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photonbeam··on Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble
Picking the right shovel-user is much more difficult though without a time-machine
photonbeam··on Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble
It may be a ‘sell shovels’ time, where the hardware providers profit
photonbeam··on Why Proton VPN doesn't use RAM-only VPN servers
The updates section seems odd to me

Are they unaware that you can update the OS running on ramdisk just like you can with regular disk?

photonbeam··on Japan chain uses AI to gauge staff smiles, speech tones in QoS push
The problem is that it wont be fair evaluation, regardless of a human or computer adjudicator
photonbeam··on Ireland's datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
I always assumed they created water from condensation, where is the water consumed?
photonbeam··on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
Thats logic doesn't fly for any other profession
photonbeam··on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago
Penalty 2 is the same as closing the company down
photonbeam··on A search engine by and for the federal government
The IRS doesnt require any auth if you print out whatever and mail it to them, no internet. They just believe you
photonbeam··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
It should be obvious to everyone now that kernel extensions for ‘security’ is not worth it
photonbeam··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Need to make software developers legally liable like other engineers, that will cause a huge behavioral shift
photonbeam··on "Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"
Its rather annoying that theres no way to support firefox without sending money to a Mozilla ceo who could use it for some silly side project
photonbeam··on Houston Is on a Path to an All-Out Power Crisis
Millions of tiny generators roar to life
photonbeam··on New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception
If they ask to talk to their manager then just talk to the manager yourself, no point negotiating with someone who lacks authority
photonbeam··on Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes
Depends on when they joined
photonbeam··on Move over, remote jobs. CEOs say borderless talent is the future of tech work
Wait till they relearn how timezones will slow everything to a crawl
photonbeam··on UK's Housing Crisis Needs a London-Sized City to Fix It
The problem is that many view the problem as a good problem to have
photonbeam··on HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma
They could put out a big production line of cheaper reactors, but the problem is that their navy boats are a target for missiles, which means larger risks of bad incidents. So they pick carefully

Cargo generally isnt a target in the same way

photonbeam··on Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux
It’s somewhat inevitable that something will try to replace the C implementation of coreutils. Hopefully uutils will fix whichever bugs are reported upstream to lower the compatibility load though
photonbeam··on Almost half of Dell's full-time US workforce has rejected the company's RTO push
What mechanism would you guess they are using to exert this influence?
photonbeam··on Silicon Valley salaries are shrinking, leaving workers in the lurch
I know a police officer, they work in redwood city but have to live in petaluma to get enough space on their wage.

I can not imagine dealing with that commute each day. Each time I talk to him its in the back of my mind

photonbeam··on Tesla Auto Wipers: Why They Don't Work and Why There Isn't an Easy Fix
Is there an aftermarket addon from anyone to route around this problem?
photonbeam··on Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4
Even if its just “all US residential services have ipv6 by 2028” fixes a lot of the chicken and egg
photonbeam··on Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4
We need the FCC to say its a requirement for 2028 or some such year
photonbeam··on Ex-Googler designed a heat pump you'll want in your home
It’ll probably get cancelled though
photonbeam··on It's 2024 and drought is optional
Maybe he’s hoping a well meaning billionaire will want to try it
photonbeam··on Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
Smooth roads really help with this, but no one seems to care
photonbeam··on Polestar eliminates the rear window in latest electric car
This feels like a regression, mirrors are really high resolution and are great with depth perception
photonbeam··on Value of one of S.F.'s biggest buildings plunges by 80% after Uber, Block leave
These companies have been importing people from all over the US (and elsewhere) to the bay area. Its not efficient at all
photonbeam··on How much is enough to FIRE in San Francisco?
I hadn’t heard of this, what are some example companies I can look at?
photonbeam··on Meta loses $200B in value as earning call focuses on all the ways bleeds cash
Time to join Meta and get RSU allocation on the dip
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