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the first part wasn’t really a surprise (I am the someone else’s computer in a number of areas), but those numbers.. 100k/mo hit cap/target? holy shit. no wonder such fucked fortunes have been made off wordpress
for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32..48 cores, 128GB of RAM, approx 1TB of NVME or 4..8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y
I’ve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing “high end hosting”? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit
It has already more than paid for itself, since it is essentially free to host in its current form, and I was paying ~$1500/year in hosting fees to host it as a live WPEngine WordPress site (even post-retirement, it remained high-traffic enough it needed high-end hosting to be hassle free). Big debt of gratitude to the WordPress ecosystem for serving me so well for so long though.
I’ve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. they’re full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still it’s barely at “performance engineering” levels of problem
so when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing
I went with the whiskey glass-sized gin/campari/martini rosso/cherry thing. a less regrettable decision
thank you for saving me a search
and even then I regret looking
151 thousand views
one hundred. and. fifty one. thousand. views.
brb ordering a tasty cocktail with which to distract myself
also I just realized: he didn’t post this from his forkiverse account
did they already abandon that hilariously bad idea? did the widdle influencah realize that his social currency is his unfortunate popularity? gnnnngh
‘ole yuzzie has already solved the halting problem: he can never fucking stop writing
til soyweiser’s current char build is chaotic semi-evil
(I jest I jest)
casey newton, well-known fawning stan of promptfarmers, has now started on some mildly revisionist wording
you could’ve been engaging with this point for 2+ years casey! why *now you spineless shit? goose-goose-meme.jpg
yeah, my answer to this also used to be pandoc until they took the prompt unto their soul
it’s deeply fucking frustrating
well fuck :|
I wanted to make some kind of this/esherah crossover joke but my brain is failing atm, but to the former part of your comment: hehe :D
(I often like to hear how folks found their way to being who they are, there’s so much fucking humanity out there with y’all!)
I had some good fun learning about the different roulette systems recently. along with how many places say they’re typeA when they’re typeB
but then they do operate in a target rich environment :|
he was most frustrated a couple of weeks back when people called bullshit on his previous round of takes about this
there continues to be a rather particular shade of selfishness involved in each these-shape takes I keep seeing. it’s always about how the prompt is for them, how dare anyone else not believe them? and what do you mean externalities we’re not talking about power plants we’re talking about them
it’s exhausting
someone linked me a screenshot of the “claude helped me figure out I’m trans” post (from there) and whew, that one’s a real ride
nasb some criticism of the human damage is tasting up eve in places like ieee spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/measuring-ai-societal-impact-khan
awful does indeed use iocaine! and yeah the codebase is fun :)
it’s stunningly effective at handling scrapers, and it’s even more fucked how intense a plague the scrapers (combined with running shitty job scheduling with even worse code through resproxies) are
I signed up for ACM last year, just hit my expiry (like, today), and truly don’t know if I want to renew
it’s been an extreme avenue of generative hype, constantly pushing talks, books, etc. I have no idea how they square it with the ethical pledge
what a name choice
just fucking stunningly naked grift, incredible
this is a good post and some of y’all may enjoy it too: https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar
as I said elsewhere: I suspect this is happening because cash is becoming tighter
watching the saltman interview (in this frame) is…so much worse
I was planning to get drunkwatch it but I haven’t really had the headspace to get that mad this week
it’s amazing what knowing even a lick of history can do, hey?
…..snrk
I’ve heard of it, including in some outlets that (at the distance I am to it) seemed to pass the sniff test
but I’ve also seen it kick around TPOT
so I’d definitely want to seek out the advice of an expert if I cared about it
found a paper that may be of interest and review interest to some here
linked via this toot that hit my feed
Missed this when it was first going around
Leave it to fucking zuckco to figure out the worst way to make They Live happen
seems unlikely, see here for reference
well would you look at that, some consequences
“posting from the slop hole” is probably the best description possible for this, brb stealing
me here still steelman-following casey and masnick and such all like 😬😬😬
god this sounds exhausting
accountability sink go brrr
(and to step on my pedestal for a moment: turns out “flat file” semantics for reasoning about and managing computer instructions is kinda fucking terrible, who knew?! (gods I wish we could have had some of the alternatives… worse is better is why they won out, but we could do so much better with modern compute capacity..))
lol, lmao even
I wonder what will happen if people still continue (and I’m sure a few can afford to..)
but holy shit talk about absolute desperation…
^ this
all the other stuff around it is bloody unhinged, including how kent reacted when someone promoted his bot to reply in a manner that didn’t fit his deluded conception of it
from a distance, it looks like the kind of unhinged that doesn’t take much to progress into being dangerous
slowly burning through the latest BTB eps (on epstein), getting to the point in ep3 about the discussions/events around ~2016 and just …… god
the remarks and then-recent actions, wrt affecting the internet and the social technological comms structure of humanity as a whole, and then rapidity of a bunch of shit starting to turn to shit 2014~2016 (as I’ve remarked on in previous posts)…
I’d want to see more threads checked into and researched in depth (and I know that some stuff (partly?) also had their own drivers), but fucking hell there’s a lot of apparent overlap. dunno if I can take on that investigation (my stats derivation/calculation skills border on a warcrime), but other than that would be interesting to see some analyses
ethical Ai alliance, clause 0 (ethicalaialliance.org)
stumbled over this in my feed earlier, looks interesting
community lego mindbricks project looking for help (pybricks.com)
seen via this
London permacomputing club (london.permacomputing.net)
Just ran across this and figured I’d link to people, looks interesting