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by yellowapple 3mo ago
Just got the email announcement this morning: > AI music generation tools are changing how music is created and distributed. As this technology evolves, Tidal is introducing platform standards to protect artists, their craft, and inform
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
I'm quite alright with that can of worms being opened for software. Enthused, even.
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
I pity the fools who don't have compose keys for all their em—dash and “smart quote” needs.
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
> How often do you off-road and need 4WD? These are two separate questions. I off-road an average of once a month, specifically to reach my usual shooting spot on BLM-maintained land. I don't necessarily need 4WD for that, but it&#
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
I see non-EV Broncos everywhere here in Reno, and I also see EVs everywhere here in Reno. I would therefore expect to see EV Broncos everywhere here in Reno if they existed in the US market. I also in particular see Cybertrucks and Rivian
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
> The Ford CEO is not wrong. Allowing foreign imports into the country at prices far below what US producers are able to make will decimate the local car industry in the US. The local car industry in the US is doing that to itself by dra
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
Giant pickups have silly sales because pickups in general have silly sales and there are basically zero non-giant options in the US market (thanks, Chicken Tax, very cool). The Slate would be the absolute perfect truck for me if it had a 4W
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
The Unix/Linux desktop world has had compose keys for multiple decades now for that exact sort of thing. <Compose> + <=> + </> = ≠, <Compose> + <~> + <~> = ≈, <Compose> + <^> + <
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
It's almost exactly what I want out of a truck… except I'm no longer seeing non-RWD options (could've sworn there used to be a 4WD option; did I hallucinate that or are they just not showing it anymore?).
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
> American SUVs and trucks are enormous in both height and weight. That has nothing to do with actual consumer preference and everything to do with regulatory capture.
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
That depends a lot on the state. I hear in Utah it's very easy to register a kei truck/van as street-legal. Here in Nevada it's quite the opposite, at least according to those I've talked to who've attempted it.
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
Funny enough, Mexico's borders on this globe ain't far off from where they were before the Mexican-American War.
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
Good languages borrow, great languages steal?
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
> That is the definition of a dialect. I dunno, some English dialects don't seem particularly intelligible to me, and I'm a natively fluent speaker of it.
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
Have we invaded China?
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
> In this report, we describe two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from China that we banned after they used our models in support of apparent covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulat
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
It seems maybe I should be prepping the tinfoil after all, if OpenAI is to be believed (given their material interests, their claims should of course be taken with a datacenter-sized grain of salt): https://openai.com/index&
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
Power density is the exact metric by which datacenters are differentiated between “hyperscalar” (i.e. what most people call “AI datacenters”) v. your run-of-the-mill colocation DC. Also: a flat MW cap per DC is straightforward to game by sp
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
No, because that's per datacenter, not per datacenter-acre. I'll give them partial credit for trying, but a 5-acre 20MW datacenter and a 50-acre 20MW datacenter are not going to have equivalent use cases or local impacts, and tha
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
> You don’t even acknowledge that this will have a real material impact negative impact on people who are not tech workers. Of course I don't acknowledge that, for the same reason I don't acknowledge the “real material negative
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
Orbital datacenters are still hypothetical, at best. In any case: >They don't need to be situated anywhere near their customers They are situated “near” their customers… assuming those customers are also Starlink customers. That&
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
Datacenters (even the new ones being built today) do a lot more than just AI, though. If the goal is to push back on AI, a moratorium specifically on datacenters rated for more than X megawatts or more than Y acre-feet of daily water per a
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
That's easy enough to fix by charging datacenters at a higher rate than residential customers. Most electrical utility companies already have separate residential/industrial/commercial rates, specifically to prevent large-sc
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
Shorter employee commutes? Shorter last-mile shipping distances? Lower latency to/from local customers? Closer proximity to points of intersection of fiber backbones? Closer proximity to existing electrical/water/sewer in
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by yellowapple 4mo ago
Here in Reno the city council imposed a similar moratorium, buckling under a deluge of NIMBY pressure, citing talking points that are obvious bullshit to anyone who's actually set foot in any of the dozen or so existing local datacente
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by yellowapple 5mo ago
Which then, inexplicably, pulls left-justify as a recursive dependency.
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by yellowapple 5mo ago
The lessons in that book have broadly held true for nearly every single one of my employers throughout the entirety of my career.
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by yellowapple 5mo ago
A single datacenter having the requisite power to travel back to 1955 many times over seems pretty meaningful to me.
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by yellowapple 5mo ago
Your word for “competent” seems to be my word for “irresponsible”. A failure in that “line-of-business backoffice code” is exactly the sort of thing that'd cause irreparable damage in terms of regulatory compliance (and, you know, the
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by yellowapple 5mo ago
When I was a kid my stepdad was big into amateur rocketry, so we'd go to a lot of launches, including at Black Rock. One of them (could've swore it was LDRS, but given the timeline it would've had to have been XPRS or maybe

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