ChatGPT says all of this is completely possible.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6add...

How likely is it that Flock is not already using its network this way?

imagine how flock personnel uses flock network every day...AI allows drawing conclusions from mass movement information that can provide information far beyond just someone's location. It is probably possible even to figure out market moves based on movement of groups of people.

This is not just about following any one person, this is about information movement, following a group of people who work on the same project for example to undersrand when they are going towards the same site / goal. This is beyond dangerous.

I am going to make a dangerous assumption and assume that does not mean "we think we should use the written word to train our LLM" as that isn't actually anything that requires consensus. So presumably, the "team" discussion was about how to acquire said books. That the "consensus" answer was "through shadow libraries" sounds an awful lot like "conspiracy to commit commercial copyright infringement" and appears to be a rather shortsighted argument to be making.

Wait, "some other company" can replace Falcon in "a few years" but everyone is "20 years behind" a design that has only been under active development since late 2018? Your math ain't mathing, dude.

Which is pretty funny, since the only major difference between the two these days is "Is Google spying on you, or is Microsoft?"

Fuck him and the horse he rode on. Fuck his business. Fuck his technology. Fuck his company. Fuck his employees. Fuck his investors. Fuck his government ties. Fuck him defending this shit. Fuck everyone who wants this. Fuck the government for buying into it. Fuck the laws that allow this if they do.

not sure how K12 works today considering I last worked for one in 2017 pre-COVID and only for one year, and I don't know how much of this if anything is funded by this plan, but I can attest that there is a ton of waste back then.

1) iPad's galore. Every other classroom had a cart with 30 iPads in them. Most of them filled with learning apps with dubious uses. They were a pain to administer and broke constantly because kids dropped them and even the rugged cases couldn't save them. Although I've heard they switched to Chromebooks because their cheaper and more rugged since then. Speaking of Chromebooks...

2) Chromebooks galore. My Cousin, at a different school, were given Chromebooks post-COVID. She literally has a pile of them in her room because she gets one every other year and the school doesn't want them back. Her mother gave them to me to figure out what to do with them since the school won't even take them to recycle. All of them were unregistered from the school org and I Powerwashed them with no ties back to the school org once I updated them and put them back online. All of them still have 2-5 years of support left. I know Chromebooks are relatively cheap especially when bought in bulk but this seems to be a massive waste to me.

3) Craptastic desktops. Back to the school I worked for. They had ancient desktops that were easily 10+ years old in 2017 and claimed they didn't have the money to replace them. I asked them at the time why don't they replace them with Chromeboxes (or use Cloudready, which Google eventually bought to make Chromebook Flex) since the school was a google shop (they were on the Google for Education system at the time) and their answer was because they needed MSOffice even though none of the kids used Office because they were on Google and were using Google Docs and Classroom for everything. They were too afraid that if they dropped MS that some software would come down the line that was Windows only, and they would be screwed. I can understand that at that time, but it was getting very clear that K12 across the board was going full web based and anything would be better than running Windows 10 on 2GB ram systems on low end Core 2 Duo's.

4) Wifi everywhere. Every single classroom had an AP. This makes sense considering the iPad's everywhere. It didn't make sense to me that it was used so inefficiently at the time. I remember having to run 4 network lines to a classroom 200 feet from the switch to temporarily hook up 3 computers and a phone for a room that already had wifi in it when wifi USB dongles were $20 each and the phones supported wifi connectivity. Students had access to them and would hook their phones to them to watch TikTok all day.

5) Smart boards everywhere. Every classroom had Promethean smart boards. There were projector based connected to a laptop the teacher had. Useful but were very expensive and failure prone. They constantly needed realigned and the projectors would "star-out" since they were all DLP projectors with that faulty TI chip.

6) Bandwidth Galore. The school system I worked for had a 1gbps link at the time which was symmetrical. The busiest we would see it was roughly 750mbps around 11AM to 2PM and vary rarely peaked beyond a minute or two. They were planning to up it to 2gbps but I left there before that happened. Keep in mind that most kids at that point did nothing but Youtube and Tiktok if you put a screen in front of them so even with that amount of Bandwidth usage it never seemed to be an issue. You would be amazed how much you can stretch 1gbps when you actively manage bandwidth correctly.

As for Cellular access points (Might make sense in some rural areas but would probably just put it in a Chromebook or tablet.) and Wifi on school buses (Why? So Billy can Doomscroll TikTok because he ran out of data?) can't comment on that since those weren't around when I worked in K12 (I'm guessing it was a COVID thing) but I don't see why you would need this overlap when there is the subsidized low income broadband initiatives already in place that's supposed to fill in these gaps.

We use both in production here; but, let's be VERY CLEAR: there is absolutely NO FAIR COMPARISON between a locally hosted model on above-average hardware and what Anthropic (and I assume others) is offering with their, currently, subsidized plans.

They're called "enrobers." (humor)

When Russia began attacking Ukraine... it apparently failed to prepare for possible retaliation.

FTFY. Based on how the Russians started whining when Ukraine had the nerve to shoot back.

It is at this point that I will make this about politics and purposefully pursue the "yet you participate in society" vibe.

How can you possibly advocate against $POLICY and then say "If $COMPANY had done what I advocate against, things would be better for all of us" without that meaningfully affecting your view of $POLICY?

Please forgive me, I don't want to make this about politics per se and I don't want this comment to come off as attacking or give off an "and yet you participate in society" vibe, but...

I was under the impression that you were nominally on what we would call "the left" and that "vertical integration" was one of the seven deadly sins, economically speaking. Given a large amount opposition to that in the western world over the last thirty years or so, how was anyone supposed to plan for the situation we're in today?

(On another note, from an economic rather than political point of view, if you look at how AMD and Intel have functioned over the last 10-20 years, AMD's choice to divest their fabs seems to have been a very good decision on their part and I say this as someone who thought it was a terrible choice and a death knell for the company at the time).

Not sure how you can put "AI companies bought all the fucking supply of everything for three entire calendar years" on "gaming companies." I saw some guy on reddit the other day complaining about Microsoft reducing the amount of storage for 365 family subs and urging everyone to sign some petition to reverse this as if a. there was any chance of a reversal or b. that enterprise storage costs increasing by a factor of four over the last calendar year might make this both a reasonable move on their part and something beyond control.

I realize that Microsoft at least is part of the problem here with Copilot/Azure/whatever else along with their OpenAI investments, but it doesn't change that "the consumer electronics market is now fundamentally different than it was just a year ago." Moore's law isn't going to be making things cheaper anymore and everything with RAM and/or flash will be getting more expensive on an almost monthly basis until at least 2029 (note, that's not saying "things will get better then" but only "things will continue getting worse until at LEAST then.")

The fuck kind of crazy shit is this?

My 15yo will play almost any game on any platform at any time. Yep, she plays on her phone and her tablet but she also plays on her xbox and switch. She has a school issued laptop for her classwork and uses desktops in classes that have/require them.

My 8yo plays on her tablet and my wife's phone, but has no problem using a Switch controller (be it a joycon, pro controller, or the two joycons on the charging base together). She plays puzzle games with my wife, minecraft on her tablet and the switch, and she really likes Mario Kart (she likes 8 a lot more than 64). She doesn't have a 1:1 laptop at school yet (other than during Covid, they don't do this until middle school here), but they pass out laptops at school as required for day assignments.

I don't disagree that kids do a lot of their gaming on mobile devices, but this idea that they don't know/play other games or that they "don't understand how to use a controller or a laptop" is fucking insane.

Disagree. A large part of why costs are through the roof is that the product mix has shifted from heavily favoring general use parts like SDRAM to more specialized parts like HBM. Most of this production is going right to the end customer rather than middlemen. What you're likely to see when/if this bubble pops is a lot of nominally useless (in the short term) hardware (for general compute) being liquidated and that what middlemen are sitting on is still supply constrained for the immediate future and holds its value.