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Just convince the auto industry to use USB cables for electric car charging!

My desktop “server” with two 4K monitors doesn’t even reach 240W !

If only McDonalds charges $20 for a burger instead of $10, people will go elsewhere.

If everyone charges $20 for a burger, people will still go to McDonalds. In such a state, no individual place would dare charge $10 again. Why cut revenue to nearly half? It’s not like they have the capacity to sell 20x the usual volume…

I’m not convinced that basic economics works when output capacity isn’t fully scalable.

Same reason no lawn care team tries to deeply undercut competitors - they can only mow so many! (Barring that they hire more helpers)

Name one thing cheaper than it was 6 years ago…

Hasn’t Ken Shirriff been doing this for quite a while? (:->

Silly question but how does a 4m aperture focused onto a smaller area not concentrate the heat and melt the instruments?

I’ve always wondered how hard it’s logging/uploading data for autocomplete/spellcheck…

Managing a single commodity device is pretty simple. Could even be a shell script with a few IPMI commands.

Managing 100s of devices from a mix of vendors is possible becomes itself a massive ball of crap to stick all the pieces together.

Then add firmware management because now there is a plethora of firmware updates to worry about.

And then dealing with networking discovery & orchestration for such setups is an added horror few even try to visualize.

Then abstract all these differences away so one can provision two different vendor’s servers connected to two different vendor’s managed switches in different racks to a new VLAN. And do it with SR-IOV while you’re at it…

Oh, I forgot shared storage… details, details…

Commodity computing is the modern day Tower of Babel.

Yes, it can be done much simpler if one treats all switches as unmanaged, all storage as local, and all networking as flat. That’s just not acceptable for a lot of use cases though…

There has to have been more going on, it sure doesn’t add up - unless Ebay was run by a group of cruel Kindergarteners..

At every place I’ve worked, the employees likely had worse thoughts, at least at times, than anything an outsider could publish about the company.

I don’t get it. Were there revisions or optional features of v1.2?

I thought the 1.2 spec was the frozen spec.

I suspect they were thrilled at the prospect of a better made product (not encumbered by historical baggage) that cost less, had a lower friction sales process, made by a company actively trying to win them over.

Wonder if the subconscious could simply be another LLM with a higher temperature setting…

Have long thought that creativity is little more than a finely tuned filter driven by noise…

Oil paint would be a bit more controversial if it painted the picture all by itself…

I’ve seen this too and it’s darkly humorous.

We published 1-2 releases of our component each month. Eventually another (internal) team would pick it up along with others, test, and release the combined set maybe 1-2 times a year.

Customers being extremely risk adverse never wanted to update, due to risk of changes combined with the interruption, even though we were fixing serious bugs left and right from the earlier rushed development.

We’d get escalations on things that were fixed years ago.

Probably should have spent another 3-5 years getting the first release in better shape instead of spending 3-5 years flinging flaming turds to the paying customers.

The executives slowly released they inexplicably lost half the business compared to the previous generation as upstart competitors stole their market share.

You know that famous “how shit happens” tale? I’m pretty sure each layer of management was telling the next how powerful the product was… few could abide by it.

At some point, it becomes hard to assert “we are NOT going to test the product the way a customer would actually use it”

Imagine paying $100/year for the privilege of running homemade software on your desktop computer…

Aside from Apple, running homemade software on a phone was free of cost, even back in the days of Motorola flip phones running Java…

Quite true.

Our own individual ancestors were not perfect people. But we only exist today because they survived.

Wow, never considered the possibility of a “flood” mode for traceroute. This is hilarious !

Or an exceedingly rare random bit flip very subtly altered the simulated physics behavior…

and Donald Rumsfeld (;->

Isn’t China doing something like this ?

Wonder if it could degrade to something worse than the status quo where reputations are falsely tarnished by competitors purely as a weapon to get ahead…

The problem is that knowledge in a LLM is separated in the mathematical sense (vector direction) but not necessarily meaningfully grouped in the matrix (would be easier to split between disk/memory) if such.

I think a rough analog is that it would be difficult to organize the rows of a hash table of everybody in a country by their geographic location.

At this point, people are just thrilled LLMs can even function as they do…

Initial impression is that is is a weird stew of ghostty mixed with all the things HashiCorp tried to do…

Or such a fusion will be in the next release of systemd…

Is such sophistication even needed?

What about asking it to translate “War and Peace” to Klingon and then summarize it?

Well… they’re putting their signature on the stuff and blocking everything lacking it…

I’d certainly expect so.

There are cheap dongles that spoof the EDID for a fixed 4K or HD monitor with fixed settings. Not sure what they do about DCC/CI, might just disconnect it.

Indeed. But still amazed we did anything about it, since it didn’t immediately affect population centers or cause economic impacts.

I just can’t see the same happening in today’s political climate…

$100M funding is a hell of a lot of money.

Yeah, prominent thing run by famous guy … but why so much funding so early?

What does $100M enable in the next 5-10 years that $25M doesn’t?

Reminds me of photos in games about 30 years ago…

To me, conjectures seem less useful than a meteorologist offering weather predictions.

Aside from mere intellectual entertainment, they are worthless in the practical sense. They cannot be used in proofs, nor aid in solutions of other problems. They can’t even suggest if I would take an umbrella.

They are little more than the type of ramblings from people who drink heavily after a day’s work.