HerbManic

I don't think they realize that they are in the top 1% of earners on the planet with numbers like that.

It is always funny to see how many think they are hard done even though by the numbers they are the winners by a wide margin.

I think Matt Bevens with his show 'If you are listening' summarized it perfectly. Trump got into the mind set that he could switch wars on and off as needed. The issue is that Iran was the third rail you do not touch and wasn't anything like the other nations he had a role in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irsF1W3StWk

It is called Risk Homeostasis, it is when you do something risky but do not experience the negatives. It is like driving through red traffic lights, if you do it 10 times and you do not have a crash then you start to think that you can ignore red lights. The risks and dangers are still there but you have just been lucky, until you aren't.

Trump has always had this mentality of, you can do awful things and get a lot of media attention but if it gets to hot then you can just back down. Iran is the one thing he cannot back down from and has no escape strategy. It is going to be the biggest of the black marks on Trumps legacy. Considering a lot of what he has done on the international stage, that is pretty damning.

Alas for some people, their lifestyle will expand to fill their income. They could earn 10x as much, and it probably still wouldn't be enough.

I'm sorry but you pay more in tax than I make in income! This sounds like your lifestyle creep has chewed up your money stream. Despite my significantly lower income, I manage to own my house in Melbourne. With your income I could have it paid down in a few years at most.

I'm not sure if there is anything more that can be said about this.

While there is a huge stack of skill, training and just good genetics at work. A big part of this does come down to, who can push themselves closes to the absolute limits without dying.

If there is what they want to do, go for it. But not for everybody.

The one major area they are still behind in is CPU tech, but they are hungry and thus moving quick.

Looking at Loongsons processors for instance. About 15 years ago they coudl barely compete with a Pentium 2. Now they are about 4-5 years behind Intel/AMD. Further behind on some more specific work loads (SSL decoding for example) Not great but that is a decent jump. The jumps between generations are pretty decent.

LA446 was a decent enough processor core but had an awful memory controller that held it back as soon as it needed to reach outside of cache. As such it was SLOW.

But they learned the lesson and now the LA664 almost entirely fixed that issue. I think a big part of performance issues is that they are working domestic 5 to 7nm processes, so a good 5-7 years behind.

They are launching the LA864 later this year and are touting some decent performance gains. That is just marketing so far but something to keep an eye on.

Considering that these chips are using their own ISA, own designs, domestic manufacturing and they aren't terrible is a big thing.

I suspect in the next 5 years they have the chance of completely closing the gap. But it can also go the other way that they end up stalling as smaller nodes get much more difficult to attain.

Possible, but that is still reasonable odds.

Reminds me of the line from The Naked Gun "Doctors give him a 50% chance of living, but there is only a 10% chance of that."

The booster catch is a useful trick but when the focus is just getting SS3 into orbit without incident, you can drop a few of the boosters in the ocean with the intent to fix at a later point.

Yeah... he gave himself that title back in 2021.

That is a brilliant line. And yes Emanuel Macron has been taking this treat seriously as he is very well versed on Da Gaulle.

He might not have the best domestic moves but when it comes to Geopolitics, he is all over it.

Terrance McKenna once said something like "The worst government is the one in power, regardless of the time."

Essentially, regardless of who is in, they rarely teardown the injustices of the past but merely build on them. They will rip out like 20% of things that are socially changing but after that it is a ratchet upwards on things that cement in further power.

Yeah I usually expect better of the comments here but it looks like a nerve has been hit.

I said in another response, Trump has shown the cards to world that there is a sizable portion of the country that can not be trusted. Other nations have realised this is an embedded problem and cannot be fixed with another election. At least not on a long scale.

It is a combination of moving fast and slow. A lot of Canadians now avoid purchasing products from the US were possible. Mean while their government while still dependent on the US is making the moves that will minimise their dependence on them over the coming decades.

I am seeing similar positions in other countries now.

It will be interesting to see what happens. Many are hoping that there is a very strong turn out for the Democrat's so that any rigging cannot over come it, but this sounds like fan fiction to me. That said Trump hitting Iran may be the single biggest blunder of his political career, media influence can only go so far when there is a direct impact on all prices and potential stock availability in the coming months.

Hopefully a lot of the fears don't pan out but we won't know until it gets closer.

I'm not saying that there aren't better options but both major parties are complicit in how the system is organised. The US electoral system gets ever more distorted with every minor adjustment in the hopes of swinging various seats in their favour and now it just looks ridiculous.

It is wild seeing the elctorial maps of Germany and you can almost exactly recreate the East-West split. Decades later and it is coming back to haunt them.

There is the military saying "Once is an accident, twice is an attack", this is how a lot of folks see it.

I think it is deeper, that these actions were taken at the top and a sizable amount of the people sided with them, that sends the message that the US cannot be trusted long term, it has become cultural. I get that it isnt a majority of people but it is big enough that it cannot be ignored.

Yeah pretty much.

I have seen it hallucinate things confidently but that is usually when it has no direct sources to pin down the output.

Yep, if you are going to leave a project as leader, either see if someone else wants to take over or leave a note that the project isn't being updated.

If you are really motivated, leave instructions on how someone else can pick up were you left off even if it is just an email address others can reach out to.

For the longest time Iain McGilchrist has been going on about left brain this, right brain that and it all felt very pop-psych stuff.

Not sure if because of that being sort of torn down but recent years he has been clarifying he wasn't talking about a literal left/right device but more an analogy to different modes of thinking.

There is some hemisphere function allocation but it feels far to over played in folks trying to offer easy answers to difficult things.

There are so many projects that come up here that have the tag line of "This is such a stupid idea that I just had to do it!".

We can do things just for the fun of it. Woz made the Apple computer basically as a toy, nothing more. And that's cool.

I run it on an old Optiplex that is a 3rd gen i3. No issue with drivers but that comes from its old (well seasoned) age.

Haiku is a good example of prioritising the user experience over benchmarks. Under the hood, broadly speaking, it is running at about 60% the speed of Linux on the same system. But in action it feels so much quicker than anything else.

That is not to say that they aren't focusing on performance gains, just that they have ensured the user experience is the top priority.

I immediately copied that clip of the cyclone intro because of how dark and funny it was.

Also calling listeners "Biological processors" is one of the funniest dystopian outcomes of this.

I like that it doesn't block the content but merely highlights it. That is a smart move.

The limit ultimately will be how well the algorithm can keep up with changes in LLM cadence over time. This is usually were project like this come undone, the concept it easy enough to build, it is the up to date data set where the real magic is.

But other than that, very cool to see and interested to see how it goes.

I suspect this is why places like Reddit are so valuable. With the voting system, they can correlate AI output with peoples approval. They are essentially ranking how well the output is received.

This doesn't mean this stuff will improve drastically as it might just highlight how low the bar is for some folks, but it is better than nothing.

Sort of like how reality TV was considered broadcast anesthetic slop, and yet people couldn't get enough of it and it is still with us decades later.

Sorry I see I am being down voted. Understandable, I do come off a little like a jerk there. I am not anti solar in the least, I just kind it really fascinating how some folks who are very well meaning, also tend to love that they can show off their goodies. I wish it wasn't the case but alas this is how some folks are.

The internet would be a very quiet place and the publishing industry would go mostly broke if we had that requirement.

Back 2001-ish there was an uproar about how Windows XP would profile your system and upload this to Microsoft. This was done to ensure that it got the right security update (32/64bit - home/enterprise). That was the only thing it did.

Now 25 years later, they know who you are talking too, what you are talking about, where you are almost in real time, what websites you browse, books you read, music you like, podcasts you indulge in, what social media trends you follow, general political points of view, sexual orientation, what you look like and so on... It was all taken one little inch at a time and now we have mass apathy about it all.

And once they have taken that little bit, they will never let it go by choice.

Here in Australia, there are now ID proof of age requirements for Social media (still a little loosely enforced)and pornography. They have their foot in the door, you can see where it is going next.

It think they under estimate the 'Green bling' factor. For many people if they are going to get solar, they want the neighbours to know. Got to get that virtue signalling in.

Not saying it is a huge factor but it is there.