That's what every country does. Al-Jazeera doesn't push content about Brazil. The BBC doesn't push content about Lithuanians. French film companies don't produce movies about Korean ex-pats living in Japan, and Japanese film companies don't produce dramas about winemaking in Bordeaux.

People can watch whatever they like. The "Made in Canada" laws are ridiculous. The CBC wanted SCTV to produce "specifically Canadian" content when it switched to that network, so they cooked up Bob and Doug McKenzie. As if a Canadian-produced TV show featuring mostly Canadian actors wasn't Canadian enough.

Microsoft doesn't care about desktops any more. They barely care about servers. There is no growth in those markets. You can run SQL Server and most of .NET on Linux now, and host the apps on Kestrel. They want you to switch everything over to Linux, then put all of that on Azure, because, even for them, Linux VMs are cheaper to run than Windows VMs.

What really matters is how much air the filter can move. Those little jobbers that sit on a table and run a fancy looking computer chassis fan are almost useless. I saw a guy on Youtube tape four big, square, pleated HEPA furnace air filters into a box shape, then tape a box fan on top of the box facing downwards. It sounds hacky, but he did the calculations on the MERV ratings of the filters and the air velocity of the box fan, and it checked out. After running for an hour in a dusty room, the filters were already pretty dirty. Ugly, but it gets the job done.

I've noticed when commenting on very well run public systems, nobody brings up huge countries. China, Russia, the US, etc... It's always fairly small countries. It might be confirmation bias on my part, but it seems like the best run organizations are generally fairly small. Small startup companies. Small or medium-sized cities. Or, at a national scale, small countries. It seems the answer to bad management is to keep things as small as possible.

But what does that have to do with Disneyland, which is in California?

You put ALL of your data on one cloud provider with no local backup? Loosing that data is YOUR fault. It's a few thousand dollars for a half dozen hard drives to store 50TB. Or heck, 50 100GB M-DISC Blu-Rays for less than that. That's what the Disney Imagineering sound department does - M-DISC backup, live copy on file servers, then secondary cloud backup.

It always sounds like a lot of money to the bean counters until you explain to them the station probably spent tens of millions of dollars producing that content, and all it takes is a corporate meltdown or technical SNAFU and all of it is gone.

I solved this problem a long time ago by never using Reddit. After Digg killed themselves, the downward slide came quickly.

1. Trees absorb CO2 2. Cut trees down and turn them into paper 3. Use paper, throw away, put into ground 4. Grow more trees that absorb more CO2 When paper decomposes in landfills, it does produce CO2 and methane. The methane can be processed into natural gas and used, while the overall amount of CO2 and methane produced, per unit of mass, is much less than what is left as biomass.

"When an institution sends a letter formatted with a proprietary font, embedded in a proprietary format, produced by proprietary software, it is not communicating information but perpetuating a dependency."

This problem has been solved. PDF. I've never received a letter, or any correspondence from a company, institution, or school formatted as a Word or Excel document, and I don't know why anyone would send one in any other format.

80% of the current TOP500 supercomputer systems used nVIdia GPGPUs. Worst case scenario, nVidia sells cheap upgrades to existing supercomputer systems. There is demand for these things in a lot of sectors besides AI. Video/3D rendering acceleration, finite element analysis, fluid dynamics, etc... There's actually pent-up demand for these things because they are being diverted for AI.

You are making the classic mistake that, because a lot of people are investing in AI, there is nothing else worth investing in. There are plenty of sectors worth investing in, everyone is dumping money in AI because you can make a fortune on the stocks.

For instance, self driving cars will be a huge market. Several promising startups failed or reorganized because funding dried up, as investors shift their money into LLM based AI tech, which doesn't help self-driving cars at all.

Think about it this way. If AI goes away, will nVidia fail? Even before the huge demand from AI, they were the most successful graphics company. They use their GPGPUs in supercomputers. They are the go-to for gaming.

The other factor is AI isn't going away. The AI bubble burst will be like the .COM bubble burst in 2000. A lot of startups will go under. Most established companies will take a licking, but will be fine (Oracle is in a LOT of verticals) AI will still be around.

The thing is, it used to be better. I don't know what changed.

It's transcription is hit-or-miss with me. It either nails it or gets one thing bafflingly wrong.

The thing I use it for the most, playing music through CarPlay, is almost worthless. It used to get everything right, even with weird track names in French or German. Now it barely gets English bands or song titles correct. 40% of the time it will play the wrong thing, 40% it will play any random song, and 20% of the time it will get it right. It went through a stretch last year where it couldn't find any song in my library, and asked if I would like to buy it.

The creator also made the Jack Ryan TV series which, aside from the titular character working for the CIA, has absolutely nothing to do with Tom Clancy's character. They turned him into Jason Bourne. Looking at his other productions, it isn't boding well.

I stopped listening to TWiT not too long after they kicked Dvorak off. I think Leo didn't like him arguing about stuff. After he left, Leo would bring up a news item, the guests would say "Yeah that's cool" and they'd move on.

Not everything has to be drama-filled nonsense, but maybe a different perspective or two would be nice.

He got his start writing a wine column, but his editors noticed he was using a computer to do it, and put him on the fledgling computer beat in San Francisco. He has killer stories. Calling up Microsoft for information on a story at 9PM on a Friday and having Bill Gates answer the phone. Competing industry parties on mega-yachts. Producers at CNET-TV, before TechTV/G4TV, having no idea what they were doing. He'll be missed.