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by api 2mo ago
After using it a bit I’m convinced it’s not, as a whole, a bubble. Bubbles exist around it. Data center construction may end up overbuilding, much like the dark fiber thing during dot.com, since better chips and models will shrink power and
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by api 2mo ago
Oh nonsense. Energy is energy. It would be hard to decarbonize long haul trucking and aviation, which together account for less than ten percent of global oil use. Almost everything else can be powered by other things. Might have been true
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by api 2mo ago
Stop the system and miserable people will blame that for why they’re miserable. “Remember the good old days?” Hate urban modern life? Leave then. Lots of places to go live more simply.
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by api 2mo ago
I used to be a libertarian-capitalist type. The big thing that disabused me of this idea is that I also love technology and progress, and I'm not a sociopath. I increasingly believe that if we really do want to keep moving forward fast
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by api 2mo ago
Me? Probably not. A business or a hoster, sure. There'd probably end up being an aftermarket in used cartridges with slightly older but still good models on them.
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by api 2mo ago
I've had an endgame idea in mind for a while. Models, probably first open weight ones like Kimi K3 class, are etched into silicon like this and sold as cartridges almost like old school game cartridges. You buy a USB-C dongle that the
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by api 2mo ago
Thus my "blasphemous" comment.
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by api 2mo ago
Someone should do the blasphemous thing and have Opus 5 finish HURD. Actually in all seriousness reviving dead interesting FOSS projects is one use for AI coding I've thought about.
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by api 2mo ago
It’s all very obvious hysteria that parodies itself loudly. It’s also a big con. Andrew Tate might be an abuser of women but his big marks are men. Look at how much money he makes selling that BS to insecure guys. That was his whole schtick
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by api 2mo ago
This sounds like either an extremely bad experience or an account from many years ago. Things are better now. Also like I said: physically racking only makes sense if you are huge. Managed bare metal is a whole market category and it’s spec
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by api 2mo ago
It’s always a spreadsheet decision. Seems like people missed the end of what I wrote though. We run some bare metal but do not physically handle it. There’s many companies who will rent huge boxes with good connectivity in a data center. Da
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by api 2mo ago
Submit this for an IgNobel. It’s also funny cause it’s mocking this BS in such a good natured wonderfully overdone way. Guy in my college house who got laid the most was on the shorter side, poor, and kind of acted effeminate at times to th
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by api 2mo ago
Small or overly quantized LLMs are a genre of humor. Same goes for small image generators. Janky generative AI is like the Geocities web pages of today.
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by api 2mo ago
I always mention this in these discussions: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every... It's housing prices.
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by api 2mo ago
You are 100% correct but you’d be shocked at the mortal terror that “self hosting” inflicts in the minds of even people who should really know better. Also forget Dell. Check out DataPacket.com and other metal hosters. You don’t need to phy
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by api 2mo ago
Say you are spending $1M. Round up. Or even 0.9M. Their sales might only return inquiries with cloud costs ending in M.
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by api 2mo ago
When corporations grow to a certain size, they become banks. The same thing kind of happens to industries when they get dominated by a few large players. The large players are banks. The core of the industry becomes a form of finance. Holly
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by api 2mo ago
Fine. Sci-fi is a broad genre that intersects at the edges with fantasy, alternate history, magic realism, and all kinds of other very imaginative styles. The hard/soft axis is fuzzy. The extreme of hard is "known physics only&quo
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by api 2mo ago
So many Americans don't understand that these two "branches" of the Muslim world are at odds as much if not more than Israel and the Muslim world. That whole region is a mess of deep long-standing divisions.
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by api 2mo ago
Not only that, but we are searching time as well as space. Let say our civilization lasts for a million years. That's a blip. We are searching across tens to hundreds of light-years for just our galactic neighborhood as well as cross t
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by api 2mo ago
They're doing great if you're on the beneficiary side: oil companies, defense contractors, the Trump family, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc. All that is at the expense of the rest of the economy. The sectors that are hit the har
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by api 2mo ago
You can build your own a lot more cheaply now especially if you only want storage. There’s some canned distros and control panels for it. If the storage doesn’t need to be fast a newer Pi can do it with USB-C drives. An old Intel Mac mini f
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by api 2mo ago
Every invention is made of other inventions all the way back to big rock and sharp stick. So yes Bayesian spam filtering was impressive for its time. I remember it being done locally in mail clients. It’s also one of the early popular deplo
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by api 2mo ago
It’s declined in quality too but not as sharply as Reddit or the cess pools of the rest of social media.
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by api 2mo ago
Before: most code programmers write is thrown away. Most products fail. Now: most code LLMs write is thrown away. Most products fail. Knowing what to build and how at the high level (architecture and algorithms) has always been the most imp
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by api 2mo ago
Photography was not the end of painting. It was, however, a blow to painting as a vocation where a lot of your work was in the form of portrait painting.
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by api 2mo ago
Tangential to the main article point but… The energy density scatter plot is physically correct but misleading and everyone makes this mistake. From an engineering point of view you have to use work delivered at the end of the drive train n
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by api 2mo ago
That’s why I think you’d have to build boards with raw flash chips and do your own bus to make it rival fast RAM.
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by api 2mo ago
People don’t evaluate risks based on stats. They do it based on vibes. We do have a disproportionate amount of gun violence for a developed nation but statistically it’s still a very low risk. I recall pointing this out back during the post
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by api 2mo ago
I’ve wondered for a while: given the lower cost of SSD per GB could you build a very wide RAID0 style striped array of SSDs (maybe one per slot) to get almost RAM like read speeds? To really go fast you’d probably have to do PCB layout and

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