cornonthecobra

Given xAI's gross disregard for environmental regulations in building Colossus, the reason for building datacenters in space seems obvious: there's no EPA in space.

The meaning of kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc. are unambiguous: SI prefixes defined as powers of 10, not 2. 1 TB is 10*12 bytes, not 2*40 bytes.

The misuse of those prefixes as powers of 1024, while useful as shorthand for computer memory where binary addressing means, is still exactly that: a misuse of SI prefixes.

There's now a separate set of base-2 prefixes to solve this, and people need to update their language accordingly.

It's because Microsoft isn't a software company. They're a marketing company that happens to make software and a few other bits.

We're now on the back end of that, where Microsoft must again make products with independent substance, but are instead drowning in their own infrastructural muck.

Install the Youtube Control Panel extension by soitis. It's available for all desktop and mobile browsers, and does a lot to restore sanity on YouTube.

If you want something lighter for Firefox Android. There is also the Background Video Player extension.

Put on a good show, offer something novel, and people will gleefully march right off a cliff while admiring their shiny new purchase.

the only place i have one is a grocery store where their loyalty program price is listed on the shelf tag and is lower, often by quite a bit (a third to half off is common). even then, i use one of the meme phone numbers (local area code + 867-5309, 678-999-8212, 281-330-8004, etc.).

Maybe a nit, but this isn't piracy. Windows has been officially free to download and install since Windows XP. That was when Microsoft switched to their Product Activation DRM, and the license key became the bit you paid for.

Tangent: I miss MSDN AA

It's the private equity era. Much like how legislative behaviour is now dictated by the wealthy even to the point of contradicting the will/desire of informed voters, corporate behaviour is now dictated by private equity investment to the point of contradicting the demand from informed user/consumers.

Speaking strictly about ZFS internal operations, the free space requirement is closer to 5% on current ZFS versions. That allows for CoW and block reallocations in real-world pools. Heavy churn and very large files will increase that margin.

I think it's more that AI is the final straw for many. Social media exhaustion. Everything needing an account or (worse) subscription. The stupidity of smart devices/appliances. Software and media not being ownable anymore. Constant data breeches.

Chatbots are just the latest in a long line of everything digital being little more than a rent-seeking, ad-riddled, privacy-invading scam.

The work required to protect yourself from it all is an arms race, and LLMs only dialed up the cost.

"Full" "Self"-"Driving" ("Supervised")

In this case, static text without the highlighter would have been better. Because the timing is so far off, the highlighter interferes with reading the captions for hearing assistance.