NaibofTabr

Android TV … ?

I see a red rose and I want to paint it black…

I did the freakin’ math and got it right the first time.

That is awesome.

Nice try, Hollywood.

Plenty of hosters provide that. Cerebras, for example, fabs their own ASICs (seperate from Nvidia), builds them into servers, hosts a number of open-weights models themselves in friendly jurisdictions, and offers SLAs for enterprise clients; it doesn’t get more “guaranteed” than that in AI Land, but there are tons of hosts to choose from.

This makes sense for first-party hardware businesses like Cerebras that are renting or selling their platform to developer businesses (second party) for the purpose of creating AI-based software tools which they will then sell as services to other businesses (third party), and I can see that guarantees could be written in a contract for the first-to-second-party relationship.

What I don’t see is that any such guarantees can be effectively written or enforced in a second-to-third-party contract, where an AI SaaS company is selling their software service to companies that don’t do their own development, and expect that the service they have contracted will produce reliable results.

How does this work when “good enough” AI like Deepseek V4, GLM and such are so dirt cheap they’re basically free for businesses? And available from tons of providers, or even self hostable?

Typically what separates enterprise-grade products and services from alternatives is a contract with an SLA… but that generally means there’s some contractual requirements for the reliability and productivity of the product or service. I’m not sure that any of the overhyped chatbots are reliable enough to support such contractual obligations, or that there’s a useful way to measure their productivity.

They’re going to try to stick taxpayers with the debt in a “too big to fail” way, and the current administration will help them.

So, they’re delusional.

If you are interested in maintaining your OS as an ongoing and constant project, go with Arch. You will learn a lot about Linux, and about system administration in general. You will also have entire days where you are unable to do anything productive with your computer because the last update broke userspace again and you can either spend a lot of time troubleshooting your specific problem, or spend a lot of time reinstalling and reconfiguring your system.

If your computer is more than just a hobby platform and you need to use it regularly for any kind of productivity, go with Debian. Set it and forget it.

Either way, off-system file backups are recommended.

Well yeah, functionally it is the standard design. In terms of making a readable clock, this is probably the most practical. Anything more would require some major changes to the mechanism.

This 1970s style of sci fi art:

It always felt like it spoke of a brilliant and fantastic future.

Ming the Merciless

as played by Max von Sydow in the 1980 film Flash Gordon

Ming is this potentially goofy over-the-top villain, but Sydow’s portrayal makes him dignified, threatening, majestic and malevolent, never laughable.

There is, you have two sets of numbers for each hour marking like this:

or like this:

This requires no change to the time mechanism, so you can pretty easily modify the face of any standard analog clock to be like this.

The Camp Fire destroyed 95% of the buildings in the town of Paradise, CA in 2018

In May 2019, NPR reported that more than 1,000 families who were displaced by the fire were still looking for housing six months later.

The Camp Fire was the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018 in terms of insured losses. The firm Munich Re estimated that the fire caused $12.5 billion in covered losses and $16 billion in total losses.

Well… the first colleges were established to train clergy, because reading and writing were rare skills at the time, and there was a demand for trained clergy who worked as clerks, accountants and record keepers for nobles who could not themselves read or write, which I think just circles back to the workforce productivity thing.

This is also true for Confucian schools in China. The students were not clergy in the religious sense, but they learned reading, writing and tradition in order to become useful administrators for local rulers.

Hmm, depending on whose opinion you listen to, education systems have always been built around workforce productivity:

RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

“… the current system was structured for a different age. It was conceived in the intellectual culture of the enlightenment, and in the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution
[…]
it was driven by an economic imperative of the time
[…]
we have a system of education that is modeled on the interests of industrialism, and in the image of it.”

Striking is a revolutionary act and it should be normalized

An action (any action) cannot be normal and revolutionary. These are antitheses.

I am… actually not clear on whether you are referring to my comment, or the comment I was responding to.

If you were referring to me, I want to say that I’m not looking down on the potential good, I am criticizing the framing of unionizing as revolutionary. I think talking about it this way is a mistake, the kind that is made by people who want politics to be exciting, who find discussions of good policy to be boring. This kind of framing supports the narrative of the owner class who try to imply that striking workers are unreasonable violent malcontents.

Good policy should be boring. Unionization should be as mundane as arranging direct deposit for your paycheck when you start a job. It should be just another form that you fill out for HR. It should be normal. Employers should expect that their employees will participate in collective bargaining, and should be treated as unreasonable nutjobs if they speak (or take action) against it.

This probably seems like it makes sense when you’re a teenager, but most people with children want a stable society and a reliable income.