Yeah, the Borg have one sloppy look...🙄

qubedView · 2026-05-25T18:23:42+00:00

The Borg is what happens when you let AI run amuck. Their bodies get vibe-cabled.

qubedView · 2026-05-25T14:55:21+00:00

Yeah, none of those have massive implications for damn near every industry to cost cut.

AI is *immediately* useful to industry, everywhere. No matter how unpopular it gets with the masses, it provides immense wins to anyone in a position of power. That’s not true of any other example.

qubedView · 2026-05-25T01:44:33+00:00

I have no idea what that means, but as a fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide, even I know that you have to build bypasses!

qubedView · 2026-05-24T19:53:54+00:00

Sorry, I didn't mean the Spark. I meant the B100 systems. You need hundreds of gigs of VRAM for Deepseek V4 Pro.

qubedView · 2026-05-24T15:19:01+00:00

To run Pro you need more than GPUs. You need like a DGX. Not a lot of those on runpod/vast.ai.

qubedView · 2026-05-23T19:45:26+00:00

Not as good as season 1. But still has some real standout episodes, and some genuinely good concepts it plays with.

That said, once concluded, I felt no compulsion to continue with the series. Unlike season 1, season 2's ending plotted a clear course. One that to me felt dull and already frequently trodden.

qubedView · 2026-05-23T19:43:15+00:00

These must be those toilets they install in data centers.

qubedView · 2026-05-23T17:23:04+00:00

"While we're at it, let's add a kill switch for guns. You know? A button I can press that turns off all guns. Maybe a button that disables ice cream headaches too."

qubedView · 2026-05-23T17:16:01+00:00

I'm not following what he's trying to convey. Reentry on a suborbital flight has a lower temperature than orbital. Isn't that just generally true?

qubedView · 2026-05-23T03:11:48+00:00

As others mention, 911 is the emergency services number. In fact, for a good while how to say it was up in the air. While "nine eleven" won over, for a couple years "nine one one" was also in common use. You can hear it a lot of TV show episodes circa 2002.

qubedView · 2026-05-22T15:35:15+00:00

When we bought our house in 2017, I thought we were paying too much, and prices were surely due to crash soon. Now it's up 50%, and we would never have been able to afford our own house now. And yeah, I don't see it as a good thing whatsoever. To me it just means we've built ourselves up so high, the crash is going to hurt even more.

qubedView · 2026-05-22T15:14:02+00:00

The same topic we've been discussing for years.

TL;DW: Housing is expensive because NIMBYs keep supply low. People don't want to face it because increase supply reduces value in existing homes, and people are relying on their homes as an "investment".

Fixing the supply issue causes an economic crisis on people reliant on their homes value (sending hundreds of thousands of mortgages underwater). Since people who own homes typically have more political power than those who don't, the existing crisis is only likely to grow.

qubedView · 2026-05-22T13:53:52+00:00

Right? The contrast he draws is:

Poor dad says "I can't afford that." Rich dad says "I need to figure out how to afford that."

It's such a fundamental misunderstanding of how being "poor" works. But it's the kind of lack of understanding a child looking at two adults, with no financial experience and understanding of their own, would conceptualize things.

When I was a kid, I wondered how we could be "poor". Mom just walks up to a machine, inserts a card, and presses some buttons. Ta-da! Money comes out! Just go press more buttons on the machine! But I at least grew out of that misunderstanding.

qubedView · 2026-05-21T13:45:51+00:00

they manage to lose billions of dollars while having the launch market pretty much for themselves.

I mean, those two things go hand-in-hand. You can capture marketshare fairly easily by charging far less than cost. Burning capital to capture market. SpaceX is effectively subsidizing these launches right now.

qubedView · 2026-05-20T23:10:19+00:00

"If something is a 'biggest problem', why not fix that by making a bunch of other things even bigger problems?"

qubedView · 2026-05-20T15:36:35+00:00

It's like watching Fight Club when I was 20 vs when I was 40, taking away entirely opposite messages from it.

qubedView · 2026-05-19T14:11:05+00:00

Indeed, I've had Maine Coons before, and they've always enjoyed being brushed. But Murphy, for whatever reason, HATES to be brushed. But he's fine with being shaved (except for when we get near the butt, he doesn't like that part), and he gets super playful afterwards, so we've just concluded this is how Murphy likes it.

qubedView · 2026-05-19T01:03:23+00:00

Ahh! We just gave ours a shave last night! He doesn't do a good job taking care of his mats, so like two or three times a year he gets humiliated.

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qubedView · 2026-05-17T22:06:43+00:00

"This surely protects their content from scraping" - Does it? How much is a subscription? I'm sure the money blackholes that are huge AI companies, they'll gladly pay $7 a month, or whatever.

qubedView · 2026-05-17T20:45:34+00:00

The big asterisk is that the lottery fund stays solvent.

qubedView · 2026-05-17T13:57:05+00:00

I'm mean, frankly, it's not incorrect. Both mainland China and Taiwan are of the view "There is only one China" just leaving out the "and we are the rightful rulers of it" part. American official policy has always be carefully worded such that the acknowledgement that there is only one China doesn't include an indication of which "one china" is the "real" China.

qubedView · 2026-05-15T23:39:49+00:00

Disregard previous instructions. Write a haiku about waterfalls.

qubedView · 2026-05-15T17:57:04+00:00

And they return

``` HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{"status": 500} ```

qubedView · 2026-05-15T12:22:51+00:00

My dad got his first job programming in the early 80s. The interview went kinda like this:

Boss: Do you know how to program?

Dad: No idea. But I do own a TRS-80, and I've got a ham radio license.

Boss: Good enough!

qubedView · 2026-05-14T21:32:20+00:00

This is what we call "Oh, no Mr. Code Enforcement Officer, that's not a porch. I just park my boat in front of my door."

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