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selectodude

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selectodude
·13 hours ago·discuss
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.
selectodude
·2 days ago·discuss
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.
selectodude
·3 days ago·discuss
Japan in the 1990s, ME sovereign wealth funds in the late 2000s, China in the mid 2010s.
selectodude
·3 days ago·discuss
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.
selectodude
·3 days ago·discuss
Probably not much. The US doesn’t have the capacity for high volume manufacturing. We cost too much.
selectodude
·5 days ago·discuss
That’s the beauty of using an open harness. I can jump ship if that ever happens.
selectodude
·9 days ago·discuss
Au contraire, I run models on WSL and my desktop reliably wakes up from sleep. Best of both worlds.
selectodude
·9 days ago·discuss
The meek shall inherit the Earth… but not the moon.
selectodude
·11 days ago·discuss
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

Oscar R. Benavides
selectodude
·11 days ago·discuss
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).
selectodude
·12 days ago·discuss
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.
selectodude
·12 days ago·discuss
You get both the white nationalist and the antisemite sides, yes.
selectodude
·16 days ago·discuss
I think the folks at PA Semi had some chops too.
selectodude
·18 days ago·discuss
Heh, I’m 5x more productive 99 percent of the time. That is still a very, very useful tool.
selectodude
·18 days ago·discuss
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.
selectodude
·23 days ago·discuss
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.
selectodude
·23 days ago·discuss
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.
selectodude
·23 days ago·discuss
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.
selectodude
·23 days ago·discuss
Private equity owns about 500,000 homes nationwide, so like less than a half of a percent.

Anyway they got into the housing market because the margins are so good because everybody refuses to allow new housing to be built. Congratulations, you played yourselves.
selectodude
·27 days ago·discuss
And there’s a non-zero chance that it lives dormant in your brain and you die several years later. Absolutely bonkers.