We canceled prime. If we really need something from Amazon it’s $35 for free shipping anyways. We partially canceled because it’s all no name cheap garbage. At least some other retailers vet and back their products.

It used to be about safety, and training. Then columbine happened and they made a conscious decision to only protect gun msnufacturers.

It’s unclear if they might. I personally have no idea.

I have heard from some people at oregon protests that our police are tired of ICE. Doesn’t mean all of them, but this legal backstop we have sort of annoys them enough to hate ICE.

Since we are losing funding over it, we may as well actually use our sanctuary status.

In Oregon, no state law enforcement can help with immigration enforcement in any way. On or off duty. Document it and call 1-844-924-STAY.

There are also laws protecting people from any arrest while at a court hearing, such as citizenship things, but we’ll see if those hold up.

There isn’t enough support for revolution despite what many people here believe.

Internal violence is always used by fascists to consolidate power. So people who aren’t stupid don’t use it. Shooting an ICE agent would be used to expand their protection for example.

There isn’t more ‘somethings’ to do. Voting and protesting is all we really have.

The problem is a large portion of this country is actually supportive of what’s happening. People who are mad are a minority.

Edgy of you to assume all of these things.

You would be shocked how many people knew the WMD thing was a lie and yet, still went to war over it. It will be the same type of behavior if he were assassinated.

Im not sure still they won’t fall in line after he dies. The bubble they live in is more insane than you realize. I grew up in it.

You would do the same if you were a US citizen. Talking tough from a distance is just as pathetic as our inaction and general inability to magically fix our country. Waiting for elections and not escalating beyond peaceful protests is all we can do without handing them the propaganda they need. Peaceful includes open carrying like the black panthers.

If someone were to actually assassinate the orange one, you guys are way more fucked. The retribution campaign would go way beyond Greenland even if it makes no sense.

We have our clients switch to Linux now. Ignition works well enough and it’s so much cheaper. It has drawbacks compared to wonderware, or the Siemens stack though. But I’ll take those issues over logging into their systems still running on winXP.

The slowness was mostly a hardware issue. It’s basically like driving a second monitor, and a lot of the slower phones struggled with it early on.

They would probably have a panic attack if they learned about megasquirt. Cars being locked down is so unnatural that most of their design allows them to be controlled by open source solutions.

Fair enough. I’d be fine being wrong.

Improved efficiency would reduce the catastrophic energy demands LLMs will have in the future. Assuming your reality comes true it would help reduce their environmental impact.

We’ll see. This isn’t first “it’s the future” technology I’ve seen and I’m barely 40.

I’ll take a step back. These LLM models are interesting. They are being trained in interesting new ways. They are becoming more ‘accurate’, I guess. ‘Accuracy’ is very subjective and can be manipulated.

Machine learning is still the same though.

LLMs still will never expand beyond their inputs.

My point is it’s not early anymore. We are near or past the peak of LLM development. The extreme amount of resources being thrown at it is the sign that we are near the end.

That sub should not be used to justify anything, just like any subreddit at any point in time.

It’s not easy to solve because its not possible to solve. ML has been around since before computers, it’s not magically going to get efficient. The models are already optimized.

Revenue isn’t profit. These companies are the biggest cost sinks ever.

Heating a single building is a joke marketing tactic compared to the actual energy impact these LLM energy sinks have.

I’m an automation engineer, LLMs suck at anything cutting edge. Its basically a mainstream knowledge reproducer with no original outputs. Meaning it can’t do anything that isnt already done.

None of this is true.

I’ve worked on data centers monitoring power consumption, we need to stop calling LLM power sinks the same thing as data centers. Its basically whitewashing the power sucking environmental disasters that they are.

Machine learning is what you are describing. LLMs being puppeted as AI is destructive marketing and nothing more.

LLMs are somewhat useful at dumb tasks and they do a pretty dumb job at it. They feel like when I was new at my job and for decades could produce mediocre bullshit, but I was too naive to know it sucked. You can’t see how much they suck yet because you lack experience in the areas you use them in.

Your two cost saving points are pulled from nowhere just like how LLM inference works.

The current machine learning models (AI for the stupid) rely on input data, which is running out.

Processing power per watt is stagnating. Moors law hasn’t been true for years.

Who will pay for these services? The dot com bubble destroyed everyone who invested in it. Those that “survived” sprouted off of the corpse of that recession. LLMs will probably survive, but not in the way you assume.

Nvidia helping openAI survive is a sign that the bubble is here and ready to blow.

When AI is actually invented I’ll call it AI. Right now we have a steroid juiced parrot that’s based on old school machine learning. Its great at summarizing simple data, but terrible at real tasks.

This is more people who aren’t dumb telling the marketing teams to stop hyping something that doesn’t exist. The dot com boom is echoing. The profit will never materialize.

Trusted someone with my reputation once. Fucked me over. They went to jail for a bit. Got out, fucked someone else over, almost killed them while stealing all their retirement funds. Back to jail. Got out started grooming a child and having sex with them. They are back in jail currently.

This person taught me how to recognize evil people very quickly. I’m trying to avoid any identifying info because the second two times they were arrested made international news because of how fucked up it was both times.

I was going to shit all over this thing, but if it can do ~500hp continuously that’s awesome. Wonder what kind of efficiency it has and what the cooling requirements are. That low weight puts us back into unsprung wheel motor territory, especially if it scales down well.

That’s the point. White supremacists will redefine ‘white’ anytime they want. Nick isn’t white enough to easily stay in the in-group.