Even just for archiving, I would have thought tape would be too slow for the volume of data involved in AI farms.
LTO-9 writes at 300 megabytes per second for uncompressed data. So 2-3x of that for things like text. And unlike HDDs, this is sustained and constant. A tape library with 3-5 tape drives can easily saturate a 40G network.
You won't be able to get the hardware much longer.
Why? You don't need anything exotic to run reasonably-sized models locally. I'm using Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on a machine with two 32 Gb VRAM AMD GPUs and 128 Gb regular RAM at 100 tokens per second. It just finished debugging a bug in the iSCSI bridge for a tape drive.
We all know enshittification is coming because it's too useful and cheap right now so expect it to get locked up and pay through the nose.
Doesn't matter. Open models can do the same already, if with a bit more hand-holding.
The $100/yr for a developer doesn't come close to covering publishing costs.
Agreed. It should be more like $25. $100 is _way_ too much.
Also don't forget having to use Apple hardware to do the development.
So put your pearls down, this just resets the clock.
How? The net result: we are $1.2B poorer. Are you doing accounting for DOGE?
Calling this out, show me. Also show me an economist that measures economic output by where people happen to live and not where they work.
What exactly? The tax return information is available from the IRS. Cross-reference it with Census district zoning.
Also show me an economist that measures economic output by where people happen to live and not where they work.
So offices create value, not people in them? Do a mental experiment: replace offices with remote work. How much value remains?
And yet the major cities are in a housing crisis because so many people want to live there. Square that circle for me please.
No. Around 80-85% of people would prefer to live in single-family homes. People instead are forced by economics to live in dense areas that are designed to be hostile for humans (bike lanes instead of roads, forced public transit, no good grocery stores forcing people to eat junk, etc.)
Probably because he's a middle aged white guy. Swap him out for a black guy and I suspect the outcome would be a bit less cordial.
Police are statistically less likely to harm Black people during an arrest.
Urban cores subsidize suburbs
This is simply false. Most of the US wealth is generated in suburbs. Or perhaps you think that companies are people?
Urban cores steal from suburbia by taxing company offices that are located in urban cores. But if you look at PERSONAL tax returns, suburbia is clearly funding the lifestyle of urban cores. And as usual, welfare queens always think that they're actually the hardest-working and deserve all they get.
Oh, just "dis-aggregate" (whatever that means) the foundation of human civilization.
Yeah, let's instead force people into 15-minute neighborhoods. With barbed wire and fences, so they won't dare to go out.
Why they may ask?
Cheaper housing, better jobs, more space for kids, better entrepreneurship, better general outcomes. There's simply nothing that urban cores can offer in these areas.
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