#ludereposting (with red/blue shifting)

Ariadne Conill 🐰
sometimes a bunny, sometimes a witch, sometimes an operating system designer
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i took a few minutes to quickly read through the essay dario amodei (CEO of anthropic) dropped over the weekend.
my takeaway from it is that "pacing the frontier" is more likely a convenient narrative for a problem the frontier labs are inevitably going to run into anyway: as these monolithic models scale, the physical and economic difficulty of scaling them grows with them.
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systemsanyway, i've had a few people ask for my take on dario amodei's "we must pace the frontier" essay, so i am going to give it a quick read and then write a rebuttal
anyway, i've had a few people ask for my take on dario amodei's "we must pace the frontier" essay, so i am going to give it a quick read and then write a rebuttal
i have to say QML pretty much demonstrates that vibe coding does not need to exist for "apps"
this is basically visual basic levels of easy
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"It is difficult to imagine City Light imposing the same schedule on South Lake Union, with its concentration of major commercial tenants, expensive residential towers, and substantial institutional visibility, without extraordinary scrutiny and mitigation. Yet residents here are apparently expected to absorb thirty-two hours of scheduled service loss as a matter of course. That disparity demands an explanation." and other things I am presently writing to the city government
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half of the people in my building are chinese and are afraid to say fucking anything to the city because they think katie wilson will call ICE on their ass
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this is what it is like to live in a majority-minority neighborhood (in my case, chinatown) in seattle
i guarantee you south lake union would not be facing 4 days of overnight power outages
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nightly disruptions to power while people are sleeping *has* to be violation of the ADA
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@sundogplanets and yet, glass in the ground is still best :)
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@sundogplanets agreed, they could substantially cut the number of cells required by going marginally higher in orbit. the latency would be marginally worse (60-70ms), but sub-100ms latencies are still acceptable for typical modern networking applications.
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@petrillic yeah a 5-figure financial mistake i will not be making again
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i do not even know *who* to contact about this, because i have already written katie wilson off as useless
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Decided to make a dedicated page for this.
https://stopomarchy.neocities.org/
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this is just ridiculous at this point, why should i even bother paying my power bill anymore
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@retr0id ooooh, do you know if it works on alpha7s yet?
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tacoma looks better all the time
oh, good, seattle city light has expanded their power outage window from september 14th, 15th and 16th, to go with the one on the 17th
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imo the dell and lenovo plays happen every so often to force microsoft to negotiate lower OEM licensing rates
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i am aware of that. but i'll let you in on a secret.
basically nobody buys them.
and basically nobody buys the fedora thinkpads either.
canonical does not promote them. red hat does not promote them.
that's the difference.