Steve the Beaver

There's a rule of thumb in Factorio: "avoid item/fluid buffers" which you only tend to learn after quite a while. (Buffers don't really save you, but do prolong the time before you find a broken process) I think about this a lot in the software industry.

Talked to an MBA recently who said the bulk of the class is trying to break into Consulting... Consulting? In 2026?

they talk about "founders" like a protected class lmao

Me to people who like fusion 360:

If I survive tomorrow I promise I’ll never trade again in my life.

The Information: Anthropic Reportedly in Talks to Use Microsoft AI Chips : Discussions underway to lease servers based on Microsoft's in-house designed AI chip 'Maia' to address rising AI demand : Talks remain at an early stage and may not result in an actual agreement : MS pursuing reduced Nvidia dependence and building its own AI chip ecosystem similar to Google TPU and Amazon Trainium : Maia focuses on reducing inference costs and improving speed for existing models rather than training new models : MS has demonstrated cost savings on Copilot tools — which run on OpenAI and Anthropic models — through Maia 200 : Anthropic expects to coordinate with MS to reflect its own requirements in the design process of next-generation Maia chips : MS is one of Anthropic's largest customers, with Claude model usage for powering Copilot reaching at least $500M : MS announced plans late last year to invest up to $5B in Anthropic; Anthropic has committed a total of $30B in spending on Azure : MS has recently allocated additional existing Nvidia server resources to Anthropic and is also building out dedicated new server clusters

Oh so you’re an engineer? Name every engine

I know nothing about data centers (obviously), but is there a reason they can’t be multi-story?

why do quantum computers look like that