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They’re just wildly successful terrible engineers who can describe problems well and have unlimited token budgets. If they were paying for their own token use, the software would be better, they simply don’t have financial incentive to be more performant.

A dirty secret of AI data centers are that they’re only getting 40-60% efficiency out of their GPU clusters and because the moneygun go brrrrr they just buy more.

You wonder why they’re so afraid of the Chinese competition… they can’t afford to be as wasteful

I’m considering moving my family to China to be proximate and to witness the next rise of a superpower. I was too young for the 80’s US computer boom, and in collage for the .com one. The Web 2.0 rise only produced a small handful of winners. China seems boundless.

Afghanistan didn’t have poppy production till it was allowed by the Bush administration. Their primary exports were food stuffs but it was easy to spoil the Iranians and Russians with cheap drugs that ruin society. This was patterned after the british opium wars but done at a funky scale. Now our chickens have come to roost now that pill based pain medication has gotten so hard… life finds a way.

It’s an awesome start to a stack, you’re right though a typical seat based install runs average enterprises 25+k usd per year. I wish that someone would just make open oodo compatible plugins, because the big fundamental win is a unified data model built on open technologies.

It is a fair assumption that they do this regularly, politics aside one should ask why were there so many FBI agents at the Jan 6 debacle and why didn’t they do more to quell the violence. The origins of Ruby Ridge and Waco are fine examples of insanity. Nevertheless inciting crime and capturing bad guys seems like a game they like playing.

Cobalt Qube 8 months ago

I built a little hosting company atop these boxes, my neighborhood was one of the first to get symmetric DSL and I could get 10 static IPs. Http 1.1 came out the year before and was upgraded to allow name based virtual hosting… I had over 40 websites running from my childhood bedroom. I bought my first qube in late 98 from an PC mall catalog and kept buying them after they moved to the raq box before they eventually sold to Sun. Good times.