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22,000 now, but there was no limit and more importantly no rhyme or reason or other way to tell what was a third level registration and what was a subdomain on a normal second level registration

Verisign could have published a list of every third level registration, it wasn't an impossible problem to solve, but it is different than static regional TLDs like .co.uk or .<state>.us

yes, but other locality domains are fairly static and well-known

.co.uk wouldn't have the same problem because everyone knows that combo is a TLD in and of itself. with a seemingly infinite possible combinations of blah.name that could be a TLD itself, or, might just be a subdomain of .name, it gets really weird

They haven't actually stopped taking third level registrations, so get in there before the revised proposal gets submitted approved and implemented

Seems that even as three separate systems, they'd at least just let a card from any of them work at all three. Or issue a single unified card and let that be the only point of commonality between them, if all other operations being independent is important to them

Kind of like how many regions will have a unified transit payment card, even if it covers a half dozen completely independent adjacent transit systems

But that's my point, cheating on your wife isn't what it used to be. Certainly for a tech CEO, I don't think it is as bad a blackmail-able offense as it would've been in the 60s or 70s or even the 90s. They've all done it. Gates, Bezos, Musk.

Well, that is a good point. No the load isn't 100% constant but it's much more constant and they're using way more energy than a residential user so the "bulk discount" thesis still applies

For DCs doing training, their load is constant as long as training is happening. But as soon as they end a run, their load can disappear quickly. This is actually a problem, as the grid and generators are not designed to see massive amounts of load go away instantly

Several system operators are working on new guidelines about these large loads, and they're working on ways and regulations such that these loads have to ride out grid instability and not just disappear without warning

For sure, I wasn't giving an opinion on whether or not they could service the debt, but servicing it is a much different bar they have to meet vs. actually paying it off

Your point is valid, but there is a flaw in the premise. They don't need to pay off the $5 trillion in 20 years. They just need to be able to service it. If they can use that debt to bootstrap the company, as long as they can pay the interest and issue new debt, they can keep that $5 trillion on the books longer than either of us will be alive

I suspect if you go back to look at say, Microsoft's books from when they went public to today they have never been debt free

I mean that's not entirely true

https://openai.com/index/building-ai-infrastructure-with-the...

Yeah, Open AI and Anthropic may be buying the bulk of their compute from other providers but they are now moving into building their own infrastructure directly. There is a scale beyond which it makes more sense to build vs. rent

They're paying way under 20 cents a kWh. They're paying less per kWh than residential households. If the residential rate in an area was 20 cents, I'd guess the datacenter is paying 40-60% of that rate

They get bulk discounts because their load is 24x7, so the fixed costs covered by a per kWh charge is spread over many more kWh than a residential customer

OP only mentioned him cheating on his wife, so my comment was related to that: his infidelity to his wife

The entire scandal is a scandal to be sure. That he cheated on his wife with an intelligence operative and whatever happened beyond that is a problem and needs to be investigated and dealt with

But this thread was about him cheating on his wife full stop. He could have cheated with anyone else and it would not have been a problem. The cheating wasn't the problem, it was who he cheated with and what happened downstream

The people who didn't trust him after that didn't trust him before and would never have trusted or liked him. On the whole people didn't care about what he did with his dick and he ended his presidency just fine

The argument around the Clinton impeachment was that he had lied under oath. Yes, the circumstances of his relationship with Lewinsky were shocking and got all the press but the charges brought against him in the House was that he had lied in previous sworn testimony in a deposition where he said he hadn't cheated on his wife by having sex with anyone else

The second part of that is a problem, for sure. The first part IMO is irrelevant

I have no idea what oath or commitments he made with his wife

A lot of people cheat on their wives and husbands and are still trustworthy. Bill Clinton didn't auction off the nuclear launch codes to prevent the Lewinsky scandal from becoming public. A person being unfaithful to their partner is in and of itself not a deathknell, so it's less of a risk to other aspects of that person's professional life than it might have been in decades past

>Anyone else with a LLM subscription could do the same without the post...

This is exactly it. I'm not such an absolutist that I think people can't use AI even in their hobbies or in exploration of things they're not experts in but I grow very tired of just getting the raw output from someone's LLM as a blog post. If I wanted to do so, I could recreate it by just prompting Claude myself

Use AI to do your exploration and experimentation, but put at least some of yourself into the blog post and why you did it, and what you learned, etc etc otherwise why did you even bother? Just to get some engagement online?

Banks are motivated to care, but in the direction they currently do. They can be on the hook for making up losses. Whether you as an ultra leet hax0r can run rooted/jailbroken devices without getting owned, they are worried about your non-leet parents doing the same and having their retirement accounts drained by North Korea. I know it sounds far fetched, but it is a plausible scenario that I heard recently

I get using AI to figure out things you might not otherwise have figured out but just copy/pasting the output from AI into a blog post is not interesting to me. Take 10 minutes to humanize the output. Write the blog post and tell us how you did it, including how you used AI, how you prompted it, etc. But I don't need someone's claude transcript as the only output. Ugh

I think geographic dispersion of batteries is going to be a big plus. If the "battery" is a giant lake or a big plant with a spinning mass, the power has to be transmitted from that facility to the end user over the grid

Putting a ton of smaller chemical batteries at distribution substations means when the grid is at the peak, you can cover that peak without transmitting that power over the transmission system. Putting the battery near the consumer will take a big load off of the transmission system which as much of a bottleneck as the lack of generating facilities

you would be way way better off just buying some actual batteries

I wasn't trying to excuse anything, just explain that they haven't done nothing, but also why it's still an issue. I agree with you they've dropped the ball here. If I were a betting person I'd guess this is just something that slipped through the cracks and there will be changes whether that's to the release process for pushing OS updates, to the fast-track security update process, or to the OS so that everything is working off the same trust store

That fast-track method was used, but it only applies to "graphical" software which really means, software that uses Apple's macOS specific APIs and frameworks, not the lower level UNIX stuff like /etc/ssl

I suspect the fast-track background security updates can only update the databases and revocation lists that live in the proprietary APIs, not any arbitrary file on the system

I'm not parent comment OP

I mean in many (most?) states travelling in the left lane is a moving violation

Using it to fish for other violations is where it crosses into the fuzzy and sometimes outright illegal

The counter to this is demand that they write you the ticket for the moving violation, don't answer any questions other than providing the legally required license, registration, and insurance, and move on

If they don't have evidence of a crime, they can't detain you forever on the roadside

>or a reception desk at a business

This is basically 99% of the proposition of the iMac at this point. If you don't need the specific all-in-one, color, and other design aspects of the iMac or can afford a Studio display, there's no reason not to buy some other display + a Mac mini or a laptop + display

In a world where most stocks don't pay dividends, rationality is kind of out the window. As long as these companies don't go outright bankrupt, or have to sell a bunch of new equity to stay solvent (and therefore dilute existing shares) there's no actual monetary consequence of a company doing good or bad. It's literally just going on vibes

Honestly, in a company that isn't returning capital to shareholders, I don't see the point if it's a company that isn't somehow subject to a potential acquisition. If you don't have a path to monetize your stake, why buy it? These days, just vibes. TSLA and SPCX might as well just be another crypto like Bitcoin

But Microsoft has turned layoffs at the end/beginning of the fiscal year into an iPhone-like release schedule. It's so reliable at this point that it's a meme outside the company amongst its customers. I know for a fact each June/July I'm getting a new account team as people are shuffled around, and low performers are shown the door

Even with these buyouts, there will be layoffs next summer. And the summer after that. And the summer after that.

they know for sure many fewer will accept. there's probably a clause in there that only so many people will be allowed to accept

One of the weirdest bits of 90s tech trivia: Scott Forstall, who was in charge of software at Apple when the iPhone was initially developed, when working as an Intern at Microsoft contributed to the development of WordArt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall#Present