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qayxc commented on Datacenters in space aren't going to work taranis.ie/datacenters-in... · Posted by u/mindracer

GMoromisato · 18 days ago

Starlink is already a small data center! It has power, radiators, and compute!

It needs to be scaled up, but there is no obstacle to that (at least none that the article mentions).

The only valid objection is cost, but space prices keep dropping and earth prices keep rising.

qayxc · 18 days ago

> Starlink is already a small data center! It has power, radiators, and compute!

It is not. This is like saying your phone is already a small data centre. While technically true, we're not talking about the same scale here. StarLink's compute power is a tiny fraction of a modern data centre GPU/TPU. Most of the power budget goes into communication (i.e. its purpose!).

qayxc commented on Google Antigravity antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi

jimmar · a month ago

I installed it, entered one prompt, clicked the "Proceed" button, and got "Model quota limit exceeded."

Those quota limits brought me back down to earth quickly.

qayxc · a month ago

Especially since:

    There is currently no support for:

    Paid tiers with guaranteed quotas and rate limits
    Bring-your-own-key or bring-your-own-endpoint for additional rate limits
    Organizational tiers (self-serve or via contract)

So basically just another case of vendor lock-in. No matter whether the IDE is any good - this kills it for me.

qayxc commented on Three kinds of AI products work seangoedecke.com/ai-produ... · Posted by u/emschwartz

irq-1 · a month ago

> - Find a good dentist within 2mi from my house, call them to make sure they take my insurance, and book an appointment sometime in the next two weeks no earlier than 11am

The web caused dentists to make websites, but they don't post their appointment calendar; they don't have to.

Will AI looking for appointments cause businesses to post live, structured data (like calendars)? The complexity of scheduling and multiple calendars is perfect for an AI solution. What other AI uses and interactive systems will come soon?

- Accounting: generate balance sheets, audit in real-time, and have human accountants double check it (rather than doing)

- Correspondence: create and send notifications of all sorts, and consume them

- Purchase selection: shifting the lack of knowledge about products in the customers favor

- Forms: doing taxes or applying for a visa

qayxc · a month ago

The problem is that we're reverting back to the stone age by throwing unnecessary resources at problems that have a simple and effective solution: open, standardised, and accessible APIs.

We wouldn't need to use an expensive (compute-wise) AI agent to do things like making appointments. Especially if in the end you'd end up with bots talking to bots anyway. The digital equivalent of always up-to-date yellow pages would solve many of these issues. Super simple and "dumb" but reliable programs could perform such tasks.

Scheduling multiple calendars doesn't require "AI" - it's a comparatively simple optimisation problem that can be solved using computationally cheap existing algorithms. It seems more and more to me that AI - and LLMs in particular - are the hammer and now literally everything looks like a nail...

qayxc commented on Three kinds of AI products work seangoedecke.com/ai-produ... · Posted by u/emschwartz

carsoon · a month ago

Recent articles seem only to mean LLMs when they reference AI. There are tons of commercial usecases for other models. Image Classification models, Image Generation models (traditionally difusion models, although some do use llm for image now), TTS models, Speach Transcription, translation models, AI driving models(autopilot), AI risk assessment for fraud, 3D structural engineering enhancement models.

With many of the good usecases of AI the end user doesn't know that ai exists and so it doesn't feel like there is AI present.

qayxc · a month ago

> With many of the good usecases of AI the end user doesn't know that ai exists and so it doesn't feel like there is AI present.

This! The best technology is the one that you don't notice and that doesn't get in the way. A prominent example is the failure of the first generation of smart phones: they only took off once someone (Apple) managed to the hide OS and its details properly from the user. We need the same for AI - chat is simply not a good interface for every use case.

qayxc commented on UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales bbc.com/news/articles/c05... · Posted by u/ksec

speedylight · a month ago

So Rolls Royce makes cars, engines for planes, and nuclear reactors?

qayxc · a month ago

The car company is a different entity owned by BMW.

qayxc commented on Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation minimaxir.com/2025/11/nan... · Posted by u/minimaxir

tomalbrc · a month ago

Cute. What’s the use case?

qayxc · a month ago

NSFW, mostly

qayxc commented on We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models latenitesoft.com/blog/eva... · Posted by u/kalleboo

fsniper · a month ago

Is it me or ChatGPT change subtle or sometimes more prominent things? Like ball holding position of the hand, face features like for head, background trees and alike?

qayxc · a month ago

It's not you. The model seems to refuse to accurately reproduce details. It changes things and leaves stuff out every time.

qayxc commented on Solarpunk is happening in Africa climatedrift.substack.com... · Posted by u/JoiDegn

skandergarroum · a month ago

haha author here, and this was my favorite interaction so far. Thanks czbond.

So no, not fake, not AI, just written under the flu over the weekend.

@qarzxc: Not fictional, spoke to users & investors of both companies, see my breakdowns on them for a deeper dive.

qayxc · a month ago

> So no, not fake, not AI, just written under the flu over the weekend.

Well, my apologies then. On the bright side you definitely have a super power when under the flu: the ability to perfectly emulate a chatbot in your writing :D

I hope you're back to full health and doing well.

qayxc commented on Solarpunk is happening in Africa climatedrift.substack.com... · Posted by u/JoiDegn

czbond · a month ago

Really, really great article.

qayxc · a month ago

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qayxc commented on Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024) needleful.net/blog/2024/0... · Posted by u/gudzpoz

richhhh · a month ago

It does if any of his customers ever care about maintaining the kind of code after his death.

Code is read more than it is written, and most of us don’t and wouldn’t write in this style. This could mean he’s much smarter than the rest of us, or he could just be a jerk doing his own thing. In either case I’ve never had a good experience working with coders who are this “clever”. Real brilliance is writing code anyone can understand that remains performant and well tested. This is more like the obfuscated Perl contest entries. I guess it’s cool that you can do it, but good sense dictates that you shouldn’t.

As to OPs endeavor to understand this style, it is an interesting learning approach, but I think reading a lot of code in many styles that are actually used by more than one guy is likely to get make you “smarter”.

qayxc · a month ago

> It does if any of his customers ever care about maintaining the kind of code after his death.

Which is why there's annotated and reformatted versions of the code. There's basically a "clean" version for those who care about such things and his "development"-version, which looks like executable line noise to the uninitiated.

> This could mean he’s much smarter than the rest of us, or he could just be a jerk doing his own thing.

Or - and I know this is difficult to comprehend these days - he cultivated this style over decades and it's just easier for HIM to work with code like this. No teams, no code reviews, no systems upon systems that need to interact. Just a single page program that does one thing and that he (the only contributor and his own boss) is able to understand and work with because that's what he did for past 50 years.

> In either case I’ve never had a good experience working with coders who are this “clever”.

Neither have I and I wouldn't write code like that either. I also don't think that reading and understanding such code makes you "smarter".

It's more of a peek into a different era of software development and one particular person's preferences.

Still it's amusing how Whitney's style seems to personally offend people. It's just a different way of programming that works for this one guy due to very specific circumstances. Neither the OP nor Whitney himself advocate for emulating this style.