The way money-laundering works, you take ill-begotten funds and somehow churn it into legal tender in ways that can’t be traced back to the source. Another angle is to create corporate entities that show loss against gains, so you can deduct and don’t have to pay taxes on your windfall profits.

In the olden days, these were physical, degrading assets. Like strip malls, real-eestate, and dodgy, money-losing businesses that somehow stuck around forever. At the end, you were stuck with physical entities you couldn’t unload.

Crypto and NFT were just digital variations of the same financial model, minus the hassle of having to manage the property.

Minimum 15 years of experience.

Obligatory Firefly mention.

Was self-hosting gitlab or foregejo not an option?

MCPs could learn a thing or two from the failures of ActiveX.

Will they?

No…

Web4? Seriously?

When we lived in a big city, we would hit the occasional Costco sale, then go out and hand out blankets, tents, tarps, water, socks, and warm clothing. Also, toys and school supplies.

In a smaller city, donations to the local food and housing groups, school fundraisers to help cover costs for books and supplies for those who can’t afford it, and refilling the neighborhood open-access fridge.

Basic responsibility to pay it forward.

Like RAM, CSS color prices have gone through the roof.

When LLMs first came out, I asked them a few fun logic puzzles. The kind that Martin Gardner used to publish in Scientific American.

Got total gibberish answers. A while later, tried again. This time, perfect word-for-word responses. Had LLMs become sentient and developed logic? Turned out they had found all the old Scientific American back issues to train on.

Guessing the same is going on with the carwash question. The more posts come out about it, the more likely the LLM responses will get closer to published answers.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Question is, how long before it makes it to the next DGX Spark? Some people don’t have $10B to burn.

Small privacy leak. Carry on.

Japanese-designed TV has fallen way behind South Korea (LG, Samsung) on quality and features, and Chinese brands on price.

It’s too bad. Sony and Panasonic used to be fountains of innovation when it came to TV tech.

Alexander the Meowcedonian.

Not unusual, but surprising how many times it has come handy in group gatherings.

Explains the Monster cable ‘gold-plated banana.’

Yes, but what does the cat think about all this?

Curling?