paulkrush

Microsoft announced that you can extend Windows 10 support if you enroll in Microsoft Backup or purchase “Microsoft Points.” Just think if they get printer manufacturers in on this, just to keep your ink cartridges “authentic” and up to date, and you can keep using Windows 10. And so on...

It’s interesting/unsettling to extrapolate a dystopian future from these moves. Keiichi Matsuda’s short film “Hyper-Reality”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

Why all the YouTube downvotes on this one? I see 661 up and 55 down? What am I missing? Are there groups/religions forming on formal prompting guidelines/the exact prompt vs being more loose? Or is heavy prompt engineering something that is talked about/sold more than it's practiced in reality.

Oh.. You have been nostalgically spelunking the old Gnutella 0.6 peer-to-peer protocol

This is not a "make something out of pallets video". It's a using pallets for suburban camouflage video! Much different. I am cooking jambalaya today for the first due to this video. If can he cook it in pallets, I can cook it at home.

If you’re curious about how the DIY open-source hardware market for Chinese-made goods is reacting to the recent 145% tariffs, check out the eBay sales data here: eBay Sold Listings:https://www.ebay.com/sh/research?marketplace=EBAY-US&tabName...

Spoiler alert: There hasn’t been any noticeable reaction yet. You might expect to see price increases or higher order volumes when searching for items like the ESP32, but that hasn’t been the case so far.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the potential impact of removing the de minimis threshold on shipments. It’s hard to imagine how the postal system could efficiently handle tariffs on a dozen small $1 packages from AliExpress landing in the mailbox. I suspect we’re moving beyond that point, with private companies likely clearing these shipments in bulk before they reach USPS—if they even make it that far.

Edit: It's interesting the GPU's are causing issues on the grid before they cause issues with the data center's power.

"Thousands of GPUs all linked together turning on and off at the same time." So supercapacitors allow for simpler software?, reduced latency? at a low cost?

Me, reading just the title and standing up in annoyance, is now slowing Earth's spin. Meanwhile, people showering (because of this so trivial comment) with well water (which ends up in the ocean) are speeding it up the earth by a factor of 1,000 or more.

I meet a non-technical woman using it all day long to help manage a landscaping business. This was a data point for me.

Cool idea! It's ironic that this is such an efficient use case for device that is so inefficient.

I love parcels. Always have. My mom worked at the post office.

Cheap postage hack: Nearly all U.S. stamps issued since World War II don’t have value. You can buy old stamps on eBay for about 60–75 % of face value as “face” stamps—and they’re perfectly valid for mailing.

Unconventional postcards: A thin sheet of plywood with a Sharpie address label is a fun postcard. (it just costs a lot more than a normal postcard)

Small Flat Rate Box physics: With a 70 lb limit, you’d need something exotic—say, a primordial black hole—to exceed the weight cap.

Spare the carrier’s back: A Medium Flat Rate Box packed with 10,000 pre 1982 copper pennies tips the scale at roughly 68 lb. Maybe ship the coins another way—your postal carrier will thank you!

"With the numbers found above, the conservative user would have an energy footprint of 4 Wh per day, from their use of LLMs. The heavy user, on the other hand, will have a footprint of ~4.5 kWh per day." I think comparing this to electric car usage @ 1/3 kWh per mile is useful. So a very heavy user could spend 13.5 miles of car driving per day?

If I moved to the middle of nowhere because of Starlink and them... "The sudden shutdown of Starlink services clearly qualifies as a National Emergency due to the widespread and unforeseen consequences such an action would have."

It's like a white laser beam. New to me...

It's pretty cool where he makes a cheap white LED glow white with a blue laser pointer: https://youtu.be/75to1TY-Gog?si=Hi_jJjrnAIutbh4a&t=231

They(you know: those people) need to find a vaccine that does the same thing as these GLP-1s. It seems termination shock is becoming a bigger issue with these new products as time goes on.

It's cool you can look at 1/2 of the earth and see only one data center and one link. ap-southeast-2 and it's only link is too far away to show.

This is a good book. AI attack will never be robots first and not human like, but it's still fun reading.

The in-laws have decided shelter and family bonding at a Disney World hotel with the once in a lifetime experience of Hurricane Milton is better than turning around early and going home. What do you think? What exactly goes on at that park when it's closed?

This is a great way for some people to play in public but still keep a work play wall up by following one simple rule: Only Legos. If you want to break the rule, a maker faire is a better venue. I think GBC is really cool to see, but I would feel like I was wearing hand cuffs if I tried it.

In 2008, while working for a staffing company during the economic downturn, I observed a controversial practice. The company posted job listings that were known to be highly unlikely to result in actual placements. The primary objective was to engage candidate references, turning these interactions into sales opportunities. While I viewed this as potentially wasting candidates' time and straining their professional relationships, the company justified it as a way to maintain a network for future hiring needs. They believed that keeping the system active at full capacity would ensure readiness when the job market rebounded, transforming these difficult-to-fill positions into real opportunities. This experience has led me to always insist on providing references only after a technical interview, a practice that has served me well.

So this starter itself was a engine(ICE)?

"We are shipping samples of our 32TB UltraSMR/ePMR nearline hard drives to select customers"

This makes more sense. I can see a 300 to 1200 baud upgrade just for cost reasons.

Prime/daytime 300 baud $12.50 per hour, 1200 baud $15.00 per hour.

From the article:"In other words, it’s a long shot—but that’s always the case when it comes to faster-than-light ravel."

Here's an image of the huge load: https://www.truckersnews.com/news/article/15677391/expect-de...

An hour and half of what seems to be every huge noise maker known to man, in the woods, at a Boy Scout camp.

I would guess this as well. There are plenty of working examples for conveyors. "Since it is downhill conveying, the system generates more than 100 million kilowatt-hours per year at a load of 11.000 t/h. The disk breaks have a diameter of 2,5 m. The length of the 3-part system is 12.700 m. Almost the complete belt is operating in tunnels to protect it from the danger of avalanches in the Andes." https://conveyorbeltguide.com/examples-of-use.html

Maybe earth could look like this if we put enough satellites in orbit.