Last part that I need is for SSDs to come down in price to where ~80TB isn’t too ridiculous (that’s 40TB usable space with RAID1). Cut the price per TB in half two more times to make it there. Otherwise, spinning platters are the bottleneck with my 10Gb network.

Which probably would have happened in the next few years if not for tariffs.

They’re apparently in talks to sell off their network division. Future there is really up in the air.

A lot of those modules would work fine if the companies didn’t fuck with their drivers.

The Linux ixgbe driver (for Intel 82598 and 82599 chipsets) was submitted with a whitelist for Intel SFP+ adapters. Linux devs added a module option to shut off the whitelist, and tons of stuff is perfectly compatible.

Historically, this has been an easy sell. If the US gets nuked, Canada is just as fucked. Canada was happy to host US early warning radar throughout the Cold War.

The fact that it’s not an easy sell now highlights how bad Trump is at everything. You never needed The Art of the Deal to set this up in the past.

This is (theoretically) a programmer forum. I use the programmer definition. By that definition, not having an algorithm is nonsense.

Yeah, I don’t like that one, either.

I also hate the way “algorithm” has taken over the public consciousness. You can find people unironically saying “I don’t want any algorithm in my social media feed”, which is a nonsensical statement.

Yup, it is. You think it’s gross. Then don’t seek it out.

Best I can do is make the blade rusty and blunt.

Yes, it did. Most of the basic research came from there. The first section of the book “Hackers” by Steven Levy is a good intro.

Russia has a unique problem, and it is war. Just not the war in Ukraine by itself.

WWII was absolutely devastating to the Soviet Union’s population. Tons of “excess females”, which means there were so many men killed that women could not find a husband. The baby boom did not happen there; kinda the opposite. This affects both modern Russia and Ukraine.

Every 20 years or so, there is an “echo” of that loss in their population pyramid. It’s a drop in birth rates new births from a relative lack of young adults starting families for part of the cycle. The echo reduces with each cycle, of course, but one of them is hitting right now. Putin is now amplifying that echo by having another war with such high losses.

Edit: clarified some wording.

If you don’t want to see people publicizing their sex life, then you can stay off OnlyFans and Fetlife. It’s not difficult.

“I’ll give you five cucumbers with salmonella for a dollar, or four with listeria”

“How much for three without?”

“You can’t afford it”

The major thing that killed 1960s/70s AI was the Vietnam War. MIT’s CSAIL was funded heavily by DARPA. When public opinion turned against Vietnam and Congress started shutting off funding, DARPA wasn’t putting money into CSAIL anymore. Congress didn’t create an alternative funding path, so the whole thing dried up.

That lab basically created computing as we know it today. It bore fruit, and many companies owe their success to it. There were plenty of promising lines of research still going on.

The issue this time around is infrastructure. The current AI Summer depends on massive datacenters with equally massive electrical needs. If companies can’t monetize that enough, they’ll pull the plug and none of this will be available to general public anymore.

This system can go backwards. Yes, the R&D will still be there after the AI Winter cycle hits, but none of the infrastructure.

Lead was transmuted into gold back in 2002. What the LHC did was make quite a lot of it using the same technique of near miss collisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopoeia

Right, it gets into Russia’s navy problem, which they’ve had for centuries and have never had a very good solution. Murmansk is one of the few (only?) ports they have that can reliably get ships out to the Atlantic. Black Sea ports have to go through the narrow channel at Istanbul (controlled by a NATO country, Turkey), and then you have to go through Gibraltar (England) or the Suez Canal (Egypt) (and you’d have to go around Africa if you go that way).

St Petersburg and Kaliningrad are on the Baltic sea, which is surrounded by NATO countries now. Even before then, the narrow opening in the North Sea could be easily blockaded.

Everything else is too far away. The sheer size of the country is both Russia’s greatest defense and their biggest headache.

See also, this Drachinifel video about the Russian Baltic Fleet during the Russian Japanese War, where the fleet traveled the long way around, nearly starts a war with England, shoots up a bunch of civilian vessels and themselves, only to be curb stomped by the fledgling Japanese navy once they finally got there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag

Yeah, Czar Nicky Two was a bad ruler. Putin has made some boneheaded decisions, but he’s a political genius next to Nicky.

I once told my wife “I love you more than Russia loves warm water ports” and they were absolutely smitten with the nerdiness. Which is why I married them.

It’s not the first ideology to have a few members who twist it into something violent. That’s all that’s here.

In case someone is confused like I was, that’s not the Barbara Walters, who has always been a journalist. Different Barbara.

Nah, even if it’s popular, there’s no way for them to make enough to compete with Ford. It would be years before they can get the capital investment to spin up that kind of output.

I have a deposit on a Telo, and they’re talking about a few thousand models in the first year. I’m around 6000 on the list, and I don’t expect to get one until the second or third year of production. Ford sold over 7000 F150 Lightnings this past quarter, and their market is still growing.