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If that’s the smallest computer chip in the world, the hand must be tiny

Satya lives in the biggest glass house in the world and yet he’s up there throwing the biggest fucking boulders. How about he just shuts his mouth and realizes he has overstayed his welcome by about ten years. The ignorance is mind boggling.

The “no restrictions” part is a very strong signal. Any prompt to an image model is basically a coordinate in its latent space, and “no restrictions” will point straight at the darker areas.

Turns out, I am no longer human

It never does.

Sitting by my computer working on a hobby coding project, on a Sunday morning with a fresh cup of coffee next to me

That won’t happen due to token limits. According to Anthropic, only about 5% of users hit the limit.

Let’s do some estimates:

• An 8x H100 machine costs about $20 / hr to rent.
• With a 70B model with 4K context, a H100 node can do about 300 requests in parallel.
• A single response takes around 30 seconds to generate.
• An average user sends about 300 messages / month.

The throughput of a node is

300 concurrent * (3600 / 30) = 36 000 messages / hour.

The cost per message, then, is $20 / 36 000 = $.00055…

With 300 messages per month, the compute cost for the AI vendor is 300*$20/36000 = $0.16 / month per user. By contrast, a subscription costs $20.

So given these assumptions, it’s other things (like R&D, safety research, training runs, free accounts, etc) that represent the bulk of the cost and those could be scaled down to turn a profit. What will they do? Give how hyped AI is currently and the competitive landscape, I don’t think they’ll increase prices that much. We have products like DeepSeek on the horizon which are much cheaper, so it’s more likely that they squeeze money out of it by becoming more efficient.

Oh. Took me a while to realize they weren’t sharing a PowerPoint slide with the public.

Robots.txt is used to prevent search engines like google from fetching and adding specific pages on your web server to their search index.

What are you asking here? Who do you want to stop from doing what with your manuscript?

Buddha. I get to reach Nirvana right after this form.

Adobe has no scruples.

I used to work for a full-disk encryption vendor in the 2000s, and one customer had an issue where the machine would BSOD sometimes if both our product and Adobe Acrobat were installed. It seemed a mystery or just a red herring - what on Earth did Acrobat do that could trigger a kernel-mode crash?

Turned out that every hour or so, Acrobat would be reading and writing back the master boot record (containing the OS bootstrap code and partition table) on the primary hard drive. The bug was ours (to unlock the hard drive keys at boot we had to put different data there and redirect I/O after Windows started, and this redirection code would crash once in a blue moon), but Adobe has no business mucking about with this extremely sensitive data.

This would have been a good time to have it

NIH

Katsudon

I get the sense that this isn’t a hypothetical

Find a real life community, people who you identify with

Valve spent the entire child NPC budget on indestructible plastic chairs

Space Quest 3. Wonderful story, funny, good music, and it always gave me this wistful feeling for some reason.