Why spend all that money and resources cultivating actual intelligence?

My parents bought a retirement property byba lake in the middle of nowhere and pit a boat on a lift on the dock. But the lake is a water supply lake, and their dock is only about 4-5 feet deep when the lake is full, which is only for about a week after a major flood these days.

Most of the time when I visit I end up driving under the boat with the lawnmower. It’s just a really expensive porch swing at this point. We can’t even take it to a different lake because it’s stuck on the slings

The fact that they’re making companies sign 5-year contracts for the current prices before selling anything at all says that they’re expecting the demand to collapse soon, and they want to lock in the high prices before that happens.

When industries pull this bullshit, they should be nationalized.

One of the most important reasons to cite journal articles and books with an ISBN instead of web links never gets mentioned.

Web links change all the time. Page numbers and paragraphs do not. Your sources shouldn’t die when AWS does a migration or a website changes its name.

Rankine

You should watch his videos on solar panels if you like a rant, though it gets increasingly political as it goes.

The video may be primarily about solar, but he goes nuclear by the end.

Sony sold the PS3 at a pretty significant loss and had an “OtherOS” feature that allowed people to install Linux on it.

Between that and ots cell architecture, it turned out to be a super affordable way to build supercomputers. Sony eventually disabled the OtherOS feature to combat people buying them en masse and costing Sony their lunch, and they got a LOT of flack for it.

Valve is doing the opposite. They’re keeping the openness, but charging enough money it’s not financially viable to buy a bunch of Steam Machines to build cheap AI clusters.

It was basing standards on vehicle footprints. Starting in 2012, a Toyota Corolla had less-strict emissions and fuel economy standards than a compact truck, so they stopped making the compact trucks after 2011.

They brought back the Ranger, but it’s larger than some of the older F150s.

And as standards got tighter, it impacted more an more vehicles. All the compact cargo vans (Transit Connect, ProMaster City, and NV200) were discontinued in 2022 because they no longer meet standards at that size.

My first car was a 1985 LTD that was pirpose built to scar. The seat belt, of course, but also fun little things like the controls and the metal bands in the steering wheel.

But it was also super easy to work on because the hood was the size of a small nation and you could get to anything. The big hood also gave the tires plenty of room, so it could turn on a dime. I swear you could rear-end yourself with that thing.

It’s how the pretend it’s a nutritious breakfast.

Yeah. Console optimization used to be a real thing they should bring to PCs. Tomb Raider 2013 and Battlefield 3/4 on the Xbox 360 managed visuals and performance that an equivalently-speced PC from 2005 wouldn’t have been anywhere close to handling.

I dropped a word there. “It doesn’t have to cost…”

A major state university with 45,000 students.

Choosing not to sit in a crowded room while people read names for 2 more hours so someone can hand you a fake placeholder diploma (the real one is mailed later) isn’t some grand sacrifice.

I like that it happened because it’s embarrassing for Pichai. Bit there is no price to be paid by the students as far as I can tell.

When Karl Rove spoke at my college when I was a student, I was part of the angry audience that lead to him ending his address 20 minutes early and leaving with his security detail forming a crowd around him. It was a cool moment, but it didn’t cost me anything.

And I think that’s the bigger takeaway. It doesn’t have to cost you anything to stand up to these assholes.

I was very relieved by the end of that sentence.

I teach at a college. The ceremony is so Mom can come get a picture. There’s a reason so many grad students don’t go to theirs.

I work for a city that’s an enclave for the mega-rich and is going through hyper-gentrification. People are buying 3 million dollar houses, tearing them down, and building 15 million-dollar houses.

It’s the 1%ers being pushed out by the .01%ers. It’s a whole different planet.

But the contractors still suck and cut every corner they can, so it really is the same anywhere you go.

They walked out of an extremely boring ceremony. That’s nothing.

Don’t forget to schedule your colonoscopy.

I use vanced and uBlock Origin, but I do also pay for YouTube. I watch more YouTube than anything, and I’m okay paying for it.

But I still use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, ad nauseum (really cool if you want to fuck with the algorithms on the stuff that gets through), etc.

Pointing out that Windows Vista is turning 20 this year is a gut punch.