coredog64 (u/coredog64)

coredog64 commented on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami community.broadcom.com/ta... · Posted by u/zdkaster

cthor · 17 hours ago

Vendor lock-in is a thing. Switching costs are a thing. They know this. That's the whole business model. They're expecting that the cost of switching to outweigh the cost of the subscription.

I get that this business model is fashionable amongst wannabe rent-seekers, but it's still antisocial and should be shunned.

coredog64 · 16 hours ago

This is not rent-seeking: Rent-seeking is leveraging your position to garner economic rents, like putting a toll gate across a highway in which the only value received for the toll is the opening of the gate.

Rent-seeking would be Broadcom saying that you must run a Bitnami image in CloudFoundry or pay a penalty for not doing so. They are in fact doing some work here. We may disagree on whether or not they're being compensated fairly for that work, but that disagreement doesn't turn this into "rent-seeking"

coredog64 commented on Nvidia DGX Spark nvidia.com/en-us/products... · Posted by u/janandonly

syntaxing · a day ago

While a completely different price point, I have a Jetson Orin Nano. Some people forget the kernels are more or less set in stone for product like these. I could rebuild my own Jetpack kernel but it’s not that straight forward to update something like CUDA or any other module. Unless you’re a business where your product relies on this hardware, I find it hard to buy this for consumer applications.

coredog64 · a day ago

Came in here to say the same thing. Have bought 3 Nvidia dev boards and never again as you quickly get left behind. You're then stuck compiling everything from scratch.

coredog64 commented on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-... · Posted by u/Teever

mxuribe · 2 days ago

If i post a bunch of ghost/fake jobs, then investros *could potentially* see that as a signal that i am growing, and they should invest NOW before its too late...as one example. Another example, could be that my competition sees "enough/so many open jobs", that they might assume their market position is less than it might be - think of it as a sort of distant intimidation...but also, could be an approach for that competition to get distracted and spin their wheels trying to hire unnecessarily (to try to block up the pool of relevant candidates), thus burning budget in process, etc.

coredog64 · 2 days ago

You need to think outside the box. Once you've determined that a particular technological avenue is a dead end, gin up a bunch of job postings that would suggest that you're doubling down on it and watch your competitors set money on fire trying to catch up.

(There's a classic story from the Windows 3.x era regarding pen computing, where Microsoft spent money on it and advertised that solely to force competitors to expend efforts where Microsoft knew there was no payoff)

coredog64 commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn

JumpCrisscross · 5 days ago

It shouldn’t. Trump is using environmental regulation to block projects. It’s crazy seeing the GOP embrace San Francisco’s last decade of policy.

coredog64 · 5 days ago

"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."

coredog64 commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble

hinkley · 7 days ago

Every degree of global warming raises the amount of water the air can hold by 7%. That's what's going on in California recently. We only need to put our finger on the scale to really fuck things up. We don't have to stand on it.

Also heat island effect. We don't have to move the needle in Yosemite to make downtown LA into a death trap.

What's your tidy "Me worry?" explanation for aquifer depletion?

coredog64 · 7 days ago

Degree C/K or F/R?

coredog64 commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly

TheP1000 · 8 days ago

API gateway timeout increase has been nice.

coredog64 · 8 days ago

It was always there but it required much more activity to get it done (document your use case & traffic levels and then work with your TAM to get the limit changed).

coredog64 commented on AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy' theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

ethbr1 · 10 days ago

I wonder how much of that is missing Bezos as an arbiter / dictator.

I'm pressed to come up with a scenario where AWS leads cloud AI without something like the infamous "no non-API internal calls" memo/mandate. And Amazon at this point seems to lack a centralized enough leader who can dictate in that way (and have her or his orders followed).

coredog64 · 10 days ago

It's less about Bezos and more about the principal/agent problem. There are entire groups within Amazon that exist to justify promotion scope for the manager. Then there are entire groups that are supporting revenue-generating operations but have been reduced to KTLO because there's not scope for promotion.

Promotion-driven development is an issue across MAGMA, but IMO Amazon has it the worst because of the twin drivers of extreme stack-ranking and the focus on equity appreciation in compensation.

Being behind on AI has resulted in a field day for empire builders. Amazon needs to get their overall house in order first before trying to be a leader in AI.

coredog64 commented on Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile gmays.com/the-biggest-bet... · Posted by u/gmays

xena · 11 days ago

> But for real I don't see a reason why Alexa is not using a good LLM now.

Large language models are too slow to use as real-time voice assistants. ChatGPT voice only barely works because they have to use a much worse (but faster) model to do it.

coredog64 · 11 days ago

Amazon has a commercial Speech-to-Text model (Nova Sonic) that is passable. I used it to create a post-sales call assistant and was surprised that the underlying model was able to do a bunch of stuff I thought I was going to have to use Claude for.

coredog64 commented on Nvidia Tilus: A Tile-Level GPU Kernel Programming Language github.com/NVIDIA/tilus... · Posted by u/ashvardanian

ants_everywhere · 11 days ago

Or one of the cloud providers who doesn't want to pay lock-in prices when they'd rather pay commodity prices

coredog64 · 11 days ago

The cloud providers all have their own Nvidia alternatives. Having worked with more than one, I would rate them not much better than AMD when it comes to software.

coredog64 commented on Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile gmays.com/the-biggest-bet... · Posted by u/gmays

ericmay · 11 days ago

> But now there’s a new paradigm shift. The iPhone was perfect for the mobile era, which is why it hasn’t changed much over the last decade.

> AI unlocks what seems to be the future: dynamic, context-dependent generative UIs or something similar. Why couldn’t my watch and glasses be everything I need?

  https://www.apple.com/watch/

  https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/

> The other problem is that at its core, AI is two things: 1) software and 2) extremely fast-moving/evolving, two things Apple is bad at.

Idk my MacBook Pro is pretty great and runs well. Fast moving here implies that as soon as you release something there's like this big paradigm shift or change that means you need to move even faster to catch up, but I don't think that's the case, and where it is the case the new software (LLM) still need to be distributed to end users and devices so for a company like Apple they pay money and build functionality to be the distributor of the latest models and it doesn't really matter how fast they're created. Apple's real threat is a category shift in devices, which AI may or may not necessarily be part of.

I'm less certain about Amazon but unless (insert AI company) wants to take on all the business risk of hosting governments and corporations and hospitals on a cloud platform I think Amazon can just publish their own models, buy someone else's, or integrate with multiple leading AI model publishers.

coredog64 · 11 days ago

> I think Amazon can just publish their own models, buy someone else's, or integrate with multiple leading AI model publishers.

This is exactly what they've done: They offer SageMaker (and similar capabilities) for hosting smaller models that fit into a single instance GPU, and they have Bedrock that hosts a metric crap-ton of AWS and third party models. Many of the model architectures are supported for hosting fine-tuned versions.