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readitalready··on Trump fires NSF's oversight board
I'm OK with it. You're supposed to destroy countries that are committing genocide. And Trump is doing that for us without us even firing a shot. And I really do believe Trump wants to destroy the US, as his base are not aligned with the liberal democratic values that are led by racist genocidal maniacs anyways.

There really is no moral defense of the US at this point, given the last few years of the genocide it is actively committing under both parties.

Looking forward to whoever replaces the US as the leaders of the free world. Iran? Cuba? China? Greenland?

readitalready··on Website streamed live directly from a model
This kind of thing would be great if we could have large local models sometime in the future.
readitalready··on Making RAM at Home [video]
I do but my days in the fab taught me that you do NOT want people to do this, considering the extremely dangerous chemicals involved. People have died changing EMPTY tanks of phosphine gas used for doping… and HF acid used for etch is another nightmare entirely.
readitalready··on Making RAM at Home [video]
Backyard semiconductor production is pretty similar to backyard barbecue. Lots of heating, smoking (diffusion), injecting (ion implant), and layering..
readitalready··on Making RAM at Home [video]
I only buy free-range artisanal DRAM at the DRAM farmer's market.
readitalready··on Brands got worse on purpose
What a lot of these discussions are missing is that designer labels aren't high-quality either, especially newer brands.

A lot of the newer brands take time to learn from their experience to ramp up quality, from materials to stitching.

readitalready··on Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network
Since we're talking about something completely different, what about food? Did every analyst predict people would want food?
readitalready··on Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network
lol no. There are probably 50-100 million potential customers. The rural farmer in India isn't going to buy Starlink.
readitalready··on Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network
There really aren't that many people around the world that would make Starlink profitable in the long run. Only about 1% of the global population are farmers, so that already limits your market. And the moment a village is formed, the economics favor fiber to that village over Starlink.
readitalready··on Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network
ok but that just makes Starlink even more unprofitable, as now you're limited by the number of customers.

The moment these people incorporate into a village, it becomes more profitable to build a fiber connection. Fiber will eventually get to Ecuador.

readitalready··on Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network
The only real viable long-term business model for these constellations are for the military or other socialized use.

They are completely unprofitable otherwise. Eventually even Starlink will lose money, as more and more rural regions around the world are wired for fiber.

readitalready··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
Why ask South Korean instead of North Korea?
readitalready··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
rogue nations such as North Korea

Is North Korea really a "rogue nation" anymore? What does that even mean when the US, which is currently led by a convicted felon, is literally and unapologetically stealing resources from places like Venezuela and Iran?

readitalready··on Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
I ended up writing a linter/validator that checks the AI-generated code for everything, including user interface style guidelines and preferences (not necessarily for hard errors)
readitalready··on Bring Back Idiomatic Design
This is a really huge and a fundamental flaw in AI-driven design. AI-driven design is completely inconsistent. If you re-ran an AI generated layout, even with the same prompt, the output for a user interface will look completely different between two runs.
readitalready··on ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month
No, the same $200 plan is still there. They hid it behind the $100 click-through.

This just adds a $100 plan that's 1/4 the usage of the $200 plan..

readitalready··on [dead]
Can you imagine how much better and happier the world would be without Israel?

Like, half the wars since Israel's founding wouldn't have happened... they really are a cancer on the world.

readitalready··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Government could sanction Israel like they did to Iran.
readitalready··on We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
Yah my Claude Code agents run a ton of Python and bash scripts. You're probably missing out on a lot of tool use cases without full tool use through POSIX compatibility.
readitalready··on US Army chief of staff fired by Hegseth
A lot of government would be improved by making elected positions be very specific roles.

Why are we deciding military strategy from a guy that was elected to fix labor rights? Should the same guy running the school system also be in charge of selecting Supreme Court justices?

Also, the founding fathers had it right: An independent electoral college should decide elected positions, not the general public. Hiring decisions should be left up to people that are expert at hiring, not random people.

The only role the general public should have in government is deciding their representative - it's literally in the name!

And executive branch isn't supposed to be a representative. It's only role is to execute laws created by the representatives.

readitalready··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
> You find it hard to believe that the regime that hangs women from a crane in the square for not wearing the hijab would not do this?

When you just make things up like this, it causes people to ignore everything else you say.

readitalready··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
Great. Glad you agree that it was Mossad that was responsible for all the civilian deaths during the violent Iranian insurrection, and not the Iranian government.

I think we can all agree that the Iranian government are the good guys and the Israeli regime are the bad guys. That's not in dispute. What IS in dispute is how we work together on removing the Israeli government. I think we should support the Iranian government, since they are already well on their in the process of removing the Israeli regime from power and replacing them with the good Hamas government.

readitalready··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
>I don't think I have the skillset and personality that would me allow to rise to the top of the hierarchy in a brutal totalitarian regime built on religious fanaticism.

This is about whether you would shut down the internet or not, not whether you would rise to the top of the hierarchy on a brutal totalitarian regime built on religious fanaticism... like Israel. You know, a country with strict limits on media, including shutting down media outlets it deems critical of the state.

Yes, you would shut down the internet in a war. Yes, specifically you. Just like how you would just down media companies and plane flights in wartime, since you, yes you specifically, do not believe in Democracy.

>Oh so the Iranian regime was not murdering its own peacefully protesting citizens (regardless of the existence of these "armed insurrectionists") for many years now?

So then for how many years do you think Mossad armed the insurrectionists that you are trying to call "peaceful protesters"?

readitalready··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
You'd ban the internet too if you had a foreign military using it to communicate with armed insurrectionists.

Yes, specifically you. YOU would do that too.

War changes rules of a country.

readitalready··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
No, there aren't independent sources for that estimate, and we do not even know if it is close to that.

That number was simply made up and comes from Iran International, a Mossad-funded Pahlavist site.

Additionally, the Iranian government states that 2-3,000 were killed, mostly from Mossad-armed insurrectionists killing Iranian police.

So who are you going to believe? Israel, or Iran?

The vast majority of people trust the Iranian government over the Israeli regime.

readitalready··on Trump Tells Aides He's Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz
I honestly do see Trump just declaring he lost. "These Iranians put up a good fight and we weren't prepared." or something to that effect. He's been known to acknowledge defeat, like his complete 180 when Mamdani won.
readitalready··on [dead]
It's done in a military court of a far-right theocratic government that doesn't believe in a Democracy, and is in fact attacking other Democracies like Lebanon and Iran. They don't even bother having fair trials. So it's basically kidnap Palestinian children as hostages, then kill them.
readitalready··on OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors
I still have some of the 88000 reference manuals, and it was really my first introduction to RISC architecture, and I thought it was great. But I never figured out why companies like Apple never chose it for their CPU?
readitalready··on Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
I think for AMD, they were focused on competing against Intel. Remember AMD was almost bankrupt about 15 years ago because of competing against Intel. But the very first GPU use for AI was actually with an ATI/AMD GPU, not an Nvidia one. Everyone thinks Nvidia kicked off the GPU AI craze when Ilya Sutskever cleaned up on AlexNet with an Nvidia GPU back in 2012, or when Andrew Ng and team at Stanford published their "Large Scale Deep Unsupervised Learning using Graphics Processors" in 2009, but in 2004, a couple of Korean researchers were the first to implement neural networks on a GPU, using ATI Radeons: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00313...

And as of now I do believe AMD is in the second strongest position in the datacenter space after Nvidia, ahead of even Google.

readitalready··on Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
I'm purely talking in terms of revenue. There's a huge demand for AI systems from personal workstations to datacenter servers, and Apple was one of the few companies in the world in a position to build complete systems for it.

But for some reason Apple thought the sound recording engineer or the video editor market was more important... like, WTF dude? Have some vision at least!

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