I dunno, the bit about dedicating more data center capacity to customers rather than in-house use seems to suggest that Microsoft are acknowledging that AI is a bubble that doesn’t provide any real value but they think the bubble still has some life left yet and they can make a buck selling compute to other suckers visionary investors.

I used to find slashdot delightful,
but my feelings of late are more spiteful;
my comments sarcastic
the iconoclastic
keep modding to plus five (Insightful).

Why this big gap?

Dog storage, obviously.

I wouldn’t trust him not to miss tbh

Trump did but a bunch of his cronies from his first term didn’t (see Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort)

Since I’m in Canada and safe from the five eyes bullshit now…

Hate to tell you this, buddy, but Canada is one of the five eyes countries…

Don’t be so pessimistic, it’s quite possible it’ll be them and us if they take the world economy down with them.

Pretty much, yes. But don’t worry, it’s not like Trump passed massive tax cuts in his last term that have left the US over leveraged with >100% of GDP in debt and a $1.6T deficit or anything that leaves the US particularly vulnerable to bond sell offs.

What’s that? Oh. Well at least there isn’t some sort of financial bubble waiting to burst and take the economy with it at the same time.

Sorry, hang on a second, just getting some news through… Oh. Oh dear. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. Well, it was sort of OK for bits of it anyway.

If by “cut” you mean increased by 50%, sure.

In a significant shift to its security priorities, the US Department of Defense now considers security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere - not China - as its primary concern

Does this mean the “Pacific Pivot” cope will finally stop and yanks will admit that Trump just wants to burn down all their alliances?

When British planes are overhead, the Germans duck. When German planes are overhead, the British duck. When American planes are overhead, everyone ducks.

Old WWII joke, the only thing that’s changed is that the Germans and British no longer need to duck for each other…

All versions of skyblock I’ve played have had a way to get lava from nothing but the starting tree, so it’s not a softlock just potentially tedious to get back to that point.

Reminds me of when EA decided to go player first

Fun fact: that has a name! It’s called Litotes

Anyone being let loose with a smartphone should really be able to tell fiction from reality…

I don’t think they were being literal: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/i-d-like-to-see

https://xkcd.com/1373/

No, this is Patrick

He literally just kidnapped the head of state of another country using military force.

Well yes (although I’d argue how much of that was him vs Rubio), but doing so was preceded by a large naval buildup that we don’t see with Greenland. Not to mention that those naval assets are still there extorting Venezuela and another naval deployment of that size would leave INDOPACOM under resourced for maintaining the Island Chain containment on China.

Basically, it’s not actually a serious threat at this point.

Twitter and Facebook would later show that anonymity is not required…