The vote is happening. The board is recommending the shareholders vote a certain way. The shareholders don’t have to take their recommendation (but usually do). This is usually how shareholder votes happen.

I’ve had to kind of strongarm employers a couple times to provide me with a non-Macbook so I could put Linux on it. But usually in my job I can choose what I run.

It was fun! Not only do you have this new-fangled OS to just fuck around with, but it gives you more access to the system and you can actually learn how it works? Amazing.

Eventually it just became so ingrained in my personal workflow that I wouldn’t be able to function without it.

This is less about nationality and citizenship as it is about billionaires skirting laws and exploiting the poor. In this case, it’s just foreign billionaires exploiting American poor.

Who could have seen this coming when they announced the award last month?

It’s just that all your shit and users are there, like issue tracking in this case.

The original blog post is rather frank and to the point. Wish the engineering leadership I worked with communicated this well.

I think when the economics of destroying a thing is better than reusing a thing, we should maybe have some sort of incentives toward reuse.

I get that the logistics of setting up what’s basically a secondary supply chain is difficult, but I’ve got to believe it would be for the better.

That’s really disheartening. Not because of my want for cheap RAM, but for the sheer waste of it all.

For example, OpenAI’s new “Stargate” project reportedly signed deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month to feed its AI clusters, which is an amount close to 40% of total global DRAM output if it’s ever met. That’s an absurd amount of DRAM.

Will these even be useful on the second hand market, or are these chips gonna be on specialized PCBs for these machines?

Dumbfounding how classic it is. Even with a complete outsider this shit is happening again.

The fucking NSA released these documents a few days ago in the hopes of gaining public attention […]

National Security Archive, not Agency.

Yeah, my reaction was less about economics and more wondering why this wouldn’t be celebrated.

If you’re primary interface to your computer is a shell, then why not do this in a shell too? You likely already have your DE setup to handle shells. It fits within all your styling (no weridness between qt, gtk, etc).

A better question might be, why run it in a GUI? What are you actually gaining from doing that?

Lots of neat uncomfortable questions arise though. At what point is it conscious? If it never experienced autonomy, life, locomotion, or social human interaction, is it torture or just its natural state of being?

Dark humor becomes a coping mechanism. “Fix it, fork it, f*ck off” becomes the phrase of choice.

oooo, I like that.

Not thermoelectrics, but sterling engines. But fair point about the heat.

In the UK, large stocks of civil nuclear waste contain significant quantities of americium-241. That makes the fuel not only long-lasting but also readily accessible. Instead of building new reactors to produce plutonium, agencies can extract Americium from existing waste, a form of recycling at a planetary scale.

Using it seems way more preferable to just letting it sit in casks.

Traditional RTGs utilize thermoelectrics, which are reliable but inefficient, often achieving only five percent efficiency. Stirling engines can convert heat to electricity with an efficiency of 25 percent or more. […] Stirling engines introduce moving parts, which also raises reliability concerns in space. However, Americium’s steady heat output enables RTG designs with multiple Stirling converters operating in tandem. If one fails, the others compensate, preserving power output.

That seems a little ridiculous though. All that friction requires a lube that’ll last “generations.” In space, without gravity, and at incredibly low temperatures.