cagenut

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by cagenut 12d ago
I'm just barely starting to wrap my head around mapping model sizes and quants to hardware components and constraints. I don't get what this device is for. I a million percent understand wanting 252GB-VRAM, that would get me a 280
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by cagenut 21d ago
if its not worth your time to write, its not worth my time to read this goes 10x for all the slide decks and google docs and wikislop everyone's trying to pass off as an accomplishment lately
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by cagenut 1mo ago
I really hate how the excruciatingly overdue reckoning for tech elites and income inequality is turning into this religious schism over AI and datacenters. We're going to smash the looms rather than figure out how to share them, again.
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by cagenut 2mo ago
and flying. beef and flying are the two most impactful personal choices you can make (nearly everything else has a 'over a decade'/difficult-life-tradeoff factor). beef and flying are easy.
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by cagenut 3mo ago
the downside is it allows us to continue to avoid solving the real problem ideologues will tell you this is that all mankind suddenly lost their ability to exert self-discipline a few decades ago science points to a broad combination of thi
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by cagenut 5mo ago
there are dozens of us!
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by cagenut 5mo ago
similar enough that i'll share, I think i learned this from an HN comment, you can put the code for a page in the url (with obvious limits): this works as a "url" in both chrome and safari: data:text/html, <html c
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by cagenut 6mo ago
honestly, look internally. after the plane from qatar. after the son-in-law's real estate dealings. after the visible-to-everyone kalshi and oil futures bets frontrunning the administrations announcements. for you to still feel the
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by cagenut 7mo ago
sorry thats too far left wing an opinion in america today
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by cagenut 7mo ago
really? or is it just that you don't like the answer so you keep trying to find another one. what historical examples of this very common pattern did you read up on?
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by cagenut 7mo ago
is there anywhere good to read/follow to get operational clarity on this stuff? my current system of looking for 1 in 1000 posts on HN or 1 in 100 on r/locallama is tedious.
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by cagenut 7mo ago
so is love this level of reductive thought termination goes nowhere
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by cagenut 8mo ago
spacex is one thing but xai accomplished what? the most racist csam prone llm?
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by cagenut 8mo ago
it was basically a mindless loop, very prime for being agent driven: - observe error rate uptick - maybe dig in with apm tooling - read actual error messages - compare what apm and logs said to last commit/deploy - if they
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by cagenut 8mo ago
after a decade of follow-the-sun deployments by php contractors from vietnam to costa rica where our only qa was keeping an eye on the 500s graph, ai can't scare me.
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by cagenut 8mo ago
obviously you're not a devops eng, I think you're wildly under-estimating how much of business critical code pre-ai is completely orphaned anyway. the people who wrote it were contractors long gone, or employees that have moved co
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by cagenut 8mo ago
it has been amazing to watch how much of agentic ai is driven by "can you write clear instructions to explain your goals and use cases" and "can you clearly define the rules of each step in your process."
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by cagenut 9mo ago
People Make Games did a mini documentary on almost exactly what you're asking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHT-zBxKQQ Its three years old so things have slightly matured.
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by cagenut 10mo ago
you could stuff the racks full of server-rack batteries (lfp now, na-ion maybe in a decade) and monetize the space and the high capacity grid connect most of the hvac would sit idle tho
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by cagenut 11mo ago
everybody read 'bullshit jobs' and basically agreed at first that just meant many of us adopted a middle-aged-coasting career strategy after covid and/or having kids but now management is agreeing
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by cagenut 1y ago
hmmm thats 200g in the wrong direction
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by cagenut 1y ago
wag that dog
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by cagenut 1y ago
almost, what you're seeing there is the too cute by half smug nugget of wisdom tone, which is really the trademark of the self-styled "writer", but because self-styled writers wrote most of the internet it has reflected onwar
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by cagenut 1y ago
it was only ever a distraction/cover-story for cutting medicaid it worked
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by cagenut 1y ago
real devops pro contrarian move "what if I broke DNS so hard it actually made me better at my job"
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by cagenut 1y ago
daycare used to be an extended familiy or village thing, now its on the ~1.7 parents per kid to earn enough to pay a commercial supplier.
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by cagenut 1y ago
it is cruel. the cruelty is the point.
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by cagenut 1y ago
you're committed to the username bit
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by cagenut 1y ago
this post is a fake argument with no one? the typical internet outrage pattern of using overly dramatized language like "dirty secret" to describe something thats... common knowledge? not a secret at all? openly talked about at
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by cagenut 1y ago
I think we'll see the global rich (western middle class) continue to fly well past the onset of the famines and refugee waves. Without a single family detached house and a regular vacation flight most "middle class" people wo

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