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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
> exactly how security and compliance Not everywhere. I go out of my way to assist teams to achieve a secure outcome with less effort. Things like: “instead of admin access to the production servers the devs can have fully automated de
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Cash doesn't buy time machines. They want to build the data centres right now , but the power companies and other energy suppliers are booked solid for 5+ years out. Money or not, you can't just click your fingers and instantly g
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Solar works as well as it does only because we’ve spread it out and connected it to a grid. When it is overcast in one spot it is sunny elsewhere. That “elsewhere” has to be far enough away to get different weather. This means a grid capabl
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
The reasons are: - Running billions of dollars worth of GPUs only 30-50% of the time insanely wasteful. Everyone else is running them at 99% duty cycle or close to it. - Solar is big and generally has to be built far from where the data cen
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Batch mode execution has been in Microsoft SQL Server for a while and just recently gained AVX-512 support. I’ve done some experiments replacing spatial SQL queries with custom vectorised batch mode code in C# and the speed up was astonishi
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
GPT 5.6 has similar language quirks that makes its comments nearly unusable. I wonder if this is a side effect of MoE models — they can write excellent prose, but not simultaneously with writing code.
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
I had a similar conversation with a global warming sceptic friend. It turns out that the "more CO2 = more warmer" model is hilariously simplified, and the real modelling gets into the weeds to put it mildly! There's a NASA
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
> reduced to rubble By whom? China would be mad to destroy the most valuable building on that island. I doubt Taiwain would bomb themselves. I can't see anyone in the US acting like this either.
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Both NVIDIA and Apple derive much of their wealth from off-shored manufacturing to… drumroll … China! (PRC+ROC) If China decides to take over Taiwan and nationalises TMSC, redirecting their top tier silicon to 100% Chinese companies then w
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
"X is less than Y". "X is literally more than Y". "You are exaggerating how much X is!" "It's still a lot more than Y." PS: This whole thread reminded me of several managers I've worked wi
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
They might be head hunting other Apple staff and wish to control the narrative to avoid scaring them off.
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“If you have the prerequisite hardware, then… know which model you want out of thousands of a variants… and your drivers are up to date, then it is fast!”
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Three hours is a lot longer than one minute.
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
You two have just listed several tools needs to clean up after another tool: not a strong argument for “simpler”.
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Neural nets can extrapolate past their training data, and there is no reason to think LLMs don’t inherit this capability. The extent to which they are able to do this is the more interesting question!
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
This is the diametric opposite of the rent-vs-buy scenario that this entails. Local: You need to invest $thousands into GPU and/or very-high-end CPU+Memory hardware. Vendor: You can use any existing device, even a phone or tablet. A ve
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
A big part of the metaverse was "buying land" in exclusive locations, a similar concept to NFTs or crypto in general.
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Tulips, NFTs, and the Metaverse all revolved around exclusivity and collectibles. Art with no real utilitarian value. I pay OpenAI $100/mo, twice what I pay for my mobile phone service. It’s a useful service that I use every day. I h
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
That's not my meaning. There is a larger game being played. Sometimes one side is the aggressor in one particular local skirmish, sometimes the other. Over the last few decades, the United States has regularly been the "unprovoked
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
This is what it feels like to look in at Linux from the outside as a Windows admin used to corporate-enforced consistency. Sure, Microsoft has stumbled a bit recently, but around the 2010s it was a glorious era of PowerShell and Windows Ser
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Somewhat over-estimating the numbers, but even if your stats were accurate it wouldn’t change the critique that “the west” does the exact same thing. This isn’t what-about-ism, this is simply acknowledging the realpolitik that there are gre
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
The same FIFA that made a documentary about how their leadership were battling corruption… a year before they were arrested on corruption charges? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Passions Show them this video and
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Literally: BEGIN TRAN BEGIN TRAN COMMIT TRAN ROLLBACK TRAN
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"Latency" is my answer to the Fermi Paradox. As species become more intelligent, develop digital technologies, and their equivalent of the Internet, they become interconnected . Interconnectivity is limited by the speed of light.
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Database engines I've worked with generally support nested transactions, so you can open a transaction, open another transaction, commit it, then roll back the outer transaction... and it's like nothing ever happened. This abili
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Can you imagine trying to explain any of the current world leaders to little green men? “After they killed their first hundred thousand other people, why weren’t they arrested and jailed?” “Err…” “And why not arrest them after they stole
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
My mental model is this: There is a vast ocean of human knowledge, far beyond the capacity of any human brain, even within specialised fields. Books helped "plug the gaps" in our knowledge, increasing the scope that a single hum
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by jiggawatts 2mo ago
Read it twice already! Something I noted -- trying to avoid spoilers here -- is that Rorschach is awfully similar to LLMs, but the book pre-dates ChatGPT by several years, which I feel says everything you need to know about how well the aut
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It is well established that evolution is driven not only by fitness in the trivial sense of "survival or death", but in large part by mate selection. (Disclaimer: The rest is a personal theory with zero scientific support.) This b
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Look at it from the perspective of a manager above individual developers. Their instructions to those devs are already a series of non-deterministic incantations. They ask for things in English and get something back in Git a week later!

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