selectodude

Rather not take the chance of getting sued by EA.

Happy to do so but we’re gonna have to crowdsource an NVL72 first. I don’t have 10 million dollars.

I missed Flight Control so bad that I sent Claude on a wild goose chase to decompile the IPA in ghidra and rewrite it in Swift 6. Still working through it, obviously will never get released, but it's been cool to watch.

Also a 3-bit quant. Useable but a long long way away from useful.

I feel like that's a threat that isn't super difficult to block. Unplug it from the internet, require it to go through an API intermediary to access web pages.

Maybe I just don't have any imagination.

I thought it was cool too, though I understand AI use is a heated debate and I think people get their backs up that some dumb illiterate like me who can't code has ghidra on my laptop decompiling kernel headers. I get it, the deluge is coming for my job too.

Doubt it - Linksys encrypts their firmware. ASUS not only doesn't, but left everything in the binary that made it really easy for GPT-5.6 to crack it open and decompile everything in ghidra.

Not run all of ASUS's unstable garbage software.

GPT-5.6 just finished writing a shim for me in rust that sits between Broadcom’s bullshit kernel and a standard Linux user space to turn my mesh routers into standard computers. At some point I’m not sure what the difference is in practice.

Note: I can’t code. Not a line.

Making memory is easy. Packaging that memory within a few millimeters of a piece of silicon using TSVs and maintaining signal integrity on a 1024 bit bus is really, really hard.

LLMs aren’t all that compute constrained or even memory constrained. It’s just that pushing dozens of terabits per second through a piece of silicon is a physics problem.

I know what I said. Lots of foreign money backed construction loans got wiped out. The buildings are still there, the project went bankrupt, and the world kept turning.

Japan in the 1990s, ME sovereign wealth funds in the late 2000s, China in the mid 2010s.

Don’t blame imports for our sclerotic country banning construction nationwide. Plenty of countries have spent billions on new construction in the US and gotten smoked. The buildings still stand though.

Probably not much. The US doesn’t have the capacity for high volume manufacturing. We cost too much.

That’s the beauty of using an open harness. I can jump ship if that ever happens.

My desktop is a game console and the games I play work on windows. And my computer reliably wakes from sleep.

At least OpenAI lets me use my own harness. Having to rely on insane PMs letting Claude Mythos go wild on the codebase has not been going well lately.

Au contraire, I run models on WSL and my desktop reliably wakes up from sleep. Best of both worlds.

The meek shall inherit the Earth… but not the moon.

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

Oscar R. Benavides

No. I don’t think it’s at all okay or fair that the wealthiest man in the world can push great replacement conspiracies and endorse the murder of immigrants (non-white South African division).

I have this magical ability to think lots of people can suck simultaneously. I’m also able to separate the power and ability to inflict damage of a bunch of shitheads on twitter from the White House and the first ever trillionaire.

You get both the white nationalist and the antisemite sides, yes.

I think the folks at PA Semi had some chops too.

Heh, I’m 5x more productive 99 percent of the time. That is still a very, very useful tool.

The solution for high prices is high prices.

If making RAM and SSDs is now cause for a 10 figure valuation, after enough time somebody will dive in.

I’m always a bit confused how this is so difficult for people to understand. If I want to move into your neighborhood, there are two options - I move into new construction or I move into your house. There is no option C where I decide that because the housing stock is garbage, I decide to go somewhere else.

Both are true. We’ve made cheap housing illegal and we’ve demanded ever higher quality housing.

We need to allowed for revealed preferences. In developers we trust.

You gotta look at the motivations. Rich people and activists can both agree that affordable housing requirements are a good thing. The higher the better. This makes the project not pencil out so everybody is happy - the homeowners who don’t want new neighbors and the activists who think that everything is gentrification. The only people who get screwed are the only people who don’t have a vote, the non-residents. Which is why zoning policy and approvals cannot be locally controlled.

Private equity owns about 500,000 homes nationwide, so like less than a half of a percent.

Anyway they got into the housing market because the margins are so good because everybody refuses to allow new housing to be built. Congratulations, you played yourselves.