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Forget about this loss, how much income was Roku giving up by holding $500MM (at least) in checking or savings accounts?

I don't know about that. I think it's more that they never hedged their interest rate risk (or they invested in assets that were too long duration).

That's a bold statement and not in line with FDIC actions for previous bank failures.

I agree. Once you have an SLR with a real pentaprism (not 5 mirrors), it's hard to go leave.

Yes, these flux files are yuge (given the amount of actual data they contain). It seems to me they should compress well, but I can't see to remember if tried to do so the last time I fiddled with flux files--during the pandemmy when I thought the world was ending and it was important that my 8th grade book reports be preserved.

> the population doesn't care if porn is mixed in with everything else

Good luck bringing that up at the water cooler at work.

That's a very naive view. At the customer size of Twitter, it's more like the old adage. If you owe the bank $1MM it's your problem, but if you own the bank $100MM it's their problem.

His spreadsheets goal seek on increasing the number of invites to French Laundry.

Coming from Shopify, this feels like a ZIRP (zero interest rate project). i.e. projects that need not bear any fruit in the next many years. Snark aside, this looks very cool, and I definitely see use cases in gaming (and maybe in web home pages--assuming you could get the client to turn on the web cam for an unknown site).

In the article I see no mention of accelerometers. Can one get nearly the same effect on mobile merely using these and not using the camera?

Then how does the cash get into Tether?

Reminded me of when I found out Al Gore spent $30K a year on utilities. Not posting to call out hypocrisy, but posting to show how the rich are different from you and me.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=29068...

$10B down the drain it seems.

very true, but just because a bubble has different causes doesn't make it not a bubble.

No mention of ZIRP or a decade plus of quantitative easing. Without those, there would have been no lunacy.

I see your point, but our tests ensure that out functions work as expected. usually when test function foo, the test is called test_foo. But if we have a function or class that will ensure that X is a valid sparrow, we have a test called ensure_valid_sparrow.

We often use the word "ensure" in test names and / or doc strings.

might take a while to adjust given how generous and long lasting recent severance packages have been.

The New Yorker had a recent piece on Whisper as well.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/whispers...

For them, the key difference (other than it's great performance) was that it was a standalone executable that did not need to access remote resources or "share" sensitive information with such remote resources.

or the X who took your seat:

- POC

- child of alum

- athlete

- famous person or child of famous person

The list goes on.

The one on vue has 2MM views. Any thoughtful reactions yet?

> These AI queries are resource intensive.

But perhaps only for now. When youtube first started taking off, Google was bleeding cash on the resources needed to support it. Perhaps the same will be true for LLMs.

> Airlines would save 90,000 gallons of fuel on average and reduce emissions by 27,000 tons annually, which is equivalent to the amount of fuel used by 62 Boeing 737 flights between New York and Cleveland — or the annual carbon emissions of more than 1,600 average Americans combined.

Close to negligible amount of carbon savings, but maybe the noise justification is more meaningful.

I'm not sure I buy this. Isn't most of the pollution generated by a small % of vehicles. e.g. diesel trucks and maga pickups tuned to burn oil. In short, all the sedans on the road can be electric, but the pollution levels are largely unchnaged.

asthma rates for residents of this building would not be affected until all trucks and buses went electric.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_Apartments

I find it very hard to give to charity when any meaningful contribution I make can be immediately dwarfed by a single contribution from a whale. Maybe when / if there are less billionaires, I'll feel differently.

Seems like a whole of pork to me. Sorry for the Chicago joke. But definitely not even close to the boondoggle that ITER is.

Recent vintage Porsche 911s only have FM. anti-flex.

It's only getting more expensive because we've let AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure own all the machines.

> They could get multiples of that $10B back if they sold it to investors now.

Maybe so, but MSFT is not a mark-to-market / opportunistic trader.

Rachel by the Bay would hate this:

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/08/30/pain/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/08/31/lines/

I would posit that it's more Microsoft freaking out over ChatGPT than Google. MSFT will never get that $10 billion back.