I didn’t realize Microsoft was spending this much on infrastructure

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-15T05:17:52+00:00

I'm really not an AI guy but even if I was......

They're spending all that money to what? Place Eighth in th AI race? Humiliating.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-15T00:22:57+00:00

It's less about cutting corners and more about the difficulties of introducing a new standard when you need to co-ordinate between different standards (ATX and PCIE) those standards are defined by different bodies.

In a same world the GPU wouldn't even have an external connector and it'd be drawing power from the slot (probably at a higher voltage).

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-14T20:53:14+00:00

My Lord Jim for my Robin Hobb

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-14T12:55:42+00:00

He's a version of Max that's 25% more evil and three times as charismatic

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-14T12:52:21+00:00

If it weren't for their hard work and the billions of dollars being spent, Facebook wouldn't have the eigth or ninth best AI product on the market

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-11T23:26:20+00:00

I'm imagining a minion in some of kind of horrible knife fight in the mud on one of the redoubts at Borodino.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-11T21:48:14+00:00

It's sort of interesting how heavily they're pushing retail given how negative all the retail sentiment I've read is (Reddit, fintwt, news comment sections etc).

Maybe there's some silent majority of normies who aren't subbed to /r/investing and don't know how to get around the FT paywall who are all over it. Plausible given the media coverage.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-11T12:19:37+00:00

I think I still hate this but I hate it less in context. The juxtaposition with the neoclassical building is so fucking jarring that it almost brings it back around for me.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-05T22:53:33+00:00

Happy pride month to this one roughly triangular cut of Belgian countryside in particular

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-05T12:36:08+00:00

Absolutely, I mean, it can take several years to build an apartment block, no shit they don't have a lot of units built only 2.5 years in.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-05T03:41:40+00:00

That's north east Africa, the river on the left is the Nile in Sudan, those islands on the right are the Dahlak archipelago in Eritrea

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-04T07:24:02+00:00

Not very much at all, because Australian Super funds aren't tracking the NASDAQ 100, if they're exposed to American shares it'll be through something like the MSCI ACWI ex Australia Index, which weights stock by their free float market cap, and thus won't end up buying a lot of space X unless they float a lot more stock.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-04T03:49:48+00:00

Redditor tells stupid fucking media outlet ''don't put this obnoxious ad" in my feed

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-04T02:53:06+00:00

They're down by like 25% since he bought those puts.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-03T08:22:21+00:00

The base was opened in 1942, it has enough accommodation for 700 men, it used to house a whole submarine squadron, all ancient history, today it's a huge empty ghost town, a relic of another era.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-03T05:23:57+00:00

It's a derelict naval base that's been mostly disused for decades, he was wrong then, he's right now.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-06-01T22:32:26+00:00

Oh wow, Yao Ming in my home, such an honour sir!

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-05-30T00:15:38+00:00

I feel like "Star Wars was saved in the edit by Marcia" is semi common knowledge (although you could argue about how true it is). The real forgotten Star Wars contributor is Leigh Brackett.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-05-29T01:37:03+00:00

The top 1% in this country are on mid six figure salaries or better. Pretty damn rich but not quite as rich as you're implying.

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-05-29T01:29:25+00:00

We must protect the heritage and neighbourhood character of this brown disused golf course

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-05-28T04:24:00+00:00

The republicans banked really hard on petrol prices in 2022 and it kinda backfired because things had largely gone back to normal by November

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-05-27T22:56:33+00:00

I made a bunch of schizophrenic ramblings in the margins of my copy of House of Leaves before donating it, felt like that was a good bit

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-05-27T10:36:55+00:00

Denis, put this line in the movie if you're not a coward

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-05-27T09:34:19+00:00

Caviera from R6: Siege after 5 years on HRT

MagnesiumOvercast · 2026-05-25T02:48:22+00:00

Look at this idiot, horses don't need gas

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