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Said Senator Lindsey Graham, “We did Iwo Jima, we can do this", Iwo Jima being a WWII battle in which America suffered around 26,000 casualties in order to capture a lump of rock of little to no military significance.
#AccidentallyCorrect #KhargIsland

Changing your mind means admitting you were wrong.
@lizszabo.bsky.social

> Doubling the performance of something like an 8086 was easy

This feels unfair. At the time, I don't think it was seen as easy. And at every point, there was always a sense that Moore's Law is about to fail, because known techniques were understood to be viable for the next few years, but beyond that, something new was going to be needed. And then, we always found something new. And we probably can again, except, as you've pointed out, it's getting harder and harder to find any useful use for extra power.

@david_chisnall

Companies would like software designed, structures engineered and medicine and legal and artistic services provided without the cost and bother of having to employ people.
@thomasfuchs

Your occasional reminder that having open borders is incompatible with having a welfare state.
You can have one, or the other, or a bit of both. But you can't have both.

It does look like Starmer will fall, but he was already looking like he was going to fall so, IDK.
@ehproque @hacks4pancakes