Badabinski

Yeah, 88/2 is weird as shit. Perhaps the GPUs are especially large? I know NVIDIA has that thing where you can slice up a GPU into smaller units (I can’t remember what it’s called, it’s some fuckass TLA), so maybe they’re counting on people doing that.

CAD was a big problem for me as well. I’ve been happy enough with OnShape (coming from Autodesk Inventor), but the extreme SaaS nature of it makes me worry.

Yeah, I think it’d be a pretty silly thing for us to ever try to do. My goal was to take their stupid idea, provide a slightly less stupid idea, and then say “or just don’t do space power at all and keep everything terrestrial.” Orbital solar power stations were lots of fun in science fiction, but panels are cheap, there’s plenty of land, and giant death masers that cook any birds flying into the beam are, uh, suboptimal.

We’ve had the template for this for decades. Put the solar panels in space where the thick soupy gunky spunky atmosphere doesn’t stop the little energy things from the sun. Collect the power in orbit. You just do that up there up in orbit okay? And then you fucking beam the power down to the surface you numpty fucks. Use a maser to send the power down to the surface and you can pick a frequency that isn’t affected by the gunky spunky and then the receivers on the ground can pick it up and they send the power through these things called wires to a building that uses the power and the building can use this neat little thing called CONVECTION to more efficiently remove the heat from the things using the electricity wow.

Or just, y’know, use less power and make use of ground based solar. We don’t need fucking AI data centers in space. Don’t get me wrong, I think it might be useful to, say, have some compute up in geostationary orbit that other satellites could punt some data to for computation. You could have an evenly spaced ring of the fuckers so the users up there can get some data crunching done with a RTT of like 50ms instead of 700ms. That seems like a hard sell, but it at least seems a bit tenable if you needed to reduce the data you’re sending back to the earth down to a more manageable amount with some preprocessing. That is still not fuckass gigawatt AI data centers. Fuck

Oh god, please don’t use it for Bash. LLM-generated Bash is such a fucking pot of horse shit bad practices. Regular people have a hard enough time writing good Bash, and something trained on all the fucking crap on StackOverflow and GitHub is inevitably going to be so bad…

Signed, a senior dev who is the “Bash guy” for a very large team.

Yo, I think your shit got hacked.

AFAIK, LFP thermal runaway can’t start fires. NMC or other lithium chemistries can and they scare me, but LFPs are pretty damn safe. That being said, I’m still stoked for sodium chemistries to be developed. If the round trip efficiency issues can be solved, then I think it’ll be a great solution for residential power storage.

I made the mistake of buying a Samsung washer/dryer set in 2017. The washer actually still works and the seal has held up well, but the dryer drum jumped its tracks within the first year, and both have been plagued with gremlins.

Fuck Samsung appliances and honestly most things Samsung sells.

it was a form from Google soliciting feedback on the thing.

Lovely, thank you for this. I’ve left my feedback, and I hope many, many other people do as well.

I’ll agree that list comprehensions can be a bit annoying to write because your IDE can’t help you until the basic loop is done, but you solve that by just doing [thing for thing in things] and then add whatever conditions and attr access/function calls you need.

The one where every LLM-generated shell script I read is another deep splinter in my fingernail quick that I have to rip out and destroy because it’s a godfucked mess of bad practices that we can never ever ever ever EVER train out of an LLM at this point.

I think a new GPL needs to be created to account for this. Like, “any generative system using this as an input which can ever replicate this code base (even in part), must be bound to this license.” People could then run overfitting analysis to see if they ever get their copyleft code out of the model. If they do, then they have grounds to sue. I’m fine with an LLM being trained on my code, but I want the four freedoms to be preserved if it is.

Out of curiosity, do you feel that you would have been able to write that new function without an LLM in less time than you spent fighting GPT5?

Is it even possible to replace the head units on deeply integrated cars like this?

ngl, I do wish it was still used. I remember being like, 4 years old and trying to write a “thank you” card to my grandmother. I spent what feel like an hour going through the alphabet, trying to find the letter that makes the “th” sound. Apparently my mom found me laying on the floor sobbing and repeating the alphabet, which is both funny and sad lol

Many years have passed, but a tiny grain of resentment at the English language remains. The thorn would have prevented that.

FINO is infinitely better in my opinion.

I’m gonna start by saying that I absolutely hate the people responsible for systems like this.

With that said, can we please not bring back Gamergate terminology? Call the Australian lady a TERF or an asshole or whatever, but seeing the word “feminazi” makes me feel like I’m on reddit back in 2016.

I fucking hate this guy. I hate his stupid face and his stupid mouth that he uses to excrete such stupid bullshit. I hate that the people living in a state filled with such beautiful sights chose to elect someone who is so hateful and ugly inside. I fucking hope that we don’t reelect him in 2028 but I am not optimistic.

This is a fantastic response. I’m saving this so I can use it to show people that LLMs are not thinking machines.