Breakout is a techno-thriller grounded in real science. Enjoyed this one.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205693922-breakout

In 1997 everyone knew we were in a bubble. Alan Greenspan the Fed Chair publicly called it “Irrational Exuberance. ” If you got out of the market then you missed a market doubling and left significant upside on the table. It was insanity and everyone new it, much like today. There was a trend of people quitting their jibs to become full time day traders. Its easy to make money in an up market.

In the dot com collapse the effects were mostly felt in the tech sector. While the stock market slumped there was not a wave of banks failing. There were a lot of layoffs in the tech sector and IT jobs were hard to come by.

“…and we will make more”

Kind of misleading without the rest of the quote. Basically saying no more AI layoffs for now.

This is not a change of course, its a pause in the carnage.

Is 30,000 a lot for China? I feel like it might not be.

Also this is kind of the bottom line: “The LX 7G100 remains a poor buy for anyone chasing performance per dollar…”

Finally poked their head out

The Hamburgler

Its a great question, I was able to find this on the Framework site: https://community.frame.work/c/community-market/202

That is completely fair. For the way I use my laptop I need fairly current hardware, but if you do not, the premium price might not make sense for you.

The way I justified it was by saying that it will last longer than a laptop I just throw away after 5 years. If I can keep it for 10 years with an upgrade ir two the economics starts to make sense.

When the waitress said “Enjoy your meal” and I responded “You too.”

What size model? I can run 8 billion parameter models on my Geforce 3070 with 8gb of vram. Bigger models need more memory. For $1-2k you can upgrade to a 16 or 32 gb video card. For $3k you can get a Framework Desktop with 128 gb unified memory. For $6k you can get a DGX Spark with a blackwell chip and 128 gb unified memory. Mac mini or Mac studio are also good choices in this price range.

This works surprisingly well. Even though the relief is temporary, exerting some control over the pain makes it more manageable.

Wow it has treads!

I like this post and approve of the meme. That said the canons themselves did not win the siege. The fact that they could bring such huge ordinance shows just how many resources the Ottomans brought to bear.

It cannot be Thanos because he did nothing wrong.

I feel like everyone is a villain in that series.

Wow Han Solo really Indiana Jonesed that speech!

The kids devices have their wifi shut off at 11 pm each week day night. From time to time I will have them show me their screen time history and their Youtube watch history.

Bullshit:

Meta reported for its most recent quarter (Q1 2026, ended March 31, 2026):

• Revenue: $56.3 billion
• Net income (profit): $26.8 billion

That was up from:

• $42.3 billion revenue a year earlier
• $16.6 billion net income a year earlier

IMDB reflects popular opinion. Everyone has unpopular opinions, heck I liked the Emoji movie. Also, for some niche movies the ratings are wildly skewed since only die hard fans are voting on them. And for some movies where there are strongly held opinions, many people will pile-on and vote on them without even having seen the movie.

All that said, IMDB is a useful tool for getting read on popular opinion on movies. Also, IMDB is standing behind me with a gun to my head. Send help, please.