Some IT guy, IDK.

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I’m a fan of this. Just have a little graveyard area where any US booze lives. Put it in a locked cabinet so anyone who has decided to buy it can be judged appropriately.

    Whenever the cabinet is opened, it plays the US National anthem throughout the store (probably a modified version that sounds like it’s been sung by a half dead cat to an out of tune piano, and in a different key to make it sound tragic). This way, everyone there can know that some one has willingly chosen to buy their crap and can look over at who they are so you can remember not to do that person any favors in the future.

    Fuck everything about what the US is doing. Fuck them. Americans, I’ll judge on a case by case basis, but America can get bent.

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  • Seems tonedeaf.

    If he actually does it, then it will be there… Taking up space… I don’t think anyone is going to buy it.

    Sure, a few might, but he’s going to force retailers to stock it and it’s just not going to move. He’s going to make them into involuntary warehouses for crap nobody wants.

    1. US booze has never been remarkable in the first place
    2. I don’t feel like doing the US or the corporations therein, any favors.

    Can we get a different liberal leader to be PM? Is it too late to do that? I don’t hate Carney, but his decisions have made me wonder about his fitness to lead.


  • Enjoyment is not in the act itself. Enjoyment comes from the appreciation of your fellow citizen who needed a thing moved that they were unable to move without help… And pizza.

    I don’t find it uncomfortable. You’re there to do a job, you do it, you get your pizza and the appreciation of your fellow human, you go home.

    You’re there for a purpose. People want you there for that purpose. You might not be good at it, but you’re there and that’s the important part. At the end of the day, the thing is done.

    It’s a social contract, and it’s not exclusive to guys.


  • This is the way.

    You engage in the economy of helping people to move stuff. One person has a dolly, another has a truck, they come, they move the thing, you pay in pizza and at least one IOU of “I’ll be there for you next time”.

    When the time comes you are enlisted, you go, you help, you recieve pizza.

    The cycle continues.

    This is the way.

    This is the only way.



  • I don’t hate all LLMs/ML models/“AI”.

    I also don’t use them. I also don’t see a need to use them.

    I work in tech and these “AI” things are little more than averaging the most common replies to a given input. Any question that’s been asked, especially those that are asked often, is well suited for an LLM chat bot. That’s good if you want a high level overview of a topic that you don’t know much about. If you want accuracy, you’ll need to dig a bit more, but overall, you’ll get a relatively good idea of the answer you’re looking for. That’s enough for most people.

    I’m crazy. I like to deeply understand everything, so the high level, lack of detail, finesse, and accuracy of LLM chat bots is unacceptable for me, so I trend towards doing my own research. If I use an LLM at all, it’s just an augmented search engine. I’m more interested in its references than its response.

    There’s also something to be said about making short clips of impossible things that some smaller YouTubers are using “AI” models for. Things that would take a long time for a graphics artist to create, and an editor to composite. Stuff that a small time YouTuber can’t really afford, but they can get good enough but clearly “AI” visuals to spice things up in their videos. The AI is just for display during transitions, it doesn’t affect the content being made in any meaningful way. I’ve seen Paul Hibbert do this a lot and his production team from what I know is basically him and his wife. I’m not even sure if he has an editor, or if he does it himself. He’ll go from a live shot of him talking about a product, do an AI transition, to another live shot of him continuing his discussion. Rather than a cut, or some kind of fade, wipe, or other simplistic transition, the generated images are of him, and only to add visual flavor. He also does some AI generated music stuff, which again, fair. He’s not exactly a musician, and unless he has the money to hire a musician, he either uses AI for the funny transition music or he uses an unrelated and unlicensed (or open licensed) song… It just adds flavor to his content, it builds on what he’s creating, it doesn’t shape what he’s creating. All of his scripts sound genuine, not AI created, so everything should be fine.

    That, to me, is a good use of AI as a tool.

    There’s too many bad examples for me to really cover them in any detail, but I’m sure everyone has seen the AI generated person being animated by AI, reading an AI generated script, using an AI generated voice sample. Even if the original source material is legit, is buried under so many layers of slop that I can’t bear to watch it.

    For me, it entirely depends on what he’s using it for. It’s entirely not about the fact that he uses it. I’ll have to dig into it a bit to see what he’s doing, but from the comments I’ve read so far, it seems like the answer to what he’s using it for, is yes. He’s using it for everything… Not ideal.







  • some AI coprocessors, you’re right. they can’t be used.

    Most of what nVidia is offering, while lacking display outputs, can still be used for gaming/VDI/vGPU use, and in general aren’t particularly bad at it, usually quite the opposite. might take a bit of work to get them going, and nVidia hasn’t made it easy with their whole licensing thing. Putting aside the challenges, it’s usually possible to adapt their SXM datacenter GPU modules to work with more common frameworks like PCIe, and then utilize those as virtual GPUs in a virtual desktop. This is not dissimilar to what they’re doing with the geforce now platform.

    The big benefit of the chips is that they come with loads of memory, so cutting them up as a vGPU is actually a really optimal use-case. Most games are memory limited, which is to say they need more memory than most GPUs have, so the limit in performance is from the memory limitations, not the graphics processing limitations.

    The AI processors that are GPU based, like almost everything that nvidia is using, can mostly be repurposed, but those that are ML-only, like AI coprocessors that show up in CPUs like the AI optimized CPUs from AMD and Intel, can’t really be re-used, but they’re usually not released as a standalone product. Those may still be able to perform physics processing offloads… so maybe not useless? I’m not sure.