That is sorta the fun of this. All those horse power is need where the model is being run. You can compose the scripts and the prompts on your VIC-20 plugged into some old crt.

It might be that.

The 8-bit guy attempted something similar. I have not see the film, just the clips he presented in his video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It looks like kinda of a mess, and he says as much. He also isn't saying he is an expert in AI or in film making or in ai-film making.. I have not seen the movie talked about here either but from the sound of things it has a lot of the problems 8-bit Guy's work does that he freely acknowledges. It just seems odd to me that someone positioning themselves as a professional film maker would want to market with something like this, either not seeing the issues or shrugging them off.

It is kinda the difference between, a personal project where, you know I saw that in the furniture store and thought - I could probably do that. Later you invite some friends over for dinner and say "see I built this entire dining set, its got some jointing issues here and there and the finish has a few flaws if you look legs and places I start projecting my technique but I think I did alright considering the materials I had access to and carpentry not being my day job.." and accepting contracts to build fine pieces and showing up with work that is less than standard industrial quality, in this case I'd compare the movie to the level of polish that goes into a sitcom episode or something..

you might be right. As they say though if you are explaining your are losing.

I hope you are right about Rubio and he can go on to have a political career. I don't know about Vance.

The problem Rubio has is that he is Sec State, that nominally is one of the most influential positions in any administration (possibly not this one -\_0_/- ). Just like in 16 HRC was not able to run away from Obama'a foreign policy failings I am uncertain Rubio will be able to say "wasn't me" when it comes to Iran / Ukraine strategy and make the swing voters believe it.

I think you misunderstood my comment.

My assertion is the GOP ( and by extension primary voters) have made poor choices in Paxton, Ramaswamy, and really in the last presidential primary Donald Trump. Politically Trumps broad policy positions are not wildly out of alignment with a majority of the American public....but some like Rubio (whom you seem to favor) could easily have won the '24 election too all things being equal. I would argue he would have likely over performed Trump, in the general election.

I am not in Texas I don't known all the details but I am fairly certain a lot that 12 point spread isn't people who really strongly support Talarico so much as it is people who think Paxton is a crook; and don't want him further hurting the country or the party. Had the Texas GOP thrown it weight behind someone The Bush family would not have such an easy time kneecapping even if they equally disliked him Texas might still have two GOP senators in the next session.

I got no problem with Rubio if he is the next GOP nominee. However... even though I think he'd be a fine president for a lot of people his association with the Trump administration is now a taint. If I got to sit in the cigar smoke filled back room and play king maker, I'd favor running a governor or recent governor with both real conservative bonifieds, and decent approval rates in their final term of office. Sara Sanders (her past association with Trump admin is sufficiently distant and nobody can hang policy positions around the press secretary), Ron DeSantis, perhap Glen Younkin...

All better choices than Vance now; and safer alternatives to Rubio.. who even if he succeeds in distancing himself on Iran policy etc; will be seen as having been spineless or at least painted that way by the opposition.

Will it though? Ken Paxton and Ramaswamy are the most obvious examples, but there were at least several others. The GOP has a habit lately of selecting the candidates with the most possible baggage for some reason. The story of this election isn't that people like Democrats. It is that enough self-inflicted wounds senseless backing candidates that can only win under ideal voter turnout scenarios vs candidates some might cross a partly line for will sink you.

Ohio really is pretty red usually, as is Texas, and even with demographic changes I don't think the issue was really that a centerist RINO candidate was need, but candidates that could keep their foot out of their mouth and did not have history of obvious corruption and narrow legal escapes over the immediate past years were.

The other thing is the Trump admin has really f**ed up with Iran.. They should hit those desal plants and the oil terminals four months ago. It would have broken the regime, people would have shouted 'war crimes' or whatever but it would have been out of the news by now. Iran would be like Syria forgotten but for a few NGOs trying to deliver foods stuffs and drinking water to camps. Fuel prices even without Iran's production on the world market but safe-ish passage enabled would be a lot lower. The GOP could have campaigned on having truly ended and evil regime after 50 years. The other likely as politically useful choice would have been to have not done it at all and worked to liken the defense of Israel to that of Ukraine in the public's mind..

Fundamentally Trump has the right ideas, but his execution and the people he leverages to execute are a clown show, the same was true of course for the Biden administration. The lesson though is public service attracts the least capable but most power hungry among us. Best we can hope for is that Trump really does destroy as much of the administrative infrastructure as possible on his way out so the next guys whatever party they belong to can't use it!

WAT?

It takes more than couple days to test and push software patches. You do want things tested right, you'd hate get a TZ file where someone fat fingered something and systems set to a given zone all default to GMT or something right because they can't parse the row needed?

Also it isn't just computers timezone change impact. Contracts may involve hourly payments etc, and people might need to negotiate changes; not many people maybe but not nobody.

Honestly I don't see any universe where responsible governance would change time standards with less than years notice. Not that it does not happen but there is no reason that is should. What possibly makes it so urgent to change right now if you want to stop doing DST -> STD vs pass the law now have it take effect before the next would be time change after this one?

yeah I have done a bit of that on my little personal projects, that I have "vibe coded".

It is fun because you get to look at code, like it is the 90s again, and everything there is relevant and important. As much as people fear AI is going to generate a lot of incomprehensible mud-ball programs, it is actually pretty good and generating concise things, that are easy to read.

HOWEVER...

Those personal projects don't resemble the requirements of contemporary software. Even internal enterprise software these days often needs support for stuff like internationalization, accessibility support, adaptive UI that is useful and efficent for the comptroller with the 43" monitor and for the CEO who insists he only needs a 6" mobile phone for all the things.

The libraries are big because they do all that stuff, and if skip them you don't get that stuff. 80% of the time you don't need that stuff. That said, for your little S-corp, or even smaller LLC you might not need that stuff right now but very suddenly you might find that you do. When you do you'll be rewriting or at least rebasing a lot of code back onto those big library stacks; where as if you'd used them in the fist place it would probably be just add some start up parameters to flip on 'high contrast mode' in the display tool kit for the color blind person you just hired. Alternative you could try to just add the functionality you now need, but of course then you are just putting the complexity right back and getting to run a new untested system, with lot of fun corner cases and gotchas for you to discover all by yourself because you did not know enough about the subject to tell the AI Agent what it all it really needed to do.

It is fashionable to hate on all the complexity, but to often people forget about the simplicity it affords. You can today get an incredible amount of functionality out of handful of lines of "application" code. If I use a browser as my UI, a single gives me an edit control where a user can write click and get spelling suggestions, the get ranged selection support, I can style it with a few more lines of re-usable css, screen readers know what to do with it, and more; try that with your win32 CreateWindowEx() edit control....

Complexity means bugs, because bugs are ultimately a function of interactions that were not considered fully, the more stuff interacting either the more buggy it will be or the more effort will be need to control for it. The complexity though exists because people demanded it, society decided software had to be usable even if you don't speak English, and we decided things like it should portable even if you change computer architecture, and .... achieving all that without the library ecosystem really would be impractical.

LOL it was the last crash that created the "you're the product" tech industry. Everyone woke in 2000 and realized nobody had a real business plan, and started sell; tech's answer was monitize the users.

Holly crap dude you think with regulating big tech is going to give you more freedom. I have 20% share in the Brooklyn Bride if you are interested, I am willing to sell for pennies on the dollar!

Seriously all regulating AI will do is make it harder or impossible for open source and open models. Regulation is what Anthropic and OpenAI want, they are littleral asking for it. Why? Because they only have a realistic revenue stream and by extension business if either; the history of computers getting faster and cheaper suddenly stops.. or they can someone legally keep people from publishing stuff and others from selling hardware. That is 100% what that is all about no matter what they say, and Democrats will play right into it. We all better hope they don't get both Houses.

Not like IPv6 solves anything with lots of ISP blocking inbound IPv6 connections.

Right that is the real problem isn't. Google has not yet worked exactly how to stuff enough ad impressions to make money without destroying the utility the user is getting out of the experience to the point they are likely to abandon Google for a traditional search engine or go pay for Chat-GPT or something.

Really 'ad words' in AI summaries ought to be "easy" from an implementation standpoint. The 'problem' is doing its going to use even more tokens that need to be paid for.

I agree

The winners here are going to be people with actual hardware IP (Nvidia, Apple, others), people with actual hardware fabs, and likely Google and Meta. I predict despite the current crazy valuations the Magnificent-7 eventually end up acquiring the leading AI labs.

The real costs are in building models, not hosting them comparatively speaking and that picture only improves as the energy infrastructure and hardware markets gradually align to the volume demands. The labs are already just reselling the hyperscallers computer, there is no reason those guys are not going to take 'good enough' models and beat them on price.

Having the 'best' models is an asset someone with existing SaaS, Marketing, etc business on the hand can leverage and by extension justify the expense. That is why I see OpenAI and Anthropic eventually becoming acquisition targets once the gold-rush investors capitulate on their valuations.

The option is for them to get directly into the datacenter biz (not contracting for them and agreeing consumption commitments but actually building them and owning the dirt all they way up to the roof top chillers. Anthropic seems to be trying to make that play but I still don't know where the revenue will really come from...

Not that anyone in the TOS cast really deserves much criticism as far as how they manage(d) their celebrity, but Koenig always came off as a class act. In every interview he always seems grateful to just have had the privilege of being part of something big. Really seem to care about the fans and wanted to be entertaining for them at conventions and the like, was willing to participate in some of the fandom projects. Just a good guy.

Nice little supply chain attack.

Hijack of shipment of servers equipped with presently very very expense silicon that nobody will consider just disposing, insert your implants, let some patsys get busted and the kit get returned to the owners.

Bonus points make it seem like a general / widely implemented scheme by hijacking some large liquor shipments and various other goods as well. Pass out the spoils at the field office party or fence them to finance some other activities that need kept well away from oversight.

These are also many of the most looked at, most often fuzzed, SAST scanned, valgrind'd things in the world.

I really don't think it will be as bad as all that. We have not seen Apache, Nginx, etc pwnd like this, or OpenSSH, or Bind, or postfix ...

I could go on. I think the actual posture and condition of most of these project is far better than you apparently expect. (I guess we are going to see who is right).

What AI is finding is stuff the other scanners miss, which is stuff where there is a clear temporal component. We are going to see races, toc-tou, probably more stuff like these PHP issues which if I understand correctly is a use-after-free or something you could at least force into that taxonomy.

So there are going to be new bugs found, even seriously impactful appearing ones, but the reach-ability and chances of successful exploitation outside laboratory conditions is going be low... Do they work when it is a VM on you lab server you can hammer away at with 1000 threads yes; when there is a AWS ELB in-front or a waf that has any impact on request ordering or pipe-lining, good luck..

I am not saying people won't be spending more hours patching over the next year or so than they have been, they will but the sky probably also isn't falling

People say that but I think they say it without a lot of real understand of what the web was like when it was born, and second that PHP5(+) does not look much like PHP 4(-)

Before PHP there were CGI scripts/programs, which were Perl, sh, or C or if you were on Windows classic-asp. If you wanted maintainability your wrote in Perl (yeah I am being serious) and if you wanted performance or needed to do something complicated you wrote it in C. Remember we are talking 1995-97 here there isn't even a C++ standard yet! These were you main choices for 'web development'.

PHP let people do what demanded C in something that did not have to be compiled and did require understanding C style memory management. Here comes the big BUT though, all the really good, really useful library code out there was C. All those library authors did not talk to each other so everyone was different in terms of conventions, who allocates the the caller or the called, who frees, are we passing references or values for primitives, etc. All different and php did not attempt to hide any of that as it pulled in those libraries it wrapped them in its runtime and memory management without attempting make their use orthogonal and part of some consistent ecosystem.

It wasn't a 'hack' it just was not a complete abstraction.

That was 'fine' for people who came to PHP from writing C, and were using PHP because it let them make changes on the fly, saved writing a lot of boiler plate request life-cycle management stuff, etc. It all made sense, if you can at it not from C though it was confusing mine-filed of gotchas. It made web development possible for a whole lot of people who never got access to compiler. That was cool, but it also put a lot of power in the hands of people the way the Visual Basic "Declare" keyword did, and unsurprising they did hack-y things with it, cause themselves all sorts of problems..