snowchaser

I just bought one a few months ago after putting it off for years. He sent the most charming hand written note and a series of selfies proving that he personally packed it! A true gem.

If AI flops, they’re be left holding large pools of useful datacenter/compute capacity and “revert” to one of the most profitable businesses of all time.

I just use my laptop as a powerbank these days. What I typically need to charge is a phone, with way smaller capacity than my macbook. So it works pretty well now that everything has usbc.

Totally agree, SI units for the win!

I was just trying to use “familiar” units. I could have led with 1 HP per square yard, and then you’d totally have license to call me out!

And yeah, I was just talking about solar flux, there’s a whole lot of real world losses to consider but my point was that none of this matters, it’s orders of magnitude away from ICE engine output.

It’s a good question, but the reality is the energy required to power a car is far larger than what you can collect.

The solar energy you can collect is about 750W/sq meter.

A car roof is about 5’x5’, and if we are generous and include a trunk and hood area, maybe you are getting 60 sqft?

Best case if the sun is right over the car you can illuminate about 5 square meters. That’s about 3.75KW.

To convert that to a more familiar car power measurement that’s about 5 horsepower.

Hopefully it’s clear why a realtime solar car is hard.

This is not to say it’s impossible, they have been built. They’re just not super practical for everyday use.

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

I think they mean (sarcastically) that ICE is sucking up all the qualified candidates.

Disappointing. A better response from Atlassian (or the CEO if this really bothered them so much) would be to look at the criticism and try to understand why this sentiment is in the org.

Is he too rich for some people’s taste? Does that indicate workers are unhappy with the real/perceived pay disparity?

Is he a jerk in other contexts? Is this proxy for unapproachable, rude, or some other unbecoming set of behaviors?

It’s an opportunity to improve, or at least reflect on the perception they have in the company. Firing, and asserting the right to do so for expressing an opinion, seems to me to be a poor choice of action.

“There's no (state) school giving out tablets that aren't pretty much single-use locked down devices.”

They try, but kids are smart and there are holes in the tools to lock things down. You would not believe the inventive workarounds that kids find to circumvent content filters. It’s a losing battle to lock everything.

In US, going to 128 GB from 32 is $1500 extra. However 32 GB is only offered with the 32 core version and 128 only with the 40 core version.

I noticed that the “Net Cash” figures look fishy, it seems like you’re not taking into account Marketable Securities (MS) in the calculation. These are essentially cash. See GOOG and others. (GOOG ended 2025 with almost $100B in MS, for a total of ~$132B Cash & MS)

If “Net Cash” refers to Net Cash Flow, they gained a Net $7B YoY.

Just want to understand how you are calculating these.

Cool design BTW.

As a PSA, the Google Workspace version of gmail doesn’t train on your data, if you like other gmail/workspace features.

(Workspace TOS is now part of the Cloud TOS https://workspace.google.com/terms/premier_terms/)

Section 12.11 of the Workspace specific terms confirms that Google will not train on customer data(which Gmail emails in workspace are). Incidentally, this is where Generative prompts and responses submitted or created via GA versions of Gemini in workspace are identified as “Customer Data”, which is not used for training. https://workspace.google.com/terms/service-terms/