Agreed on all points, but especially #1. Fuck Nestle. Every time I buy a new product at the grocery store, I check to make sure they’re not made by Nestle or a subsidiarity of Nestle.

If the house flips, though, then the Epstein investigation along with other things can proceed, and the House can block bills before they go to the senate or president. So while it won’t fix anything outright, it can stop more damage.

Everyone who eats and drinks chemicals will eventually die!

I know what you meant. You’re missing my point. Servers at this scale heat up much more than your average satellite. There is no efficiency gain, only loss, it’s really not efficient compared to even closed loop cooling systems on the ground, and they don’t even want to use closed loop as it stands.

What would the benefit of having swarms of these in space be? I don’t see the benefit in any sense. It’s more expensive, you cannot do maintenance, it costs much more money, and you cannot shoot entire datacenters into space with as much ease as just building them on the ground in the first place.

It seems to me that they just want another way to generate attention and money. They’ll shoot one of these up there, and then continue to waste water on the ground anyway.

Radiators typically need to have something to vent the heat into. While there is still a slight atmosphere in LEO, I fail to see how it would be more efficient than doing it all on the ground. Servers are basically heaters that do fancy things in the middle, they’ll have much more heat than a standard LEO satellite. Plus, in LEO, you constantly have to correct your orbit (or burn up). Then, you have to also be able to cool down while in the sun, and likely heat up in the dark. On top of that, good luck if you have hardware fail. Then there’s latency on top of it all.

My point is that how is all of that more efficient than doing it on the ground, where you don’t have to consider these things?

I still don’t understand how they’re gunna dump that amount of heat in any efficient manner.

If you’re talking about AWS, AWS does much more than just cloud storage.

My local Lowe’s and Home Depot have the only Flock cameras in my county (for now, anyway).

The AI we’ve had for over 20 years is not an LLM. LLMs are a different beast. This is why I hate the “AI” generalization. Yes, there are useful AI tools. But that doesn’t mean that LLMs are automatically always useful. And right now, I’m less concerned about the obvious hallucination that LLMs constantly do, and more concerned about the hype cycle that is causing a bubble. This bubble will wipe out savings, retirement, and make people starve. That’s not to mention the people currently, right now, being glazed up by these LLMs and falling to a sort of psychosis.

The execs causing this bubble say a lot of things similar to you (with a lot more insanity, of course). They generalize and lump all of the different, actually very useful tools (such as models used in cancer research) together with LLMs. This is what allows them to equate the very useful, well studied and tested models to LLMs. Basically, because some models and tools have had actual impact, that must mean LLMs are also just as useful, and we should definitely be melting the planet to feed more copyrighted, stolen data into them at any cost.

That usefulness is yet to be proven in any substantial way. Sure, I’ll take that they can be situationally useful for things like making new functions in existing code. They can be moderately useful for helping to get ideas for projects. But they are not useful for finding facts or the truth, and unfortunately, that is what the average person uses it for. They also are no where near able to replace software devs, engineers, accountants, etc, primarily because of how they are built to hallucinate a result that looks statistically correct.

LLMs also will not become AGI, they are not capable of that in any sort of capacity. I know you’re not claiming otherwise, but the execs that say similar things to your last paragraph are claiming that. I want to point out who you’re helping by saying what you’re saying.

Containers are better than any other option, so of course they’re being used! I’m gunna use containers even harder!

Absolutely, and I didn’t mean to imply white rice was healthy or anything of the sort, or that you had an extremist take. I just think the lower class in the US has much more to worry about in this regard. You can definitely balance your carb intake, and as long as you’re aware of the amount of carbs you’re consuming and want white rice, I say go for it. You do need carbs to survive, after all, although carbs with fiber are obviously better suited for that.

They’re making their own phone now. It’s not going to die, at least not in that way.

Do you have the exploit compatibility mode enabled in the settings? Under Apps > [Your Banking App]

No chance I’d buy a phone that had this in the first place.

I mean, it is true that white rice could be considered filler food with little nutritional value, but compared to other cheap foods (in the US anyway), it’s probably better for you. I suppose I’m talking primarily talking about the heavily processed foods with added sugars - it would be better to have something with white rice than those. Unfortunately cheap, heavily processed foods are what most lower income people eat in the US. I consider those foods the actual pre-diabetic junk food. I also think a lot of people in the US likely add a ton of sugar to their oatmeal.

I love oatmeal, though, don’t get me wrong. I have oodles of oats around, both in my pantry and with my other emergency supplies (I’m talking about a dozen #10 cans of just oats).

Yeah, I’ll only buy it on a deep discount, and after they change it to be actual Civ.

Yes, and to be clear, a huge part of the risk is that even after heated, the bacteria will die but leave behind toxins that will make you very sick. This Chubbyemu video (a doctor that makes videos covering odd, scary, or “interesting” medical cases) is about the same bacteria and the resulting death from it. While death seems to be pretty rare, it will still make you very sick.

Oh my god, finally. This is how it should have been released in the first place.

Up 1% for the day

Companies are already using genAI as an excuse to do mass layoffs, even though it hasn’t made them a profit and creates slop. They are just making remaining employees do more work for the same pay.