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  1. 1 hour ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    If Texas wants to improve it's grid, make new miners locate in wind generation areas and profit share with ISO such that a percentage of their revenue goes directly to more renewable infrastructure and transmission build out that benefits everyone.

    Fuck no my dude, that does NOT """benefit everyone""". We are WASTING that energy on propping up a shitty cryptoponzi, and wasting the free money that we are giving them, rather than investing it into public infrastructure. 

    These PUBLIC UTILITY companies should not be seeking to maximize their profit. They should be seeing to maximize their UTILITY to the PUBLIC.

     

    Fucks sake. You've got terminal libertarian brain.

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  2. Just now, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Those tens of millions of dollars come from the Miners themselves. You don't have those millions without them.  I promise you can get the same deal from your provider if you lock in tens of millions of power purchases for the year.

    As for "hard floor", it's more like a "larger cushion" for the grid.  It they didn't exist, that "extra" generation wouldn't be scheduled. It wouldn't be available with say a cheaper coal or nuke plant ramp up. It would require paying a high priced peaker plant to jump online quickly to correct instability issues. With the miners the extra generation is scheduled in with cheapest available. In times of instability their consumption can be readily reduced and is much safer than rolling blackouts.

    None of this gets at issue of needing infrastructure upgrades, specifically high voltage transmission from wind areas to metros.  That is going to take government help as free market economics isn't going to get anyone to step up and pay for it. There is no economic incentive for any parties in the system in adding the needed transmission lines. Could easily be done at the Texas level..but well..yeah.  Feds are best bet at this point... but again don't see current state leaders taking kindly to any federal help.

    I'm not sure the position you're taking here. Are you saying that we're lucky the bitcoin miners came from China to buy our abundant coal power and get hand outs, because otherwise the grid wouldn't get funding? And we should be thankful for it?

  3. 20 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

    Just started this after finding a discounted code for $30. I played the hell out of the originals and so far this is great. I completely suck at combat though, I can’t get past the first group of bandits in the chapel.

    No shame in knocking the difficulty down, but some of those encounters are better faced with a more full party (I'd you're not up to 4 people yet in act1) with a couple of levels under their belt

  4. 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Do these people understand they they are building commercial airliners?  How does shit like this get missed?  Where is the punch list, who signed it, and when will they be prosecuted?

    I know that in my job, the fda can find something I did badly or signed off on that didn’t get done at all and I’m personally responsible criminally. 

    Well when you're making $25-35/hr and have huge production quotas, shit is gonna get missed. Boeing spun off spirit to keep costs low, and they are reaping the fruits of that decision. But the leadership that made that decision was bonused out long ago and there's no accountability aside from hoping for a "too big to fail" bailout 

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  5. 9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    The Medal of Honor nomination was the basis for the Distinguished Service Cross, which is just below the Medal of Honor and apparently he said what he said on this raid and not the one we just saw:

    CLEVEN, GALE W. (POW) DSC Synopsis:

    The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Gale W. Cleven, Major (Air Corps), U.S. Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving as Pilot of a B-17 Heavy Bomber in the 350th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group (H), EIGHTH Air Force, while participating in a bombing mission on 17 August 1943, against enemy ground targets in Bremen, Germany. On that date, Major Cleven was leader of the low squadron. Throughout approximately two hours of constant fighter attack, his squadron was the principal focal point of the enemy's fire. Early in the encounter, south of Antwerp, he lost his entire second element of three B-17's yet maintained his vulnerable and exposed position in the formation rigidly in order to keep his guns uncovered. Approximately 30 minutes before reaching the target, his airplane received the following battle damage. A 20- mm. cannon shell penetrated the right side of the airplane and exploded beneath the pilot, damaging the electrical system and injuring the top turret gunner in the leg. A second 20-mm. shell entered the radio compartment, killing the radio operator, who bled to death with his legs severed above the knees. A third 20-mm. shell entered the left side of the nose, tearing out a section of Plexiglas about two feet square, tore away the right hand nose-gun installation and injured the bombardier in the head and shoulder. A fourth 20 mm shell entered the cabin roof and severed the rudder cables to one side of the rudder. A sixth 20 mm cannon shell exploded in the #3 engine, destroying all engine controls. The engine caught fire and lost its power, but the fire eventually died out. Confronted with structural damage, partial loss of control, fire in the air and serious injuries to personnel, and faced with fresh waves of fighters still rising to the attack, Major Cleven had every justification for abandoning ship. His crew, some of them comparatively inexperienced youngsters, were preparing to bail out, since no other course appeared open. The Co-Pilot pleaded repeatedly with Major Cleven to abandon ship. Major Cleven's reply at this critical juncture, although the odds were overwhelmingly against him, was as follows, " You son of a bitch, you sit there and take it. " These strong words were heard over the inter-phone and had a magical effect on the crew. They stuck to their guns. The airplane continued to the target, bombed it and reached base in North Africa. Major Cleven's actions were far above and beyond the call of duty and the skill, courage and strength of will displayed by him as airplane and squadron commander in the face of hopeless odds have seldom, if ever, been surpassed in the annals of the Army Air Forces. The personal courage and devotion to duty displayed by Major Cleven on this occasion have upheld the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 8th Air Force, and the United States Army Air Forces.

    Headquarters: European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army, General Orders No. 61 (1943)

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    Newspaper articles about it, as well as Cleven’s career

    https://100thbg.com/personnel/?personnel_id=91

    If anybody is curious about Buck Cleven’s life

      Reveal hidden contents

    Following his return from Europe, Cleven married Marjorie Spencer in Lovington, New Mexico on July 3, 1945. John Egan served as the best man. Marjorie had been Cleven’s childhood sweetheart in Wyoming, and the two reconnected in Texas while Cleven was attending cadet training and Marjorie was in school at Texas Tech University. Marjorie died unexpectedly died of a brain aneurysm in 1953, and her death broke Cleven’s heart as she was the love of his life. In Cleven’s final years he still maintained a photo of Marjorie on his mantle.

    After WWII, Cleven finished his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Wyoming. Cleven cited the lack of money for mathematicians, and subsequently obtained a degree in Geology. Cleven obtained an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1949. Cleven remained in the USAF and conducted atomic energy research during the Korean War. Cleven held a number of assignments in the USAF and was stationed at bases including, but not limited to, Norton AFB, Sandia AFB, and Bolling AFB. Cleven was ultimately promoted to full colonel. Cleven obtained a PHD in Astrophysics from Georgetown University in 1962, and wrote a dissertation titled “An astrometrical study of the region of Orion to utilize a method of amending astrographic data”

     

    Those 20mm shells were likely minnengeschoß shells

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_shell

    Basically an aerial belt felt grenade launcher, just one or two shells in the right place could take a wing or half the fuselage. 

    Thanks for linking that article though, the scene in the show was remarkably close to that newspaper clipping

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  6. 2 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Short answer is because power companies are in the business of selling power and they profit off miners using their power by multiples of what they would might have to pay them to turn it off.

    Not paying them to turn off doesn't just fuck them, it fucks all of us. They're locked into to fixed rates for power too.

    They're driving up the prices up for the rest of us by being a hard floor for producers. And they're PAYING these specious consumers to NOT consume? That's not a free fucking market.

    That's an oligopoly using public money to prop up the price of crypto so that crypto pukes and north koreans and russians can launder their money. 

     

    A better use of those tens of millions of dollars would be infrastructure improvements like line capacity improvements and storage investments. Not giving hand outs to imported mining operations. 

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  7. 23 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Now as to utility of Bitcoin, yeah arguments are there for many that it doesn't produce any value. I do also personally believe it raises overall power costs slightly in the short term though, but provides a service of making the grid more stable while we bring more renewable generation online.

    Why the fuck are we paying these leeches too turn off their imported Chinese crypto mining shit? Fuck em, give them the public deal that normal people get

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  8. 3 hours ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

    Yep, the Luddites had the right idea

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    Big difference is that a bitcoin mine is not producing anything of value or "taking" a job from a person. It's just sucking up electricity to prop up what has developed into an extremely elaborate ponzi scheme

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  9. I got a Breville Bambino Plus over black Friday last year to replace an old and dying Delonghi Dedica, and I've really happy with the shots I'm getting. The auto milk steam functionality is pretty solid and easy to use too, so I can tidy up and whatnot while it's doing the milk. 

    I have a cheap $30 hand grinder that does a nice job on the beans, but it's a pain if I'm making coffee for more than one person

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  10. 2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

    I guess in order to get some hot takes, is a place having a Cloud FinOps role, a sign their architecture sucks, and to stay away? 

    No, but it's a sign that their governance posture is likely lacking or the org is prioritizing it higher. Most of my finops outcomes that I help my customers achieve are really addressing technical debt that's been outstanding for a LOOOONG time. Stuff like poorly tuned ASG's or "let's just oversize it, the business said it's critical" or an old lift and shift that should be moved to event-driven and serverless. 

    By putting a data-driven number behind that opportunity cost of not fixing the tech debt, you can get leaders to give a shit. And then as progress is made, good finops practices will let you claim credit and have the data to PROVE it. My big feather in my cap last year was across the board driving down my customers unit cost of compute by almost 10% just with what amounts to config tuning and smarter replatforming. 

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  11. 12 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    After a lawsuit, the creator of an “AI generated” youtube George Carlin special admits it was actually written by 2 humans. 
     

    https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/george-carlins-heirs-sue-comedy-podcast-over-ai-generated-impression/

    Many online are saying some things being marketed out of Silicon Valley as AI-generated are actually created by humans outsourced in India & other countries. I always thought stuff would be made by AI and humans would take credit for it, never at all considered the inverse. 

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  12. 16 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

    Have you ever seen a public figure who is more victimized than him according to his own response to every situation?  Everything is always “unfair”. 

     

    4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    That's just fascism. That's how every fascist strongman acts and it's the source of his appeal to other fascists. 

    Yeah this is just historically consistent fascism in action. Hitler and mussolini both LOVED to play the victim about how the media and establishment were so unfair to them during their rise to power - it's how they motivated their street fighters (brown shirts) to go take the streets.

  13. They can value themselves at $5B but they're gonna take a hefty fuckin loss lol. Reddit doesn't really have a revenue model or any of the things that the business ghouls will need to make a public company successful

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  14. 47 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Still, though, sentencing juries can be surprisingly lenient, as apparently was the case here (voting for LWOP only to be overridden by the judge).

    This sort of thing where a judge can unilaterally overrule a jury to order a man killed - over the decision of a jury of his peers - does seem really fucking backwards. Once an execution sentence is served, you cannot de-escalate or appeal that sentence. If someone has LWOP, you can always escalate from that sentence or if new evidence is found it can be taken into consideration for their sentence. 

    We've seen way too many "oopsie poopsie" exonerating pieces of evidence unearthed after the defendant is 6ft under. It's outrageous on its face to overrule a jury decision to escalate the punishment to death.

    I don't like the death penalty, but it wouldn't be so objectionable if it were at least a jury decision

  15. 15 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

    This is off topic, but nobody is offing themselves with helium.

    They take a bucket to their car and dump some lime-sulfur in it, then dump a jug of Muriatic acid in the jug and shut the door. Takes at most a couple minutes and the H2S rises to toxic levels. Not the way I would choose as it’s very violent and unpleasant, but to each their own I suppose.

    Lol "just damage your lungs until they fill up with fluid and you drown on dry land!" That's some serious FAFO you're slingin

  16. 2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    No one is defying a court order. At least not the one concerning c-wire 

    I didn't say he defied an order, I said he stated an intention to defy the court and it's orders. If you want to play cutesy miss-the-forest-for-the-trees, you could say that abbott has complied with the letter. But certainly not the spirit of the order or to the relief sought by the plaintiff in the matter. 

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