MNByChoice
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- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 5 days ago:
Alternative Headline: Billionaire Signals States Should Speed Fiber Rollout
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 1 week ago:
It is always tempting to try to justify one’s position and get out of being laid-off/fired.
The decision has been made by those that “know your position”, or your manager is being let go next.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
Secure your guns. Toddlers kill an insane number of people. snopes.com/…/toddlers-killed-americans-terrorists…
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- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps this could tax the huge data centers being built in the USA, which tend to get huge local tax incentives. But, if I had a data center I was trying to kit out, this would encourage me to setup shop any place other than the USA. (Latency matters, but not equally for everything.)
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 2 weeks ago:
That is really interesting.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t Nancy Regan, wife of former USA President Ronald Regan, did this as well. (Ronald was apparently not mentally fit for the last few years as well.)
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
50 years ago was 1975. Inflation, depend on the month was between 6.9% and 11.8%. (cpiinflationcalculator.com/1975-cpi-inflation-uni…)
A random comparison of costs. (amerititle.com/…/1975-vs-2025-traveling-back-in-t…) Mortgage rates are down from 1975 levels. Another random site (www.1970sflashback.com/1975/ECONOMY.asp)
Is everyone better off? No, Homeless people in both years had a hard life.
Does any of this invalidate what you said? Nope. This is for other people.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 weeks ago:
that can also do GenAI work for a similar “hardware cost per output”? No
FYI, the server hosts for the cards often have eight of the cards each. The power draw becomes the host server’s RAM and CPU, plus eight times 750w (or whatever). It scales up quickly.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 weeks ago:
A lot of the need is due to the heat density of the GPUs used for GenAI. Could they build less densely? Yes, and they likely already are but need to go further. I have seen data centers with racks less than half (I think it was closer to one quarter) populated for energy density issues.
Could they use sea water? Sea water causes more corrosion. (I am uncertain if this data center is close to the ocean.)
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 weeks ago:
Stinky teens need shirts that point the blame at Microsoft. Get ripe and hang out with old people.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 3 weeks ago:
Epstein prosecutions started in 2006. apnews.com/…/trump-epstein-investigation-records-…
- Comment on linus tech tip 3 weeks ago:
Linus Torvalds is super well known for creating Linux. Linux is heavily used in “tech”. Linus is not a common name globally.
Personally, I had expected that “Linux Tech Tips” was Linux Torvalds giving Linux tech tips. Clearly, I have no bothered to read any of them.
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 4 weeks ago:
Good on you for not judging people by their looks.
- Comment on linus tech tip 4 weeks ago:
He chose his channel’s name to be deliberately confusing.
- Comment on Do you think GOG might be the next? 4 weeks ago:
Could Canada join the E.U.?
- Comment on Do you think GOG might be the next? 4 weeks ago:
Opens the market for a credit card company that doesn’t judge.
- Comment on datacenter liquid cooling solution 4 weeks ago:
Air also does not make things wet when it leaks.
- Comment on Doge reportedly using AI tool to create ‘delete list’ of federal regulations 4 weeks ago:
Is there is a list of employees of DOGE? I would like to write them letters.
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 weeks ago:
I remember that sort of shit. The girl I knew got divorced so many times after that.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 4 weeks ago:
Recessions in the USA are just constant. Nothing personal.
- Comment on linus tech tip 4 weeks ago:
Hate this guy.
There is only one Linus in Linux. Torvalds.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 5 weeks ago:
What could the motivations of the owner be, if not to make money?
Please add to my list:- prestige
- tax avoidance
- boost retirement savings (in the USA, business owners can stuff their retirement accounts with LOTS of cash.)
- Create and disguise a "sex pad"
- improve the community by providing jobs and/or needed services (start a coffee shop so that there is a coffee shop.)
- time filler
Of those, I think a very healthy 401K contribution from the employer to the employee would be motivating to those already paid well.
Many employees already use the business as a sex pad. (Conference rooms can be gross.)
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 5 weeks ago:
Seems the pink paper has a backing on it to stiffen it. Upper left corner seems to show the backing, which may be pink cardboard. Given the mounting location, I would expect it to be “floppy” like the “lined” paper without a stiffener. All of my above to say, I think someone put a “lot” of effort into the pink sign.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 month ago:
Great to know. I don’t know if 106% of CPU is good or bad, but it is not what I had anticipated. Thank you!
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 month ago:
While I have heard of people doing this a decade, I have never looked into it.
How was the install and setup process? How is the resource consumption of the server? At one point it seemed one had to supply their own quests. Are there open source quests available? Anything cool I didn’t ask about?
- Comment on Can it take months to get over being laid off? 1 month ago:
Greif and loss. The first year is the worst.
Might be time to focus on processing the loss of your previous hopes, dreams, relationships, and projects.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 month ago:
Sometimes the only way to win is not to play.
But also Johnson is stupid.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 1 month ago:
The site wants to share info with advertisers. I found this to be refreshingly honest.
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Anyway, can we get an archive link?