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I'm hoping I get to use it somewhere like Skinwalker Ranch since they can't just buy one

It wasn't until I used TikTok that I understood why it's so scary. Just based on how you interact with the app: how long you watch, what you like, how fast you're scrolling, etc. it starts to show you videos that are eerily related to what's going on in your life and what you're thinking. You don't even have to search for topics. You just start getting videos that seem to be reading your mind. The idea that they can tell what huge swathes of the population are thinking and feeling is scary. I think that's got to be a huge reason they want it under their control: it's sort of a mind-reading app.

I live in a major city. I'm torn on this as I think it's probably better than most human drivers. Didn't one of them drive down the sidewalk, though?

I'd be surprised, given the technical savviness and polish of these scams, if they weren't using LLM's that are scripted such that the bot isn't "aware" it's a scam.

We'll just start saying the "G" is for "General"

Probably more just to be able to fill in the calories. For instance, I probably ate a lot more tuna salad on celery than I would've if it were on bread.

I've tried to do heavy workouts on low-carb. Like you said, it's very effective for weight-loss. But there were a lot of thousand-yard-stares I gave, trying to get the motivation to pick up the heavy weights.

I can personally attest to low-carb. I lost 40 pounds in two years. It wasn't easy. No diet is. Everyone told me I'd gain it right back and gave me visceral reactions when I told them how I did it and how it's been years now since I've switched back to a sensibly balanced diet to maintain it.

I don't think people want that particular diet to work. Granted, it's got its downsides. And you can do it in a very unhealthy way. But being 40 pounds overweight was probably worse than intermittent lower-carb with healthy(er) options like chicken caesar salads, stuffed peppers made with turkey, or tuna salad on celery. It just let me eat less calories without as much hunger.

That would all track with the linked piece. He basically says "you're smart, and you're relying on that instead of taking the time to learn a way to do it that works best when the code has to be shared."

I think that's what he means by "gifted". Innate ability that can propel you through personal greenfield projects, but hits a wall when you're not the only cook in the kitchen.

I was surprised the highjacked scrolling didn't slide me right into a full-page modal newsletter signup form.

What they think is "smooth" then feels like "my finger is wet and the screen isn't properly reading swipes" on a phone.

I immediately hit the reader-mode button once it started hopping around on its own. Why are they doing so much work just to make things worse?

While I agree there needs to be incentives to be credit-worthy, isn't that what the credit report is for? I think you'd probably argue the fees are better than it hitting their credit report, but I'm not sure those people would agree. Those late fees are then unable to be paid as well, causing further damage to the credit report than the actual debt. They get punished twice for it.

I have a friend who's in that situation. Medical bills for his entire family have basically crushed him. Without the late fees, he'd be just scraping by with bad credit. With the late fees, he's still got bad credit. But now he's got late fees, too.

Is that monthly?!

Good chance most of the phones are virtualized as well to test across OS builds and that the actual deploy to real phones aren't tested nearly as well.

I've learned the same lesson, and why things like ping checks aren't enough. Even just a WGET of the front page isn't enough. You need the monitor to login and replicate at least part of the user experience if you have a complex setup. It's very embarrassing when someone tells a user "shows it's up from my side." and they're relying on a naïve monitor.

Find an old webserver in the wreckage. Never able to see what it serves because it requires Flash.

My CIO was a big RTO proponent. He also lived a few miles away in a ritzy part of town, had full-time child-care, a parking spot at the building, a garage at home. All this in a dense city. Then he'd walk into an office that had a view, a door that closed, independent temperature controls, furniture, workspace, was quiet, and private. Contrast that to the guy who drove 1.5 hrs each way due to construction on the main highway expected to last years, pays $30-40 a day in parking, $5-15 in gas and tolls, drops his kid off at daycare that costs $500 a month and charges extra every time he's gotta stay over. It costs that guy over a thousand bucks to work in an office every month. To do the same job he was doing remote. At an Ikea desk shoved in a row of Ikea desks.

Doesn't Amazon want them more for their warehouse automation bots? Like the little things that carry around the pallets?

It's insane that we spent a good 30-40 years or so on the open-office concept. It's like the setup of school but without the structure of everyone having quiet time at the same time. That level of density only works when someone's directing the chaos.

2 other strategies currently being attempted: Pepper a bunch of pizza-box sized satellites out there (similar strategy as popping them on SpaceX satellites) and go for a giant mesh: https://lynk.world/how-lynk-proved-direct-two-way-satellite-...

Put gigantic satellites that unfold using the tech from snap-bracelets and compensate for distance with a gigantic antenna: https://ast-science.com/spacemobile-network/bluewalker-3/

With how many cell-phone providers and towers out there, I have no doubts they'll all be up to their eyeballs in work on this. Also, SpaceX just lost funding and might be trying to pick up some of the rural broadband funds Lynk and ASTS are going for: https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-loses-appeal-to-receive-88...

Could be neat to have communal space in the middle. Apartments around the windows, a small Amazon Go grocery in the middle. Maybe different things on different floors. Put hallways so that you're not just walking out of an apartment into a mall.

RunPod is fairly large and openly advertises the consumer cards. I wonder if they have an agreement?

I wonder if places like RunPod have a special agreement with NVidia, there's some way they're working around this (not installing the drivers?), or if they're just flagrantly offering it as they offer several consumer card options in what's presumably a datacenter environment.

It is if you can pool the memory. It's easier than having to do the split of the models in software (though that's a somewhat solved problem) and from what I know allows higher GPU utilization on both cards when they don't have to wait for information to pass back and forth.

You know at first I was thinking the same thing, but after having 2x 3090's raise the temperature of my bedroom to 86 degrees in the middle of the night last week fine-tuning an LLM, I could see the draw of 64GB (for 2) with 400 watts total less heat than the 4090's in my work space.

I've got my fingers crossed on them cramming a lot of vRAM in there. They were putting 16gb in the Xeon Phi 7110P when 8GB was acceptable for system RAM in gaming machines. If they dropped a 64GB+ prosumer card, I'd be so happy. Even if it was something like 32GB of super-fast memory and another 64-128 of slightly slower-but-unified memory, I'd be ecstatic. Being able to fine-tune a 175B LLM locally would be incredible.

Particles pop in and out of existence everywhere in space don't they though? At least according to a space documentary I watched last night. Not trying to be pedantic over if a gas particle present for a fraction of an instant counts as "thin air," just excited that something I learned last night came up.

People who rage-quit due to RTO aren't eligible for severance or unemployment insurance.

If you're being forced to RTO and that's not feasible, make them fire you. You'll hold onto that job longer as they go through the process and then you can likely succeed in an unemployment claim. It's harder to fight if you quit, but you could claim constructive dismissal if there was an explicit agreement to work remote.

I'm hoping you're not basically saying the plan is to pull everyone back into an even smaller open-office where you play musical chairs?