The last great recession was due to precisely this sort of spending pattern plus a collapse in payment. Banks may be healthy, for now, but they can't keep lending forever with no recover. This is not a good sign.

Could also run some World Community Grid tasks on BOINC, that's what I do.

But if you just want to heat your house nothing beats a heat pump for efficiency.

I don't think we should expect to see steady progress toward a climate solution, I think it's going to happen quite suddenly after some combination of the technology to do it getting cheap enough and the climate producing enough "shit's getting real" moments for a large fraction of the first-world population. At that point either we'll get our asses in gear and set up oceanic and atmospheric carbon sequestration megastructures all over the planet with maybe a little SRM sprinkled on top, or we'll be too distracted or impoverished to do anything about it for some silly reason or another and all the disastrous predictions will come true because this is a problem we're collectively too stupid as a species to solve. That's a real possibility.

I can't blame him. If I had the talent I'd run one of those get-rich-quick scams too.

Just inflate the value of your company with VC money for a few "rounds" until a big player buys you, then take the money and run.

It's the standard business model in Silicon Valley really.

They could've instead named this thing "Wut is sequential access and why is it bad!?!?"

it will also hopefully change the whole "Business Class" airline travel landscape

currently, Business has become exorbitantly expensive. Recently United wanted $10K for a ticket from Buenos Aires to Tokyo. It's ridiculous, but this keeps happening due to rewards cards. I know very well that most people in those flights have NOT paid 10K out of pocket. Most are just upper-middle class with thousands of miles in CC rewards, or a company is paying for it.

I expect once those seats keep going empty, airlines will lower prices to a more sane level.

also it's extra surprising to the android that runs Meta because he can't comprehend why people would prefer to meet face to face instead of in the Metaverse

It's also worth noting that NAFTA obliterated Mexico's smaller farmers which massively ramped up illegal migration from Mexico to the US.

I think the actual winners of this AI bubble will be whoever wastes the least money on this folly.

This.

I'm also surprised he didn't mention the housing bubble. Just because it's been running for decades and has been intentionally stabilized in an inflated state doesn't make it less of a bubble.

I just run Home Assistant with a ZigBee network. ZigBee is just completely offline and it works great. It's a mesh network too.

For other things, I run ESPHome which is a platform built on top of ESP8266/ESP32 MCUs to make "smart devices" very easily. my "smart floodlights" are just cheap floodlights with a ESP8266 and a relay. They're connected to wi-fi and I can turn them off and on remotely, for example, to turn the outside lights when i hear a noise at night

My camera system is ESP32-CAM boards. Under $5 will give you XGA resolution at around 15fps. Wi-Fi only but it's good enough for my needs. Any camera system I get has to support offline mode. Ideally with RTSP.

This wouldn't be the first project Microsoft killed with their own greed and it won't be the last.

You can cancel the manned Mars trip now, it won't unlock a real-world Xbox achievement.

Banning this type of filling from being used in the first place is also a good idea, but banning the cremation of these fillings is more effective and important. If they just ban these fillings from being put in, then the problem will persist unabated until at least after the death of the last person who already has one.

I suspect they're a lot more careful with the corpses of people who have nuclear-powered pacemakers etc...

Why would anyone use "bare javascript" instead of TS is beyond me.

A couple years ago some high profile libraries ditched TS and moved to bare JS because it was "holding them back". But then again, idiots developing JS libraries love to break API compatibility completely in every major release. And not like "yeah let's rename this argument because my OCD prevents me from being productive if i see this name).

No like, "let's completely rewrite the codebase and make a fundamentally different product, but call it a new version".

I'm looking at you, "React Router"