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  • You are supposed to, but it is only insured to 250k. That might seem like a decent amount but if you suffer inflation and a government that is inclined to decrease FDIC rather than increase, you might end up not really getting much value out of that cash.

    250k is not a very big nest egg for retirement.

  • Dow drops 1,200 as US stock market leads a worldwide sell-off following Trump's tariff shock
  • Your funds might be in a HYSA but the bank holding them probably has them in stocks and bonds.

    So if the stocks fall enough you won't have your money anyways.

    Now you could say you want to hold onto cash instead, but the only fix for the banks not having money is to print money which makes cash worth less.

    Okay but what if you held gold or other minerals. Well the value of those comes from the perception that they could be used to trade when other things fail, but even if milk is $500 a gallon no grocery store is going to take gold as it isn't able to be insured and tracked. So the value of gold also will drop as it can't actually be used for goods and services.

    So basically you can't isolate yourself and protect yourself from societies stupidity. Its all a gamble and maybe your option works out or maybe it doesn't but there isn't a clear way to avoid the problem.

  • Kentucky governor vetoes GOP abortion bill, says it undermines doctors and endangers pregnant women
  • The only people who progressives lose to are the Democrats. Even in cases where they win a primary they get kneecapped by the DNC. Most US progressives come in with wild ideas like making the rich pay things instead of poor people. Making sure water is clean. Keeping the government out of our bedrooms. Governing rather than blustering. They also tend to be relatable as most have worked at least one real job in their life.

  • They didn't have 32oz Mountain Dew Baja Blast either
  • I believe the rule is any food that is perfect for eating on the road while you drive 45min from your first job, to your second part time night shift job. All of that kind of food doesn't exist in Europe or at least isn't popular for some reason.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders rally Democrats, calling for a party that 'fights harder'
  • It is the progressive party. But they can't win a local council seat let alone any valuable position. But they run for President every year and normally run one of their established candidates. The right gains more by supporting them.

    That said funding is questionable. They normally have their primary debate around a rental folding table. Im shocked they can even afford chairs.

  • Ghosted for the first time - fuck ghosts
  • This is a fantastic reason to talk to a therapist.

    You won't ever really trust your friends or family who say you did nothing wrong. Other folks will try to explain it away but it doesn't help either. Most people dealt with this and it sucks and when it hits you when you are vulnerable it can hurt for a long time.

    Focus on who you are and who you want to be and building your confidence. Focus on boundary setting and clear communication with people in general. These are skills it sounds like you struggle with based off the problems you are stressing about.

  • Ghosted for the first time - fuck ghosts
  • It can be scary for anyone regardless of gender. I've twice had really bad reactions, once life threatening, after a break up and I'm a big man.

    That doesn't mean anyone is wrong for ghosting or getting ghosted. I just want to highlight that trying to focus on gender as if it matters is the same as focusing on race or size or religion. You shouldn't say that a black person should expect to get ghosted because some people have had bad experiences with black people.

    Look maybe this person is terrible and deserved to be ghosted. Maybe the other person was awful and ghosted them to hurt them. Maybe it was just an unfortunate reaction due to personal stress. But no one deserves to be told their gender makes them just need to just suck it up and expect it. Having to deal with the stress and self doubt that comes from having someone who you thought was a part of your life decide to cut you out instantly, it sucks.

  • Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic Governor, Says Trans Women Playing Sports Is “Deeply Unfair”
  • Would be sick to get to vote for someone who actually had opinions and goals and stood for something. If we want to vote for just the general prevailing opinion we should just run an LLM and train it on superbowl commercials and cable news.

  • Linus responds to Hellwig - "the pull request you objected to DID NOT TOUCH THE DMA LAYER AT ALL... if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG."
  • Yea but if someone uses those bindings then you can't just not support it.

    By the time this code gets into a large scale production system it will be 2029. That is when the bugs will come in if someone leveraged the Rust bindings.

    You can ask the big company users at that time to contribute their fixes upstream, but if they get resistance because they have relatively junior Rust devs trying to push up changes that only a handful of maintainers understand, the company will just stop upstreaming their changes.

    The primary concern that a major open source project like this will have is that the major contributors will decide that interacting with it is more trouble than it is worth. That is how open source projects move to being passion projects and then die when the passion dies.

  • Linus responds to Hellwig - "the pull request you objected to DID NOT TOUCH THE DMA LAYER AT ALL... if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG."
  • It's mostly in that linked thread. The high level of it is a guy wanted to push Rust code. The maintainer said no it would mean the API for this would be tied to Rust and that is unacceptable. It cause another big contributer to throw a fit and Linus said he can't be everyone's mom. They kept fighting for like 2 months apparently? Now Linus stepped in, looked at the code and said the Rust code clearly doesn't impact the API in the way the maintainer was saying it just breaks itself if the maintainers allow changes to the API.

    I kinda dislike the idea that it's cool for people to contribute code that is so easy to break. I have a feeling after it happens a few times they are going to claim that it is being done intentionally and that the slap fights will carry on.

  • Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming
  • We have like three entirely reasonable shows all setup that they keep not even touching. All of them episodic, all of them able to both speak to new generations and old.

    Upper Decks: Live action show with the characters from Lower Decks. Primary focus is the main characters coming to terms with the fact that they are good enough to be senior members of a crew. Continue the idea that they are the little ship that could and their missions focus around support rather than flagship or the biggest of the bads.

    Prodigy 2.0: Again live action, with Ella Purnell as a captain who is super in demand and capable and would be fantastic in the role. Focus here is again episodic, when the rest of the Federation has abandoned exploration due to all the BS at the start of Picard, they are the only crew left with the charter to seek out new life and new civilizations. You have an incredibly young but capable cast and easily could bring in some heavy hitters to support them.

    Legacy: This idea has floated around a ton since Picard S3, honestly its the least developed of the ideas and I'd rather see a way to roll it into one of the much better and more fleshed out ideas above. I feel like the final scene in Picard was an afterthought while both Lower Decks and Progidy it was a true capstone.

  • Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: 'Maybe the problem is you'
  • Linus shouldn't have to get involved at all. Each part of the Kernel should be handled independently by the maintainers. Linus responding publicly to outside forces is fine but once he has to step in to handle public fights between individuals who are supposed to work together it is a problem.

    Linux staying C focused is a valid thing to do. It is very hard to get folks to contribute to the kernel and if you cut out anyone who doesn't know Rust, a language with at best 5% the adoption rate of C, you will run into spots where sections of the kernel are unmaintained due to no willing and qualified person covering it.

    Adding Rust based functionality and support is great. Changing APIs to require maintainers to learn Rust to continue to maintain the code they are experts in is unacceptable.

  • Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden”
  • The new 20 episode season is a 10 episode season with 5 webisodes and a cheaper side project like a cartoon or anthology.

    Honestly this is better to me because it enables the good plots of the smaller episodes to get all the focus without forcing some awful secondary plot to fill run time.

  • Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits
  • You make a lot of good points in here but I think you are slightly off on a couple key points.

    These are ARM not x64 so they use SVE2 which can technically scale to 2048 rather than 512 of AVX. Did they scale it to that, I'm unsure, existing Grace products are 4x128 so possibly not.

    Second this isn't meant to be a performant device, it is meant to be a capable device. You can't easily just make a computer that can handle the compute complexity that this device is able to take on for local AI iteration. You wouldn't deploy with this as the backend, it's a dev box.

    Third the CXL and CHI specs have coverage for memory scoped out of the bounds of the host cache width. That memory might not be accessible to the CPU but there are a few ways they could optimize that. The fact that they have an all in a box custom solution means they can hack in some workarounds to execute the complex workloads.

    I'd want to see how this performs versus an i9 + 5090 workstation but even that is going to already go beyond the price point for this device. Currently a 4090 is able to handle ~20b params which is an order of magnitude smaller than what this can handle.

  • Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits
  • It's not a real problem for a system like this. The system uses CXL. Their rant is just because they didn't take the time to do a click down into what the specs are.

    The system uses CXL/AMBA CHI specs under NVLink-C2C. This means the memory is linked both to the GPU directly as well as to the CPU.

    All of their complaints are pretty unfounded in that case and they would have to rewrite any concerns taking into account those specs.

    Check https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/ which is where I did my next level dive on this.

    EDIT: This is all me assuming they are talking about the bandwidth requirements of allocating all memory as being CPU allocation rather than enabling concepts like LikelyShared vs Unique.

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