A thing that often gets missed is that a lot of Adobe's users are extremely non-technical. They did not learn how to use graphics software, or DTP software; they learned how to use Photoshop, or InDesign. My mother was not a stupid person, but she was basically allergic to technology, and yet she managed to transition from doing physical pasteup with hand-done separations to working on a Macintosh and using Illustrator and Pagemaker. (This was long ago enough that Aldus was still a thing, and the Macintosh was a IIci with 5MB and a 8*30 non-GC card to run the Mac Two-Page Mono display.) And while InDesign is not quite as easy to use as Aldus Pagemaker was, because it does more stuff now, it's still quite comprehensible. I've used it for some projects, and it was still easy enough.

I'm not interested in that guy's comment, but the common connection is that most of these SMR designs require more highly enriched fuel, which means everything bad about them is magnified.

Rockets are awesome, they are probably our best means of getting rid of billionaires. Just send their ass[es] to Mars.

Starmer is still better than the alternatives (Farage, Badenoch) but that's not saying much. The alternatives are just that shit.

Labour need to backtrack on the authoritarianism pronto, otherwise we'll be proper fucked the next time a real authoritarian gets in (like Trump bum buddy Farage). Some of the laws they're creating are made to be abused, even though Starmer isn't going to abuse them (he lacks the initiative, drive and imagination for that)

Ah, I see what you mean, now. Yeah. I do my best to make lore make sense, but that's one I can't fix.

Things like this are why I prefer a wired connection. That and sound quality.

The simple answer to this is "if you want public money, give us parts of your company, otherwise fuck off and die". Also if we capped or outright stopped losses from being used to minimise taxes on profits it would help protect us against reckless billionaires.

MidJourney was the first sizable AI company to become profitable, having done so back in 2022.

I just hope someone good gets InDesign if Adobe explodes. It's my favorite DTP software by a wide margin. I also hope Acrobat just ceases to exist. It's trash.

Monaco isn't on the table any more since this whole pedofuhrer thing has stained this country. Russia might be, though I would prefer to avoid that as well. Too bad. Good thing I don't have kids!

I think most people assign most of the blame for the clownstroke problem to them, and only a portion to Microsoft. They claimed they weren't using eBPF on Windows like they do on Linux because it's not sufficiently mature on Windows. So far I haven't heard from anyone who really knows whether that's true.

On the other hand, Microsoft has always been terrible. Updating windows has always been hazardous. Even in good times it would often scramble itself and stop updating until you did some magic bullshit, usually involving the command line that Windows users so frequently like to mock Linux about. Both systems sometimes require going to a shell, the difference is that it isn't shit on Linux.

Unless they're completely bananas, they will sell a device intended to be your display. Whether they do or not, lots of other companies will sell displays for the vehicle. It's cheap enough to do some adapter plastics for an existing unit.

You didn't understand that article. They've been doing that. It was computationally expensive. Now they've found ways to do it faster, so they are doing more of it.

That's only realistic if you expect this expansion to continue indefinitely. But it is almost certainly a bubble because it's unlikely that an advance in AI will come soon enough to justify all of the expenditure. (It's not impossible...)

Having to find and purchase property, get permits (even with substantial grease) and actually get everything lined up and in hand and made into a fab is a lot. If you can get it done in 24 months you're doing very well. And that's just the fab part of the business...

There's dime-a-dozen AMD UMA systems with AI acceleration, and their performance is pretty good, plus they all support much larger memory than most Apple systems. If all you want is AI acceleration, you can get that just fine. Apple's claim to fame continues to be their hardware design, which isn't incredibly better than literally everyone else, but really is generally pretty nice and almost always has been.