Beautiful works!

If viewed on an iPhone or iPad, you can take it into AR mode and drop the piece on a table in front of you, then walk around it. Don’t know if that works on Android.

The way money-laundering works, you take ill-begotten funds and somehow churn it into legal tender in ways that can’t be traced back to the source. Another angle is to create corporate entities that show loss against gains, so you can deduct and don’t have to pay taxes on your windfall profits.

In the olden days, these were physical, degrading assets. Like strip malls, real-eestate, and dodgy, money-losing businesses that somehow stuck around forever. At the end, you were stuck with physical entities you couldn’t unload.

Crypto and NFT were just digital variations of the same financial model, minus the hassle of having to manage the property.

Minimum 15 years of experience.

There’s no allowing for Unspecial Soundness.

Or where most fun knowledge resides: Unspecial Unsoundness.

Given that the infrastructure description included the DataTalks.Club website, this resulted in a full wipe of the setup for both sites, including a database with 2.5 years of records, and database snapshots that Grigorev had counted on as backups. The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.

Non-story. He let Terraform zap his production site without offsite backups. But then support restored it all back.

I’d be more alarmed that a ‘destroy’ command is reversible.

The math adds up. If you take out all the whiners, you get left with a large cohort of sunny optimists.

There’s a difference between ‘repairable’ and ‘upgradable.’ Most of the comments seem to conflate the two. Lenovo isn’t doing a Framework.

It’s a smart move. Differentiates them from other laptop-makers for corporate IT, who can do the parts swaps themselves. Also smart is associating the brand with iFixit and working to get a 10/10. That’ll be what sets them apart from all the others, at least for the next year or two.

Was self-hosting gitlab or foregejo not an option?

At some point, some DIY person will come up with a way to disable these things in their presence.

And they will make bank.

MCPs could learn a thing or two from the failures of ActiveX.

Will they?

No…

Web4? Seriously?

You said “two of the three reviewers found substantive deficiencies in rationale, design, validation of results, interpretation, and presentation.”

So… what is left?

These are all the Least Worst solutions. I humbly disagree.

When LLMs first came out, I asked them a few fun logic puzzles. The kind that Martin Gardner used to publish in Scientific American.

Got total gibberish answers. A while later, tried again. This time, perfect word-for-word responses. Had LLMs become sentient and developed logic? Turned out they had found all the old Scientific American back issues to train on.

Guessing the same is going on with the carwash question. The more posts come out about it, the more likely the LLM responses will get closer to published answers.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Question is, how long before it makes it to the next DGX Spark? Some people don’t have $10B to burn.

Japanese-designed TV has fallen way behind South Korea (LG, Samsung) on quality and features, and Chinese brands on price.

It’s too bad. Sony and Panasonic used to be fountains of innovation when it came to TV tech.

Electricity is one of those things that should be run by the municipality. Their incentive wouldn’t be to maximize shareholder value, but to deliver a basic need reliably and at the lowest cost possible. At the very least, it needs to be run by a Public Benefit Corporation.

The minute you enter private enterprise into it, things go pear-shaped. A municipal power network wouldn’t have problems with solar or distributed neighborhood grids. It just means lower cost for them, so they would encourage it.

They would need to get economies of scale, though. So you can’t have it just be city-wide or county by county. It has to be statewide. That way you can spread out the risk and costs. It also means investing in rural wiring since it’s no longer a matter of ROI.

Same for gas, clean water, sewage, and broadband. This isn’t closet socialism. We currently do this for roads, freeways, state parks, postal service (sorta), and defense.