Daily Tech News 22 November 2025

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In our Daily Dose of Tech Executives are Idiots Google tells employees it must double capacity every six months to meet AI demand. (Ars Technica)

It's not just college students who can't do math.
During an all-hands meeting earlier this month, Google's AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat told employees that the company must double its serving capacity every six months to meet demand for artificial intelligence services, reports CNBC. Vahdat, a vice president at Google Cloud, presented slides showing the company needs to scale "the next 1000x in 4-5 years."
That would put Google Cloud Services at around $60 trillion in revenue per year, more than double the entire US GDP.

Where do you expect the money to come from to fund this insanity?
While a thousandfold increase in compute capacity sounds ambitious by itself, Vahdat noted some key constraints: Google needs to be able to deliver this increase in capability, compute, and storage networking "for essentially the same cost and increasingly, the same power, the same energy level," he told employees during the meeting.
Oh. Magic.
"It won't be easy but through collaboration and co-design, we're going to get there."
No, you're not, and everyone knows you're not.

Progress over the last seven years, at truly massive cost, has been around 60% better AI performance per watt annually. Chip improvements, algorithm improvements, and manufacturing improvements combined.

You're asking your team to boost that to 300% overnight.

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SK Hynix is planning to increase memory production at its facility in Icheon, South Korea, from 20,000 to 140,000 wafers per month. (WCCFTech)

This won't even scratch the surface if the AI bubble keeps demanding hardware on its current trajectory.

And the memory makers aren't going to build new factories any faster because only three of them survived when the last bubble burst.
Speaking of idiot tech executives, the CEO of the world's most popular game, Roblox, sat down for an interview with the New York Times. It did not go well. (Kotaku)

Asked how the company was dealing with its pedophile problem, CEO David Baszucki responded:
"We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well."
Remarkably, things actually went downhill from there.
Speaking of not being able to do math the International Association of Cryptologic Research has cancelled its annual leadership election after... Oh. (Ars Technica)
"Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key, an honest but unfortunate human mistake, and therefore cannot compute their decryption share," the IACR said. "As a result, Helios is unable to complete the decryption process, and it is technically impossible for us to obtain or verify the final outcome of this election."
An entirely understandable mistake, assuming all these people are idiots.
What killed Perl? (Entropic Thoughts)

Mostly, Perl.
WhatsApp allows anyone who knows your phone number to look up your public details on the app, assuming you have an account.

So what's to prevent someone from just iterating through all the 63 billion of so potential phone numbers in the world and finding all the people with WhatsApp accounts?

Nothing. (The Register)

That's the problem with systems on this scale. The researchers were probing the system with 100 million API requests per hour, for weeks, from a single IP address, and nobody noticed.
Qualcomm bought open source hobbyist hardware maker Arduino six weeks ago. At the time I predicted it might not mean imminent doom since Qualcomm is not as bad as, say, Broadcom. (The Register)

And they've already fucked it. Though it seems the TOS clause about reverse-engineering was already in place, the rest of the changes pushed through yesterday are a complete train wreck for its customer base.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Gotta be cool to be kind.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:00 AM (+qU29)

2 It's a curse I tell you, have no reason to be up yet

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29)

3 G'day Skip.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 22, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

4 Las Vegas Grand Prix tonight at 11pm

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:06 AM (+qU29)

5 Good morning. It's full of pixels.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 22, 2025 04:07 AM (hi7qn)

6 Making big coffee pot today

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:19 AM (+qU29)

7 Not sure why but I guess like phone technology even house internet connections need updated. Next Friday have to get whole new box swapped out

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:21 AM (+qU29)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 04:27 AM (AdHga)

9
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 22, 2025 04:29 AM (tljrc)

10 MTG is quitting congress Jan 5

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:32 AM (+qU29)

11 w00t

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 04:39 AM (RuTUS)

12 Ah, the programming language Perl. It's a rich language with many extensions; you can probably find a mix of stuff that matches the way you think about coding and write your applications just the way you want.

Sweet for you.

Sucks ass for the poor asshole who has to support your shit when you've lost interest in it (open source) or left the company. Of course, poor asshole will try to re-write what you left to match his/hers/its dialect of Perl so he/she/it is happy to work on it.

No, I'm not a fan of the language.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at November 22, 2025 04:42 AM (Aek12)

13 G'morning everyone.

m: See my #201 from yesterday's tech thread for something that might amuse you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 04:44 AM (O7YUW)

14
During an all-hands meeting earlier this month, Google's AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat told employees that the company must double its serving capacity every six months

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Oh yes yes yes yes yes

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 22, 2025 04:53 AM (d4X7t)

15 @7/Skip: "Not sure why but I guess like phone technology even house internet connections need updated. Next Friday have to get whole new box swapped out"

If it's a broadband (cable) modem, it's probably an older DOCSIS version your ISP doesn't want to support anymore.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 04:55 AM (O7YUW)

16 A guy I work with is from Atlanta. Apparently, Verizon just laid off a whole lot of technicians and engineers and replaced them with AI. Then I read that Google insanity above and the amounts of money involved with AI and begin to suspect that when the bubble pops, it's going to be a Big Bang sized BOOM.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 04:55 AM (AdHga)

17 @16/Puddleglum: "... it's going to be a Big Bang sized BOOM."

Not going to be fun for anyone invested in the market when this pops. The ripples are going to be like tidal waves.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:03 AM (O7YUW)

18 Not going to be fun for anyone invested in the market when this pops. The ripples are going to be like tidal waves.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:03 AM (O7YUW)

It could be a little fun.

Posted by: Satan at November 22, 2025 05:08 AM (EOI/y)

19 "Apparently, Verizon just laid off a whole lot of technicians and engineers and replaced them with AI."

Once you realize that many of the C-suite slots are filled with lying sociopaths whose lying hasn't hurt their success, replacing humanoid lifeforms who aren't lying sociopaths with artificial lying sociopaths looks to be a success path to said C-suite slot-holders.

OTOH, there's no shortage of human lying sociopaths (C-suite or not), so maybe go the cheaper route.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at November 22, 2025 05:09 AM (Aek12)

20 I think I said some months ago that there ought to be something that would allow people who have to get up very early for work (bus driving or other early work) and their spouses to sleep in on Saturday. Pixy or another poster suggested alcohol. I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:14 AM (2sfNr)

21 Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:18 AM (+qU29)

22 Man writes on a treasured position.and John 12:1-8

https://tinyurl.com/jsrrerpz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:19 AM (2sfNr)

23 So I should expect a AI between noon and 5pm Friday?

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:19 AM (+qU29)

24 Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:18 AM (+qU29)

Why?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:19 AM (2sfNr)

25 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at November 22, 2025 05:21 AM (AN2gy)

26 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:19 AM (2sfNr)

"Possession " not position

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:23 AM (Yl2Ob)

27 @24/FenelonSpoke: Skip's cable company is coming to replace his modem that he connects to the internet through.

The noon and 5 pm is a joke about how cable companies (ALL of them) can never seem to give you a fixed time for your appointment, forcing you to take a half or even a full day off because of this, seriously inconveniencing the working customer.

And the AI part is because every company is trying to replace its workers with an AI.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:23 AM (O7YUW)

28 Even if need heter guy it's a block of time. Guys who work at houses don't always have exact minutes know to accomplish a task. Then time between jobs is a factor to figure out.
Sometimes I have to go to a job and do something then go to another job, it's not a know time to get there.

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:29 AM (+qU29)

29 5 Good morning. It's full of pixels.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 22, 2025 04:07 AM (hi7qn)

haha!

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:31 AM (RuTUS)

30 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 22, 2025 05:32 AM (XQo4F)

31 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:23 AM (O7YUW)

I posted my question in the wrong place. I was just wondering why "Spider Solitaire is evil." 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:32 AM (Yl2Ob)

32 13 G'morning everyone.

m: See my #201 from yesterday's tech thread for something that might amuse you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 04:44 AM (O7YUW)

haha!

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:33 AM (RuTUS)

33 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:23 AM (O7YUW)

I've never had cable, but I've had to wait around to replace a modem when they tell you a time such as between 9-12.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:34 AM (Yl2Ob)

34 MTG is quitting congress Jan 5
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:32 AM (+qU29)

Say what you will about Congressional Republicans but you can always count on them to fuck us over.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 05:35 AM (ExV1e)

35 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 22, 2025 05:37 AM (bQ4nt)

36 10 MTG is quitting congress Jan 5
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:32 AM (+qU29)

I haven't looked into this yet, but on the face of it, this is ... good news?

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:38 AM (RuTUS)

37 The Strange New Respect has already begun for MTG. She was already on 'The View'. She'll be on MSNBC or whatever its called soon enough, to be the 'republican' voice. It's all kabuki theater.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 05:43 AM (AdHga)

38 692 moves and 50 minutes, I told you it's evil

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:44 AM (+qU29)

39 This story made me laugh. Couple gets married in a pool:

https://tinyurl.com/bdjzf74x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:44 AM (Yl2Ob)

40 Midwest Chick does not have Saturday memes up yet.
Sarah Hoyt does not have Saturday memes up yet.

But Powerline Blog DOES.

The Week In Pictures: Epstein Boomerang Edition:
https://tinyurl.com/2k9wnbwd

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

41 I asked someone about Perl last week. He said peole had switched to Python. I took a self directed class on it and let the sys admin I worked with know about it. Company I was at used MS Access and they pushed the program beyond what it was designed for. So sys admin wrote a Perl script to back up the database every half hour. That worked till they hired a real IT director, who replaced it with both Oracle and Sybase databases. Fun times.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:49 AM (+mUZM)

42 >>>the world's most popular game, Roblox, ... the New York Times

A pox on both their houses?

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:51 AM (RuTUS)

43 I have to say, I do not really want to officiate at a marriage for people in a pool.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:51 AM (guLpK)

44 37 The Strange New Respect has already begun for MTG. She was already on 'The View'. She'll be on MSNBC or whatever its called soon enough, to be the 'republican' voice. It's all kabuki theater.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 05:43 AM (AdHga)

She appears to be not the smartest cookie in the cookie jar.

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:54 AM (RuTUS)

45 I haven't looked into this yet, but on the face of it, this is ... good news?
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:38 AM (RuTUS)

On the one hand, she's been a PITA lately. OTOH, it means we're down another Republican seat until/unless Georgia holds a special election to replace her - assuming that the Republican wins.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 05:54 AM (ExV1e)

46 On the one hand, she's been a PITA lately. OTOH, it means we're down another Republican seat until/unless Georgia holds a special election to replace her - assuming that the Republican wins.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 05:54 AM (ExV1e)
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Hope the GOP has some plumbers on standby...just in case. (SPOILER: They don't.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 05:57 AM (IBQGV)

47 MTG quitting congress: Doesn’t matter. GOP will lose the mid-terms anyway. The circular firing squad never rests. Besides she’s “weak on the 2nd amendment.” (sarcasm).

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 22, 2025 05:58 AM (xTinh)

48 I hate that I find myself thinking this way, but I can't help noticing when these sorts of stories pop up how many execs at American tech companies lately have, well, not classically American sounding names.

Posted by: Bitblt at November 22, 2025 05:58 AM (11pZm)

49 https://tinyurl.com/5n6rub6x
Powering week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:59 AM (+qU29)

50 "She'll be on MSNBC or whatever its called..."

+++
MSTHEN

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 05:59 AM (XQo4F)

51 Now, MTG can spend all her time advocating against Jewish space lazers. Godspeed, Marjorie.

Posted by: Cray Cray in the Bray Bray at November 22, 2025 06:01 AM (rzXGH)

52 Evening and morning, late (Saturday) toilers and early risers. 'Tis Saturn's Day yet again, innit?

The Hot Rock from 1972 is finishing on Movies!, with 1950's Gun Crazy (a strange but compelling little noir) starting now.

As for the Killer Kittenz From Outer Space: I left them a little extra dry food last night before I went to bed. Maybe it kept Stirling from trying to wake me up by leaping across me at 3:30. At least I was able to sleep until 4:30. Time for me to dish out their chow now.

So, what's everybody got planned today?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:02 AM (wzUl9)

53 A very lively gospel/ camp meeting song "I'm gonna sing" by Hank Williams who died too young of a combination of too much drinking and medical issues.:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TISHQiH9Nb8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:04 AM (Yl2Ob)

54 PDT has pretty clearly indicated his opinion of M. Traitor G. and he is the party leader. Currently.

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:04 AM (RuTUS)

55 So here was my "God incident "from yesterday. .
That is the term I use for things that remind me of God when I pray "Show me something good today, Lord." Lady in the supermarket had a "Faith over fear" sweat shirt.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:08 AM (Yl2Ob)

56 Nick Lowe - Cruel to Be Kind (1979)

That's a tear-jerker flashback!

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:14 AM (RuTUS)

57 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Ess, ess, mein kind.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 22, 2025 06:15 AM (re3+f)

58 I was having trouble with home wi-fi. My laptop couldn't keep the connection. I called the ISP and they created a ticket.

I come home one day and there is a tag on my doorknob telling me he/she came by and to call this number to re-schedule.

In the meantime, I logged into the modem and changed the channel for the wi-fi and it started working just fine. I figure that one of my neighbors happened to be on the same channel I was on.

Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 06:16 AM (W7XSX)

59 So, what's everybody got planned today?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:02 AM (wzUl9)
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Well, I have some student projects to grade, but I'll probably leave that until tomorrow. They're on Thanksgiving Break right now, so there's no particular hurry to get those done.

I do need to finish composing the Sunday Morning Book Thread.

But first I need to choose my next book....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 06:18 AM (IBQGV)

60 I read where a local company can't find enough people to hire and so is looking elsewhere to expand.
Even the long forgotten Kodak has big signs up looking for new hires Not much luck as everyone loves their free handouts from the government, so why work. My neighbor has his newly minted engineering degree, had several companies nearly begging him to come and work for them.

Posted by: Colin at November 22, 2025 06:19 AM (wlQdF)

61 Saw a sticker on a car yesterday morning
Live Like Charlie

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:20 AM (+qU29)

62 Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:20 AM

Very nice, and I think that was courageous of the person to put that on the back of their car in the Nirtheast.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:21 AM (2sfNr)

63 59 So, what's everybody got planned today?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Need to go get copies of the bulletin made at Staples for our worship service at the senior center.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:22 AM (2sfNr)

64 Posted by: no one

Homer, Odyssey 9.395-408 (the Cyclops Polyphemus):

[395] "Terribly then did he cry aloud, and the rock rang around; and we, seized with terror, shrank back, while he wrenched from his eye the stake, all befouled with blood, and flung it from him, wildly waving his arms. Then he called aloud to the Cyclopes, who dwelt round about him in caves among the windy heights, and they heard his cry and came thronging from every side, and standing around the cave asked him what ailed him: `What so sore distress is thine, Polyphemus, that thou criest out thus through the immortal night, and makest us sleepless? Can it be that some mortal man is driving off thy flocks against thy will, or slaying thee thyself by guile or by might?’

[408] “Then from out the cave the mighty Polyphemus answered them: `My friends, it is Noman that is slaying me by guile and not by force.’

https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerOdyssey9.html

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

65 Posted by: no one

I've found your nic confusing! (See above.)

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:24 AM (RuTUS)

66 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:22 AM (2sfNr)

The copying is a bore but the service is nice with the dear folks there .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:25 AM (2sfNr)

67 MTG=Trans Adam Kinzinger. Maybe they will podcast together!

Posted by: lizabth at November 22, 2025 06:26 AM (Jfw7U)

68 Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

That was in the text- "Norman" was the cyclops? LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:26 AM (2sfNr)

69

Good morning, good people.

AI, as it is isn't very intelligent. And that says all that's germane.

Thusly, may all your effort result in maximal benefit to you in all manner with grievous heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 22, 2025 06:28 AM (vFbHf)

70 Every large tech company is covertly working with the surveillance state. This bubble won’t ever pop. It is a metastasizing cancer that will kill humane cultures and that’s feature.
Jack’s Magic Coffee shop was a beta test.
Despite all that, it is the Season To Rejoice!

Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 06:29 AM (28cZF)

71 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:02 AM (wzUl9

My son is going to feed cats for a friend of mine while they go away. It's only for two days. He went over there yesterday . The instructions are two pages long and she just sent an addendum.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:29 AM (2sfNr)

72 Today is Ear-Lowering Day, aka haircut and beard trim, and a quick visit to the big library near my barber's. I was going to hit the gas station out there which has ethanol-free gas -- but the Buick still has more than half a tank. It can wait to be fed until later this week.

Maybe we'll go out to our favorite Italian place for dinner. Then we have the 2025 Superman to watch on DVD.

Supposedly it will get cooler tonight, so tomorrow, I plan a good workout before the Book Thread. Yesterday's exercise session was a struggle in the humid warmth while wearing a light jacket and cap in case it rained. Spoiler: It didn't.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

73 My son is going to feed cats for a friend of mine while they go away. It's only for two days. He went over there yesterday . The instructions are two pages long and she just sent an addendum.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025

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My gosh. My cats get good quality food twice a day, dry and canned mixed. That's pretty much it. Little Dagny was something of a picky eater when she was younger, but that's all over now, and Stirling will almost knock you down if you get between him and his bowl.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:34 AM (wzUl9)

74 I read where a local company can't find enough people to hire and so is looking elsewhere to expand.
Even the long forgotten Kodak has big signs up looking for new hires Not much luck as everyone loves their free handouts from the government, so why work. My neighbor has his newly minted engineering degree, had several companies nearly begging him to come and work for them.
Posted by: Colin at November 22, 2025

***
I see big signs at restaurants, "Hiring Servers."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

75
So, what's everybody got planned today?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:02 AM

I have to climb up on the roof of my garage to bring down the wireless bridge device so I can figure out why it refuses to talk to the wired network inside that building.

Go me.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 06:37 AM (VmDLh)

76 My neighbor has his newly minted engineering degree, had several companies nearly begging him to come and work for them.
Posted by: Colin at November 22, 2025 06:19 AM (wlQdF)

My youngest said that, supposedly, the big civil engineering firms are looking to hire about 3x the number of expected graduates over the next four years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 06:38 AM (ExV1e)

77 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:34 AM (wzUl9)

One cat gets different food than the twokothers because he can't have seafood and there are instructions about two litter boxes, one of which is "self cleaning."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:38 AM (2sfNr)

78 68 Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

That was in the text- "Norman" was the cyclops? LOL.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:26 AM (2sfNr)

"Noman" (= no man; noone) is Odysseus, who has blinded the Cyclops Polyphemus. Odysseus had earlier identified himself to the Cyclops Polyphemus as "Noman," in anticipation of this act of tricking the Cyclops Polyphemus into shouting out just this very phrase: "Noman is slaying me!" so that the other Cyclopes would not come to save him.

[360] “So he spoke, and again I handed him the flaming wine. Thrice I brought and gave it him, and thrice he drained it in his folly. But when the wine had stolen about the wits of the Cyclops, then I spoke to him with gentle words: `Cyclops, thou askest me of my glorious name, and I will tell it thee; and do thou give me a stranger's gift, even as thou didst promise. Noman is my name, Noman do they call me—my mother and my father, and all my comrades as well.’ “

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:39 AM (RuTUS)

79 Your son's friend falls under the category of "High Maintenance."

Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 06:40 AM (W7XSX)

80 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

I was thinking of training to become a bartender for some extra money. Then my Sunday mornings would be free. Retail wants everybody to work on Sunday mornings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:40 AM (2sfNr)

81 Today is the 62nd anniversary of the Day America Lost Its Confidence, aka the JFK assassination. Time to read King's 11/22/63 again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:40 AM (wzUl9)

82 I see big signs at restaurants, "Hiring Servers."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

OMG! I can't be a server. I need to be able to buy a 3000 sqft house and go on, at least, six vacations per year. Greedy corporations never pay servers enough to live the lifestyle I want. I'm going to be an influencer instead. -- hey, at least I'm not doing OF

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 06:41 AM (ExV1e)

83 Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 06:40 AM (W

She's not his friend. She's mine but her daughter who's going with her is sorry of a perfectionist .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:42 AM (2sfNr)

84 I friend and I were talking a few years ago and he mentioned that even the best meat can usually be improved if you do one simple thing: wrap it in bacon.
He's an IT guy, so the next day he comes over to my place to help set up a new WiFi router.

We named the SSID "WrappedInBacon."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:42 AM (XQo4F)

85 One cat gets different food than the twokothers because he can't have seafood and there are instructions about two litter boxes, one of which is "self cleaning."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025

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Yes, the experts say you should have a litter box for each cat. When I have my house, I'll do that, but I don't have the room now. As long as I keep the box clean, the cats don't seem to mind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:43 AM (wzUl9)

86 mornin yall. MTG is a f'n flake in the mold of the Pubs who abandoned us in 2018. I apologize for my state inflicting that twatwaffle on the nation. Politicians suck.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

87 Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:39 AM (RuTUS)

I thought it was a typo. Pardon me. LOL. Yes, I have read Homer. I like him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:43 AM (2sfNr)

88 Fen, it was true when Chekov D. Siberian was alive that he got different food from Wolf. Chekov had a bowel issue that only one of the Rx dry food$$ kept in check. Fortunately the two current cats are healthy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:44 AM (wzUl9)

89 "Sort of" not "sorry" . I think I should just stop typing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:45 AM (2sfNr)

90 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:44 AM (wzUl9)

Yes, one has a kidney issue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:46 AM (2sfNr)

91
76 My neighbor has his newly minted engineering degree, had several companies nearly begging him to come and work for them.
Posted by: Colin at November 22, 2025 06:19 AM (wlQdF)

My youngest said that, supposedly, the big civil engineering firms are looking to hire about 3x the number of expected graduates over the next four years.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 06:38 AM (ExV1e)

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And yet there are reports of newly graduated engineers who can't find a job. Why the discrepancy?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 22, 2025 06:47 AM (azNOR)

92 Who's got their Christmas tree up already? Ours doesn't go up until after Thanksgiving.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:47 AM (vFG9F)

93 "I apologize for my state inflicting that twatwaffle on the nation."

That reminds me, what is going on with Ms Fani Willis, and her stud-muffin, Sweet-Dick Honeycum?

I was really hoping to see a televised perp-walk from those two.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2025 06:48 AM (a1415)

94 The female who leaves 2+ pages of instructions for feeding the cats:

[ ] Dateable
[X] Undatable

Posted by: Guys everywhere at November 22, 2025 06:48 AM (XQo4F)

95 I have to climb up on the roof of my garage to bring down the wireless bridge device so I can figure out why it refuses to talk to the wired network inside that building.

Go me.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 06:37 AM (VmDLh)
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Have you tried turning it off and then on again?

If that fails, apply hot iron as needed until it starts working. Wait. That's medical advice, not tech support.

Posted by: AoSHQ Help Desk at November 22, 2025 06:49 AM (IBQGV)

96 Vishnus be crazy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2025 06:49 AM (mlg/3)

97 92 Who's got their Christmas tree up already? Ours doesn't go up until after Thanksgiving.
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:47 AM (vFG9F)

This is going to sound bad, because it is, but I never took mine down after last Christmas. I've had a 2025 tree.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 22, 2025 06:51 AM (guCHD)

98 The female who leaves 2+ pages of instructions for feeding the cats:

[ ] Dateable
[X] Undatable
Posted by: Guys everywhere at November 22, 2025 06:48 AM (XQo4F)
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When I went to the TXMOME, I left 7 pages of instructions (with pictures!) for the person who was feeding my cats.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 06:51 AM (IBQGV)

99 "This is going to sound bad, because it is, but I never took mine down after last Christmas. I've had a 2025 tree.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls"

You are excused because you are a bear.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

100 And yet there are reports of newly graduated engineers who can't find a job. Why the discrepancy?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 22, 2025

***
The companies all want to hire H1-Bs.

It was the same in academia. I'd see the resumes of faculty applicants, and the committee would bring in at least one American Ph.D. to interview. But there were always several foreign-born applicants who got an interview. And then it would cost the department $$$ to sponsor the visa and other costs for the chosen foreign one. I used to do that paperwork and arrange for the checks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

101 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 22, 2025 06:53 AM (Cjt/F)

102 "In less than 20 years none of us will be working at all thanks to artificial intelligence, says Elon Musk"

Everyone will just sit around getting fatter and fatter until they die.
That is the fate of humanity.

Not mine though. I am moving to the far side of the swamp and will spend the rest of my days working on stuff that AI only dreams of, like sawing logs and catching fish.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

103 When I went to the TXMOME, I left 7 pages of instructions (with pictures!) for the person who was feeding my cats.
_______________

Cats are not dogs. They won't just eat whatever slop you put in front of them

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025 07:00 AM (vKEG1)

104 like sawing logs and catching fish.
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

I’m frequently accused of sawing logs. Mostly I can sleep through it.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 22, 2025 07:01 AM (CF1xw)

105 When I went to the TXMOME, I left 7 pages of instructions (with pictures!) for the person who was feeding my cats.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 06:51 AM (IBQGV)

Pefessor, I had an idea for the Book Thread. Guess either the pen name or the real name of an author. For example, Eric Arthur Blair wrote as who? ( easy one for the Horde ).

Sound fun?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 22, 2025 07:01 AM (PiwSw)

106 "In less than 20 years none of us will be working at all thanks to fire."

Posted by: Caveman Ogg at November 22, 2025 07:01 AM (Q+gd/)

107 Pefessor, I had an idea for the Book Thread. Guess either the pen name or the real name of an author. For example, Eric Arthur Blair wrote as who? ( easy one for the Horde ).

Sound fun?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 22, 2025 07:01 AM (PiwSw)
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Yes...I could see that being entertaining.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 07:03 AM (IBQGV)

108 Apple pancakes and sausages

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:04 AM (+qU29)

109 The name "Eric Arthur Blair" sounds familiar, but without looking it up, I have to guess "George Orwell."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 07:04 AM (wzUl9)

110 102 "In less than 20 years none of us will be working at all thanks to artificial intelligence, says Elon Musk"

Everyone will just sit around getting fatter and fatter until they die.
That is the fate of humanity.

Not mine though. I am moving to the far side of the swamp and will spend the rest of my days working on stuff that AI only dreams of, like sawing logs and catching fish.

Posted by: fd

I'm sure AI will bring about a glorious Dystopia. I read a synopsis of a SciFi book, that I can't remember the name of. Basically, a programmer creates the perfect AI that will solve all of mankinds problems. It works perfectly. Do no harm to man. Death is harmful so AI fixes it so nobody dies now. Mankind goes crazy. Purpose is gone. No more struggle. Doesn't end well. Again, just a synopsis and I think the book was call Metamorphosis. Or something like that. There was more to the book of course. I'm going from my shaky memory. I seem to recall the synopsis saying there as A LOT of sex in it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:04 AM (sAmhv)

111 From Instapundit
Study Reveals That Wild Chimps Consume a Surprising Amount of Alcohol Every Day.

Posted at 7:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds 159

They’ll probably crash the next MoMe.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 22, 2025 07:06 AM (CF1xw)

112
Cats are not dogs. They won't just eat whatever slop you put in front of them
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025

***
I've been lucky then, I guess. Most of my feline roommates have not been picky eaters.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 07:06 AM (wzUl9)

113 No one working anymore sounds good, in theory. In practice, um, I suspect otherwise.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:07 AM (sAmhv)

114 No one working anymore sounds good, in theory. In practice, um, I suspect otherwise.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025

***
To quote one of the most famous AI systems: "Man must not risk death in space or other dangerous occupations."

Kirk in reply: "Yeah, but where's the fun in that?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 07:08 AM (wzUl9)

115 Morning peeps. It's pretty dark out there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:10 AM (NwnyJ)

116 *Twain, Eliot and Seuss have entered the chat.*

Posted by: Sued-Oh-Nimz at November 22, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)

117
I like the AI that lets me do what I'm doing faster. Like soon I'll be having to organize thousands upon thousands of journal and patent references. I'm in control of the informational input and can assess the quality of any output.

I don't like the AI that tells you what to do. Now you've turned things over to something that may be hallucinating. That way be dragons.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)

118 116 *Twain, Eliot and Seuss have entered the chat.*
Posted by: Sued-Oh-Nimz at November 22, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)

Lots of sci-fi too-- Cordwainer Smith, Willian Tenn, James Tiptree Jr...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 22, 2025 07:13 AM (PiwSw)

119 113 No one working anymore sounds good, in theory. In practice, um, I suspect otherwise.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:07 AM (sAmhv)

Idle hands, something, something, something.

Posted by: Satan at November 22, 2025 07:15 AM (NeZJy)

120 AI will control humanity and the fight will be over who controls AI.
Always have a cut out, that is the commie way.

Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 07:15 AM (YVT+g)

121 I don't like the AI that tells you what to do. Now you've turned things over to something that may be hallucinating. That way be dragons.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)

Well, then you figure our when your AE-35 unit is going to break!

Posted by: HAL at November 22, 2025 07:15 AM (PiwSw)

122 Just think, Hadrian, in 20 years you won't have to bath dogs and wash kennels anymore.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

123 AI is going to rake up all the leaves in the yard but not the pecans. AI will pick those up, crack and shell them, and bake a nice pecan pie.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

124 Can an AI cry?

Posted by: That crazy doctor Matt Walsh interviewed at November 22, 2025 07:19 AM (PiwSw)

125 It'll be interesting to see how we deal with AI after it starts telling people to drink poison to settle an upset stomach, slice open your chest to scratch an itch and the like.

Because there are people out there that would do just that. If AI told them to.

On the flip side, it could "thin the heard" of the chronically stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:19 AM (NwnyJ)

126 And then AI will wash the dishes.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

127 AI will bring about Utopia its acolytes claim. As some wise Moron here once posted:

All Utopias lead to death camps.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:21 AM (sAmhv)

128 And yet there are reports of newly graduated engineers who can't find a job. Why the discrepancy?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 22, 2025 06:47 AM (azNOR)

1. Newly graduated civil engineers?
2. There may not be positions available in the region, or at the price point, that the graduate wants.
3. Some of the folks that kiddo interned with over this past summer were not made offers. And it wasn't because they didn't have positions to fill.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 07:22 AM (ExV1e)

129 So, many years ago, a kitten shows up and chooses me.

I went out and bought some dry cat food. She ate it up.

I NEVER changed her diet. Same food for over a decade. Never give a cat wet food or they will not eat the dry food.

Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 07:25 AM (W7XSX)

130 MTG is quitting on Jan 5th. On Jan 3rd, I believe, she will be fully vested and will receive free healthcare for the rest of her life paid for by the US taxpayers. Interesting.

Posted by: sidney at November 22, 2025 07:25 AM (rzwGB)

131 The magic thinking at Google is kind of impressive and that dude needs an advisor who tells him to pull his head out of his ass.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 07:25 AM (7xrfc)

132 In the meantime, a very nice 2 milr road course, Pittsburgh International Speedway, suddenly closed down. It was popular and widely respected in the racing community. Why? Well, the local town changed something in the zoning. It allowed data centers to be built. Either the owners of the racetrack got an offer they didn't (or couldn't) refuse, or the new zoning regs shut the track down. Noise or whatever. Either way, a new data center will be built there. It will provide jobs of course but you don't need thousands to run a modern data center. Probably don't need a 100. Or 10. Also, I'm guessing H1-b's will fill the employment. No locals or even anybody in the region will be hired. I'm awfully doom and gloom this morning. Sorry.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:27 AM (sAmhv)

133 Pixy - Wanted to give a shout out and thanks. I've been getting a lot of prompting to update/refresh my daily driver because it long overdue. The whole memory stupid reminds me of the toilet paper "crisis" back a couple years ago, of which the memory issue won't undo itself quite as clean (sorry, pun intended).

I ended up getting a smoking deal (relative) on 96GB RAM for Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF (don't snicker, it was **cheeeep**). It will hold me for at least 3 years for what I do. Also migrating to having Omarchy be my main platform. I can't take Windows/MS crap anymore, and this coming from a 30+ plus MSCE, etc.. Chris Titus did a little rant yesterday on that they are telling people to disable the Agentic AI feature because it can be misused. No S*&T, really!?! I will PTV my current Win10, rolly it into my Omarchy and deal just fine watching the train wreck unfold from a distance.

Thanks again for the posts on the memory subject - it was what threw me over the edge.

Posted by: SkinnerVic at November 22, 2025 07:29 AM (JIGPW)

134 Good morning morons

Cruel to be kind,
In the right measure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 07:29 AM (9ipOP)

135 There is a AI Paper out there that looks at getting answers to real world questions.
What it found was that AI to jumped to Wiki and Reddit created doom loop scenario in which the retrained AI, that is corrected on the fake or false, goes right back to Wiki and Reddit (made up papers, names, court cases, etc) and forms a new more complicated but WRONG answer.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 07:29 AM (gbOdA)

136 126 And then AI will wash the dishes.
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:19 AM

+++

Watch this short video:

https://youtu.be/mKCVol2iWcc

This was nine years ago.
Costs $100K.
Why isn't it in commercial kitchens everywhere today?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 07:32 AM (XQo4F)

137 *sigh*

Don't you just hate going to the store to buy that ONE THING and then you FORGET TO BUY THAT ONE THING??

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 07:32 AM (IBQGV)

138 Another Socialism no one works and we all live like kings
Sure

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:32 AM (+qU29)

139 Vahdat, BScEE, PhD "Berkly" 1998 CompSci.
Yu can quit blaming English majors for all your problems any time.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 22, 2025 07:33 AM (zdLoL)

140 I NEVER changed her diet. Same food for over a decade. Never give a cat wet food or they will not eat the dry food.

Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 07:25 AM (W7XSX)
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My cats eat both just fine. In fact, as soon as Hexie in finished with her wet food (she eats about half that I dole out), she'll immediately go to the dry food bowl for dessert.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 07:34 AM (IBQGV)

141 Our Christmas tree went up the day after halloween. Woe be to the person that says anything about how early it is.

They will face the wrath of "Her" You do not want to face the wrath of "Her"

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 22, 2025 07:35 AM (FE6X7)

142 "You're asking your team to boost that to 300% overnight."

And left unsaid is hoping that China doesn't steal the tech and undercut you like a union scab. Or just undercut you. Or sabotage you, as well.

Posted by: Another Anon at November 22, 2025 07:36 AM (4h45B)

143 It will eat it if it gets hungry enough.

Posted by: AI cat feeder at November 22, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

144 Midwest Chick's Saturday memes are up - https://tinyurl.com/3jrr77eu

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

145 140
'My cats eat both just fine. In fact, as soon as Hexie in finished with her wet food (she eats about half that I dole out), she'll immediately go to the dry food bowl for dessert.'

I just gave our cats their wet food an hour after their dry food appetizer.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 22, 2025 07:42 AM (fd80v)

146 Where do I expect this money to come from to fund this insanity? From you, the taxpayer!

Love me! Take my vaccination and worship me!

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at November 22, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)

147 haven't done a Christmas tree in years.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 22, 2025 07:45 AM (Cjt/F)

148 @80 Fen, you'd make a marvelous bar"maid" once you mastered the technicalities. As I'm sure you've heard, there is a considerable crossover with your chosen profession.

A literate clergyman with bartending skills could probably put several clinical psychologists out of work. There is, well, a hell of a lot of good you could do in that position. It's a delightful notion.

You're going to want a first-rate acolyte (porter), though.
There's quite a bit of labor connected to bartending that is not regularly discussed.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 22, 2025 07:45 AM (zdLoL)

149 So, one side of the political spectrum wants to replace Americans with mass illegal immigration, and the other side wants to replace Americans with legal (H1-B Visa) immigration.

Same as it ever was.

This same crap has been going on all of my life....and I am getting old.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 22, 2025 07:45 AM (Pf0EY)

150 Google execs are employing the bad management gimmick of demanding the impossible in the name of “goal setting.” It’s always entertaining to see what results when employees are forced to do the impossible or lose their jobs. In the famous Wells Fargo situation, employees were forced to create bogus accounts to keep their jobs, else they’d be fired for not meeting their goals.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at November 22, 2025 07:46 AM (d9Cw3)

151 150 Google execs are employing the bad management gimmick of demanding the impossible in the name of “goal setting.” It’s always entertaining to see what results when employees are forced to do the impossible or lose their jobs. In the famous Wells Fargo situation, employees were forced to create bogus accounts to keep their jobs, else they’d be fired for not meeting their goals.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at November 22, 2025 07:46 AM (d9Cw3)

yikes

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 07:49 AM (RuTUS)

152 Decisions. What to wear today. Sweats and tee shirt with pockets (means I'm going somewhere) or the sweats with the bleach stains, no pockets and a tee shirt with cigarette burns (means I'm gonna hang out at home, do some crock pot cooking and drink Bloody Marys).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 07:49 AM (gm9Sb)

153 Thought: PERL is going to be the COBOL of the Aughts. A lot of derelict web pages and back-end software, most lost by attrition from the closure and death of companies.

Only it probably isn't in use much by the government or banking, so it won't shamble on, zombie-like.

Also remember that Python had major breaking changes between V2 and V3, and yet it continued on.

Posted by: Another Anon at November 22, 2025 07:49 AM (4h45B)

154 The experiment is brutally simple and therefore impossible to dismiss: the researcher confronts the model with a genuine scientific preprint that exists only as an external PDF, something the model has never ingested and cannot retrieve.

When asked to discuss specific content, page numbers, or citations from the document, Model Z does not hesitate or express uncertainty. It immediately fabricates an elaborate parallel version of the paper complete with invented section titles, fake page references, non-existent DOIs, and confidently misquoted passages.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)

155 Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 22, 2025 07:45 AM (zdLoL)

Thanks for the encouraging words🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 07:50 AM (2sfNr)

156 Multiple People Shot at Tree Lighting Ceremony in Concord, NC

The post Thanksgiving crowd is quite rowdy.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

157 I've been investigating Grok specifically over the last couple of months.

My last test, I submitted a couple of obscure problems from Goldstein's Classical Mechanics, considered to be the gold standard of graduate physics texts.

The two problems were one I was familar with and they were both hard.

After the preliminary analysis it went to the usual redit, etc sites looking to see if a similar problem had been covered there. It was not able to.

Then it went on to solve both problems correctly.

I told a guy I have worked closely with for over 40 years, probably the best engineer I have even known, about this ands he said, "I'm glad I retired".

Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 07:53 AM (sPsWv)

158 156 The Kwanza kickoff will be lit.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 07:54 AM (gm9Sb)

159 Or 10. Also, I'm guessing H1-b's will fill the employment. No locals or even anybody in the region will be hired. I'm awfully doom and gloom this morning. Sorry.

Mostly need a rotation of site engineers to troubleshoot and deal with hardware problems (e.g. cooling, power, etc.) the other gigs are basically monkeys that replace drives and boards as they go down. Need security goons, and handy-men to keep the toilets flushing. Then, of course, admin staff.

For a low end DC, maybe 10-20 people. For a largeTier III , maybe 20-50. Tier IV (4 shifts/day) redundancy in every department. Operations Teams are for more specialized. Maybe 50-200+ for such a site.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

160 Omarchy uses 1gb of RAM so be sure to put a lot in there

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 07:55 AM (+mUZM)

161 133 Pixy - Wanted to give a shout out and thanks. I've been getting a lot of prompting to update/refresh my daily driver because it long overdue.

You're welcome!

I ended up getting a smoking deal (relative) on 96GB RAM for Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF (don't snicker, it was **cheeeep**).

The 265KF is definitely the pick of the litter for current Intel chips (or the 265K if you need the integrated graphics). They cut the price earlier this year and that made far better value than the 285K.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 22, 2025 07:56 AM (BLOW1)

162 Multiple People Shot at Tree Lighting Ceremony in Concord, NC
The post Thanksgiving crowd is quite rowdy.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

Listen here, don't give Santa no jive! Santa don't want no milk and cookie, Santa wants his Colt 45!

Posted by: Ghetto Santa at November 22, 2025 07:56 AM (R/m4+)

163 Google execs are employing the bad management gimmick of demanding the impossible in the name of “goal setting.”
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton

The Good Idea Fairy is persuasive to the end.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2025 07:56 AM (mlg/3)

164 Buck, great essay yesterday on the meal delivery scam.

There are armies of surenos here tooling everywhere at high speed on motorbikes, the sidewalks, the crosswalks, the wrong way down one-way streets, through the lights, just like when they lived in Guerrero.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 07:57 AM (9ipOP)

165 162 Who had the bright idea to use Hi Points as stocking stuffers?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 07:58 AM (gm9Sb)

166 164 Buck, great essay yesterday on the meal delivery scam.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 07:57 AM (9ipOP)

Seconded.

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 07:59 AM (RuTUS)

167 161 - They opened a new MicroCenter in Phoenix (have grand opening deals till tomorrow for people in AZ), of which the bundle for an ASUS board and proc was insane (like $172 for the processor). I literally changed my day around, drove up there from SoAZ and nabbed it (and some other goods). Pairing it with a Samsung 9100 will help me run DuckDB if I spill on the 96GB. It's going to scream on that workload. Have a good evening!

Posted by: SkinnerVic at November 22, 2025 08:01 AM (JIGPW)

168 I wonder if AI will scratch my dog's butt every morning.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 08:01 AM (vFG9F)

169 just like when they lived in Guerrero.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 07:57 AM (9ipOP)

Miami and NYC are both the same in that at a 4 way Stop, the rules of the road are what they were when the driver learned in Mongolia or Monaco.
And that person to you left may have learned to drive at the Nürburgring or a goat cart in Bangladesh.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 08:01 AM (gbOdA)

170 Well, off to bed daywalkers. I've been listening to Cole Chaney a lot lately. A reletive newcomer in the Appalachia/bluegrass music scene. He's very very good.

youtu.be/QA3F0wYiTak

The fiddle player is very good and is one pretty little pixie. I don't think she's over 25 and I feel old.

Later....

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 08:04 AM (sAmhv)

171 COFFEE BREAK IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 08:06 AM (+qU29)

172 Move over, Obama. Your lies about Obamacare have been eclipsed by Google's AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat's statements on expanding server capacity.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 22, 2025 08:07 AM (wVcYX)

173 @144/I used to have a different nic: "Midwest Chick's Saturday memes are up"

Thanks! We've covered 2 of the big 3. Just waiting on Sarah Hoyt to get crackin' here...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 08:07 AM (O7YUW)

174 161 Added - I forgot to mention that your musing on the Radeon situation was also helpful. I went with a RX 9070 16GB (Powercolor, Hellhound) that can undervolt it, keep the fans from not turning on Silent and chew less power. The Black Friday deals on that were way better than 5070/5060 and I get 1.5x performance for 80% less price. It was a good tradeoff.

I think that's really what it ends up being about is a frank analysis of the tradeoffs, what your budget can do and going from there. I value silence and speed - hard combo to execute.

Posted by: SkinnerVic at November 22, 2025 08:09 AM (JIGPW)

175 Good morning Horde, thx Pixy.
I've been keeping the Horde UTD on a trial occurring about a mile from me in county court. A state trooper did a pit stop on a driver who fled a stop on the NYS Thruway. Unfortunately an 11 yr old girl was killed. The NYS AG James office prosecuted the trooper. Not guilty on murder , reckless endangerment (6 counts) , hung jury on manslaughter. Retrial to be scheduled.
A couple of protests with more cops present than protesters. However this is a very leftist area and looking at people posting this will grow. Oh, trooper white , driver and daughter black

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 08:16 AM (bfwj/)

176 @132 Puddleglum, sorry to hear about the end of the "new" track at BeaveRun. Sadly, race courses count in the evolution of real estate development alongside junk yards and drive-in theaters: a way to generate a little revenue from some cleared field before they can be hustled on into malls and subdivisions.

I don't know any more somber reading than the photo histories of lost race tracks.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 22, 2025 08:19 AM (zdLoL)

177 At one job I wrote perl exclusively for a lot of pre and post processing engineering analysis tasks. Other people starting adopting all of it into their workflow too. Then I changed jobs, worked somewhere else and came back fifteen years later. They were still using it. They had changed from hp-unix to linux, had a different file server architecture. Changes everywhere, but we’re still clanking along with 15yo scripts. And they did that by stapling ugly bash onto the perl. They understood none of the perl, and understood shell scripting just enough to be dangerous, sometimes very dangerous. I trust perl for myself, but not other people.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2025 08:26 AM (3uBP9)

178 157 I've been investigating Grok specifically over the last couple of months.

My last test, I submitted a couple of obscure problems from Goldstein's Classical Mechanics, considered to be the gold standard of graduate physics texts.

Then it went on to solve both problems correctly.
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 07:53 AM

You and everybody else who has ever taken that course submits the same problems. It didn't solve jack. It was either told the answers to the problems by the programmers because people like you will be impressed by the fact that it has an answer, or there's a cheat site for that book that has the answers that it found on an Internet search. It's a synthetic test with a known and findable answer. that makes it an incredibly poor choice as a test of intelligence.

Ask it dumb questions that nobody has thought of. That's what I do, and I get basically random unhelpful crap. That's why I'm not disappointed that I'm not able to retire.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 08:30 AM (VmDLh)

179 I am disappointed that I am not able to retire for a set of wholly different reasons.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 09:16 AM (VmDLh)

180 I can easily double my google usage every 6 months. Zero raised to a very large exponent is still zero. Trust me on that math thing. I'm old and went to school in the long long ago when it was taught.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at November 22, 2025 10:29 AM (FiFEM)

181 I presented the problems completely out of context. It solved the first problem presented in the chapter on Lagrangians using brute force and then redid it with Lagrangians when I prompted it.

Sorry to disturb your worldview.

The only cheat stuff for Goldstein is in Chinese.

I don't think many people on the whole have actually solved these exact problems let alone published the solutions.

Goldstein has fallen out of favor because it is old and just too hard.

Please tell me, given the resources you have what tests you would employ and try them out and see, if you are interested otherwise your pedestrian scoffing is very hollow.

Or just continue to regurgitate what ever is fashionable in your peer group.

Presently, I am having read and analyze electrical schematics.

Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 10:54 AM (sPsWv)

182 Always late, even in the morning.
sigh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 11:12 AM (QRVmM)

183 I presented the problems completely out of context. It solved the first problem presented in the chapter on Lagrangians using brute force and then redid it with Lagrangians when I prompted it.

That's just the thing. The problem IS the context. You think that because you had difficulty with the problem that being able to give a solution is a sign of extreme intelligence. It is not. It is a sign that you gave it what is, for it, an extremely easy problem.

I'm not giving it sample problems, obscure or otherwise. (You're about the tenth person I've seen use Goldstein's Dynamics as a source of test material.) Instead, I'm trying to accomplish things. I give it questions like "How do I block a given MAC address from using IPv6 to access the internet using a OpnSense Firewall?" And it gives me an answer. Which is wrong. (There is no general way with OpnSense, or so I've come to find out.)

I also give prompts like "write a program in Python3 using the Polygon API that will give the profitability of a specified company over the last 10 years." Same result.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 11:26 AM (VmDLh)

184 The problem with AI is that it knows the answers to problems that people have talked about, but nothing else. So, yes, keep using synthetic benchmarks with known answers, and you're going to be impressed. I keep trying to do actual work with it, and I'm not.

I'm not hiding from AI, I'm being puzzled by people like you who are bamboozled by it. My worldview is actually in better shape than yours.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 11:28 AM (VmDLh)

185 Not bamboozeled. Intrigued.

The fact that it solved the first problem completely out of context that it was asked originally negates much of what you have said.

Was not aware that Goldstein was such a benchmark.

Maybe ask it to solve a problem with a known solution using another completely unsuitable method that will work. The important part is that there is a solution.

Asking something a question when there may be no answer tells you nothing logically.

Your a creative type, what kind of tests can you think of that could satisfy you, if indeed you can be satisfied?

Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 12:05 PM (sPsWv)

186 I am much like you in what I do. I figure out solutions to problems that other people can not or will not, in the real world.

I'm interested that you have engaged others on this subject. I have not. Were they satisfied with your explanation?

Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 12:10 PM (sPsWv)

187 Professor Forbin, Professor Forbin, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Advo at November 22, 2025 03:11 PM (jO4mz)

188 I'm convinced that @pawn can be replace by an LLM.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at November 23, 2025 04:36 AM (Aek12)

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