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Pretty sure Macromedia bundled a copy of Fruity Loops with Director.

BitchX on my dial up shell account defaulted to undernet, I didn’t even know there were alternatives until mIRC.

Another .gitignore, apparently.

Seems to have started around 5 this morning (pacific) for me. So much DHL and flirt spam.

Looks Signal on a pre Liquid Ass iOS with light theme custom background, and embiggen text turned on. Probably the weird knockoff that does archiving via MITM.

A slide from the linked presentation titled “Boil the Oceans” with the text: it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 1051 ops per second on at most 1031 bits of information A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would contain 2128 blocks = 2137 bytes = 2140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be (2140 bits) / (1031 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg. That's a lot of gear. To operate at the 1031 bits/kg limit, however, the entire mass of the computer must be in the form of pure energy. By E=mc, the rest energy of 136 billion kg is 1.2x1028 J. The mass of the oceans is about 1.4x1021 kg. It takes about 4,000 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius, and thus about 400,000 J to heat 1 kg of water from freezing to boiling. The latent heat of vaporization adds another 2 million J/kg. Thus the energy required to boil the oceans is about 2.4x106 J/kg * 1.4x1021 kg = 3.4x1027 J. Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans.

One source, maybe not the origin, but close. Maybe someone threw a physics text at these yahoos and that’s why they’re hyping data centers in spppaaaaaace and kardashev now.

www.cs.uml.edu/~bill/cs516/...

When ZFS (zettabyte file system) came out a few decades ago, there was a popular talk that “did the math” of how you’d need to literally Boil The Oceans in order to max out its capabilities. This was meant to be absurd, not a challenge.

The photoshop request subreddit is full of “this was my moms last picture of her little brother in leg braces, could someone colorize it” posts with 90% of the replies being slick GenAI slop of a totally different able bodied kid. It’s kinda fucked up.

Fourth now, apparently.

Borders mostly, but topography? The rugged mountains of the southeast tower over the plains of Colorado and Utah.

In their defense, ‘The Presidents Brain is Missing’ looked bad for them will all the mergers they’re looking to get approved.

No WHEY!

A fancy soda fountain machine that can dispense > 100 types, typically seen in large movie theaters or fast food joints. Kaman designed it for coca-cola in exchange for them distributing his water purification system (though that seems to have not panned out).

Balances with inventing the Freestyle Coke machine in a way.

Ginger/It should have been a warning about viral disinformation and weird ceo groupthink.

My brother the chef told me years ago: “if you need something sharper than a butter knife with an avocado, it’s not ripe enough to eat anyway”

I think it’s more new/grift-tech “cyber”that went hard right more than anything. The telcos and other 800lb gorillas are mostly a mix of former military/agency and the dot-com era firms they acquired along the way. The guys looking for VC funding are big into seasteading though.

Never good, but doing it (mostly) all at once seems better than the chaotic monthly drips and drabs to stay out of the headlines at the 5Ge factory.

bsky.app/profile/eyep...

When I first heard of this method, I was like, oh cool, they found a way to make reading more accessible to those that otherwise might not process things typically..

But kept digging: "and since its 'sufficient' and our MBA'ified world thinks sufficient is 'fine', its now the default"

oh, oh no.

It’s not even the first EV with this feature — BMWs little i3 had a “range extender” option that a lot of early adopters in the US selected.

This prompted me to go looking for an old flash/kai power tools lookin site my roommate and I obsessed over 25 years go — and it’s actually been updated for the modern web: music.ishkur.com

When the MS spend is larger than the rest of your IT budget, and the sales monkey at your QBR says your E-whatever plan is going up 20% because of these great AI features and no, you can’t get a plan without them, it shapes policy.

When the metrics leadership cared about changed from “how many features did the team deliver” to “how many people are using copilot (we _have_ to pay for it, so you _have_ to use it)” — it kind of has a chilling effect on discourse.

Of course these chucklefucks all met at a seasteading convention. Every time you dig into one of these batshit ideas it’s “McCrypto met [Lonsdale||Theil] at a seasteading event”

And if you were real fancy, you’d go to AAA and they’d print you out and spiral bind a “triptik” for your road trip with places to stop along the way.

Or Stankey’s 10 minute GOT episodes you watch on a phone.

Coming from the US, diamond turns were somewhat natural. The “hook turns” in Melbourne though, it’s like a NJ Jughandle but without the extra infrastructure.

Don’t even need soy or impossible products, the spicy potato they already have can sub into most things perfectly. Spicy potat supreme chalupa is awesome junk food.

And yet the product manager who can’t even articulate requirements or desired outcomes without days of discussion with the architect playing therapist believes the LLM is already a replacement for the architect and dev team. These tools have a niche, but it’s not what they’re being marketed as.