I had everything in my cart.

I was waiting for Black Friday.

I get an alert saying the RAM in my cart was unavailable.

I’m thinking, okay, maybe they’re out of white RAM, I’ll just do black.

The $200 kit in my cart was now $1,200, but worse yet, everything but the slowest RAM was out of stock.

I decided, fuck this, fuck them, and I bought everything but the RAM.

A few days later, I told my friend my troubles, he says: “DUDE! I HAVE SPARE DDR5 in my closet!”

I tell him: “I will pay for shipping, fair value, and 20% extra for your trouble”

The moral of this story is fuck these greedy bastards, you can train your 10T models but please leave gamers alone; they are a tiny % of the demand for DRAM chips.

P.S: Pay the kindness forward, help your fellow friends with any spare parts

Oh heck. I saw the re-runs of the originals in theaters in 94’

Nope. A couple of them have been built and they’re just sitting there unpowered

Imagine you had infinite money and no consequences

I mean you could like— build entire city size data centers right?

But this infinite money goes away if you’re not building them

So your choices are to build something that you don’t need or to have no money

You see, humans were not very evolved or adapted to their planet, given their own social structures

It’s fun cheating in single player games after you’ve already finished them the normal way.

Cheating otherwise robs you of the experience.

Cheating if the game is simply too hard or unplayable, is also acceptable.

Cheating in online games? Especially against other people? You’re an asshole.

The Karman Line is typically 100-120 km up.

You could put a flat 100 km on the sign and call it a day.

A valid metric

FurMark has it by default, I think it’s called PPE or PPW

“Performance per Watt”

2027

It shocks me how many people haven’t seen the movie

Good. Great. Amazing.

$1,000 RAM prices and now GPUs are also going to become unaffordable.

What’s the blue one? 😱

I used to post religiously on Reddit’s /r/writingprompts

Reddit’s API was sold to train AI

There’s a good chance that some people out there are reading things inspired by my stories

I was never paid for this, and it should feel bad, but part of me naively hopes that through the digital lens of the internet and the cosmos, my small contribution has made their existence easier, or happier in some way.

Human creativity, and art, contains the soul or essence of its creator; everyone puts a small piece of themselves into their writing; a distant memory, an ambition, a dream, a memoir.

I don’t think we should stop writing creative works of art as a species. But I do think we should have a simple label on any new books, something that tells you whether it’s 100% whole milk or made from reconstituted milk powder. Like a fair trade label of a robot head.

I say this as someone who’s still currently building/working on foundational models full-time.

LLMs will kill my hobby, and have cost a few people I personally know their jobs already.

But we should keep on writing anyway despite all of that, because I feel people still want to read books made by humans.

Don’t give up.

Some kind of UBI or universal work from home regime

I found it helps to drag yourself into a physical game

I’ll put on my VR helmet, and be like:

“I am too tired to spend another day in a post apocalyptic hellscape, I am full of burrito”

And then the edges of my vision will fill in with color, and I’ll dig my boots into the gray ashes, listen to the howl of the wind, gaze out at the two huge planets hanging over the horizon, and observe the whispers of a civilization built upon successive graveyards, gliding my fingers over carvings, wondering about the lives of the ancients.

Brain: I’m sorry what the fuck was the question? Holy shit.

Edit: The game is Kenshi. Into the Radius (VR) is another experience.

I mean; you’re right, they’re probably taking some kind of supplements and are on a very regimented diet

Obviously we don’t need to be in the same caliber or grade as them, it’s more to do with the general attitude or headspace they’re in

I don’t think fitness should be competitive, other than with oneself, and those small lifestyle changes amount to being able to sustain said athletic lifestyle late into life

(See: That 90 year old guy always doing winter morning walks in the park!)

I began working out heavily in my 20s because I was scared of being unable to in my 30s.

The key was discipline and training, your body remembers, and you age but you keep half.

I look at Arnie for inspiration, he was happy and still pumping iron in his 60s and 70s, proving it’s all about a good mental attitude and consistency

Looks like Max Payne 2

Great game

My eScooter weighs 42 pounds.

A 28 pound motor that’s 750 kW?

Holy fuck.

That’s power density straight out of science fiction

If video games determined our real world behavior,

I’d be a robot witnessing the fall of humanity, whose crime was free will

Don’t know if that translates to a job necessarily

To filter out OCD people (/s)

I had this exact, acute thought as I was going up the sweaty people filled stairs into a rave hall.

“What the hell am I doing” and also: “Would I do this if I were 53?”

I looked down at my hard abs and skin-tight shirt and had a bit of a Zen moment, thinking: “Youth is wasted on the young. You’re young. Enjoy this opportunity.”

I was 21, I danced and partied my heart out that night and I regret nothing.