I think some department or team lead was told by higher ups that they needed to “implement AI” and are just trying to find places to shove it so they can tell the boss they hit the metrics.

The reason they turn stuff like this on by default without asking creators or users is probably because previous things that were implemented and made optional all got turned off and not used, meaning it didn’t help the department or team hit their metrics for usage of the systems.

this guy was able to make a silicon chip with 1200 transistors on it in a garage, far from a modern CPU, but spitting distance from the 3500 transistors of the intel 8008 CPU. Projects in flight also has a series working on DIY semi conductor fabrication he’s not quite to the stage of fabricating a full chip, but he’s covered a lot of the more difficult parts already. And this is all stuff being done as hobby projects.

Something like an early pentium chip like the P5 would not be a particularly difficult task for a well resourced team. The questions are how much could they rely on the currently available off the shelf supplies and tools and how much do they need to scale production.

GE makes the engines, Boeing makes the Airframe.

LDP, which has governed Japan almost uninterrupted for decades.

I think this actually undersells how unprecedented the LDP not being in power is. The LDP has been the ruling party in Japan since the end of US occupation in 1954, over half a century. The only interruptions being between 1994 and 1995 and between 2009 and 2011.

Japan’s modern poltical history is super interesting and less monolithic than that would make it sound, but it’s a big deal when the LDP isn’t in charge.

If you bring people in based on their personal loyalty, you select against competence. Competent people will tell you when you’re wrong and they’ll tell you things you don’t want to hear.

This is an administration built to be loyal, not competent.

It’s so fucking funny to me to see governments unwilling to do anything positive to support their constituents constantly stumbling in to this same kind of law. Like, governments that want more control over their citizens but are completely unwilling to offer them any additional benefits in exchange for that control.

So instead they frame it as “protecting the children” because who’s ever gonna object to that? But nah, it’s about actually being able to enforce other moral panic laws and forcing more information in to the hands of servaliance capitalism.

Lmao without milei trying to do super ultra neoliberalism, they wouldn’t fucking need the cash.

Just one more public funding cut, just one more tax cut, just one more deregulation, just one more batch of foreign investment, then the economy will be fixed guys, we promise. Just let the rich rob society a bit more and everything will get better.

Balatro.

It is a mechanically very dense game. There is a lot of depth and complexity to its gameplay. I get why a lot of people enjoy that. But I just kind of bounce off that, I need something to motivate me to engage with game mechanics. I need a story, or like, some kind of theming that I can project a goal on to. Poker but weird just doesn’t do it for me.

Like I adore paradox games, but I can project a broad world buildy-esq self built narrative and goals on to that, even when the mechanics are as broad as an ocean but as deep as a puddle.

Consider, that, much of the dialog is the internal voices of the main character, and that he does in fact have his head firmly lodged in his own rectum.

I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!

… well not that shocked actually.

You’d probably be fine using mint.

Like, if you’re using an Nvidia graphics card you’d want to use mint’s built in driver manger GUI (don’t need to even use the command line) to make sure you have the best driver. If you have AMD graphics (ether iGPU or dedicated GPU) you don’t even have to do that. The main thing that Bazzite does is have the right Nvidia graphics drivers out of the box.

The main difference between the two is the package manager, the thing that downloads programs and makes sure they have all the dependencies they need to run. Bazzite is fedora derived so it uses DNF instead of the Debian derived APT for package management. Frankly the differences between the two are not really material.

Ether way, Lutris will get windows versions of games running as well as steam does, and any game can be added to Lutris regardless of how you got it, if not from one of the major store fronts you just have point Lutris to the files.

I switched over about… I suppose 2 and a half years ago now? Honestly it’s been a lot easier to use. Like it’s kind of shocking to me that people will act like windows is cohesive and better put together. Every time I interact with it these days, the more it looks like a taped together ball of junk crusted over with 30 years of repainting.

Like the fact that with windows I had to go to three separate settings programs to find the right toggle, that every program has a dedicated installer and its own path for updates. That there are just default always on programs running in the background eating up a 1/4 of the ram and two of my CPU cores for no damn reason. That a laptop will randomly wake up inside a bag when it should be asleep and run down its battery over 6 hours of trying to connect to an absent WiFi network to run updates.

It has burst in terms of the liquidity of the system, sure the on paper value of the asset hasn’t collapsed, but that’s because the number of people willing to sell has reduced in turn with the number of people willing to buy. Everyone who was going to cash out big time already has, and the people who bought from them are waiting on another order of magnitude increase in value before they cash out, or they intend to hold on to it forever.

They’re dependent on it indirectly. Like, most of the rest of the economic growth that has gone on in recent years has been from the wealthiest 10% of Americans increasing their consumption of various goods, or continuing consumption even as prices rise while wages stay stagnant.

That 10% has felt comfortable spending money due to the value of their assets growing, being able to liquidate some here and there or using them as collateral for loans.

If they lose a significant portion of 1/3rd of their assets in stock, and no other investments are showing rapid growth, they’ll probably pull back on their spending, which will in turn hurt the rest of the market. That won’t be as quick as the panic around “AI” companies, nor as disastrous.

It will be a slow thing, as companies that have moved towards the high margin premium side of the market see sales dry up on their most profitable products.

I mean, given that 1/3rd of the s&P 500s value is in 7 companies who are all heavily invested in AI compute.

I’m sure that the 10% wealthiest who’s consumption makes up over half of consumer spending won’t drastically cut back their spending if they lose a third of their wealth that’s in index funds.

And I’m sure private equity firms that are also heavily invested won’t start trying to liquidate their other assets at the same time.

No way this could see a massive decrease in consumer spending.

Or like, anyone one of the massively cash negative companies with in the bubble being unable to secure more money.

Hey, how’s that deal between SoftBank and OpenAI doing? You know, the one where they get the liquidity they need to keep operating if they convert to a for profit company before the end of the year? Yah? So … they managed to convert to a fire profit company yet? No? Oh, damn, I sure they’ll figure out that incredibly complicated and dubiously legal process by the end of the fiscal year.

All it takes is openAI or anthropic to run out of cash, then everyone providing them compute suddenly has giant power sucking white elephants that are basically useless for anything else (maybe crypto mining LMAO). And then they all stop buying more chips from Nvidia (you know, the company whose valuation is 8% of most index funds, and 80% of their revenue and all of their revenue growth over the past two years has been from data center sales).

Kinda crazy how 7 companies, all heavily invested in AI cloud compute, in one way or another, make up about a 1/3rd of the S&P 500.

I mean, good thing the AI bubble couldn’t possible pop any other bubbles. I mean, it’s not like nearly a decade of low interest rates could possibly have built any other bubbles in any other sort of asset markets.

The reality is, its only impact has been as a cover story to conceal jobs that were already going to be cut.

It’s patently ridiculous how many people in positions of authority have parroted talking points about this and laughable how many journalists and publications have uncritically reported those talking points as if they have merit.

To those who believe that truth derives from authority, and not from debate backed with evidence, a website where the debate is visible and clear undermines its authority. But just because we don’t see that process at other publications doesn’t make them more reliable, it just means we can’t judge the quality of that process.

Wikipedia’s system has its flaws, but the ability to know that, to see those flaws and be aware of them, makes it more reliable. It also makes it very difficult for authoritarians to seize control of for their own ends, to shut down debate and impose consensus. That’s the real reason it is under attack, because those who wish to impose consensus have justify them selves publicly.

Operating system as a service. Customers as products.

That is their goal.