Because it’s what they’ve always done.

It means that data centers will just find a way to have themselves classified as anything except for a data center… meanwhile anyone who happens to have more than 3 computers in their homes will have to pay extra on their electric bills.

So is the Liftoff!

I can’t wait for a more sensible Supreme Court to come about so that these AI companies can stand before them and hear that since their models were created using data created by the public, that those models, and everything created by those models are considered Public Domain.

All those people unknowingly create open source software by having Claude help write their code is going to be amazing.

Except that it isn’t. There are many open AI models being created by non-corporate entities, NousResearch is one of the more popular ones. They are dedicated to creating open models for the betterment of all.

And even if you do use open models that were created by a corporation… ok. It isn’t like using those models on your own hardware, on your own network, is going to be providing anything to those corporations.

To be fair, Google had the ability many years before ChatGPT was released to release a similar product but they purposefully didn’t, and instead they only used it internally. And then when OpenAI did their release Google was one of the voices calling for moderation. They released Bard because otherwise they were going to be left behind, and likely have lawsuits from investors.

Do you want to live in a country with a dictatorship like that? I don’t.

Uh, I’ve got some bad news for you …

I have my local LLM currently setup and it runs just as well as Sonnet 4.6 from a quality standpoint, and for performance it is slightly slower but it’s still faster than I can respond.

This is with a Strix Halo APU with 128GB unified memory using the latest Qwen3.6 models with llama.cpp.

My favorite Scrabble win was using ‘eBay’… before playing that word I looked at the instruction sheet and it specifically said that “words that begin with a capital” are not allowed. There were some sour grapes after that one.

It’s a wonderful show, and I don’t know the scene you’re referring to but they do tend to spend a lot of time creating dishes, which I suppose is something chefs do when coming up with something new. But what gets me is when they are outside of the professional kitchen and cooking for someone. It’s happened a few times where someone says they are hungry, and so one of the chefs will ‘whip up something’… and it’s like a whole process. Once it even involved a trip to the grocery store, and that was when a kid was hungry.

Even still, it’s a great show.

This is how we play… and it has resulted in some VERY long games.

Once we had some friends over and their 8 year old son was playing with us. He almost won a few times, but his dad did everything in his power to keep him from winning. It was close to midnight before that game ended and it was the first time I considered changing the house rules.

That how I feel… but I only ever talk about it to a very small number of people. No one needs to know my shit.

“They are living, sentient beings, and if we have the ability to save them through a safe and humane solution, we have a responsibility to try.”

So I’m only going to offer to save half of them.

But seriously, I’m glad he’s able to help. I wish he could find a way to keep them where they are while also protecting the local environment because the story of these hippos is great and could be a nice tourism draw for Columbia, but even saving some from culling is a good thing.

I’m curious why? She has done great in both dramatic and comedic roles, as well as dark comedy, which I think would work well with White Lotus.

Those are operating costs, I’m referring to control of the board of directors.

Market cap is around $141 billion.

Number of employees is around 60,000.

60% of employees: 36,000.

60% of market cap: $84 billion.

$84B / 36,000 = $2.33 million.

I did some ‘back of the napkin’ math a few days ago to see what it would take for the employees in my company to purchase enough shares for a controlling stake in the company. I figured that we’d never get 100% of the employees to buy in, but we also don’t need 100% of the shares, so to keep it easy I calculated if 60% bought 60% of the shares… and it would cost each employee around $2.3 million.

That tells me that each employee provides $2.3 million worth of value to the company… and we’re not getting paid anywhere near that. Not even close.

I need to use this because I’m always awkward trying to figure out ways to get people to open up. I work with a couple of Asian guys at work, and one of the guys is VERY open about his background. I could write an essay on his life from age 13 to 60. The other guy is a complete mystery. I’ve worked closely with him for 3 years and I still have no idea about his background. A few years ago he told me he was taking two weeks off “to go back home” and I thought that this was my chance to find out more, I asked “where’s home?”. And he replied “L.A.”.

My dad died at 48… my older brother died at 47… as I approached 48 I had quite a bit of anxiety about it. Around age 40 I let my doctor know that I wanted to keep an eye on my heart (that’s what took them both out) and he said that he didn’t see anything wrong with me, but relented. The first thing we did was got a heart scan. It was a $50 imaging cost and even the woman doing the imaging said that she never sees anyone under the age 50 getting that scan, but they did it… and saw that my aorta was slightly enlarged. Then my doctor had me do a sleep study since I’m a snorer. Sure enough, sleep apnea. I got a cpap and both my wife and I are sleeping so much better now. I felt like I was doing everything right and then around the age 42 I started getting consistent heart palpitations. Even when laying down or resting. That’s when I started seeing a cardiologist. She put me on a beta blocker and that fixed the palpitations (or managed them because I’ll likely always be on these meds now). But my cardiologist says that I’m her favorite patient because I’m doing everything right (other than exercising)… with the meds, the scans and the cpap she said that I’m on top of it. And my last 2 scans have shown that my aorta is back to its normal size and I won’t need any other scans for a few years (likely when I reach 55). I turn 49 next month and as much as I was dreading turning 48, I’m really looking forward to 49 so I can put it all behind me and stop feeling like I have some barrier put up by my brother and dad that I have to get over.

Good luck to you over the next 2 years… I know that dread feeling and I wish I knew a way to get past it rather than just going through it, but make sure you’re seeing doctors and doing what you can to stay on top of your heath. That’s really the only thing you have control over.

When I left one of my prior jobs I wrote up several very cathartic resignation letters… it was good to get it out of my system before doing a proper and professional resignation letter. I’m glad I did because the tech community in this area is very tight and you end up bumping into a lot of the same people over the years.