ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
What are Ukrainian women living in Poland meant to do, live out their lives as chaste old maids waiting for dead men?
They shouldn't be in Poland in the first place. They should be staying in Ukraine working in a drone factory or on a farm or in some way that materially contributes to the same war effort their male countrymen are literally sacrificing life and limb for. Or literally making more Ukrainian babies with a Ukrainian spouse so that their country can have any sort of future after the war.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
There is absolutely no reason to enrich uranium past a certain percentage unless you're pursuing weapon development.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
I mean, one need only look at the highly religious today to see how fathers react to these sorts of things. I know that if I went to a burlesque (or the modern equivalent) and my dad found out, his reaction would be some mix of disappointment, disgust, and anger. And my reaction would be the same if I had a son do the same.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
The canonical example is Julia Roberts's outfit in Pretty Woman, where she plays a literal prostitute. Her outfit looks downright chaste compared to the modern thot.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Sadly that strikes me as a "coup complete" solution. Or at a minimum, a "coup already well underway" solution.
As far as I can tell, the actual obstacle that's pushing SpaceX and others to put their compute up into orbit is really just good old fashioned zoning laws.
Which, as I mentioned, would be cheaper to accomplish (and far easier to do maintenance on) somewhere in the ocean as opposed to in orbit.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Thanks, forgot they added that bullshit
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FlQYU3m1e80
You can, but it's another one of the big increases in cost compared to a terrestrial datacenter.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
The current story for SpaceX is orbital datacentres, which at least has something to do with the existing assets, but is a lot further from actually existing than Autopilot or Tesla Robotics.
Even with the best case price per KG to orbit for Starship, orbital datacenters still really don't make any sense financially. Even when compared to more exotic options like underwater datacenters in the ocean. The only thing orbital datacenters would make sense for is escaping regulation, but even that would require significant changes to all of our current treaties for how satellites and other stuff in space are regulated.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
With respect to the one-child policy I think it needs to be pointed out in defense of the Chinese commies that pretty much everyone else in the world was falling for the same nonsense back then. The notion that runaway overpopulation was causing mass poverty, famine and wars seemed irresistible.
Sure, but "we think in centuries while the gwailos think in decades" China went above and beyond what any other country did in regards to stopping the "population bomb".
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Previously a member of @stake, she created the bug bounty program at Microsoft
Given the horrendous reputation of Microsoft's bug bounty program that isn't a positive to me
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
But they are more long-term.
I keep hearing this about the country that implemented the one child policy, the great leap forward, the cultural revolution, and, my favorite, the four pests policy.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
SpaceX's IPO was based on their claim of a $28.5 trillion total addressable market (TAM). They claim that $26.5 trillion of that TAM is AI, or about 93%.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Unfortunately, most of SpaceX's valuation is from their investments in datacenters (renting compute to Anthropic and others) rather than in their rocket and satellite internet business. It would have been a no-brainer buy for me if the bulk of their valuation was still coming from rockets and Starlink.
If this is going to inspire copycats, it will sadly inspire a bunch of datacenter REIT copycats as opposed to space and satellite copycats.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
For sure, glad someone found it useful! I found out about it originally when the orbital drop assault scene got recommended to me on YouTube a few years ago.
I think my next favorite part, mostly just because of how ridiculous it is, is when the antagonist has the protagonist captured and is monologing a bit before he plans to kill him and the protagonist shouts out "But the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is false!" or something to that effect and that surprises and mildly amuses the antagonist. Well that, plus the blatant Domino's product placement.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Deleting code feels a million times better than writing it
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
If I recall correctly, my manager's new manager was someone in IT at the corporate HQ and they got some blowback over it too because my manager had reached out to them several times about accounting not responding.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Overall, I don't know if that story is true, but what I'm seeing on the ground strongly suggests that executives really don't have the slightest fucking clue what's happening until the bill lands on their desk.
Anecdote from a previous job that you just gave me a PTSD flashback to, back when I worked on the help desk and sysadmin side of things instead of development:
The company I was working at got acquired by another company (most Americans here would probably know the acquiring company but I won't get any more specific than that). Our accounting department was mostly laid off and we now had to send our invoices to accounting in the acquiring company to get them paid.
My boss starts sending them our invoices for the phone company (and internet, and a bunch of other important things) up to corporate accounting every single day because accounting isn't responding to him and isn't paying our bills. He's also calling them multiple times a week, but no one is answering. Also our long distance phone service is separate from our main phone service (this will be important) for complicated reasons I never bothered to learn because I was a help desk grunt at the time.
This goes on for months, and the phone company is getting pissy and threatening to cut off our phone service. My manager is forwarding the service cut off threats to accounting too. Finally long distance service actually gets cut off (but local phone service still works), and me and the other help desk grunt got flooded with about 200 calls from pissed off users that day.
This causes enough of a stink that corporate catches wind of it and ask my manager why he wasn't paying the phone bill. After all, they showed him how to send invoices to accounting, etc., how could he be so irresponsible? My manager whips out 60+ emails and his phone call logs and corporate immediately apologizes and presumably goes to bite off someone's head in accounting.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
My first GPU was a PNY Verto (something older than the 6600 in that gallery, though I don't recall the exact model number). That really brought back some nostalgia haha
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
My favorite midwit meme:
https://i.redd.it/dkvg2uxbalq91.jpg
Or as I've seen it put elsewhere, knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster, wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster.
As I heard someone on a forum put it many years ago, if I'm forced to choose between fascism and communism (I'd prefer neither) then I choose fascism. Because the secret police will come for me at some point either way, but when the fascist secret police arrest me I'll have a full stomach.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Random question just because I don't know the answer, but are you Irish or Northern Irish?
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Specifically, a lot of the GPUs designed for AI workloads don't even have video outputs, so they wouldn't work in your own personal gaming rig.
I think part of the definition of art is that it's not done for money or status, but rather it's genuine self-expression.
There have been so many atrocious offenses against good taste widely considered to be "art" that I can't take any attempts to define what is or isn't art as anything more than fart-sniffing snobbery. Or at least any definitions more exclusive than something like "human creative expression" or something along those lines (inb4 some pedant asks nonsense like "well then can animal creative expression be art?" or whatever).
What does it even matter if something is (or isn't) art? Outside of potential financial interests like government grants for your art that might be affected if the government suddenly decided that your art isn't actually art, what single effect does something technically being defined as "art" or "not art" have on anything? I suppose it affects how nice your fellow snobs think your farts smell if your definitions of art are in disagreement.
I saw Project Hail May too.
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