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by yellowapple 1mo ago
That's indeed one of many reasons why I'm staunchly pro-UBI.
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
> Like, now with the advent of AI, or even before? My disdain for intellectual property predates the existence of LLMs by at least a decade.
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
> Who decides which artists get subsidized? The easy answer is to just pay literally everyone. This is called a “universal basic income”, and has been repeatedly demonstrated to be a good idea for many reasons besides decoupling creativ
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
The government can already do that if it so chooses, given that the government is the singular reason why any corporation is able to exist as an independent legal entity in the first place (as opposed to a bunch of individual persons coll
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
That, too, is something for which I've been advocating for quite some time now.
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
Correct, and if it wasn't already obvious by now I believe that to be an unambiguously good thing.
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
> That notion only applies to patents and trademarks You literally just gave an example above of that notion applying to copyright. There's no mere “seem like” at play here: the litigious music IP owners suing the pants off of musi
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
> If you're being paid to deliver code that means you're being paid to grant certain rights to that code. For the vast majority of code people are paid to write (certainly the near-entirety of the code I've been paid to
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
> Once this line of reasoning gets applied to code, all hell will break loose. The notion of “your work is too similar to mine so I get to take ownership of it from you” is a very recent invention that has done more harm than good to hum
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
Makes sense to me. AI models are trained on (as large of a subset as possible of) the sum of human knowledge, so their outputs should belong to humanity as a whole. Really so should all creative works, on the same basis of all creative exp
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
From what I can tell, HP's non-invasive BIOS recovery options are very model-dependent, and even models which do allegedly support recovery reportedly refuse to boot into recovery mode for some folks. But yes, Dell is the outlier that
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by yellowapple 1mo ago
Any other laptop is going to have the same risk of a failed BIOS flash, and will likely require the same degree of manual intervention to fix. That the replacement process entails swapping (and potentially upgrading, as I did in this exact
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
> For the setup price alone of a low-end home lab1, you could buy several years of a paid subscription to one of the AI providers. The power costs would come out to around $50-$300 per month, depending on how much inference you’re runnin
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Run it with a self-hosted model on a gaming PC running off a solar panel and UPS.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Or Trident, which was (and maybe still is?) Joyent's flagship product in the private cloud space.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Not just limited RAM, but limited RAM bandwidth, which seems like it would make this particularly painful on the N64 (ironic, given that the in-file README says that this came about specifically to support porting a game to the N64). That
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
I've been resuming work on a Zig library for developing N64 homebrew¹. Previous milestone was getting a framebuffer onto the screen, and after achieving that I took an overly-long break. Current goal, which I've been working on f
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
The obvious solution here (besides, like you say, requiring datacenter electricity to be from 100% renewable sources) is to just charge datacenters more for electricity, such that they offset their impact on demand. That's exactly wha
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Companies have been building and selling clones of Nintendo consoles for many years now. I suspect if Nintendo had a legal angle against this they would've exercised it a long time ago.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
I've been on-and-off writing a Zig library for writing N64 games and it's indeed pretty wild how getting working code was as simple as telling the compiler to use LLVM's MIPS III target. Of course, getting working code that a
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
While I agree with you, I think it's interesting that LLMs have progressed enough to be able to write working code even for niche and heavily-constrained platforms like the N64. I'm sure it helps that modern toolchains make that
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
The “development” version of that is even crazier: it's a very tiny signed bootloader that does nothing but copies the “real” bootloader into memory, then trampolines into it, such that even developing your own IPL3 doesn't requir
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
> It's very easy to make lazy, shallow dismissals that leaders like Dario/Demis/Sam are acting purely out of self-interest. It's very easy to make those dismissals because of how transparently obvious it is that self-
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
The obvious solution here is for datacenter buildouts to include the power generation necessary for them to operate. Here in Nevada that's exactly what quite a few of the larger datacenter companies (Switch, Google, Apple, etc.) have
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
You don't specifically need beef or almonds in order to live. Even small reductions in the consumption of either would entirely offset datacenter water use.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
A lot of datacenters are built in / under / adjacent to office buildings.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
I have multiple answers, since I routinely use multiple machines: - Primary desktop (custom-built): NixOS + Windows 11 (latter currently unbootable because installing NixOS nuked Windows' UEFI; whoops lmao) - Primary laptop (Framework
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Looks nice. Curious about the software; is it running Android or something more exotic? Custom app support? Custom firmware support?
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
The UK can surely afford it. If not, then surely they can require the datacenters themselves to foot the bill.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
If every American skipped a single burger per year, that'd entirely offset the combined water use of all American datacenters. Datacenters, in other words, do not consume all that much water in the grand scheme of things. There are ma

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