How long before they realize humans just aren't needed.

Everybody loves a discount. I just marvel at furniture ads where they are slashing prices 70%. Like I believe they are losing money with 70% off. I feel sorry for the schlup that paid full price. Gouged or even gored might be more appropriate.

When I worked for IBM straight out of school(82), during orientation a sales guy was giving a talk about how ibm could charge 3X for the same item just because no one was ever fired for buying ibm. Eventually people did stop buying and ibm hardware is a shadow of its former self. And that sales guy was giving the talk with his fly down. ibm used to also mention they had never done a layoff. Internally people joked about being retired they did so little and knew they would not be fired.

We may discover just how weak microsofts software is. I imagine Iran is looking for weak points to get some revenge.

I can't remember it and can't find it but I thought in the 70's or 80's Lockheed had an L1011 that could taxi, takeoff, fly, land and taxi back. The demo I recall included the captain sitting with the passengers during the flight. It was just a demo and never was adopted probably for a multitude of reasons. The main one I heard was just no one is going to be willing to fly on a pilotless plane. My main point though is if they could do it in the 70's, it should be very possible now.

So curious, would you consider xai small or large? Because they were so anxious to put their memphis operation they did install their own gen's to supplement the 50mw limit memphis could provide. Some quotes,

" And Garcia, at the SELC, says that while xAI waits for more power to become available, they’ve turned to non-legal measures to sate their demand, by installing gas combustion turbines on the site that they are operating without a permit. Garcia says the SELC has observed the installation of 18 such turbines, which have the capacity to emit 130 tons of harmful nitrogen oxides per year. "

"For instance, there’s a major divide between how much electricity xAI wants to use, and how much MLGW can provide. In August, the utility company said that xAI would have access to 50 megawatts of power. But xAI wants to use triple that amount—which, for comparison, is enough energy to power 80,000 households",

"Data centers use water to cool their computers and stop them from overheating. So far xAI has drawn 30,000 gallons from the Memphis Sand Aquifer, the region’s drinking water supply, every day since beginning its initial operations, according to MLGW"

Quotes from, https://time.com/7021709/elon-...

You are deluding yourself if you don't think the big guys are slurping energy/water at enormous rates.

The things you mention that serves these people are stuff like netflix and utube. These services were provided before at smaller DC's.

From the article, "Ten years ago, a 30-megawatt data center was considered large, according to an analysis from McKinsey & Company. Today, facilities using 200 megawatts or more are becoming common, driven by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence."

So it appears as if those services would still be possible by existing/new DC's that are of similar size. What seems to be forbidden is new AI DC's, which I doubt would serve the needs of citizens of the rural areas.

Lastly you almost know the BS is deep from the DC's are wonderful crowd. Also from the article

"A 2025 report from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce projected data centers would support 132,500 jobs and add $20 billion to Ohio’s economy by 2030."

That is just beyond bullshit. At around 500 jobs tops for a DC, that is around 300 DC's. At 500MW for a supersized DC they seem to want to build nowadays, comes out to 150GW of juice needed. For reference, today the entire state of TX will be burning around 50GW at peak.

Like I said, gambling. And states are noticing and not liking it. Note AZ just filed criminal charges. https://finance.yahoo.com/news... May go nowhere, but they are noticing and given the likability factor for the polymarkets, I expect them to be killed.

It is gambling. I'm thinking if the IRS doesn't already, they are going to want an SS tied to the account. They already are pushing towards any crypto gains, and the real casinos do rat you out on a big win to the IRS.

Maybe they could just turn over to interpol the identities of every last one that made a bet on this. Then the table will turn and whoever is threatening the poor journalist will be the one threatened. And really don't care about the collateral damage to the ones not harassing the guy. Just making the bet says you deserve some harassment.

Agree, the pio/pocos are awesome. I've only got two things I'd like to see in the PIO's in my perfect world. The jmp pin allow more than one pin to key off of. Impossible of course, no bits left in the instruction for it. And second a command to set an async jmp on pin. IE branch to label X if pin goes high/low anytime. I find if I use the pico as a slave spi device, noise can sometimes mean a clock is lost and it may mean a second sample is lost as I recover. If the pio could detect CS going high and abort the transaction, would be nice. Again, in my perfect world. Lastly, in my perfect world, re-allocate the silicon for the hardware spi to another pio. The pio's do spi better than the spi.

I find the pico2 in particular an insane value. Less the a starbuck's coffee and packed with processing at very little power. I think I measured less than 40ma at full tilt. And boot times are practically instant.

He is not wrong to care about oil prices. For most here, I expect gas prices are just not budget busters. His followers though on the lower end of the income scale care a great deal. I grew up fairly poor and so am ingrained to notice gas prices. I've friends that can't even tell you the price. So gas prices going up forebode a very bad midterm for him, and he knows it. It is why he is willing to literally bet the country on playing the futures market for oil in an attempt to push down prices, and why he tapped the strategic reserves so early. Recall how he bitched about Biden doing exactly the same thing. Reserves after this tap will be at their lowest point since the early 80's, when they were created.

Really I am beginning to believe he has just gone mad with power. VZ, Iran and now Cuba on the radar. Not to mention the Greenland thing, the Canada thing, ... These are the actions of a madman.

Well the fcc has already gone after mainstream media for reporting on some refueling jets being hit over SA I guess today or last night. Trump is calling it false, but I imagine it DID happen. The D's gave fox a pass while they were in office. Trump is not giving everyone else any room while he is the diktator. Kimmel and other late night hosts who are not even bound by "news" requirements have been hit by the don already. CBS particularly with their desire for that merger bent the knee way down.

The latest thing I've heard though is very concerning. Rumors are starting that the white house may start playing in the oil futures market to try to push down prices using treasury money. As a few have postulated, the oil futures market is absolutely huge, and big enough to hit the US Treasury if they do a bad bet. All because the orange one somehow thought Iran was going to be easy. Stupid, absolutely stupid. And guess who is gonna get the bill, you and me.

Side effect from the LNG hit. Clever method, I knew Nat Gas had helium in it and I guess they cool it a bit more to get helium separated out during the cooling of the nat gas to go liquid. US still in the LNG biz, so I imagine they are also doing a helium extraction. As slashbotagent says, prices about to sky rocket. Great, another memory price increase incoming.

Thanks for mentioning that. Here is a reference explaining it. https://www.afpm.org/newsroom/...