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I like scrambled eggs and omelettes, but that’s about it. Always with cheese.

There are a stupidly surprising number of fascists in this town. I blame Governor Hot Wheels.

I still see a lot of ‘em here in Austin.

I’ll toss in my two cents.

It’s mainly about handling and processing vast amounts of data. Many times more than you or I may deal with on a day to day basis. First, you have to have somewhere to put it all. Then, you’ve got to load whatever you’re working with into memory. So you need terabytes of RAM. When you’re dealing with that much data, you need beefy CPUs with crazy fast connections with a ton of bandwidth to move it all around at any kind of reasonable pace.

Imagine opening a million chrome tabs, having all of them actively playing a video, and needing to make sense of the cacophony of sound. Only instead of sound, it’s all text, and you have to read all of it all at once to do anything meaningful with it.

If you make a change to any of that data, how does it affect the output? What about a million changes? All that’s gotta be processed by those beefy CPUs or GPUs.

Part of the reason AI data enters need so much memory is because they’ve got to load increasingly large amounts of training data all at once, and then somehow have it be able to be accessed by thousands of people all at once.

But if you want to understand every permutation of whatever data you’re working with, it’s gonna take a ton of time to essentially sift through it all.

And all that’s gotta be hardware? You have to make doubly sure that the results you get are accurate, so redundancies are built in. Extremely precise engineering of parts, how they’re assembled, and how they’re ultimately used is a lot of what makes supercomputers what they are. Special CPUs, RAM with error correction, redundant connections, backups… it all takes a lot of time, space, and money to operate.

You have money. Go to school for something interesting. Find a passion.

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Except the RAM that’s getting made for AI bullshit isn’t regular DDR5 sticks. It’s useless in a regular PC.

And joysticks.

Vyvanse didn’t do much for me other than raise my heart rate to unsafe levels.

No, assholes, you’re helping yourselves. You’re a company, you go where the money is. It’s never about helping the customer.

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A few things, but the thing that really does it is fixing things. Not building things, fixing things. Taking the time to test things and repair them. Particularly electronics.

Soap. Start with the rough side of the sponge to get the big bits off, then the other side to finish it off. Dry with a clean towel.

Or toss ‘em in the dishwasher.

I will often call her name, Triscuit, but also lovingly call her ‘fuzzy girl’ all the time.

The Celestial plane, obviously.

Only if you already have a ton of money, and it won’t be what you think.

No, but that’s been the biggest barrier to these kinds of plastics reaching global adoption. The vast majority of plastics have something to do with food production, or are exposed to myriad chemicals and temperatures. If they can’t do literally everything that normal plastics can do for the same price or cheaper, they won’t penetrate the market. I’m all for them, but it’s gonna be really tough to make any kind of dent.

Unless you can serve food in it and toss it in the dishwasher without it melting or falling apart, it’s basically pointless.

As someone smack dab in the middle of that range, I’ve only in the last couple of years even figured out what I’d even go to school for.

Just go to the grocery store and buy some?