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Comment Re:Wow, a high quality security update (Score 1) 23

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.

Comment Re:Or (Score 1) 51

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...

Comment Re:Small Violin (Score 1) 51

Apple is the only (legal) source for a MacOS-running computer, and its one of the few providers of a unified-memory architecture for local AI execution

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.

Comment Re:This post above brought to you by (Score 1) 130

These dumbfucks should be on their knees thanking these billionaires for locating their businesses here. Let alone declaring residency here. California at the end of the day isn't that special. I can get a Mediterranean climate in many places on the planet.

Please fucking do then, California is full.

Even more seriously though, California natives both more and less native than me (my father and I were both born here, before that the history gets Mexican, but that covered a lot of ground once) would be perfectly happy if the Hollywood and the tourism went away, and California's economy was based on real things — or at least virtually real things. People would still want to live here, because it would still have the best weather in the continental US. Parts of it are not great in that regard of course, but then that's because California has just about every kind of terrain but tundra. It's big.

As for residency, you don't not get taxed on anything simply because you're not a resident. California makes money on property taxes, it only ostensibly doesn't raise your property taxes dramatically unless you make significant improvements. If you want to own a lot of California, you're going to pay.

But once again, the billionaires can feel free to leave. California will make new ones, because it's rich land, and all wealth is derived from the land. But the reality is, they're not making more California. The last pieces of it which are pleasant to live in which haven't already been made stupendously expensive (on the North Coast) are being sold out now. Amazon is trying to come in at this moment. You're underestimating the value of a climate that's livable without air conditioning all year round. That's only getting scarcer.

Comment Re: Inner monologue (Score 1) 61

The funny thing was that I knew him for like six months online before I realized he was fully paralyzed. He's been covered in the Finnish press a number of times. Amazing guy. Up until recently he was living in a house he built himself before ALS struck, but the medical service decided he was too far away and he had to move closer. You lose a lot of control over your life with ALS.

He wrote a book about nuclear safety engineering recently, which is a fascinating read, and which I strongly recommend.

Comment Re:The Eagle (Score 1) 41

I suppose one could argue that you want the more dselicate computers behind the pilot, since then it has the greatest achievable shielding on all sides without having excessive distance from the flight controls and without becoming inaccessible if the pod that is loaded into the middle is not traversible. Similar reasoning is used in Formula 1 - delicate bits of the car (such as the fuel tank) are placed between the driver and the engine, to keep them as safe as possible without creating a burden. This would necessitate there being a step down to get to the pilot's chair. It's not a particularly good piece of "lore repair" but it's the best I can do.

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