He’s delusional, take him to the Infirmary

They’re going fine, relatively.

This whole idea reminds me of the “putting solar panels on highways” idea that keeps popping up from time to time. Anyone who has ever built anything understands how stupid it is. Even if you could do it, it still wouldn’t make sense over just putting solar panels next to highways.

Reuse is only good in the context of 90s era OO programming wisdom of “Coupling is bad, cohesion is good”.

My therapist has took this angle immediately - anxiety is a part of us and has a real function - to make us more cautious. But in the modern world it misfires and makes us anxious about things we don’t need to be anxious about which can stop us from doing what we want/need to do. So you acknowledge that voice within yourself, understand that it’s coming from a good place, and then gently push it aside.

I mean I suck at actually doing this but it seems like sound advice.

‘God of All Machines, today you have judged your servants worthy of your Great Work,’ said Kotov, letting his voice carry over the entire command deck. ‘And for this we give thanks. Glory to the Omnissiah!’

Colorado be like “what if we were a rectangle without any parallel lines in it?”

Minivan full of usb keys. Probably still the fastest data transfer method too.

They want to prosecute peope in open court so using the NSA to id people would be inconvenient (but not impossible).

It’s hilarious that you’re basically claiming all good deeds under the banner of woke.

Also I feel like as a society we haven’t sufficiently discussed the fact that this dude’s name is Crispin.

The lack of investment in more production capacity for RAM is based on a roughly 3-year horizon for this insane extra AI demand.

Creating workable consumer-grade alternatives with delay line memory of all things would take longer than that, and the market would collapse the moment AI demand for RAM dried up. This is one of those things that is theoretically possible but due to both technology and market conditions will absolutely not be a thing.

Empathy is the reason we didn’t go extinct at the peak of the afro/eurasian bottleneck when we numbered less than 2,000 individuals.

True, but it’ll the current manosphere chud-driven narrative around this it’s also worth mentioning that empathy is not itself an emotion. It may result in an emotional response, but empathy itself is an cognitive process through which one person considers the perspective and emotions of another. Consciously turning off your empathy literally just makes you dumber and less rational.

You see this all the time with prominent Republicans who suddenly become pro-gay rights as soon as their own kids come out. Bruh, gay people didn’t suddenly start deserving rights just because your kid happens to be gay, so you were either being irrational before or you’re being irrational now. The cognitive process by which you could have avoided irrationality was by engaging in empathy - consider the perspectives and feelings of others, consider how and why they come about, and incorporate that into your thinking.

I am using X-mouse on my MX master 3 just because I’ve become addicted to the Logitech scroll wheel and i absolutely hate having to deal with their dogshit software. Probably doesn’t have 100 percent functionality of the mouse but enough for me.

Also Santa actually exists in DC and is immensely powerful within his sphere of operations.

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Santa_Claus

Probably inspired by Tom Bombadil imo.

I mean it’s not like the kid killed a random person. In a sense he’s the only character doing any kind of root cause analysis.

I think it can be repaired but it would require an actual human being as a leader. I dont know if you have that over there in politics.

You have plenty in politics. Special interests (mainly but not exclusively the rich) have seen to it that the American electorate would never make any of them president. Billionaires don’t buy news and media outlets because they love honest journalism.

A good low (basically zero) risk way to start is to flash an image of say Ubuntu onto a flash drive. They’re usually bootable. So you can boot into Linux right off the flash drive.

This obvious takes a performance hit compared to actually installing it, but it’ll let you confirm that it actually works on your hardware.

Apparently when Satya Nadella took over, Steve Ballmer told him “don’t screw up”. In terms of stock price and profits, he absolutely hasn’t. In terms of producing products that consumers might actually want to pay for, he has failed completely and Microsoft has never been in a worse position. But those two things are completely disconnected now so it’s fine.

Why have windows calculator when you can have windows calculator with AI guess what you want to calculate, get it wrong, spy on you, and use that spying to serve you targetted ads all at the same time? #innovation

You really don’t see the risk of having no data centers you actually control as an organization?

This really depends on what you think you’re getting from having your own DC. Is it reliability? Flexibility? Control? What are your objectives?

There’s some argument to be made to have some locally hosted stuff for some flexibility and control. And in some niche cases the pricing of public offerings doesn’t make sense.

But as I said, if you’re building your own data center for increased reliability then 1) you’re necessarily assuming the premise that you’re going to be better at managing DCs than Google, Microsoft and AWS which I think in reality would be hard to prove let alone do, and 2) is hard to justify considering you can distribute workloads across multiple data centers already (as proven by the Netflix example) so that your reliability isn’t limited by any one vendor.