An RTX 3090 24GB is about $2150 new.

I've spent more on gaming rigs a couple times: it's not some unfathomable amount of money.

I'm not a US citizen so I can be objective- last time I looked it wasnt the US cutting down the amazon or Indonesian rainforests to replace with soya or palm and it's not the US currently building 300GW of new coal fired power stations. Also per person Australians produced more CO2 than the US for decades and both are way down that list compared to the arabs. Do some fucking research.

If what you were suggesting were true we'd all be wearing sackcloth and bemoaning the complete lack of sanitation. If the big tech companies stop innovating they'll be replaced by something else that does, just like human civilizations largely managed to advance even though Rome declined and eventually fell.

I have no loyalty to the current tech companies beyond their ability to produce products or services I want. The industry is already full of corpses from past decades that failed to innovate. Given long enough any of the current leaders will only be a footnote in the larger history themselves.

You're on the right track with this. Except one thing; they didn't pull his bubble card. His fund was rapidly recapitalized before the headline even appeared. There is a lot at stake, the music is still playing, and they can't afford to have reality asserting itself on behalf of this chucklehead. His sandbox is a good deal smaller now, but they're letting him stay in the yard.

Right try visiting any large financial if you don't play nicely with shape, nudata, and friends.

Anubis is super irritating too; but the flip side is what are smaller sites supposed to do. The world collectively decided terms of service for anything not behind an authentication wall are to be freely ignored. "F*** your robots.txt" seems to be the mantra of the AI cowboys who have turned the scripting a scraping up to 11.

There "open" web won't have room for humans much longer.

"Your Gen x so you're not going to die before the shit hits the fan most likely"

The shits already hitting the fan and (probably unlike you) I have kids so I do give a shit about the future, but despite what your student brain may think, the way human society works can't be upended in a few years.

Oh right, so if you'd been alive in the 70s you'd have eschewed a car and heating and/or air con and gone to live in a yurt with a donkey as transport? You moron, you have no clue. You're just another stupid kid blowing raspberries at easy targets. Why are you even using a computer? Switch it off and save the energy.

If you think anyone voted for specific technology then you really have no idea how the world works.

I'm not a boomer (Gen-X) but blaming a single generation from a period of 25 years for climate change is beyond purile - its fucking moronic. Blame the georgians - they discovered the coal that kicked off the industrial revolution! Or what about the victorians who turbocharged it and brought electricity to the masses requiring coal power to generate it??

But I suppose a hero like you would have said at the time "No, we won't advance technology, we'll stick with our agrarian society and horsepower just like the last 5000 years thanks very much and I never want to travel more than 3 miles from where I was born so whats the problem!"

Idiot.

The recent trend in software companies is to fire middle managers, and the metric used to evaluate managers for firing is the velocity. So that's the reason.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/2...

If you like your manager enough to help them, then break up tasks into smaller tasks that take an hour or so but still have 1 point of value.

Correct. I used the term "pattern." SCOTUS has a number of mechanisms for temporary rulings, often made by a single justice, or by the full court. That is not officially a "panel," but it has the same outcome, and so fits the pattern. Stays, injunctions pending appeal, emergency/summary court orders, etc. SCOTUS has done this many times and whether any given matter ever subsequently appears before the full court is not a given.

So while not termed a "panel," this is a distinction without a difference.

I think that's likely wrong given a serious financial collapse: much of the hardware in play here is booked sales a year or more out. If the bottom falls out, those orders will get cancelled. Further on (speculation upon speculation...,) recovery would be more circumspect, and the demand for hardware less absurd.

Bubble pops don't happen all at once. They progress, first from the weak sisters to the big, name brand to-big-to-fail "omg my pension!" deals. Media exaggeration about historical finance collapses create the misperception that it happens very rapidly, with no warning. That's never the case; there are always precursors.

I don't know if this "Situational Awareness" is such a case, and you don't either. But this is exactly how the start of a larger collapse looks: a nasty little headline about some sketchy outfit no one has heard of, goes unnoticed outside finance or other narrow media sources. Then more, a couple months later. Then something happens that rocks the world.

Probably some version of shell company and/or reselling equipment from manufactures that nominally do not make stuff for export and can be sloppy with BOM documentation; coupled with studiously avoiding asking questions that might lead toward any material knowledge of controls violations.

They hit what they can. Iran has attacked or threatened many countries, including the UK.

It's understandable. If I were the head of the Islamist regime in Iran, I would be trying to build up nuclear weapons that could hit America as quickly as possible.