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by epolanski 2mo ago
It's not really a far fetched prediction: high margins and huge market attract competition, that's just the law of economics.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
True, it's also "per user", somehow, but I think it's a misleading metric. Cerebras chips take the whole wafer? A single TSMC wafer contains 60 to 65 B200s, assuming 70% yields that's 40ish wafers per die. Cerebras
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Yes
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Maybe you're right, my language has no such distinction (Italian) it's one term.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Oh I've seen it many times especially in IT land, but almost always to middle management positions, almost never c-suite. Multiple times teams would end up losing their manager and the promotion felt to the one that losing as a contrib
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> It really is about incentives, and consultants usually do not have the right ones As a consultant myself, I don't get it, that might be true for management consultants, but not for technical ones. As a software engineering one, th
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by epolanski 2mo ago
1. The estimates, for data center build outs in 2026 alone, in US alone, and even limiting just to the hyperscalers + oracle is in the 600 to 800 billions range. And I'm ignoring the likes of Nvidia building their owns and smaller (but
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by epolanski 2mo ago
You went completely off topic and answering something I didn't claim.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> What I don't understand is why communities want to block the data centers. Just make them pay! What kind of question is that? Communities that don't want them? You think money can fix and buy everything? Besides, they pay alr
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I don't think it's necessarily shady, but let's say that we're assisting at bets and capex spending we've never seen in history. Companies like Meta, Alphabet, etc that were drowning in cash flow and buying back the
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by epolanski 2mo ago
AI datacenters are a completely different beast than the "normal" cloud ones. They use order of magnitudes more resources.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Airlines are notoriously businesses that barely make any money. And just for your information, since you seem to be oblivious, perfectly maintained equipment can still have issues. And whether the company owes you anything depends on the ju
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Today's development is either pay huge money for blockbusters, or go budget and make "lovely" games as indie developers. Hard to get the mid ground, they rarely recoup the costs.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Poor op. /s This is the kind of attitude that puts pressure on airlines and thus pilots to fly even when situation is dubious.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
These situations are regulated in Europe. But then corporates go brainwashing on tv that too much regulations are killing business. You can have rights or ease of business, nailing both, sounds difficult.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
But why? You can "isolate" in less isolated places. Also what's the point if the activity you're describing is linking through other people anyway (just over internet).
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by epolanski 2mo ago
This makes no sense to me, payments are low volume traffic, their biggest constraints are getting business logic, security and transactions right. LLMs are a different beast.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
The author of the article just got a fan. Some serious stuff he builds on top of those chips.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
And none of this works properly. None. You have to remind it what's in it's own memory, or the subagent skill is influenced by the main system prompt. It's sloppy vibe coders productivity porn.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Oh no, memories and skills are terrible replacements for system prompts. Not only they get "lost" and ignored as the context grows, but the baseline behaviour of system prompts is retained in the agent.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Why would it be a good idea? That would make the model quite inflexible. A system prompt is about guiding the behavior for the rest of the conversation. If I'm writing an agent for financial analysis I don't want the crap that bel
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by epolanski 2mo ago
One thing I've always found surprising about "harnessess" (god I hate that word) like Pi or Opencode is the lack of a customizeable system prompt. I can understand it for closed source ones, but open ones? They are natural su
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Yes, Russia, NATO countries and its allies (Israel), are the major causes for conflicts in the last decades. But stop framing it as "defense", we've been almost exclusively the ones attacking, not defending. It's us bein
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by epolanski 2mo ago
You're dragging heavy nets on the sea floor releasing heavy amounts of carbon dioxide and destroying ecosystems that are net contributors to decarbonization like seaweed, seagrass, etc. A single boat with a single net can do insane dam
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I'm Italian and I don't think you're right. Italy is not food self-sufficient, it relies heavily on imports of cereals, animal feed, oils, and other. We add value up the chain (with hams, cheese, etc), but bar fruits and vege
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by epolanski 2mo ago
There's way more to climate change than fossil fuels: consuming less and changing diet. A single cow alone requires lots of crop, water, and produces tons of methane (which is 200 times more dangerous than carbon dioxide). Fishing is a
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by epolanski 2mo ago
It would be just easier to not wage war by the way. Can't think of many countries besides Canada and US that would not starve in NATO if such a necessity arose, and that's because they produce lots of cereals. All the other countr
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by epolanski 2mo ago
If alcohol was invented today, people would be like "no way we allow a juice that makes you happy, stupid, aggressive and endangers yourself and others and has high addictive levels".
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Smoked meat has been a staple of human diet for millenia. It's cancerous.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
There is no evidence either small quantities of tobacco or most drugs harm you either. People that want to drink will find excuses to do so.

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