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Captainant

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  1. it's almost like shareholders have been extracting wealth from consumers for a LOOOOONG time and many core businesses are still sound without exploitative profit margins or something
  2. This is a great article that even talks about edge-hosted LLM models like what you might run on your cell phone, laptop, or desktop PC. Llama3.1 8B (8 billion parameters) only pulled 114 joules to generate a response - for comparison that's 1/10th of a second of your microwave running. Llama3.1 405B (405 billion parameters) pulled 6706 joules to generate a response - about 8 seconds of a microwave running. Image generating models use about 1/3rd energy as much as text models, and video generating models use about twice as much energy as text models. The devil in those details though, is that you often will make many queries to come to your conclusion. The article has a great breakdown of how much juice you'd use to brainstorm some marketing ideas, generate videos and images, and it comes out to around 3 and a half hours of running your microwave. Every time google search results generate a summary of your search, it's a bite of energy. Scaled across billions of queries per hour. And it's something that everyone hates! I do think there's value in locally hosted models doing work acceleration for you, but cloud providers spinning up huge datacenters to power features that nobody wants is pretty dogshit. Not to mention, those DC's are mostly powered by natgas and belching a shitton of carbon emissions for no meaningful value.
  3. "Well it's not against the law, so that means it's perfectly fine to do" - oil barons, probably
  4. They're crazy MAGA at THD. They even run an employee superPAC for conservative issues
  5. In Rebels they fill in more blanks - Saw doesn't play well with others and sees enemies everywhere. The Yavin rebels have been sending spies into his camp - Mon said as much - so it helps contextualize his accusations of "A SPY??"
  6. They just released a huge free update to Rogue Trader with a new Arbites origin story for your player character
  7. my buddy thinks it's a pressure play on Altman, since grok is also now hosted on azure via its LLM marketplace - the only place you can get your own personal "grok"
  8. Keepin' the sunshine a-pumpin' https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/us-treasury-yields-moodys-downgrades-us-credit-rating.html 30 year T-bills hitting over 5%
  9. a buddy of mine at azure just sent me this with "WTF??". Why is Microsoft platforming musk at their developer conference? None of their developers are happy to see him or want his advice in building technology
  10. Its amazing how much milage they've gotten out of a decade old quip. Props to you for keepin it goin'
  11. Bummer. Sucks that I sent traffic her way. When I read the snippet of the story and found the local news link I didn't think to check to see who the editorial author was, since the underlying facts of the situation were confirmed by actual local reporting. Either way, you really Hate to see our forecasting and alerting ability be degraded so quickly and thoroughly. It leaves one in a state of Incredulity.
  12. DOGE cuts have caused the tornado early warning system to fail in Kentucky, I'm sure we'll get our turn in the barrel https://www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-warnings-delayed-because https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/deadly-tornado-outbreak-ohio-valley-kentucky-missouri-indiana 18 confirmed dead with a higher body count feared as they clean up
  13. There's been lignin wood nails for some time now, I wonder if this is a "what if we made a whole board outta this stuff" kind of deal. The nails are a similar thing where they're impregnated with resin and trade secrets and physically become part of the wood once set. I recall reading things like "higher strength than traditional steel nails" and the like
  14. HAY isn't this kind of thing SOCIALISM(!!!!)? I thought it was unamerican and COMMUNIST to say a company should take a smaller profit? At least that's what happens every time it's suggested on this board
  15. Funny timing, Fortnite is doing a "Darth Jar Jar" skin as one of their battle pass rewards
  16. So you're saying on the outside we can't understand, and on the inside you can't explain?
  17. Go read a history book. This isn't unique to MAGA. The nazis very successfully suppressed Liberal (capital "L") thought and discourse by convincing their idiot chuds that they were BETRAYED from the inside. That their nation was brought low by AN INTERNAL ENEMY (!!!!) Let me know when you're starting to put two and two together to figure out they're running the same playbook on immigrants and those who would stand against them. Shit man, they're arresting and charging judges. They're arresting lawyers at international crossings. You're worrying about tiddlywinks while a freight train is bearing down. Yeah and those dirty Ghormans had it coming amirite?? They should not have disengaged themselves from the galactic discourse, otherwise the Empire might have spares them
  18. The "apolitical majority" is the the equivalent to the citizenry of Weimar Germany while Hitler was rising to power. Being """apolitical""" is extremely political in itself. It leads to leaders Blacklab reflexively suppressing reporting on repressive actions by the government. Defending their farcical apolitical stance is giving them permission to not think critically. Fuck that noise, they need to wake up and smell the ashes of democracy that THEIR FUCKING VOTES AND INACTION delivered to us all. There's no discourse because what's there to discuss? Just HOW evil the trump administration is? How far are they lying? Got any deck chairs you're looking to rearrange on the Titanic?
  19. You're arguing that we should go try and win all our money back at the triple zero roulette wheel. Twitter is juicing conservative extremism, and you're gonna be bringing piss to a shit fight if you think you'll be anything more than the whipping boy on those platforms. Attention is the currency, and brother, not much aside from amygdala response gets the attention of chuds. Nothing matters until it affects them. Telling them how bad things are only encourages their actions to drag the bar lower. You're not gonna win with LOGIC and FACTS when they don't give a flying fuck about those things.
  20. It's crazy how some people keep going back to the leopard even after it's eaten their face
  21. Especially considering Andor actually stuck the landing on their "catspaw dagger"
  22. https://apnews.com/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-epa-zeldin-trump-4eaf8c7bdac7c45a295a2305de906012 The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones. The Biden administration set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, finding they increased the risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and babies being born with low birth weight. Those limits on PFAS, which are human-made and don’t easily break down in nature, were expected to reduce their levels for millions of people. Limits on three types of PFAS, including what are known as GenX substances found in North Carolina, will be scrapped and reconsidered by the agency, as will a limit on a mixture of several types of PFAS. ... It appears few utilities will be impacted by the withdrawal of limits for certain, newer types of PFAS. So far, sampling has found nearly 12% of U.S. water utilities are above the Biden administration’s limits. But most utilities face problems with PFOA or PFOS. Health advocates praised Biden’s administration for the limits. But water utilities complained, saying treatment systems are expensive and that customers will end up paying more. The utilities sued the EPA.
  23. If you're an insane person who thinks that buying goods from another country means they're taking advantage of you, maybe it's a dilemma. It's like saying you'll pass in family fued. Nobody fucking passes! Why are you there if you don't want to play? Why is our trade and economic advisor seeking to reduce trade and shrink the economy?
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