Pope jumping in on the AI policy debate about a decade before it's going to become relevant. I'm pretty skeptical whatever is written in there will be super applicable in 10 or even 30 years, but it's now part of the historical record for all time.

Not if you have solar installed.

So California just provided all big companies a hugh incentive to move all their jobs to a different state before starting their layoffs?

Yep. Meta Reality Labs, Meta's metaverse division, has been losing billions ever since they bought Oculus and renamed the company Meta to indicate they were now a metaverse company... right before Zuck decided they were an AI company. What will Facebook be focusing on tomorrow? Which way is the wind blowing?

Startups are FUN! I remember my first job, crawling though an attic to run our own RS-232 cables between the VAX and our dumb terminals in our private offices. Good times! Also made one of my dumbest ever moves at that job, i.e. looped one of the highest priority communication tasks, which required making the walk of shame to the server room to reboot the machine that a dozen other people were working on.

That post was DEFINITELY produced by AI!

Washington state law requires a 60 advance notice of layoffs. Quite frankly, I don't understand why so many tech giants are still operating in Washington state.

I just applied to Amazon. Half of their coding test is now "Write code using our AI assistant to help you". So... I never bothered completing the coding test. I just quit Meta when my job became training the Meta AI to do what I do.

500 panels per 1000 m^2 is pretty achievable, accounting for whatever roof penetrations and facilities that need to be there. Some of those buildings are outright colossal. Plus, nobody is saying the data centers needs to be completely powered by solar.
Here's the thing: the lions share of power consumption on the grid traditionally comes from cooling. Most cooling needs, outside of the context of data centers, coincides with the sunniest, highest production times for solar panels. There is a great synergy to take advantage of here. It might be that a such a data center / solar farm farm actually produces net power for a portion of the day, covering for residential use or car charging etc. but is a net consumer off peak hours, when it's more efficient to use other means to supply power when most other consumers aren't using as much. Net effect is better grid utilization and reduced costs all around.

Spotify, UMG To Let Fans Make Other Peoples' Music Their Own Music With AI

Honestly, that seem like the least important part of the egg. Couldn't you just throw all the other stuff in a cardbox box? I understand that the shell needs to "breathe", but still...

There's very little difference between and Xbox and a Windows PC these days. They are both running Windows. The Xbox just has an UI better suited to controllers. That's actually not a bad strategy, because it make it easier to write games that work on both.

What I want is to be able to control my home automation without the commands going round trip to a server in the cloud and back, so that everything still works if the 'net goes out. Will this box help me get to that goal? I understand a lot of programming may be required.

Ionic 6 is nice, but they are still $30k used, and they support limited V2L, not V2H. Great for camping, so no great for backing up your whole house. That being said, the only things that need to run 24/7 at my house are the fridge, they well pump, and a few light bulbs. My internet comes from the electric company, so I expect my internet will be out any time the power is out. I have a wood-burning fireplace if I need help, and being on a windy coast, openning the windows usually provides adequate cooling.

Can the jury at least decide which one of them has a more punchable face? I know that's a pretty tough question...