UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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Part of the problem with a for-profit energy grid. Base load is always someone else's problem. The spread between production cost and retail sale is all I really care about.

Too bad AI is gonna set us back years in the transition.

We're going to have these enormous commitments to new energy infrastructure and then someone on Wall Street sneezes, equity prices crash, and now you've got mountains of surplus hardware to clean up.

Zuckerberg wants a data center as big as Manhattan Island just a few years after he sank billions in his failed Metaverse experiment.

But hey! Remember to separate your recyclables! We need to do something to help the planet.

It’s Denmark, they have a pretty robust welfare system that’s actually likely paying for this sort of program

I mean, if they're befitting from that support, I'd say it counts.

The neoliberal’s control of the DNC is over

The Year is 2008

Howard Dean has been elected DNC Chairman

The era of corporate control over the party is dead. Clintonism is in full retreat. Dems are doing a 50 State Strategy, because they want to be a party for All Americans

Demographics is Destiny! The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Progress! There's no way the empire will ever strike back!

And thats all we need from the party, the rest is on the voters.

A voter is smart. The Voters are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

Looks like AI generated slop

It's a shakedown when the indie developer does it to the mega-corp

It's sensible shareholder-first business best practices when the mega-corp does it to the indie developer.

Trump ping-ponging between hot button issues is a distraction from Trump's very limited attention span and the ease with which his cabinet drags him around by the nose.

A lot more people than just astronauts, as the NOAA cuts to Texas weather forecasting proved.

Bills are also a thing.

I find it a little silly to try to use shipping as an example of a non bespoke system.

That's fine. Good luck with your bespoke-solution-to-everything. It does have the benefit of locking in clients and being very lucrative in the long run.

These are his people. He is their guy.

This is a guy who went on a Reality TV Show to audition for the attention of right-wingers. He's not any more "their guy" than con-artists like Andrew Tate or Bari Weiss. They're carnival barkers and you're out in the crowd waving your wallet.

Finding funding for those indies is another matter.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?

I will say, I know a guy with a ton of extra cash who could probably practice what he preaches.

But finding the next digital unicorn in a sea of mid-to-shit titles is no mean feat. For every Warcraft or Marathon there's a thousand flops.

That is, I think, what makes the AAA studios look worse than they have a right to be. They're Frankenstein companies, cobbled together from the bits of a dozen early stars. But that doesn't guarantee hits, it just guarantees brand recognition. The latest Blizzard title isn't going to have the secret sauce of StarCraft because they already made that game once. Merging with Activision doesn't mean making a game that's better than CoD and StarCraft combined.

At some point people need to abandon this idea that all needs and wants must align exactly so that we can have only one standard.

That's what we have extensions for.

But I don't think we're anywhere near your hypothetical state. On the contrary, my time in business has been dominated by designing and updating bespoke interfaces between bespoke systems. Everything is bespoke, at the industry level. Measurement tools are bespoke. Relational databases are bespoke. Transmission protocols are bespoke. Everything's a daisy chain of staging tables and APIs, as you get what is functionally interchangeable data from half a dozen different systems to tie out into the final accounting ledger.

Hell, we can't even get aligned to the metric system. Assholes are still running around talking about feet and gallons, until they cross a border and have to kick over to meters and liters.

I understand the pull for it, but it’s not realistic.

One of the most revolutionary ideas of the modern logistics system was the uniform shipping container. You had a pre-defined box size with well-established uniform characteristics that you could load up with whatever you pleased. Then you could load up a container in a factory, put it on a truck, take it to a train, move it onto a ship, sail it across the sea, unload it onto a train, that puts it on a truck, that takes it to a warehouse. And because everyone agreed to adhere to a single shipping container standard, the entire system of transit could be built to accommodate units of that size.

Not only is the idea realistic, it is essential to a modern efficient interoperable system.

I mean, I hope they're getting paid.

Congratulations, you just sold two bottles of wine. Do I need to use a referral code?

Damn. Should have considered negotiating that in advance.

One of the best wines I’ve ever tasted is called TALEiA, by Castell d’Encus out of Spain.

Turnabout is fair play. I suppose I should order a bottle or two myself.

For the dipshits who send this guy money, I'm going to issue one of these in advance

Why do you have to use three different screens from two different applications to get the information you need for one shipment invoice? Because we didn’t reinvent any wheels everyone has a bespoke wheel design and there's no interoperability or uniform interface.

FTFY

If I want to modify this wheel to suit my needs

Steepled fingers

Evil laughing

Another victim!!!

nobody outside USA liked Bush.

Blair defends Iraq war and praises Bush

Sept. 7, 2010

You can find similar pledges of support and friendship from Shinzo Abe, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon, Steven Harper, John Howard, Nicolas Sarkozy, Vladimir Putiny.. Practically every conservative government leader of the War on Terror era was expressing support for Bush late into his second term and beyond.

Europe and China are in very steep competition also on cars.

The Shift of German Car Parts Manufacturing to China Explained

Oops. It's all China.

IDK if you are American, things may look different over there

It's not, that's the joke. The American business model of buying from the cheapest producer and then spending all your money on branding/marketing is everywhere.

Both Volkswagen and Ford parts are coming from the same plants. Possibly made by the same exact machinists. The only thing you're paying a premium for is the ad reads.

Trump selected Powell back in 2018.

Nobody was positive about Bush

• Yes, George W. Bush kept us safe
• Thank You, President Bush: Reflections on the War on Terror, Defense of the Family, and Revival of the Economy
• “For all of my disagreements with President Bush, I will forever be grateful to him for guaranteeing we got the money we needed to rebuild New York,” Clinton says in Hillary.

Incidentally, the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act did not pass until 2023.

We are flush with Bush hagiographies.

Maybe the simpler point I could have made is that everybody competes with China.

They're the single largest manufacturing economy in the world. And they're on the cutting edge of a host of modern technical fields.

Vanishingly few economies compete with China in any material way (Japan, India, Korea, maybe France and Brazil if we're being generous). They're a global wholesaler for everyone else.