Captainant

So you want to claim unrealized gains as profit? Seems unwise and Enron-like

The gulf is warmer than it has ever been measured, and that trend is only going to continue barring a truly historic change in global behavior. Buckle up buckaroos

Real solid fundamentals underlying it's growth and not FOMO amirite

Jeeze I didn't realize that Dragon capsules have started sending astronauts to the hospital briefly after landing. It's concerning to hear the crew voicing concerns about SpaceX "taking normal for granted" and seemingly putting launch schedule ahead of mission safety

But I was assured that encouraging more unproductive load on the grid would incentivize MORE power generation to take advantage of the higher prices??

Which stock would that be? You seem to be claiming that their adoption of BTC is responsible for the growth, so please show your work

cant disagree there

My 2019 Jeep Cherokee with radar cruise control stops itself if something comes in front of it rapidly or if it hits something (and I have that safety feature turned on). It's independent of the cruise control but uses the same radome in front to gauge distance to the next thing in front of me. Designing a car to do hit and runs is pretty dogshit, IMO. What if it wasn't a deer?

Gold has actual utility as a commodity. It's a core component of electronics and chips, in addition to being physically tangible and not requiring gigawatts of power to complete a transaction with it, nor half an hour or more to confirm the transaction But it's just an abstraction of an abstraction of a digital value. There's nothing THERE! I recognize that there's technical utility in block chains and a distributed architecture, but none of that has to do with why Bitcoin is bought and sold. It's all FOMO and hoping to sell for more than you bought it, with literally zero other generally used utility or function. But I gotta say GRUhorn, it is a nice way to fund oligarchs and dictators around the world. I can see why your bosses tell you to stan for it

Oh yeah, you should check out those modpacks whenever you run outta content to chew on. There's loads of community made flashpoint campaigns, more diverse equipment sets from crappy quiksel and pirate gear all the way to prototype blakist stuff, and they add vehicle and infantry units like VTOLS and tanks and power armored infantry

My god, that is U L T R A W I D E lol Have you played any of the big community modpacks like RogueTech or BTA? It completely changes the game and incorporates the entirety of the Total Wars rules for mechs and vehicles. Having a lance full of LAMs is just silly

In this case, the customers BOD has decided that multicloud means more resilient. In my experience, that usually means people with a pure business background have been directed as such by some overly expensive consultants, because nobody gets in trouble for following $BIG_CONSULTANT's recommendation. It's so ass backwards, even my sales partners don't like it despite the free cushioning on their quotas. But for some reason, leaders of large companies often trust consultants more than cloud vendors when deciding how to best operate in a cloud/hybrid environment

It will continue until morale improves.

Just had a crazy meeting today where a customer insisted on setting up their DR such their their on prem would go to our cloud, and then replicate to other cloud (in the same region) to accomplish their "multicloud DR strategy". Nevermind that they have the same directly connected bandwidth to other cloud from their DC and could just push to both targets at the same time from the on prem replication agent. Something about wanting to use all their agent licenses because of some internal initiative on license utilization, nevermind the other costs of the solution like how completely avoidable outbound data transfer is >65% of the total cost. But nope, this is they way that the higher ups declared it to be, so that's the way it's gonna be. Just burning money for no good reason aside from a corporate mandate from on high

It's the problem with every sufficiently large organization. As an org gets bigger, there's more middle managers that are required to get aligned to actually move ahead with a project and navigate all the corporate red tape. And then when it does happen, there's so many cooks in the kitchen that things get derailed quickly. Big tech often has a hard time even correctly enunciating the problem, much less elegantly solving it. The number of projects, initiatives, and plans that I've seen my org and my customers orgs move mountains to realize, only to ultimately find it does not accomplish what they thought it would, is wild. It's like every year every F500 just careens from one directional extreme to another, dancing to whatever tune is most trendy to investors rather than leaning on their own judgement and expertise

I'll be damned, I should check out Cults3D more often! Added to cart https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/architecture/darrell-k-royal-texas-stadium If you have the filament painted version handy that would be allsome to have

There's still the fundamental problem that the only reason to buy Bitcoin is the hope of selling it to someone else for more in the future. It is generally impractical for use as a currency, and does not play well with market expectations for a payment system. If you abstract it away to just being a value in an account, then sure NGU all day baybay. But why would the value go up? What utility is driving the cost increase aside from FOMO?

Abilene is really getting some good headlines lately https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/texas-megachurch-youth-leader-arrested-for-child-pornography (Could go in the pedophiles of God thread as well)

It's funny how the same patterns of computing can emerge across different disciplines. There's a lot of processes like model training or large deployments that are still "submit and sit" where there's not much for you to do, but it can be helpful to be on hand to terminate early or catch a late error due to some deep buried parameters

$600 to be able to print CF nylon with a heated chamber is pretty hard to beat. One thing to consider is that Nylon, ABS, and a few other materials off gas VOC's when heated for printing, so be sure to have excellent ventilation or not set it up where people tend to be. I found a pretty thorough review of that printer, and it looks like it'll be a solid prototyping machine. https://www.3dsourced.com/3d-printer-reviews/qidi-tech-x-plus-3-review/ Do you have much experience with FDM 3D printing?

I wonder how much their "post-graduation earnings" are goosed by the aggy Qatar campus

@Anastasis come on down and claim your award for the cessation of barbarism in Texas! Thank goodness we can all enjoy success stories like this on the regular now https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a deadly infection, more than a dozen medical experts told ProPublica. But when Barnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a crime to give her an abortion.” For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria. Three days after she delivered, Barnica died of an infection.