I hate to say it, but when someone goes "We're a bunch of nerds" these days, I immediately hear "we're a bunch of far left tourists destroying your shit"
I mean, maybe that isn't fair, but disco stu doesn't advertise.
We all remember the recent event where half the earth crashed because a security company sent an update, and there was an event earlier where solar winds had a bad cert that allowed bad actors to access dozens of companies carte Blanche.
Trusting an info sec company that can write to your network is bullshit. If these companies cared about security they wouldn't allow data to be sent back and forth like this.
Kaspersky antivirus just installed a while new antivirus to all their us customers without asking permission. This is all evidence that infosec is bullshit because it you get into infosec companies you get privileged access to tons of critical networks.
If you're trying to get data from a secure network to a less secure one, there's a device called a data diode which can't be hacked traditionally because it can only send signals outward and not inward. Think of a fiber optic cable where you only have a transmitter on one side and a receiver on the other, or an AM radio -- you can't hack the radio station no matter how you turn the dial on your am radio because the info only moves from the station to your radio. Contrast with a 2-way link into a secure network from a third party.
I always feel like if you're a game developer you're sort of selling the family farm if you don't want to have the competence internally to build a game engine. I might just be really old school in this regard, but it seems like most of the best game developers of all time had an engine in house, got really good at it, and were able to turn over great games pretty quickly that did exactly what they wanted them to do.
If this is the story that I looked up, first of all it doesn't look like Microsoft is going to own that power plant, it is going to continue to be owned by the current owner. Microsoft is going to invest in the Three Mile Island facility to get it back up and running, and then we'll have a 20 year agreement to purchase energy from them. According to the article, that would add 800 megawatts to the grid. By my account, that would add 672 gigawatt-hours to the grid assuming that it runs 24/7.
Unless there is another story somewhere else that has them investing in nuclear power...
I always find it odd realizing how many people used to be able to make entertaining and hilarious content and stopped in their tracks and became political robots instead.
I used to love Yugioh abridged. One of my favorite things period. Today there's a nice big "omg I don't actually believe this plz no cancel" on each episode produced. No wonder, it was actually good.
I consider the peak of human civilization to be late 90s early 2000s.
No era is perfect and it had its problems, but the good far outweighed the bad.
I heard something recently that made me think though -- Someone said the 70s were the hangover for the 60s that laid the groundwork for the 80s. This framework seems like it could work somewhat -- The 1930s were the hangover for the 1940s, which laid the groundwork for the 1950s. The timing doesn't work perfectly but then we're living in a dynamic system so people are reacting to stuff. The 2010s and 2020s being the hangover for the 1990s and 2000s, leading potentially to a banger in the 2030s? Hard to say, we'll have to see. No matter what though, this moment will pass, as will the next. We live in a dynamic system and the only thing that won't change is things will change.
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