WanderingThoughts
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- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 2 hours ago:
To then discover people are so glued to their phone filled to the brim with anger inducing engagement, they don’t have any energy left over to meet people or even do the deed.
- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 3 hours ago:
Meanwhile they can’t figure out why not enough
consumerswage slaveschildren are vormen - Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 4 hours ago:
The closest you can get to that is if you vacation in Vietnam. One Euro is about 30,000 Vietnamese đồng. Yeah, it’s really called like that. Buy a Coca Cola with a 100,000 bill, pull a few million out of the ATM.
- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 7 hours ago:
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 day ago:
Same for the delivery bots. They’re all getting some remote control help.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 day ago:
There are ads on Lemmy? I’ve never seen one.
That’s on their specific client.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 days ago:
At that point your m they’re just the responsibility circuit breaker, put there to get the blame if things go wrong.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
With Uber that was indeed the plan and it worked. The same plan was there for AI, but AI isn’t doing so well on the whole overtake and starve out thing. They’ll have to jump directly to hiking prices. So it’s only kinda like Uber.
- Comment on China bans hidden car door handles over safety concerns 5 days ago:
Elon didn’t want unions. Scandinavian didn’t want his cars.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 5 days ago:
Radiators in space are a proven tech. In practice that just means more expensive to build and launch.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 5 days ago:
A million satellites he says. That’s 100 satellites per starship launch. 5 times per day, every day, for five years. By the time you’re done, the first ones are burned out and you have to do it all again. And that’s assuming one GPU per satellite because solar panels even in space can’t pull enough power to feed multiple of those hungry things.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
High-quality documentation assumes there’s someone with experience working on this. That’s not the vibe coding they’re selling.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
It actually takes a bit of skill to set up a decent workflow/configuration for these things
Exactly this. You can’t just replace experienced people with it, and that’s basically how it’s sold.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Hah, they wish. It’s a business, and they need a return on investment eventually. Maybe if we were in a zero interest rate world again, but even that didn’t last.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
So far, there is serious cognitive step needed that LLM just can’t do to get productive. They can output code but they don’t understand what’s going on. They don’t grasp architecture. Large projects don’t fit on their token window. Debugging something vague doesn’t work. Fact checking isn’t something they do well.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Only until AI investor money dries up and vibe coding gets very expensive quickly. Kinda how Uber isn’t way cheaper than taxi’s now.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 6 days ago:
They’re approaching the trust thermocline, where the pain of leaving is smaller than the pain of staying.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 week ago:
is that Valve’s policies and position as the leading distribution service in PC gaming means publishers are effectively blocked from selling games and add-ons at lower prices on competing stores
I still don’t get this. As far as I can find, Steam doesn’t allow steam keys to be sold cheaper elsewhere, but they don’t bother with prices of games in other stores.
And doesn’t Epic have a bunch of games exclusive to their store?
- Comment on Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal 1 week ago:
There is no legal definition for a flying car, so they can use the term if they want. It’s like the term AI that gets thrown around a lot, but actually people mean an LLM, but technically even a checkers program is in the AI category.
The USA industry term is a “roadable aircraft” and legal is also moving to that term. In Europe the legal term is FlyDrive vehicle. And the thing in the article is an SC-VTOL (special condition) in Europe and powered-lift aircraft in USA.
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 1 week ago:
It’s never a good idea to have the latest very sensitive GPUs in orbit where cosmic radiation can hit them and disrupt calculations. Or you put some old school robust versions up there, but then they’re too slow compared to ground based tech.
GPUs don’t last that long anyway. 5 years is a number you see often. Less with constant radiation. There is no upgrade or replace. That means these satellites will just stay up there for a few years until they de-orbit them and then we have a million satellites burning up in the atmosphere.
GPUs are also very power hungry. One modern rack of 72 GPUs sucks 120 kW. All solar panels of the ISS deliver 215 kW. These things won’t be small. And you needs hundreds to thousands to get the capacity of one data center.
So far, putting them in orbit doesn’t seem to make things easier.
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 1 week ago:
The edges of the atmosphere are either too thin to do any heat transfer, or when the air gets thicker the satellite has friction and quickly burns up.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 week ago:
They really love their programming sock pics.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 1 week ago:
By the way microslop is doing emergency patch after emergency patch, vibe coding windows isn’t the brag they thought it was.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 1 week ago:
Like in Notepad? WHY?! So yeah, fuck Microsoft.
It’s the equivalent of a drugs dealer that starts throwing their product in people’s faces just to get more people hooked, but the product is so nasty almost everyone runs away screaming.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
Their stock price dropped 10% last night. Desperation is sinking in.
- Comment on Video game giant Valve facing UK lawsuit over pricing, commissions 1 week ago:
You can perfectly add mods to a game from Steam using vortex mod manager for example. They’re not blocking your access to game files, like iOS does.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Seems they’re figuring out you can’t sell ads and AI on your platform if nobody wants to use your platform.
- Comment on Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update 1 week ago:
He did say it makes screenshots of everything and sends it to a cloud AI for processing. I believe that. It’s also a good reason for not wanting it.
- Comment on Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update 1 week ago:
In practice that looks like this: youtube.com/shorts/pjT0ubmENWk
It sure looks creepy when your browser suddenly starts doing all kinds of stuff.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 week ago:
That’s when the Silicon Valley types all bring out the ol’ “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Well, they already showed what LLM can do and it’s not that great.
