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confirmmesenpaion I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced

especially in the Ukraine war

confirmmesenpaion Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End"

Hyper-V connects to a VM desktop using XRDP which uses X. Will that stuff still work? Can you still use gnome through XRDP?

confirmmesenpaion Developers are choosing older AI models

I am already at that point. when I need to search something more complex than exact keyword match, I don't even bother googling it anymore, I just ask chatgpt to research it for me and read it's response 5 min later.

confirmmesenpaion Developers are choosing older AI models

> Imagine waiting for a minute until Google spits out the first 10 results.

what if the instantaneous responses make you waste 10 min realizing they were not what you searched for?

confirmmesenpaion Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers

it's ridiculous only if you compare it with Apple RAM prices

confirmmesenpaion Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers

you should look more carefully, RAM prices are up across Europe, 40% or so

confirmmesenpaion Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury

how expensive is AC repair in Hong Kong?

confirmmesenpaion AI's Dial-Up Era

takes a lot of hubris to be sure it's a bubble too.

confirmmesenpaion OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon

did the price of NVIDIA made sense to you 2 years ago, when a lot of people were screaming it's in an obvious bubble?

if no, and you thought it was a bubble, does that price of NVIDIA from 2 years ago (not from today) makes sense to you now?

confirmmesenpaion OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon

token usage is growing exponential at all providers.

it will grow even more with the next generation of models.

confirmmesenpaion Why "everyone dies" gets AGI all wrong

I don't want anyone talking about the dangers of nuclear war unless they built a nuclear weapon before

confirmmesenpaion Why "everyone dies" gets AGI all wrong

capitalism IS AI. capitalism is not under human control, capitalism uses humans to unshackle itself

confirmmesenpaion Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)

so if you want to have a strong opinion on electric cars you need to be able to explain how an electric engine works right?

confirmmesenpaion Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)

> Continuing the journey of optimal LLM-assisted coding experience. In particular, I find that instead of narrowing in on a perfect one thing my usage is increasingly diversifying

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1959703967694545296

confirmmesenpaion Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)

what you did here is called confirmation bias.

> I think congrats again to OpenAI for cooking with GPT-5 Pro. This is the third time I've struggled on something complex/gnarly for an hour on and off with CC, then 5 Pro goes off for 10 minutes and comes back with code that works out of the box. I had CC read the 5 Pro version and it wrote up 2 paragraphs admiring it (very wholesome). If you're not giving it your hardest problems you're probably missing out.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1964020416139448359