I got a lot of group spam, where someone seems to have created a google group and added my mail to it. And then people answer the spam, and the answer is also send to everyone in the group
>Investing in AI infrastructure seems very risky to me. With how short of a lifecycle computing hardware generally has, does it make sense to blow billions on hardware that will need to be replaced in a few years?
That also depends on the budget. I work in the public sector, so there's usually no money, but now they've just discovered that they have a 25 million budget, which needs to be spend this year on hardware (for AI). If we do not spend the money within this year, the budget expires and then we cannot spend it at all
25 million is not billions, but that could still be a higher budget than any other public institution agency in the entire state here has
I've received over 100 emails this year from these dubious mailing lists. And each mail I checked has a "X-Google-Group-Id" header. I hardly get the spam, but mostly notifications from strange email servers. "Thank you for your message," or "I'm currently out of the office," or "This email address is no longer valid.". and the servers respond to each other "Thank you for your message titled 'I am out of office'"...
a) Are they really sent by Google Groups?
b) Why does Google allow any person to create an google groups mailing list and add my email address to it without my consent?
c) Are there really still people who have configured their autoresponders to automatically respond to autoresponders through email lists in 2025?
There was actually just a large discussion thread in the Lazarus forum wondering about why it is not more popular, with almost 300 comments. But now the thread got locked. That might be a reason.
I used Delphi on Windows 98. But that became outdated, so I ported it to FreePascal. FreePascal has a lot of integrated libraries, but I do not really use anything I did not already use with Delphi.
And Germans tapwater tastes much better than US tapwater, there is no chlorine
I drink a lot of tapwater (though usually as tea)
I used to drink bottled water, because it is sparkly. I like sparkling water much more than ordinary water.
But I got tired of carrying so many bottles
I bought a CO2 device that should make tapwater sparkling. But lacked fuzz and my mother donated it away. She donates all my stuff
>This means everyone buys water in plastic containers at the grocery store, all this plastic is PET-based, and PEG is always present in small quantities in that water (because water is slightly acidic, and acids disassociate the PET molecule).
My mother only buys glass bottles because of that.
I just added my own tagging to my pointers. I have 48-bit pointers and 16-bit of tagging data.
I replaced all my struct { word type; char* data }; with something like (type << 48) | data. This saves a memory allocation and pointer indirection. It is much faster
I got a lot of group spam, where someone seems to have created a google group and added my mail to it. And then people answer the spam, and the answer is also send to everyone in the group