I've found that responding to political text message spam with "FUCK OFF!" will get "you have been removed from thiis list" response. And even if it doesn't work, it makes me feel better that I have expressed my opinion.

Apple et all stopped including charger, cable, headphones etc because it's tremendous amount of ewaste. I already have cables, charges, headphones. I don't need crappy earbuds, if i need them i will buy them. I think the EU explicitly banned pack in power adapter and cables like ~10 years ago? There's already probably 25 USB adapters on the planet for every man woman and child

As long as I know how fast I'm going and how much fuel I have left, what do I care about engine speed and oil pressure and coolant temperature, and so on? I don't need to monitor all of the minutiae of my engine's operating point while I am driving. That is handled by the FADEC. The FADEC will tell me when and if there is a problem. I do not need to monitor these things myself. This emotional attachment to the past is just that, an emotional attachment.

Why the fuck would you embrace pain that you can easily avoid? Jesus.

Because we have to believe there will be a future. And currently our kids are not sure there will be. And I don't blame them. I felt the same way in the 1980s about nuclear brinkmanship. The difference, unfortunately was Reagan and Gorbachev got their shit together and hammered out a plan that everyone agreed was a good idea. I see no evidence of anything like that happening with climate change.

The thing is, its not THAT painful to make the changes. We know we can sort the energy bit with a combination of solar, wind, and with a bit of planning nuclear. We can transition to electric vehicles. We can reduce our carbon to essential plastics, chemicals, and food production. Theres things we CAN do but aren't. It won't save us from that 1.8c, thats a bigger more complicated project. But not making shit worse, thats entirely doable.

(Keeping in mind theres a 20-ish year lag on CO2. We're really currently doing 1990s carbon right now.)

I'm surprised. ... Who on earth gives a flying f*ck about a new line of obsolete-on-arrival IoT audio trash by Sonos? Any fans here that care to enlighten me?
 

We're living in a crazy world.

The press release says Blue Origin "will design, develop, integrate, launch, and operate the network". Who actually owns it, though? For $700 million, I certainly hope it is the U.S. taxpayer. I'd contrast it to NASA's Deep Space Network, which is infrastructure with unique capabilities that is owned by NASA and operated by JPL. (JPL is, in turn, operated by CalTech, but is so enmeshed with NASA it's hard to see as a separate entity.)

There are lots of businesses that are inexplicably still around.

Steak n Shake
Friendlys
Giordano's
Hooters
Many more

I saw an interesting proposal from a film industry guy today proposing that laws ought be put into place specifically denying copyright protection to AI shit. While currently its not available mostly, there are loopholes that can be exploited to get around that lack of protection.

Its an "everyone wins" scenario too. AI companies can do their nonsense. Researchers can research. You can even make AI imagery and texts as before. But it forces companies to hire people to actually create IP, so it also protects workers.

The only people that would lose out are those who plot to enrich themselves by stealing art. But as a society we've always been comfortable denying criminals the proceeds of crime. So theres no moral patient to worry about in that respect.

Because there's no return on the copper you are digging up tens of thousands of miles of cable for?

Do you have any information showing what the ROI would be on recovering all this unused cable, negative or positive? Neither does anyone else. So stop assuming.

Because we don't already have that?

I own it, it's just the 25 years of hosting i bought for $12 a year at the turn off the century finally ran out

Generally people keep their solar installs for at least one year, rather than replacing your panels, wiring, controllers and batteries each year, attempt to get two or more years out of them. This should help keep your cost basis down as inflation causes prices to increase

Apple is a corporation with literally hundreds of billions of dollars in their warchest. That makes them independent enough to tell shareholders that we're not bending to illegal bullshit from a president who refuses to stay in his legal lane.

Nobody is buying your excuses, or reading anything past that first sentence where you seem to not understand that Apple has far more resources to bring to bear than Harvard, but none of the actual courage or fortitude to stand up for what's right.

I know I would love to get a Mac Studio for doing LLM work. I'm shoehorning a model into my M4 MacBook Pro and getting tons done, but I have to reboot it every day in order to clear memory fragmentation because I'm running right at the edge - 92% of GPU memory in use. After a while, things start to creep into swap.

It would be awesome to have 128GB or more available unified RAM so I can use a bigger model, but the 35B mix-of-experts I'm running now is quite capable, it's just slow because my employer didn't understand the value of M4 Max versus M4 Pro.