the oldheads are snickering at dotcom 2.0 from behind their gray beards.

Bitcoin miners have also been sitting on the sidelines waiting for this too.

Compute is a hard resource, inextricably linked to money, time, and energy.

The math doesn't work in Sam's favor, no matter how much smoke he blows up your ass.

It's going to be interesting when all these GPUs are repurposed to mine Bitcoin, and people try to forget falling for the hysteria that somehow you can arrive at AGI from a glorified markov bot.

Is there any difference in a GPU that's good at bitcoin mining versus one that's good for AI work? Or to ask another way is all the compute being built-out now able to be repurposed for mining?

> Is there any difference in a GPU that's good at bitcoin mining versus one that's good for AI work?

No GPU is good for bitcoin mining; that's all been ASICs for a long time. Even before anyone got around to making ASICs for it, FPGA-based designs had displaced GPU mining. Bitcoin mining is very, very simple.

Some altcoins use GPUs.

And slowly building up their shorts and keeping cash on the sidelines to short harder when it finally all comes crashing down.

The problem with shorts is that bubbles can expand well beyond rationality. Cash or bonds is what I am doing.

That's not a problem at all, you just roll some of your bull market gains into close dated ATM puts periodically. If the market is sideways sell calls.

Genuinely curious, why do you need close dated ATM puts. If all you care about is protecting upside can't you just put in limit orders.

after 30y of this business, i’m dumbfounded we haven’t organized. doctors, lawyers, plumbers etc seem to benefit hugely from professional orgs and unions in their corner.

i guess we are too well paid.

(all of the above make more than you do, and it’s because they are organized)

what i saw of cern was a beautiful campus with ongoing cricket matches on the lawn, lots of offices and computers, and a great cafeteria.

my brother worked down the hall from tbl, and we stopped by, but he was out. brother’s boss (mdm wu, of quark fame), was out of town too.

brother was the vms admin, and would bitterly complain that mdm wu never cleaned out her mail spool, and it was now a ruinous 40mb.

st genis is quaint and nice to visit, with views of mt blanc.

no, wood is not a carbon sink. its gets turned back into co2 as it decomposes.

creosote railroad ties are commonly found in landscaping around here. unfortunately, they are hazardous waste, thusly getting rid of them is a bit of a hassle.

I've seen this video, he did a pretty good job, but his chemical treatment didn't penetrate at all. I suspect he would have benefitted from pressure cooker during that step. this is how treated lumber is treated to get full penetration of whatever chemicals they use.

given the depth the of the penetration, he basically case hardened it. you can see in the bullet tests that the interior laminations are much fatter than the exterior layers.

"armor wood"

I really wish Nvidia had gone in this direction instead of gstreamer :/

sounds identical to the well known “dragon hair” noodle technique from china.

this is a police problem. as usual.