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New comment by lemonlearnings in "$912 energy independence without red tape"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:56:38 +0000

Dont fuck with electricity. I think the intuitions people have are based on home installations with RCDs, fuses and earthing and proper cabling before it gets to that socket. You then plug in a distribution to draw 100w for your devices and maybe the occasional 2kw for the vacuum cleaner for 5 minutes if too lazy to use another socket. Yoy not running full house load through it all day.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "$912 energy independence without red tape"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:52:05 +0000

If I was paying 55c/kWh I'd freaking hire someone to pedal to generate the power. Thats insane. No wonder it pays off quickly!

New comment by lemonlearnings in "$912 energy independence without red tape"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:46:33 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20251005022124/https://sunboxlab...

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Social Cooling (2017)"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:10:04 +0000

Good but temporary. Big tech has your browser fingerprint against that plus LLMs will probably be able to match it again by text using cosine similarly.

Maybe you use tails everywhere and run what you say through LLMs to rephrase. Might be OK then.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Social Cooling (2017)"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:07:45 +0000

Not what this is about. It is more like everyone needs to earn stars on their star chart to survive and big techs algorithm decides who gets the stars.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 05:06:52 +0000

Yes indeed. I always look for ways to decouple things for this reason even if that decoupling creates a bit more work.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "OpenAI's hunger for computing power"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 05:02:40 +0000

Less terrible than being allow to go bust though.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Mod. 5140 - IBM's First Laptop Computer"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:59:27 +0000

Any details to share re. specs, operating system?

New comment by lemonlearnings in "OpenAI's hunger for computing power"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:21:07 +0000

Too big to fail is the goal. If the world is powered by openai but it aint making a profit in 2028 they can just put their "were a utility like water" facemask on and get bailed out.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "OpenAI's hunger for computing power"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:17:39 +0000

https://archive.is/OnsLK

New comment by lemonlearnings in "OpenAI's hunger for computing power"

lemonlearnings — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:13:54 +0000

Bitcoin:

AI: Hold my beer.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

lemonlearnings — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 07:21:46 +0000

No I had the speculative ponzi front of mind when making that comment.

Governments love crypto because it lets you seize lots of money from criminals across borders. And it is legal gambling where you can tax the winnings without reimbursing the losers (unless they can offset it but most probably can not)

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

lemonlearnings — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 07:20:51 +0000

But why not measure $ per intelligence. In 2020 you'd need a billion dollars to get your computer to write good code, now it is practically free.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

lemonlearnings — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 07:19:06 +0000

I am not still using the same 1Mbps token ring from 1998 or the same dial up connecting to some 10Mbps backbone.

I am using x86 chips though.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

lemonlearnings — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:41:47 +0000

Probably. The the internet was more clear cut. Moores law all the things. Governments investing in pipe etc.

AI harder to tell. Will 2026 models kick 2025 ass or just be slightly better. Who knows.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

lemonlearnings — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 02:41:47 +0000

Parallel economies are banned. Try making a new currency in the US.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

lemonlearnings — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 02:34:21 +0000

Bots. Agentic consumers.

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

lemonlearnings — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:08:54 +0000

That is like learn to trust the indestructibility of matter. I can still lose (not able to locate...) my keys even though they still exist!

New comment by lemonlearnings in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

lemonlearnings — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:02:00 +0000

For clarity it wasnt a meme template (not "this is fine" dog or any other). It was a picture of a real dog and next to it an AI generated version of the same dog.

I just loaded up reddit and ad was there. Bunny this time:

https://imgur.com/a/VfnOJNH

New comment by lemonlearnings in "Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

lemonlearnings — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:59:50 +0000

? I assume you want to replace your jubberish messages with something more useful before pushing? It is only "destroying" https://xkcd.com/1296/ style crap? Code changes stay the same.