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Sure, but on the other hand what happens if Gen AI bursts after all of this infra development?

- price of electricity goes wayyyyy down

- stigma around using atomic elements goes down

- price of excess available compute goes wayyy down (or the second hand market becomes side project budget range)

With excess electricity we can do a lot of things like Carbon Capture, water purification, power hadron colliders, replace gas stoves, etc. and with price of computer going down it makes more sense for certain industries to double down on tech. Essentially we are able utilise cheaper electricity + compute to patch over problems. On the other hand if the AI tech bros’s magic konch shell can lead innovations then I wouldn’t mind that either.

Could be that it’s really easy to map a random noisy latent into a picture of a galaxy? Prompts like this also usually ask for “more” or “bigger” and I would say a galaxy is one of the bigger things that we can visualise.

If you code for a living then it’s still helpful as it’s just leetcode but slightly more engaging as you could have peers solving the same problem as you to discuss with. Plus if you code for a living, “little meaningless challenges” are less of a time sink than a whole side project for when you wanna dip your toes into a new language/system/design pattern.

I feel like small puzzles like this help me get into more of a live to code mindset, which I personally enjoy more than thinking of my life as code for a living.

Not everyone runs Linux systems like a Sys Admin. Some folks use it to play games on their steamdeck or to give live to older hardware that can’t run windows/osx anymore. Others don’t even care what they’re running as long as it can open chrome.

BSOD is very clearly an end user feature for folks who don’t have experience debugging kernel panics. If the QR code can generate a copy passable stack trace of the error the it could help make linux more mainstream and easier to debug for non technical folks.

But isn’t this just a natural part of how distributed systems work? If one part fails it can have downstream effects that can cross multiple boundaries like end user clients crashing, or another business’s server crashing, or your own server crashing.

I hacked macOS 3 years ago

I don’t think that’s entirely true. When reading technical articles who the author is matters.

For example, this is the same person who’s working on Asahi Linux for ARM macs. This means that they probably know what their talking about and this is gonna be a good article.