Some people aren’t mincing their words about it either, calling the deals “circular financing” or even “vendor financing” - where a company invests in or lends to its own customers so they can continue making purchases.

“Yes, the investment loans are unprecedented,” Mr Altman told me on Monday.

But, he added, “it’s also unprecedented for companies to be growing revenue this fast.”

OpenAI’s revenue is growing quickly, but it has never turned a profit.

Is there a way to make votes private in the fediverse? Seems tricky given the voting data needs to be visible to every federated server

I have my great aunt’s Sunbeam waffle iron from the 50s and it still works great. Appliances used to be made to be repairable, and there were appliance repair shops all over the place

Someone else intending something personally doesn’t doom you to take it personally, you still get to decide how you take it and respond to it. Take my father-in-law, I know for a fact he will say hurtful things any time I see him. I don’t let that man’s internal chaos infect me though, I know he can’t stop himself, so I grey rock the shit out of him until he’s gone.

I’m only going to address your aunt. Everyone has this aunt, who wants to play matchmaker and is bad at it. Don’t take it personally, just calmly respond that you’re not interested.

I haven’t had any issues like that, it’s been working fine for me

This is devastating and, of course, not at all based in science. mRNA vaccines have the potential to give us vaccines for diseases that had previously been impossible with existing vaccine development methods. The Trump Administration and RFK Jr are deciding that the United States is going to rely on importing foreign-made vaccines in the future when we no longer have the knowledge to make the best vaccines in the world.

The city owns and operates AE and has a right to its profits, which go toward funding city services. AE’s rates are in the lower half of rates statewide, and I think you’ll find AE’s general fund transfers pale in comparison to the profits taken by the for-profit electric utilities, which goes to lining the pockets of shareholders and executives. I’m very glad I live in AE’s service area, their service is way better than the for-profit utilities I used around Houston.

Austin Energy doesn’t serve Round Rock…

You must be thinking of another electric utility, my friend.

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Do you have a source on this? Texas Gas Service is absolutely doing this, but Austin Energy’s residential rates are really good compared to other utilities in the state, and really haven’t ticked up much in recent years outside the $5 base rate increase in '23.

As far as uptime, outside the statewide winter storm outage in '21 and the ice storm in '23 that shredded power lines, I don’t think I’ve experienced an outage in 10 years

Thank you for giving the Austin Chronicle credit where it’s due. I’m a donor and love their paper. It’s a free weekly that’s the only print news really left in Austin, and they do great work. Also a great resource to find live shows around town

You know absolutely nothing about what makes water drinkable or how we as a society have already solved this problem

Y’all, we’re talking about condensate from a device specifically designed to capture water for drinking. We’re not talking about drinking the water dripping from your AC. Ensuring this water is drinkable is remarkably simple.

Not only that, but Clostridium botulinum only grows in anaerobic environments, so it isn’t even a remote concern in this case. That’s why you don’t hear about it much outside of canned food or instances where it’s purposefully cultivated for medical applications.

If you’re concerned with bacterial growth in the condensate of a dehumidifier, all you need to do is boil it

There are plenty ways to purify water once it’s been obtained

Waymo is already live in 5 US cities. Waymo has been operating in Austin for over a year city-wide while Tesla kept moving back their rollout and still only operates in a sliver of the city, and only during the day in good weather. Zoox has been heavily testing in Austin and is likely to go live at some point soon.

This isn’t exactly a comprehensive literature review, and totally misunderstands what a LLM is and does

Did you read the article, or is this just a hot take on the headline