Who is this programmer?

I love that people think he is a genius.

He blew ~$40 billion on a shitty VR project that nobody uses.

Also noshitsherlock.com

His books are so shit and totally miss the point of Frank Herbert’s books.

So? Still Chinese owned companies and still not manufactured in the United States.

It will just divert manufacturing to places like Vietnam or Mexico.

You can do both.

I have Cloudflare pointing to my reverse proxy which the points to a website and other subdomains.

Had to hunt through a bunch of forums to work out how to get it to work.

It’s terrible for the stock price which has a price to earnings ratio of almost 200.

If this were a normal company with a profit margin of ~6% and a normal stock price (in line with the market average), it would be fine.

The issue is the price to earnings ratio of the Tesla stock which is almost 200:1.

The level of profit is not bad for a normally price company but Telsa needs to have profits grow exponentially to justify their stock price.

The root problem they are trying to fix is real (systemic trade imbalances) but the way they are trying to fix it is terrible and won’t work.

1. Only a universally applied tariff would work in theory but would require other countries not to retaliate (there will 100% be retaliation).

2. It doesn’t really solve the root cause, capital inflows into the USA rather than purchasing US goods and services.

3. Trump wants to maintain being the reserve currency which is a big part of the problem (the strength of currency may not align with domestic conditions, i.e. high when it needs to be low).

😂

Perhaps the stocks were massively overvalued and any negative news was going to start this sell off regardless of its actual impact?

That is my theory anyway.

It is also because the USA is the reserve currency of the world with open capital markets.

Savers of the world (including countries like Germany and China who have excess savings due to constrained consumer demand) dump their savings into US assets such as stocks.

This leads to asset bubbles and an uncompetitively high US dollar.

Does it still need people spending huge amounts of time to train models?

After doing neural networks, fuzzy logic, etc. in university, I really question the whole usability of what is called “AI” outside niche use cases.

Everspace 2 is heaps of fun and looks fantastic.

Bro, it is likely 100,000 people (mostly women and children) are dead.

Civilian infrastructure has been deliberately targeted, all the hospitals bombed, graveyards deliberately razed, universities have had their antiquities looted and then demolished, all water infrastructure deliberately destroyed, all fisheries/bakeries/food production facilities deliberately destroyed, etc.

There are numerous instances of literal war crimes including murder captured on camera.

Multiple reports from numerous organisations that Israel is deliberately obstructing aid into Gaza.

There are random “kill zones” declared and randomly moved around which the IDF use to murder everyone within it.

From the Israeli organisation, Breaking the Silence:

https://mailchi.mp/breakingthesilence/there-is-no-liberty-in-occupation-7226978?e=d4bcf62320

"Last week, we got another detailed, chilling insight into the ways in which we fight in Gaza with a new collection of testimonies being reported in Haaretz - all from soldiers who served in the same, very large, kill zone north of the Netzarim corridor, which bisects Gaza.

…

Unarmed civilians posthumously labeled as terrorists by the hundreds, all while restrictions on shooting are near nonexistent. “Anyone approaching whatever line was decided at that moment is considered a threat – no permission needed to shoot,” one soldier said.

“After shootings, bodies are not collected, attracting packs of dogs who come to eat them. In Gaza, people know that wherever you see these dogs, that’s where you must not go,” said another soldier.

Another soldier described an occasion where a teen who crossed into the kill zone was shot dozens of times: "We responded as if it was a large militant raid. […] For about a minute or two, we just kept shooting at the body. People around me were shooting and laughing. […] "When someone pointed out he was unarmed and looked like a civilian, everyone shouted him down. The commander said: ‘Anyone crossing the line is a terrorist, no exceptions, no civilians. Everyone’s a terrorist.’”

One reservist described a case in which an IDF helicopter fired a missile at an unarmed adult and two children who had crossed this ever-changing border. “We had them under complete surveillance with the drone and weapons aimed at them – they couldn’t do anything,” he said."

In Jerusalem and the West Bank, Israelis are literally ethnically cleansing Armenians and Palestinians out of the Armenian quarter and other areas. No Hamas there. Just plain ethnic cleansing.

Israel could not have maintained its campaign for than a few months without American support.

The Israeli government was secretly sabotaging its own negotiations and Biden’s peace plan.

The idea that people shouldn’t be able to talk about this and try and hold people accountable is some spineless shit.

The reality is that even if Arab Americans voted at the same rate as 2020, the outcome would not have changed.

The Green vote was historically insignificant.

Blaming people who were raising the Genocide in Gaza is some spineless blame shifting.

Incumbent governments around the world, regardless of political orientation, have been getting tossed out of power due to inflation and cost of living pressures.

The Democrats did enable genocide though.

Doesn’t mean Trump was going to be any better.

I remember using frames.

Neocities.org is a great old school site.

I really miss the BBS forums.

I made a load of friends on those.

When I quit reddit, it occurred to me that after 10 years, I hadn’t made a single friend there.

Now many of these remaining BBS forums have a constant battle against bots.

Dead internet theory is becoming true.

Bots talking to bots will be 90% of the internet.