But apparently what's not cheap is apparently software. As usual AMD are incredibly weak on that side and wonder why they never seem to get much traction. I invite you to figure out how to run an inference workload on the NPU on Linux.

I looked into them as an alternative to NVidia Jetson (OMFG no I am not porting my software to Windows, literally no one in the company develops on Windows) for an edge compute workload and... it's the usual AMD shit. Apparently good specs, but unusable software.

Fucking why? I'm desparate to get off Jetsons because they are in simple terms a right fucking pain in the arse.

Have you noticed how everyone on the internet is a massively juiced bodybuilder who's 50+ BMI is all solid muscle? The internet is way more jacked than the outside world.

He's not a king. I was very careful to point out that the immunity applies to him, and him only. Not his appointees. Not the people who work for him. Not his goons.

Thomas Cromwell enters the chat.

It has never applied to anyone else. The King's goons and cronies have immunity at the king's pleasure.

Our democracy is holding. Times are ugly, and our system is imperfect, but the democracy is healthy.

It is not.

Always remember, "we the people" voted for this.

With the level of voter suppression and gerrymandering that's taking hold, that's a dubious claim.

MAGA (up until six days ago)

Nah they're still saying that. Don't underestimate the ability of a MAGAt to cheer on an objective reality that they are also denying.

Half ya'll seem to think everyone is an American with unfinished paperwork. /eyeroll

I didn't live long enough in the US to fully understand this: why do some people like to affect a kind of cutesy southern vibe only when saying something aggressively stupid?

At least he's not a warmonger like Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris! - MAGA (up until six days ago)

Uh, yeah, it does.

I don't think they do.

There are specific circuits active for fiction as distinct for the circuits for reality.

With the caveat "in some cases". I mean sure, if you start asking it about some very obvious piece of fiction, it can identify it.

However they are still horrendously prone to hallucinations (I wasted a bunch of time trying to get help with jaxtyping yesterday and it turned out the model I tried was simply inventing a capability that sounded plausible). And there's no chance I was exceeding the context window. If it can hallucinate so easily about reality then it cannot reliably distinguish fiction from reality.

Try going to Gemini right now and insisting in all seriousness that Dracula is right outside your door and see what sort of response you get.

Yeah but now do it about some bloke with a facemask and a hoodie pulled up. Still fiction(I hope!).

It is possible for a person to interact with a model for so long in what sounds like fiction-roleplaying manner that it "forgets" (due to long contexts / context compaction) that the person on the other end is being serious, not just roleplaying a story.

That kind of contradicts your claim it does know fantasy from reality. Basically it doesn't, but it can approximate it reasonably well in many cases.

According to Google,

They've implemented some guardrails, and there's various mechanisms to attempt to detect such things, but they are and always will be with this tech, flaky. It can in one line hand out the number for the Samaritans and then flip right back to playing along.

They are claiming they will come online around 2030, by which point the AI bubble will have burst

We hope. As the old saying goes the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, but nonetheless, I don't see how it can sustain the current pace given the claims being made.

I'm thinking on this topic of the energy claims being made (now many GW of AI accelerators being installed). The heavy industry doesn't exist to match the demand. Doesn't matter which, wind, solar or gas or steam turbines (and never mind the extra slowness of nuclear). Combine them all and the industry capacity worldwide to build at the kind of rates they are talking about does not exist. And the industry to scale up manufacturing of those at the rates required doesn't exist either.

So at some point it's going to slam into reality. Also, they're just all buying each other's shit. Though props to NVidia. They've figured out they can circulate money from themselves to AI companies and back to themselves with some sort of amplifier effect where each return trip picks up a load of extra money too.

The only reaction to Trump that MAGAts understand is worship. Therefore to them any other reaction is derangement.

And that's not just fuzzy 'yeah, but cellphones', because cellphones are providing a valuable (to many) service that results in a trade of privacy for convenience.

More than. It's getting increasingly hard to navigate the modern world effectively without one. Some things get more expensive. Some things get inaccessible.

I think Micros~2 would fit.

I think that a Ford Transit tipper is better suited than an F150 to be used in an actual construction site. The problem is that most of Transit require a commercial driving license because they could load more than 3.5 ton.

Transits are generally all drivable on a standard license, provided you don't overload them. You can overload an F150 too if you try. But in the US, which is the topic, the weight needed for a CDL is somewhat higher anyway.

The men like them because they can haul stuff and take it camping and shit.

Isn't that most of a lifestyle fantasy? Or are white collar office workers sctually spending the weekend as small scale truckers? Also don't most campsites have roads going to them? Camping's been popular for decades before 4wd vehicles were common.

The one place it does have a use, trucks or vans for carrying heavy commercial/industrial loads, isn't a huge market compared to personal use.

The top end Transit van uses a 2l, 4 cylinder diesel engine. Bigger ones like the Iveco Eurocargo or DAF LF lorries use 4 or 6 cylinder diesel engines. People use petrol engines when they're not planning on using their big trucks for actual heavy duty work.

Says the guy living in detached single family housing, presumably.

Half of the anti-EV Americans claim America isn't dense enough and the other half claim it's too dense for EVs. It can't be both.

Which would be fine, if there was decent public transit.

That's a different but also big problem.