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NESQUEHONING, Pa. - The company that owns a Carbon County power plant is being sued by a group of nearly 100 residents who live near the plant. They claim the plant is burning rubber tires to mine bitcoin.

In the suit filed Tuesday, opponents say the Panther Creek plant – owned by Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. - near Nesquehoning is burning rubber tires to mine bitcoin and, in the process, polluting the air.

smh

Seems like a borderline conspiracy to fry the internal SSD over time, adding a wear-point to the product family, and making sure consumers keep consuming. I'm talking about system paging: virtual memory on the disk.

Even worse, if one plots the (price, unified memory amount, chip type), and looks at it from right-to-left, then the dollars per system capability is disgusting when you order a lesser system. You get the most value for your money when you buy the maximum unified memory configuration (on those three points).

Better yet, with a maxed out unified memory configuration, one can further save on SSD writes by using (and loading/storing) RAM disks for their projects!

Most people buying a MacBook for work are likely getting a higher unified memory, so their workstations live longer. Meanwhile consumers will have to keep consuming as they fry their internal SSD's on their airs...

I was also wondering if a 1TB apple fabric device is simply an 8TB fabric device with 8x the write life...

They thought they were going to mine cryptocurrency here during off-peak hours, if anybody is wondering why an energy company casually owns a huge datacenter.

edit: guilty of 1) not reading article first, and 2) being overly pessimistic about the cryptocurrency climate.

They do it so that the consumer can't price match nor return swap from one retailer to another. The model number ultimately becomes a type of trace to reveal which retailer sold the device.

One could argue that the iPad is the reinvention we don't need.

Here's my loadout: iPad Air 5 (big box sale), Pencil 2 (post xmas open-box sale, you bet), Zagg Rugged Book (eBay). M2 MBP (refurbished), 2020 MacBook Air Intel (big box open box with dents in it, runs Windows 10 on the metal). I also have an iPhone.

The iPad is for daily driving human citizen stuff: bank stuff, buying stuff, selling stuff, talking to people, paying bills, reading the news. I'm typing on it now. It is so easy taking screen shots of bills, using the pencil to mark them up, and then showing these insights to people via email. If you hacked into it, you could take over my life! iPadOS is generally considered secure, so I generally consider this device a luxury.

The MBP is for development and if you hacked into it, you could just see what I'm working on. I guess you could make a mess of my GitHub, oh no. Nothing personal on there though. You could probably guess the root password, but it's still iCloud locked. This thing is the money maker and is not a luxury.

What about my third windows laptop I lug around? You are correct, they make you need to have various hardwares to run all their different softwares. Again it's a luxury: I have it for the "need" to use "real" office.

I also have a fourth: a Chromebook with several paid Android apps on it, other Google Play movies I bought, and I do not own any other Android devices. This thing sits on the shelf most of the time, but I felt the need to have it so I could use the Google software. Maybe if I felt the need to install Linux on bare metal, it would go on this thing, it has an i5. Luxury.

There's probably a way to compress all my software activities down into the singleton MBP, without losing much security. But, I've already been burned by having all aspects of my daily life in one place. This is how I could live without luxury.

If we want to bark up the "they're screwing us over" tree, then, it's nonsense that we need to buy all these different hardwares to run all these different softwares: because that is the REAL LUXURY. If we care about minimizing the number of devices I'll buy per (5) year(s), then we need to "make them" allow us to run any software on any hardware.

TL;DR: I like my iPad, but if we lived in the EU, then they'd sue Apple to let me run Windows on it. Otherwise I'm forced to live a luxurious lifestyle of many devices.

Asking the real questions, thanks.

Yeah, it's called a party. Their office probably blows through $30k of party supplies in a week.

I'm probably in the university library most weekends scanning books into my fine-tuned LLM. Y'all can enjoy the trash, I've had enough.

Unfortunately, there is not enough demand for knowledgable humans, to keep up with the overwhelming supply.

Typical universe.

I've run out of sympathy for those who can't distinguish their survivorship bias from actual success.

(pullyourselftogether)

The reality is companies go through cycles of hiring and firing, something to do with interest rates. Times like these is when new small businesses are supposed to form, and I fear downsizing businesses let their best and worst go during these times: their star performers know how to survive and are least likely to come back with a wrongful termination lawsuit....and their worst are easily shown to be inadequate for the role anyway.

An "intelligent person" knows not to keep their eggs in one basket anyway. Such as our Professor in the story.

If you think about it...

* they had halls of human computers 100 years ago

* they had halls of humans using computers a few years ago

so what is next?

I mean, AI's (robots) weld on assembly lines. It's all about the context.

They do have indoor assembly line welding robots. But, they don't have welding robots for outdoor, ground-breaking construction job sites yet.

I mean, do they?

Thank you for this excellent example, which I'll be using when defending my unpopular opinion that Occam's razor is nonsense.

This advice checks out: at home, I have the WiFi 5 Google-pods "mesh network" with five pods (this is a larger house).

Economy of scale does take a generation or two to get behind in general. Wifi, EV's, heck even apple refurbished macbooks are cheaper because there are more of them (as they are from an older generation).

So "being N generations behind latest tech" is solid advice in general is my point. Thanks.

Guns. Guns happened.

Thanks for reminding us about this.

Also another reminder, for everybody throwing a lasso around everything and hating on it, you're actually upset with the bureaucracy (which contains law enforcement).

Remember folks, the U.S. gov't is split into four parts: 1. Legislative branch (makes laws for the executive branch to approve, and for the judicial branch to possibly overturn, and creates functions within the bureaucracy) 2. Judicial branch (throws away or reenforces work done by the legislative+executive branch) 3. Executive branch (controls the bureaucracy, great filter for the legislative branch) 4. Bureaucracy network (the informal branch of the gov't of employees rendering services for the citizens, most people end up complaining about: law enforcement, department workers, the postoffice and military)

So yes, tell the bureaucracy to stuff it. Telling one of the other three branches to stuff it probably doesn't fly too well.

(For some extra “entropy”, by the way, snapdiff also takes the file size into consideration when comparing files.)

I get what you mean by "entropy", but wouldn't it be more direct to just say matching hashes will have their file sizes compared as a remedy to the collision?

Thanks for the effort, the "back yard diy" utilities are great for learning, especially with an accompanying article.

This is why I read the comments before the article, and this is one of the rare exceptions where I've posted prior to reading an article.

Yes, no surprise that a standard won the battle, over several competing choices. That seems to happen a lot.

Right, it seems the U.S. economy is trying to say, "making elementary machine tools is beneath us." The important bit is at the end: the U.S. is still a top buyer of machine tools (made elsewhere).

Is the same thing to happen with software?

When it becomes worth the time of the U.S. economy to produce basic machine tools again, they'll get to create new machine tools factories using all the latest technology: so it is probably good thing the "old way" is not still around hanging on by a thread.

The market naturally is culling technical debt.