Life is rare. This adds a particular irony in wearing uniforms. All the uniqueness of life has this need for uniformity layered over the top.

(These deep thoughts go haywire when you realize that IRS Tax form 1040 is therefore some kind of wonder of creation and is a rare thing in the universe)

Your parents could afford a house, have kids etc etc at a far younger age but now you are single with no kids and choosing food or rent or power. You spin the wheel! Lucky! You get to eat.

Progress!

Have a normal path, eg days, a week or more (a month!). Have a selection of fast paths. Much shorter time. Days or even hours. Exceptions require higher trust. Indicators like money / reputation / history could be useful signals even if its only part of a paper trail. Treat exceptions as acceptable but requiring good reasons and explanation. This means a CVE fix from someone with high reputation could go through faster. While exceptions don't reduce the need for scrutiny they do enable clarity about the alternative chosen. Mainly because someone had to justify it away from the normal path. That's valuable in itself.

There's no perfection here. Credit cards and credentials get stolen. Reputation drifts since people change for all kinds of reasons.

Queues buy time. Time to find out. Time to back out.

A sudden desire to have a concrete monitor stand appears in my mind.

Practical considerations: I feel like simply adding some cork to the underside of most things would increase compatibility between plastic/alum and the hardness of concrete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

any way to link instances together? I'm interested in something like this to import/export resources etc.

I want this much RAM. this CPU. this GPU. this touch screen. this size. What options? None? what if I remove touch? ok good there's 3. and so on.

All that Pro Plus Premium nonsense is just too much marketing gibberish.

AI data centers should be operated according to two limiting factors.

1) No energy from grid. Can't use coal or fossil fuel energy sources. Must have plan to provide excess TO grid.

2) No use of fresh water from municipal or fresh groundwater for cooling. Can use waste water. Must transition to providing excess fresh water to common supply.

No loopholes. Massive penalties for use of loopholes or breaking rules, not limited to but including complete shutdown of data center.

Those two limits will spur innovation AND prevent AI being criticized for energy use. These rules would hard burn improvements in energy storage and renewables as well as other methods of energy production.

Give them five years to comply to some useful progress percentage. Plenty of time to come up with a transition plan and show sufficient progress to justify further extensions. Realistically it will take 20 years at least to fully realize this plan.

Don't bring up cost. If you do, let me remind everyone that the climate change issue is real enough to hurt now. There's the very real cost of not pursuing these rules. AI has had plenty of time to bootstrap off grid. Now it can begin to migrate to something else instead.

Those with experience with energy generation will realize this plan has ridiculously high reward for those who follow it. Have your cake and eat it too definitely applies.

em-dosbox is a good project.

rayleigh scattering.

what's that?

light from sun bouncing around.

why?

because it does.

why is it blue though?

green was taken.

why?

do you want chocolate or raspberry icecream?

chocolate!

yay!

(No, this isn't the best way. But it was A way and that was enough. The kid became a physics lecturer.)