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New comment by selectodude in "Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't"

selectodude — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:40:13 +0000

Making memory is easy. Packaging that memory within a few millimeters of a piece of silicon using TSVs and maintaining signal integrity on a 1024 bit bus is really, really hard.

LLMs aren’t all that compute constrained or even memory constrained. It’s just that pushing dozens of terabits per second through a piece of silicon is a physics problem.

New comment by selectodude in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

selectodude — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:40:50 +0000

I know what I said. Lots of foreign money backed construction loans got wiped out. The buildings are still there, the project went bankrupt, and the world kept turning.

New comment by selectodude in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

selectodude — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:27:42 +0000

Japan in the 1990s, ME sovereign wealth funds in the late 2000s, China in the mid 2010s.

New comment by selectodude in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

selectodude — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:33:39 +0000

Don’t blame imports for our sclerotic country banning construction nationwide. Plenty of countries have spent billions on new construction in the US and gotten smoked. The buildings still stand though.

New comment by selectodude in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

selectodude — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:27:08 +0000

Probably not much. The US doesn’t have the capacity for high volume manufacturing. We cost too much.

New comment by selectodude in "GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance"

selectodude — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:56:47 +0000

That’s the beauty of using an open harness. I can jump ship if that ever happens.

New comment by selectodude in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

selectodude — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:43:56 +0000

My desktop is a game console and the games I play work on windows. And my computer reliably wakes from sleep.

New comment by selectodude in "GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance"

selectodude — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:47:34 +0000

At least OpenAI lets me use my own harness. Having to rely on insane PMs letting Claude Mythos go wild on the codebase has not been going well lately.

New comment by selectodude in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

selectodude — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:09:47 +0000

Au contraire, I run models on WSL and my desktop reliably wakes up from sleep. Best of both worlds.

New comment by selectodude in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

selectodude — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:47:19 +0000

The meek shall inherit the Earth… but not the moon.

New comment by selectodude in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

selectodude — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:22:34 +0000

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

Oscar R. Benavides

New comment by selectodude in "Tidal AI Policy"

selectodude — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:14:49 +0000

No. I don’t think it’s at all okay or fair that the wealthiest man in the world can push great replacement conspiracies and endorse the murder of immigrants (non-white South African division).

New comment by selectodude in "Tidal AI Policy"

selectodude — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:06:49 +0000

I have this magical ability to think lots of people can suck simultaneously. I’m also able to separate the power and ability to inflict damage of a bunch of shitheads on twitter from the White House and the first ever trillionaire.

New comment by selectodude in "Tidal AI Policy"

selectodude — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:11:14 +0000

You get both the white nationalist and the antisemite sides, yes.

New comment by selectodude in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

selectodude — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:27:37 +0000

I think the folks at PA Semi had some chops too.

New comment by selectodude in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

selectodude — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:55:22 +0000

Heh, I’m 5x more productive 99 percent of the time. That is still a very, very useful tool.

New comment by selectodude in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

selectodude — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:15:50 +0000

The solution for high prices is high prices.

If making RAM and SSDs is now cause for a 10 figure valuation, after enough time somebody will dive in.

New comment by selectodude in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

selectodude — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:52:58 +0000

I’m always a bit confused how this is so difficult for people to understand. If I want to move into your neighborhood, there are two options - I move into new construction or I move into your house. There is no option C where I decide that because the housing stock is garbage, I decide to go somewhere else.

New comment by selectodude in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

selectodude — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:33:20 +0000

Both are true. We’ve made cheap housing illegal and we’ve demanded ever higher quality housing.

We need to allowed for revealed preferences. In developers we trust.

New comment by selectodude in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

selectodude — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:30:13 +0000

You gotta look at the motivations. Rich people and activists can both agree that affordable housing requirements are a good thing. The higher the better. This makes the project not pencil out so everybody is happy - the homeowners who don’t want new neighbors and the activists who think that everything is gentrification. The only people who get screwed are the only people who don’t have a vote, the non-residents. Which is why zoning policy and approvals cannot be locally controlled.