Iran has been "two weeks away from a nuclear bomb" for at least thirty years now. It's all been part of Israel's plan to convince American boys to die for Israel in a war on Iran.

Well, they got their war and it turns out that a) no sane American boy wants to die for Israel and b) all those expensive American wunderwaffen don't win wars.

So Iran will do what it wants. If it wants nukes, there's nothing American will do about it. And the Iranians now clearly see that the only way to be safe from American attacks is to have nukes like North Korea does.

As for Sharia law, we're going to have Christian Sharia law or Muslim Sharia law. There's no future in which 'uman rights' and 'wimmin's rights' continue to exist much longer because they're utterly destroying Western society.

Yes. A year ago we were scrapping old PCs at work so I took one home thinking it might come in useful one day. Thanks to the AI Bubble I turned it into a home server this year instead of building something new and it works fine with Linux even though Windows 11 won't even run on it. The only real downside is that it's an old i7 so the idle consumption is around 40W when it could probably be quite a bit lower with a more modern CPU and motherboard.

China could well find they have plenty of old hardware Windows won't run on that they can use after installing Linux on them.

'nvidia-smi' tells you pretty much everything except the percentage of the GPU usage per app. Doesn't have the pretty graphs, but most people who care about those things probably have their own Grafana setup for it.

> I hate AI as much as the next person that has been in IT for 30 years

As someone who's been in IT for 30 years, I think it's great. But I'm also aware that it means I may have to go looking for another line of work in a year or two.

I'm also also aware that if the AI companies start charging the actual cost of their products instead of massively subsidizing it then replacing me doesn't look like such a great deal.

No, LLMs are pretty good these days, at least in software development. Yesterday I was helping on a Python project and I don't know Python that well; I was able to use Claude to make the changes I needed to make, sanity-check its changes and get the work done much faster than I would have by myself.

Also I was on Windows last week and didn't have a Markdown viewer installed so I got my local Deepseek LLM to write one for me in .Net, which I also don't know very well. Wouldn't ship it to customers but it worked well for what I needed.

What it's becoming increasingly bad at is any kind of creative writing because it's being trained to produce Corporatespeak instead.

2. Every phone mounting solution is janky shit and looks like janky shit. If I was still 16 and it was a beater from Craigslist, sure - but neither are the case.

I use the Quadlock system in my car same as on my motorcycle....with magnetic charging.

Works great, secure quick mounting and detaching the phone when leaving either vehicle.

On the bike it's on the handlebars obviously, but for there car I got a windshield mount that holds it and it works great!!!!

Me? I like my big iPhone, but I only replace them ever 6 years or so....so, with the cost spread out over that long, it isn't really $$.

My 2017 car doesn't have CarPlay...but no big deal, I just use Bluetooth to stream Spotify to the cars OEM head unit....plays great.

If I need to use maps, My phone is right there in easy vision and can still be playing tunes while giving me directions.

...the newer ones that also tend to have better functioning voice driven commands.

I do NOT want to talk to my fucking car.

Hell I can't stand phone assistance that tries to make me talk to the computer.

The only time I want to be talking to my car is when I'm cursing it fucking up, or the damned traffic situation at the time if it isn't moving at speed....

Given some of the places I drive, a pure EV is not an option for me ...

Amish communities?

Southeast in the US.....

Hell last time I used the app to look for public charging stations in New Orleans.....there were precious few.

Most of the ones on the app were private ones....

I"d really not want to be stuck with an EV just before or after a Hurricane when power can be out for a month or more easily.....

You can drive gas in....but it's not so easy to drive batteries in to re-fuel your car, even if you had a widespread public EV charging infrastructure down here.

I am thankful I have a car that is till majority populated with physical switches, buttons and dials I can operate 98% from muscle memory without having to take my eyes off the road....of if I do it is usually a second or less.

I prefer 2 seater sports cars, that's all I've had my life to date.....I like analog gauges, manual transmission and all.

Frankly if they could come out with a simple car like in my youth....a '78 280Z type car...simple transmissions, I was more than able to deal with crank windows....that thing ran forever, simple and fun to drive while I owned it.

No worrying about telemetry, no computer needs....I mean I'll be happy with it to have Bluetooth so I can stream Spotify to it, but other than that, just keep analog controls, and as little computer as possible.

Cars like that, can last multiple decades with a little care.....and I pretty much only want my distractions to driving to be when the stereo starts playing "Highway to Hell" or the like....and I start head banging while driving down the highway...a little faster.

No, but our aerospace industry learned a lot of useful things about how to operate in space. We can't be risk free if we want to make progress. In order to learn you have to fail sometimes; If we, the taxpayers, insisted on a refund that would likely put this company out of business and a lot of the learning would be lost.

So..what exactly are we learning for $30M?

How to fuck up a launch/deployment of a low orbing space craft?

Haven't we been in space long enough to learn those lessons?

Yes I'm a bit sarcastic....but seriously, what learning are we getting from our $30M.

If this company sucks....should they NOT go out of business and open bids up to more qualified companies for next shots?

From the State House to the US House, Byron has a proven record of standing up for our values. From defending Second Amendment rights, to protecting life, and to keeping radical woke ideology out of schools, Byron will always fight the Left's agenda.

What's inflammatory about that statement?

My question is....

Do we, the US taxpayers get a $30M refund from this company that could not complete their end of the contract?

When you have to cite a decade old model, you're not proving your point, you're proving mine

Sorry...I've never considered it to be "old" as a car....

This is the only time in my life that the value of computers and parts is rising rather than falling.

Literally the only reason we're in this mess is because governments have been keeping interest rates artificially low for thirty years to enrich their cronies. No company would be borrowing trillions of dollars if interest rates were 10-15%.