2 weeks ago my large company you've heard of had a townhall meeting where the CEO, who had hitherto been quite levelheaded and sensible about the AI stuff, finally threw all-in with the AI boosters and encouraged everyone to use as much AI as we could, for every possibly use we could think of.
3 days later we were out of tokens and even the useful stuff like support ticket summaries were unavailable.
if there was ever a moment for a robot to flip out and kill people, this was the one
just look at all the AI simps and the digital reams of text psoted over the last 3 years hyperglazing this shit
pretty sure you mean cowardly Iranian drones
i dont genuinely bellieve that
((plz forgive typos, im typing with gloves on since the temp went from 85F to 27Fin a day)
this is, as they say, the way
6 x 4TB Z2, in a scavenged proliant with 64GB ECC, one 16T WD gold in a separate normal box as a backup target, and that machine has backblaze so it's offsite unlimited for $100 / year
initial 4TB drives bought as a lot of used ebay drives and replaced as they become marginal, but it's been years now and i've only replaced 2 of them with new red pros so far
everything's ticking along nicely, only thing i really need to do is switch over to Scale at some point. insane value for bits over time.
how will we afford to rent our compute terminal
if we blow up the moon first, then the asteroid can't hit it
win-win
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the problem is that everything worth having is scalped to hell and back now. "agentic commerce" is the back edge of that blade. in a world where everything is scalped out, how else are we to get anything except by paying even more out the nose that the already exorbitant prices being demanded by retailers.
have you seen the prices of [RAM, GPUs, SSDs] these past months?
they're hoarding the RAM and GPUs and storage now, in a few more years they're hogging the electricity and the water
don't miss that time he paid $5 to sign up a sockpuppet account on MetaFilter to defend and call himself a genius in the 3rd person
children shouldn't be allowed to drive monster trucks
"Oh, I'm gonna have your job, shithead. I'm going downtown to talk to Mitch and Murray, I'm going to Lemkin. I don't care whose nephew you are, who you know, whose dick you're sucking on, you're going out. I swear to you, you're going..."
was updating the preloaded CSAM
i've never been in one and the nearest is apparently 2h away, so i'm curious about this part in tfs:
> Shoppers follow unwritten rules: move along, don't block the way, step aside to check your phone.
i find it rather hard to believe that people do this en masse because of some "behave, we're in the costco" impulse. can anyone confirm this?
> Checkout lines form orderly queues.
on this other hand, this part does not seem particularly novel or noteworthy?
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. -- James Michener, "Space"
