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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 believ…

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.

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 s…

Thus my "blasphemous" comment.

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…

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 …

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.…

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…

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 sho…

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.

I always mention this in these discussions: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every... It's housing prices.

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 D…

Say you are spending $1M. Round up. Or even 0.9M. Their sales might only return inquiries with cloud costs ending in M.

When corporations grow to a certain size, they become banks. The same thing kind of happens to industries when they get dominated by a few large players. The large players are bank…

Fine. Sci-fi is a broad genre that intersects at the edges with fantasy, alternate history, magic realism, and all kinds of other very imaginative styles. The hard/soft axis is fuz…

So many Americans don't understand that these two "branches" of the Muslim world are at odds as much if not more than Israel and the Muslim world. That whole region is a mess of de…

Not only that, but we are searching time as well as space. Let say our civilization lasts for a million years. That's a blip. We are searching across tens to hundreds of light-year…

They're doing great if you're on the beneficiary side: oil companies, defense contractors, the Trump family, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc. All that is at the expense of the res…

You can build your own a lot more cheaply now especially if you only want storage. There’s some canned distros and control panels for it. If the storage doesn’t need to be fast a n…

Every invention is made of other inventions all the way back to big rock and sharp stick. So yes Bayesian spam filtering was impressive for its time. I remember it being done local…

It’s declined in quality too but not as sharply as Reddit or the cess pools of the rest of social media.

Before: most code programmers write is thrown away. Most products fail. Now: most code LLMs write is thrown away. Most products fail. Knowing what to build and how at the high leve…

Photography was not the end of painting. It was, however, a blow to painting as a vocation where a lot of your work was in the form of portrait painting.

Tangential to the main article point but… The energy density scatter plot is physically correct but misleading and everyone makes this mistake. From an engineering point of view yo…