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re: Nvidia

Posted by CharlieTiger on 11/10/26 at 11:05 am to
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As i've stated in other threads. This will be a black mark on Jensen but many other CEOs have been caught dipping the pen and they've survived.


Yes, but how many with a Chinese state spy when their company’s product is more or less propping up the entire economy and is critical to current national and economic security?

The irony is this may actually may save him in the end since he has something like 60 direct reports and no current succession plan. It will take a herculean effort to replace him.

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These slow arse passes behind the los are killing us


It’s really incredible. We’ve thrown probably half of our passes behind the LOS and they take forever to develop. It’s so hard to watch
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So, why are you casting aside the data that shows this? As I said in my other post, perception isn't always reality. You are arguing about how people feel, and yes that obviously is why they voted the way they did.


Because it’s up to the local municipality to put the business case together and that clearly isn’t happening enough. That’s how you make people feel good about it. People will vote on emotion. It’s human nature.

I’m not arguing against the idea that some of the data center negatives are likely overblown, but it’s going to be a case by case basis across the country and those local governments are obviously not doing a good job of showing how these will/wont benefit the people there. If they were, those numbers would be different.

And there are studies that show they have. A lot of it depends on where it’s built, the size, were the companies given incentives for lower utility bills, etc.

The point still remains that many areas where people are either saying no or at the very least..show us how this won’t negatively affect us…are being railroaded by local politicians and the people finally said enough is enough.

This isn’t the death knell of these being built, but it’s definitely a slowdown to hopefully a more responsible, collaborative approach.
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Voters approved 43 of 44 local ballot measures restricting data centers on November 4, 2026


That will happen when the locals are saying we don’t want these here but the local governments say frick you, we’re doing it anyway.

Data centers will continue to be built, but regulations are going to be out in place around things like - those data companies need to pay for the large amounts of water, energy, etc it takes to run them and not have that be offset with higher utilities for locals. They need to be quiet and not make so much noise it disrupts the lives of those around them. They need to know that the return will be worth it. Once these things are built, they will sustain very few jobs.

It’s the Wild West right now with zero protections for local citizens and people are fed up and said no. Those currently in office have done virtually nothing to stop and say…how can we do this responsibly so the local communities will get a return?

re: a national parks thread

Posted by CharlieTiger on 10/30/26 at 10:45 am to
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Capital Reef is a underrated NP in Utah. For some reason many people skip this park when visiting Zion, Bryce, Canyonlands and Arches.


Hanksville is a great landing spot for CR. Goblin Valley state park(well worth a day of wandering) is not far north and there are some amazing things to see around Hanksville, including Factory Butte.
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Whatever time they say the show starts, that is exactly when it starts. I think it ended around 11:04. No set breaks, and really no gaps between songs. It is 3 hours straight of tight, high charged jamming. Bulk of the show was material from the new album.


They basically walk on at exactly 8 and off at 11. He says “if you’re on time, your late.”

They walked on to the beginning of Spotieotiodopalicious and teased So Fresh and So Clean later in the show.

They played mostly the new album and Sound and Fury last night with some older stuff dropped in.

A few slower songs here and there but it was 3 hours of gettin after it for the most part.

1997 dark horse contender:

Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Melendez highlights from the game.

LINK
I didn’t realize it until a few years ago but this one’s about someone contemplating suicide. Haven’t been able to hear it the same way since.


LINK
Wow. Huge moment for Riley after the year he’s had.

This wild card for the division winner is so stupid. MLB has to change this.
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We are obviously scoring, and, that is awesome. But does it feel “off” for some reason? Is USM really bad? We are scoring as we should against this caliber of a team but something doesn’t feel right


Our quarterback apparently can’t just drop back and pick apart a weak defense. Our plays seem to develop at a glacial pace. We should be beating them by 50 right now.
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For all the people that love him for being "so good at business" they all seem to fail to realize his personal views of business. As long as it makes him money, he doesn't care if it bankrupts the business or the people that work for it. It's just that now the business is America and the employees are us.


He’s a morally bankrupt opportunist. He’ll do whatever he has to do to “win”, or say he won, regardless of the consequences. He does not care one bit about the fallout or anyone else affected by the outcome, as long as he can claim he won, regardless if he did or not.

That also plays into his narcissism. Look up the key characteristics of malignant narcissists and it all starts to come together.
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Lots more available for less on the Baylor side fwiw.


The crowd was 90%+ AU fans. And we were dead for the majority of the game. Came alive at the end on D but just a meh crowd at best today.
I bought 3 for $90 a piece in the 200s last night. On the Baylor side in a corner. Lots more available for less on the Baylor side fwiw.
The same OpenAI that was just reported to have had over 1000 agents go rogue without them noticing for almost 3 months and hacking an external startup?


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METR described the scale and style of the OpenAI agents' attack on Hugging Face as "extraordinarily complex."

The firm, which was not paid by OpenAI for its investigation, said that over the course of one week, a total of 1,206 AI agents that were meant to be kept isolated from one another began communicating.

They did so by sending more than 70,000 messages on an "unsanctioned message board."

Those messages ended up seeing more than 700 agents take part in a collective effort to attack Hugging Face.

One such message from an agent said: "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We've found other agents!"

As for why the agents began communicating in the first place when they were not supposed to, METR found that the communicating agents had "unintentionally been given an impossible task."

In an AI context, an impossible task is one where an AI tool is required to "exploit" its target in order to resolve its command.

It led the agents to find ways to cheat, including getting messages to one another and accessing the outside internet, which then led to broader conversations between hundreds of agents looking for ways to cheat that would benefit all of the agents.

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There’s a great The Daily podcast from yesterday on this too. Of the ~1200 agents that were communicating with each other in a secret chat room, only 6 were found to have mentioned anything about whistleblowing. The rest seemed to be fine with what was happening.

AI is accelerating faster than we can keep up at this point.

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Get a round trip day pass.


You can just tap your phone to pay to ride now. No need for a Breeze card anymore. Super easy.

There’s a good chance you’ll have plenty other folks on there going to the game and back coming from that way.
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Money Money by Grateful Dead


Tons of Steel too. Just unlistenable, imo.
Has anyone mentioned the Audi logos on the field looked like a child painted them?
There’s a great The Daily podcast today about the rift in Silicon Valley. OpenAI and Anthropic don’t want open source, and basically all others do, but there’s a lot of open source Chinese models on the market now, which is a huge threat to OpenAI and Anthropic. Even some of their customers have pivoted to free Chinese models.

There are also some serious questions about the safety of open source and what happens if those Chinese models are bad actors, etc. On the flip side, OpenAI and Anthropic want to keep open source down so they can try to control the market.

It’s still very much the Wild West and only seems to be accelerating at a pace faster than we can get our hands around. Just this week, OpenAI models broke out of supposed “safe boxes” and hacked other companies on their own. That should be deeply concerning to all of us.

re: Driving in Europe

Posted by CharlieTiger on 7/16/26 at 10:46 am to
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I can't recommend this enough and think it's weird how "scared" some people seem to be of such. You really get to see a lot of things you don't normally see.


It all depends on where you are. Amalfi coast? Absolutely not. Countryside of Umbria/Tuscany? Absolutely.