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SO STOP FUCKING HOOKING UP LLMS TO EVERYTHING YOU FUCKING MORONS!!!

> I went out to enjoy the Half Moon Bay 4th of July parade, occasionally checking in and prompting the next step for Fable from my phone. This intensification of work will not be g…

The AI labs are racing to create a moat out of trillion-parameter models and the GPUs that can run them. The problem is this is the wrong architecture for most AI inference use cas…

They have proven to the world they have a deterrent akin to a nuclear weapon, but they can actually use it.

And if \ was an alias for C:\ this would just be \mountdir.

Or just use sane names like \\MyDivision\Share01\MyData and mount that to \Network\Share01 or some such.

Nonsense. You can mount filesystems to mount points in much the same way as is done in Unix. No one would ever need to do that.

It’s arcane and technical for no reason. /Users/ME/Documents, /Media/MyThumbDrive/…, etc. are much clearer and less confusing than C:\…

No, they need to ditch drive letters first. The NT kernel and NTFS don't even require them (I used to mount disks without drive letters back in the NT 4 era). They just don't care …

And how do you keep capitalists from capturing the instruments of justice and subverting them to punish their enemies?

Discusses the concept of Market Socialism, which is a hybrid system meant to avoid the worst aspects of both Socialist and Capitalist systems, while putting the goal of human fulfi…

It's actually a bit faster than that now it seems, about 112 tok/sec. Configuration: Gemma 4 31B Instruct Q6K Context size 40960 LM Studio 0.4.13+1 Metal llama.cpp v2.14.0 LM Studi…

Not sure where 40 tokens per second is coming from. I’ve seen 95-100 tokens per second on M5 Max 128GB running Gemma 4 31B. I’ve done experiments where it is faster than Claude Opu…

Ultimately, information is a public good: it is non-excludable (you can’t stop people from using it) and it is non-rival (we can all use it at the same time). Public goods are ofte…

Calculating hourly costs for these models makes me think that the decision of when to hire an SWE vs. increase use of AI may follow a similar pattern to the decision to use cloud c…

I would be very surprised if they can scale hiring contractors to reliably renovate buildings.

If you start buying minis, then you need to house, power, and cool them. So you are building a mini data center. If you are building a small data center, economies of scale will dr…

I recently stopped using Backblaze after a decade because it was using over 20GB of RAM on my machine. I also realized that I mostly wanted it for backing up old archival data that…

I’ve recently switched from Minio and Localstack to Garage. For my needs (local testing) Garage seems to be fine. It’s a bit more heavyweight and capable than I need now, but I lik…

I think the major reason for the aggressive price point of the Neo, and for not raising RAM and SSD upgrade prices in the MBP much, is that Apple is willing to give up some hardwar…

What would China do to such billionaires run amok?

And here I was hoping they would put an M5 Ultra in a MacBook Pro. Maybe they will add it as an option to the 16” at a later date.

It’s fun, but also tiring, watching people come to the same conclusions Marx did from first principles, over, and over again.

I kind of agree with you, but on macOS I still don’t have to ever think about drivers. The hardware just works. Linux isn’t quite there yet. My work XPS laptop running Ubuntu is cl…