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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
I assume TSMC is not only helium consumer so in reduced supply situation they’ll pay more and someone else will end up without helium.
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Problems are never ending but amount of money which can be made in short (or even mid) term by solving these problems is limited. Every dollar spent on LLM is a dollar not spent on salaries.
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Reliance on Russian gas (which did increase after shutting down nuclear) is a bigger problem than relying on nuclear fuel: in nuclear energy fuel cost has much smaller impact on electricity cost than gas price for gas fired power stations.
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
AFAIK performance is not a priority for OpenBSD project - security is (and other related qualities like code which is easy to understand and maintain). FreeBSD (at least when I followed it several years ago) had better performance both for
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
> Point is, if you ban anything that makes noise you’ll be left with nothing, it’s pure selfish nimbyism The US is large enough country and it should be possible to build DC far away from homes. That’s a rare case where I support NIMBY.
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
It's definitely a risk but a country in a civil war likely will be focused on internal problems and pose less of a threat to neighbors.
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Tories during 2015-2023 made construction of new onshore wind farms all but impossible (removed subsidies and made planning permissions very difficult). I would assume Labor could reverse these polices but haven't seen anything in news
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
> if you tip the Iranian conflict over into asymmetrical warfare, then nobody can stop it - ever It's already asymmetytrical. And it could last as long as the current regime is in power. When the power structure will fall money will
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
Absolute numbers are still higher than they were 5 years ago but the number of jobs going down means that the same (or about the same) number of people are starting to compete for a smaller number of jobs. Many people have chosen to study s
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
May be it was one of factors but unlikely the main one. University education was free in the USSR but it was a stable authoritarian state for decades (until eventually collapsed for reasons having little to do with education).
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
Shift from quality to velocity started not yesterday but AI only accelerated this shift. Majority of comments here tell how fast Claude can generate code, not how good the result is. Electron is the prefect fit for move fast mindset. It is
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
Among the biggest offenders when it comes by my daily usage are Youtube and Facebook web sites. Both have iOS apps but did choose not to provide native Mac OS apps. I don't think MacBook Neo will make them to reconsider this policy.
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
A higher tax on DC with the tax revenue invested into public electrical infrastructure and public power stations. With billions powered into AI they can out-price everyone out of resources they use - be it directly (high electricity rates)
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
I doubt it - for decades bloat increases over the time and I doubt this trend will suddenly stop. I'm using a notebook with 8Gb of RAM at home and it is working most of the time but if I open many tabs in Firefox (say 15-30) it is runn
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
> price of acquiring talent to manage the gear Is it still a problem in 2026 when unemployment in IT is rising? Reasons can be argued (the end of ZIRP or AI) but hiring should be easier than it was at any time during the last 10 years.
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
Endgame is to produce AI which will not need any supervision by the time the current generation of experienced developers will retire or even sooner. I don’t know if it will happen but many bet on this and models are still improving, flatte
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
I don’t think it’s possible to change regime without boots on the ground which is not currently considered. So there will be no power vacuum, at most Iran military will be weaken. It’s not a big win for the US but would allow Trump to safe
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
China buys Iranian oil, if they’ll start to but oil from non-sanctioned countries it will push prices up. But the biggest reason for prices to go up is the risk that Iran will attack tankers in the strait of Hormuz or oil infrastructure on
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
Google search still has at least one competitive advantage: their crawlers are least likely to be blocked so they have the biggest index. AFAIK reddit is indexed by google but blocks all other search crawlers.
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
The current Iranian regime has destruction of Israel as one of their main goals. Not the other way around. I’m sure if Iran will have less threatening leadership Isreal will not bother them.
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
No one dares to attack North Korea because they have nukes. Ayatollahs surely want the same but didn’t have enough time/resources. Current stance on negotiations is a miscalculation IMHO, they likely wanted for negotiations to drag on
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
People who use AI at work are likely more worried about loosing job (after being replaced by AI) than people whose professions are less exposed to AI.
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
Personally, I don't like to work with black boxes - I feel more comfortable when I know at least something about layers below the layer of abstraction I'm working on even if I don't need this knowledge directly. Articles like
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
> Rail is superb for what it does: moving bulk commodities... The problem is last-mile. Before around 1950x-1970x rail networks were more dense (at least in Europe) - any significant goods source/destination (like a warehouse, a fac
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
> Even the solar panel market is self defeating. Once there is enough installed power the demand will drop off sharply as the refresh cycle is too long. It's not going to happen soon - solar is still just 8% of world energy producti
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
I trillion is going to dispersal in the AI black hole in the next couple years (in the US), I wish the same money were invested in the clean energy instead.
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
I would expect a large provider like Hetzner to refresh hardware continuously - every year a fraction of old hardware is retired and replaced by new. Given price shock they could stop doing this but older hardware is less energy efficient a
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
AI race pushed up prices for the hardware (and likely everything you need to build/maintain a DC). Rising cloud costs was only matter of when, not if.
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
Generation of boomers accumulated lots of wealth, mostly thanks to house prices skyrocketing during their lifetime. Not all but many old people can afford private healthcare. Younger people need NHS more.
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by citrin_ru 8mo ago
65+ is the only age group in which >50% still believe Brexit was a good choice.

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