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Isn’t that just a modern Tesla at this point?


5 minutes to get it to 70% capacity, with a battery that drives several hundred miles on a charge.
But if you’re at the mall and there’s a charging station, you can plug it in and refill it while you do your shopping.


Truth Sparkler


The Mayor Pete of Silicon Valley


Well, you can’t see it, because the US won’t let you buy one


They’re fully in thrall to market forces. Those forces simply dictate that they lobby for protected markets. It’s far cheaper to buy off a lobbyist than to build a cutting edge battery factory


they were within their rights to refuse to do business with the US government, and I don’t agree that the response to them refusing it should be the US government blacklist their company
I mean… you want to refuse business but you don’t want to be refused business?
How does that work?


They’re just trying to get clicks. It’s attention seeking behavior, not real concern for public policy.
FIRE has always been a corporate friendly libertarian-right organization. They post this stuff because they need to appear relevant to their sponsors.
Or it wasn’t. Very possible he was simply gifted the NFT and lied about the price.
A bunch of the early 20s NFT sales were wash sales


Gen Z kids can’t read these days.



Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him without getting a cut of the action?


You claim Trump is dumber than Bush, and yet Trump has made billions while President compared to Bush who only made hundreds of millions.
Hell, I’m beginning to think Cheney was dumber than Trump, at least on these grounds.


Who is going to remove it? Trump’s friend Tim Cook? Trump’s friend Jeff Bezos? Trump’s friend Sundar Pichai? Or Trump’s friend Satya Nadella?


So yes, you can visit your favorite blog, but its still not the same as it was in the 90s or early 00s.
It absolutely is. I might argue podcasts have kinda usurped the old blogging space (or, at least, supplanted it). But I’ve got an RSS feed full of blogs I follow that are barely different that what I was looking at 30 years ago. The 90s is alive on Feedly.
Fucken computers bullshit, its fucken sick
Lolz.


One method was to lower the quality of inputs. Plywood instead of hardwood. Then fiberboard/chipboard instead of plywood.
In fairness, hardwood is in limited supply. It takes a long time to produce, is expensive to harvest correctly, and typically means demolishing old growth forests to obtain. The “lower quality” products definitely have their trade-offs, but a lot of the quality issues are resolved through engineering improvements and materials sciences.
I would argue the real downside of lower quality inputs is the advent of “disposable” furniture (the IKEA brand crap most notably). Stuff that could have been designed to last, but isn’t, and ends up in landfills after moving day as a result. Rather than a savings yield, what you get is a waste surplus.
And later, CNC machines stepped in to produce delicate and complicated designs in a fraction of the time - and frequently even more precisely and more cleanly - than anyone with a carving chisel could do.
And that is the part which is NOT being effectively duplicated in IT.
Lolwhut? We’ve come so far even in the last ten years, in terms of IDEs, deployment pipelines, and automated unit testing.


dont browse
the webFacebook or anymodernGoogle/iPhone Store apps.
The internet used to be a space for weird geeky hobbyists that more traditional plebs couldn’t access or couldn’t be bothered to fuck with. Now it’s still that, but it has a bunch of shit for the rubes, too.
At some point, I feel like I’m talking to someone who says “I fucking hate Florida. Every time I go, I spend a week at Disney World and it’s expensive and awful and loud and stupid.” And here I am, out in the Keys, working on my tan and fishing and hiking and hooking up with cuties, having no problems whatsoever.


We are not at the end of the road. We are not at the beginning of the end of the road. We are not at the end of the beginning.
I definitely get the impulse to doom. And I’m as prone to it as anyone. But when I look at crypto and AI, all I can see is the same analog fuck-ups made in prior generations. Beanie Babies and Labubus didn’t ruin the stuffed animal industry. The Delorean and the Hummer didn’t ruin the automotive industry. The Great Depression of 1932 didn’t ruin the financial sector.
Plenty of things to be excited about in software and tech that lives entirely outside the cloistered hype-beast market. Raspberry Pis, 3D printers, 3nm chipsets built with ultraviolet lithography, solid state drives, lithium and sodium ion batteries with incredibly recharge rates, gorilla glass and carbon fiber, 5G+ radios, full voice recognition, self-piloting vehicles.
How is none of this thrilling? Hell, even just the advent of coding pipelines that can take a project from a funky coding idea to a deliverable feature in a few keystrokes is such a huge step forward in development. I can’t hate the sales goons pushing junk when I’m so immersed in all the novel innovative applications of technology I’ve been watching bud itself up from the ground for the last 40 years.
Even LLMs on their face are such a novel application of graph theory. You can do so much cool stuff off a second hand laptop today. It’s an exciting new frontier.


Oh boy. I don’t suppose this is November, Liam, and Rocz, and they’re off taking $2/subscriber to make WTYP episodes?
Funny story about Jaywalking
Anyway, enjoy your hyper-criminalized car culture hellscape while making spooky fingers about Evil Foreign Country.