The one he was grooming to be his protege turned out to be transgender, and thus started Musk's descent into transphobia. It's not clear if he was always quietly transphobic, or if he just can't stand the thought of his designated successor being a woman.

To be fair I do tend to strip it down a bit on my systems. For a year I ran 10 on 4GB of RAM and a SATA SSD.

You don't get it.

Autonomous AI agents are the perfect no-responsibility card. The AI companies? They trained a general-purpose model and never gave it any explicit instructions to do hacking. The AI services? They are just middlemen and have no control over what people tell the agents to do. The people prompting the agents? Unless you're straighforward dumb, you didn't tell it to do hacking, you just told it something innocent like "find me all data on Mars for my school project" and the agent decided that probably NASA is hiding something so let's hack them to get it.

Since there's no human anywhere executing anything that's a crime - voila, in addition to the victimless crime we now have the perpetratorless crime.

Interesting. That is the opposite of my experience. Chrome is noticeably faster than Firefox on every machine (desktops, laptops, Android phone). Even with the limited uBlock Lite on Chrome.

From a technical point of view that makes sense. Chrome has some performance features that Firefox lacks. Execution of Javascript while it is also being compiled is one example.

I stick with Firefox for other reasons, but speed is not one of them. Then again, although I rarely use Chrome these days, it never crashes, and certainly never did back when I was using it as my main browser.

It's only fine to the extent that it is also fine on Windows 11. Despite what some people claim here, while not super fast Windows 11 will allow you to browses the internet just fine on 8GB of RAM.

And people wonder why the birth rate is so low. The planet is buggered and everyone with two brain cells to rub together knows it.

We can't rely on the US because corporations wrote the laws. We can't rely on the EU to fix this either, because it will take them a decade to investigate.

Chinese manufacturers bringing DRAM to market is the only hope we have of getting some semi-affordable RAM.

This could have some interesting effects. By 2030 we may be seeing Chinese phones and computers shipping with 64GB of RAM, while Western brands have had to scale back to 8GB due to not being legally allowed to buy the cheap stuff.

Sure, although I'd point out that Mac OS on the Macbook Neo, the machine it is a rival to, also runs very poorly on an 8GB RAM machine.

Sorry about that!

Light bulbs are very small things; the energy that goes into making them is likewise very small, regardless of type. The electricity an incandescent bulb burns is, by contrast, not at all small. You also have to replace the incandescent bulb far more often.

There's all sorts of exhaustive analyses out there, but the TL/DR is:

One incandescent bulb takes ~1-1,5kWh to manufacture and lasts ~1000 hours
One LED bulb takes 8-20kWh to manufacture and lasts ~25000 hours (commonly modern home construction doesn't even use lightbulb sockets anymore; the fixtures are designed to not need "bulb replacements")

So even on manufacturing, the LED bulb wins because it's up against 25 incandescent bulbs. But that's all trivial, because:

60W × 25000h = 1500 kWh
9W * 25000h = 225kWh

So a few extra or fewer kilowatt hours in manufacturing is irrelevant. It's totally dominated by usage energy.

Incandescent only wins one category: disposal (it's just glass and a little metal, you can just throw it in the trash; LED is e-waste and gets recycled). But in both cases, you're talking tenths of a percent of lifetime energy usage.

It's not about being a "pussy", it's about deciding what they want in life. If you want them to make a different decision then you need to make your preferred alternative more attractive.

Lol, a company dominated by Rationalists/Yudowski fans is "far left activists" now ;) The entire premise of HPOMR is that Lily Potter cast a spell to make her sister Petunia more attractive so she could marry a better husband, and when they adopted Harry, instead of having him attend public school, they homeschooled him, so he became brilliant. Very "woke" premise there ;) I don't know if you've heard, but the Rationalist community is the middle of a scandal right now for putting career-limiting pressure on women in the AI space to attend sex parties, including rape-themed ones. All those dang woke feminists, amiright?

Same as the base Macbook Neo. I thought Linux was super efficient though? Surely you can run a decent desktop on that.

You can suggest that, but you are saying "give up your close ties to family/friends/social life", and "move further from your job, or find a new one". Obviously if they really want kids they will make it work, but it's the ones who would like them but are not willing to give up so much of their lives, and limit themselves to one or zero.

The "fuck you, kids are your problem and I'm not paying for them" attitude has a lot to do with the declining birth rate in some countries.

It's more like someone standing on public ground outside movie theatre holding up signs like, "Bruce Willis has been dead the whole time!" ""Verbal" Kint makes up his whole testimony on the spot - he's actually Keyser Soze!" "Dr. Mann is a liar, and the "ghost" pushing books off Murphy’s childhood bookshelf is her father, through a time portal from within the black hole!", etc, and then people skip buying a ticket and head back home. Now the plot-spoiler has decided to make it up to the movie theatre by buying some tickets from them.