Don’t really care about the drama, but I can appreciate this:

this is exactly why we do open source. when a closed product or exclusive channel is used as leverage, the correct response is to remove the leverage.

I want to see community DCs like we have community gardens. Municipal plots for hobby computing or offsite subsistance storage.

I won’t say VPSs don’t have their utility, but anyone framing it as an alternative to owning a PC is completely DeLuLu and need their head examined.

I’ve been trying using a VPS entirely as a development box. Something that has my entire development environment in it. Then I can just SSH to it from wherever and always have my workspace ready where I left off in tmux.

It has it’s pros and cons. But it’s definitely not a crazy idea. In fact it’s a pretty old idea.

Even game streaming has gotten some traction. And when GPUs all cost $4k, maybe GeForce streaming isn’t a bad financial choice.

I likely won’t be using it, but I can appreciate any Reddit alternatives.

bash: Rm: command not found

No, your logic that it’s okay to use if you’re not an expert with the topic. You notice the errors on subjects you’re knowledgeable about. That does not mean those errors don’t happen on things you aren’t knowledgeable about. It just means you don’t know enough to recognize them.

Problem is, LLMs are amazing the vast majority of the time. Especially if you’re asking about something you’re not educated or experienced with.

Don’t you see the problem with that logic?

Damn, I gotta watch that movie again.

It’s just that all your shit and users are there, like issue tracking in this case.

The original blog post is rather frank and to the point. Wish the engineering leadership I worked with communicated this well.

I think when the economics of destroying a thing is better than reusing a thing, we should maybe have some sort of incentives toward reuse.

I get that the logistics of setting up what’s basically a secondary supply chain is difficult, but I’ve got to believe it would be for the better.

That’s really disheartening. Not because of my want for cheap RAM, but for the sheer waste of it all.

For example, OpenAI’s new “Stargate” project reportedly signed deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month to feed its AI clusters, which is an amount close to 40% of total global DRAM output if it’s ever met. That’s an absurd amount of DRAM.

Will these even be useful on the second hand market, or are these chips gonna be on specialized PCBs for these machines?

Lots of neat uncomfortable questions arise though. At what point is it conscious? If it never experienced autonomy, life, locomotion, or social human interaction, is it torture or just its natural state of being?

Not thermoelectrics, but sterling engines. But fair point about the heat.

In the UK, large stocks of civil nuclear waste contain significant quantities of americium-241. That makes the fuel not only long-lasting but also readily accessible. Instead of building new reactors to produce plutonium, agencies can extract Americium from existing waste, a form of recycling at a planetary scale.

Using it seems way more preferable to just letting it sit in casks.

Traditional RTGs utilize thermoelectrics, which are reliable but inefficient, often achieving only five percent efficiency. Stirling engines can convert heat to electricity with an efficiency of 25 percent or more. […] Stirling engines introduce moving parts, which also raises reliability concerns in space. However, Americium’s steady heat output enables RTG designs with multiple Stirling converters operating in tandem. If one fails, the others compensate, preserving power output.

That seems a little ridiculous though. All that friction requires a lube that’ll last “generations.” In space, without gravity, and at incredibly low temperatures.

GitCoin exists and has been pretty successful in the past.

Though I suspect it’s not what you’re looking for. I don’t see bounties on their site anymore and their focus has been mostly in the crypto space.

Yeah but like, if humans aren’t dying there’s no stakes. Eventually one robot army must chew through the other to get to the human soldiers or civilians. Then you just eventually just have a robot army massacring a populous with no internal morality.

The bill text of SB-212 seems pretty reasonable. Basically just says the government needs a good reason to create regulations on computation.

It even explicitly mentions good reasons may include things like fraud, deepfakes, and public nuisances of datacenters.

As a Montanan, I’m cool with it. Guess we’ll see how it’s used.

I’d rather be a free and open society than win any kind of industrial race.