Of course the sp500 is down a bit YTD, which is pretty bad by the standards of the last couple of decades. Two months of a mostly stagnant SP500 is a bad sign

Pretty much absolutely this. Seeing the rationalizations day to day that just dont make sense should undermine the explanations, but instead people just latch on the the ones that agree with them…

I don’t know if Hegseth would be inclined to do this, but I could imagine there being a subculture among some commanders that would manifest this way.

They wouldn’t be interested in penalizing the ‘right’ people, they would be more interested in maximizing damage… Which means the blue areas will likely bear most of the fallout.

Lenovo/Moto is weird about that… The android phones and android tablets have next to nothing to do with each other.

I do have a couple of their tablets and like them well enough, but you might as well consider them an entirely different vendor versus the Moto phone part of the business.

You know what time it is…

I think in some respects, the ‘decade’ culture breaks had a run from 1910 to early 90s, and less so now.

Before radio and television, culture just didn’t change fast and far enough to really get that sort of clear delineation going.

Then with radio and television, cultural content spread instantly, but broadcast nature had relatively small number of people curating the media everyone got. So folks had a very common frame of reference. Broadly speaking each decade had pretty clear cultural features, but at any time the previous and current decades felt credibly ‘modern’.

In the late 2000s, while the 90s were still ‘current’, streaming basically started to break the ‘everyone gets the same stuff’ experience of broadcast media. So meme’s would crop up and provide some of it, but nowadays the bulk of online experience varies much more person to person minimizing that common frame of reference. So for example, Weird Al has stated that it’s much harder to identify good songs to do than back in the broadcast era, since things are more splintered now.

Or maybe it’s something about no one accepting the genx and millenials getting ‘old’. In the 80s, the 60s were the ‘oldies’, and the closest we’ve come since then is to dare to call the 70s ‘classic’.

I’d say the retro styled games tend to actually target the 90s, which was the peak of pixel art capability before people started doing the 3D stuff. They don’t usually target 90s 3D (because it sucked) though you do have examples like DUSK replicating that Quake I ascetic. Undertale could credibly be considered 80s looking, but most of the retro games would at least need Genesis or SNES to credibly look like they do.

80s was all about strong colors and synthetic music, but by the 90s culture had largely gotten over it and sure, you can recognize 90s hair at a glance still, but day to day clothes and music are, stylistically, persisting, at least insofar as specific styles are persisting among the mix of many many things.

Possible, but just not worth it. In their case it was barely underwater in some shallows. Go full Rapture without ADAM and it’s just untenable.

Well, they didn’t fit for many years and then I lost a bunch of weight and could wear them again, so they just mostly survived a closet…

Thanks seemingly to the guys celebrity status. Otherwise it would have likely stayed buried.

90s just never really left.

TV wise, providers still fight hard for Friends and Seinfeld. I still see teenagers slapping on Nirvana shirts. My clothes from back then still fit and are intact and a kid at my kids school asked me where I got my clothes because they wanted some just like them.

If it’s close enough for respectable latency, it’s close enough to experience drag. Given the maddeningly high power/cooling and resultant large surface area, then that satellite will have a tendency to incur re-entry.

So either close enough for “ok” latency but will burn up relatively soon or high enough to keep an orbit longer but terrible latency.

To put into perspective, each satellite that could only accommodate, at most, 2-3 servers would have a power and cooling burden greater than the entire international space station. For each 2-3 server unit, you have an ISS-magnitude power and cooling challenge. They would be looking to have hundreds of thousands of ISS-scale satellites in orbit…

Yes, ISS radiates heat to space. The total ISS power burden and by extension heat dissipation need is less than a lot of these GPU racks. They need big radiators just for that. Imagine ISS sized radiators per rack of equipment, how for apart the equipment would have to be, how much more mass cost for launch that is, etc etc…

Oh great, AI generated CSAM from space…

To add to your point about logistical nightmare, Microsoft tried an underwater datacenter. Even right there, just a little bit underwater was absolutely not worth it.

I love how his rationale is that manufacturers of natural gas generator parts are backordered o 2030, so instead of… I don’t know, spinning up more natural gas hardware or terrestial power generation, the easiest solution is to go from 11 attempts/0 successful launches of a space platform to tens of thousands of launches a year carrying unprecedented mass of bullshit into orbit…

Ridiculous, you can’t have cloud computing in space, there’s no atmosphere!

Oh cool, now what username would you have of you combined your mother’s maiden name, your social security number, and your credit card number?

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