US does feel like the flip side of the coin of the USSR (was born there, albeit I was too young to remember any substantive details).

I’ve lived in both US and Russia for many years, albeit I first experienced US as a young adult.

I will agree that Soviet-style hypernormalization is near universal in the US. I felt this as a young adult, perhaps ~10 years before I actually watched HyperNormalisation. It was clear most of the polemics about “freedom of this or that” was just local bullshit, not to be taken seriously.

I would disagree about russia feeling more oppressive (although I haven’t been there since 2009), but in some ways it was more free than the US, I will agree on that one.

What doesn’t sound sustainable to you about this program?

Do you have any idea how much it takes Sundararajan to sustain a private (family, not the business one) jet and multiple yachts?

Stop being so provincial and close minded.

This reminds me of some of the earlier USSR 5 year plans in the 20s and 30s.

Out say by the standards of our time, it’s less common than the other weakness I mentioned.

This is a comical accountant-driven decision.

I think they are both very smart and shrewd individuals. That doesn’t mean they are not subject to common human weaknesses like narcsissism, blinding opulence, arrogance and less common ones such as regressiveness and lack of humanity.

They are both corrupt American oligarchs.

Don’t get me wrong, there are oligarchs everywhere, but American ones in particular have their own nuances so to speak.

For that kind of money, I would expect the SSD drive to be able to provide some other qualities beyond technical things like capacity/bandwidth/latency.

Some very good qualities.

Trash tier “article”.

You might as well go for the original BBC interview, while looks to be only in audio for now.

Waterworld

A 90s Kevin Costner classic

Yes, the Nvidia FE cards do look nice, although I do believe some of them were not that good for airflow/cooling performance.

For $4 K, I would expect it would look nicer.

My aging ASUS 3080 TUF has better design.

AFAIK MS is ramping up intrusive anti-cheat.

This almost seems like collusion in an oligopolistic environment.

While this seems to be localized, this is still a crazy trend.

I am glad I built a relatively high end desktop in late 2020 (even though prices for everything felt very high). Things look direfor the DIY desktop segment.

Fascinating research, really does remind on of the sci-fi novels of the 80s and 90s.

Because the electronics in Sarkar’s hybrids can be designed to fully degrade after a set time, the team thinks this could potentially enable them to gather brain implant data from healthy people—the implants would do their job for the duration of the study and be gone once it’s done. Unless we want them to stay, that is.

“The ease of application can make the implants feasible in brain-computer interfaces designed for healthy people,” Sarkar argues. “Also, the electrodes can be made to work as artificial neurons. In principle, we could enhance ourselves—increase our neuronal density.”

This is going to lead to some interesting situations and moral/philosophical debates.

Data centre capacity, they seem to be making an emphasis on access to independent power sources.

AMD (at older CPUs) do have pretty high idle power usage.

I have a battery system for my desktop (I live in Ukraine, russian our electricity system) and my 5800X desktop doesn’t go below 140 W or so (with monitor being off and active background services on the HDDs).

Sorry, my mistake, I meant fusion, not cold fusion.

I was pointing out that the hype around SMRs doesn’t seem to match reality. Lot’s of VC-style investments and press releases. Very little "SMR were responsible for x GW power output and y total GWh in a given year.

member of a group of wealthy individuals wielding sovereign power

This doesn’t seem right. Russian oligarchs do not wield sovereign power, yet they are still oligarchs.

They wield power, but the term sovereign doesn’t seem appropriate.