Side note: if you say you’re 6.5" long, it sounds like you care too much about that extra half inch. If you say you’re 17cm, that’s just how long you are.

You’re welcome, penis owners.

Maybe not on mobile keyboards? Giving the benefit of a doubt here.

Always have to remind myself of this when managers ask me if something could be done. If it’s easy, I naturally get a little annoyed that they’re even asking. But knowing that is my job, not theirs, and it’s good that they ask. There’s lots of places where they assume and things go badly.

The few survivors deal with it the only way they know how: another late night orgy on your face.

And then I accidentally found this article on ACPI debugging, which references the memo written by Bill Gates in 1999:

One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows-specific. If seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. … Maybe we couid define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something relaled to this.

What. The. Heck.

This is insane… Isn’t it like the textbook definition of lobbying? I wasn’t expecting to find a whole conspiracy while trying to fix my Deck, perhaps the memo is a hoax or something, but this all just lines up so naturally. If it really was his plan, then he succeeded.

Given that the the memo was submitted in court as evidence in a 2002 case, Comes v. Microsoft, it’s probably real. If anything, it didn’t succeed enough. It probably would have been possible to lock Linux out entirely, but by 1999, there were already too many Linux and *BSD x86 server deployments. Couldn’t ignore them. Had to make it just kinda shitty rather than battening it all up.

Server Linux has exactly the same ACPI problems and manages fine there.

That house is in the “so bad, it’s good” category. Vibe coders can only aspire to such things.

It’s very satisfying when someone who thinks they have all the power suddenly realizes they don’t.

Hide your ricin.

It works like Mr. Burns’ immune system. Everyone is trying to listen in on Trump, but they step on each others toes and cancel out.

Star Fleet Intelligence also operates on this principle.

Is someone mad that their bomber fleet was rapidly disassembled?

they repeat what i said, did you read them? previously ai model training was entirely based on simply buying more chips as fast and as hard as possible, deepseek changed that

Yes, and it says exactly what I claimed. DeepSeek is an improvement, but not to the level initially reported. Not even close.

Youtube uses a fuck ton of power but is an incredibly efficient video delivery service

What a colossally stupid thing to say. We’re not looking at starting up new nuclear reactors to run YouTube.

Or Putin dies of natural causes. Which isn’t too farfetched. Then the oligarchs find themselves a Deng Xiaoping-like figure who says “ok, all that was bad, let’s do something else”.

Probably, Russia will have to face the facts that they can’t build their own fighter jets, bombers, tanks, or fighting ships larger than a destroyer anymore. Not on the scale they need. Even if you assume some of the designs they’re putting out are good (a big assumption), they can’t possibly build them at scale. China is sitting right over there with the factories for those things. Xi Jinping will be happy to take their check, but will make sure it clears first.

why are you linking me to articles i read ages ago?

Perhaps because you didn’t understand what they said.

You think AI is only useful if it’s taking someones job?

It’s why companies are dumping billions into it.

If the models were actually getting substantially more efficient, we wouldn’t be talking about bringing new nuclear reactors online just to run it.

Deepseek is not the huge leap it appears. It’s better, but not at all what was initially claimed.

Nor is smartphone AI going to do the things people what AI to do. It won’t let the CEO take your job.

Don’t worry about it, it’s just more efficient.

But I was told capitalism was the most efficient system.

The current models depend on massive investment into server farms. They aren’t generating profit, and probably can’t. When the companies involved realize it’s not going to happen, they’ll pull it all. That will generate a new AI winter, and in 20 or 30 years, maybe the pieces will be picked up and the field will go through another summer cycle. This sort of boom/bust cycle has happened before in AI.

And no, self-hosted models aren’t going to make up for it. They aren’t as powerful, and more importantly, they will never be able to drive mass market adaptation.

Every ticket scheme for NFTs fails because of a simple reason: contract law. Venues don’t stick with TicketMaster because they like it. TicketMaster’s store front doesn’t have any magic technology; a room of overcaffinated fresh CS grads could recreate it in a weekend of binge coding.

Venues stick with TicketMaster because they are contractually obliged to do so. NFTs do not and cannot change that legal reality.

Trusted, cryptographic timestamps exist, and have for some time. NFTs don’t add anything new.