dragonlobster

@dragonlobster@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, well obviously it would be cheaper to host an LLM that is smaller. Imagine the cost of hosting o1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your second point of trading loot and items got me thinking about my Steam CS:GO skins. Why should I trust a centralized entity like Steam who could at any moment decide to delete all my skins or remove my account for whatever reason with my skins, vs storing those skins in a wallet on a public blockchain for example to keep it’s value and always allow trading? Ofc there will always be a “centralized” smart contract but at least they can’t make changes to it if the smart contract code is audited ,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you hoard video games and aren’t selfhosting GameVault yet, you’re missing out!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will it store my ROMs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The physical keyboard is just a tool. There are alternatives like speech-to-text software, virtual keyboards with swipe features, or stenotype.

  The goal should be to use whatever is most effective and efficient for yourself, so if Gen Zrs are more used to touch screen, maybe they should invent a touch screen interface that you can use with the computer, maybe even incorporating the mouse somehow.

  For me personally the touch interfaces right now are fucked up - I always tap the wrong letters on my phone, the auto-correct and suggestions used to compensate for this often times make it even worse, and swipe doesn’t come up with the words I want, I often have to swipe multiple times. I can’t imagine operating a computer like this, but maybe for Gen Zrs it’s no problem.

  Maybe in the future you just need to think the word and it appears on the screen, and typing would be obsolete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a distributed database there is also fragmentation/sharing though. In this case calling the nodes replicas is not accurate. I guess you would call these “shard” or “dsta” nodes.

  You are right about the “slaves” not behaving, in fact they jump on the chance to become the “master” themselves once the current “master” goes down. Then there is the split-brain problem.

  It’s really more like a worker boss relationship, but I would hesitate to call database nodes “workers” because this one is usually used for a processing engine like Spark.