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New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

cl0ckt0wer — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:05:54 +0000

Way more efficient, that's why they do it. Evaporating water carries an enormous amount of energy.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think"

cl0ckt0wer — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:46:30 +0000

if you want a thing, pay for it.

the economics of childrearing aren't workable for most people without a huge cut to standard of living.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

cl0ckt0wer — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:16:46 +0000

There are local ai pods. They're like 2k for a low end.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

cl0ckt0wer — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:59 +0000

If they do then hardware costs will explode even more

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "Task Paralysis and AI"

cl0ckt0wer — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:32:19 +0000

AI has replaced video games for me. And there are plenty of cheaper models that "do it" for me, I don't have to spend $$$$ just for entertainment. I will step up to the frontier for serious work. But if I'm just playing, I'm going for the free stuff on openrouter.

Also, ai art is fine. It looks better than me using paint. That said, there are plenty of foss art pieces and public domain that you can leverage if all you really need is placeholders, and that is much cheaper.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models"

cl0ckt0wer — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:55:12 +0000

The only resumes that make it past the ai to a human are ai generated

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "Ukraine's drone commander has Russian oil, troops and morale in his sights"

cl0ckt0wer — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:46:50 +0000

So is he exaggerating or understating their capabilities? I'm surprised they'd disclose their capabilities.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

cl0ckt0wer — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:40:00 +0000

Mostly it's fun. It'll so some light infra management for me too.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "Rabbit Looks for Her Feet and Finds Feet, Which Is Somehow Worse"

cl0ckt0wer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:35:03 +0000

It'd be great to know if this is Mythos'

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "What we learned building 100 API integrations with OpenCode"

cl0ckt0wer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:19:15 +0000

There are lots of APIs with poor or nonexistent documentation. I'm talking about internal systems where one programmer that kinda knew what he was doing built a proof of concept, and now it's a core business requirement.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

cl0ckt0wer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:11:54 +0000

the npu is more for power efficiency when on battery. I don't think it's a replacement for gpu.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "TurboQuant KV Compression and SSD Expert Streaming for M5 Pro and IOS"

cl0ckt0wer — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:15:43 +0000

llm intelligence seems to be proportional to the ram used. All techniques like this will be used by everyone.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "I quit. The clankers won"

cl0ckt0wer — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:07:31 +0000

Just because they invented cars doesn't mean you stop jogging.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

cl0ckt0wer — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:14:34 +0000

They've pivoted to good news. It's more absurd.

https://theonion.com/breaking-all-of-world-s-problems-solved...

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations"

cl0ckt0wer — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:39:30 +0000

It's liability laundering. If an openclaw blackmails a politician while hosted in space, what's the legal recourse?

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

cl0ckt0wer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:26:44 +0000

The fax machine we had in the office would convert the incoming faxes to email for us. Maybe that's a security violation for them but I find it difficult to believe they don't have some sort of all digital receipt system

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

cl0ckt0wer — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:27:23 +0000

Cheap, fast, and good. I see which two they chose.

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "Honda is killing its EVs"

cl0ckt0wer — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:30:39 +0000

The dev that has never shipped a bug must file the first cve

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "XML Is a Cheap DSL"

cl0ckt0wer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:24:16 +0000

The subtext here is that XML is a powerful tool when generating code with LLMs

New comment by cl0ckt0wer in "How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform"

cl0ckt0wer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:40:35 +0000

For instance, what would we need to start offering siracha in our burger?