Especially since it’s not a law and doesn’t have a cat’s chance in hell of becoming one. So it could cost VLC 1 million a year just like winged monkeys could fly out of my ass.

you can only vent heat in infrared

Yeah, when you heat something, it emits infrared. Kind of the nature of hot things.

Great way to enforce a moratorium on new large-scale projects in LEO for a few years.

A variant of the first bullet is another option: put something in orbit going in the opposite direction, then release a few dozen ball bearings in the path of Elon’s data center. Closing speed is something on the order of 100 km/hr. That should do just fine.

Wow. He really is as dumb as I thought.

He’s a con artist.

An utterly unworkable, absurdly costly idea. I’m sure the same investor-lemmings who buy heavily into IPOs which have no viable business model will fall for this too.

It’s not just the incompetence that’s the problem, it’s also the laziness and malice.

Or perhaps you should work on staying out of off-topic pissing contexts about irrelevancies?

In the middle should be “eraser.”

And for a few years after, until Lenovo started lifecycling them and the enshittification began.

People criticize how sound works in Linux, while in MacOS a userspace program can make a sound device or a network device stuck till reboot.

Funny, it’s been a few years since I’ve had a sound issue on Linux, and it’s both my work platform and my home daily driver (which is a Thinkpad). If it’s not too much of a derail, what sort of complaints are people making?

“Encrypted with ROT-0!”

And that’s fine. It incentivizes some weird behavior, but there can be rational strategies that work in that environment, not only the deranged herd behavior that we see during speculative bubbles such as this one. And there are even worse methods of allocating money to investment opportunities (for example, politicians picking winners).

I already have guac, don’t need more.

Decentralizaed approaches to dealing with crypto are also full of bad actors.

If you’re forced into those markets, never put in more than you need to spend. That’ll reduce the damage if they get hacked or (even more typically) steal your money and disappear.

Time to short Cisco.

So they bought 10% for $8.9 billion? So Intel’s market cap is only $89 billion? No, earlier this month it was $350 bn. So what’s going on here?

No, this is more like the 2008 financial crash, where the underlying problem was pervasive fraud and regulators turning a blind eye.

As a fellow Butlerian, I salute him.