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AWS has climbed on the AI-in-space bandwagon with more bad science(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by boutell 6mo ago|2 comments
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by boutell 6mo ago
AWS just dropped this blog post describing the glories of AI data centers in space. Most companies hyping this ignore the cooling problem: in space, you only have radiative cooling to rely on. Even though the temperature outside is absolute
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by boutell 6mo ago
Whoops thanks, made a fresh post.
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by boutell 6mo ago
"The vacuum of space provides natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees..." This is not how physics works. The lack of convection in space makes cooling harder, not
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AWS joins mass delusion that space based data centers make sense(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by boutell 6mo ago|3 comments
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by boutell 6mo ago
"The vacuum of space provides natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees..." This is not how physics works. The lack of convection in space makes cooling harder, not
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by boutell 6mo ago
I found the article itself very informative and not particularly ai-tastic. But then I got to that infographic at the end. Holy smokes was that disappointing. It seems clear they didn't even bother to read the captions the AI scribbled
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by boutell 6mo ago
Last night I had to install the VO.20 pre-release of ollama to use this model. So I'm wondering if these instructions are accurate.
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by boutell 6mo ago
That's interesting man, that's pretty f***' interesting. I don't think I've seen it though. I've let it run for hours making changes overnight and I only do git operations manually. Oh, but maybe allowing it to
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by boutell 6mo ago
OK, so maybe we're headed for a dark forest scenario as far as profit driven startups go. But if your goal is simply for the thing to exist, there is a strong incentive to share.
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by boutell 7mo ago
Plain old Unix permissions can get it done. One account for you, one account for AI. A shared folder belonging to a group that both are in. umask and setgid to get the story right for new files. https://apostrophecms.com/blo
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by boutell 7mo ago
I get that they could do this in a future update, but if you never connect it to the Internet, a TV that doesn't require it today isn't going to just start. (Unless they pregamed to do it on such-and-such-a-date, but that would be
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by boutell 7mo ago
I'm interested in pushing the envelope a bit on the raspberry Pi to do personal assistant projects with it. The pi zero 2 is a surprisingly powerful little device, it is comparable to a pi 3B, except it has less RAM.
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How to be more productive with Claude Code, Part 1 (it's just a little bit YOLO)(apostrophecms.com)
2 points by boutell 7mo ago|0 comments
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by boutell 7mo ago
I was trying to do a bit of generative art for a pixel display in my window, and feeling creatively stuck, then realized I wanted turtle graphics. Implemented that and I was unlocked.
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by boutell 7mo ago
Great stuff. Is your team interested in the STT problem?
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by boutell 7mo ago
Wow! I'm so glad this actually did open the door from someone. I remember nerding out over how lame it was, but I was fortunate enough to have a TRS-80 Model III in my household. And I didn't fully grasp the hardware limitations t
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by boutell 7mo ago
I'm not sure how long ago you tried it, but look at Qwen 3.5 32b on a fast machine. Usually best to shut off thinking if you're not doing tool use.
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by boutell 7mo ago
I've been trying to get speech to text to work with a reasonable vocabulary on pis for a while. It's tough. All the modern models just need more GPU than is available
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by boutell 7mo ago
Only if you insist on running the standalone slack app for some reason. Why run one instance of Chrome when you can pay for two?
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by boutell 7mo ago
Patricia Anthony published a novel about this in '93. Cold Allies. It's good military sci fi. Doesn't pretend to offer answers.
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by boutell 7mo ago
Sure, hiring is expensive, but firing is really expensive! I salute your efforts to get it right on the first try.
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by boutell 7mo ago
Because you can buy it with 32GB of unified RAM, the MBP is now actually the cheapest device for something... useful local AI models!
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by boutell 7mo ago
Same as I feel when AWS goes down... "this sucks, but it's not like I'd do better" (at devops)
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by boutell 7mo ago
Ads might be financially viable for low quality AI. The cost of really good models is another thing entirely. There are people on Reddit asking when they will get ad supported Claude Code! The answer to that one is never.
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by boutell 7mo ago
"Failed to fetch."
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by boutell 7mo ago
It's missile command. But it's pretty enjoyable missile command.
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by boutell 7mo ago
Can confirm. I gave it a variant of the car wash question on a MacBook M4 with 32 GB of RAM. It produced output at a conversational speed, sure, but that started with 6 minutes of thinking output. 6 minutes. On the plus side, it did figure
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by boutell 7mo ago
The pivot to MTC is a big change in the infrastructure of https. I wish other browsers were at least mentioned in this blog post. I'm curious about the future of letsencrypt as well.
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by boutell 8mo ago
Later the vimkings pushed them out. Then they were suppressed by the vs-igoths, but modern day enthusiasts still call themselves neo-vimkings

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