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I started with electronics and computers in the early 70's. It's been adventure in technology ever since.
Mods are the death of reddit like I've been saying for at least 10 years. Shadow ban after shadow ban, the dopamine rush a bad mod gets from shadow banning someone must be amazing. It's way too easy for them.
VPN blocking is a thing now. It's always a game of whackamole, but the whacker is getting a lot better lately thanks to states and countries having new laws against accessing age restricted content.
Quite a lot easier than they would in space. Orders of magnitude easier.
No, not really.
The only way it makes sense is if you think the massive job losses due to AI will lead to people burning down datacenters on earth. An older spec'd and unmaintainable datacenter is worth way more than one in ashes.
Any AI service that people (and to some extent companies) can afford to pay for today is being heavily subsidized. Will that last forever? I really don't know how those economics work, but I know that bubbles do burst having lived through the dot com burst in 2000. And I know this current one is going to hurt if/when it bursts.
It's in the best interest for AI companies to gobble up tokens. I feel like every new release - Fable, etc - is just a way to extract more tokens/money.
architecture design and LLM just exposes how bad people are at designing dynamic architectures
Speak for yourself. A lot of people have great abilities at designing "dynamic architectures" and anything else an LLM is used for. It sounds like you don't realize that an LLM is only capable of what it does because it was trained on human-written code.
There are likely way more smaller boats with starlink than there are massive cruise ships with starlink.
I quit reddit because of all of this nonsense. After 15 years on reddit, my life has been much better for quitting it. Reddit is a cesspool.
I notice another trend were a lot of AI naysayers haven't really spent a ton of time getting intimately familiar with AI.
I don't think that's really true, it's more your feels than anything. I've noticed this thing where everyone that's using AI think nobody else is using AI, or at least not the cool way they are doing it. It's typically nonsense.
I've been using AI for quite a while, personally and professionally, and I can already see the clusterfuck it's causing. I still don't let it work on my important personal projects, but for simple tools and websites, sure. At work we're told to use AI exclusively to code, and it's already causing problems - the AI just endlessly applies bandaid after bandaid and it's turned the code to spaghetti. Nobody even reads the code, the people above just tell us to approve it and ship it. I'm looking for a new job because I already know this isn't going to produce the long-term success they are expecting. All it is doing is making it more expensive to write software, without the knowledge of how the code works, and if you can't already understand how that looks in the future, well... I don't know what to tell you.
Not just cruise ships, but practically every boat with a bed in it. People sailing on small boats all around the world have starlink now. It's kind of a game changer in a lot of ways for small boats.
Most people hyping their AI use mention the short-term gains without taking into account how it affects overall long-term success. We are creatures of convenience.
Sometimes I race AI i give it a prompt /bug to fix and at the sametime im greping/symboling through the codebase and tryto fix it myself. AI isn’t always faster.
+1 - this is also my experience. I also "race" the AI on some tasks, especially when it's simple and the AI is taking forever to return a result - so it even has a head start, and I often complete it faster or around the same time.
For some things maybe it is faster, but it isn't really returning a better result. It often turns into spaghetti, doing things I didn't ask it to do.
Got it, so all those advances in medicine we were promised in exchange for higher electricity costs, global warming, and other pitfalls of AI were bunk?
They are trying to make it as unpleasant to drive as possible, and I don't really blame them - cars are a big factor in climate change, smog, etc. I gave up driving in the 90's because it was pretty obvious even back then.
Or like Meta spending $90 billion on "the metaverse" only to see 300,000 users at its peak.
That comes out to spending $300,000 per user.
You're right, but you'd be lucky if a real human actually reviews any code. At my company, merging a PR still requires 2 humans to press "Approve" but I've been instructed that I don't need to read the PR, I only need to click "Approve". This is what 30 years of SWE experience is being used for now.
If some people want to make their own gun, then some people will also make their own 3D printer.
This joke of a law isn't going to stop any 3D printed handguns from getting made, it will only add one more relatively easy step.
Then what, ban stepper motors?
I heard about vitamin D during covid, and that and hand sanitizer are the only 2 things we still do. I haven't been sick for a few years. Before covid (and vitamin D supplements), it was at least 25 days sick every year, if not more.
Apple is also on the W3C committee that approves new specs, where they abuse that power to prevent any spec that might cut into their app business from moving forward.
Apple will never implement anything in a browser that could make a web app as capable as a native mobile app, they are simply too greedy. Firefox typically doesn't implement these things unless they have to because they don't have the resources that Google and Apple do.
One guy spent 37 days in jail for re-posting a thing trump said ("We have to get over it" in reference to a school shooting), after Charlie Kirk was killed.
and US citizens don't seem to care
I think maybe you haven't been paying attention.
Most of us do care. Trump's approval rating is pretty low at 36%, and his disapproval rating is high. Just because he's still causing chaos doesn't mean the majority of us don't care about it. There's just no legal way to remove him, and his cronies simply won't do it - there's not enough votes in congress or he would have been gone after his first or second impeachment.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/20/nx-s1-5861764/trumps-job-appr...
It's not good news if the AI companies have to raise their prices 10x to deliver the same service while paying down the crippling debt they've incurred getting everyone hooked on AI.
If my mechanic started charging 10x more to fix my car, I'd learn to fix my car.
They're going to need quite a lot more ads to try to sell stuff to people who don't have jobs anymore because of all the datacenters built for AI.
The datacenter is still heating the atmosphere and consuming enormous amounts of electricity, which also heats the atmosphere. And it still won't solve our global climate disaster and is far more likely to contribute to a lot of bad things happening for humans.
Except very few people will actually be able to buy beetroot or anything else because there won't be any jobs. The wealth is all concentrating at the top into very few hands.
I'm paying about $0.19/hr and using half that power just for a large spinning RAID, running some VMs and security cameras. And I'm reconsidering my digital extravagance because of the electric bill. You probably make way more money than I do.
Have you measured your electricity consumption for this rig? I have to wonder how much it would cost you per month.