I'm all for climate change and such, but can we eat first?

Climate change is the responsibility of the superpowers. It's things like Commonwealth Fusion and Verdox that will generate solutions that will allow us to reverse climate change.

(Even 10 years ago the best method for capturing CO2 from the atmosphere was by distillation, which was/is energy intensive. I've done a fair bit of gas chemistry in my career and was surprised when the Verdox system was announced publicly.)

Climate change will not come from reducing our standard of living... that's a zero--sum game which will never be enough, and will erode our lifespans and general well-being.

Climate change will be solved by coming up with new solutions that work directly to fix the problem, and those new solutions will come from countries that have a standard of living high enough that they don't have to worry about where their next meal comes from, so they can turn their attention to other matters.

Malaysia is building data centers? Go for it.

Get your economy in order, get your standard of living up, and join the rest of the world in coming up with solutions for climate change.

(5.6 percent of Malaysian households live in absolute poverty, up to 8.4 percent of households with children (source).)

An hour of video is roughly 1GB, so one drive can store roughly 100,000 hours of video.

Hypothetically, a person wearing a system containing one of these drives could record roughly 4 hours a day for 60 years. Assuming that most of the (awake) time we spend in our daily lives is unremarkable and not worth recording, one could make the claim that one of these drives could record a single person's entire lifetime. All the interactions you have, everything that everyone else says (including all the school lessons you receive), everyone you meet, all the books and articles and papers you read - everything significant in your lifetime could be recorded on one drive.

Add an AI indexing system and you can have a quick index of your entire life.

(And apropos this system, you could replay traumatic events, and this would help you get over the trauma. Or play the events to a trusted medical professional and get advice, and so on.)

Secondly, one problem with app installation (on linux, I don't know how bad it is on other systems) is access to shared libraries of various revision and date. Compatibility has become a nightmare, and we now have to deal with multiple installation systems as well (apt-get, pip-install, CPAN, and so on). I've been in installation hell several times on my linux system, trying to get some bespoke configuration of library versions just to get some standard installed application to run. It's not fun.

With large amounts of storage and fast internet, we might as well build apps with statically-compiled libraries (flatpaks and such) and just not have to worry about library versioning. This would also make supply chain compromising a little harder, since when a bad library is discovered it only affects certain compiled apps (which will be recompiled), and not have been blindly downloaded by all users during system update.

I can see a lot of uses for large hard drives.

They want users to be constantly subjected to device firmware updates without notification or consent, and they can't do that without requiring them to be connected to the internet. This is to rob the software fixers of hackable firmwares by making sure everything is constantly on the latest version.

I'm surprised.

The purchase was set up by the Biden administration. The current administration has said they have no plans on fulfilling the order.

But don't take my word for it, check out the media reports that say it was Trump (not Biden) aiming to purchase the cybertrucks, because fake news saying it was Trump instead of Biden makes it seem so much like graft.

Then again, I'm on the right so maybe I'm in denial.

Rather than attack the man, let's discuss the position.

About 2 years ago all the AI systems were closed source, and there were three of them.

Then LLAMA was leaked online, and ten years of improvement happened in the next six months. People published paper after paper describing what they could do with the LLM, using it in innovative ways that no one had thought of.

As was pointed out, Meta (who developed LLAMA) simply didn't have the manpower to explore all the interesting aspects of the system.

So in retrospect, losing control of LLAMA was a good thing for AI development.

So it would seem that having AI be open source is a good idea.

Do you disagree?

Or is the fact that it's put forward by an evil person somehow relevant?

Which questions would those be?

I'm not a big fan of fear and uncertainty. What ethical or moral questiont specifically should be asked in this situation?

In my career I had one big ethical rule, which was that I wouldn't work on weapons. I figured everything else was OK and advancing technology would raise the standard of living and promote wealth across the globe.

(This was before spam, hacking, and enshittification generally. Yes, this was before the first spamming of usenet by a couple of lawyers who felt it was their first amendment right to put an advert for their services across every usenet topic.)

AI seems to be the wave of the future, it might be dangerous, so I'm looking around for moral guidance.

So... apropos of your post, what questions should we be asking?

You can activate ltsc/iot with the same kms emulating activation tools as other editions of windows, or so I've heard, I would never personally avoid microsoft's unreasonable activation scam

One thing that's become stark these last few days is the abysmal reporting on political issues.

I'll bet there's another side to the story, one that we're not seeing. "increased competition, delays and a changing market. "Naturally we also take regulatory context into consideration,"" sounds like the Trump freeze wasn't the direct cause, but a convenient excuse for a reporter to blame Trump for something that Shell wanted to do anyway.

Anyone have deeper knowledge of the issue?

The EO mentions this:

Sounds like these particular offshore projects were illegal and maybe damaging to the environment, and the BLM complained about it.

Sounds a lot like the government stepped in and prevented a bunch of ecological damage.

Anyone have deeper knowledge of the issue?

Cue all the responses that show how *of course* this Trump's fault because we all know what he's thinking.

Six years or so max is my experience.

Laptop Batteries are the death rattle of laptops. Even if you take perfect care. The cost of replacing a battery that is 5 years or older is close to half the cost of a better than replacement (more HD, RAM etc), especially if one has to pay to have it done (>50% of people).

The HD upgrades over the last ten years alone have been spectacular, from Spinning to SSD to M.2.

I totally read that in a way that you probably didn't mean.

I think.

Did you mean to use the scare quotes?

A thread you found at a bazaar?

I work for a school district. We have a three year replacement cycle, with better conditioned older units as "spares" for another 2 or 3 years.

This isn't a dig on Chromebooks, it is that is the lifespan of these devices in the hands of students. We tear down "broken" units for spare parts, and refurbish what we can. Keyboards and screens being the #1 and #2 victims of student life.

I can't imagine ten years of regular use out of them. That is just wishful (political) thinking.

And grinding them up and recycling is the correct disposal method.

The fix is to incentivize critiques and analysis of the papers, and do that several layers deep, including meta moderation, targeting the critiques and analysis for review as well.

THIS is the basis for science and digging for truth is hard, tedious and takes a lot of time. It isn't perfect.

I'm interested in your proposal, but would like more information.

Exactly how would you set the stock price based on sales?

Additionally, sales are usually reported every 3 months. Would your plan keep the stock price constant until the next quarterly report?

If a company wants to issue more stock, for example to fund expansion or capital improvements, how would that work? Would the total value of all stocks go down to compensate?

What advantages would come from implementing your proposal?

Whether your proposal "sounds crazy" or not is based on the details of your proposal, but I'm willing to listen to what you have to say.