selectodude

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by selectodude 3mo ago
GPT-5.6 just finished writing a shim for me in rust that sits between Broadcom’s bullshit kernel and a standard Linux user space to turn my mesh routers into standard computers. At some point I’m not sure what the difference is in practice.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
Making memory is easy. Packaging that memory within a few millimeters of a piece of silicon using TSVs and maintaining signal integrity on a 1024 bit bus is really, really hard. LLMs aren’t all that compute constrained or even memory constr
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by selectodude 3mo ago
I know what I said. Lots of foreign money backed construction loans got wiped out. The buildings are still there, the project went bankrupt, and the world kept turning.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
Japan in the 1990s, ME sovereign wealth funds in the late 2000s, China in the mid 2010s.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
Don’t blame imports for our sclerotic country banning construction nationwide. Plenty of countries have spent billions on new construction in the US and gotten smoked. The buildings still stand though.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
Probably not much. The US doesn’t have the capacity for high volume manufacturing. We cost too much.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
That’s the beauty of using an open harness. I can jump ship if that ever happens.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
My desktop is a game console and the games I play work on windows. And my computer reliably wakes from sleep.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
At least OpenAI lets me use my own harness. Having to rely on insane PMs letting Claude Mythos go wild on the codebase has not been going well lately.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
Au contraire, I run models on WSL and my desktop reliably wakes up from sleep. Best of both worlds.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
The meek shall inherit the Earth… but not the moon.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” Oscar R. Benavides
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by selectodude 3mo ago
No. I don’t think it’s at all okay or fair that the wealthiest man in the world can push great replacement conspiracies and endorse the murder of immigrants (non-white South African division).
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by selectodude 3mo ago
I have this magical ability to think lots of people can suck simultaneously. I’m also able to separate the power and ability to inflict damage of a bunch of shitheads on twitter from the White House and the first ever trillionaire.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
You get both the white nationalist and the antisemite sides, yes.
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by selectodude 3mo ago
I think the folks at PA Semi had some chops too.
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by selectodude 4mo ago
Heh, I’m 5x more productive 99 percent of the time. That is still a very, very useful tool.
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by selectodude 4mo ago
The solution for high prices is high prices. If making RAM and SSDs is now cause for a 10 figure valuation, after enough time somebody will dive in.
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by selectodude 4mo ago
I’m always a bit confused how this is so difficult for people to understand. If I want to move into your neighborhood, there are two options - I move into new construction or I move into your house. There is no option C where I decide that
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by selectodude 4mo ago
Both are true. We’ve made cheap housing illegal and we’ve demanded ever higher quality housing. We need to allowed for revealed preferences. In developers we trust.
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by selectodude 4mo ago
You gotta look at the motivations. Rich people and activists can both agree that affordable housing requirements are a good thing. The higher the better. This makes the project not pencil out so everybody is happy - the homeowners who don’t
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by selectodude 4mo ago
Private equity owns about 500,000 homes nationwide, so like less than a half of a percent. Anyway they got into the housing market because the margins are so good because everybody refuses to allow new housing to be built. Congratulations,
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by selectodude 4mo ago
And there’s a non-zero chance that it lives dormant in your brain and you die several years later. Absolutely bonkers.
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by selectodude 4mo ago
I live in a pretty cosmopolitan city and I’m happy to report the kids are smoking free range all natural cigarettes again. Vaping is now uncool.
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by selectodude 4mo ago
Simple. Cigarettes make you cool and hot, offering or bumming a light outside is instant chemistry to chat somebody up, and although I haven’t been a chronic smoker in probably a decade now, a drunk cig outside on a chilly night still hits
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by selectodude 4mo ago
It doesn’t take too much effort to square the idea of being fine with firearms while not being a weapon-access absolutist. I’m able to have nuanced opinions about a lot of things that have negative externalities. Like how cigarettes kick as
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by selectodude 4mo ago
Also the idea that Canada is in any way anti-gun is ludicrous.
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by selectodude 4mo ago
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by selectodude 4mo ago
Not to be too snarky but there’s a few trillion dollars and some of the brightest minds of our generation working on this. I’m sure there’s a reason why they’ve settled for or are stuck on tokenization.
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by selectodude 4mo ago
Yeah my job sucks shit too, I just make 1/3rd as much as MANGO software engineers. Should’ve learned to program. At least writing python scripts with Claude has automated a lot of my job away. Anyway, there’s a support group for your s

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