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Which makes me cynically believe that all this capital being burned that has made memory, storage and GPUs in some cases 5x is a feature, not a bug. "Can't use open weight models i…

Most Americans conveniently forget the whole "nation of immigrants" thing once they are a few generations removed from the situation. Ladder kickers the lot of them.

I like how the fact that most likely this theoretical company is not a company of 1. What about the employees frankly doing most of the work? Are the customers getting a good produ…

The issue at hand is the incredibly wealthy can pay close to nothing in income tax because they often borrow on their collateral vs. sell their holdings. Hence that 1% that PG equa…

By the way, I love that their stock lost ~23% after this decision. I assume the C suite thought this would goose the stock like all the other companies pulling this...

I mean just the fact that bets are being placed could have tipped off the target and made them prepared.

Behind the Bastards did a few episodes on this: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... and they were quite entertaining.

I think of the corporate death penalty as being more appropriate when leadership knew exactly what was going on and chose profits over people. Exxon, see https://www.science.org/do…

They absolutely will compensate you. Often they will just give you a voucher. I've even been compensated to pay for a rental car to drive myself home when things were REALLY hosed …

Aren't they optional in most cases? You can opt-out of vaxing your kids today right? They just won't be welcome in public schools. I guess the other common cohort is health care wo…

How about rubbing alcohol?

Travis seems very devout as evinced by his reference to "Boob-er": https://mashable.com/article/uber-disgusting-examples

That is because there is not a cost for the disposal of the broken vacuum. Imagine if we paid by the weight of our trash. Some of the right to repair laws are trying to change that…

The data for long term maintenance can be found but for example the government could mandate it be published for car models to give consumers more insight and be a lever to incenti…

40% of *growth*, not 40% of total GDP.

Here is a good podcast on his terribleness: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEv08Zzunfc Some high points: Incredibly abusive to his employees, stole from Woz, screwed over his employ…

Sure. My company is demoing Chainguard which is quite pricy for hardened images. Bitnami premium reportedly goes for $50k to $72k per year: https://devoriales.com/post/402/from-fre…

In brief you need to switch the registry from (iirc) docker.io/bitnami to docker.io/bitnamilegacy. Note that as of iirc tomorrow those images will no longer be updated. So the mome…

Does said network egress cost $50k per user?

A good portion of that is covered by Behind the Bastards'coverage of Vince Mcmann: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JLdaMY9n_Oc&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5t...

That was my question too! This? https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Turn+on+a+MacBook+Air+Wi... Just never let it get too low?

100%. Those disks are likely working much harder moving the head all over the place to find those empty spaces when it writes.

Automated entrapment.

Now share what happened to the CEO. Behind the bastards did a great 2 part series on the insane tale: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...

100%. Let's not blame Signal where it's on you to only invite the proper potentially anonymous contact you want to communicate with. Very different goals.