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So I think this (AI-written) thing is mostly interesting because of some of the comments, in which commenters lament Cringely putting out this kind of stuff in the lead-up to his death, which they also manage to verify with an obituary.
Pangram flags this 100% AI written.
It reads like it too. I don't fully understand why a sentence like "It's the signature that costs." makes it into machine output (It costs... what? What does it cost?) But here we are.
I kept wanting it to be substantial.<p>> <i>The numbers were free. Everybody had the numbers. What cost money — what still costs a fortune — was the independent, accountable, provable attestation that the numbers were true.</i><p>Sigh. Please explain to my accountant how numbers are free, and her work is all an elaborate extortion racket for her signature. Ditto those famously… uh… “expensive”… notaries-public and CAs it mentions…
Didn’t Cringely pass away recently?
According to a HN post, and basically nothing else that I can seem to find.<p>Who knows, maybe he's still alive and posted the death notice himself. Dude is/was a compulsive liar. There's still to this day no actual evidence that he genuinely has passed away (unless I'm just unable to find it)