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by speed_spread 3mo ago
Dell is an Intel shop. They dgaf about AMD.
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by speed_spread 3mo ago
If there was a Linux Apple App Store, I would buy stuff from it. I already buy from Steam. OSS doesn't have the answer to everything. Boutique software has value that people are willing to pay for.
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by speed_spread 3mo ago
Ha, so true. Bazzite cured my tinkering obsession. I now have no choice but to get shit done or to... play actual video games.
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by speed_spread 3mo ago
Yet accumulation of power by a very small elite through state and selected corporations happens to be a defining characteristic of that political regime.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
My grandma still uses YOLO ME
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
I read it as another verse of Eminem's "Guilty Conscience".
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Demand will not go away. There'll be toxic waste to clean up for decades after.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Taxpayers get their cut through results being public for anyone to use. It's science for a better society at large, not for the benefit of the few that can wield it.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Or they'll use the greenhouse potential difference between released unburned methane and CO2 to greenwash the project.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Sounds like Noam just wanted to serve 5 terabytes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Whoosh. Holes -> Swiss Cheese.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
I'm reminded of the Sun Fire X4500 "Thumper" for which ZFS was originally developed. 48 SATA drives packed in a slide-out rack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zQ5RLAyA7w
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
A major difference is that Blindsight is actually readable and enjoyable. Also, vampires in space.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Local models will be much harder to block than cloud ones. I foresee an underground distribution of Mythos+ level models to be run locally. Users of these models will be forced to apply some of their power to evade police action. Eventually
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
It's ok, you can let go of Chesterton's ISDN phone pole now. Come, we have cable, we have fiber. Just for you, I'll even fire up a little hotspot from the palm of my hand as we walk away.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Parrots aren't evil, they're just assholes.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
And before that, The Last Starfighter
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
It's not the kind of performance expectations where processor-specific SIMD support really matters (although nice if it's there) Go's performance goals are to have much faster runtime than any interpreted language and faster
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Hahalberta
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
It doesn't matter if it's classic search or LLM. They can monetize tracking information as easily as they can sell ads. They'll have fast cheap custom-built assistant models that run on device by default, keeping things profi
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
You have to make your own stories as you go along. Plug that fresh knowledge into hypothetical scenarios from stuff you've learned before.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
However bad UEFI is, it's still better than the fragmented ARM boot wasteland.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Those 192GB aren't unified memory though. 128GB on Mac or 395 can be used by both CPU and GPU. It's the GPU + large memory that opens up fast local LLM inteference.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
The Internet brought obvious benefits to everyone. New ways to communicate, associate and do business. It was a tool of collective empowerment. It promised a more equal, dynamic society. The promises of AI are much less constructive. I can
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Kotlin is the future of maintenance nightmare and Jetbrains lock-in.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Nudge it long enough to deplete it's fuel reserves? Or just wrap the emitting antenna in tin foil...
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
I think "tons of TNT" make sense for an explosion? At least it works for A-Bomb equivalents, in this case it was like, huh, ~1/50th of Little Boy.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
I'm not pjmlp, but the cached answer is Turbo Pascal.
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
By entertainment I assume you mean money laundering?
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by speed_spread 4mo ago
Like Slack history, LLM history can be used to build searchable knowledge base. Questions are often more valuable than answers.

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