That's why you're not Judge Judy and executioner. No one person should wield that power.
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That's why you're not Judge Judy and executioner. No one person should wield that power.
There's a lot of reasons not to use floats for currency, but that's a new one for me!
I know better myself too. Unfortunately I inherit systems where some folks don't. Last one involved a sum into the 9 digit arena. Fun to compare right v wrong on that one. It's a fun aside lesson for young programmers when I get to teach them, and 3*0.1 nails it.
Meanwhile 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 0.30000000000000004 on a fully normal functioning computer. I had some real fun with floats and big numbers holding currency recently.
This might be what finally makes Linux on the desktop happen! (I know better than that)
Mortgage ain't gonna pay itself!
Tiny velociraptors!
I'd like to see that video. I've wondered about that.
... not much different than an Xbox. Or the exact same tech that's shrinking models is just going to be what's in the data centers and expansion will level off. Things will become more efficient and revenue will finally go above the cost to run the things.
... instead "AI" is going to end up being run more "on the edge" as we would say. In your home. Sophisticated models are working on smaller and smaller systems. I could see a future where your Alexa device, or maybe a central "brain" one, would spin up to 350W to hammer a GPU to get something done..
... but our data centers are located on telcom interchanges and in areas where there is abundant power. We're screwing up the systems when we keep adding more to it. We need more infrastructure. Spread it out. That could happen if we invest as a country in infra. I doubt that'll be the case....
... goes to AI loads. That's about 1.5% of the whole grid. Fairly close to what we burn on PC and console video games combined. We're not just seeing AI drive this; it's also the cloud in general. Things are going from on-prem to cloud more and more. In the end it's more efficient that way...
I took a breather, and if you're still interested in my thoughts on the data centers: First we have to split AI off from data centers as a whole. They're related, but can't be interchanged. Our total data center draw on the grid is about 240tWh, about 4.5%. Of that a reasonable estimate is 65tWh...
Head like a hole black as your soul I'm Ron Zertnert Now give me control!
Some folks are... hung up about it.
If you want business financial analysis from somebody that doesn't know what a P/E ratio is, or an AI expert that doesn't know what a context window is, or pricing on compute from somebody that can't find an Azure pricing calculator: Ed Z is your guy. It's like watching me comment on football.
It's like watching people taze themselves while eating hot wings yelling "I do what I want!" In a Cartman voice.
For me it was when Jim Jordan got one. And it was somehow made worse because Trump kinda had to give Dan Gable the award before Jim Jordan could get one, and Trump left Gable in the oval office after the award. Just walked out.
Yep. When Dipshit A group fucks things up you don't bring in Newbie Dipshit B group to fix things. Wouldn't work for a 7-11 wouldn't work for the largest economy in the world.
I've found that holds very true for my coding.
I'm almost 100% sure it'll be a Kia EV for my next ride.
I prefer Trump Presidency (Taylor's Version) more than the original.
Try reading my comment again.
He hallucinates more than an LLM. His ability to fact check himself would be improved if he slapped everything into ChatGPT. Seriously. I've done it when I know he's wrong. It does better research than him.
Convicted of raping a child in 1985 and he's a youth pastor in a church. Does it again. There are two more men at the church also facing charges. www.wnem.com/2025/08/30/m...
It's the War on Xwalks at Xmas!!
Include burpees and ask Burpee to sponsor you!
There's a really good take home lesson in Josh Blue's comedy. Being disabled is the only minority group you can join any time. youtube.com/shorts/klZ6Y...
In my day we needed 7 laptops and 14 cans of IceHouse to pull that off. Modern tech is great.
The data center expansion issues are another topic I love to talk about, but I'm not sure I want to get into it. My short take: Power consumption of AI is overblown. The data center problem as a whole is really just an infrastructure problem.
... the bot about "work stuff" to get code help like they would a coworker. But sometimes chatting about stuff isn't what you should be doing; you need to just bang it out.
I have no reason to doubt studies that show results like that. Heck, I see it in myself. There are some things I should not be going to the AI bot for but that list will forever be changing. And I can see where the disconnect in perception happens to. In the coders world they were chatting with...
... just flat out had a nervous breakdown because they couldn't make it work. AI/LLM tech with RAG? Yeah that's like trying to find a good webdev back in 1996 right now. Lotta promises. Few deliveries.
... were doing. The repeated pattern here is they grab a tech, read what it can do, tell the client they can make it happen, unleash their unexperienced nerds on it, and honestly, a 50% failure rate today even in big data wouldn't surprise me. I've been on more than one project where a dev...
... and then I moved out of web/app work and into business intelligence around 2007. That was the new hot one, which evolved into "big data" and helped fuel AI. That particular company came in over-and-over to rescue projects that had failed because the original consultants didn't know what they...
That's actually where my career starts in consulting. And I saw projects within my own company fall flat. I was on one where we delivered but the tech failed so bad it wasn't even functional. Just a job hunting website in the year 2000. Not hard but our talent pool wasn't deep enough...
... be in well tread territory for them to help you with code generation. Ask for help with anything obscure and it'll hallucinate libraries that don't exist. That's at least my high level overview at this point. Certainly worth $20/month in productivity for me.
... things get wonkier. You can shoot yourself in the foot with these. They're basically only good at "greenfield" development where you just ask it to do something and it cranks out the code for you. Asking it to solve a problem you made, or one that it made? Not happening. And you have to...
... correction everywhere else it needed to happen. Fancy search-and-replace? Yes. But handy. It can find and fix them faster than I can write the regex to locate them and I used to regex everything. Now when you get into chatbots generating code and chat assistants in development...
... that portion of the game is very useful. Another, much more modern, one, is CoPilot picking out what I'm doing in a project. I went in to rename a spelling mistake on a project a while back and after I made the correction twice it picked up on what I was doing, and let me just tab through the..
... "ask" the LLM to do something for you because it's just trying to autocomplete stuff. So if you make a comment that says "# Left motor full power, right motor stopped" it would try and make the next two lines of code do that. And now you had a comment explaining exactly what you intended to do..
... to tell the left motor to do something the AI would suggest also telling the right motor to do that. Or maybe the inverse of that. It would be decent at picking up what the goal was assuming the code was named well and, kicker, this is where comments kind of come in handy. You could...
... than 'fancy autocomplete' to a large degree. At least the way I was using it. I would code along in my project and the AI would make suggestions on what I should type next. Generally only a few lines of code. A common example would be working on robotics code and if you wrote a line of code...
I'll quote this #AI related post because I don't want to flood his timeline with my thoughts and LLMs and coding. It's a mixed and complex bag for me. I've been working with them since they came out, love them and hate them at the same time. When CoPilot first came out it really was nothing more...
Counterpoint: leaded gas and lead poisoning. Chicken drumsticks in lime jello with a side of paint chips, please!
Let's be fair, if the 911 system is overloaded because too many kids are in a school and afraid for their lives, 911 itself being down is a low priority problem.
I used to talk politics with a guy who didn't like the direct election of Senators by popular vote. But he'd also call it the 19th amendment sometimes. Neither one being a very popular opinion but his mistake got the worst looks.
The 95% failure rate doesn't surprise me, but it won't hold. The talent pool is just too shallow right now. We're just finishing year 3 of humans having LLM tech of this nature. Hardly anybody knows what to do with it, let alone how to do it. I've consulted in IT for 25 years. Happens a lot.
He's saying mostly what you're saying in your second post. The traditional AI/ML stuff is useful. The LLM/GenAI not so much. I mostly agree. I find some promise in the LLM world especially for coding
One thing that's really hit me with not living 100% of the time with my kids is how much I miss just doing things for them. Doing laundry, cooking meals, letting them dump their day on me. No amount of "self care" seems to replace it.
Well, that's bananas.
Does a necromancer say "Abra cadaver!" when he works a deed of his dire art?
Can't get within 6 feet of Babbit without a shovel.
Having watched a 400kWh system live every day for years, no. You are wrong. They actually start around 110%. Linear decline to 90% over 20-30 years and then degrading slows down. Did you install yours in the shade? Don't do that.
Well we're installing solar at a per capita rate higher than China so at least we'll also have a clean grid.
Solar still produces 90% of its rated power after 20 years. The panels are useful for a very long time.
Sir, you've just done something Tim Robinson has never done before. Make me laugh while seeing Tim Robinson on a screen.
45 here. Dropped out of college at 20 and I've been coding ever since, even when I was technically a farmer.
I just crank the linters up so they warn me if I use anything unitialized and I'm rather pedantic about my type hints too. I like that I can stop all that when working on tiny things, but any real project? Pretend I'm in a typed language.
Most of what Ed posts is conjecture. He's really bad with facts, numbers, and putting them together.
One weber per square meter. Also a car brand with the absolute worst record for killing its drivers.
Holy shit
But I do tend to find people in shotgunning a bit more stable than in other shooting disciplines. Newbies generally start with a pump 12 gauge which, let's be honest, is a devastating machine. Then we get fancy and move to single shots and double barrels.
I like a lot of my pew-pews for historical and engineering reasons. They're interesting creations of their time. I don't use them much though. My shotguns, on the other hand, I tend to use. I just play clay games but 5 shotguns for games is quite normal in my world.
Ground level funding
I've also noticed pedestrian cars looking all vroomy to my brain and I think the issue is we got old. Like bad.
Last one that got me was: "Nice Prius!" - Nobody On a Prius.
👍 yeah I bring him up because he's Einstein level.
He broke records on packing and tensor operations with LLMs cranking out code. Things we've tried to maximize for hundreds of years.
Terrance Tao has used AI to beat many of the legends of math now. Stuff works.
I agree that this puts them back on track. And from what I gather they've got another 15 test flights planned. The next two Starships are already built (mostly) with the same known V2 design flaws this test article had. Then V3 comes into testing.
Yup. It's a rock that does math. Absolute miracle that we monkeys can make rocks do math but we can! And our fancy rocks do the linear algebra math.
Dog's recovery took a turn for the worse. I had to put him down tonight. His liver wasn't working and consequently he wasn't healing from the surgery properly. He was experiencing difficulty walking so I took him in to get checked out. Euthanasia was the only option.
nah it's cool OpenAI is gonna ChatGPT5.ohyeah us an mRNA vaccine that SpaceX will Starship deliver across in the world anywhere in 90 minutes or your pizza is free. Or, more likely, RJK Jr. is gonna kill about 60k Americans by being a forknozzle.
Well, you can ignore them in the sense that they're not painful. Your comment is a bit like if I pointed out that with my broken leg I notice imperfections in the road and you're like, "Oh like we don't also walk over those imperfections?!" Like, do you not get what a disability is?
They should be hit with big fluffy pillows. In the mean way.
Random-ass vampire up in here....
I've returned three times now to the same company because I like working with their top talent. I first joined in 2002 and I've spent about half my time outside the company since then. But I come back. I'm there again right now.
I'm so sorry, man.
wild that they slated that 10 years after the artemis 1 launch
$2.7B in rocket R&D doesn't get you much. For scale the SLS took $24B in R&D which used Shuttle tech to save on R&D costs. Boeing has gotten something like $4.2B for Starliner alone.
I'm curious as to why they're getting more money. My assumption was they only got the $2.9 when it was Boots on Moon. Linkage to details?
We couldn't think of a funky unit for frames or seconds so we just gave it a weird value. Sorry
Sounds that others ignore can be painful to some of us. There are times I'd rather be punched than listen to something annoying.
$2.6 billion in revenue for 2024. It's a very solid product. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Databri...
Dog is recovering from surgery well. That's good. But I wasn't. There's been a lot of turmoil in my life in recent years and this didn't land well. I reached out to a friend for help. Just somebody to talk to. Sometimes you just have to do that. Don't hesitate if you're hurting.
Dingleberry there has also forced a local coal plant to stay open. He's the dumbest incarnation of Lex Luthor ever.
Trump: Bad on inflation. Bad for the trade. Bad for the economy. Also, not racist enough. Signed, Republicans
I also didn't notice and now I'm out a whole friggen yacht! *checks numbers* OK so I'm not ordering the extra hash brown at McDonald's tomorrow. I'll recover.
I too am gearing up to have "Thor Bod" like in the movie where Chris Hemsworth rips off my hair style and layers it on a chubby dad bod. Game on, chump. I can do that too.
I would have willingly downloaded this photo at the 232 bytes per second the Zmodem protocol afforded to me on my 2400 baud modem in Allentucky. *ties onion to belt* *logs into random Renegade BBS*
I'm gonna put that fancy Latin into my email sig at work and see what kinda stuff rolls my way. (kids: I am not a life coach)
She's right, and I could nerd rage about how Saturn and Starship are happening in different worlds, but she's still right. Also, @derekdotspace.bsky.social's comment right after nails it. Other "new space" companies don't do this. New Glen and Vulcan both hit orbit on first runs.
I can't remember if it was right before or after seeing the movie, but I was on Twitter and ran across somebody just stoked for Maverick. Because he was a former naval aviator himself. Dr. Buzz Aldrin When THAT GUY is stoked about a flight movie? You nailed it.
I can't remember if it was right before or after seeing the movie, but I was on Twitter and ran across somebody just stoked for Maverick. Because he was a former naval aviator himself. Dr. Buzz Aldrin When THAT GUY is stoked about a flight movie? You nailed it.
Thank you.
At the emergency animal hospital. Dog wasn't up to speed for a bit. Vet sent us here to have his spleen removed.
They do. You are replying in the thread where they posted it
Welp, today looks like nonstop anxiety attacks for me. I hate this brain
I would like to soap that man up and help him get clean.