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Shamelessly AI generated articles on the front page of a national news site (albeit not a very good one). What has this world come to

You can have all the GPUs in the world, and all the AI datacenters in the world, but when we are barreling towards a global energy crisis (first Russia/Ukraine, then the Strait of Hormuz shutdown, and in a few decades we will run out of fossil fuels altogether), what are all of those GPUs and AI datacenters going to do without energy? Nothing. I say this because I think this will have a far larger effect on the economy than anything else this article is talking about (AI replacing labor, a possible AI bubble crash, etc.)

My nightmare world would be one where we apply "everything else" logic to time.

1 kilosecond: about 17 minutes

1 megasecond: about 12 days

1 gigasecond: about 32 years

"Oh man, it's been a hot megasecond since we last spoke!" Said everyone, in my worst nightmares.

> Last time I saw stats Linux desktop marketshare, somebody said it was up to 6%. That's astonishing.

I wouldn't get too excited about that. That might just be because people are moving off of desktops entirely and now only own mobile devices, a market where Linux may as well not exist (excluding Android). The number goes up, because at large, the portion of people who run Linux desktops are less likely to pivot to using only a mobile phone as they tend to be hobbyists/enthusiasts.

See also: https://infinitemac.org/

One possible advantage of this approach that no one here has mentioned yet is that it would allow us to put RAM on the CPU die (allowing for us to take advantage of the greater memory bandwidth) while also allowing for upgradable RAM.

You underestimate the power of the default setting

Just tried it out - definitely an improvement UX-wise, but it still essentially runs two copies of Firefox rather than only isolating profile-specific features.

Firefox's "answer" to profiles is to run essentially two (or more) copies of the browser rather than only copying the profile-specific parts of each profile. This leads to a lot of wasted CPU cycles and RAM and is a very suboptimal solution compared to what Chromium and Safari do these days, not to mention that the ability to create and switch profiles is not included in the UI by default and requires an extension to access.

"And good enough is the enemy of society."

Same here - actually, my PC broke in early 2024 and I still haven't fixed it. I quickly found out that without gaming, I no longer have any use for my PC, so now I just do everything on my MacBook.

I can't lie, I miss when the only GPT I had to worry about was the GUID Partition Table.

Centralia, PA has a mine that has been on fire since 1962 and will be on fire for at least another 250 years [0] - the town had to be evacuated in the 80s because it caused people to fall into sinkholes that randomly and suddenly opened up. Scary.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

30 years ago, I would have said the same thing. But right now solar is seeing technological advances at an exponential rate, such that by the time we build a nuclear power plant, get it approved, and get it running, solar will be both cheaper and safer while using less space.

From my experience, I find most of the time the best part about hackathons is not what you create, but who you get to meet/network with. It may just be my uni/age cohort, but most projects I saw at the last hackathon I went to were less "MVP" type/semi-complete projects and more just "we have a concept of a plan."

Ignoring the obvious question of "why does a screen recorder that checks for updates every 5 minutes need to be installed if macOS already has a screen recorder built in"—writing your own (buggy) auto updater for a macOS app, in 2025, is nuts considering you also have two existing options for auto updates at your disposal, the Mac App Store and Sparkle (https://sparkle-project.org/), both of which are now nearly two decades old.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore this truck. But I feel the same way about this truck that I do about the Framework Laptop (having owned one)—cool idea, cool product, but will Slate be around in 5 years to keep making parts and offering support for it?

Pardon—what does Wu Tang have to do with Dropbox?

And if Gentoo's binary support is good enough for even ChromeOS, I'd imagine it'll also work perfectly fine for SteamOS.

kill-the-newsletter.com is a godsend for stuff like this.