Wow San Jose has it all- asbestos, mercury, what else could you want? Another site is pretty much anywhere west of Coalinga in central California. Look up New Idria, where the dirt is 15% asbestos. Oh and there's an off road area there.

32 GB should be STANDARD. For an LLM? No for browsing and email. Let's be real.

Sounds exactly like my dad, except "eventually" was "6 months and tens of thousands of dollars of no-long-term-care-insurance in home care".

FreeBSD's SSL stack couldn't compete with with Windows 2000 without adding a hardware SSL accelerator. Windows/IIS had faster, more reliable SSL than the BSD + dongle solution. The dongle ran on the SCSI bus and would freeze up regularly, requiring a power cycle, which couldn't be done remotely with the hardware SKU in use. That sucked for the admin team off hours.

Actually BSD went away pretty quickly. Solaris is the OS that hung around for years. I was on the BSD team. I remember reading /. threads about it while I was in the datacenter (across the aisle from this weird cage filled with saggy cork sheets in its racks), flipping web servers from BSD to Windows 2000, checking if anyone would notice.

When I got AT&T TV, which was reskinned DirectTV, it had pause ads. That was the last straw; cable soon went away from my house. Pause ads are one of the most offensive developments in TV that I can remember. I will go back to my box of laserdiscs in the garage before I subscribe to a service that inflicts them on customers.

Sorry, did you say it's bad? Stop wanting incorrect things. The correct thing to want, now, is FineWoven. You say it falls apart instantly? Only losers want things that don't fall apart. You are happy to have the opportunity to buy a new one. That is the best part in fact!

June 2022 Texas power was around $0.26/kwh. The rate in the article is $2.50/kwh.

I don't want a gossamer laptop that will wilt in my backpack and can't be repaired. This just makes the world worse as other vendors chase what Apple does, even when it sucks.

My old job knew 20 years ago that power density and cooling capacity were the limiters of what could be stuffed inside a big ass room. Did Elon just yell at them to rack 'em to the ceiling and let 'em rip?

That $7B aQuantive buy is gonna pay off any day now!

It's weird seeing this article now, in 2021. Because pinterest ruined GIS as soon as it launched, like seemingly within days or weeks. It's kind of amazing actually- how did they pollute image search repositories so thoroughly so damn fast? Anyway, just confine your image searches to porn and you'll be free of pinterest forever!

I'd say focus on kubernetes. It's so goddamn alien, and yet so important.