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blkhawk commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9

axegon_ · 14 days ago

Sounds a lot like "I'm not racist but". There's a website dedicated to all of his bs https://elonmusk.today

He is the definition of a cult. Collects money from fanatical followers who will praise every word he says, never delivers, "oh next year guys, for sure, wanna buy a not a flamethrower, while you are at it?". Not to mention what once were laughable conspiracy theories about him turned out to be true(such that even I laughed when I heard them). Torvalds is right with his statement about musk: "incompetent" and "too stupid to work at a tech company".

blkhawk · 14 days ago

I am just saying that he is a bad example because he is a different beast from the run of the mill corporate potemkin-ism.

blkhawk commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9

axegon_ · 14 days ago

The amount of hate I've received here for similar statements is astonishing. What is even more astonishing is that it takes 3-rd grade math skills to work out that the current AI(even ignoring the fact that there is nothing intelligent about the current AI) costs are astronomical and they do not deliver on the promises and everyone is operating at wild loses. At the moment we are at "if you owe 100k to your bank, you have a problem but if you owe 100M to your bank, your bank has a problem". It's the exact same bullshitter economy that people like musk have been exploiting for decades: promise a ton, never deliver, make a secondary promise for "next year", rinse and repeat -> infinite profit. Especially when you rope in fanatical followers.

blkhawk · 14 days ago

I don't want to defend musk in any way but I think you are making a mistake there using him as an example because what boosted him quite a lot is that he actually delivered what he claimed. Always late but still earlier than anybody was guesstimating. And now he is completely spiraling but its a lot harder to lose a billion than to gain one so he persists and even gets richer. Plus his "fanatical" followers are poor. It just doesn't match the situation.

blkhawk commented on AGI is not possible even in 10 years medium.com/@anwarzaid76/a... · Posted by u/MindBreaker2605

okaleniuk · 20 days ago

The most interesting thing in this whole picture is not AGI, it's how the collective intelligence works. CEOs claim the AGI is near because that's how they manipulate the public. But the public knows that it's only a manipulation. So how come the manipulation is still possible?

blkhawk · 20 days ago

because people hedge their bets almost always. basically how likely something is vs costs vs what everybody else is doing vs how you are personally affected.

So in case of the current AI there are several scenarios where you have to react to it. For example as a CEO of a company that would benefit from AI you need to demonstrate you are doing something or you get attacked for not doing enough.

As a CEO of an AI producing company you have almost no idea if the stuff you working on will be the thing that say makes hallucination-free LLMs, allows for cheap long term context integration or even "solve AGI". you have to pretend that you are just about to do the latter tho.

blkhawk commented on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne

chrneu · 22 days ago

There are two apps called "DeArrow" and SponsorBlock that basically everyone should be using.

DeArrow replaces thumbnails and titles with crowd sourced versions. I can't use youtube without it anymore. Usually the titles get replaced with stuff like "How to build a table" instead of "Watch the world explode as I try to make a table!!!!!!!!!!!!". Same with thumbnails. No longer are they over-saturated close up AI generated garbage images, but usually just a screenshot from the video that shows what's really going on.

blkhawk · 21 days ago

"Watch the world explode as I try to make a table!!!!!!!!!!!!" is unlikely its more like "Watch the world explode as I try to make this thing!!!!!!!!!!!!".

blkhawk commented on What the hell have you built wthhyb.sacha.house/... · Posted by u/sachahjkl

WesolyKubeczek · a month ago

Heh

Once you have a service that has users and costs actual money, while you don’t need to make it a spaghetti of 100 software products, you need a bit of redundancy at each layer — backend, frontend, databases, background jobs — so that you don’t end up in a catastrophic failure mode each time some piece of software decides to barf.

blkhawk · a month ago

uh, maybe you only have the issue that you need redundancies because you have so many pieces of software that can barf?

I mean it will happen regardless just from the side effects of complexity. With a simpler system you can at least save on maintenance and overhead.

blkhawk commented on JetKVM – Control any computer remotely jetkvm.com/... · Posted by u/elashri

system2 · 2 months ago

It is hard for me to understand who benefits from these devices. Any serious server environment already uses idrac or something similar. What kind of device are people planning to remote into with them? NVRs maybe?

blkhawk · 2 months ago

People without a serious server environment or in all the myriad places where you need a local terminal temporarily or setting up one is super inconvenient. Say a small 19" rack in a cellar. with this you just plug in in, memorise the IP and go somewhere where you can sit comfortably.

blkhawk commented on Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations guru3d.com/story/intel-ar... · Posted by u/qwytw

snowram · 3 months ago

I wonder why everyone keep saying "just put more VRAM" yet no cards seem to do that. If it is that easy to compete with Nvidia, why don't we already have those cards?

blkhawk · 3 months ago

because the cards already sell at very very good prices with 16GB and optimizations in generative AI is bringing down memory requirements. Optimizing profits means yyou sell with the least amount of VRAM possible not only to save the direct cost of the RAM but also to guard future profit and your other market segments. the cost of the ram itself is almost nothing compared to that. any intel competitor can more easily release products with more than 16GB and smoke them. Intel tries for a market segment that was only served by gaming cards twice as expensive up until now. this frees those up to be finally sold at MSRP.

blkhawk commented on Keeping secrets out of logs (2024) allan.reyes.sh/posts/keep... · Posted by u/xk3

blkhawk · 3 months ago

oh god - I had that come up in an issue at work just about a month ago. A development system used really simple usernames and passwords since it was just for testing but all the lines with one of those got gobbled up because they had "secrets" in them.

I have very strong opinions on this issue that boils down to. _why are you logging everything you lazy asses_ and _adding all the secrets into another tool just to scan for them in logs just adds another point for them to leak_...

Especially since the ability of lines getting censored even when the secrets were just part of words showed that probably no hashing was involved.

But its a security tool so it stays. I kinda feel like Cassandra but I think I can already predict a major security issue with it or others with the same functionality in the future. its like some goddamn blind spot that software that is to prevent X cannot be vulnerable to X but somehow often is vulnerable because prevention of X and not being vulnerable to X are two separate things somehow.

blkhawk commented on Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line thedrive.com/news/toyota-... · Posted by u/computerliker

arghwhat · 4 months ago

A degraded battery bank does not mean a bank with outright "bad" cells. The cells will probably be way more off than they used to be, but there can still be plenty of effective capacity in the bank. Heck, if space isn't an issue, it's productive as long as it isn't self-discharging too fast.

You can still have a working battery even with some "bad" (i.e., way out of spec) cells, depending on the BMS. All the thresholds are configurable, just that a regular EV setup would lean towards safety.

blkhawk · 4 months ago

plus if you aren't making your packs unrepairable on purpose with foamed construction (like Tesla). you can par out modules in the packs into new configurations somewhat easily for the amount of work needed.

blkhawk commented on Setting serial baud rate on ESP-IDF does nothing atomic14.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/iamflimflam1

whatever1 · 4 months ago

Is it common for microcontrollers to lack comprehensive documentation, or is it just espressif?

blkhawk · 4 months ago

uh - you clearly misunderstood something. The video is about the port of the Arduino framework that is running on the ESP32. on the ESP32-S* that have native USB that has implications that makes the option of setting a baud rate for them using the Arduino Framework superfluous. The ESP32 Variants have pretty good documentation themself.