I have a FIOS connection here at home, and it seems entirely sufficient. Even AAA steam games, I hit 'download' and go grab a snack in the kitchen and it's done. My server does incremental backups to s3 every night, but its not like i'm sitting there watching it.

I download a new large model maybe once every other week. It takes a few seconds, maybe minutes. I don't really notice either way? 25x faster doesn't seem like it would make any difference.

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I've seen so many times where Company A will complain that their vendors aren't accurate enough about uptime and how Company A notices first that their vendors are down, but then they themselves have a very laggy or inaccurate status page.

We want our vendors to be accurate to the minute on these, but many CTOs don't care to admit when they too have problems.

I love this idea. I'd love a tiny full computer that I could dock onto other hardware and just carry around.

https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/183700272/intel-ma...

Fixes all the problems I've had about "In what order do I put this data" and flipping back and forth in a huge stack of papers.

(But seriously, great work here!)

Switchable backends, various output formats, etc.

In theory, I could also likely wire this up to get it playing MUDs, but I have some reservations about running that on anything except a private server.

My use case for this is to help test and evaluate Interactive Fiction in development, and you could even run it as a CI/CD process.

It's not perfect (so much Claude Coding of this), but it's an ok start for an hour on the couch: https://github.com/tibbon/gruebot

I have to wonder if this is like Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz - viewers can imply all sorts of intent that is very unlikely to have been there originally. A small mistake or tweak in any layer of processing could have easily done this.

People keep raising AI’s environmental impact to me as a concern, and I’m open to learning more, but at this point it seems potentially even long term neutral if it really does insert the efficiencies to productivity that many claim it will.

For example: look up the co2 impacts of gas powered lawn equipment. By one number I found that in 2020 it released 30 million tons of co2 in the US alone. Yet, when this equipment was coming into popularity no one expressed the moral panic they are over AI.

I know people who will stomp around about how AI is bad, and then go use their gas powered leaf blower for a few hours.

I installed a 24k btu one for my recording studio myself. Took me 3 hours. It’s a cheap Mr Cool one, but seems good enough for me and has been problem free. $1300 from Costco.

The quotes I got were $10-30k for one to five head units around my house. Nope!

If I’m going to spend that much I’m going to be looking into geothermal for heating

Maybe not great mitigations, but that’s what I could come up with