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With enough inflation, you and I might be worth hundreds of trillions. See: Zimbabwe.

Something tells me not all of that debt is going to turn out quite as high quality as it appeared at the time of issuance.

The mere success of “AI” won’t be sufficient to repay those loans. Many of them only make sense in a world where AI is wildly transformative and profitably successful.

It sounds like you don’t understand the problem very well. Forgive me if that’s an incorrect interpretation.

One way to prevent this type of crime is to ensure that it is never profitable. The downside is that there will be losses until the message is thoroughly communicated.

Seriously. It’s pretty clear that the new Roadster is not intended to be a practical car for the masses. And that’s Ok. There’s room for a “halo” product in any lineup.

It’s interesting and valuable, imho, to consider that people have always tended to think things are falling apart, and that perhaps now is no different.

That said, all societies rise and all appear to eventually fall. It’s equally reasonable to consider that the US/Western Civilization/humanity might actually be nearing a fall.

There are a few ways to disable/hide shorts. One day I said to a friend, “man I wish I could block these things, they’re insulting to my intelligence and just encourage clicking around” and my friend said “I’ve been blocking them for a while, just do this.” And while I can’t remember what “this” was, it’s worth a quick google.

Shorts are like the video equivalent of snacking on Doritos all day long.

At first I bought used cars because I was young and didn’t have any money. Later, I bought used because of the savings, and because it made getting a manual transmission easier. Now we still buy used, but avoiding this kind of thing is top of mind.

Our three family vehicles are 2016, 2016, and 2007. Somehow we live without built-in nav, CarPlay, and hundreds of square inches of screen space. At the rate things are going, I’ll probably live out my life without getting anywhere close to a new vehicle.

Think about it please, everyone. Do you need this stuff? Really need it?

By the time Starship carries humans (assuming that it will, which I do), it will likely have flown uncrewed more times than Shuttle + all prior American programs together.

They know it’s going to be tricky to make landings safe for crew. Nobody’s in a rush to fly people.

It’s a bubble. “AI” could be quite successful at this point, and the economics still don’t work out.

Huh? Was I wrong about something here? If so, please educate me.

Nobody would (or should, at least) be using a lead-acid battery for this in 2026, either.

Full-cycle efficiency should be higher now. And the inverter. And the generator.

And machines could hit a baseball or drive a race car better than any human, but we still want to see people doing things.

Care to take a guess who wins when an issue comes down to citizens vs police?

Curious: are these cores (ao486, z386) technically illegal because of Intel/AMD licensing/copyright/etc? Or has everything relevant expired? Surely the patents have but not sure what else comes into play.

It’s a time-honored tradition to compare your upcoming product to the competition’s old news.

That said, looks like an impressive core and complete CPU built with it. Would love to see a smaller, affordable version.

I was thinking someone must have fixed a bug in the simulation (in which we live) between when the old results were generated and now.

Only 1/2 :-)

This! I took “rec games” as one of my PE classes in high school. This involved bowling, among other things. A highlight of this was the time I bowled a 24…

However, as the class nerd, I knew how to score a game. My parents used to take us as kids. And fortunately, that was on the test. :-)

100% this. In the end, I just don’t care about the answer that much.

Do you drive often, then? :-)

Emulating Alpha on x86_64 is definitely not a thing the Alpha designers foresaw. :-)

You are my comedy hero, tremon. This is the joke I was looking for and failed to find.

While absolutely and sadly true, something tells me that rogue banana drivers are not the ones most likely to be killed in a traffic stop.

Besides, his family would surely win the resulting case… on a peel.

I’m not quite old enough to have grown up with the PDP-11. They were gone from university (or at least the parts I had access to) by the time I arrived. But I did see exactly one in the wild.

In 1997-1998, I was working for a small company in Atlanta who did tape backup systems. At a client in maybe Knoxville (?), a hospital had a PDP-11/70 live in their machine room. Amusingly, right next to racks of then super-fancy Cisco gigabit fiber networking.

I was told that the PDP handled payroll. Guess that was important. Wonder how long it lasted there?

Came here hoping for an AMA.

I’ve walked off with a few of my employer’s pens over the years. Is this really so different?

Big takeaway for me is that the reentry and “landing” of Ship looked great. For the first time, it felt like they’re really on the path to achieving upper stage reuse. That was always the biggest “reach” of the entire program in my view, and today they took a major step forward.

Is it disappointing that they had a couple of engine outs, and also trouble with the booster relight? Sure. Do I have even a little doubt by now that they can fix these problems? None whatsoever.

The success of Ship 39 today was a big, big deal.

I’ve been told by someone who was in the service that when smoking was no longer allowed on submarines, it made a huge difference in the cleanliness of machinery and thus how much work was required to maintain it.

Yeah, I’d love some of that goodness in my lungs, please.

When I encounter new terms, I look them up. Just like any other new word. Been doing it since I was a kid with a dictionary. Now, it’s too easy not to. There is literally no excuse.

Or every time it comes back up!

Was briefly surprised to see IBM open-sourcing OS/2 after all these years. Alas, this appears to be some AI widget.