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"It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." -- Colonel Jack O'Neill

The one thing I hate about NVidia as a company, although not Jenson himself, is the institutionalized arrogance... So infuriating when these lazy-ass marketing motherfuckers have the sheer gall to take a ubiquitous industry term that's over 50 yrs old & repurpose it for their own use.

I grew up in 60s/70s North London: didn't matter where you came from, we all knew Bob Marley & Jimmy Cliff songs, the same way we all knew Beatles or Stones songs, because Reggae was part of the common soundtrack everyone shared.

China hit 1,003 TWh of solar by October — and this still isn’t the steep part of the S-curve. This is the warm-up. Solar doubled in 2 yrs, installs are exploding, #BESS is hitting price floors, curtailment is becoming a storage goldmine. The next doubling? 12–16 months. “Holy shit” phase loading. ⚡

I loved all the Stargate series, but they weren't close to being as smart as they could have been & at times got overly hammy, cliched & downright dumb. Andor, among others, showed that audiences crave smart sci-fi. Hopefully, this time around they'll pay attention.

Bill's actual biggest fear is that no-one gives enough of a flying fuck about his dried-up, tired schtick to even want to point a gun in his direction. Keep sliding into irrelevance, Billo... the kicking & screaming won't help.

I lived in Texas for a year. The whole state smells like that. It's all the bbq people eat.

62 wolves have been killed in Montana since hunting season opened. Killing wolves is neither supported by science nor ethics, yet it becomes a reality when wolves lose federal ESA protections. As the numbers climb, how many more wolves will be lost without reason?

You cannot win against the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Born 14 Nov 1933, Fred Haise is a retired engineer, NASA astronaut & test pilot. He also served as a fighter pilot for the Air Force and Marine Corps. He was part of Apollo 13 and is 1 of 24 astronauts to have flown to the Moon. He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. #FredHaise

Remember seeing these guys at the Catalyst, just down the street, when they were still a noticable band. Couldn't have been more than a $30 ticket.

What happens when landlords hike up the rent while, at the same time, people stop drinking.

BBC News - Late physicist's Nobel Prize medal donated to university www.bbc.com/news/article...

This issue has been an obsession of mine for decades & if I were to ever run for office, I'd make the drastic raising of middle school, high school & undergraduate academic standards a core part of my policy portfolio. Our society should be profoundly ashamed for accepting willful stupidity.

Was not expecting to see this today, if ever. fwiw, these fuckers have burned a lot of bridges over the years with their constant bullshit & improbable claims. But if they've actually stepped up, that would be a seismic level BFD.

I love King's X, & wished they'd been a huge band. That said, you can have everything: chops, stage presence, a rapidly loyal core following & admiration from your peers, etc... But without a collection of accessible songs you'll never get a broader audence. They are hard rock's answer to NRBQ.

For all the noise about the authenticity of country music & how it represents the "real" America, the truth is that it's as manufactured now as it's ever been, & the fact that country fans have embraced an entirely artifical performer should be no surprise whatsoever. S'why I listen to prog.

The discovery of the structure of DNA is 1 of the 3 greatest scientific advances of the 20th century, along w. General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics. But Watson wasn't a nice man & went out of his way to deny Rosalind Franklin any acknowledgement of the experimental work that led to the discovery

The parallels in our country to the fall of Rome are a little too close for comfort for my liking.

Tom's HW is surprised at how expensive it is to provide cooling infrastructure for an NVL72 rack... Bear in mind, we're not counting all the stuff you have to put into a data center or the manpower you need to make liquid cooling work. Still, I'm surprised at how cheap the single rack part is.

Beauty in math is as sublime a thing as anything put to canvas or film.

this explains so much.

"Terror, fuck it."

Yeah, they surrounded it with synths & effects, but this one from 1971 is imho every bit as punk-rock as the MC5 or The Stooges: an insanely basic riff, that they jammed on for 15 mins... And it totally works.

Working on a project, that'd I originally (vibe) coded in Ruby. Wasn't unhappy, but after a 2nd rewrite a tendency feared short cuts were making the project brittle. Then I moved to Clojure & went from 5K LOC of incomplete code(took a week) to a < 500 LOC full, tested implementation in < 1hr

It's a shame that even now, so few people actually get what Holdsworth was trying to do.

once again. Google is trying to use age verification to get access to your private data.

Folks neglect to take into consideration the mechanisms of how churches (esp. evang.) have seriously impacted shaping and reinforcing our modern political discourse.

"I’m not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of not being capable of living." -- Stellan Skarsgård

fuck you, @anthropic.com and your bullshit limits. I have a pro subscription & 15 mins of work every 5 hrs is not what I'm paying for.

Always thought that as a band KISS were a joke. But I always had time for Ace Frehley's playing. Rest in Power.

The amazing Francis Rocco Prestia on bass... Rest in Power

It's not just solar where we're seeing breakthroughs

Yeah, it was only a friendly, etc... but the Japanese national team beating Brazil is a huge seismic event in the football firmament.

I was shocked to see the first two people in my "masterclass" 🎓 on #AI networking with Ultra Ethernet at #HLF25: David Patterson and Bob Metcalfe 😅! Both Turing award winners - Bob being one of the inventors of Ethernet 🥹. Was great fun also with many enthusiastic students and great discussions 🚀.

#RIP Danny Thompson I missed this news, but he was one of the great bassists to emerge from the 60s blues explosion.