Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered. Usually it’s retail investors who end up getting slaughtered.

Even people going deeply into risky bets usually have a “barbell” strategy where they’ll rebalance from the high risk high growth to low risk low growth so they can see growth but in a downturn they aren’t facing huge losses.

I suspect that Amazon is starting to take advantage of the lead it got from being a loss leader in so many markets.

Amazon the store is effectively a loss leader I think for stuff like AWS, since people go “Oh, if the largest store in the world uses this hosting, we can use it for our business/government/project”.

I’ve seen it a lot in the past 5 years, where things they couldn’t possibly have been making a profit sending to our house (like groceries) went way up and now local stores make more sense. A lot of stuff where they still have a price advantage is basically just because they’re a marketplace for direct factory sales from places like China.

If people like me and a lot of others are correct, we might be facing a period of extreme uncertainty and likely big recession. Amazon would be quite sensible to get in front of that and start cutting now so they don’t need to take the pain at the same time everyone else is. Ford made a similar move prior to the 2008 financial crisis and that ended up being a great move for them in the medium term since they didn’t need to be bailed out like GM. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more competition in the AWS space in such a situation because platforms like that are actually pretty expensive compared to a few servers. I know if I were a CIO or CTO and my choice was to keep my staff and spend some capital or keep using AWS, in a downturn I’d be looking pretty carefully at on-prem for a lot of things.

I appreciate this as a balanced take.

I’ve done a little work from home, and it’s nice being home, but it’s still work. If you’re doing your job right, it’s still your job.

Unfortunately, I’ve also seen that while some people are great at WFH and even do better, a lot of people either don’t get anything done, or look very “productive” because they’re harassing people still at work with meaningless busywork like sending emails that don’t do anything or asking other people to do parts of their job they’d be able to do if they were at work.

I think that partially goes to the point of “what is productivity?” since someone can look busy but not be doing anything that actually does anything positive for either boots on the ground micro views or mile high macro views. “Oh, look at how many emails got sent” great, did that actually help the business run? And sometimes the answer is “yes, and we should let this WFH worker continue at all costs”, and in others the answer is “No, and we need to get this person into the office or eliminate the position because either would be better than the status quo”

It’s a bit managerial in the way to look at it, but in order to justify WFH, the people working from home must be providing enough value to justify their employment, because too much overhead waste and the business ends, maybe every business embracing WFH ends, and then all that’s left is the ones that didn’t. To be clear, that’s not a moral stance, but a purely pragmatic evolutionary stance: Those things which survive continue and those that die do not.

Hawaii is an odd one. By definition as a volcano they can have virtually unlimited energy, and yet there’s something like 90% imported coal for their energy utilization. Far as I’m concerned that should be at the top of every environmentalists wish list.

“Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better.”

They’re called anime fans.

This guy gets it.

I’ll still put magus in my party every time.

Fight me.

It’s a kid’s show, of course he is.

Well, let me tell you a story.

Recently I needed to use BitTorrent to download a very large file from an independent project. Usually I can just use my web browser, but this one was in the hundreds of gigabytes there just was no way.

So I installed the original official bittorrent client, because I’m really out of the game I haven’t torn today anything outside of my browser in years now.

I had to pay close attention to not install multiple pieces of unwanted software. I had to uncheck a bunch of stuff and carefully navigate the installer. Even after that, the client was junk and constantly showed multiple videos ads at all times, and besides that it just didn’t have the horsepower to download my torrent for me.

I remembered using transmission on Linux so I decided to try getting that instead, turns out it had a Windows version.

Downloaded, ran the executable, pressed next three times, opened up the torrent file, pointed to my existing download hoping it’d figure out what parts the file needed and in fact it did and the download was done quickly.

If I had failed to uncheck any of the boxes, I guess you could call me stupid for non-un checking them, but to me it seems a lot simpler using the FOSS products that never had any checkboxes to uncheck in the first place.

Meanwhile, and honestly I didn’t use Plex very much because it just didn’t seem like a very good product, but I also seem to remember I kept on ending up on the plex.net website instead of my own server. I think it was something along lines of if you go in to change certain settings it’ll change domains on you? Either way, it was just not very well set up compared to Jellyfin, which had everything that I was using right there I never even remotely tried to send me somewhere else.

Zero with jellyfin.

By default for me it seems to really want me to get off of my server altogether and get onto their servers, and it seems to really want to get me off of my media and onto their half-baked streaming service.

Really complex compared to just having my media show up.

I’m using proxmox now with lots of lxc containers. Prior to that, I used bare metal.

VMs were never really an option for me because the overhead is too high for the low power machines I use – my entire empire of dirt doesn’t have any fans, it’s all fanless PCs. More reliable, less noise, less energy, but less power to throw at things.

Stuff like docker I didn’t like because it never really felt like I was in control of my own system. I was downloading a thing someone else made and it really wasn’t intended for tinkering or anything. You aren’t supposed to build from source in docker as far as I can tell.

The nice thing about proxmox’s lxc implementation is I can hop in and change things or fix things as I desire. It’s all very intuitive, and I can still separate things out and run them where I want to, and not have to worry about keeping 15 different services running on the same version of whatever common services are required.

Honestly, I lowkey hated plex when I was using it. We never used it because it wasn’t very good at the one thing it was supposed to be fore.

It was trying so hard to get me to use their media, when what I wanted was to watch my media. By contrast, jellyfin just shows me my media.

If you have a few bucks, the chromecast with android TV is what I’d recommend. The jellyfin app for android TV looks and works great – as good as any paid streaming service imo. I got my wife using it daily, and she’s not a tech person at all.

The big question is: Can you replicate Tuvix, then split the replicated tuvix back into the Neelix and Tuvok, then toss all 3 into the warp core?

I really want to go full Janeway on this.

Diablo 2. Not reloaded or whatever, the one you can install run and play without an internet connection.

Ideally the ground should be as close to the cold water pipe entering the house as you can get, yeah.

Honestly, I wouldn’t want to just use my cold water line well into the house as a ground for exactly that sort of reason.

In many jurisdictions, connecting to the copper cold water line is acceptable. The copper line runs through the ground and so is essentially the same as a grounding electrode.

I think normal people who need things like food and shelter might not see the benefits of all the economic growth that makes the top 0.1% even wealthier.

The only one who gets paid in % of GDP is the government.

Trump isn’t ultimately the guy to change any of that, but “economists warn” “could hurt […] Growth” isn’t a good reason to do or not do anything.

Sad that uglymug epicfighter is almost over.

What!

3 seasons?!

Tbh liked the books more than the anime.