Comment Just make it once a day (Score 2) 31
Just make it once a day, or hey, every hour. That way, I can update Chrome between the gig of Win11 updates coming in.
Comment Re:hard on batteries (Score 1) 304
In my experience, it just ends up requiring replacement of the starter battery more often, and the batteries required are larger, AGM type batteries that tend to be more expensive than smaller/flooded lead acid type batteries, (if you care about battery cost). Now, I suppose, if you sit in traffic a lot, and don't need A/C or heat too much, don't have a lot of accessories that are on a lot, (like heated or cooled seats, radio, etc.), and are absolutely wanting to save that last $2/month on gas, then go ahead. All I would ask is that the button *remember* the setting, between on/off ignition cycles, so if I turn it off, it just stays Off. I have installed a few harness adapters that connect to the harness going to the start/stop button so that it can 'remember' it's setting and only enables if the button is pressed to enable it back on. That is how it should have been from the factory.
I love how someone expressing their opinions is slowly moderated down to Troll. Heaven forbid that someone don't agree with you.
Comment hard on batteries (Score 0) 304
In my experience, it just ends up requiring replacement of the starter battery more often, and the batteries required are larger, AGM type batteries that tend to be more expensive than smaller/flooded lead acid type batteries, (if you care about battery cost).
Now, I suppose, if you sit in traffic a lot, and don't need A/C or heat too much, don't have a lot of accessories that are on a lot, (like heated or cooled seats, radio, etc.), and are absolutely wanting to save that last $2/month on gas, then go ahead. All I would ask is that the button *remember* the setting, between on/off ignition cycles, so if I turn it off, it just stays Off. I have installed a few harness adapters that connect to the harness going to the start/stop button so that it can 'remember' it's setting and only enables if the button is pressed to enable it back on. That is how it should have been from the factory.
Now, I suppose, if you sit in traffic a lot, and don't need A/C or heat too much, don't have a lot of accessories that are on a lot, (like heated or cooled seats, radio, etc.), and are absolutely wanting to save that last $2/month on gas, then go ahead. All I would ask is that the button *remember* the setting, between on/off ignition cycles, so if I turn it off, it just stays Off. I have installed a few harness adapters that connect to the harness going to the start/stop button so that it can 'remember' it's setting and only enables if the button is pressed to enable it back on. That is how it should have been from the factory.
Comment Re:Better get those circular deals going (Score 1) 40
No problem for the AI hyper scalers...they'll just do some 100 trillion dollar deals back and forth and it all will work out.
I genuinely don't think the circle-jerk deals are the real force behind this. Microsoft "investing" in OpenAI doesn't inherently create datacenter demand. OpenAI "investing" in nVidia doesn't either. What does create demand is all the people asking CoPilot to summarize an e-mail for them. Or to write a paragraph of code they could Google the results of. Or create a picture of their wife's head on a walrus. The load is what's screwing us. All the useless, pointless, wasteful load.
Agree. That could be solved by the AI-bros actually charging for the services, which will have to happen someday. They will have to start making actual profit on this shit, someday. Although, I'd also think that a lot of the useless shit people ask AI to do could be handled by local models, which would be cheaper to run. I would think summarizing an email should certainly not require 10 top of the line GPUs to do by now.
Comment Better get those circular deals going (Score 2) 40
No problem for the AI hyper scalers...they'll just do some 100 trillion dollar deals back and forth and it all will work out.
Comment New Subscription - only $149.99/month (Score 5, Funny) 170
For a Beemer, it's the Pretentious Dickbag Subscription. For another $799.99/month, we'll put a middle finger where the turn signals would normally be.
Comment Re:My own opinion, take with salt and more salt (Score 2) 55
I hope you do not plan to give that code any publicly available interfaces. Because LLMs are absolute crap at writing secure code. Probably because most people that proudly put their code on the net as "examples" are too.
If I was going to give a public interface to anything, it's going to go through the same process that I have been using for a number of years now - a templated design that has been tested/pentested/tested again for holes. And these days, it will likely be behind an AWS api gateway as well if we're talking about internet-facing apis. It won't be some EC2 instance with a public ip and a sec group of 80 -> 0.0.0.0/0.
I should have added in my original post that I feel AI tools can be very useful in the hands of trained and experienced developers. The CEO that vibe-codes some application over a weekend and then wants it pushed to prod at his company on Monday is not what I am talking about here. We have a group now at my work that has vibe-coded a very complex, very expensive to run app with an insanely complex DB structure that will be unmaintainable. I have already made my concerns known about that particular project, and it will not go to prod until the people that want to assume liability for it sign off. It is an MCP implementation that has security issues all through it. Yes, that shit isn't going to prod until it has been eval'd by competent engineers and/or someone wants to take the fall for it.
So, what I am saying, is that I agree with you. AI has it's place.
Comment My own opinion, take with salt and more salt (Score 1, Troll) 55
I have spent the last 2 weeks really getting into CoPilot for helping write code, (python specifically).
I am very fluent in Python, and have been for awhile. I give a shit about architecture, clean/simple code, data types, and can pass my stuff through mypy and it passes.
I started two greenfield projects - one for embedded development and one for math modeling using numpy and python, (C was a long time ago for me, and I am not deeply familiar with numpy, but I have knowledge of calculus and advanced algebra and how it works on paper). My knowledge of embedded dev is very basic.
Within a week, I had working code for both that was much faster than I could have done by hand. Now, the code *works*, but I need to dive deeper into how *clean* the code is. But I also started with a basic architecture diagram of what I wanted, and that is also a big factor. And I think that that is the most important thing - the architecture. I don't believe it makes sense to just start blasting prompts at an agent and then just blindly run whatever it gives you. I start with a foundation, I start developing the pieces of the architecture, and I read through the AI responses and push back on anything that I don't want, (and when it adds interesting things that I find useful, I work that into the architecture). But I work in small blocks.
AI coding does make a difference. But it isn't replacing *architecture* anytime soon. If you really want to spend hours and hours and hours building syntax and having to run the program 3000 times a day while you debug where a semicolon is missing, then great. I used to say that I'd never leave infrastructure, too. And now that I work as a cloud architect/dev, I am happy to never have to make another run to the datacenter 100 miles away at 2 a.m.
It is what is is. AI does have some good uses. We just need to figure out how to not destroy the environment completely, fill the internet with misinformation, or block new engineers from entering the field, and/or put Sam Altman or Elon Musk in charge of the world in the process.
I started two greenfield projects - one for embedded development and one for math modeling using numpy and python, (C was a long time ago for me, and I am not deeply familiar with numpy, but I have knowledge of calculus and advanced algebra and how it works on paper). My knowledge of embedded dev is very basic.
Within a week, I had working code for both that was much faster than I could have done by hand. Now, the code *works*, but I need to dive deeper into how *clean* the code is. But I also started with a basic architecture diagram of what I wanted, and that is also a big factor. And I think that that is the most important thing - the architecture. I don't believe it makes sense to just start blasting prompts at an agent and then just blindly run whatever it gives you. I start with a foundation, I start developing the pieces of the architecture, and I read through the AI responses and push back on anything that I don't want, (and when it adds interesting things that I find useful, I work that into the architecture). But I work in small blocks.
AI coding does make a difference. But it isn't replacing *architecture* anytime soon. If you really want to spend hours and hours and hours building syntax and having to run the program 3000 times a day while you debug where a semicolon is missing, then great. I used to say that I'd never leave infrastructure, too. And now that I work as a cloud architect/dev, I am happy to never have to make another run to the datacenter 100 miles away at 2 a.m.
It is what is is. AI does have some good uses. We just need to figure out how to not destroy the environment completely, fill the internet with misinformation, or block new engineers from entering the field, and/or put Sam Altman or Elon Musk in charge of the world in the process.
Comment Re:Car insurance would be cheaper if... (Score 1) 118
Google is your friend, bud.
Comment Car insurance would be cheaper if... (Score 4, Interesting) 118
Car insurance would be cheaper if they weren't so fucking expensive to repair. If a bumper dent can result in an $8k claim, because of all the sensors/calibration required to fix it, that's a bigger issue.
The math on this is that Teslas are expensive to repair after an accident, but the hope is that there will just be less of them, but there is more to it....
I have also tried the 'track your driving with a bluetooth beacon' thingy that State Farm offers, and what happens is that your rates go down for one renewal cycle, then you start getting dinged for every little thing afterwords - you took the corner too fast, (turning from a highway onto another highway), or you braked too hard - because someone in front of you had to brake hard, or you were driving too fast, (7 over because everyone on the road was 7 or more mover and you're trying to not enrage everyone). It ends up being not very worthwhile, (and if you have a sports car, you'll have to drive it like a grandmother to not be penalized on your rates).
So in my mind, I have my doubts as to this being very workable, especially for aggressive Tesla drivers.
The math on this is that Teslas are expensive to repair after an accident, but the hope is that there will just be less of them, but there is more to it....
I have also tried the 'track your driving with a bluetooth beacon' thingy that State Farm offers, and what happens is that your rates go down for one renewal cycle, then you start getting dinged for every little thing afterwords - you took the corner too fast, (turning from a highway onto another highway), or you braked too hard - because someone in front of you had to brake hard, or you were driving too fast, (7 over because everyone on the road was 7 or more mover and you're trying to not enrage everyone). It ends up being not very worthwhile, (and if you have a sports car, you'll have to drive it like a grandmother to not be penalized on your rates).
So in my mind, I have my doubts as to this being very workable, especially for aggressive Tesla drivers.
Comment Blame where it's due, yep (Score 0) 104
The Billionaire techbro oligarchy is totally fine doubling CO2 output over the next 10 years so they can become trillionaires.
That's okay. Keep blaming a dude driving his 20-year old car to his shit job that he'll never escape, (and eventually lose), as the problem.
That's okay. Keep blaming a dude driving his 20-year old car to his shit job that he'll never escape, (and eventually lose), as the problem.
Comment Re:Endless growth - until the money is gone (Score 2) 60
This "I don't understand what money is" ranting is rather sad to see.
There is no cap on money, because money represents only one thing. Trust in value. It has no value in of itself. This is why "gold standard" societies either gave it up or failed after hitting large growth spikes. Because if trust in value is tied to a specific metal, you need enough supply to expand the value of medium of exchange to keep up with societal trends. It's what killed Spanish Empire for example. They grew so fast, they couldn't mint enough coins to keep trade lubricated.
Same rule applies here. The money merely represents trust in value of whatever is being made. If what is being made is valuable, amount of money will expand to match that value so that trade remains possible for the entire value that is created and is in use.
And if AI goes as hard as it seems to be going in terms of value generation, we have a good chance of seeing value of things created by humanity go into quadrillions of today's dollars in our lifetimes.
If we were talking about durable goods like homes and swiss watches and true infrastructure, I would agree with you. But we're talking about GPUs and software that changes by the hour. The GPUs lose most of their value within 24 months, use enormous amounts of power, and the software is full of holes and bugs. The value generation isn't there, not just because of this, but because a lot of that hardware is being used to generate cat videos and youtube vids full of misinformation/propaganda.
So, No, I don't agree with your assessment.
Comment Endless growth - until the money is gone (Score 2) 60
Does the ruling class really have the trillions needed to build all of this infrastructure, maintain it, and improve it forever? That's the question that's really being asked. We're probably talking tens of trillions of dollars. Remember, they still want to buy yachts, vacations, cars, watches, and homes. They're not going to stop doing that for 20 years do this.
Comment Re:Terribly disappointed in the name (Score 1) 49
People on slashdot who are luddites are hilarious to me. AI is the next stage of human evolution (as soon as we can integrate it into our brains), and yet they resist. Reminds me of how VR/AR is a logical step to cybernetics, and yet they resist. The real beta tests for that, ghost in the shell cybernetic utopia future, were google glass etc, but the beta testers were called glassholes, when all they were, were visionaries who were a few decades too early to a future that is coming.
No. These people were glassholes because the only thing they enabled was recording people for the purpose of large companies somehow monetizing it.
One is not a luddite for shunning shit tech.
Comment And once the bubble pops... (Score 4, Interesting) 65
Most of these data centers will be sitting, unused as well.
With the depreciation of hardware, cost of energy, use of water and land, and no profitability in sight, I am totally missing how these datacenters get approved in the first place. And the next revisions of Nvidia gpus may even require the racking setup to be changed, so these datacenters may be considered dated before they're even built. Everything that I have read points to them doing nothing but losing money in operation. I am happy to be enlightened if someone can explain to me how these datacenters would ever be profitable.
With the depreciation of hardware, cost of energy, use of water and land, and no profitability in sight, I am totally missing how these datacenters get approved in the first place. And the next revisions of Nvidia gpus may even require the racking setup to be changed, so these datacenters may be considered dated before they're even built. Everything that I have read points to them doing nothing but losing money in operation. I am happy to be enlightened if someone can explain to me how these datacenters would ever be profitable.
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