Google says: "at the 100 publicly traded U.S. companies with the lowest median worker pay, this ratio (CEO to worker pay) is much higher, averaging 632 to 1.

Also: "From 1978 to 2024, inflation-adjusted CEO pay grew over 1,094%, while typical worker compensation increased by only 26%"

AI: "I'm sorry, a security guardrail prevents me from performing this operation."

And the government's response was to limit access to US citizens? I don't believe this for a minute. If Mythos could actually break into all these systems, the government would declare it a national security risk and it would never see the light of day for anyone outside government staff with security clearance.

I had another brand-new, identical Samsung SSD, so I hooked both the old and new drive up to a Linux laptop (with USB cases) and tried to dd the old drive to the new drive. That mostly worked, but VERY VERY slowly: it would run fast for 5 seconds and then have no activity for 30 seconds. I had a fan blowing on the old drive to keep it cool because it was running very hot.

The dd copy would eventually fail and then I'd restart it with appropriate iseek and oseek values. I also did a cmp /dev/zero with the new disk to verify that it was all zeroes (it was brand new), and that allowed me to use conv=sparse on the dd. The reason for that was to avoid writing to ever sector of the new disk; I didn't want to copy sectors from the old drive that had never been accessed (she only used about 250GB of the 1TB).

It took a couple of days and about 5 restarts to finish the copy, but it did work, and as a precaution, I made another copy of the drive and ran a cmp of the original drive and the 2nd copy (also having to restart cmp several times). Since that compare worked, I knew that all 3 drives had identical content. The new drive worked fine in her laptop and she was mighty glad to see her Windows login screen.

The thing that made this work, IMO, is that Linux has a longer timeout for errors than Windows apparently does, especially during the boot sequence. Plus Linux allows adjusting the drive timeout, so if the device is doing error recover, which is sometimes slow, it gives it time to finish rather than reporting an error.

One of my theories was that the bad SSD was overheating, but if that was the case, a cold boot should have worked, with the failures only coming later.

The other theory is that one of the chips on the SSD failed, so the drive was having to use the ECC codes to correct for the missing information, and the correction process was taking longer than Windows boot would tolerate.

https://paddockpost.com/2025/02/14/executive-compensation-at...

If people are giving stuff to Goodwill with no compensation, I'd say they definitely would give eBay stuff for a 30-40% cut.

In the real world, you don't hire a plumber and expect him to also do your landscaping, fix your car, and tailor your clothes. It would seem like a much better use of resources if I could download an app that specialized in shell, Python, and C coding for example, or maybe even that would be 3 apps that communicated. Maybe I could even run them on a regular machine with 16GB of RAM. I don't need one huge model that can do that and code in Fortran, COBOL, and Lisp.

As humans, we've done pretty well by specializing. I hope this gets explored more with smaller, focused AI models vs the current path of one model to rule them all that can only be run in a data center the size of a country.

PID COMMAND %CPU 1200 Firefox GPU 319.2

I do use uBlock Origin and NoScript addons, but these are disabled in private windows and this GPU thing happens with either regular or private windows where the addons aren't running. I only noticed this because eventually the fan will ramp up.

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See "The Forbin Project": https://vimeo.com/584593423

As author of HashBackup, I know people are using it with GCS, and I'd like to be able to test against it, but not enough to swallow a large surprise Google bill.