Musk and some more background people likely saved the Trump campaign from financial ruin. He couldn’t be rid of them if he wanted to.

He could shift his soft power approaches against Musk. That is, if Trump’s understanding of soft power were better than Cersi Lannister.

I don’t think he could. Musk and the techbros alongside him likely saved the Trump campaign from financial ruin. Trump can’t be rid of them if he wanted to.

I didn’t know my wife’s grandfather very well before he died, but he was a tank driver in France. When people said it was impolite to punch Nazis, he said “what do you mean? What else are they good for?”

If only there was nearly a century of history behind us we could have drawn on to see this coming.

I advocated for voting for Harris, and did so when the time came. I also don’t think this blame game gets us anywhere, and I’m already a little sick of talking about it.

I’m also done defending the Democratic Party as a whole. Individuals, yes, but not the party. I’m realizing through this that I have a certain reflexive need to correct misinformation about Democrats, but I’m clamping down on it.

Incidentally, Musk did exactly that at Twitter. He blamed the developers for his own recklessness (“I was told we had redundancy across our data centers. What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento. And there’s still shit that’s broken because of it”) when the infrastructure team strongly warned him ahead of time that this needed to be done carefully to avoid issues.

Which indicates that he learned nothing. Now he’s doing the same to the federal government.

It’s almost leftist cliche to say the system is full of contradictions. Nobody intentionally builds a system full of contradictions, but you get there by not paying attention to what you’re doing.

Which is to say that they don’t plan to do that. They just don’t know what the hell they’re doing.

The famous chess move: king’s gambit. Sacrifice your king for victory. Wait a minute . . .

Solar panels are warrantied to 25 years to a certain performance level. They still work after that, but tend to have reduced performance.

Geothermal systems have about the same 25 year expected lifetime. A lot will depend on if the owner keeps on top of maintenance or not. Given that most homeowners replace their water heaters in <10 years when it could have lasted 30 with good maintenance practices, it’s fair to say it’ll be closer to 25 years for a geothermal system when it could last 50.

Those cables are hard to terminate properly. There’s an outer grounding sheath that needs to be connected up at both ends. Except for short connections, I find it easier/cheaper to use fiber.

You can always hope it’s better than it actually is.

Also doesn’t help that SMB is single threaded. Completely mismatched for the era of multicore processors and SSDs.

Not OP, but I have my NAS and my office PC on 10Gbps SFP+ fiber, but that’s so I can have fast speeds to my NAS. Spinning platters are now the limiting factor on throughput, and it’ll be a while before SSDs come down in price enough for the kind of data hoarding volume I have. Roughly needs to be cut in half two more times, which is maybe closer than we all think.

2.5Gbps switches are generally good enough for home use while using plain copper wires, but I use a lot of old enterprise hardware on my network. Enterprise hardware never heard of 2.5Gbps ethernet.

Also, I found out my Unifi Edgerouter X maxed out at 500Mbps unless I shut off a lot of features. Upgraded to an OPNsense box. There’s probably a lot of home user routers that are similarly limited.

Interesting–when I made a similar argument on Reddit some years ago, networking geniuses assured me that they needed more than 1Gbps to play lag-free games. This on /r/programming, no less.

Go far enough left, get your guns back. Go far enough right, get your clean energy back.

But that’s completely bullshit. Solar and wind are so fantastically cheap that finding a way to deal with the capacity factor isn’t a big deal.

The new geothermal solutions are impressive and should open up a lot more possibilities, but don’t assume they’re being honest about any of it. They’ve advocated for nuclear for decades without actually building new nuclear plants.

Certainly. Project 2025 is a wing nut fantasy. They won’t be able to implement half of it before tying their own shoelaces together. But they’ll do a whole lot of damage in the attempt.

Bob Semple is jealous.

Headlines on this aren’t making it clear. He resigned after a judge limited his access. Racist social media posts are not the reason. That was part of the interview process.