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caycep · 2026-09-17T19:44:01

OT but when is LLM not a blunt weapon?

caycep · 2026-09-15T21:39:24

I half wonder if we wouldn't have this giant compute supply crunch/environmental damage/energy crisis and tech oligopoly situation if someone would've just written better English to Code translation for LLVM instead...

caycep · 2026-09-14T19:46:10

Granted, I feel this is true re my non-Mac computers. You think you can max it out at first, but then there's new interfaces, RAM standards, etc

asdfsa32 · 2026-09-15T10:49:22

This is apologia. There is a mile between being stuck with 16GB of ram vs on DDR5 or even DDR5. The analogy is absurd.

caycep · 2026-09-15T21:56:18

I'm just saying...between my sandy bridge to the current box, when I looked either having to search for older components vs. just building something new, it was always just easier to build something new. Of course this was when prices were "normal" vs. today....

asdfsa32 · 2026-09-16T02:58:20

You seem to forget the "you can't at all" part with new Apple hardware. Of course, everything has a limit on upgrades, but not being able to upgrade your RAM or at very least SSD is insane that we put up with. This is pure anti-consumer cartel outcome.

caycep · 2026-09-14T19:20:47

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/gfdegdq188s

Debt per GDP/size of US economy is more useful. Debt/GDP has the 2008 jump as the Obama Admin tried to (but not nearly enough) stimulate out of the housing crisis. Debt/GDP looks flat until 2020.

2008 and 2020 jumps make sense in the setting the 2008 crisis and COVID which was effectively a recession assuming you believe in Keynesian economics.

Paying for US debt if you are the US is cheap when interest rates low. Trump/Bessent/Elon have been doing everything they can to drive up inflation, so now interest rates are necessarily going higher...

Jtsummers · 2026-09-14T19:31:57

> Debt/GDP has the 2008 jump as the Obama Admin tried to

Remember that 2008 was still Bush, Obama didn't become president until 2009.

caycep · 2026-09-14T19:37:23

ah true, bipartisan stimulus then!

pdoege · 2026-09-15T01:47:38

Well, Trump was President in 2020. Biden started January 2021.

Both of your examples show the aims and actions of the Republican Party. It isn’t bipartisan.

caycep · 2026-09-15T21:57:05

that was supposed to be a joke...

caycep · 2026-09-14T19:05:01

what, they're not going to name it Delamain?

matheusmoreira · 2026-09-14T21:29:59

I came here to post this!

caycep · 2026-09-11T19:59:32

I kinda wonder if there was some secondary educational benefit for the workers doing this

caycep · 2026-09-10T22:51:37

I think this is true, and also a lot of tech, which often isn't as PR as the web/internet tech, gets funded by DOD/DARPA

That being said, I feel like a lot of the web-based tech, device tech etc came out of the liberal/leftist university environments, i.e. BSD unix, CERN, linux ish type projects. Berkeley/Stanford/MIT etc. So the culture of a lot of people who were rank and file and enthusiastic about this stuff from had this mindset.

caycep · 2026-09-10T18:54:36

More importantly, they made better versions with us consumers in mind, vs. their peers that made versions with the CIO of big Fortune 500 companies in mind...

caycep · 2026-09-09T21:22:53

Personal competition is one thing, but competition against a corporation?

caycep · 2026-09-06T19:39:52

I have the one a level up, the phantom gaming one. Those have been solid, maybe better components? Although they do have the inherited issues from using the Intel I225v NIC...