I didn't say whether I thought it was a huge problem. I just said it was a problem, and identified the largest contributor to that problem. But really, what point are you trying to make? I don't need to think that…
More than 2/3 of all active satellites are part of the SpaceX/Starlink constellation, and it's a full 3/4 of those in LEO, which are the biggest contributor to the glints we can see in the night sky. They're such an…
I didn't ignore that. That solidly fits under "completely predictable colossal failure". But the next 50 years of funding they received came from money we spent prior to us leaving. Certainly we could have done a better…
The Afghanistan exit was a completely predictable colossal failure, but it did mean we stopped lighting money on fire in Afghanistan.
The US in general, and this administration in particular, has bought into US exceptionalism and action movie tropes. Just gotta blow up the death star with the leader on board and then the war is over. In reality…
Part of why I like "tech debt" as a term. Much like actual financial debts, some tech debt has a low enough interest rate or is easy enough to declare bankruptcy on that it's not worth paying off.
What about the people receiving traffic that fraudulently looks like it's coming from a different location?
But the revenue is coming out of the same org. That $5bn revenue only exists because of the $4.85bn expense. That money doesn't exist to put into bonds unless it's coming out of the games org. They can only make their…
Those will be cheaper and/or more powerful. If that's all you care about, then the Steam Machine probably isn't worth the price or wait. But they'll also be bigger, louder, probably not support HDMI-CEC, may or may not…
You, via your electeds, (in theory) have more power over a datacenter in your own jurisdiction than not. Though that does depend a lot on your electeds not being in the pocket of the datacenter's owners, and on the…
CEC support was added in to the Dock in May 2024 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200?emclan=10358... Bluetooth wake made available for LCD Decks in September 2025 (it was already available in OLED models)…
Both Google and Amazon know a great deal about me and my purchasing habits. Neither shows me ads that feel very relevant.
The Steam Deck itself doesn't have an HDMI port, but the official dock does, and that does support HDMI-CEC (support was added to SteamOS a couple years ago). The Steam Deck also does support controller wake from sleep…
I don't mean it in a "super bowl commercial" way; the products in Instagram ads are the consistently interesting part. It seems like a safe assumption that the advertisers for plenty of uninteresting products are trying…
You can't build a machine which is as powerful, small, quiet, and cheap, nor can you take for granted that a machine you build can have a controller that can wake it from sleep, or which has HDMI-CEC (both are possible,…
Instagram ads are the most consistently interesting ads I see online, and by an enormous margin. Ads suck, and I resent that their inherent purpose is to manipulate me, but they accomplish their goal better than any…
There's a lot of capital that stands to gain from banning local AI, but there's also a lot that wins either way, or only wins if local AI sticks around. Apple is paying for their cloud AI, but they can make customers…
I worked at a car company. It's not arrogance, it's greed. They do want their own proprietary infotainment to be good, but it's more that they don't want to abdicate control, both out of a possessive feeling over what…
> What I'd like to see is Congress be entirely unable to draw a paycheck while the government is shutdown Rich congresspeople already don't need their paycheck. I want more people in congress who need their paycheck,…
> term limits for congress Then the most knowledgeable and experienced people in the room are lobbyists. And at its root, lobbying is just "asking congress for things".
Yeah, annual heat deaths in Europe (about 70k) exceed annual gun deaths in the US (about 44k) in absolute numbers. They're slightly under US gun deaths if you adjust for population (about 13 per 100k gun deaths in the…
I wonder if it's still a good thing to have taken the picture. There's something to be said for pausing and having the conscious thought "this is a nice moment". (though of course, moderation in all things)
We can hold differing opinions about whether state sanctioned threats of deadly force are whimsical, but that is unarguably what being pulled over is.
Being pulled over is a command under threat of violence, by an agent of the state empowered to use deadly force, who is mostly insulated from the consequences of poor judgement or abuses of power. Being pulled over by…
Leaving aside that Canada is huge, waste is really just not that much of a problem. It would be easy to safely store all the waste that will ever be produced at a dedicated storage site, if you could drum up the…
I didn't say whether I thought it was a huge problem. I just said it was a problem, and identified the largest contributor to that problem. But really, what point are you trying to make? I don't need to think that…
More than 2/3 of all active satellites are part of the SpaceX/Starlink constellation, and it's a full 3/4 of those in LEO, which are the biggest contributor to the glints we can see in the night sky. They're such an…
I didn't ignore that. That solidly fits under "completely predictable colossal failure". But the next 50 years of funding they received came from money we spent prior to us leaving. Certainly we could have done a better…
The Afghanistan exit was a completely predictable colossal failure, but it did mean we stopped lighting money on fire in Afghanistan.
The US in general, and this administration in particular, has bought into US exceptionalism and action movie tropes. Just gotta blow up the death star with the leader on board and then the war is over. In reality…
Part of why I like "tech debt" as a term. Much like actual financial debts, some tech debt has a low enough interest rate or is easy enough to declare bankruptcy on that it's not worth paying off.
What about the people receiving traffic that fraudulently looks like it's coming from a different location?
But the revenue is coming out of the same org. That $5bn revenue only exists because of the $4.85bn expense. That money doesn't exist to put into bonds unless it's coming out of the games org. They can only make their…
Those will be cheaper and/or more powerful. If that's all you care about, then the Steam Machine probably isn't worth the price or wait. But they'll also be bigger, louder, probably not support HDMI-CEC, may or may not…
You, via your electeds, (in theory) have more power over a datacenter in your own jurisdiction than not. Though that does depend a lot on your electeds not being in the pocket of the datacenter's owners, and on the…
CEC support was added in to the Dock in May 2024 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200?emclan=10358... Bluetooth wake made available for LCD Decks in September 2025 (it was already available in OLED models)…
Both Google and Amazon know a great deal about me and my purchasing habits. Neither shows me ads that feel very relevant.
The Steam Deck itself doesn't have an HDMI port, but the official dock does, and that does support HDMI-CEC (support was added to SteamOS a couple years ago). The Steam Deck also does support controller wake from sleep…
I don't mean it in a "super bowl commercial" way; the products in Instagram ads are the consistently interesting part. It seems like a safe assumption that the advertisers for plenty of uninteresting products are trying…
You can't build a machine which is as powerful, small, quiet, and cheap, nor can you take for granted that a machine you build can have a controller that can wake it from sleep, or which has HDMI-CEC (both are possible,…
Instagram ads are the most consistently interesting ads I see online, and by an enormous margin. Ads suck, and I resent that their inherent purpose is to manipulate me, but they accomplish their goal better than any…
There's a lot of capital that stands to gain from banning local AI, but there's also a lot that wins either way, or only wins if local AI sticks around. Apple is paying for their cloud AI, but they can make customers…
I worked at a car company. It's not arrogance, it's greed. They do want their own proprietary infotainment to be good, but it's more that they don't want to abdicate control, both out of a possessive feeling over what…
> What I'd like to see is Congress be entirely unable to draw a paycheck while the government is shutdown Rich congresspeople already don't need their paycheck. I want more people in congress who need their paycheck,…
> term limits for congress Then the most knowledgeable and experienced people in the room are lobbyists. And at its root, lobbying is just "asking congress for things".
Yeah, annual heat deaths in Europe (about 70k) exceed annual gun deaths in the US (about 44k) in absolute numbers. They're slightly under US gun deaths if you adjust for population (about 13 per 100k gun deaths in the…
I wonder if it's still a good thing to have taken the picture. There's something to be said for pausing and having the conscious thought "this is a nice moment". (though of course, moderation in all things)
We can hold differing opinions about whether state sanctioned threats of deadly force are whimsical, but that is unarguably what being pulled over is.
Being pulled over is a command under threat of violence, by an agent of the state empowered to use deadly force, who is mostly insulated from the consequences of poor judgement or abuses of power. Being pulled over by…
Leaving aside that Canada is huge, waste is really just not that much of a problem. It would be easy to safely store all the waste that will ever be produced at a dedicated storage site, if you could drum up the…