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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
If you want to build a house you still need plans. Would you rather cut boards by hand or have a power saw. Would you rather pound nails, pilot hole with a bit and brace and put in flat head screws... or would you want a nail gun and an imp
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
> Typing 'Find me reservations at X restaurant' and getting unformatted text back is way worse than just going to OpenTable and seeing a UI that has been honed for decades. Your conflating the example with the opportunity: &quo
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
Admiral Grace Hopper is famous for using a length of wire to explain to others what a nanosecond was. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pentagon-embraces-musks-g... Data centers in space make absolute sense when
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
> Consumer can eat all the GPUs they have and more if we stop trying to force B2B You should really crunch the numbers on buying and then running enough compute to run a leading edge model. The economics of buying it (never mind running
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
> We used tech without letting it own us. This was, and is, a personal choice. You can call me a judas goat if you want for spending my whole life building the things I would not use, but that is the nature of the game.
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
For some context: Nvidia: GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 74.8% and 75.0%, Micron: MU (Micron Technology) Gross Margin % as of today (January 28, 2026) is 56.04%
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
"Abominable Intelligence" I cant wait till the church starts tithing us mear flesh bags for forgiveness in the face of Roko's Basilisk.
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
> Current LLMs/ViTs have non-zero probability of producing something unsafe Show me on the LLM where the "unsafe" result is that doesn't already exist inside its training data set? Go ahead I will wait.
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ... Then, years later every one acts like Snowden had some big reveal. There is the old password for candy bar study: https://blog.tmb.co.uk/passwords-for-chocola
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
> Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. There is another side to this coin: jury nullification. The fact that, most Americans, are unaware of the concept, or that it is a choice they can make is one of the tr
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
> Or rich people owning more vacation homes. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAHORUSQ156S Home ownership rates have a 6 percent variance over the last ~50 years. We dont have a housing problem in America, we hav
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by zer00eyz 9mo ago
> because they’re so airtight they require expensive mechanical ventilation and make-up air systems unless you want indoor air pollution problems. Most modern homes have this issue. Building science has driven them to be air tight bubble
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by zer00eyz 10mo ago
Its not Go price out a used 1l form factor PC. After you buy a case, and a real disk, the pi, cost savings is gone. Meanwhile you can pick up a used 8th gen intel 1L form factor for about 100 bucks. You can pick up one that will take a PICE
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by zer00eyz 10mo ago
There is a reason why "the oldest profession" is a polite idiom for prostitution. Calling it "parasocial", doesn't change what it is, but the technology as a mediator does. And society has been feeding on itself sin
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by zer00eyz 10mo ago
If this were another industry... I don't know why people build houses with nail guns, I like my hammer... Whats the point of building a house if you're not going to pound the nails in yourself. AI tooling is great at getting all t
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by zer00eyz 10mo ago
> Once again I am reminded of the circular nature of money flowing around in this economy. Its called the velocity of money, its a thing see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money The problem is that there
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
> Chip fabs used to be like book publishers; I can still make a book like that in my basement. People do this as a hobby now. You can still build chips like that in your garage. People do this as a hobby now. These things DO NOT SCALE...
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
Go back to the 1990's, Gibson publishes Virtual Light that predicts that the bay bridge would be one massive homeless encampment. It was clear 30 ish years ago to him how it would turn out. It might be appalling but it should not be sh
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
> There are plenty of houses. Are there? Home ownership is a functional unmovable number in the USA: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAHORUSQ156S The problem is that we only have plenty of houses... that are und
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
> Just how sure are we the AI bubble is the entire reason for these absurd prices? We're not, and market dictates that they don't have to talk to know to jack up the prices. This ram price spike is leading Nvidia reporting for
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
See: The dot com boom and its recovery into Web 2.0 It was so pervasive at the time that the references to it spilled over into SF Bay Area hip hop culture...
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
Meanwhile you have the credit card processors, and traditional banks. These will often refuse or vastly over charge perfectly legal business that they have a "moral" objection to. This is by design. Dammed if you do, and dammed if
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
> Running docker inside LXC is weird. Knowing when to use a vm and when to use a container is sometimes an opaque problem. This is one of those cases where a VM is a much better choice.
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
I'm not sure I would want my daily driver to be a hypervisor... Whats controlling audio, do I really need audio kernel extensions on my hypervisor? Whos in charge when I shut the lid on my laptop... But the moment you stop trying to do
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
This may have more to do with your underlying hardware than proxmox itself. It's been forever, but to do passthrough you need proper bios support and configuration.
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
Vertical integration has ZERO to do with any sort of market dominance. A company could be vertically integrated, and have a small portion of the market. A company could be a full on monopoly and have little to no vertical integration. YKK p
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
On the surface this is an interesting concept... The paper however, meh... No mention of MoE. One would think this is a logical evolution of that but not a mention (that I saw). Its own rubric for the task, Towers of Hanoi, was admittedly w
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
https://idealfastener.com/zippers/ Also makes great zippers. They are more vertically integrated than most of their other competitors.
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by zer00eyz 11mo ago
> Vertical integration is, in general, bad for competition and often bad for consumers. This is a gross misunderstanding of what vertical integration is. YKK zippers makes an unbeatable product because of vertical integration. A lack of
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by zer00eyz 1y ago
> bad decisions from the last 50 Some of these "bad decisions" are ignoring the old systems, and ways. The hubris of "modernization" as better. The water systems of old Iran are fascinating, and well covered if you hu

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