RIP

I'm currently in the middle of watching Babylon 5 for the first time, and I'm enjoying is evil psychic antics.

Since then, it's been general improvements in material technology and attention-to-detail rather than anything particularly ground-breaking.

The attention-to-detail aspect of device design is so important. A lot of aspects of the design of bikes could have been implemented 100 years ago, but it simply took a long time to try out lots of different permutations and figure out the best way to do things. Things like thru-axles, or universal derailuer hangers. Bikes from the 80s are totally rideable (I use one as a city bike), but they're definately mechanically quirky and annoying compared to something even a decade newer.

There are a lot of devices and mechanism out there that would benefit from the nit-picky development that bikes have received over the decades. It's distressing when you see modern versions of a device that have somehow regressed.

Luiz, you've lived through decades of the most ridiculous right wing psycho shit. You saw exactly what happened when you were magnanimous in victory: they behaved like fucking animals and tried to destroy you and your country.

You have the mandate of heaven once more. Become The Beast.

Reminds me of how he engineered the Saudi blockade of Qatar when they refused to give him a loan for 666 fifth avenue. The man is complete demon.

Especially there's a genuine blue wave, followed by a lame duck Trump who continues to simply do whatever he wants without consequences. A lot of them will probably just deactivate when they start thinking about how useless their weekly protest meetup really was, but some of them might actually learn some lessons.

I'm hoping that there's eventually a massive glut of secondhand datacenter equipment for running local models.

I recall him mentioning it in March, and it wondering if it was just a case that the rate of installation of new compute was rising fast, and so these companies needed a big buffer of GPUs to make sure they had something to install. And so I expected that what we would see is that maybe these buffers of GPUs in warehouses would grow, but the installation rate would grow faster. But now that the numbers are in, it seems like the gap is widening in the opposite direction - warehousing is accelerating faster than the acceleration of installation of GPUs. Every month brings new absurdities.

We pulled together some costumes for trick-or-treating: I'll be the tin man, my spouse will be the scarecrow, and Little Beaver will be the Lion. Little Beaver got super into wearing her lion onesie, and has been walking around with it saying "RAWR". Very psyched for halloween this year - we're getting the neighborhood kids together for a pre-trick-or-treating party in the late afternoon, and then we'll head out around the block. It's been exciting seeing the kids from the neighborhood gel together even in just the short time we've lived on the block. It was a bit of a shot in the dark when we moved, but we landed in a good neighborhood, and hopefully these will be some lifelong friends for Little Beaver.

DS is owned by a hedge fund that shorts OpenAI and Anthropic before pulling moves like this.

Let's fucking go

New theory of revolution:

Step 1: billionaires finance communist candidates as spoilers

Step 2: they accidentally win

Gotta get some RAF personnel blown up so that the UK press has some bloody shirts to wave.