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Is a personal email server even possible in 2025? It seems like email is fully commodified at this point.

I think browser companies see the impending doom of the web as we know it. With Sam Alman peddling the weird eye scanning orb that completely de-anonymized you from the internet (world.org). The bots that openai are championing will ruin the internet through sheer volume of garbage once they reach a commodifiable scale. Then you have openai making all sorts of backroom deals so their technology is the only technology that can run unencumbered, challenging cloudflare’s market power of effectively middlemanning the internet, by moving it to a browser level. We already have new search engine optimization startups for businesses but its for LLMs which is inherently non-human. AI browsers won’t improve our experience, we’re getting them because the web is transitioning to something that isn’t for humans, its for bots to navigate so you can buy a new airfrier with the least friction.

The economics make a ton more sense in Shanghi where electricty cost $0.07/kwh vs my city (san francisco) which is $0.60, almost 10x more. There’s only 2 charging stations with 8 spots each in my neighborhood of 60,000 people(!), neither of which you can park your car overnight.

The government needs to pull a lot of levers before a capital solution is viable. But there is just no threat that gas prices will go up within the lifespan of the car (next 8 years), and gas prices are low relative to US income. Couple that with poor infrastructure for EVs and it’s a non-starter for the majority of americans, regardless of price.

It’s antitrust stuff, which is the government’s thinly veiled threat to tell businesses to do the right thing and play nice or get dismantled. Hasn’t really been enforced in ages and now nobody is afraid of just openly committing market collusion, pricing fixing schemes, and fraud. Specifically, this is collusion to do anticompetitive price discrimination, which is a crime (Robinson-Patman Act (1936)).

A friend and I have a yearly ritual of Factorio when he goes on winter break. We talk about it all year and share all the new content to look forward to. We’re going to play the new expansion pack this year and I’m excited.

Trump has framed the need for comprehensive AI regulation as both a necessity for the technology’s development and as a means of preventing leftist ideology from infiltrating generative AI– a common conservative grievance among tech leaders such as Elon Musk.

“You can’t go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. Fifty is a disaster. You’ll have one woke state and you’ll have to do all woke,” Trump said at the US-Saudi Investment Forum last month. “You’ll have a couple of wokesters and you don’t wanna do that. You wanna get the AI done.”

Earlier this week, he reiterated that sentiment in a post on Truth Social, saying: “We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won’t last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS. THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS! AI WILL BE DESTROYED IN ITS INFANCY!”

balkanize already, hes coming for your statehood

This is good info. Thanks.

Does anyone know if it’s better on windows or linux? He stopped doing mac builds. I have to install an os on my desktop and i’m open to whatever works best.

Do you get data if your travel outside your cell block? Sometimes it’s cell tower.

I just read the book. He was the head programmer and had a team back in the states. He had a falling out with hammond about a budget overrun which he had to absorb the cost, which is why he wanted to get back at him and make some money by stealing the embryos.

The book really outlines the shortsightedness of capital and it’s all still relevant. They really get into the park’s construction and design decisions. Honestly I wished the movie was done by Kubrick instead of Spielberg where it features all of the cost cutting and incompetence which convinced you that the park was doomed to fail, and then it fails.

I think my favorite part of the book was when the rival company wanted to steal InGen’s work but needed board approval so they do this song and dance to get board approval to do it in a way that doesn’t open them up to liability. It’s like what happened with the PG&E fires a few years ago, where nobody on the board or executive team got in any trouble because they did neglect in this special way that allows them to get a get-out-of-jail-free card.

I love these movies, the stupider the better. In one (Roped?), the hunk guy races the old boyfriend but instead of a ford f150, he brought a horse! He of course wins and the now ex boyfriend disappears from the plot entirely. Peak cinema. If you know some more, drop em, I’ll watch em.

I fundamentally believe we can’t engineer software anymore. Like how we can’t manufacture anything anymore. So I don’t think there will be more tech growth in western nations. A good number of my high tech friends work for companies based in other nations. Open source software for my field is mostly Chinese contribution. I’m in the late stages of the interview process for an Indian company. I live in Silicon Valley.

They had a whole liquid cryo system go for less than $1k. Been trying to avoid getting any mass specs but they come up a lot. I’ve been shopping here for the past like 6 months and heres my haul so far:

• Harvey Sterilemax autoclave: $10
• Airclean 600 laminar flow hood (new in box): $400
• 2x milli-q advantage a10 water filters (w/ filters): $20 each
• Shakers, rockers, and scales: ~$10 in pallet deals
• Incubating orbital shaker: $100
• Oscilloscope: $10 in pallet
• nikon ts100 inverted microscope w/ camera attachment: $70
• Olympus CK2: $50
• Accuspin 1 centrifuge: $20

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I have an entire plant tissue culture lab that I’ve paid basically nothing for from government auctions. Incredibly expensive stuff but almost nobody bids on it. I’m basically out of room for more stuff but some of it doesn’t get bid on and ends up in the garbage. Like a pallet of lab stuff for $10 w/ 0 bids.

I would start by documenting the schemas (data types and optional fields). Then use shell scripts to transform or join any data to be ingested to another system. Not sure what you’re working with so it’s hard to give any more concrete advice.

Minimum wage is an example of a price floor. We already have price floors on a range of ag commodities. What happens in practice is that the government will limit imports and agree to buy those products at the price floor if the market price ends up being lower. This is one reason why we saw massive milk dumping during the pandemic. Instead of culling cows during a market shock, price floors kept supply up when demand was down. If this happens we will probably see food waste like we’ve never seen before while food gets more expensive.

This is in comparison to meme assets whose price is mostly based on sentiment rather than anything real. US dollar’s exchange rate to yuan and euro, the currency most of the world will exchange their labor for, has remained stable.

Looks like you’re right about the bios needing an upgrade to support it (Cezanne chips).

According to the docs, your motherboard supports Q-Flash, but it appears you need to be able to get to the bios. (Q-flash PLUS lets you do with a usb stick, but this mobo doesn’t support that)

Your external graphics card may not function here, are you using the onboard graphics?

It appears you’re out of luck unless you can bend those pins.

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-ab350m-hd3_e.pdf https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AB350M-HD3-rev-1x/support https://www.gigabyte.com/FileUpload/Global/MicroSite/121/flashbios_qflash.pdf