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The TWSBI is a great fountain pen. I am disappointed to not find Muji 0.5mm capped rollerballs on there.

I ordered them on a whim but will likely never use another pen for note taking again. The feel of writing is much better than any Pilot or Pentel I've used.

I had a watch streak.

I really like Seiko mechanicals when I need a watch.

If I had infinite money I'd get an Omega and then a used F.P. Journe with tourbillon (I found one in Tokyo that was comparable in price to a Rolex).

Rolex is the Gucci of watches, every one knows the name but very few people get them because they authentically like the brand (in my opinion)

There are a couple non-superficial distinctions in terms of metallurgy and certain materials but by and large not that much.

Unless you have a strong familiarity with ISO/FTR markets this article will be pretty opaque.

The short version is that electricity delivery forecast is managed by a financial optimization process. Market participants (generators, line owners, and consumers) basically buy and sell their electricity in advance. Sometimes as far ahead as 2 years, all the way up to the day before (at which time the real time market takes over IIRC).

So in addition to the primary stakeholders you have financial participants that buy/sell electricity without having access to any apparatus for the generation/transmission/consumption. These participants sometimes have very manual processes for buying their contracts.

My guess would be some poor fresh grad was under supervised and transposed the source and sink address. Instead of buying at 203.40 they sold at 203.40 by reversing the source and sink.

The first thought I had was: thank you Jimmy Carter.

Does this mean that if a company uses a third-party to help it determine wages it's colluding?

Is this a catch-22 then or is there a rational course to self-study into the field for those that are competent?

33% increase in VRAM over a consumer card at 150% increase in price?

If CUDA is 100% compliant on AMD we'll actually see competition in this space.

Lets call it as it is, an oligopoly share.

> 2) Still may run a dual PSU, but with the CPU below and the cards at 1200W i'd max at around 1600W, add overhead, and there are some 2000W PSUs that could do it. Also being on 240v mains makes this easier on the PSU selection as I have seen many can source more wattage when on 230/240 vs 115/120.

One suggestion, also limit clock speeds/voltages. There are transients when the 3090 loads models that can exceed double their typical draw, 4 starting at once can draw substantially more than I expected.

I build one on 4 used $800 3090s. All told $6-6.5K in used components to build an open air rig with consumer hardware.

I went with the cheapest threadripper I could find but after testing the performance hit for going from 16-8 PCIe lanes was actually not that large and I would be okay going with 8 lanes for each card.

I built an x4 3090 rig a little while ago. There are a few hurdles:

1) Need 2 power supplies to run at peak power and most US outlets can't handle it

2) If you're running on 1 power supply need to limit power consumption and clock speed of the cards to prevent the PSU fuse from popping

3) To get all 4 cards running at once there is an adjustment needed for most MB bios

4) Finding an MB that can handle enough PCI-e lanes can be a challenge

Ultimately I think I get 95% or higher performance on one PSU with appropriate power limiting and 48 lanes (vs a full 64)

My biased delineation engineering and everything else is whether you have to develop structure in the real world.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering definitely meet this criterion but Software Engineers rarely have to deal with anything but pure abstraction. It's like calling a Mathematician an Engineer IMO. At the same time the term is SWE so I'll go with it.

I strongly encourage the curious to browse through : foundsf.org

It has a wealth of 19th and early 20th century history about San Francisco including some really fascinating tidbits like the buried statues of Sutro.

I always saw NIF as bomb research by another name, frequency of ignition required is absurd. TOKAMAKs have much more promise but still face massive challenges.

I was going to ask the same question. Those are some great visualizations

The thesis I've heard (and agree with) is that Python is a good everything language. For specialization there is always a better tool (although maybe more complex to get started).

> Even china isnt silly enough to record people’s conversations to “train” ais.

China has a social credit score with facial recognition on their network of security cameras in public settings....

Recording peoples conversations to monitor for undesirable terms (likely with AI) is almost a certainty...

I'm sorry you, you must have misread DataCorp's filing but the argument is that a limited contractual agreement to broadcast a channel (e.g. programming selected and owned by someone else) does not give DISH unlimited copyright over the shows used in that programming.

It's akin to a radio station claiming copyright infringement for songs that they are only licensed to play. The copyholder isn't the radio station.

DataCorp doesn't assert that copyright is absent but that DISH is not the copyholder. For my reading that seems accurate unless DataCorp submitted false details to the court (something I doubt).

I don't see anything at all concerning with this from an ethical perspective.... /s

I've read through ISLR once and will likely go through it again at some point, this is a great text.

I'd argue we have different perspectives on the matter and wont undermine yours. My thoughts are that Digg sealed its fate with Digg 2.0 (or whatever major redesign they had) that made the site unusable and degraded content quality.

I think the lesson Huffman is missing is that quality content from your 2% contributors makes the site worth visiting.

Did you stop reading before the "and" in that sentence?

If you can lower your cost basis while keeping revenues unchanged it will juke the stock price. Mark has been laying people off trying to get the stock back up from his major mistake.

I have intimate knowledge of FB during that period. Any voice of concern about abuses of the service were repressed as a "we'll deal with that when it's a problem."

Concerns about lack of global moderation and enforcement were well known before the massacre. Mark and leadership made a choice akin to what the major oil producers did regarding global warming: kick the can until it's a problem.

I'll reply point by point:

> How much money do you think Apple spent on their VR product vs Meta? Sure Apple’s is better, but it also costs SEVEN times more. Do you really think Apple’s will sell more units any time soon? Meta has already sold tens of millions of quests.

Oculus Quest has sold almost 20M units over 4 years of existence across all products in the line. The original iPhone was priced at a point at that point considered absurd. Note that oculus started off with the rift at $600 but requiring a multi-thousand dollar computer. I'm not an Apple fanboy/apologist but this is a straw man argument.

> Also Carmack is a great programmer, but there’s no reason to think he knows a thing about the market and business strategy.

This is disingenuous. John Carmack founded id which produced modern 3d and FPS as we know it today. He's not just a great programmer but he was a successful businessman before Facebook existed. One, he understands the market and business strategy at least as well as Mark given he spends more time on the matter as his primary focus. Two, his complaints were not about market and business strategy but about inefficiencies in development processes that no one in the company besides C-levels are empowered to resolve.

> Sure there’s the whole metaverse thing, but even without that, people are getting value out of the Quest right now, playing Beat Saber etc.

Let's be clear here: even if each quest was $500 and had zero CoGS that would be $10B revenue spread over 4 years when Mark spent >$30B in less than that. I'll eat a humble pie if he makes this make sense but it was not a sound decision given the way he structured the approach.

If someone can make Lemmy more resilient than Lemmy seems to be the answer.

I just want to remind you that of the three people listed only Mark took actions that exacerbated a genocide (Rohingya in Myanmar).

I apologize, I should have been clearer.

I don't mean Kanye's public antics and statements. I meant his questionable design/musical/performance choices.

Mark has lost over $30B on Metaverse supported by a stagnating ad business. Apple just launched an AR product that seems quite a bit better than the Meta options. John Carmack publicly complained about the reasons he left work at Meta which demonstrate a lack of vision at the leadership levels. It's unclear how the Metaverse will play out at this point but it feels like a solution looking from a problem rather than something people really want.

I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special.

Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around).

They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they are confident they can prove it again.

Kanye is doing.... something strange now. Zuckerberg tanked the stock price with VR/Metaverse and then juked it by firing a chunk of the company. They are so confident something intrinsic in them makes their choices special and 'right,' that they can see something no one else can.

Huffman et al. were at the right place and right time with a LAMP(?) stack when Digg imploded. Now he wants to prove that it's not "right place right time" but that he is special.

> The two hotels, as appraised in 2016 for the current loan, were worth a combined $1.56 billion. So it's a significant move that Park Hotels would walk away from debt that is less than half that amount — and as one analyst tells the Business Times, "it says that they are not optimistic that the business travel or convention and meetings business is going to return soon to downtown San Francisco."

$1.56B marked down to $275M (the value of the loan)... Things may be getting real bloody in commercial real estate.