Oh, and a "train" is a bit like 100 cars back to back.

Kerberos implementations often used MD5 in the early days. It was only earlier this year that Microsoft deprecated using MD5 for password hash storage for various parts of Active Directory because a lot of legacy equipment still used the old protocol.

It's not an easy transition since legacy equipment might only implement MD5, and updating passwords from MD5 requires the user to change their password

The problem is, the tariffs weren't always paid by consumers.

About 50% of the tariffs collected were absorbed by suppliers cutting their prices - are you saying those suppliers should be repaid? Or that they should jack up the prices they now charge customers to make up for the losses they incurred?

About 25% were absorbed by the business themselves - they were not passed on.

The remaining 25% were passed on.

Now, it's likely easy if it was a product manufactured in China and sold as is, but if it's a more complex supply chain - say, raw steel from Canada, imported into the US (tariffs), then made into products down the line it gets more complex - the importer paid tariffs, then they need to rebate people down the line and by the time it gets to you, who knows how the price was affected - someone might have absorbed the price increase, someone else jacked it up because "tariffs" to make more profit, etc.

Now take it as a car part - raw steel from Canada, cast in Canada, machined into parts in the US, assembled into an engine in Canada, and put into a vehicle made in the US. It crosses the border multiple times, incurred tariffs and reciprocal tariffs And now things are twisted so tightly a forensic accountant will take years to untangle the effect.

In the end, just like the whole trade disruption, it's a huge mess. Lots of price jumps were due to people simply blaming tariffs as an excuse to raise prices rather than tariffs themselves. Others choose to absorb the increased cost at lowered margins.

Jeff Bezos wanted to show how much tariffs would add to the price. We thought he chickened out due to Trump - but maybe it was also because refunds are going to be much more opaque - if people knew they spent $100 on tariffs in total, that becomes a paper trail where they would want that $100 back.

"this belief is utterly false. To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the recent Hobby Lobby case: 'Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...

"We ... show that [the Shareholder Primacy Norm] is not a legal requirement, at least under the guise of shareholder value maximization. This is in contrast to the common assertion that managers are legally constrained from addressing corporate social responsibility issues if doing so would be inconsistent with the economic interests of shareholders."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p...

Or maybe that's with projections? They have been in the game for decades, so they know what the expected sales are and they know given the first quarter results, what the second quarter results might be.

Sure there's a chance they're wrong and suddenly a bunch of unexpected orders are going to come in late may or june, but given their current sales funnel it's likely only 5 million for the first half.

Knowing the sales funnel and knowing how the market has behaved in the past helps plan out the supply chain which needs to be prepped months in advance. It's likely the middle of the year will be slow so unless there's a sudden run on motherboards, they're predicting a pretty light summer.

Huh, haven't seen a change in my Pro subscription. Though I hit the weekly model limit -- if that's not changing then it's not really a big deal.

That consumer connection is going to be a problem.

The whole point of AI datacenters is because you have these massive racks of AI servers and they need the ability to talk to one another really quickly. It's not just a server you can have in a homelab, it's 42U of GPUs as part of Nvidia's next-generation compute rack. And they need to talk to other such units quickly because you're going to be using dozens of racks in the training process.

And home consumer power is there because while the home will rarely use it all at once, they will be peaks. If you have 200A coming in, you add up all your breakers and you'll probably have 600A worth of loads. But some loads aren't used at the same time - your dryer might be 50A and your AC 40A, but they rarely go at the same time. Same with the stove which has a 40A plug. It's only becoming an issue because the next big load people are having are EVs and now people are starting to need some sort of power scheduling - usually in the form of a switch between the dryer and EV charger. (This is an issue because 200A is the practical maximum for the residential infrastructure - it's the highest you can get with a direct-measurement electric meter without having to upgrade to a whole new panel involving CTs to remotely measure current).

But it all works because even though we can draw 200A max, very few are doing it all the time, and with the exception of AC and stoves, most loads are run at random times so it even outs. Though even with AC there are plans on scheduling them so they don't all kick in at once - if you can have compressors going on in sequence or in a controlled manner, you can steady the load a bit.

That was a quote pasted directly from the Psychology Today article linked, but a quick google shows you're right, no support for that statement. Possibly the phrase "usage rules" (PT's phrase, not mine) meant recommended practice (at the time the article was written) and is not legally binding.

Am I the only one that can't imagine any possible value an AI assistant would bring to a game? Unless you could use it as an aimbot...

Well, it would be if you were achievement hunting or trying to find something - you could use the AI as a way to get to that hidden chest or whatever. It could either guide you, or see you're struggling and actually provide an assist.

Could be useful if you're trying to 100% a game, or get something rare and hard to find.

Not that you couldn't Google it yourself on a phone or something, but maybe there's a higher level of integration. The original Xbox One had a side view type thing where you could watch a video on how to locate some hidden treasure, so I guess this was an expansion on that now-removed feature.

You know, research has shown that from a political perspective, a large majority of people, liberal or conservative, share the same exact values

That's true. The whole left-vs-right deal was really cooked up by billionaires who know if that the proles are fighting each other, they're not ganging up to go after them.

That's the whole point - if we're fighting each other on silly things, we would be too busy to realize the real enemy which are the elite trying to hog all the money. The energy used to deny a person of different skin color access to school is energy not used to try to extract money from the billionaires.

Wave power is generating electrical power from energy that's already present in the ocean. If you don't use it to generate electrical power, it will eventually turn into heat from damping anyway.

> Am I the only one that can't imagine any possible value an AI assistant would bring to a game?

I use AI assistants lots when playing games!

At the moment it's Minecraft. I want to figure how to build something, e.g. a golem farm. I look for tutorials online but (1) they're all videos which I hate watching, (2) they're all hyper-specific and concrete, "place this block here then that block there", but what I want to understand are the foundational principles so I can know how to adapt the golem farm to my own purposes -- what are the mechanics, how do they spawn, how does water flow, what is the SOLUTION SPACE of possibilities.

Gemini AI has been really good at this kind of thing.

The other time is when I get stuck, or want advice on how to make a character build to achieve a certain end. Once again the online advice is typically in the form of "walkthroughs", do step 1 then step 2 then step 3, in other words just one possible way to play the game, and it's too easy to accidentally read too far and spoil the rest of it. I don't want that. I like the feeling of openness and possibilities. I again ask Gemini, and it gives me advice on just the particular bit I'm stuck on, and is better at showing for me the available options.

Ketamine is a Schedule III controlled substance: having accepted medical benefits but abuse potential. Usage rules mandate that the drug cannot be taken at home. Patients are observed at least two hours after receiving the agent and typically receive psychotherapy and other treatments for depression.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

Quoting Gerard Sanacora, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Yale Depression Research Program and Co-Director of Yale’s interventional psychiatry program: “Large amounts of data suggest that your ability to make rational, correct decisions is completely disrupted when you take ketamine, as long as it’s in your system... People can hear things, see things, feel things differently. The physiological and psychological reasons are the main reasons the FDA declared Spravato [Ketamine] safe only in a health care facility under supervision.”

Makes sense, Gamestop became a weird used goods store a while ago.

Yes, it's the albedo, and also yes, too small to have a significant effect compared to the main driver, the greenhouse effect..
The summary actually states this:

If the latest estimates are right, Shindell said, microplastics might not be an enormous source of atmospheric warming, compared with massive contributors such as cars and trucks, belching industrial plants or even burping cows.

But then undercuts that with

"But not a trivial one, either," he said.

Spoiler: yes, it's trivial.