"You know, data centers want to run even when it is dark."

Do they though? If we're talking about an AI data center. supplying Agents and Chat, for business use primarily, aren't the heaviest usage hours going to be during the day?

Solar power may be just the thing to supply the lions share of power when it is needed -- during daylight hours. Of course there will be some level of usage 24/7, but solar may be a better fit to provide the bulk of AI data center power than people realize.

There is no problem with cattle in Texas. Someone got all bent because the size of the herds in Texas is the lowest it's been in many years. Size as in number of cows. The size OF the cows, however, has been going up, every year, for many years. Same amount of beef being delivered: fewer cows but bigger cows.

So no actual problem.

Oh, I miss access to pseudoephedrine - that used to be my "nuclear option" for tackling my occasional acute but pretty severe allergy attacks. Take that, crash (couldn't do much else - it really knocked me out) and wake up the next morning more or less functional again.

Now it's 2-3 days of total misery, stretched out to a week of not being able to sleep well. None of the current stable of antihistamines does a damn thing for me.

It is rather expensive to run. 2x the next closest per-token, but this thing eats a lot more tokens.

Pretty sure you could burn through the quota from a $20 account in a single query if it involved a bunch of tool calls.

"The consumer is completely unprotected when using investment accounts at any and all of the stock/option/futures brokerages including Goldman Saks, Ameritrade, Merril Lynch, Fidelity, Robinhood, Wells Fargo Advisors..."

Um, no. The consumer is protected against brokerages failing to the tune of $1/2 million per customer, including up to $250,000 in cash in the account. SPIC. Look it up.

Which is TWICE the protection of FDIC, covering banks.

Yes, the market can be irrational for long periods of time. None of the QC stocks I invested in are close to making any money yet. And I invested in several, each with different approaches to making QC work. Iâ(TM)ve been working in hardware and software development for decades, and I believe that the breakthrough in QC is coming much sooner than later, based on the progress Iâ(TM)m seeing. So I put some of my money where my mouth is. By 2030, I estimate, one or more of the companies will be making money hand over fist, and Iâ(TM)ll reap the benefits. I could be wrong. Time will tell.

BSA is a sock with googley eyes glues on. Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and other software audit enthusiasts are the hand inside.

Of course they don't want Europe breaking dependency. It is like asking your dealer if you should get clean.

One strategy is, not touch any modules until they are at least, say, 72 hours old.

Until everyone else is doing that too, then you make it 168.

It is a long-standing Texas marketing campaign. I've listened to them yammering on about everyone in California moving to Texas since the 90s, when I moved to California. I'm sure they were doing it before then.

So of course they shouted from the rooftops when Oracle moved to Texas, but became remarkably coy about Oracle then moving from Texas to Tennessee. The Space Nazi also quietly moved a ton of people out after moving them there from California.

If you're actually curious and wish to align your intuition with reality, look at real numbers. You'll find the "California drain" is real - more people have been moving from California to Texas than the reverse for a while now. But California has been growing at a rate as to make that not matter. As far as their bullshit about taxes, Texas is indeed less tax-heavy on rich people, but taxes poor and middle class people significantly higher, like all southern states. And you might like the idea of their "not zoning" zoning. Unless you buy in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, in which case I hope you can find flood insurance.

For my part, I'd encourage MAGAtypes to do their part to convince more California billionaires to move to Texas. We have too many, and they're almost all snotty, whiny, annoying little shits.

Pretty sure Nvidia is working on the OS - agnostic to types of quantum bits and able to tie multiple kinds together to solve problems as a gestalt. I agree - interesting times.

I do one 'better' (hah! see what I did there.) I disagree with you and I've invested in several QC companies instead. One is down about 20% overall, one is up over 75%, and one is up over 130%. And I'm not cashing any of them in for quite a long time - I believe they will go 5-10x over time. I'm pretty sure I'll come out just fine without betting against you on Kalshi. Quit the bush leagues - get into the real Market.

But above all, they must be discrete about these allegations.

So the AI tool runs about $5K / month. $60 K / year.

Senior developer makes, say, $150 K / year. But that's just the salary itself. Add in benefits, 401K / profit sharing, Social Security and Medicare taxes (for the company), facilities, office equipment, IT infrastructure, admin support (payroll, marketing and sales, corporate overhead, etc., etc.) - that adds another 1.5 to 2 x the salary to the cost.

So now we're at $375-450 K - that's the real cost of *1* senior developer. Making him/her 10% more efficient is worth $45 K / year. 50% more efficient? 100%? for "only" $60 K more? That's a no brainer.

Given how crappy a lot of "official' upsampling and other AI slop is and other batch-processing errors, aspect ratio changes ruining editing, and IP licensing making the music vanish, pirated media is frequently simply better quality.

But their big problem is reinventing all the cable shenanigans people hate without the natural monopoly to enforce it. When you run a wire to someone's house, there's lock-in. Streaming removes that "loyalty'. Now add in all the constant media swapping that means you can't count on things staying in the catalog, and there's no reason to want to use any of them, other than convenience.

And my storage server is a lot more convenient than any offer I've seen from the streamers.

Basically it has become the business engine for their clients. All their processes run through it. To switch would be massive upheaval and expense.