A government promising it’s worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.

Wrong definition there bud.

The GB version is more specific than the general term “data”. In this case, it specifically refers to 2 billion bytes (each byte being 8 bits, a “bit” being a 1 or a 0). But in the general sense, “data” can be a synonym for “information” which has many definitions, some of which are pure physics concepts.

It does technically hurt the quality, but 320 kbps mp3s are largely indistinguishable from lossless to most people.

On a side note, why mp3 instead of a lossless format?

Yeah, that’s the big asterisk on the “zipper merging is more efficient” premise. It assumes that things are already bottlenecked. If you have the space to merge early without slowing down, you do that. People trying to force their way in at the last minute (when they didn’t have to) is one of the things that triggers the bottleneck in the first place.

If they structure their supplier contracts anything like the auto industry does, that would only be because they are on the back end of the product’s production lifecycle.

Less of an issue with Valve. They don’t have as much of a need for a hardware loss leader since they earn from Steam regardless of which hardware it’s running on.

It’s not arbitrary at all. In fact it’s the entire point.

Current tech layoffs are mostly a result of over hiring during the pandemic. Blaming AI is just the sales pitch to investors try to prove that the AI spending was worth it.

I’m thinking you might have been wrong. Even without AI, I don’t foresee demand for compute going down. Even if everything went over to ARM, I think that would have just slowed the rate of new builds.

Canals were at least solving a problem that actually existed and needed solving at the time when they were started. AI data centres are being built in anticipation of future demand, for use cases that haven’t been developed yet.

It also starts to depend on how you define what a given service actually is. Plex has shifted from being a self hosted media server to essentially a streaming service that you can hook your own library to.

I mean, I’ve had days where that is the literal plan.

Celery to the rescue.

The outside experience is extremely location dependant.

That’s pretty much implied by WW3.

The water supply issue is super location specific, which is why it will likely be one of the triggers of WWIII. Certain parts of Canada, for example, are basically a fractal of freshwater lakes and not among the areas likely to suffer desertification.

So if a baby elephant weighs 250 lbs (middle of the 200-300 lb range Google gave me) and a corgi is 11 inches tall (and that the extra corgi length is compensated for by the fact that we are assuming that this corgi is spherical), that’s 1.43 lb/in^3. I’ve run out of time to do conversations, but this meteor was apparent at least part neutron star.

“Racists” would be just a circle of the whole map.

Me: “Do the thing.”

OS: “no.”

Me: “Fuck you. Sudo do the thing.”

OS: “yes sir. Right away sir.”

That is the way it should be.