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Slightly off topic, but not by much, question. Is it possible, with the recent AI advancements, to create 16:9 4K versions of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY?

The best time to realize a PC build is actually never because there will always be something better around the corner.

Any seasoned engineer would hardcode the values at the bottom of the page.

I wonder why none of the trillion-dollar club members with "infinite" money, e.g., MSFT or AAPL, are building bleeding-edge fabs in locations that are geopolitically more stable than Taiwan. If TSMC tanks, then these companies will also tank by a massive amount, much more than 20 bln.

> For Rocky Linux, RHEL cloud instances are currently the primary source.

Okay this answers the first question thanks.

> Not every RHEL binary is GPL licensed, but all the packages we distribute have an open source license permitting such redistribution.

Regarding the second question, fair enough, you are allowed to redistribute the source code. However, there is no legal obligation for Red Hat to distribute the source code to you for non-GPL binaries. So, what happens if you cannot obtain the source code of the Red Hat binaries (non-GPL) via your RHEL cloud instance workaround? Essentially, Rocky relies on an RHEL cloud instances workaround to fetch sources that could stop working (for non-GPL) at any time. Not such a bright and shiny future, if you ask me.

I had already read that when it was published, and I think it's very vague.

> Fortunately, there are alternative methods available to obtain source code, and we would like to highlight two examples

Okay, you list two options for obtaining the source of any RHEL binaries, but which one of these do you currently use? Or can't you say anything about it due to legal reasons?

> These methods are possible because of the power of GPL. No one can prevent redistribution of GPL software.

Not every RHEL binary is GPL-licensed, though. How do you plan to obtain the source for non-GPL-licensed binaries, where there might be no legal guarantee to obtain the source?

I don't know. All that I read from them over and over again is that they celebrate themselves and that they made the right decisions. What I really would like to read are more detailed writings about their challenges, especially legal concerns.

You can use the TimescaleDB PostgreSQL extension. It works really well and has a high compression rate for time series data, such as metrics. It can also downsample data. I have also tried InfluxDB, but you have to rewire your mental model to fit InfluxDB (it has its own query syntax and internal mechanism). They have versions v1, v2, and v3, and it's not clear which one to use, probably v2 at this point in time. It's kind of confusing and the state of development is very much in flux.

I think TimescaleDB works well up to the single-digit terabyte range (according to various sources). If you need a solution in the multi-digit terabyte or petabyte range, then you probably need something like a distributed VictoriaMetrics setup.

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb

I wouldn't necessarily call it a bubble. There has been a breakthrough in AI recently, and now we see the new companies following that. Of course, 95% or so will fail, and the invested money is gone, but that happens basically with every new technology shift. From my point of view, what is needed for a real investment bubble is that the investors are not aware that there is a high failure rate of AI startups, but I don't think that is the case here.

For comparison, in case of the crypto bubble, there's really a huge community that thinks BTC or other cryptos will go "to the moon" and they seem to be immune to common investing fundamentals.

I don't know if Musl is worth the hassle if one is only interested in the reduced size. I see the point if you have everything statically linked, but with dynamic linking, you have glibc sitting there just once with a few MB, and you don't have to tackle all the issues that can arise when using Musl (e.g., DNS).

Alpine's compressed container image is nowadays something like 3 MB, okay, that's very small, but I wish they had an 8 MB glibc version. On the other hand, there is debian-slim, but it's not as good as Alpine when it comes down to stripping down the size, it still weighs in at around 30 MB. I'm still using it, though, although I think it could be smaller.

I think the question boils down on how to stop enshittification. Because if we were to recreate all the enshittified platforms, what would stop them from becoming enshittified anew? We must understand the mechanism of enshittification and fundamentally break this mechanism, making it nearly impossible for a new platform to enter the enshittification cycle again.

I think that also has to do with the amount of complexity. Henri Poincaré is often said to have been the last man who knew all of math. Today, you need research teams across the world working on a very narrow topic to make tiny progress iteratively in the best case. I think the time when one man could bring us a century forward like Newton or Einstein is gone.

Skip forward 10 years, we pull whole regions if enough servers in it die.

If it can pierce a roof, then it can pierce the human body as well, so it's pretty deadly.

While NASDAQ is at an all-time high, according to some podcasts I follow, these layoffs are mostly due to AI.

Another solution is to wear sunglasses and/or a hat and to use an E-Ink device when traveling. I have tested it multiple times, works quite well.

> Has it? I have never seen anybody using IPFS in the wild

Every time someone downloads a book from a shadow library like Library Genesis, it's through IPFS most of the time, often via an IPFS gateway such as Cloudflare's IPFS gateway, so you don't even notice it's using IPFS. These shadow libraries have millions of users per day, especially academics.

> The article shows the famously debunked "gimbal" video.

While I do agree with your sentiment here, I think the gimbal video has not been debunked as of yet, if we don't include random YouTubers.

> The "best" evidence is always a video of photo of such a poor quality that anything could be interpreted into it.

I think modern military cameras, like the one in the gimbal video, are not that bad in terms of quality. But yes, at this point in time, you have to come up with decent quality video and if possible extra sensors like infrared, radar, and so on to capture the phenomenon. I think it is worth investigating, no matter the outcome, because if something can be observed on multiple sensors (including video), then there is some kind of interference that could potentially expose improvement potentials for the sensors (e.g., to filter out such artifacts or to categorize them correctly).

"3 for an extra risk split"

I guess in the end they are all fully dependent on Coinbase.

I have yet to see the bubble. Where are the triple-digit P/E values for vast amounts of tech stocks? Where are the companies nobody knew before (like pets.com in 2000) but ranking at the top? Where are the daily IPOs popping out of nowhere? Where are the instant paper millionaires via employee stock options, but caught up in lock-up periods? Cannot see any of that.

I actually have both - a T480s from work and a T480 as my personal device. I do recommend the T480 since it has dual RAM slots, and the maximum RAM for the T480s is 24GB. Plus, the battery can be swapped out. The only things I like better in the T480s are the materials, form factor, and weight.

I like the Thinkpad T-Series. I own a T430 (equipped with a i5 quad-core processor and Full-HD IPS display), T450s, T480s, and T14. I can confirm that even a decade-old T430, after some upgrades, is still sufficient for using firefox + terminal + tmux + nvim, programming, running containers, and managing k8s clusters with kubectl and k9s.

If someone is actively looking for a second-hand device on eBay, I recommend the T480 as it has a very good price/performance ratio. Pick one with a i5/i7 quad-core, 32 GB Ram, FHD or WQHD IPS display and you will be fine.

"In 1999, his fortune was almost three times that of Buffett, who was the second-richest person at the time. That year, Gates’s wealth surged past the $100 billion mark"

I just ran a backtest[1] of Microsoft (MSFT) vs S&P 500 (SPY) starting in 1999 with $100 billion (dividends reinvested). MSFT would have resulted in $1.7 trillion, and SPY in $600 billion. Given the significantly higher risk of investing in MSFT versus SPY, I think SPY would have been the better choice nonetheless. Moreover, MSFT only started to perform stronger since 2016, before that, SPY was ahead of MSFT most of the time.

[1]: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio#analy...

I thought the same, but to ensure fairness, I would suggest that the application should run in a stateless container without internet access, and the infrastructure (Hetzner VM) should be recreated from scratch for each run to eliminate all caches.

I wonder how far we are from having a GPT-X.Y operating in a loop, creating a fully Linux-compatible kernel with all 437 system calls in Rust within a day, which includes testing, debugging, and recompiling.

Preferably, these release artifacts are generated by a pipeline, and the hashes are verifiable.

I would like to take a stance on one aspect of this argument, namley costs.

If you design it smart than your application can scale both ways not just up, but also down, even down to zero in some cases. So as soon your app is not used anymore or not used as much the costs should go down. If you buy the hardware or rent it and calucluate the costs up front for one year, then its not that easy.

I think what you're describing is the crux of the issue for chess players who don't want to commit full-time to chess but also have problems just playing a game here and there casually because it draws them in. In other words, they’re too good to be casual but not good or dedicated enough to be full-time professionals. These people are usually chess experts with 2000+ ratings but below international master (IM) level. I, for one, played chess when I was a kid, but decided not to devote too much time to it (1800 elo), although it was a lot of fun, because I wanted to spend time with friends and I didn't want to spend too much time on chess. Over the years, I adopted the approach of trying to be in the top 10% in many different things, just for fun and interest, instead of being just in the top 0.1% in one thing.

I thought this was going to be about M.2 drives via PCIe hat, but instead, it is about actual driving, which is refreshing.

I hope it's either a completely offline computer or a Linux system with an XP theme to make it look more familiar to the users.