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by api 1mo ago
Is it actually decentralized or is bluesky protocol services in the middle?
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by api 1mo ago
They're invaluable for developers to fix their code. This is definitely an area where AI decisively beats human devs in a very valuable way. It can try so much surface area so fast. If it won't attack my stuff, it won't help
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by api 1mo ago
It's dumb and feels astroturfed. My pet speculation: existing data center owners want to prevent more data center construction to boost the value of their assets. I ran some numbers on energy use a while back. In general: if you skip o
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by api 1mo ago
I challenge people to look at some numbers here. Is it possibly excessive? Yes. But this is insane hyperbole. Of course that's how you get attention, I guess. Rational discourse is ignored. To get people to pay attention you have to ma
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by api 1mo ago
If you go back in time and imagine yourself in 1950, would you have said that about computers in general? Yes their decisions are the result of pre programmed heuristics, but to the operator that can feel as opaque as AI. In fact in the ear
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by api 1mo ago
That was the joke. Will it lecture you on white replacement?
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by api 1mo ago
That is true of all tools. AI is a tool. A tool provides leverage. It does not make a bad craftsperson good.
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by api 1mo ago
Already happened: SEO, spam, all conversation moving to closed silos and social platforms. AI is maybe the last few nails in the coffin but the guy inside was already dead.
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by api 1mo ago
Indirect side effect of the fact that you can build things in Texas.
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by api 1mo ago
It does a pretty good job being put into a loop of "try to optimize for X" then "test and audit your code" then repeat.
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by api 1mo ago
This is great. The error it highlights would work for anything. The Earth is on the back of a large turtle. Prove me wrong. Most of the arguments you hear will be deeply flawed. Therefore we are on the back of a giant turtle.
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by api 1mo ago
Something that comes to mind right away is: the cloud will eliminate the complexity of managing OSes and hardware. Instead it moved it to the complexity of devops and complicated cloud APIs.
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by api 1mo ago
I wonder how this compares to other fields. Whenever you have a market like this, there's a giant incentive for fraud, and the more people cheat the stronger the incentive gets to the point that you lose if you don't cheat. That b
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by api 1mo ago
I know. I'm saying that overall I don't believe it's that overvalued. Specific things may be overvalued. I suspect data center real estate is a bubble, for instance.
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by api 1mo ago
I've been incubating a heresy for years: the free software movement was actually counterproductive. It helped kill user-focused autonomous privacy-respecting personal computing. It created a tech environment where there is no money in
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by api 1mo ago
After using it a bit I’m convinced it’s not, as a whole, a bubble. Bubbles exist around it. Data center construction may end up overbuilding, much like the dark fiber thing during dot.com, since better chips and models will shrink power and
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by api 1mo ago
Oh nonsense. Energy is energy. It would be hard to decarbonize long haul trucking and aviation, which together account for less than ten percent of global oil use. Almost everything else can be powered by other things. Might have been true
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by api 1mo ago
Stop the system and miserable people will blame that for why they’re miserable. “Remember the good old days?” Hate urban modern life? Leave then. Lots of places to go live more simply.
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by api 1mo ago
I used to be a libertarian-capitalist type. The big thing that disabused me of this idea is that I also love technology and progress, and I'm not a sociopath. I increasingly believe that if we really do want to keep moving forward fast
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by api 1mo ago
Me? Probably not. A business or a hoster, sure. There'd probably end up being an aftermarket in used cartridges with slightly older but still good models on them.
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by api 1mo ago
I've had an endgame idea in mind for a while. Models, probably first open weight ones like Kimi K3 class, are etched into silicon like this and sold as cartridges almost like old school game cartridges. You buy a USB-C dongle that the
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by api 1mo ago
Thus my "blasphemous" comment.
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by api 1mo ago
Someone should do the blasphemous thing and have Opus 5 finish HURD. Actually in all seriousness reviving dead interesting FOSS projects is one use for AI coding I've thought about.
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by api 1mo ago
It’s all very obvious hysteria that parodies itself loudly. It’s also a big con. Andrew Tate might be an abuser of women but his big marks are men. Look at how much money he makes selling that BS to insecure guys. That was his whole schtick
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by api 1mo ago
This sounds like either an extremely bad experience or an account from many years ago. Things are better now. Also like I said: physically racking only makes sense if you are huge. Managed bare metal is a whole market category and it’s spec
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by api 1mo ago
It’s always a spreadsheet decision. Seems like people missed the end of what I wrote though. We run some bare metal but do not physically handle it. There’s many companies who will rent huge boxes with good connectivity in a data center. Da
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by api 1mo ago
Submit this for an IgNobel. It’s also funny cause it’s mocking this BS in such a good natured wonderfully overdone way. Guy in my college house who got laid the most was on the shorter side, poor, and kind of acted effeminate at times to th
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by api 1mo ago
Small or overly quantized LLMs are a genre of humor. Same goes for small image generators. Janky generative AI is like the Geocities web pages of today.
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by api 1mo ago
I always mention this in these discussions: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every... It's housing prices.
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by api 1mo ago
You are 100% correct but you’d be shocked at the mortal terror that “self hosting” inflicts in the minds of even people who should really know better. Also forget Dell. Check out DataPacket.com and other metal hosters. You don’t need to phy

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