That is hilarious, actually. Econs of the Left, 1976: "Socialism is better than Capitalism for Growth!" Econs of the Left, 2026: "Socialism is bad for growth, and that's good!"

I calculated Tesla FSD's reaction time

Throwing more money at public schools, even doubling teacher salaries, has virtually no effect on student outcomes.

Ro you are so far off the reservation of reality I'm not sure you can come back. Basic math proves this assertion wrong. And maybe more importantly do you think Elon would be worth $1T if you ever got your hands on this "wealth" earlier in cycle? Walk this back to every person who was asked to (forced) to give his money to gov't instead of investing it. All of Elon's wealth is in stock, earned from his own investment in capital and work. Its really hard to understand how your head got into this space. I fear its a disease of ignorance. Perhaps its a political opportunism, but that's even more pathetic if you know better.

We're gonna abundance so much, you may even get tired of abundance. And you'll say, please, please, it's too much abundance. We can't take it anymore. Mr. Musk, it's too much, and I will say no it isn't, we have to keep abundance, we have to abundance more, we're gonna abundance more!

RT @JessicaBRiedl: Musk's Social Security contributions are capped because his benefits are also capped. I thought Social Security's point…

0.3% of the water consumed by US golf courses last year

Whether Elon or Larry has a $500B or $1T does not impact my life in the slightest. If they were taking it from me, I'd be outraged, but economics is not a pie, and I'm busy baking my own. Good for them, I guess. At least we know the system works as intended: it's the American Dream we profess to care about, after all.

I re-play this game every summer, and I will be doing so again.

Okay, now the physics. Because his thermos analogy self-destructs on closer inspection. He's right that vacuum eliminates conduction and convection. But his conclusion - that radiated heat is "ineffective at processor temperatures" - is exactly backwards. Stefan-Boltzmann law: P = εσAT⁴ Radiation scales with the fourth power of absolute temperature. At 80°C / 353K, a high-emissivity surface radiates on the order of 800-900 W per square meter. Raise the temperature and heat rejection climbs fast. Vacuum doesn't kill radiation - in space, radiation is the mechanism you design around. That's where the thermos analogy falls apart. A thermos suppresses all three heat-transfer paths: vacuum handles conduction and convection, while silvered low-emissivity walls suppress radiation. Space radiators do the exact opposite - maximize area, emissivity, view to cold space, and heat transport to the radiator panels. He accidentally described the problem, then missed the standard engineering answer. Reports on the AI1 concept describe roughly 110 m² of deployable liquid radiators for a compute payload in the ~120 kW sustained / 150 kW peak range. That's not an ignored problem. That's the cooling system. Could the design still have hard thermal-engineering challenges? Absolutely - sunlight, Earth infrared, albedo, pointing, radiator temperature, pump loops, mass, and margins all matter. But "space is a vacuum, therefore it dies in minutes" isn't the argument. Satellites, probes, the ISS, and spacecraft electronics have been rejecting waste heat by radiation for decades.

Windows Home Server would have been perfect for the agent-ified world we find ourselves in.

These are the side-effects of hiding scrollbars. Scrollbars should be visible at all times. An empty scroll track without a thumb-slider positively indicates that there is nothing to scroll in this window. This is even more critical when the window is nearly full and UI has hover-to-show scrollbars: You don't need to waste time trying to scroll to see if it is going to scroll.

Normal person: Piketty, your plan is incompatible with freedom. Piketty: But of course, and that's not the only great thing about it.

I just bought a Tesla Model Y Full Self Driving is one of the most impressive pieces of technology I’ve ever experienced. I now wish I’d got it a year ago.

If self-driving cars are 8x safer than human drivers and we refuse to deploy them because of one bad case, we are choosing to let hundreds of thousands of people die per year to protect our feelings about control.

🤣 New “exit vim” challenge unlocked.

I’ll simply never get tired of gawking at this graph How on earth did they decide that ONE-DIMENSIONAL data should be illustrated as a heatmap on polar coordinates What on earth were they thinking?

I managed to get RetroPad, my full-feature-parity version of Notepad from XP, down to 2686 bytes of tight x86 assembly. I checked in the exe to make life simpler, so you don't need masm on hand! Episode coming shortly... follow so you don't miss it! Code: github.com/PlummersSoftwareL…

My favorite part of this is the ridiculous way he stands back up.

A government that can't count votes in a timely manner shouldn't be allowed to run so many aspects of our lives.