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humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICEEnglish
7·20 hours agowho have been critical of the Trump administration.
Critical of Zionist supremacist rule over the USA. The visa revocation happened in 2024, when Biden was in charge. Unclear when Google gave data, but this is a big USA problem rather than just a Trump problem.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investmentEnglish
1·1 day agoa bit confusing since there are no 40 year treasuries. Even more bearish for US solvency if that is 0.9 points over 30 year.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•But they claim it's Russia interfering in our elections to deflect from the real problem
2·1 day agobut the explicit absolutist passion for it, gave Trump all of the campaign money, and DNC money was just for their candidates to stay quiet about it.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•But they claim it's Russia interfering in our elections to deflect from the real problem
4·1 day agoNATO and the USA have lost the Hybrid War launched by Russia in March 2013.
The CIA has unlimited budget, that installed nazis in Georgia (instigated separatist movement within weeks) 2008 and Ukraine (smartly avoided immediate Russian liberation of Donbas seperatism to delay with peace talks) 2014. The hybrid war accusation against Russia is projection for the high intensity propaganda (hybrid war) on the west to support Russophobia.
Western divisiveness is mostly a function of western wackos. Be angry at the wackos without making you try to hate Russia instead of the wackos.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•But they claim it's Russia interfering in our elections to deflect from the real problem
3·1 day agoFrom the last election cycle. Seven out of the top 10 were contributions to Democrats
I believe the DNC was paid by Zionist “donor pressure” to lose to the candidate who wanted “Israel to finish the job” more passionately than a democrat who would say polite things against genocide.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•But they claim it's Russia interfering in our elections to deflect from the real problem
5·1 day agoIt is an absolute winning electoral strategy to invalidate the treasonous candidacy of any demonic zionazi warmongering genocidal subhuman piece of shit, with amplification that the more money they raise the more invalid their candidacy.
Platform shouldn’t be wealth taxes, it should be the financial zeroing out of any candidate and financers of zionist supremacist rule over America.
We’re all that wrestler with sunglasses movie from the 80s. The lizard people having constitutional protections to rule over us is the moral question of that movie.
For my language, J, I can’t get autocomplete.
Even though J is a functional language (on extreme end), it also supports fortran/verbose python style, which LLMs will write. I don’t have the problem of understanding the code it generates, and it provides useful boilerplate, with perhaps too many intermediate variables, but with the advantage that it tends to be more readable.
Instead of code complete, I get to use the generation to copy and paste into shorter performant tacit code. What is bad, is that the models lose all understanding of the code transformation, and don’t understand J’s threading model. The changes I make means it loses all reasoning ability about the code, and to refactor anything later. Excessive comments helps, including using comments as places to fix/generate code sections.
So, I get the warning about “code you don’t understand” (but that can still happen later with code you write), and comment system helps. The other thing he got wrong is “prompt complexity/coaxing”. It is actually never necessary to add “You are a senior software…”. Doing so only changes the explanation level for any modern model, and opencode type tools don’t or separate off the explanation section.
LLM’s still have extreme flaws, but article didn’t resonate on the big ones, for me.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America's Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it
3·7 days agoIf aliens came to trade cheap stuff with USA, oligarchist supremacism would declare war on them no matter how badly we’d lose
what would be latin based names for penguins an no penguins.
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Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Datacenters can be powered by renewables for 0 cost, if Hydrogen can be sold at $2/kg.
3·12 days agoThis is without grid connection. If grid connected, and wholesale exported electricity revenue of 15c/kwh on cold sunny winter day or summer heat wave (72 days potential) would be 3.7 times more profitable than H2 electrolysis (assuming only $2/kg revenue), and generate over $1000/kw. Recent winter storm in PJM area spiked to $3/kwh. It wasn’t necessarily sunny during spike, but if there is a wholesale participation contract, paying employee BEV owners a huge premium is still way more than 15c/kwh. There were very cold sunny places with $1/kwh after the storm. Can consider closing the datacenter those days, but the large battery, can also monetize peak scarcity during the storm.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Italy’s foreign minister defends ICE attendance at Winter Olympics after outrage: ‘It’s not like the SS are coming’English
7·13 days agoThey’re just there to keep the trains running on time.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020English
2·13 days agoWanting to sell to China just means that demand isn’t exceeding supply, or maybe even that they have access to more supply that they’d use if they could sell to China, which is a massive market. Or even if they don’t have any excess supply, higher demand means they can set higher prices and still expect to sell all inventory.
Nvidia has to sell to a Chinese buyer for 25% more than a US buyer would pay to have equivalent profit. It’s certainly possible that China is willing to pay more than that difference, but US private sector is supposed to be in desperation mode for skynet, in addition to having direct white house access of lobbying against China for mere trinkets in tribute. MSFT and others have the power to tell whitehouse/other republicans that they want to buy the H200s instead, and amplify warmongering BS as the reason. They just don’t want to buy them.
Like the US car companies wanting to sell cars in China doesn’t imply that they are unable to sell cars in the US, it just means they want to sell cars to China and the US.
US car companies are not supply constrained, including some of them with factories in China, and aren’t prohibited from selling all of their cars there if they were competitive. Nvidia has not been making H200s recently. It has astronomical record inventory levels (likely H200s based on lobbying win). Thier H20 cards that they sold to China the last 2 years, are the best value inference cards on ebay from China, but Americans were not allowed to buy them directly. Since about half of Nvidia GPUs are assembled in China, they have 0 problem with black market access to them, and massive secret Singapore customers of Nvidia are likely them directly profiting from Chinese black market with payment to Nvidia instead of pilferage of GPUs. I get that B200s B300s are better value/FLOP than H200s, but H200s could be priced to Americans/colonies on the same/similar $/flop, and if US/MSFT was really supply constrained, they’d buy or lobby government to force Nvidia to sell them at good $/flop. The Nvidia corruption is also likely to create new H200 production making newer GPUs “scarcer”
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020English
11·13 days agoMicrosoft’s finance chief, Amy Hood, argued that the cloud result could have been higher if it had allocated more data center infrastructure to customers rather than prioritizing its in-house needs.
This is 98% chance a lie. Refusing azure clients wasn’t happening. They are saying the dedicated GPUs to copilot 365/windows/bing, but they would just slow tokens/second delivery or raise prices if they were constrained. Open AI/copilot service is flattening out is the far more likely explanation, and China/Anthropic/Google gaining share is apparent with frontend and LLM innovation.
That said, windows 11 copilot is going at about 7tps on simple queries about its QOS, and slow service of paid models could impact azure. In Nov 25, they did drop big customer volume discounts. There were big price increases earlier in the year, so growth was in part pricing growth, and likely a drop in usage volume from previous quarter, or at least very stable. The AI frenzy, mostly openAI/msft/oracle/coreweave block of absurdly impossible capacity growth depends on keeping up with supposedly massive (token) demand growth. There are still a lot of free alternatives in the space, and app download figures usually accompany free promotional usage of latest breakthrough model (sora2 was free use on release. kilo code this week has free Kimi K2.5. Other coding tools have fully free or generous free tiers)
Overall, this, and highly promotional industry, means its very hard for datacenter/LLMs to meet the hype. Deepseek 4 is hyped as a big leap forward, to be released in a couple of weeks. Everything AI boom is likely a lie, and Nvidia bribing Trump to sell H200s to China, at 25% export tariff, is proof of incapacity or unwillingness of US industry to deploy them.
I was 100% sure that would be the answer. Is there a feline that is rough?
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Programming@programming.dev•Cursor is better at marketing than coding
4·15 days agothis week‑long autonomous browser experiment consumed in the order of 10-20 trillion tokens
at $60/m, that is $600M to $1.2B in full price cost, but 1/4 this is current standard pricing. Still, even if a buggy piece of shit, a 1-3m line code project in a week is impressive. OTOH, netscape 1.0 cost $4M to develop, with the advantage of working (though other advantage that it was your web page’s fault for not working).
They set a very challenging experiment. There is a reason for chromium being a popular base for a browser. The more interesting experiment result is if it is ever usable. Are the bugs solvable by AI.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!English
2·17 days ago100%. I did get a 32gb mini pc this summer. win 11 is not as stable as win 10 on ddr3, mostly sleep/monitor issues. and 780m on ddr5 is about the same for gaming as 1660s on ddr3. Don’t chase gaming frame rates until prices get more reasonable. If you somehow don’t have a PC more recent than ddr3, then it’s not time to get into gaming, but upgrading cpu/gpu and an extra 16gb ram is likely the better value compared to new system.
50cm of snow outside. Walking is only option to go anywhere. Even if its a longer walk to take side streets, its a nice walk to have once a year. Going to the beaches in the south next week, and the escape great too, but fresh snow on a quiet walk is an awesome experience.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Games@lemmy.world•Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists BlogEnglish
2·18 days agoDefault difficulty… Certain wiping out of every living being in your village, and failure. Conclusions in article are fairly poor as they are “games are already designed smartly, and there’s nothing that should be changed.”
A good game concept would be to put the player as a “middle manager” with feudal lord as the client. The mission is how to best oppress the villagers in order to graduate to better employment: managing a bigger city.



The visa revocation, and subsequent crackdown google assisted with, was based on attending an anti-genocide protest.