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New comment by mrkstu in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

mrkstu — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:14:52 +0000

Yep. Also the guy moving countries to battery peaking power instead of gas turbines, the guy who started the revolution that has China moving to mostly battery powered cars. He could run those data centers for decades and not dent his net green credentials.

New comment by mrkstu in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

mrkstu — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:59:56 +0000

Its hilarious that the left, the home of the Weathermen, masked Antifa terrorists, assassins cheered by their base, studiously ignoring rape by favored groups, and a list I could continue for paragraphs, so weakly grasps for morality as some kind of new Puritans.

The only morality of the left is that of Big Brother.

Musk must be verboten because of his heresies, not because he shares the libertine tendencies of the left.

Considering that Climate Change is apparently the greatest challenge of our age, please point me to a single person who has done more to move the world economy to a Green economy than Musk?

Musk does indeed have some detestable tendencies, as indeed most of us do, if we will be honest in our private moments. The difference is his are magnified by those vehemently opposed to his willingness to oppose the entrenched political elite and speak the truth as he sees it. If Musk was willing to bend the knee he would be as celebrated as Soros despite his trillion..

Musk doesn't need me or anyone to stick up for him, but we as a society need to be much more honest in these dialogues about what we are truly talking about rather than cloak in vile rhetoric and divisive attacks. As long as we debase the debate with emotional baggage of envy and vitriol rather than goal based reasoning, we deserve the pit of despair we're currently swirling into.

New comment by mrkstu in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

mrkstu — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:43:40 +0000

This is conveniently forgetting that China used Tesla as a template on how to build out its electric car companies, as it is now using SpaceX as a template to get reusable rockets going...

New comment by mrkstu in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)"

mrkstu — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:46:44 +0000

I read two books a day in middle school. Still my favorite time to look back on…

New comment by mrkstu in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

mrkstu — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:25:44 +0000

I would say on this forum it wouldn’t be suprising for commentors to be near or above 50% that have access to an M Series Mac…

New comment by mrkstu in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

mrkstu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:47:23 +0000

Depends- my current position was via a staffing firm that was engaged directly by my new company to fill the position, since they had an existing trust relationship.

But they indeed were comfortable revealing the hiring company early in the process due to that trust level…

New comment by mrkstu in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

mrkstu — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:00:33 +0000

And developers

New comment by mrkstu in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

mrkstu — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:30:52 +0000

Australia is annoying. Israel is by far the worst- UK is bad in theory since they can jail you to compel an unlock, but obviously is going to happen to a vanishingly small number of people…

New comment by mrkstu in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

mrkstu — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:21:13 +0000

Hate China? I don’t see that. There are plenty of factual reports about the CCP that are pretty damning, but the people/culture/place is generally perceived postively other than being a competitor…

New comment by mrkstu in "Replacing My ISP Router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max"

mrkstu — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:18:43 +0000

So DHCP or go home?

New comment by mrkstu in "AI slop is killing online communities"

mrkstu — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:48:07 +0000

The combo of quick bans and incrementally earned rights seems to be a pretty effective combo.

New comment by mrkstu in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

mrkstu — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:31:55 +0000

In Texas HS Football is very much the central/highest tier of social status/standing in the community, and the stadiums they play in are bigger than small college stadiums elsewhere (and are televised.)

New comment by mrkstu in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

mrkstu — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:32:17 +0000

It obviously was LLM assisted, but I think collectively we will have to get over our distaste for text that has some LLM’isms in spots as long as it isn’t obviously completely outsourced to a bot, unless we just want to shut down message boards completely.

New comment by mrkstu in "Why Musicians Are Manufacturing Sold-Out Shows"

mrkstu — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:11:17 +0000

Wouldn’t you do Friday first in that scenario?

New comment by mrkstu in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

mrkstu — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:39:22 +0000

Children are human beings, and are the full range of what humans are. When small, the fun of it is seeing them unfold into that fully formed version- sometimes painfully, sometimes joyfully.

New comment by mrkstu in "Struggle Against the Gods"

mrkstu — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:11:21 +0000

Beautiful and sad- read and be reminded that real heros exist even in today’s squalid sphere.

New comment by mrkstu in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

mrkstu — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:36:11 +0000

Yep, with wireless keyboards and mice you really only need your monitor cables on the desk in this setup.

New comment by mrkstu in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

mrkstu — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:52:32 +0000

The issue of course is that the Judge can't change the knowledge that the head of the executive doesn't want people down the chain using this product, so they won't. Anthropic is a dead letter in government circles until the next Presidential election.

New comment by mrkstu in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

mrkstu — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:20:59 +0000

Yeah, what studiously seems to be absent is a denial of the contents of the recording. Kind of as if Nixon's Watergate burglars had found damning evidence of Democratic shenanigans- just a melee between dirty handed criminals all around.

New comment by mrkstu in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

mrkstu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:26:55 +0000

To me, a lot of what makes us sentient is our continuity. I even (briefly) remember my dreams when I wake up, and my dreams are influenced by my state of mind as I enter it.

LLMs 'turn on' when given a question and essentially 'die' immediately after answering a question.

What kind of work is going on with designing an LLM type AI that is continuously 'conscious' and giving it will? The 'claws' seem to be running all the time, but I assume they need rebooting occasionally to clear context.