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It’s not quite techbro fantasy, the actual point of the whole thing is marketing.

It’s worked quite well at that, the amount of coverage they’ve garnered from the stunt is remarkable. Bravo, to be honest

I would assume that it’s every country that currently is allowed 60 days of Visa-free travel in Thailand, (see https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Thailand, section Get in)

As well, they don’t vibe code …

They do, and pretty heavily at that. It’s well known that Claude Code is written mostly by Claude Code - and you can tell from the quality of the tool, as well as Anthropics general uptime numbers

Ben Gvir is an unusually evil person.

The middle racks host weird temporary services while the side racks host the regularly stocked services

This is an ecofascist-though, you should reevaluate it

Not Invented Here includes the whole stack, including the operating system and the hardware

It’s true for Sweden, but it’s not exactly common to go look up what someone else earns. You have to pay for making the request and it’s not exactly convenient.

It does mean that the newspapers publish lists of who makes the most money each year though which is always a hoot.

Practically speaking I don’t think much is gained in bargaining power from wages being public

On the use of dollars internationally in tourist contexts, I once spent a few fairly unpleasant days in Cancún (the rest of the Yucatán peninsula and CDMX were great, though!), I noticed that a lot of shops and services would accept dollars, which Americans more than happily made use of.

The crux of it was that anything paid in dollars had its price, when compared to pesos, inflated to about double.

It was essentially a form of idiot tax.

Anthropic’s uptime website is actually one of the funniest jokes of this year

Most hardware is only really true if you account for older hardware in circulation, most new hardware will be shipping hardware decoder support for AV1.

On top of this, the software decoder support is remarkable for AV1, libdav1d is a marvelous piece of software, bringing access to a plethora of devices lacking hardware decoder support.

This is only really true if you have extreme throughput requirements, a regular VOD operation can get by fine on software encoding.

If you have the kind of throughput needs that warrant hardware encoders you’re going to want to go ASIC anyway, so regular server hardware won’t cut it. Like YouTube for example had to build their own ASICs because of the downright absurd scale they are running at

Communal laundry rooms are better for spreading the capital costs among the residents - energy still costs more or less the same on a per-load basis, and it gets charged to the residents in one way or the other at the end of the day.

They’re also successively being replaced by in-home laundry machines. Lots of places offer a communal laundry room, but the residents also have a machine in their homes for the sake of convenience. Some new builds have started omitting a communal laundry room in favour of in-home machines.

A bit of a pity, to be honest. Spreading capital costs is societally good. I say this while having had a laundry machine in-home for the past 10 years (came included with the purchase of the apartments), which I do use and enjoy the convenience of.

There’s little point discussing a study that is largely just pure fossil fuel industry propaganda

You’re trying to claim that a study based on the ERCOT numbers during the 2021 Texas winter storm is at all representative of anything. It’s worth nothing whatsoever.

That study is a massive dumpster fire, and most certainly not a reputable citation

This is outdated - the LCOE of solar/wind+battery storage is lower than fossil methods of power generation.

I mean, that’s gotta be grounds for termination if anything

Sure, but that can be said about almost anything.

Still, I’d be surprised if they went the route of embedding ads into the stream, in part because of measurability/skipability/etc. It’s definitely not out of the question, but I think we’re still ways to go before we get there.

And even then, tools like yt-dlp would probably be able to apply some heuristics to figure out which segments are foreign to the stream and slice them out that way. Blocking yt-dlp would require DRM, which in turn requires changing the transcoding pipeline in a pretty non-trivial way. I also doubt they would willingly go this route.