The board doesn’t vote on his compensation package, the shareholders do.

Are you being willfully ignorant or are you not aware that during a proxy vote, shareholders that don’t cast an individual vote let the board vote for them? The VAST MAJORITY of shareholders don’t vote. This hands an enormous amount of votes to the board that vote how they want. A proxy vote that goes against the boards recommendation, is very rare in the corporate world.

Then why are they wanting to pay him 1 trillion dollars? Rich people are weird.

Because Musk is asking for it, and the Tesla board who are all his hand picked friends, are the ones that vote on it.

or my favorite, steel-cut oats.

If we’re talking about cheap meals steel-cut oats have almost excluded themselves these days. I used to be able to buy organic SCO in bulk for about $1.45/lbs. These days I can’t find any SCO for less than $3.50/lbs and that conventional, not organic.

Where are you getting cheap SCO these days?

There’s a huge gulf between pub clowd and shitty on-prem.

We agree on this.

Redundant everything piped in. Redundant everything set up. We run VMs by terraform. Wheeeeee

For that customer of yours, is that a single datacenter or does is represent multiple datacenters separated by a large distance across a nation, or perhaps even across national borders?

Point is, posing shitty on-prem as the alternative to the clowd is moving the goalposts a bit.

I think ignoring that shitty on-prem represented a large part of IT infrastructure prior cloud providers is ignoring a critical point. Was it possible to have well-run enterprise IT data centers prior to cloud? Sure. Was everyone doing that? Absolutely not, I’d argue the majority had at least a certain level of jank in their infra and that that floor is raised with cloud providers. Just the basic facilities is enterprise grade irrespective of the server or app config.

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That work is still being done by someone in a data centre. But all these jobs went from in-house positions to the centres.

The difference is scale. When in-house, the person responsible for managing the glycol loop is also responsible for the other CRACs, possibly the power rails, and likely the fire suppression. In a giant provider, each one of those is its own team with dozens or hundreds of people that specialize in only their area. They can spend 100% on their one area of responsibilty instead of having to wear multiple hats. The small the company, the more hats people have to wear, and the worse to overall result is because of being spread to thin.

We need to ditch cloud entirety and go in house again.

For many many companies that would be returning to the bad-old-days.

I don’t miss getting an emergency page during the Thanksgiving meal because there’s excessive temperature being reported in the in-house datacenter. Going into the office and finding the CRAC failed and its now 105 degree F. And you knew the CRAC preventive maintenance was overdue and management wouldn’t approve the cost to get it serviced even though you’ve been asking for it for more than 6 months. You also know with this high temp event, you’re going to have an increased rate of hard drive failures over the next year.

No thank you.

I wonder if its a one-time fork, or if Musk wants to continue to derive benefit from Wikipedia authors and editors. Is it possible its actually a real-time AI filtering each request? If so that would burn up a massive amount of AI tokens.

It would also present some great methods to tease out exactly how his filters are working. Assuming its real-time, a single wikipedia page could be created with test content with specific words or phrases then a check on the grok version to see if it alters it. A full map could be built of exactly the rules its using.

John Mulaney Plays “What’s New Pussycat?” 21 Times on a Diner Jukebox

If I’m at the grocery store and I want to pay for someone else’s groceries, what are clues I could see indicating that they are deeply in need?

Is this Jack Lang going to give the “proud boys” their Brownshirts, or will they be required to provide their own?

I can see not wanting immigration. I can understand how that is something people might genuinely want. I don’t personally agree with it but i can understand it.

I can’t understand not wanting immigration. As economies develop the local population has fewer children. This leaves a nation with a declining birth rate which results in a negative replacement rate. This means more people are dying everyday (usually from old age) than are being born to replace them in the population. At this point a nation has three choices:

• Do nothing. As time advances, this means the nation dies because its people simply die off. Realistically, as soon as the population drops low enough, the country will be invaded and taken by another country. The result, the original nation ceases to exist. This is the path that Japan and South Korea are on which both have negative replacement rates and very restrictive immigration rules.
• Force your population to give birth. This is what Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu did starting in 1967 with Decree 770. Abortion was made illegal. Birth Control was made illegal (sound familiar for the USA these days?). Women were made to visit state hospitals monthly to monitor for pregnancy. Once pregnant, the secret police would track expectant mothers to make sure she carried to term or faced the threat of law. Material mortality skyrocketed. Orphan populations skyrocketed because unwanted children were being forced to be born to parents that didn’t want children. This lead to a spike in child mortality.
• Immigration. Allow others to enter your nation to keep the population stable or slightly growing to make up for the shortfall in birth rate from the domestic population. Canada does this successfully. To-date, this has also been the path the USA has been on, and has been able to buck the trend of a declining population currently being faced but much of the rest of the highly developed economy nations. Under trump, that is reversing, which means we’re going to be choosing #1 or #2 on this list soon.

Given those three choices, immigration sounds like is an awesome choice! I can’t understand why anyone would want a different choice.

I don’t even know anyone on any side that is against deporting illegal immigrants.

Hi! Nice to meet you. Now you know at least one that is.

Lets put the humanitarian argument aside right now, as I don’t think that would resonate with you. I’d much prefer a sane immigration system in the USA exist where there is a clear path to citizenship for the many people that come to our borders willing to do the jobs in our economy that Americans won’t do, that our economy and society depend on. Since we don’t have that sane immigration system, the undocumented immigrants that are here, and doing the work, while paying taxes into systems they can’t derive social benefits from are doing us a great service in propping us up.

Even the most cold-hearted economic conservative should recognize deporting these folks and their families is going to blow a giant hole in our labor force, skyrocketing prices, and destroying our economy. Even the Republican President Reagan in 1986 saw this and granted amnesty to decades of undocumented immigrants that had arrived before 1982. source

So whats your plan for all the jobs and services that undocumented people are doing today that go undone if you get your way?

“Just use Flatpak.”

“But that will use 2GB when a system package will use 34MB. Yeah, I hate that something that should be small is using 2GB of space.”

“The space consumption isn’t my preference either, but I’d rather be using the app than fighting dependencies. I wish you luck with your dependency chain then.”

Sadly I’m in the same type of land, but it is available in my library system. In my state, you are allowed to get a library card at any public library in the state. Even if your public library system may not have it, the next down over and if your state works the same as mine, you could get a library card there and use the service for free.

Texas:

Alabama:

South Carolina:

Both of these two cases are why Flatpaks are so attractive.

the story is illustrating “book smart” from “street smart”.

who’s who? I thought Light and L were fairly similar in their types of intelligence and both felt book smart.

Light = Book Smart
Light’s Father = Street Smart

Death Note is a variation on the Hero’s Journey trope

how? It just seemed like a typical “antagonist and protagonist are mirrors” with a villain protagonist in Light.

Hero’s Journey is so common, I too, would consider it “typical”.

Combine L, Near, and Mello all as one entity “the hero”. How that composite travels through the story I see it well mapping against the hero’s journey. Another portion of the variation is that the story primarily follows Light/Kira, which is the antagonist, not the hero.

sure thing. It’s just combining that with the “I smelt the onion in his farts, that breed of onion only grows in the nagasaki region” style writing of “smart, observant people” makes the show kinda silly , while the tone is suuuuper serious about everything.

I don’t think that’s out-of-place either for the story. Much like the difference between Light and his father, the story is illustrating “book smart” from “street smart”.

Like so much other modern fiction, Death Note is a variation on the Hero’s Journey trope. In this case, the hero is a composite between L, Near, and Mello.

You’re making conclusions based on “good/bad” or “evil/just”. This means there are moral or philosophical definitions.

Light Yagami lies and manipulates people to get away with killing people. Clark Kent lies and possibly manipulates people to save or protect people.

• Kant, I think, might say you’re wrong because as long as each of these people is doing what is true to themselves in their own moral code, they are equally “good”.

• Bentham, I think, would say you’re wrong these are not the same because the outcome from Light’s actions is mass murder, while the outcome of Clark’s actions is safety, peace, and protection.

he uses the deathnote in an infantile manner and his sense of justice is juvenile.

Light was a teenager. He’s always lived an easy sheltered life under the care of his parents. He’s lacking any real life experience. In my mind, his juvenile sense of justice is right in line with someone of that immaturity especially given the power he got from the Death Note. We get to see a great contrast when Light’s father is given the power of the Death Note, and immediately chooses to cut his own life in half to get the eyes. The father understands self sacrifice and paying the price to protect those he loves.