This is already an improvement over the previous policy of shooting Nazis.

They are already in a bubble and it’s extremely hard to pull them out. Their influence is spreading, so clearly current efforts to deprogram them are less effective than their recruitment efforts. At that point containment is the best option we have, even if it’s not the one I’d like we had.

If you can’t neutralize a toxic spill you contain it instead.

Fines are usually severely reduced as a part of a settlement, but they do happen. As for prison… for a white collar crime in US? LOL

The neck of the finance woods my employer is in is highly regulated.

Just failing to notify a regulator on time you blocked a transaction attempt involving a sanctioned individual means hundreds of thousands in fines per transaction (not up to, flat 6-digit fine) + potential prison time (can’t remember if it was up to 15 or 20 years)

The major difference is that payment processors and money transfer agents are heavily regulated and require a government issued license to operate. At least KYC is not yet handled by ai…

Bad & meh engineers get praised because they “waste” less time directing ai and reviewing output - barely working is good enough in the race to market.

I’ve seen things as serious as a privileged user for one customer having admin access to all customers being discovered during the last minute pentest literally days before the planned product launch. That product is supposed(and likely will) to move 250M USD for customers in the second half of this year. Under the current policy at my day job, coming all the way from the top, reviewing ai generated code at all should be an exception reserved for 0.1% most critical code. Yes, in finance.

Per gb price of ram is now almost 50% higher than during the peak of COVID price spike that lasted just 3 months. I’m comparing the current gen at the time - ddr4 during COVID vs ddr5 now

Much longer than that. There was a spike in 2021 that brought high end 2x8gb ddr4 kits to about $180-200 but that’s still significantly less than what you pay for decent ddr5 now. I think you’d have to look to back to early DDR3 or even further to DDR2 prices to get higher per gb amounts.

SSD prices were this high briefly (2-3 months) mid-2021. Before that you’d have to look all the way back to times where 1tb was the largest consumer grade SSD you could buy

While they do incinerate small amounts on-site they can’t handle this much - the whole 10 tons will have to be transferred to a company specializing in that kind of thing

For now all 20 tons will be stored as evidence

I wish it made sense in my case:

• I’m too far north for solar to provide anywhere close to enough power for 5 months of the year, even if I have it overbuilt to x4 of what I need in the summer
• I’m in a low average wind speed area (less than 4 m/s) - making wind power about 3x more expensive than solar. Also local law effectively prevents me from settting it up (minimum distance from residential rule)
• no net metering available, net billing rules suck
• grid is at capacity, so getting new solar connected is problematic and even if you manage that it won’t accept your output through most productive months of the year
• my car is a relatively new hybrid (but not a plug-in one) - I’m not replacing it until I run it into the ground
• tl;dr; my auto consumption will be low, grid won’t accept extra power greatly extending the break even period

At least I’m using biomass for heating - wood or sunflower shell pellets.

I’m getting worried my din to PS2 keyboard adapter will never get used again

Your app / website is most likely not big enough to rely on icons instead of text for buttons. Same applies to most other unique UI choices.