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Gotta be careful -- Poe's Law is in full force rn in American Politics. People might read this seriously

In principle? As long as they don't make a quote-unquote "mistake" and rush you out of the country to their little El Salvador gulag before anybody can stop them or you can prove your citizenship.

Tesla was pushing solar pretty hard for a time a long time ago. My memories actually line up with the charts here.

Then they kind of just... stopped talking about it at all? In retrospect it was kind of a quiet sea change for the company as a whole.

The alcohol pouring is by the narrator in the vignette, not by Trump

The idea that LLMs have any road to AGI is much like looking at Charles Babbage's analytical engine design and decreeing that the road to creating a mind is, to borrow a quote from Henry Babbage, merely "a question of cards and time".

My experience is that if people are in an environment where helping others is socially encouraged rather than punished, most people want to help even strangers providing no benefit to themselves other than the healthy little dopamine hit. There's exceptions of course, but not enough to actually cause a problem.

Unfortunately I find there's a lot of social pressure (at least in the US) telling people that if they help others they're a rube and a mark, or worse, so help isn't normalized.

I'm deeply jealous of the few US states that have banned billboard advertising -- it really feels like pervasive advertising is outright caustic to my brain.

My guess is you were using the reference AOM encoder. This is actually a real branding problem! It was never designed for encoding speed, and it shows.

SVT-AV1 is the production encoder you should be using. It's high quality and fast in software, and should really always be the default.

To be honest, if a 15 year old machine is still working fine for somebody, and h.264 is fine (if you don't care about HDR/4k, it really sort of is!), I'm not sure the benefit of suggesting somebody junk a machine

Does AV1 need a successor right now? At least as of some years ago SVT-AV1 was stronger than x265 on both software encoding speed and quality/bitrate[1], and a successor would reset the timer on getting hardware decoders rolled out.

[1] https://medium.com/@ewoutterhoeven/av1-is-ready-for-prime-ti...

Maybe it's growing up with Bloom County comic books, but dandelions to me are even beautiful and joyful

I just subscribed as a WIRED Superfan because of this

It would be extremely cool if this weren't the case, but current LLMs are just very bad at summarization. As evidenced by the slop you posted being a bad summary!

Were. You'll still find some just because of bell curves and population size, but log cabin republicans and their ilk are dead as a doornail now,

Do you have a source for this? I've been thinking of moving my domain names from Porkbun to an EEA company, but this would cinch the need to do that

Even if MAGA as an ideology does fall apart, and I hope it does soon, you can level a building in a day but it takes years to rebuild it.

The damage being done is generational. The next administration can and should bring back the websites and data, but that's just the first step of a very very long road.

I've heard there are also rare but serious issues where YouTube will just let old videos bitrot so they nominally still exist, but don't play correctly.

I have a toaster from the 70's. It's a nice toaster, but has a big problem I didn't expect when I bought it:

Apparently most grocery store bread is significantly more wide now than in the past! Most bread won't fit!

If the inputs to a device change, that can also cause obsolescence.

The national debt is too abstract and wonk-ish to be an actual tenet of a populist movement. I remember people talked about it a lot, but only in trite ways and I really think it was just a fig leaf.

I cannot emphasize enough that this is not a technology problem, nor is it one where solutions can be usefully informed by technology.

I actually agree, but I'm not sure this is a relevant observation. It's not fawning over Democrats to say that they are, as a group, pro-institution.

I attended GOP caucuses circa 2010-2014. I would like to believe there was once a healthy sensible conservative party, but I'm sorry to say that to my eyes nothing has been hijacked: MAGA is what the Republican party has been for my entire adult life. It's just loud about it in public now instead of behind the doors of political machinery.

I don't know how to fix this ratchet of "Republicans shatter things for fun and self-profit; Democrats try to tape things back together but it's harder to fix things than break them; so voters punish them by electing Republicans" that's been going on my entire life

I'm not sure about that word "unintentionally" in the article subtitle -- to use a metaphor, if you cut down an old growth forest to sell the lumber, is it "unintentional" that the wildlife population is also gone?

I drive a VW ID.4. It's profitable for VW (modulo some boondoggles early on in production), and it's the best car I've ever driven, even solid for road trips.

If I wanted, I could have gotten a Hyundai or a Chevy equally well. Tesla just isn't the only or even best game in town, and hasn't been for years.

Right now in my day-to-day, I'm much more materially threatened by the current administration's stated objective being rolling back my civil rights than by anything the cartels could do, much as I loathe them.

And anyway if you think either Elon or Trump actually care about the cartels, I've got a bridge to sell you

Note that this is what CAMM[1] memory is intended to solve, although it remains to be seen to what extent it catches on.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMM_(memory_module)

How is this an ambiguous stance? "Subsystem maintainers don't have to allow Rust in, but other subsystems can and will build their own bindings to your code" seems fairly clear-cut.

While much of this document is openly disdainful, there are areas like the malloc implementation[1] and features like the atexit hardening[2] where OpenBSD is unambiguously excellent, and it says as much, noting that the latter is a "pretty cool mitigation".

I used to do some OpenBSD ports work, and even got a tiny patch into the base system. I love OpenBSD! I don't have an axe to grind here! But it is not above reproach, and I think this site is overall harsh but fair.

[1]: https://isopenbsdsecu.re/mitigations/malloc/

[2]: https://isopenbsdsecu.re/mitigations/atexit_hardening/

I like this -- despite the clown nose logo, it's actually fair to my eye and is respectful to parts of OpenBSD that are thoughtfully designed.