ipdashc

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by ipdashc 9d ago
Reading this was a relief, I've only got a hobbyist's knowledge of impedance matching in the electrical sense and felt like I was going crazy... Good to know I'm not alone
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by ipdashc 9d ago
Hm, it seems like it'd make sense to automate a script to send one small prompt at, say, 7 or 8am so that you get your reset around noon instead of having to wait until 5h or more into the workday. I never quite understood why they pic
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by ipdashc 11d ago
Sure, that's much more feasible, but there's no real point. We don't do this for any other kind of industrial infrastructure (except the kind that HAS to go in residential areas, like utility substations). It's like the
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by ipdashc 12d ago
> They should be underground (that’s not shockingly expensive at the scale we talk about) ... I'm not sure you realize the size of a modern hyperscale datacenter? They're pretty dang big. The amount of earthmoving to bury one w
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by ipdashc 12d ago
People in my area are complaining about data centers being built in rural fields and on former aluminum plant and power plant sites. The debate has become pretty detached from reality. What remains rooted in reality mostly comes down to ele
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by ipdashc 15d ago
Wow, greebling is a good metaphor for it that I never would have thought of. > "every pod has a machine" Everything you mentioned is annoying, but I think this one is the worst. I don't know why it loves slapping on meanin
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by ipdashc 15d ago
Yeah, I know, I agree with all this. I'm still saying that if your entire argument for the absolutely giant section of society that drives into cities for work, which includes the rich, the poor, the disabled, those with large families
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by ipdashc 15d ago
> Congestion pricing is one of the few policy ideas that's so overwhelmingly positive that even the people who try to argue against it end up strengthening the argument. Love it. > "What about all the people who need to driv
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by ipdashc 16d ago
I think that this is true to some extent, but that people often underestimate how much Discord and group chats get used compared to "traditional" (feels weird calling it that, in this context) social media.
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by ipdashc 17d ago
I feel like he is. VM breakouts are vastly rarer than kernel LPEs, aren't they?
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by ipdashc 17d ago
> I'd also be interested in seeing where you do and don't agree I agree that society more or less eventually needs to get to the sort of state you're describing, or at least something resembling it. It should be plainly
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by ipdashc 17d ago
> it's not actually obvious who's running these bots This is fascinating to me. It's a large enough phenomenon that it's affecting the entire Internet and yet nobody seems to know yet who's actually doing it. Whi
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by ipdashc 21d ago
"Critiquing the current system" on its own is nearly useless. Literally everyone can do it. Yes, articulating a more workable system is hard, that's why it's actually meaningful.
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by ipdashc 21d ago
Thank you, now this is a solid answer. I don't think I agree with everything in it entirely, but it's well written and certainly gives me a lot to think about.
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by ipdashc 21d ago
Yes, we've all heard this a million times. I'm afraid you've still given zero actual solution or even anything approaching one. "A radical break" okay, a radical break from what? How? To do what differently?
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by ipdashc 21d ago
> and it simply got replaced by more time on HackerNews and YouTube I don't disagree with you at all, but doesn't this go against what most people are claiming in this thread (that Meta products are uniquely engineered to be
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by ipdashc 21d ago
> I just wish people being cynical would at least comment on possible solutions. This has been bugging me damn near every time people talk about this stuff. Any attempt to propose or even discuss a solution is met with an endless wave of
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by ipdashc 21d ago
Fair enough. Thank you!
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by ipdashc 21d ago
> GenP (Adobe) and Massgrave MAS (anything Microsoft) It's questionable whether those two companies care that much about piracy, they make most of their money off enterprise, right? For a while I heard it theorized that Adobe and
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by ipdashc 21d ago
Looks dope, though I'm surprised, is Tailscale fine with their DERP servers being used by non-customers like this? (Yes, it's a Tailscale project, but doesn't require login.) I vaguely assumed there was an auth step before yo
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by ipdashc 23d ago
> Today, though, almost everyone carries either a contactless credit card or a phone with an NFC wallet. I would pay $0.25 for access to a clean public toilet if I could swipe one of those instead of having to carry change. This is one o
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by ipdashc 25d ago
I more or less just wrote "never say stuff like 'good insight' or 'you're right to push back', and avoid addressing me directly, just answer questions". I'm sure there's better ways to write it,
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by ipdashc 25d ago
There is a wide gulf between not caring about your work at all and getting angry about it. Plenty of us care about our work and the projects we own, we want them to be solid and will stand up to defend them. None of that requires getting an
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by ipdashc 25d ago
I'd seen it around but assumed it was an effect of how you prompt it or something. And figured people were overexaggerating a bit when they complained about it. Nope, I just tried it out myself recently and... wow. In the very first co
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by ipdashc 27d ago
I mean, having said what I said, we are literally in a thread about the future of mathematics being in question because LLMs are solving advanced problems. I feel like the "stochastic parrot" meme is a bit outdated by now. The bot
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by ipdashc 28d ago
Someone just brought up this point to me a few days ago on here, I'm definitely increasingly convinced that it's one of the main reasons (maybe even the main reason?) AI prose is so annoying to read through, and so rarely seems ab
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by ipdashc 29d ago
> I wonder why it had to be built near so many people I can't read the link either, but at a glance, the first one wasn't. It's in clearly industrial land a long way from any houses, with its closest neighbors as far as
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by ipdashc 29d ago
> If it's not worth it, the people doing it will go out of business In general I agree (and many environmentalists and such undervalue the fact that environmental waste often correlates with wasted money), but I don't think thi
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by ipdashc 29d ago
> the developers churning out agent work on supergigaultramax effort are fulfilling the transitive preferences of people like supply chain managers, etc. Sure, but that's the crux of it all, isn't it. Are they? And are they doi
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by ipdashc 29d ago
> All of the datacenter usage (for inference) is just serving something people want. I agree with this in principle, but I wonder how asymmetric the usage is. When I hear about developers dropping $200/mo (subsidized!) on AI coding,

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