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by stego-tech 4mo ago
The Unified Memory pool is what will continue to be the “game changer” in systems architecture, especially outside of data centers. The reality is even cutting edge games and consumer workloads don’t actually take full use of the PCIe bandw
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by stego-tech 4mo ago
It’s a valid theory, and I certainly think it’s a contributor, but I would also argue that the “boom” years of fertility in modernity have been tied to periods of widespread benefit for most, if not all. When prospective parents and grandpa
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by stego-tech 4mo ago
I am getting real sick of these sorts of alarmist posts coming from AI labs that do everything in their power to prevent the very policy reforms they advocate for in these posts or PR appearances. Commercial AI labs like Anthropic continue
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by stego-tech 4mo ago
OOF . As a former Citrix admin, I felt that burn in my bones. An upvote well earned.
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by stego-tech 4mo ago
It’s also worth noting that’s the peak benefit. Expect most engineers to not hit those limits on the regular (if at all, since limiting this puts skills in focus again), and that limit to come down over time as the easy processes are auto
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by stego-tech 4mo ago
Not directly, no, but they’ll build a file for what they consider extremist views. Just look back to the Civil Rights Movement era for the list of things people said that would get them an FBI file - we have a long and storied history of su
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by stego-tech 4mo ago
Not sure why you're downvoted for citing historical fact, but I guess some folks are quite scared at the implication that they're the baddies . You don't even have to go that far back. The New Deal that everyone fawns over
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by stego-tech 4mo ago
You're absolutely right, and people will cite this while pointing to The Culture and saying "see, this is what we mean, everything will be fine." Except nobody wants to get into the guts of how those systems came about. Nobo
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by stego-tech 4mo ago
Absolutely slamming that upvote arrow. Someone finally put into an in-depth, well-read essay what I've been trying to argue on my blog, in HN comments, in-person for several years now. What they call the "Dead Economy Theory&q
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by stego-tech 4mo ago
I'll never give up tech. It's a passion I've had since childhood, and a large part of what keeps me going in society is seeing the lights of the eyes brighten when someone discovers something new with technology that genuinel
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
Still excellent hardware, and I don’t entirely fault the company for the price hike (though I do believe they could’ve eaten part of it for the goodwill and told Gaben he’d had to forego another yacht or tender ship for a year or two), but
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
I mean most managers in my incredibly subjective experience are indistinguishable from the probability slot machines that are LLMs, and those who weren’t were often managers I’d walk through fire for. I’d love to see more research on the ef
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
The AI fever pitch has done a great job at exposing which companies were run with a degree of sanity, versus who bought blindly into the hype train narrative of worker replacement and went all-in. Look, LLMs thrive when they’re given struct
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
Like it’s nice to see someone get charged for using insider knowledge to win at prediction markets, but are we seriously just going to say this is the first big case and not any of the suspiciously accurate accounts created immediately befo
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
If workers got time off relative to the productivity gains achieved of the past fifty years and considering the comparatively stagnant wages over that time period, we’d only be working 2 to 3 days a week, tops . The author might be being p
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
The big assumption with all of these sorts of analyses is that things will continue as they are for the foreseeable future. In hype-driven markets, you cannot be certain of that. Let's take a view that the author is right: coding age
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
Disappointed this hasn't climbed the charts on HN; there's a lot of meaty data here showing the collapse of the consumer-focused DIY compute industry, as well as the wider consumer compute sector as a whole. While I don't b
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
Problems occur either way due to a lack of regulations on these entities allowing them to dictate acceptable financial transactions regardless of actual legality. Consider the risk matrix: * You sell legal goods or services and are entirely
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
I don’t have one at the moment, at least for my circles (artisans, craftspeople, adult creators in general). Much of it has fallen back on PayPal for folks without an LLC to hide behind, or Square if they’re incorporated as a business. The
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
Yes and no, at least in the USA. Thanks to companies rug-pulling with RTO, the populace won’t leave cities again this generation regardless of how cheap other places might be; we have to stay near the place of employment, and those are pred
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
At this point I’m fairly convinced Stripe is Paypal 2.0, at least in spirit: * Turns a blind eye to misdeeds on its platform * Locks out adult creators/vendors after taking their money * Is ubiquitous, but not well liked I love that St
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
This is an excellent post for folks just getting into the homeownership racket: what is pitched as a necessity for wealth creation and an “easy” transaction with nothing but upsides is - unsurprisingly - a nuanced and complicated financial
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
I keep seeing variations of “okay but this will be temporary” or “this is a one off” or “they’ll relent eventually, they have no choice” in response to the EU’s (and to a lesser extent, global) divorce from US tech stacks. You cannot unring
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
I was a doubter until COVID. Then I built a habit of 30 to 60+ minutes of walking a day, ~1.5 to 5mi depending on length and pace. Geez , the amount of stuff I got done, problems I solved, and general boost to well-being I achieved was los
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
Frustratingly, these attitudes have been around long before LLMs, and they'll continue to exist long after. To those individuals who have staunchly refused to broaden their horizons or empathize with their fellow man, these posts are
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
I mean, I think that's a noble position to take; I share it, to a significant degree. The problem is when you start getting into the nuance of the modern world, where everywhere has a record of who you are, what you've done, wher
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
Given the gargantuan amount of data showing productivity relative to wage gains, or productivity relative to time worked, or productivity relative to physical office proximity, and the absolute staunch refusal of business to listen to an
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
It's just sparkling xenophobia. Forcing a return to one's home country to apply for a Green Card can frequently remove the very qualifiers one has to getting said Green Card. Just take a look at the categories of Green Cards av
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
I'm right there with you, and it's why I go to great pains to articulate the entirety of my position on immigration when I get into these sorts of debates. The simpler someone's position on immigration is, the less they un
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by stego-tech 5mo ago
I mean, that's the correct short-term read, but if LLMs in hyperscalers remain commercially viable to the point of tying up memory for several years, and if that necessitates an expansion of memory fabrication to satiate unmet dema

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