Thursday, October 29
Daily News Stuff 29 October 2026
Shelves Made Of Ticky-Tacky Edition
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Shelves Made Of Ticky-Tacky Edition
Top Story
- Microsoft has hit ten quarters in a row of record-breaking revenues. (Tech Crunch)
That's good, right?
- Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 employees. (Tech Crunch)
Right?
Tech News
- SpaceX has told the FAA it is planning for 10,000 launches per year. (WCCFTech)
That's... A lot.
- Ford's new Fathom electric truck - which is expected to start below $30,000 - doubles as a 10kW whole-home UPS. (CNET)
Honestly, pretty useful. Usefuller if it were a plug-in hybrid, but still useful.
- Amazon is planning to judge engineers by how much they achieve, rather than how much they cost the company. (Tom's Hardware)
Just now figured this out, apparently.
- AI execs may be total dipshits. (Tech Crunch)
May be?
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I will occasionally engage in a bit of token-maxing (I refuse to use the stupid "two x's" spelling, it's dumb), because I'm on a subscription plan, which means the more tokens I use, the more it costs Anthropic. Hopefully I can cost them more money than they're making off my subscription: I actively want them to go bankrupt. My usage alone won't even come remotely close to that, of course — but if everyone on subscription plans started doing that, they'd have no choice but to cut back on subscription plans to stop hemorrhaging money, at which point there would be even more incentive for people to switch to local models.
Posted by: Robin Munn at Thursday, October 29 2026 07:07 PM (rQuZ2)
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Boy, the TechCrunch writer sure does hate Elon Musk, doesn't he? "But hey, all the characters come in a Musk-approved skin color ..." Yes, they look like they live on the Mediterranean. What's your point, Anthony Ha? Are you saying that the characters in the Odyssey shouldn't look Greek?
Posted by: Robin Munn at Thursday, October 29 2026 07:36 PM (rQuZ2)
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AI managers - if they've been trained using PHB human managers as models, they couldn't be anything else. And we already have a surfeit of PHB human managers.
Posted by: Frank at Thursday, October 29 2026 10:10 PM (9Oo74)
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Thing is, if to represent someone you must look like them, the San Francisco lunatics are unlike a lot of other people in this world. However, if you can represent people without looking like them, then a lot of this thinking about proxies that we inherited is wrong.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, October 29 2026 10:39 PM (6eVrQ)
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10K launches a year is just enough for an average one moon flight a day (based on that estimate we keep seeing that it takes 22 of them to go to the moon in Starship).
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, October 30 2026 12:48 AM (PKuxf)
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Fathom? Why not Moby, or Pym, or some other inapt reference?
Posted by: normal at Friday, October 30 2026 02:00 AM (LADmw)
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Nice musical selection today; next, do a non-hit song by ABBA - What About Livingston?
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Friday, October 30 2026 02:54 AM (h1WGa)
