Granted, I really had to look for that meaning.

I just realized this wasn’t an evil name across cultures as I have always thought.

Its Chinese translation 天网 (literally sky + net) is a word used for at least for 2,000 years and is still very actively used among the daily vocabulary. It’s a metaphor for law enforcement (especially the destined punishment for going against the “good natural order” i.e. the sky).

Traditionally, it’s neutral or commendatory, but nowadays due to the association with surveillance networks (both metaphorically and literally), it’s more derogatory.

Classic RPG story telling.

Not sure about this one, but I know quant traders sometimes like many screens with many dashboards for realtime trading.

So consumer grade routers are a security risk, but not ISP switches or server routers? That’s the opposite of what a state level actor would look for.

Seems like the interception missile hit the incoming missile but failed to destroy it in the air.

Orange Tesla - Kanye West - Dunkey

For Hollywood, I think it’s more about the financialization. Investors don’t want to do risky productions, so we only get the decade old "IP"s rehashed for the thousandth time, rather than independent art experiments.

Enough…?

Okay, rhyming is done. Now I just need to figure out the rest of the poem.

I agree. It’s such a Gen Generation thing to say.

“There’s some legal, legalese you’ve got to work with, but everybody’s working with us on this,” he said. “I can’t even tell you how many different corporate America, Google, Apple, Meta, all these companies have said, ‘Whatever you need, Sheriff, they’re there,’ and we’re utilizing that leverage to get things done as quickly as we can.”

Am I the only one thinking it’s a chilling thing to hear?

HaVe yOu sAiD ThAnK YoU OnCe?

Depending on whether they are allowed to leave.

The killing part is not necessarily people vibe coding programs into OSS projects, but even if the OSS itself is not vibe coded, people using AI to integrate with it will result in lower engagement and thus killing the ecosystem:

Together, these patterns suggest that AI mediation can divert interaction away from the surfaces where OSS projects monetize and recruit contributors.

From Section 2.3 of the reported paper.

From industrial revolution to 1975, US generally runs a trade surplus: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2019/may/historical-u-s-trade-deficits

That’d be two cents, sir.

Turns out the real treasure is the friendship all along. Anywho, about the salary…

For DevOps, it provides consistency for every CI run and production deployment, especially when a whole system needs to be shipped.