Yes of course that was a brain fart of mine. Watt is Joule per second not certainly Joule per hour. I made the point of "lecturing" readers on power v. energy since Antirez (OP) wrote _"50W of energy usage..."_ (instead of power consumption) and it's a mistake people often make. So my side point was: ok 50W but for how long.

The other thing I'm arguing is 50W is nothing to be shocked by. I would like to see an argument for the opposite. I'd like to know what's the power consumption of playing eg. Baldur's Gate for a couple hours on a gaming rig and I wager we surpass that by a margin.

Now, the data center economy of scales. You're saying they almost certainly exists. Okay whatever I don't know. Requests served in parallel. Amortizing memory access for model weights. Likely. I'm writing this with some thinly veiled dismissive attitude because I believe that it would be very useful to have hard data on whether or not serving many users v. just one user makes LLMs more efficient. It's an important point with wide ranging implications.

If there is scale, like you claim, and one day a wealthy patron gifts me a 40k USD rig where I can run a frontier LLM locally, then I'd still be making selfish use of the commons (energy, which belong to the planet, all of us, that kinda stuff) because the efficient/responsible choice is to pool and use a cloud vendor (or pool your rig with neighbors etc).

But saying a machine can be more efficient if it serves many users sounds to me a bit like nine women making a baby in a month.

Washing machine 900W. Hair dryer 1500W. Pizza oven 2000W. So yeah, you say 50W, yeah sure same as video rendering or gaming I guess, yet not really an OMG-level number.

And frankly I'm not quite sure there's anything like economy of scale where it gets more efficient if you serve more users (like some sibling comments seem to imply).

Last thing, and I know many know but also many others don't or have forgotten: Watts is a rate of consumption, not an absolute amount. That is Joule, energy. So you say 50W, but what you pay for (or the planet pays, whatever) generally is the amount of energy, hence you need to say for how long that consumption was sustained. 50W over 2 hours, that's 100 Joules, the actual resource you consumed and paid for.

Power (watts) is like speed (m/s). You say 50 miles an hour, need to say how long was the drive, so we know how far you got.

I have to say, I don't identify myself as a anarchist (maybe a bit of a sympathizer), yet I'm middle aged and finding myself a little dissatisfied by many things I see around me, so if I see people making the equation anarchist = degenerate, my immediate reaction is "yeah let's slow it down shall we."

Now, I'm aware that when you need to say something is "gateway" that's a bit of a red flag, i.e. "milk before meat" (describing something as friendly and innocent at first, then only later showing the more aggressive indoctrination) is exactly what cults do. Having said that, I'd grant that the late David Graeber is quite the straight shooter so I think he's in the clear here.

From: "Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!", David Graeber, 2009, https://davidgraeber.org/articles/are-you-an-anarchist-the-a...

From the looks of it, this seems like a serious corporate backed project made by employees of the Ant Group, the chinese fintech giant. A more fair comparison would be with Google's Fuchsia OS (defunct) or Huawei's HarmonyOS. It may succeed, it may fail, but it's nothing like a couple of kids doing a passion project to learn Rust.

I've learned the acronym here on HN, googled for a second and found "the fine article" as explanation, but now that you ask I've checked wiktionary... and apparently the commonly accepted meaning is derogatory (the f*king article, like "RTFM", "read the F-ing manual).

Lesson learned, won't be saying "TFA" again unless I mean f-ing

I've never used one, but I assume there are professionals for hire to do this.

In fact I've read one of the advantage of going with a publisher (as opposed to self-publishing) is they give you an editor. But again, I'd expect a freelance market to exist.

"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors."

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but none of that is simple. There's that math joke about proof methods, and this would be "proof by intimidation".

When describing a process: "To measure the inverse reactive current in unilateral phase detractors, just use an ordinary turbo encabulator". Why "just"? Are there other methods? For what reason is this the preferred one?

When giving advice: "Why don't you just use a bash script?" This implies your suggestion is simpler or more economical than my proposed approach, therefore better, but you aren't supporting its alleged superiority with arguments I can counter, only implying it.

The purchase order has been made.

Your virtual machine has been created.

I see this a lot in corporate environments, and it's by low level managers thinking every bit of information they're trusted with is so delicate and confidential, they must go above and beyond to reveal the least possible amount of it. Note, in the examples above, it was the manager themselves doing the action. What's wrong with "I did this", "I did that"? This is LARPing as CIA agents (or whatever), and they like the sound of it (I want you to know I have information I can't share, you little shit!).

"I've just created your virtual machine" peasant

"Your virtual machine has been created" special ops elite force management

Mind you, 99.999% of the time, the concealment of "who did the thing" is totally unnecessary. It's only there to reinforce status.

I'm about 30 years younger than Jon Hall, so I couldn't be familiar with his accomplishments other than by oral/written accounts. Since he hasn't written big hit books I could read or software I could use (alright alright, Linux for Dummies), I constantly saw people calling him a legend but never understood why. I finally asked around in the Linux kernel community, and was explained the extent of his contribution: he was Linus' mentor in a way. When they met in 1994, Linus was a 25 yo student and Jon a 44 yo DEC marketing manager. I like to think of their conversation as something like "Listen to me kid, this is what you gonna do".

With this in mind, a line in Jon Hall's wikipedia bio stands out: It was during his time with Digital that he initially became interested in Linux and was instrumental in obtaining equipment and resources for Linus Torvalds to accomplish his first port, to Digital's Alpha platform.. Another one in his linkedin work history reflects this view: Senior Marketing Manager, DEC, 1983-1998: In 1994 met Linus Torvalds, recognized commercial value of Linux, obtained funding for port of Linux to 64-bit Alpha processor, opening up a billion dollar line of Linux-based High Performance Computing Super Computers.

WP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer)

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maddog/

Games often use their tick rate (iterations of the event loop per second) as a quality metric, and an rt OS should favor preemption and low scheduling latency over throughput... so maybe that should give a more fluid experience?

But the bottleneck for minecraft seems to be in memory allocations, so an OS that can schedule threads rapidly may not change much after all.

For more info see the book "Taking Charge of Adult ADHD" by Russel Barkley https://www.amazon.com/dp/1462546854 and the DIVA-5 test that many physicians use as part of the diagnosis process https://www.divacenter.eu (costs 10 EUR to download the PDF).

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