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by nightski 4y ago
100% VTSAX has actually performed pretty well relatively. International & Bond markets are not doing great either.
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by nightski 4y ago
It's based on the power consumption of existing leading edge models such as ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, etc... These are very impressive models, but come at great cost. If these are just a starting point in scaling up our models we ar
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by nightski 4y ago
AI will consume half the electricity on earth and it will still be pretty dumb at this point lol. We need to find a better solution than scale up.
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by nightski 4y ago
Making our social interactions even more fake. Can't wait.
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by nightski 4y ago
It doesn't matter. Climate change is happening. It doesn't matter what we do as individuals, the system can't be changed from individual action and it can't be changed via collective action as that would require full co
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by nightski 4y ago
This is one area I'll never jump ship. I like developing the code I write on a local machine. If some day in the distant future we are required to use cloud servers to develop, I'm out. Done. Adios.
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by nightski 4y ago
If you are parked indoors you don't need remote start. Our garage stays about 32F degrees even when it is -10F out. The entire point of remote start is for the case when you are parked outside, such as at work.
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by nightski 4y ago
I wasn't claiming that they did. The block heater keeps the engine warm to allow for easy remote start.
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by nightski 4y ago
It's called a block heater and they have been in use for many decades in cold climates.
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by nightski 4y ago
I went to Windows 11 on my laptop and hate it. Windows 10 will stay on my desktop for as long as possible. That said, there is one thing that really bothers me. They only added support for the 6GHz Wi-Fi protocol in 11 (as part of WiFi 6e
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by nightski 4y ago
Yeah I agree with all of that but I don't see how it is relevant to the discussion. A worker co-op should be able to provide health insurance to it's employees the same as any other business. The fact that it is worker-owned sho
702.
by nightski 4y ago
I'm not sure I follow on how that would stop you from forming a worker co-op. Almost all businesses who have full time employees pay for health insurance. Are you implying a co-op would make less revenue and therefore could not provi
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by nightski 4y ago
Nothing is stopping anyone from forming a worker coop in the US. Yet few do. Have you ever considered this?
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by nightski 4y ago
By publicly removing several democratically elected officials of a representative democracy from a platform commonly used for political communication in an official capacity yes I am in fact saying that those people are marginalized.
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by nightski 4y ago
It's the constituents that voted for those politicians or support those influential people who are marginalized. You know in this case, almost 50% of the country. By silencing politicians especially (in a democracy anyways) you silen
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by nightski 4y ago
I did not call Elon marginalized or even imply it.
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by nightski 4y ago
There's something near 100,000 employees in multiple continents at Tesla. That's a lot of diverse opinions and social views. Elon Musk is just one person in that sea of people.
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by nightski 4y ago
Agreed interesting for sure, and definitely hypocritical. I'm just pointing out why it might not matter to those clamoring for freedom of speech in support of Musks takeover.
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by nightski 4y ago
It makes him look bad to those who hated him already (many commentators here), but to be frank it doesn't really matter. The previous bans were controversial because they marginalized a voice. It was never about the specific people in
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by nightski 4y ago
I do find it odd he was arrested the eve before his congressional testimony, something Maxine Waters tried to avoid in the first place.
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by nightski 4y ago
Microsoft is not sliding into irrelevance, they have been growing quite significantly precisely because they have not been resting. Azure is their primary focus, and it's now on the verge of becoming the largest cloud provider.
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by nightski 4y ago
No one said you had to tolerate it lol. They just said it's not really relevant to the discussion. Microsoft's empire is not crumbling.
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by nightski 4y ago
That hasn't really been my experience, but ymmv. But it's also why we should fight so much against centralization in the economy even if it brings efficiency gains. Ideally you'd want to have as large of a table as possible
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by nightski 4y ago
By framing the problem like this you are making the assumption the variables are independent which is very much not the case. Your work can influence your luck, and even how much effect said luck has.
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by nightski 4y ago
It's also because working "hard" isn't enough. You have to put your effort where it matters. That is so often overlooked.
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by nightski 4y ago
Cool I'm glad you enjoy the Apple status quo and don't want official Linux support. But it's not for me.
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by nightski 4y ago
We don't all need to do anything. You can do as you please.
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by nightski 4y ago
I wasn't trying to down play the engineering. It's going to be half baked because the developers don't have access to hardware documentation. When the next Apple chip comes out, it's back to square one. It's enti
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by nightski 4y ago
It's really sad you have to resort to reverse engineered drivers which will always be behind because Apple won't support Linux officially. You'd think the most profitable company in the world could do better. Really sad. No
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by nightski 4y ago
There's a TON of progress that could be made without any changes in meat eating. Animal husbandry only accounts for a few % of emissions in the U.S. for example.

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