bronson

With Element mobile.

Does Element X video chat work with Element? Last I tried (a few months ago) it was awful, just randomly and completely broken, and didn't even have usable error messages.

Email is also very confusing.

What is the Matrix equivalent to Gmail? Something that works reliably without having to understand all the background and acronyms?

I feel this. And it doesn't even cover the very first conversation I have with my users.

  "You want to install Element"
  "But I want Matrix."
  "They call it Element now."
  "I want to speak on Element?"
  "No you want to speak on Matrix using Element."
  "Uh."
  "Don't worry about it. Look, just install Element."
  "Well, I see Element and Element X."
  "Oh right. Well, do you want to video chat?"
  "What?"
  "Element X doesn't video chat well. If you want video chat and a more featureful but slower chat experience, install Element.  If you don't care about reliable video chat and don't mind rooms jumping around and not organizing them, but you want to subscribe to a zillion of them, choose Element X"
  "What?"
  "Oookay, let me explain. See, once there were--"
  "Can't I just install the Matrix app?"
  "It's Element or Element X. Do you want to video chat?"
  "Um probably?"
  "Well then Element, not X, that's the one you want to start with."
  "Start with Element without the X?"

It's so needlessly complex.

> What's the difficulty of a 1GW datacenter in space?

Why don't you ask your AI, the way you did with your earth-based scenario?

Why restrict yourself to 100% solar? Solar augmented by grid is pretty great.

Also, you very conspicuously avoided talking about the difficulty/impact of a 1GW datacenter in space. One might suspect your motives aren't as impartial as you seem to think.

Of course. And, if you're caught doing 55 in a school zone, I'd guess you're a little more likely to commit murder than someone who tries to always follow the law. It speaks to character.

They both involve institutionalized lying.

I'm tired of the framing in the media these days.

"Mythos will end the world!!"

"How?"

"By finding a bunch of wide open security holes that have existed for years."

Oookay. Is this a Mythos problem? Or a lazy/greedy/uncaring people problem?

You can! Subscribe to a Z.ai coding plan.

> In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me.

Darn it! The ONE studio that I really wanted them to set free and go back to how well things worked before, and they tighten their grip. Whyyyy?

> This is now out in the August 31 release!

Almost a year ago, that is SO COOL! I'll be trying CoMaps for store hours now.

AMEN! 100% agree.

Plus a reasonably inexpensive super low-latency interconnect.

And how much can you buy a 128GB Mac Studio for now? Go look. I think you'll be shocked.

This is an odd comment. Pins are seriously expensive. Companies don't just throw them in for fun. Usually they're necessary for signal integrity or packaging constraints.

There's one more for me: reliable store hours.

This IS a criticism of the end product.

If they paid the 35% that I pay, then it would be fair.

It sounds like you think billionaires should pay close to 0%?

> it should be trivial regardless.

So should nuclear fission reactors. The concept is absurdly simple.

In practice, however ...

> those are trivial problems in the well (and oil) drilling industry.

Ah yes, an industry well known for its adherence to safety standards and never having surprising blowouts.

Sounds like people building it found a way to cheap out that was technically within regulation.

Vibed infrastructure? That sounds like it undoes a lot of Nix's advantages.

> I can't tell you the amount of times I've pulled a precompiled tool and it just doesnt work because of one quirk of their packaging or another.

This is a serious problem in Nix too. I often trip over buggy and abandoned Nix packages. Nix often makes it easy to roll back or work around them, but they're absolutely there.

Ah yes, the ol' GitHub method of reporting. "When we're up, we have lots of nines!"

And built well, which has been a source of big delays in the past.

> Owing to spite or just a foul mood, have you ever peeled one of those stupid Calvin stickers off of a pickup truck?

I figure that, long after the strip is forgotten, those decals are my ticket to immortality.

(from the Mentalfloss article linked a few comments down)

Yeah, so? Turns out the papers were bluffing/complaining. This sort of thing happens in many parts of life.

If each Bluray is 2 hours long, that's 4.5 years of nonstop watching.

No upside whatsoever? Clearly you're not an insider trader.