

all 19,797 submissions and 75,800 reviews (to one conference, in one year)
tired: Dead Internet Theory wired: Dead Conferences Theory


all 19,797 submissions and 75,800 reviews (to one conference, in one year)
tired: Dead Internet Theory wired: Dead Conferences Theory


A week-ish ago I said that Mike Masnick is twice as annoying about AI as Dare Obasanjo.


Iām āLIne storeeā babyee.


I think heās just a true believer (or very good at lying).


I have better thoughts I can waste time on
Me too. Unfortunately I donāt get to pick my intrusive thoughts.


I have some thoughts about this goober (Simon Willison) that I need to get out of my head:
First the positives:
But, by his own admission:
Tl;dr: an experienced dev who uses clankers to churn out tons of technically functional hobby software and thinks this gives him right to speak for all software engineers.


OK, my bad. I was thinking about scenario like this: https://eneroutlook.enerdata.net/total-electricity-generation-projections.html
If you assume doubling of electricity production by 2050 (development + electrification) then 10% of that would mean more than double nuclear production.
5% would not really be a massive increase, my mistake, but would still mean more builds than retirement.


Could be, I donāt follow that closely. Iām not aware of any that come close to the level of shitshow of say, Hinckley Point C. That matters.


Yeah, I found his credulousness about "AI"quite amusing. Like when he went to a wrong station in Japan, because he asked ChatGPT. And posted about it, not realizing how much of a dumbass it made him look like. But itās starting to wear off.
But hey, he at least admits there is a bubble.
And also, I havenāt unfollowed/muted/blocked Mike Masnick yet. And heās at least twice as annoying about AI.
Unrelated: Did chrome just detect me writing about AI to shill Gemini to me? (puts on tinfoil hat)


If weāre talking about the general West, then there new nuclear is probably fucked. Rest of the world still builds for reasonable costs. Not nuclear bro amounts, but still.
I think we could see a future where nuclear makes 5-10% of the worldās electricity, which would technically make it a niche source of power, but it would also be a massive increase from today.


Sometimes, I get to peer into the AI pilled brain, and it is⦠uh⦠not good.
But now if I suffer from Imposter syndrome I can remind myself that some other people take advice from clankers.
https://bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3m634z3r7kk2l

Transcript:
The fact I can login every morning and ask an AI to review all my emails and chats from yesterday then given what it knows about my goals and my role it should suggest what I could have done better is amazing.
Bubble or not, AI is huge for personal productivity and overall improvement.


AFAIK data warehouse = regular database data lake = place to keep various files that donāt fit into DB
Data lakehouse aims to integrate these two, I donāt think itās a totally stupid idea.


This. Masayoshi son is selling furniture to YOLO more money into OpenAI.


I have no opinion, but I have to note that I keep reading āKeepAssXC ā¦ā


Pivot to bio-computing


Beff Jezos and friends have produced something other than tweets. Possibly. Maybe.


Looks like a hobby project of someone who has very particular views about computers.
Iām not sure what kind of neural network are they planning to run on a custom FPGA based GPU with 4GB RAM shared with CPU


āHow dare you suggest that we pivoted to SlopTok and smut because of money if something that we totally cannot do right now is more lucrative?ā
I donāt see the problem, that looks like a typical McMansion to me.
Also, itās nice the AI included a dedicated room for snorting cocaine (powder room).