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Picking hardware for local AI inference in 2026 updated 12 October 2026
Nobody buying AI hardware in 2026 is short on opinions. The forums are full of people who swear by their setup and can’t understand why anyone would …
Force Majeure 25 September 2026
On Thursday Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, the 2.45 GW Stargate campus in southern New Mexico. Force majeure is French …
Synthetic Oil Isn't What You Think 14 September 2026
Show of hands: who assumed “full synthetic” motor oil meant something that never came out of the ground? I did, for about twenty years, buying the …
Deriving the AI Depreciation Curve 7 September 2026
Last time I wrote about the future value of GPU compute I ended on a hand-wave: economic life is probably 2 to 3 years, the 6-year schedules are optimistic, and …
Most Small Businesses Never Sell updated 12 August 2026
Say you own a small business you want to sell. Not a $40 million supermarket chain, but something the SBA actually means when it says “small”: a …
Tools That You Serve updated 12 August 2026
There’s a recurring pattern in how humans build things: we design a system to serve us, it scales, and somewhere past a certain threshold it flips, and …

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