I love reading Ed’s rants, but he’s too stuck on the whole revenue projection thing.

OpenAI is in a zero-sum, war of attrition game vs. competitors. It doesn’t matter how much money they burn through or what funny-money estimate they don’t make.

The only thing important is that they be at the top of the heap when everyone else runs out of money. Then they’ll be the only game in town and can charge whatever they want. They’re also not public and don’t need the hassle unless the money spigot runs dry. There could also be tax advantages to showing so much loss that can accrue to them down the line.

It’s the Amazon playbook. Lost money for ages. Everyone else dropped off. Now they reap the rewards.

Ooh, creating a flat platform! That’s a great idea. Unfortunately, It’s on a hilly slide zone, Not sure if the rocks will stay put or end up migrating into the neighbor’s yard.

We had a retaining wall put in several years ago above where the mulberry tree sits. The whole thing is now tilting at a 45-degree angle downhill. I might redo it and add another one downhill to make a flat terrace and keep the water from running off. Thanks for the tip.

The tree definitely has more leaves than when we got it. I’ll leave it be and stop kicking myself.

Thank you. I’ll leave it be.

There is a pretty robust persimmon and an apple tree, planted by previous owners a long time ago. They seem do pretty well nearby. I wasn’t sure if I had doomed it by not starting it in loose, fresh topsoil.

Four, five, …

A good PM will herd all the cats and attend all the meetings you don’t want to. They’re worth their weight in gold.

A bad PM will do none of the above and constantly drag you in to fight their fires. They’re worth their weight in, well, you know.

The gift of stabbing.

Day after Easter.

this side up

The ground level weedwhacker blades could do double-duty clearing out brush (and pesky pedestrians).

The processors inside every single device we have in our homes today will no longer be manufactured in 10 years.

In 20 years, few will know how to build the firmware for them or how to fix them.

As time goes on, those numbers could drop to 5 and 10 years.

Given that 50% of the time, the generated code is unworkable garbage, having an AI automatically write code to create new training models will either solve all problems, or spontaneously combust into a pile of ash.

My money’s on the latter.

Does “Please shut up and get to the point!” count?

Blocked all the server domains. There are a bunch of lists out there for various TV brands.

Blocked all this crap at the network level. Don’t get any ads now.

More details here: https://www.eufymake.com/eufymake-uv-printer-e1

Not clear how much the refills will run.

Resident Alien, mainly because they change the graphics for every episode and throw in a gag.

Be funny if someone started a gofundme.

Actual python code: https://pypi.org/project/tariff/