"The utility told regulators in April that it expected to use natural gas plants to provide about three-quarters of the additional power that would be needed by 2030"
Not a good news here.
Readit Newspandastronaut commented on At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI nytimes.com/2025/06/24/te... · Posted by u/pseudolus
pandastronaut commented on Human coders are still better than LLMs antirez.com/news/153... · Posted by u/longwave
That was also one of the challenges during the offshoring craze in the 00s. The offshore teams did not have the power, or knowledge to push back on things and just built and built and built. Sounds very similar to AI right?
Probably going to have the same outcome.
I tend to see today's AI Vibrators as the managers of the 00s and their army of offshore devs.
pandastronaut commented on Programming on 34 Keys (2022) oppi.li/posts/programming... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Exactly!
Dependence on special hardware instead of generally available ones is the making of future trouble for yourself.
Also in collaborative environments allowing others to work on your computer, assisting you in an easy way, is important.
For people working 40 years alone in a remote cellar the exact very same way throughout, and making several reserve clone of the unique and specialist hardware replacing the worn out ones, this could be ok.
That's also part of my reasoning.
I don't want to feel uncomfortable because of whatever customization I would be missing or make other people unable to use whatever environment or computer I work with.
Most of the time, I am not allowed to plug a personal device or modify the setup anyway.
But I am cool with people that customize everything, from software to hardware, as long as this is not in the path of other people. Everyone can find its one and best way to work :)
pandastronaut commented on Programming on 34 Keys (2022) oppi.li/posts/programming... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I am always amazed by the dedication and craftmanship that keyboard enthusiasts put in their creation.
In the meantime, I have spent my life following the opposite path : minimizing all form of customization so that I can switch computer at any time without feeling lost or missing something ( I have to use computers from several clients all the time).
pandastronaut commented on DBRX: A new open LLM databricks.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jasondavies
Data scientist here that’s also tired of the tools. We put so much effort in trying to educate DSes in our company to get away from notebooks and use IDEs like VS or RStudio and databricks has been a step backwards cause we didn’t get the integrated version
Thank you ! I am so tired of all those unmaintainable nor debugable notebooks.
Years ago, Databricks had a specific page on their documentation where they stated that notebooks where not for production grade software. It has been removed. And now you have a chatgpt like in their notebooks ... What a step backwards.
How can all those developers be so happy without having the bare minimum tools to diagnosis their code ? And I am not even talking about unit testing here.
pandastronaut commented on DBRX: A new open LLM databricks.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jasondavies
I believe they are using the percentages as part of the height of the bar chart! I thought I'd seen every way someone could do dataviz wrong (particularly with a bar chart), but this one is new to me.
Interesting! It is probably one of the worst trick I have seen in a while for a bar graph. Never seen this one before. Trust vanishes instantly facing that kind of dataviz.
pandastronaut commented on DBRX: A new open LLM databricks.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jasondavies
I think the case for "axis must always go to 0" is overblown. Zero isn't always meaningful, for instance chance performance or performance of trivial algorithms is likely >0%. Sometimes if axis must go to zero you can't see small changes. For instance if you plot world population 2014-2024 on an axis going to zero, you won't be able to see if we are growing or shrinking.
Even starting at 30%, the MMLU graph is false. The four bars are wrong. Even their own 73,7% is not at the right height. The Mixtral 71.4% is below the 70% mark of the axis.
This is really the kind of marketing trick that makes me avoid a provider / publisher. I can't build trust this way.
pandastronaut commented on AWS cancels serverless Postgres service that scales to zero datanami.com/2024/01/08/a... · Posted by u/goeldhru
I guess a good opportunity for someone to build a good alternative. Although it's hard to get it right because if you scale to 0 people will complain about latency and if you don't it's not really serverless.
Corporate customers that runs AWS, GCP or Azure at not looking for alternative outside of their cloud providers. Most solution architecture are designed with the assumption that all your ressources will be inside the same vnet or subnet, in a given cloud provider. And I am not talking about any egress fees yet.
Candid question : if this is european legislation, how browser editor would handle this regional specific requirement ? Provide several flavor of their browser ? I doubt people and companies from outside europe would agree to use a european flavored version of their browser.
pandastronaut commented on The pneumatic tube mail system in New York City untappedcities.com/2023/1... · Posted by u/geox
Related ( French but automatic subtitles are available ), the penumatic tube system in Paris : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8KfzAMnnlo