Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
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          -112 months ago

          Man the internet is wild. I say MS probably has a plan to profit from AI based on their 20 year contract for nuclear power and you guys are like “but Enron failed!” Holy fuck ya really reaching to pick those cherries now

          • @blakestaceyA
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            102 months ago

            Your blithe trust in capital fails to be endearing.

            • @selfA
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              102 months ago

              it’s weird that Enron of all things was the line for them

            • @Soyweiser
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              62 months ago

              I’m also impressed that the bailey they retreat into (‘I just said that they would have a plan to make money over 20 years’) is just as badly defendable as the motte ‘they must be making money’. Quality work.

          • @V0ldek
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            52 months ago

            has a plan to profit

            You say “plan” but I think what you really mean is that Satya crossed his fingers and hoped for the best

      • @V0ldek
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        52 months ago

        MS is doing the laughing as every company scrambles to adopt AI purely out of fear of being left behind

        Hey man, as someone who literally worked at MSFT in Azure Identity a year ago, let me assure you, this is exactly what MSFT is also doing while their devs scratch their heads in bewilderment on how on earth they’re going to incorporate genAI into the auth token service.