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File serving is cheap vs rendering a game. A single core can serve many video streams but may be insufficient to run even one game.

Most other illegal logging is not happening by trillion dollar companies. When a company with all the resources cheats, people get extra mad.

Fast, compiled Ruby. If you like that, there you go.

I am sure the NSA will keep checking on our behalf.

Check the release dates on those games.

  Reuters  reported first in September that Anthropic posted a net loss of $42 billion in 2025  and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing  and  infrastructure obligations in coming years.

$16B revenue and hoping to spend $500B in the coming years.

These platforms are doing something wildly more exotic than I imagined. 1500 clients?! You could have hosted larger crowds in IRC with 90s hardware.

I justified one to myself to read papers that have colored plots. Eink performance is still so marginal that the experience is too frustrating to rely on, and I would rather use a tablet.

Maybe if you wanted to read comics that only ever had mediocre artwork?

You can buy a voice recorder that will hold weeks of audio for tens of dollars.

Back of a TV is a decent hiding place. Wonder how they found it -was it actively transmitting?

Do passkeys next.

Why would you ever connect it to the internet? Air gap forever. Physically rip out the radio, only load software by CD (ideally not through a USB interface).

HDMI 1.4 has been leaked and there are devices which will force communication to this protocol level.

It was revealed that Honda sold data on customers for less than a dollar a piece. It’s not big money at all, but they cannot stop themselves.

I saw a seemingly credible prediction from an energy analyst that global energy use would fall over the next five years. The rationale being that electrification can use less energy for the same work because heat pumps, EVs, etc are more efficient. Just pumping and refining oil is a huge sink of energy that disappears as more things become electrified.

The popular number is that every 18 months, China was destroying 1 million BPD demand.

Unlike solar, wind has pretty significant construction and material costs which feel hard to diminish with scale. You still need to excavate earth, install giant pylons, enormous magnets, etc.

That being said, anyone who has predicted the future prices of renewable energy seems destined to look a fool.

One minor thing about stale information- please record the original posted date. Far too many blogs seem to omit this crucial information.

Just a cool million+ annual expense per headcount.

After some of the revelations of how Uber will use differential pricing: if your phone battery is low, the driver accepts rides too quickly, etc I thought it a given that all companies were going to try this personalized pricing scheme. The reason they are potentially in trouble here is for the operator data sharing.

Sounds like a FOIA request: how many of those cops are on the “no SWAT” list they refuse to extend to the couple.

SWAT team had a KPI target to meet. Not enough calls and they get less military surplus gear.

Does that strike you as an unusual path for an intelligent species to become space faring? We have yet to unlock the Singularity shortcut that leaves us with replicators and free energy.

I would expect any civilization to exterminate or at least cull the creatures that pose a threat and to cultivate those that are tasty or useful.

There is a Discworld joke about this. After being introduced to the God of evolution, God shows off the magnum opus he has been developing, the cockroach.

One nice development in this space is the narwhals library - it is a dataframe agnostic library. It allows you to seamlessly switch between pandas, polars, modlin, or any of the variations coming out.

Narwhal is still fairly new, but I expect its usage to spread since most packages only require rudimentary dataframe manipulation (set a value, math been these two columns, etc) where the limited api surface is not a problem.

Narwhals is also a much cheaper dependency to add than polars/pandas/etc so it is a somewhat easy sell to incorporate.

This is slippery. Many people do all of their journaling inside of Google or Apple cloud products. Some even write up their intentions to do bad things.

Does all writing now have to be scanned for thought crime?

Are FM radios made which don’t include AM?

Can they produce a car which includes a radio that is practically useless because the vehicle gives off so much electric noise?

Just on a mass basis it falls apart.

Best cost to orbit I am seeing is $1500/kg. A GPU rack is ~1500kg. Let’s imagine you can take a terrestrial data center rack, no scaffolding, solar panels, radiators, radios, propellant, or propulsion. Fly it into orbit, kick it out the airlock, and let it work through magic. That’s $2.2 million to get into position.

Industrial power rates are cheap, say $.10/kwh, but pretend you sign terrible deals, and it costs you $.30/kwh to run and cool a terrestrial GPU rack. A 150kw unit will then be (150x24x365x.3) =$394k/year.

You can operate the terrestrial version for 5.7 years before the two hit parity.

I assume auto correct for “coms” or “communications”?

Coke is worse than coal. Coke is also made from coal, so it actually is plausible that people shorthand the two together.

Maybe the agent gets lucky and you have a folder full of nudes on the desktop.

There is no way that would have fit the length restriction.