The year is 2030.
Computers boot directly into the browser. IDEs are just a web app now, running in the GPU. No one knows why. Or how.
All programs run in 4 nested containers on top of a hypervisor abstracting over the 5 major computational clouds. The last time a branch was predicted correctly, in any CPU anywhere, was 4 years ago.
Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.
Ext7 just came out, it's written in Javascript and uses AI to guess what the file may contain.
@chrisg Windows XP is still used on boarding terminals at airports around the world.
@Briarheart @makdaam @rysiek @chrisg oh my, I thought it was not used on such critical data anymore in the USA
@RadioAzureus @Briarheart @makdaam @rysiek @chrisg
The USA has more antiquated infrastructure than EU because the govt doesn't want to pay for corporations to monopolize the backbones by licking everyone out after it gets implemented.
Most telecommunications are copper wire instead of fiber.
