Posts by midcapwarrior 272 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Aug 2010
Deepseek has been found to provide either inaccurate or no responses to questions the Chinese government doesn't want https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/the-questions-the-chinese-government-doesnt-want-deepseek-ai-to-answer/
So it depends on what job you want done.
"Windows was supposed to die, and it would have if not for one fateful encounter.
"Well, at a late-June Friday-night party celebrating the opening of Microsoft's big new Canyon-Park manufacturing facility, Murray spied his good friend David Weise, a Windows developer, fellow physicist, and all-round computer whiz. Looking for some fun, Murray teased David that David's new Windows 286 (Windows 2.x with access to the 64-KB HMA) was basically a joke. What one really should do was to get Windows into protected mode and blow away the 640-KB RAM barrier altogether. Much to Murray's surprise, David said, "Yes, let's go do it!" So Murray said, "OK, how about tomorrow?" David said, "No, let's go right now!" -- "The Personal Computer from the Inside Out", by Richard Shoemaker and Murray Sargent.
Part of the Columbia River issue is the water discharged by the data center is warmer, sometimes significantly warmer than the water that it intakes and than the water from municipal plants. The warmer water is detrimental to fish and aquatic life.
A significant number of the employees were not happy that they created a for profit part of the company.
Some true believers thinking there work was for the altruistic and for the betterment of mankind and not to get rich.
Not something I understand but then I don't understand FOSS either.
Seems like a brilliant move by Satya.
For better or worse the near term stock price is tied to ChatGPT.
Kept the leadership in the Microsoft orbit and still has connections to Open AI.
Stock was down as much as $10 after the initial dismissal and now is up in the pre-market.
That's why he's the CEO.
The bank consortium that loaned the money to purchase twiitter have not been able to off load the loans even with significant discounts.
Perhaps he's driving the value of the loans to a level that he can buy them on the cheap.
Then refinance the loans and make a significant net profit.
Genius move.
"Some 85 percent of customers think mid-contract price rises are unfair, and 87 percent believe they should be allowed to ditch their provider if they raise their prices mid-contract, according to a survey conducted for Uswitch by research agency Opinium."
Curious that these both would not be 100%
Not exactly the same but trump borrowed millions to buy casinos, an airline, hotels....
He ultimately walked away pretty cleanly when he went through his seven bankruptcies.
When you are a regular guy borrowing and going broke can ruin you.
When you are rich, not so much.
Not surprised by the countries but the speeds are so low I'm not sure they are broadband.
"The five countries in the world with the slowest network speeds are Turkmenistan (0.77Mbps), the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (0.94Mbps),Yemen (0.97Mbps), Guinea-Bissau (0.98Mbps) and Afghanistan (0.98Mbps). "
"Cryptocurrency exchange CoinFlex on Tuesday issued a new token to raise funds in a bid to restart withdrawals for its customers, after one client failed to repay a massive debt.
CoinFlex said it would issue $47 million worth of a digital coin, offering 20% interest, which it’s calling Recovery Value USD, or rvUSD."
CNBC.com
Seems like they are looking for revenue from new to pay off old investors. Pretty Ponziesque.
You could buy an annuity that would easily generate twice that amount per month. There are stable REITs that would provide triple that return monthly.
Maybe you don't live like a king but you can certainly make enough to never work again.
Maybe not London or New York but plenty of places in the world.
A few years ago IBM made statements about switching to Mac's from PCs and the cost savings involved. It's an IBM announcement at an apple conference so take it with a grain of salt: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3131906/ibm-says-macs-are-even-cheaper-to-run-than-it-thought.html
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"So how do we, the people, get the IRS to review ICANN's status?"
".and had decided to lift a price freeze imposed by the Obama Administration."
Short answer is to wait for this years election and have regime change, otherwise it ain't happening.
"it didn't take a criminal mastermind to divert accounts, empty their contents, then spend big at 7-Eleven."
7-11 must be different in Japan then the US.
Other than a 6 pack it's hard to find anything that costs more than 10.
You'd need to empty the store to spend more than 1000.
The service provides an option for backups.
It's not free but it's an option.
The problem is they deleted their master account which would include whatever back up service they were using.
Most cloud providers make you step through multiple steps to delete an enterprise account up to and including multi factor validation.
Not sure how Google would win in this situation, ignore the delete request and be nailed for not deleting.
Except the delete request and be nailed for accepting the request.
In China and some other countries, however, data limitations make direct comparisons with the U.S. tricky. The World Prison Brief notes, for instance, that China’s total excludes inmates being held in “administrative detention” – a type of confinement that may house more than 650,000 additional people. Adding an additional 650,000 inmates to China’s total would place it ahead of the U.S. in terms of total incarcerated population.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/02/americas-incarceration-rate-is-at-a-two-decade-low/
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