Unfortunately, we just entered Act II and I don't play a role here. Lots of us are just watching now.
📍: PNW, US
💻: platforms, dashboards, productivity
📚: science, fantasy, sci-fi
If you want to know why I don't panic about AI, about corporate overlords, about big money investments, and about everything getting gobbled up, or why I refuse to surrender to anxiety and fear about corporate consolidation and automation, this screenshot neatly captures my reasoning.
The story of Highguard is not some crazy outlier in the gaming landscape.
No, it's the quintessential corporate playbook for private investor money and leads to messy, delicious, supernovas of failure.
Just thought I'd check to see what RAM prices would be like today if I'd delayed purchasing my gaming rig by 6 months...
Yowza! 300% markup!
lolololol what on earth is this data visualization for "packages received" ?? Yes, like postal packages in the mail!
It's like someone saw the corporate revenue numbers and said "yes, that's exactly how we should show the user how many packages they have received at home..." ahahahaha
The Unicode block element characters are very useful for generating QR codes on the console, particularly the following:
U+2580 ▀ Upper half block
U+2584 ▄ Lower half block
U+2588 █ Full block
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
e.g.:
U1 don't lie.
(U1 = Percent of Civilian Labor Force Unemployed 15 Weeks and over)
Puget Sound Energy (PSE) provides the electrical grid for about 1.2 million residents in the pacific northwest, in the areas directly outside of Seattle.
Immediately after the recent wind storm, nearly half of those customer (yours truly included) lost power and many are still without power.
This effect can be seen directly by PSE's grid load, which appears to have dropped over 25% the day after the storm, and is slowly rising as outages are fixed one-by-one.
