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This is probably the most succinct example of why rich weirdos and “libertarians” actually don’t hate the government and taxation and instead love it, to make them more money using the unwasheds’ taxes.

What else would a giant organization exist for?

Why do they publish about boring shit like sports and war and not cool things that celebrate human achievements like business and AI?

/s ^just ^^in ^^^case

I guess sports doesn’t occur in a lab or recording studio so her achievements don’t matter? Le sportsball bad amirite fellow rediters?!1

Focusing on individuals helps turn statistics into digestible information. There’s nothing wrong with that. If they decide to start bombing deep into the country again and I get hit, wouldn’t it be worse if I was just a number that makes someone think “huh that sucks” instead of being remembered for who I am?

It feels mostly regional to me. The vibe I get is that Americans especially don’t really care for fragrances while here in the Middle East it’s a goddamn stereotype of us Lebanese men that we wear too much cologne.

(Or as I have grown up to understand it, just about enough cologne)

I’m here to represent the professionals ∩ idiots. We exist too.

Although seeing those prices is reminding me my mobile 3070 has been perfectly usable

10K is a home solar investment. Where I live, people tend to live in multi-family buildings about 3-6 floors high, often split between siblings and their families. Depending on how many are in the country year-round, that might even be enough for the whole building with careful management. Obviously wouldn’t be the same if the neighbors are strangers. (I appreciate that the familial emphasis might seem a bit random in your culture). Ideally 10K might just be enough for one or two households.

The much more interesting prompt is 10B, imo.

10B? Oh man. I’m in Lebanon. We’ve effortlessly squandered more generous fortunes than a measly 10B grant, but here’s how I’d do it:

1B: buses, trams and parking garages to decongest some of the nicer (and underperforming, touristy) old town areas. Should give them a sorely needed boost 3B: modern seaside train running from north to south, with a small number of branches into the interior. Mostly freight. 3B: start phase of a Beirut metro. It’s not enough for a full metro system especially with our geological conditions, but the core city isn’t too big and one line should be feasible? 2B: functional army so we still have civilian infrastructure next time our noisy neighbor gets a hissy fit (infrastructure is worthless if it’s destroyed) 1B: modern fossil fuel power plant. Yeah it’s not green, but we generate a fraction of our needed power, meaning most people have to pay off a local generator mob for electricity. They use diesel and relatively inefficient smaller generators. Our existing ancient power plants use dogshit-tier diesel. I insist that some kind of LNG plant maybe would actually make the situation more green. As it stands the convenience of combustible fuel is more pertinent than the environmental cost

My understanding of the tech is that there are virtually no scenarios where having the 3D cache on the second CCD would actually help right now, unless I’ve got something wrong? Like even applications with enough threads to saturate the 3D CCD couldn’t possibly need that many threads that that

Unless you’re running multiple high-thread-count programs that benefit from the lower latency, and I don’t know what a realistic scenario for that would be. Some kind of multi-user scenario.

Granted I would have liked to see identical CCDs. I’m sure asymmetry is something they’ve figured out by now, but for the $$$ they’re asking for, a few extra overkill headroom can’t be a ridiculous ask.

I think the table turning is in terms of what constitutes “content”, ostensibly the reason you’re on their service.

Standard tables: you sign up to this website to see stuff posted by people and pages you want to see, you can post your own if you wish

New and improved AI tables: bend over and enjoy the warmth of the slop cannon interspersed with Enhanced Consumer AI Personalized Advertising Experiences™

The user abuse was always part of the process no doubt.

I haven’t been paying too much attention to most of the writing specifically in this community. I just skim All like I used to skim my Reddit home feed.

I don’t know how much carries over in terms of federation between awful and db0. But “references, touchstones and more” sounds like something I’d like to catch up on. I’m aware of the search engine being discussed in your linked thread, and I’m aware of some other initiatives, but I really feel like I’m on the outside of that community looking in.

I’ve always been hesitant about just straight up linking it. Given it’s on Mataroa it’s not like it’s monetizable (deliberate choice). Maybe I’m too averse to what might come off as self-promotion. In the age of everything being “content”, I don’t know, I almost have a desire to never share anything.

Thanks for the kind words. Since you’ve mentioned digging, I’ve now made sure to include a link to a friend’s blog (a much more interesting and talented writer than I am), in case anyone does more digging. That’s how the internet should work right?

Thanks for sharing the start to your journey. Some regional forums I was on, while virtually dead, are still online. For now at least.

Hey, I’ve been hesitant to link this account to my current blog, but I’ve linked it in my latest post and I remembered this comment. It was a nice response in a tough time, so here you go.

It works as long as you’re on an IP address that Meta approves. If you’re using a VPN (or even PiHole iirc) it doesn’t work.

So I have to use their malware on my phone when someone sends me a DM on there.