Even then, the value prop is questionable.

It treats sustainable energy dedicated to this purpose as “free”, ignoring the opportunity cost of using that energy directly.

For example, let’s say I dedicated my solar exclusively to making gasoline. I could get about 14 gallons a month of “free” gasoline… Except my home power bill would go up about 150 dollars a month… opportunity cost would be over 10 dollars a gallon…

I just think it should be more obviously transparent, rather than the UI pretending it has no attribution.

I recall some proposal about adding the info to the UI and objections due to privacy concerns, which is just pretending something is private.

A weirrd things about dementia, folks will randomly remember/engage with clarity on something.

Someone who didn’t know her own daughter recognized and spoke with clarity with her son in law. A similarly confused person managed to competently comment on the state of EVs for US versus China and America’s isolation thanks to trade wars making things even more favorable for China.

There’s good days and bad days, but even with bad days there are sometimes randomly good topics.

And he never even went for his gun. The agents saw the gun without him going for it, took it from him, and then shot him after he didn’t even have a gun on him anymore.

While optional, it is also the default behavior.

It’s a bit directly on Microsoft, unless you go out of your way, bitlocker will upload the keys to Microsoft. They assume you want them to help recover your data if your tpm becomes unavailable.

Interesting fun fact, when I tried to swype type bitlocker it really wanted to put bootlicker instead.

For one, they might have had some NDA as part of the interview process.

But even if not, they can bring a civil case even on dubious grounds, and the defendant still has to suffer having to defend themselves and go to court.

If they do sue, it isn’t like the company has huge consequences to be scared of, and even successfully defending yourself won’t feel like a “victory” compared to never having attracted the company’s attention in the first place.

Well they should be, but they could get litigious if they get bad exposure.

My guess is that they have email hooks into LLM and call each entry point into LLM invocation an ‘agent’ and I have seen in a lot of companies the easiest way for them to have an email is to just add them to the directory.

It’s still dumb as hell, but I am no stranger to non-human’s in an ‘employee directory’, though usually it is supremely obvious that it is a non-person so if it’s at all confusing it means they are being ‘cute’ about their accounts.

because they cornered and manipulated the hardware market

Makes me think of the ‘First Time?’ meme but with the housing market wearing the noose.

Yeah, very good analogy actually…

I remember back in the day people putting stuff like ‘Microsoft Word’ under ‘skills’. Instead of thinking ‘oh good, they will be able to use Word competently’, the impression was ‘my god, they think Word is a skill worth bragging about, I’m inclined to believe they have no useful skills’.

‘Excel skills’ on a resume is just so vague, people put it down when they just figured out they can click and put things into a table, some people will be able to quickly roll some complicated formula, which is at least more of a skill (I’d rather program a normal way than try to wrangle some of the abominations I’ve seen in excel sheets).

Using an LLM is not a skill with a significant acquisition cost. To the extent that it does or does not work, it doesn’t really need learning. If anything people who overthink the ‘skill’ of writing a prompt just end up with stupid superstitions that don’t work, and when they first find out that it doesn’t work, they just grow new prompt superstitions to add to it to ‘fix’ the problem.

McCuntneck thank you very much

And the USA gets real pain.

You don’t have to target every distribution, target a vaguely credible glibc, and of course the kernel, and you are covered.

As a distribution platform themself, they don’t have to sweat packaging N different ways, they package the way they want. Bundle all the libraries (which is not different then the way they do it in Windows, the bundle so many libraries).

They don’t get the advantage of the platform libraries and packaging, but that is how they treat Windows already because the library situation in Windows is actually really messy, despite being ostensibly a more monolithic ecosystem.

That you can’t plug into a traditional computer and that has not even pads for a video connector to be soldered to.

Folks just don’t realize how exotically different they have ultimately made the GPU packaging for datacenters. B200/B300 come in very specific packaging that is nowhere near a PCIe card.

Because if they can make for consumers, then there’s a shit ton of investor money waiting for some tech bro to turn it into ‘AI’.

The tech industry companies are playing with nigh unlimited house money, consumers can’t compete.

Though that supply will be a bit annoying.

Oh look, super expensive GPUs… In an HGX board that is useless for even connecting to a PC, let alone have graphics.

Memory modules, but they are HBM or otherwise soldered to a Grace board…

SSDs, but EDSFF… Guess at least a cage for this could be some for home usage.

HDDs, but SAS. Not too or of reach for home builds, but still not as likely to just plug into home gear as SATA.

From my talking with someone who grew up under a nation with a corrupt regime, self respect is a luxury that people under such a regime cannot afford when dealing with the government.

Small, petty, corrupt government personnel are a way of life and people just accept this sort of stuff as mundane fact of life.

So such folks are uniquely emotionally prepared for this sort of interaction.

Yeah, they bought a modest, niche product with a likely viable business case, and then bet they could make it an everyman’s device for all their socializing and experiencing events like sports and music…

The people that actually wanted the device got to take a back seat to them chasing non-existent markets for it… Their aspirations so impossibly high that a niche device could no longer justify itself against the money spent chasing that non-existant market… So something that should have been for some VR nerds to be happy and sustain the business while the rest of the world shrugs and say ‘I don’t get it’ becomes an ‘Obviously this is a failure of a concept and no one should bother doing this’.

So I heard an interview with one of her associates and they seemed pretty pragmatic about whatever sucking up they need to do to make Trump change things the way they think needs to be changed. And it didn’t sound like they were disappointed or shocked or anything, just that’s the way things go.

Reminds me of speaking with a colleague that was an immigrant from a country with a well known corrupt government. He just couldn’t get as shocked as the rest of us over Trump’s behavior. He recognized it as bad, but as far as he was concerned, that was just life and he was used to it. Disappointed for things to start feeling a bit too much like his home country to be sure, but overt corruption was just the way things were. I could imagine being in the thick of such a government and just being boringly normal about this level of petty corruption.