I was a âoegive me gas, or give me deathâ kind of guy until I picked up an induction cooktop for my sailboat.

That thing is amazing. The only thing it really falls down at is where you want to go low and slow. But thatâ(TM)s probably more to do with it being a cheap plug in unit rather than the technology itself.

Unfortunately, running the 30A circuit for a full sized unit in my condo is virtually impossible. Also, induction doesnâ(TM)t help with baking tasks.

If I knew that, I'd be a tech billionaire inventing them.

The best part of innovations is that they are NOT obvious, but once they are in the world, you can't do without.

Don't see too many cars on walking paths and sidewalks. The number of e-bikes on walking paths and sidewalks has skyrocketed. It's almost as if someone decided being a pedestrian is a sinful activity, and that every walkway must now be infested with morons on wheels.

Then let me get started on mobility scooters.

I'd just like them banned from walking paths. At least once a day I'm getting some crazy asshole ringing his bell as he comes flying up behind me. I'm not a fan of any kind of bike on walking paths, but at least the people on regular bikes have more control. The worst are probably older riders who often seem like they're barely in control. And the three wheeled ones take up outrageous amounts of space on smaller paths, regularly forcing other users on some of the narrower paths I frequent to get to the side of the road.

It's hard to imagine, short of motor vehicles, anything more hazardous to a pedestrian than some stupid prick on an e-bike.

I don't know who Gil Luria is or how good he is at his job, but that statement is very misleading. All hyperscalers, including Oracle, use third party data center providers.

How it works: Companies like NVidia and OpenAI have partners. So let's say you're a medium-sized company ($500M+ market cap) and you want to deploy some machine learning capability. You go to NVidia and say "I'd like to purchase 5 of your GB300 liquid-cooled racks. NVidia says "Excellent, do you have a service provider for those?" Then they have a list of recommended and certified partners who can provide the racks pre-built in a data center where they have the care and feeding (and power and plumbing) they need. Oracle is a partner.

None of the big hyperscalers can build and run their own facilities fast enough so they all use third parties to get additional capacity. All of them. Including, and especially Oracle. So that customer with the 5 racks may find themselves in an "Oracle" data center which is actually owned and operated by Switch or CyrusOne, or NTT Data, or Iron Mountain, or DRT.

The comments by Luria make no sense (to me).

Quite so. It's been how many years since something really new came out of Cupertino? Granted, Apple is more profitable than ever, but the company clearly shows what the result of placing a supply-chain expert as the CEO does.

The really sad part is that there's nobody ELSE, either. Microsoft hasn't invented anything ever, Facebook and Google are busy selling our personal data to advertisers, and who else is there who can risk a billion on an innovation that may or may not work out?

That's wrong. I stopped using wrist watches 25 years ago and haven't looked back a single day. I don't want shit on my wrist. Try living without for a year and you'll realize why. It's hard to express in words. It's like having a chain removed.

Headphones, on the other hand, I use occasionally. For phone calls or for music on the train, plane, etc. - and especially for the plane if the noise cancellation comes close to my current over-the-ear Bose I'd take them on the two-day business trips where I travel with hand luggage only and space is a premium.

Do I want a heartbeat sensor? No idea. I don't care. But if there's any use for it than at least for me that's not a replication. I'm pretty sure many, many Apple users don't have a smart watch.

So he claims that social media - the platform where everyone pretends to be more happy, more active, better looking, more interesting, more travelled, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, - feels "fake" ?

Man.

Next he's going to say that artificial sweeteners taste might not be natural.

Seriously, though, social media has been the domain of bots for at least a decade. Even people who actually write their posts themselves use bots to cross-post to all the different platforms and at "optimal" times. Nothing on social media is not fake. Well, maybe your grandmother's photo album because she doesn't know Photoshop exists.

Do you want to bet on the percentage of Fortune 500 companies that use amateur-level procedures for their prod systems?

"Above 50%" seems like a guaranteed win to me.
"Above 75%" is where I start to think "maybe not that high". But I fear I'm giving them too much credit.

It is impossible to do now that half of what we have always considered clear indicators of a scam or phishing attempt are actually being done by actual companies.

But the "m" in npm always stood for "malware", did it not?

The npm ecosystem is deeply flawed. Look at some of the affected repositories. Many of them are just a few lines of code, yet over a hundred other packages depend on them. At least half of them have no reason to even exist. A lot of them have last been updated years ago.

We have an ecosystem where seemingly every individual function has its own package. That is just ridiculous. It is modularization driven to its absurd extreme. It's why you add one package to your project and it pulls in a hundred dependencies.

And the more tiny packages there are, the larger the attack surface and the smaller the amount that can be monitored for malware injection and other problems. I wouldn't at all be surprised if one or more of these packages will never be updated and have the malware in them forever simply because the only dev with the password to the repo has since died or gone to do other things with his life.

And it may prove to be the most prophetic of all ST:TOS episodes. Unfortunately, the C-suite is currently jacking off to it. "No, don't let that pointy-eared freak control the guard's mind! And pass my cocaine!"

It's data centres. For the past decade and even through the pandemic-era surge in data centre demand the hyperscale providers have been pushing for 100% renewable energy solutions. That changed last year with the ramp-up of AI demand. In the US the utility providers are really struggling to provide anywhere near the power that is being requested. I've got campuses that will only get 10-20MW in the next year and then have to wait 3+ years for any additional capacity and I wont be at all surprised if any dates I have now will slip as they get closer. There is literally NO POWER.

The fastest and easiest way to lots of cheap power is gas. There are so many projects going on right now where a provider has bought huge tracts of land in Texas, and is simultaneously building a gas power plant and a data centre campus capable of 200+MW of IT load. And if you build the redundancy into your gas plant you can save $100s of millions on diesel generators.

"But, but solar is cheaper and clean, etc" Yes, but it doesn't work at night. So you need batteries. Lots of expensive batteries. Imagine the amount of batteries you'd need to provide 200MW of power for 8+ hours. It doesn't work.

"But then just grid tie the solar!" Sounds good. But for that you need a power supply and use agreement with a utility and that takes time and money and most utilities will want to own/operate the generation facility. Building the power transmission infrastructure to your 500ac campus in BFE Texas is not a cheap walk-in-the-park either. Half of all my delays are just getting the power *to* the site.

That is why ALL of these companies are silently backing away from their climate pledges. For the record, my company has not and will not back away from our climate pledges. We've been 100% renewable for years and will continue to be.

Climate change will render all of that moot. It is the one thing that not even bloviating halfwits can alter. You see, people are morons.

Just remember that the laws of physics don't give a fuck, and will crush us with as much ease and as little concern as a tidal wave crushing an ant.

That we imagine we can alter physics by denial is a sign of what an utterly idiotic species we are.