what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing
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@bornach @floooh @lritter your link is for general-purpose servers.
The "AI" servers are an entirely different thing from what I understand. Sure, you can salvage a motherboard and CPU and RAM sticks from them, but that's not a lot (like, the entire "AI" industry will only give you several hundreds thousands of relatively weak PCs, if you discard the GPUs).
Most of their hardware, most of their computing power, is in these overpowered GPUs, which are completely useless outside of "AI" loads in hyperscale data centers. Even if you get such a GPU for free, it will still not be worth it even to pay for electricity it consumes while running, not with kinds of the loads you might be able to run on it. There is no "repurposing" these GPUs afaik.@IngaLovinde @bornach @floooh does the A100 have no load scaling?
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@domi @bornach @floooh @lritter but even if they have things useful for video encoding, I doubt they're more powerful than regular mid-range consumer GPUs in that regard? We do know that their main/only selling point is that they have a lot of FP4 performance.
Maybe, just maybe, the enthusiasts will then be able to reflash them with a new firmware disabling all the FP4 things and turning these extremely expensive, powerful, large, and hot GPUs into the equivalent of regular mid-range consumer GPUs, unit for unit. But if market were suddenly to get a million of even free devices that can, with effort, be turned into idk RTX 5050, that's definitely not going to cause any kind of "Cambrian explosion". Gamers already have 100x that number of similar consumer GPUs in their gaming PCs.My point is: when measured in units, there is not _that_ much "AI" hardware out there. And when measured in computing power, there is a lot, but 99% of it is useless.
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@datenwolf @lritter damn, that was a blast from the past 👀.
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what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing
any other indicators?
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Rampant enshittification of local user experience.Looking at you, Microsoft, Apple, and Gnome teams.
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i sure would hate it if open source were the eli sunday whose milkshake will be drunk
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This blogpost makes an astoundingly good case about LLMs I hadn't considered before. The collapse of public forums (like Stack Overflow) for programming answers coincides directly with the rise of programmers asking for answers from chatbots *directly*. Those debugging sessions become part of a training set that now *only private LLM corporations have access to*. This is something that "open models" seemingly can't easily fight. https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop
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@lritter in this case it was a bad decision made under pressure that I had already refactored out a year prior, I just missed a spot. i like to think i've been able to code most programmers under the table for quite a long time now, but that's not really all that hard a bar to clear tbh.
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@evan yeah, totally
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@aeva the most salient moments of this are a few years in the past for me. you *do* get better. most things i find now are code that hasn't been "garbage collected"
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This is cool
Frontier REPL - Interactive UserTalk Environment
Type /help for commands, /exit to quit
[root]> clock.now ()
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Tuesday
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This is the best thread ever.! 😀
