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Given xAI's gross disregard for environmental regulations in building Colossus, the reason for building datacenters in space seems obvious: there's no EPA in space.

The meaning of kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc. are unambiguous: SI prefixes defined as powers of 10, not 2. 1 TB is 10*12 bytes, not 2*40 bytes. The misuse of those prefixes as powers…

It's because Microsoft isn't a software company. They're a marketing company that happens to make software and a few other bits. We're now on the back end of that, where Microsoft …

Install the Youtube Control Panel extension by soitis. It's available for all desktop and mobile browsers, and does a lot to restore sanity on YouTube. If you want something lighte…

Put on a good show, offer something novel, and people will gleefully march right off a cliff while admiring their shiny new purchase.

the only place i have one is a grocery store where their loyalty program price is listed on the shelf tag and is lower, often by quite a bit (a third to half off is common). even t…

Maybe a nit, but this isn't piracy. Windows has been officially free to download and install since Windows XP. That was when Microsoft switched to their Product Activation DRM, and…

It's the private equity era. Much like how legislative behaviour is now dictated by the wealthy even to the point of contradicting the will/desire of informed voters, corporate beh…

Speaking strictly about ZFS internal operations, the free space requirement is closer to 5% on current ZFS versions. That allows for CoW and block reallocations in real-world pools…

I think it's more that AI is the final straw for many. Social media exhaustion. Everything needing an account or (worse) subscription. The stupidity of smart devices/appliances. So…

"Full" "Self"-"Driving" ("Supervised")

In this case, static text without the highlighter would have been better. Because the timing is so far off, the highlighter interferes with reading the captions for hearing assista…

The caption highlight timing is very inaccurate. It looks like it just steps through each word on a fixed timer, rather than using timing information from the TTS engine?

and art. there are still a lot of artists on X. no, i don't mean the kind that autostarts HR cases.

You hire such people to introduce you to ideas and projects. You try some stuff, see what sticks. It's something you can do when you have money and time but no ideas.

Then why did he go back to Google /s

I really don't buy his explanation. Here's one of the world's smartest guys, with more money than Smaug, and he really couldn't come up with anything better than going back to Goog…

But if my git hashes are indivisible, how will people fork my repo? /s