Geoffrey Papilion

Fell like this is a long troll on Scotland. GB: If you leave the UK you're out of the EU. GB: Hey Scotland we're leaving the EU.

@thuddwhirr One thing I don’t like about Bernie is he is very clear that none of the polices he call for are possible. It feels dishonest.

Increasingly convinced he’s been an accellerationist the whole time

@RobEducated @CapitalJurassic The delay is already in other components like generation. Dram shortage is likely artificial and related to panic buying post the open ai deal.

Very tricky. Does it cause demand destruction and how quickly. NAND has the most consumer driven apps and should hurt first. Clearly pc demand destruction should be real. Not sure if hurts dc buildouts or becomes the golden screw to this and people can blame for delays. Always a story and narrative to find and follow

RAM prices skyrocketing is the first sign that the entire consensus timeline for datacenter buildouts is incorrect.

@lauriewired Something like it it’s inevitable because the fewer pins on the package will be desirable. Pooling has been a cloud fever dream, and I think the industry trend of moving mem closer to compute is likely to continue. So I don’t believe in it.

Outside of the datacenter world, no one realizes CXL exists. Trust me, you’re gonna hear it more often. It’s just barely starting to leak in the prosumer space. The short version is: CXL = memory over PCIe. The long (cool) version is: CXL = memory as a switching fabric! CXL 2.0 was kinda cool, but not that revolutionary. Basically just a way to squeeze extra ram on a server using PCIe slots, albeit with a ~200ns or so latency penalty. Software-wise, the OS maps the CXL region into virtual address space, so even in assembly-land you can: mov rax, [CXL_address] Dumb operating systems (cough Windows) treat the entire region as one big bucket of ram. Modern Linux Kernels understand CXL has a latency penalty, and tier it as a different NUMA bucket. --- CXL 3.0 is where it got wild. You can have non-tree topologies where a “pool” of memory is shared *across* hosts. In layman’s terms, you can treat memory like NAS storage. If you’re a programmer, you might realize how CRAZY this is. Host A and Host B can share a pointer to the SAME physical address. Host A can do partial calculations, write to a shared address, and then Host B can pick up right where it left off! Of course, this also makes thread teleportation between machines dead-simple. Copy the CPU register state from Host A to B, resume execution in the same memory pool. In some ways, it’s a security and programming nightmare. In other ways, it’s one of the coolest pieces of tech I’ve ever seen. I’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s possible. Expect to see more talk about CXL as we head into 2026!

@minddog Running, split squats, dead lifts. How far have you run on your shoes?

Knee trouble after my longest run of the year. Back to the gym to strengthen legs. What’s your favorite leg exercise for distance running?

@mattyglesias I bought an electric car due to high gas prices, and they just drive better.

@minddog My policy was reinstated last week. Somehow the premium dropped. L

Home Insurance is broken. Our policy was cancelled because the house surpassed exactly 100 years old. But the home has been renovated like new a few times. Just wow.

@minddog The paper is super clear it still required 50 million worth of NVIDIA GPUs to train(capex) and around 15 million for the inference setup. I’d still buy. I found the deepseek r1 with 13b pretty ok. I’m going to try the 671b model tomorrow on a system at work.

I’d rather pay more for a model that works nearly all the time, then less for a model that only works some of the time. I am running tests with the wares, doesn’t seem to hold up against all the hype. Tell me I’m wrong. 😑 buy the dip? 🤔

@ScottAdamsSays I think insurance is broken everywhere. things like why can’t I change my deductible to something higher. Wouldn’t having more skin in the game help control fraud? The home value and rebuild costs are silly since it clearly inflates, but never increases.

Californians are blaming insurance companies for pulling out of the state. Insurance companies are blaming politicians for capping rates and making it impossible to earn a profit in California. Maybe the root problem is most Californians can't afford a market rate for insurance on their homes because their home values doubled while they owned it and rebuilding in this state costs 200% of the home's value. It would take perhaps a 75% drop in home values and 50% drop in rebuilding costs to make insurance affordable. You can't get there from here.

@notdan I’m floppies were actually floppy years old.

mothafucka i'm zip disk old.

@growing_daniel Post the 1907 earth quake a separate system was built to use sea water to fight fires in downtown San Francisco. In 1989 they used a fire boat to pump water into the system, and discovered a host of issues since maintenance had been deferred. Ultimately it helped them.

Found a solution to fires in California It’s called water

@Sr_Lazarus I’m pro prop k, but I understand the issue with great highway closing you’re effectively loosing 1 of 3 streets you can use to efficiently get across the avenues. 1 of 2 that gets you directly across gg park. The things north of gg park are hard to get to, this makes it worse.

i have yet to see one person address their grievance with #SF’s Prop K in an intelligent and cogent way, am i’m not sure there is a way to do that

@progrium I love the window manager.

how many people actually know about Plan 9 from bell labs?

@pitdesi One change the department put in was all officers needed to fill out a survey that asked the race, sexual orientation, and gender of the ticketed party. Officers stopped pulling people over because the survey results could get them in trouble.

@hsrgood Also who thinks a train traveling 30-50 mph can stop on a dime. Don’t they realize that faster would be down for way longer?

"Insane there isn’t tech that recognizes when vehicles are sitting in the crossing." IT'S A RAILROAD CROSSING WITH GATES, LOUD BELLS, AND FLASHING LIGHTS. THAT'S THE "TECH".

@EvanKail We built our rail for freight and we built it early. It’s consolidated in a few companies that focus on freight. Even a commuter line like Caltrain runs on freight on its tracks And no one is handing out land for passenger traffic, so no one is building new rail.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why the United States doesn’t have high speed trains like China. It would make life so much easier for so many Americans.

@dotkrueger The thread here is we stopped being direct consumers of these things. We finance or lease cars, we use loans to pay for school, and we use insurance as a health plan. Additionally, this discounts the improvements in the things you’re mentioning.

The median family income in the US has gone from 10K in 1971 to 55K today, a gain of 5.5x however, The median cost of a car has gone from 4K to 48K, an increase of 12x. The median cost of a house has gone from 25K to 357K, an increase of 14x. The median cost of an ivy league college has gone from 3K a year to 87K, an increase of 29x. The average cost of healthcare per person has gone from $400 to $15,000, and increase of 37x. Basically, the average person in the US is worse off today than in 1971. So much for "progress"

@Cernovich Most likely this person is in the us already. Went to a US university, and maybe has a family with US born children. Also as others have pointed out this position is likely 400-500k yearly. These positions are hard to hire because it was a niche position 2 years ago.

Going over Apple's H-1B filing. They want a senior machine learning engineer for $226K. Without H-1B's, fair market salary for that would be SIGNIFICANTLY higher. Why would high IQ American go into STEM instead of working at a hedge fund or PE firm? RAISE THE BASELINE PAY.

@Nexuist I don’t know why this would be shocking to him. FSB is Russia’s deep state, and I’m sure Putin is aware of it.

My hot take on Ukraine is that Putin was briefed on Biden's mental decline by late 2021, tried to take advantage of a weak President by gunning for Kyiv, and was genuinely shocked to discover there actually is an American deep state that operates regardless of the President

@mattyglesias Is the murder and shooting combined stats the same in both places? Could it be the murder rate is higher because the medical care is worse?