Daily News Stuff 13 June 2024

• Has Elon Musk finally lost Tesla shareholders? (New York Magazine)
  
  In the balance: Shareholder votes on whether to restore Musk's $50 billion compensation package, and to tell the state of Delaware to go fuck itself and reincorporate in Texas.
  
  
  
• No. (Yahoo News)
  
  Both votes at the Tesla AGM have reportedly passed by substantial margins.
  
  Ars Technica commentariat hardest hit.

• Stable Diffusion 3 is here and it is comically bad. (Ars Technica)
  
  Did you miss those nine-digited hand-feet that you got with the earliest iterations of AI image generators?
  
  Well, they're back, now in glorious 4K photorealism.
  
  Some commenters suspect that in their efforts to stamp out porn, Stable AI stamped out human anatomy entirely. It's plausible because almost everything else in the sample images is convincing.
  
  
  
• Smaller than big, bigger than small: ASRock's Deskmate X600 can fit a desktop Rzyen CPU, four memory modules, and two SSDs. (Liliputing)
  
  Four DIMM slots is rare in small form factor systems - this one is a little larger than mini-ITX - so that is welcome, though less necessary now that you can get 48GB modules.
  
  
  
• Demented communists are suing SpaceX for creating a workplace hostile to demented communists. (The Verge)
  
  These people display warning signs like a broken arrow frog. Never, ever hire them.
  
  
  
• Intel is trucking a 916,000 pound refrigeration unit across Ohio at an average speed of a little under one mile per hour. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  If you live nearby you might want to schedule a day off while traffic clears.
  
  
  
• Why Swift is not. (Daniel Chase Hooper)
  
  Broken type inferencing:

  swiftc spends 42 seconds on these 12 lines on an M1 Pro2, only to spit out the notorious error: the compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions. In the same amount of time, clang can perform a clean build of my 59,000 line C project 38 times.

  They tried to get clever, and failed miserably, ending up with a compiler that can be a thousand times slower in 2024 than Turbo Pascal was in 1984.
  
  
  

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