

I’ve entered my crotchety old man phase early. Amazon has given me an unreasonable hatred of online shopping, and therefore I do everything in my power to find brick and mortar places to shop at.


I’ve entered my crotchety old man phase early. Amazon has given me an unreasonable hatred of online shopping, and therefore I do everything in my power to find brick and mortar places to shop at.


Before upgrading my server to a DDR4 platform, I’m pretty sure I had bought the last 32 GB kit of DDR3 in the country. Dude at the store was surprised it was even there.


With this being a map of undersea cables, one of the nodes on those lines likely connects to the terrestrial network. With how remote and shitty to build on a lot of that land is, laying the cables undersea may have actually been faster and cheaper than laying them on land.


I always think it’s funny how millennials got shit for avocado toast, yet it was my boomer parents who introduced it to me.


Yeah, that was my first thought. Banning the dude is cheap and easy and carries no legal consequences. Calling the dude a pedo may mean having to deal with a defamation case that could get expensive, even in the likely case that they win.
You know, that’s actually one of the very few types of use case where I’d be ok with the massive resource consumption of AI data centers. Just feed enormous volumes of raw sensor data into model training and see if it comes up with patterns and connections that we didn’t notice.