Humans have an annoying habit of unionizing or, if unable to collectively organize, getting frustrated enough to inflict damage or just not be motivated to work, or if somehow that's not allowed, starving to death because they have no other way to correct the imbalance of there being a small number of employers compared to the huge number of employees.

"New York's GDP per capita is higher than Californias, so if they were the same sized state with the same population they would outperform California."

Wat

Rent free

Yeah, that is ALWAYS wrong, PERIOD, because the government is inducing profit for someone at your expense. Literally everything you are required to pay for should be provided at cost.

They don't do it when I walk into a bus

They are evil, not necessarily incompetent. They make more by shafting customers than by serving them, and they buy laws which let them do that.

A traditional UPS comes in two variants, UPS and SPS, U = uninterruptible and S = standby. But anything which can supply backup power is arguably a UPS and that includes solar power systems and the like. These days it is common for them to be grid tying. And it's now common for grid tied inverters to have a boost mode, where they will compensate for voltage sags by supplying synchronized power. Therefore the functionality is absolutely available, though what exactly the hardware is called may vary.

He doesn't know shit except how to abuse customers and employees. He could definitely fall for someone telling him it's possible. It's fundamentally a stupid idea, because the brain is not a computer and doesn't execute instructions like one, and therefore doesn't have any such thing as a core algorithm. The closest thing it has to that is physics.

It's one thing to retain all of the video forever. It's another thing to analyze the video and store notes about what occurred forever, and store any interesting video forever. They can be and probably are doing both things because it would be valuable AI training data.

FTFS:

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If it took three months to figure out it was a Waymo, they weren't working on that case for most of that time. Perhaps they were working other cases, but not doing some quick preliminary work when new cases come in to see if they can be moved forward is fucking up by definition.

It's more likely to get sent to the nearest news outlet by the other side. Literally.

Well, this is going to depend a whole lot on how you define workstation.

There have been multiprocessor PCs going back at least to 486s. SunOS 4 for x86 (which has been a thing for a lot of years) and SCO Unix would both run on a machine with 8x 486DX processors. That was pretty much intended as a server so far as I know, though.

A Sun SS10 (1992) has 2x SBus slots, each of which can be loaded with a 2x hyperSPARC module, available at up to 200 MHz. We had a SS10 and SS20 at Silicon Engineering called seismic and something else starting with sei (we had seine and seidel and seizure and so on, back then on pretty much any UNIX system you could grep the words file) and the SS10 had dual-dual 85 MHz modules, the SS20 dual-dual 125 MHz. Those speeds might be estimates. These machines were both workstations and servers; we used DQS to distribute Verilog and similar jobs to machines with lots of CPU. But people sat at those machines at the same time.

There were also definitely dual Pentium Pro boards from pretty early on, but that was too rich for my blood. I thought about doing a dual celery when that came around, but then Athlon came out and solved my need for more CPU without more Intel.

> No idea why Sanders thinks this is a good idea though.

Because most people don't understand what genAI is, and just think it's an amazing new technology that allows you to outsource thinking tasks to a computer. They're unaware of the limitations, they barely understand the energy impact, and Sanders is one of the majority there. Sanders has the added disadvantage that unlike you or I who have been given the chance to evaluate it, Sanders view on it is almost certainly 99% the result of lobbyists directly or, more likely, indirectly - think about the news articles he reads, and how the NYT and Post and rest of the media have been taking Altman more or less at face value without ever actually questioning whether the entire thing might be anything other than fraud and psychology designed to hide the fraud.

> Better tell that to Blacksky, Eurosky, etc.

I don't need to. BlackSky has already found out the hard way, when some of its members were banned from the entire atmosphere by BlueSky.

> The vast majority of people stay on the primary PDS, relay, etc namely because Bluesky hasn't proven itself to be some evil overlord pursuing insidious goals. If that were to ever occur, people would just migrate.

Yes, because that happened. Who can forget how when Facebook abused its power multiple times how it lost almost all of its... yeah, I don't need to finish this point, do I?

People stay on Bluesky because of inertia and a lack of information about what it is doing. Banning users from other social networks is something apparently you didn't hear about. So maybe lack of information is why you haven't moved?

> Unlike with ActivityPub (Mastodon), ATProto allows for true migration. Your content isn't tied and linked to a specific server - it's more like a URL on an arbitrary domain, and you can just change the "domain" (the PDS). Everything is timestamped and cryptographically signed, so if you download a backup of your content, you can just reupload it somewhere else and it continues to remain linked into the whole ecosystem.

Amazing what features a system that's designed to look uncentralized but isn't actually has, right?

> Also, re: this from the header:

>> " and by the end of October last year, it had reportedly seen a 40% drop in daily mobile active users over the past 12 months."

> ... is cherry picking

I believe I have to actually write the quote in the first place in order to have "cherry picked" it.

Are you sure you're not an AI Rei? Because you've just hallucinated an entire quote, and you've spent most of the time just repeating talking points about, well, it was Tesla, now it's apparently ATproto you're shilling for. I've also seen you reply over and over again to people without addressing anything they were saying and then act confused when you told them that.

Lay off the genAI maybe? It's not a good look.

The same people can be right and wrong, because there's a lot of different aspects to most situations.