bigbangdangler

STOP TEASING

“Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

Because no one could possibly protest against raw patriotism!!*

• in fascist form.

The playbook hasn’t changed. But now they’re showing their work and still missing the point.

Sigh. None of this is surprising in the least. The cost of AI infrastructure and compute (coupled with the complexity of the chain) makes it prohibitively expensive.

It only has appeared cheap because of investor money flowing like Niagara on the off-chance that it could be made cheap enough to be profitable after getting everyone addicted to using it. I really don’t think it’s there, and it’s definitely not cheap enough to continue flying for free much longer.

Aha, that makes sense. Thanks.

10 x 9 x 8… etc. yields 1,814,400 possible combinations of no repeats, right? I’m confused what the “whole” is if this is expressed as a percent.

Have to admit, I agree. I know there is a lot of sensationalism out there, but there are serious reasons to take issue with Boeing’s output, especially newer models.

It’s not like I’m refusing to fly on Boeing and I think that’s generally an overreaction… but there is a slight, very slight relief when I see my flight is scheduled with an Airbus.

Holy shit.

This thing collapsed at the gate, before passengers were on board.

A collapse on takeoff or landing could have killed everyone on board.

Seen this headline with slightly different details about 100 times since the early 2000s.

News media in a country with a two-party system: dangling a carrot in the right spot to constantly keep the people in charge in the butter zone.

Well yeah, doing actual research or understanding a topic would cut into his golf time

To date, I have not heard a single CEO talk about where the money will come from if no one is employed.

How can consumers consume if they don’t have any money?

This is and has always been a tactic to attempt to discredit any election results he doesn’t like. The thing is, he now knows that it works on a significant portion of the US population.

Oh yes, definitely one of the greats!

Not a continuity error specifically, but this has always irked me: In STIV, Kirk says that he and Spock are headed “back to San Francisco”, presumably from Sausalito. But anyone with a passing knowledge of geography can see from the position of the bridge behind them that they are, in that moment, standing in San Francisco. In fact, you can see Sausalito across the bay behind them.

– the dems

Arch people tend to want people to know they use Arch (btw). You’ll also find a lot of posts about getting Arch working.

Debian people tend to be too busy doing other things on their computers besides getting them working, so you’ll hear about it less.

(Important: I’m not dumping on either distro here. Some people, myself included, like Arch exactly because it’s fun to play with and set up. Debian’s older packages tend to mean a more stable system. Use what you like.)

And we’re still in the “let’s be cheap and try and undercut each other” phase, before the snake eats its own tail. Things only get more expensive from here.

Meanwhile whole careers are in shambles because of these greedy asshats.

What a fucking joke.

Not sure it’s a majority, but agree there is a huge contingent of people who seem to think this direction is good. Or maybe it just feels huge because, you know, bots

All that asskissing must lead to sore lips

You know, when the new effects were done, I liked them. Years later, I always watch with the original effects. The new ones just feel plastic and odd. The old ones, for all the grain and noise, have charm.