Aromasin

> The most egregious thing you can do with any activity is daydream about how you can make money off of it. That’s the quickest way to optimize for the wrong things and suck the fun right out of it. Most likely you will stop doing the activity almost immediately, so save the money-making schemes for work.

I disagree wholeheartedly with this statement. It implies several things that aren't true:

* That a hobby done for profit that can't also be done for fun.

* That a hobby for profit can't start as a profit-making venture, but turn into a passion.

* That work should be the only route to wealth.

* That optimizing for wealth can't go hand-in-hand with fun.

I despise the adage that a hobby is only a hobby if you aren't making money from it. I'm passionate about fantasy/sci-fi miniature building/painting, terrain modelling, and prop making. I love the expression of taking a universe that exists within the realms of novels and movies, and bringing it to the real world - to scale or in miniature. I design STLs/CAD models for 3D printing, scratch together terrain boards for people to play games on, paint miniatures any hour I get free, machine parts for various outfits and armaments, and spend hours fantasising about what universe I'm going to delve into next.

None of that would be possible if I didn't monetise the process. Most of what I build, I sell. If I didn't, I would neither be able to afford the hobby nor store the stuff I make. It would end up in a landfill. Parts of the hobby I took up explicitly because they demand higher prices when I sell it, but now they're some of the things I'm most passionate about.

Realistically, I'd love to do it as a full-time venture, but the semiconductor industry pays well and I'm not a famous maker so couldn't make it work - as the article states well enough. To suggest that hobbies can't both be fun and profitable though is a philosophy I think should be quashed.

You're conflating direct property theft with a very different practice. It's also a very US-centric way of thinking; the rights of the individual going above the common good. Squatting rights used to exist to protect the impoverished from absent landlords.

This is an old practice in the UK, older than the US by many centuries, and it's why many states in the US also adopted it in some measure when the union was formed. Most countries have similar laws, and people are often surprised by that fact. Squatters were a common sight across the UK because no one effectively owned land - the monarchy or the church owned it. Traditionally in an English village, there were several classes of people. At the lower end were the incomers known as borderers or squatters, who would erect a cottage or a hovel on common or waste ground to house themselves and would pay rent to the Manorial lord or would work on his demesne several days a week. The building of the cottage was generally tolerated or even sanctioned under customary rights.

To understand the spirit of the law, I recommend reading about the 17th-century Diggers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers

Your personal property is protected. Reframe the intent. Imagine if Blackrock or Vanguard came in and bought out a county, land property and all, then just left it completely unused and untended. The place would fall to squalor. Squatters' rights mean you could continue to live and work that land without their permission. It was common in the 60s and 70s for communes to move into unoccupied mansions in London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting_in_England_and_Wales). Many of these homes were (still are) owned by oligarchs who had no intention of living there. They own it because it's an appreciating asset that drives up house prices in the area, forcing out local families, buying up the subsequent properties, and making ghost towns. Without a vacancy tax, there's no disincentive for people to own empty houses in places where people want to live besides the squatting laws.

It should be noted, that squatting in residential property became a criminal offence in 2012. "Professional" squatting happens now in vacant commercial buildings (like Ramsay's restaurant), or on disused land. The restaurant they're occupying has been vacant since 2015 - 9 years now. Squatters can apply to become the registered owners of a property if they have occupied it continuously for 10 years, acted as owners for the whole of that time and had not previously been permitted to live there by the owner. I guess these people will suggest that they have lived there continuously for the last 9 years (they likely haven't, which is why it'll get thrown out in court) and live there for the next year to try and take ownership.

They have a couple of Instagram accounts up about the whole thing it looks like: https://www.instagram.com/camdenartcafe/ https://www.instagram.com/autonomouswintershelter/

If anyone wants more insight on why this is "legal" the gov.uk website covers it well enough: https://www.gov.uk/squatting-law/squatters-rights-to-propert...

It's an old law to dissuade vacant properties effectively, but people don't often use it within fair use, resulting in situations like this. It'll need to go to court, and they'll be evicted, but they'll claim it under squatters right (wrongfully.

You can dial in several things if you know how well you slept:

I can judge how performant I'll be in the gym and fitness competitions - ie, how well I can push myself and recover. I can work out whether what I ate before I slept had an impact (high cards vs low, or if certain foods are a trigger for poor sleep). I can understand if things like meditation, light sources, and noises outside, among others, actually impact me or not. I'm constantly learning something new from it month by month.

Getting "Tea Drunk" is a common pursuit for many fine tea drinkers, myself included. My partner and I enjoy cultivars that give you a buzz. I went down a rabbit hole in trying different varieties and we found some that can only be drunk at the end of the day after work, else you'd write off the rest of the day. We had an aged white tea once that made us giggle like we were on shrooms, without all the overwhelming side effects or fear of a "bad trip".

I started watching "Mei Leaf", who's a YouTuber with a deep knowledge of tea and gong fu style brewing specifically and was hooked. He's got a video on getting tea drunk specifically that made me hunt the feeling initially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrLaKX9J8Uo

There's the Max GPU (Ponte Vecchio), their datacentre offering, with 128GB of HBM2e memory, 408 MB of L2 cache, and 64 MB of L1 cache. Then there's Gaudi, which has similar numbers but with cores specific for AI workloads (as far as I know from the marketing).

You can pick them up in prebuilds from Dell and Supermicro: https://www.supermicro.com/en/accelerators/intel

Read more about them here: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-shows-gpu-max-1550-perfor...

I had the same experience. It puts things into circumspect when you can physically see how erratic things like heart rate and sleep stage times differ with just a single drink. The difference for my was so stark you'd think it were a bug if it weren't for the fact I could spot the pattern and test to see the truth of things.

It should be pointed out that most Quorn products aren't vegan. They use eggs as a binding agent.

It's also no surprise that Iceland has the highest number of authors per capita!

I'm also backing that investment thesis. I don't have hopes for Intel being anything but a budget alternative in terms of their client and datacentre products, but the foundry business is only going to grow as more players join the gold rush that is compute power, and they're going to be the ones selling the picks.

It is nice, albeit the old windows (listed building which means I can't replace them) let out a lot of heat. The fireplace generally heats the whole place effectively when it's on though. It's worth it for the character of the house.

I live in a damp and dingy English cottage. I'm sure that the moisture from my 3 dehumidifiers could quench the whole county if distributed accordingly.

You're right on that one, I perhaps should have more accurately said: "Revive". I will say though that the scope of Paul's vision for an Intel foundry didn't shine a light against IFS. There wasn't the same push for increased capacity. More so excess capacity would be given to select customers, and they might maybe increase capacity for big customers like Apple (who were with Samsung at the time rather than TSMC).

Some context from 2013 when they tried their hand at it: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/150217-intel-pumps-up-...

It's funny as a side note that their big foundry announcement at the time was making chips for Altera before the merger, and now Altera is parting ways with Intel after 8 years. Time flies.

GlobalFoundries are nowhere near the leading edge on node process, and Intel have opened up their foundries to customers since Pat's return with the advent of IFS: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/overview.htm...

The weave on that flax linen is fantastic. It's very tight-knit for something that would be hand-woven. A great amount of time would have gone into that.

The same is happening in the UK. They've made car travel harder without making public transport any better (outside of London), which has just lowered the average person's productivity rather than making any headway into tackling the core issue of people getting from A to B quicker, cheaper, with less pollution.

They put in some heavy traffic restrictions in my local city of Oxford by closing off residential roads, forcing all traffic down "arterial" roads instead and putting parking restrictions all over the place. A year later, there are no fewer cars on the road or increased public transport usage; some local studies by the university confirmed that. People just spend more time stuck in traffic travelling longer distances.

It's like having a person with an injured leg and a missing one. Instead of giving the person a prosthesis to remove the load, they've just lopped the other off altogether, leaving them to crawl from place to place instead of hobble.

Awesome. I only mentioned that one because it looked to be the only one that was non-invasive. It looks like you managed to get an invasive method to scale though, which is great.

I wouldn't say lucky - I'd rather go through the rest of life suffering than die at this moment, as there is a joy to be found in that itself - but I understand your sentiments. Very few would choose not being born over life, as you can't predict how life will be, even for these chickens. The chickens that live in my neighbour's garden had a horrible 2 years of life in cages, followed by a great 10 or so.

Reducing pain and suffering is better than not doing anything at all, and it's childish to assume that we can do anything more than regulate our food habits, and perhaps a couple of those around us. I'm vegan; I'm not deluded enough to think that my eating habits are anywhere near mainstream. There doesn't seem to be any end in sight for animal agriculture, whatever my personal feelings may be about that, so the next best thing one can do is reduce suffering where possible, and in-ovo sexing in hatcheries works a small way towards that.

Related to this, I had been dreaming up an idea for a start-up for a while that uses computer imaging techniques to do non-invasive in-ovo sexing of bird eggs for the poultry industry. It seems criminal that we gas or drop into a macerator over half of the chickens hatched. It's just so cruel and seems like it could be done at an embryonic stage where they don't yet have the capacity for pain or sentience.

Turns out that since the last time I started doing some initial testing with my university MRI machine, someone has already run with the idea in Germany and it looks like they have a viable product that customers are already using: https://orbem.ai/solutions-poultry-egg-scanning-classificati...

This is awesome, exciting, and I hope it becomes the norm for the industry.

We recently had a new CEO come on board, and within 60 days they cut 3 product lines and all the people associated with them. We were making a profit, albeit less than usual due to "market conditions", but not anything that wasn't predicted to turn around in the foreseeable future. These were leading-edge products in our market, fulfilling a niche that our competitors weren't looking at in any meaningful way, and of great importance and interest to our biggest customers - and somehow this one person could predict the future and adapt to that better than legions of decision-makers in the organisation?

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think someone can reasonably come in and in such a short time make such sweeping decisions in an informed manner. I simply think it's impossible to do more than guesswork in that time frame. They're gambling with people's lives to make themselves look impactful, nothing more. These products were maybe 2 or 3 years in development too. I honestly feel like most CEOs spend a couple of days looking at a balance sheet for the next quarter, and make it all up from there. It's insane.

For those out of the loop, this comment is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the fact there are 1000's of parakeet across the parks of London. Noisy buggers.

The difference is, the company can remove the game from the store, but not my games library. I can still continue to play them long after purchase.

You don't seem to get PCIe Gen 5 outside of the top-end devices it seems. Agilex 7 has it on the Intel side with the R-Tile devices (including a hard CXL IP too which is lovely), but their recently announced Agilex 5 (the UltraScale+ competitor) only host PCIe 4.0 x8. I guess it takes up too much in terms of resources to double the throughput on a low-power device.

The ReefShark ASIC sits alongside an FPGA which acts akin to an IPU. I know only because I played my own small part in the design. It was originally meant to be entirely FPGA-based, but they got hit with some severe supply constraints by Intel and Xilinx, which is why cost keeps getting discussed. Prices have dropped back down to stable numbers again since mid-last year, but at the time ASICs ended up being more affordable at the volume they're doing (demand spiked mid-project due to the removal of Huawei networking equipment).

What you're describing is correct for the top-end FPGA products (they're in every 5G base station, and almost every data centre has thousands of them rerouting information), but the low-end ($10 or less) 2k LE FPGAs are in a hell of a lot of products now too. They're fantastic for anything where you need a lot of logic that executes immediately/concurrently (vs sequentially as would with a microcontroller) in a tiny package. Think medical devices, robotics, comms devices, instrumentation, or power controllers.

I'm pretty sure there's an FPGA in most consumer devices now, but as you say they're there for some sort of glue logic - but that's a killer niche unto itself. Schematics can shift and change throughout a design cycle, and you only need to rewrite some HDL rather than go hunting for a different ASIC that's fit for purpose. It's a growing field again as their cost has come right down. They're in the Apple Vision headset, the Steam Deck, modern TVs, and a host of small form factor consumer computing products.

Policing issues worldwide always seem like some bizarre budgeting priority issue to me. They're happy to spend many millions upgrading their vehicle fleets and equipment each year - kit that is perfectly fit for purpose in most cases, much of it only 5 or 6 years old - yet they can't afford to get bodies on the ground or respond to crime-in-progress calls. Seems to be classic white elephant behaviour.

To be frank, the general public doesn't care about the extreme crime that most police forces concern themselves with. They just want to feel safe on the subway or walk home from work. They want to be able to have a delivery left on their doorstep and not be stolen. They want to be able to park their car without someone smashing their window to steal some spare change. Yet little funding ever seems to come together to do anything about that; it all goes into the exciting anti-terrorism unit or drug-enforcement agency and the likem which make up the tiniest fraction of actual crimes.

I think a lot of the reasons that engineers rag on business leaders more than engineering ones are that:

1. They haven't tried creating a product and then making money off it. It's amazing how painfully difficult that can be (without good Sales and Marketing).

2. They haven't done a (good) MBA and don't understand how much goes into it, so write it off as similar to an undergraduate business degree.

3. They have a superiority complex from their university days where engineering was the hardest discipline.

Pat Gelsigner's favourite phrase is "We all work for Sales and Marketing". He says it over and over. I think at this time in Intel's history an engineer is the better one to be running the ship, but the idea that you need to be 100% tech savvy to run a successful tech company is, as you proved through your example, patently false. A good CTO can make all the difference in the product, while a good MBA-type CEO can focus on everything else.

They did. Have a look at the spreadsheet from the report. The Tesla Model 3 Long Range has a Green Score of 64. Not sure where they pulled the chart from in the NYT article, but it would still fall at 11; just off the list. The actual data if sorted by "Green Score" (tried to look up the scoring methodology but the website is down: https://greenercars.org/news/2024-methodology-update) looks like this before you hit the first Tesla (when removing duplicates and similar models).

TOYOTA PRIUS PRIME SE

Hyundai Ioniq Electric

Mini Cooper SE Hardtop 2 Door

Mercedes-Benz Smart Fortwo ed Coupe

BMW I3

Hyundai Ioniq Plug-in Hybrid

Kandi K23, (254Ah)

Nissan Leaf

LEXUS RZ 300e (18inch Wheels)

MAZDA MX-30

Tesla Model 3 Long Range

https://www.aceee.org/sites/default/files/files/LEED2024.xls...

Not strictly accurate; it's the major part of it, but climate-change driven species loss is a real threat and at some point will likely outpace the rate of loss due to land/resource exploitation.

Ocean biodiversity loss is almost certainly harmed by overfishing and toxic run-off from rivers/lakes don't get me wrong, but it's also hugely impacted by rising sea temperatures. Ocean biodiversity increases exponentially with sea surface temperature up to about 20-25 C (68-77 F). Beyond that threshold, biodiversity drops off due to the limits of aerobic metabolism. Temperatures that make it hard for cold-blooded sea creatures to breathe have likely been among the biggest drivers for shifts in the distribution of marine biodiversity.

Desertification, caused partly by human agriculture and the removal of soil-retaining plant matter but mostly due to climate change, is also a major cause of species loss and it's occurring across much of the planet - especially Africa and Central Asia. Those animals that can't rapidly migrate to cooler/wetter climates are ripe for extinction.

Precisely this. Earth's 'normal' extinction rate is often thought to be somewhere between 0.1 and 1 species per 10,000 species per 100 years. A mass extinction event is when species vanish much faster than they are replaced. This is usually defined as about 75% of the world's species being lost in a short period of geological time - less than 2.8 million years.

The current rate of extinction is between 100 and 1,000 times higher than the pre-human background rate of extinction. What we're going through will be an extinction event on a timescale and severity that will be closer to the Permian or Cretaceous extinction, which resulted in the species death of 95% and 78% respectively, and caused by apocalyptic scenarios; meteors and volcanos effectively suffocating the planet. Never before has a single species been responsible for such destruction on Earth.

I suspect humanity will survive whatever future is yet to come. I just hope we managed to preserve a substantial percentage of natural diversity through that process.