Active and beautiful, I can start reading without having to scroll down, which I have to do on the AP site.

I miss when the web looked like this, and pages were documents instead of applications.

We built the wrong web, we needed two, one for documents, and one for applications, but we built this rube goldberg contraption instead.

Just gotta zoom _way_ in to make the text readable, though.

I love the software look so much though! I never did like the blurring of textures :)

They're both beautiful in their own way, the darkness and glow in the hardware versions, some certain pixellated charm and roughness in the software version

"More Doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette."

I'll take my information from a neutral third party, thanks.

I personally felt the book deal version was dumbed down. The OG which is still free on the scp wiki is amazing.

The free version has the character drink "apocalyptically strong coffee" to cope with the orientation process.

In the print version, it's just strong coffee. The original literary vibe was incredible.

All of it is free here: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

What about every other system where we rely on parents to parent?

Kids can turn apple juice into wine in their closet

they can drive their bicycle to a drug dealer

they can rub a butter knife against the sidewalk until it's pointy

Do we need govt AI cameras in kids closets and on their bicycles? How do we verify they're cycling somewhere safe? How do we make sure they're not getting shitfaced on bootleg hooch they made with bakers yeast and a latex glove?

This is more like a store being able to see their age just by looking at them, and make restrictions because of that. We don't rely on parents to prevent a 10 year old from going into a bar.

Which, unlike this, does not create issues, since the bar is a place staffed by people, employed to serve drinks, who can reasonably be required to look at their customers, while an operating system is some software, perhaps written by an enthusiast, which cannot reasonably be required to inspect its users.

Companies stopped training people many decades ago, they expect you to arrive on the job trained now.

i.e. they shifted the cost of training from the employer to the employee.

What makes you think that will suddenly reverse course, or that society will suddenly start to care?

People want the cheapest, fastest shit possible. Companies too, generally.

That’s just not really not true from my professional experience or my industry in cyber security. There is of course a level of experience required of a junior but it’s still junior level experience.

In my line of work I was coaching and now I am senior I am expected to delegate tasks and coach, not to increase my own workload for doing simpler tasks myself.

People are you. You can make the change.

Lots of different companies argue with the AI for some time before they call me, but they always call me.

They'll never be able to explain what they want to the AI, and even if they could, it couldn't solve the problem anyway.

Nevertheless I'm not going to be contracting much longer, I'm writing software by hand to compete with the garbage shat out of Claude's VibeCloaca. I already have customers, I just need to ... tune a few things before I scale, so that I don't have any customer support problems at scale. :)

Your contracting business is done because of AI competition, because money is drying, or because you're finding permanent alternatives due to being sick of it? There's more than one way to interpret your message, and I'm curious.

Sick to death of it. The work is still there.

I can only work so many hours in a day on a contract, but with a product, I can work 3 hours and sell it 200 times, or license it and make money forever.

My customers have said to me point blank "I hate SaaS" and paid me anyway. They've said everything is "so easy with GPT and all now", and paid me anyway.

I think I have a chance.

Maybe I'll be proven wrong and my AI-using competitors will eat my lunch.

Or maybe, I'll drown them and Claude in complexity and attention-to-detail.

We'll see.

I'd like to learn more about your current contracting process.

It sounds like you could use an apprentice to help handle things as a backup plan.

A consumer computer company is not going to push people towards building a miniature HPC cluster. Closest we'll ever get to that is multiple GPUs for video games.*

*Nvidia is no longer a primarily consumer company, so all the other GPU stuff is no counterpoint

One could argue that if you are buying 512gb RAM machines you are not a typical consumer.

But you're also in the tiny minority of Apple customers, because most people who need 512GB of RAM are not looking at Apple products.

what else!?

> A consumer computer company

Apple isn't a just a consumer computer company. Both iPhones and Macs have very large business markets. In fact, I'd argue that the primary reason Apple hasn't locked down MacOS as much as iOS is that it'd absolutely kill the demand from software developers.

Apple isn’t really a consumer company. It does both consumer and enterprise stuff. Just look at all the fleet management stuff it does for ios and mac os.

And besides that, high end macbook prod and studios are workstation-class computers, not consumer-level computers.

It’s definitely a consumer company when you compare it to Microsoft.

The comparison is completely irrelevant.

The second I saw llms run on gpus i started trying to predict the last year that nvidia produces a consumer GPU product.

I am doing the reverse, and trying to predict the last year that LLMs use NVIDIA GPUs. It's just an accident of history that video game cards are useful for LLMs, and there is absolutely nothing that NVIDIA is doing from a design standpoint that the big hyperscalers can't do on their own, cutting NVIDIA out, and doing a better job of it as they know their own unique needs. The only advantage NVIDIA has is supply chain relationships and it takes time to establish those, but once that's done, we'll see all the big companies rolling their own silicon and no longer relying on NVIDIA.

That does make sense and I'm also certain will happen. I'm just saying that at this point NVIDIA is all in on "AI" so it has no choice. It will abandon its original customer base and product.

I don't think there will ever be a hard announcement. Just one day people will start asking when the next GPU line is coming out and it will never come. They won't even plan it they simply won't have the skills to do GPU design anymore.

Let me rephrase it for you:

"We both want a docile American public who go along with our desires so we can achieve goals that may be contrary to the interests of the American public."

The rich people are fighting with each other again.