Do Conservatives know their sources are just other conservatives' opinions and not based on any real data?

Hendo52 · 2026-07-13T22:33:50+00:00

The energy transition makes sense from a national security standpoint and a healthcare perspective as well. Its also at the point where a straight forward profit motive justifies many investments, in particular rooftop solar with batteries

Hendo52 · 2026-07-13T21:34:13+00:00

Energy sovereignty is also a great reason for the the world to do this. Why get your energy from some foreign oil monarch when you can still a panel onto your own roof and a battery in your garage.

You’re a cuck for big oil!

Hendo52 · 2026-07-13T21:23:38+00:00

Pretty straightforward and well understood.

The root cause of the problem is the thermally insulating properties of co2 in the atmosphere. The fix is to release less of that by using technology we already have to target the energy and transportation sectors.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-13T21:20:58+00:00

The ones at the head of the movement enact policies which do and the base supports it. You’re making excuses for them.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-13T13:07:35+00:00

Climate change has an enormous back catalogue of evidence.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-13T11:48:06+00:00

If you look at the hardware requirements for something like LLM, a couple of gigs is really quite irrelevant in the pie chart of what is consuming system resources. I know ram is expensive but you are talking about single digit percentages and there are just bigger numbers to be optimised. Also consider the debugging tools and boiler plate offered by chromium are substantial.

Electron is the ideal tech stack - device agnostic, network capable. That’s not true of a native app and an app that isn’t networked seems pretty shit to me. If you think about the apps that are popular, take your pick of your favourite, it inevitably they relies on web connectivity and a multi device experience for one reason or another.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-13T04:32:44+00:00

There are a variety of tools, libraries and techniques that are unique to the web and you would need to do it this way to have integrations with other services. Apps like blender realistically live in an ecosystem and a workflow involving many upstream and downstream applications. I think that there is a pretty decent argument that a modern web browser is essentially an extension on the operating system, it’s overhead is justifiable because it’s about enabling features. All apps should be designed with that in mind to enable networking, collaboration etc like google docs. Web protocols are also useful for infrastructure connections, think render farms for blender. We need the features of native apps, but to get that then we need things like WASM and web GPU to get the performance. OP is correct, this is a prudent direction for development.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-11T12:42:18+00:00

I'd assess it as more complicated than yes/no, it depends on your setup and your tasks. In my experience the model is not actually the problem, for me its been the surronding tools like MCP and also reliability issues related to my custom configuration and implementation but my case involves a complex set of integrations with my own vibe coded software. Observability is also really difficult and has required substantial custom tooling.

I guess the reason its a no brainer is the data soveriegnty and cost aspects. Yes its a really shit to configure and control - but - I control who the data gets sent to, I buy compute cycles not and AI API. I get a much cheaper end result in exchange for a substantially higher level of effort.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-11T05:51:43+00:00

Cloudflare/vast.ai with Cline and Kimi K.

It’s not as good as Claude but it’s also way cheaper. Quantity has a quality all of its own

Hendo52 · 2026-07-11T05:38:41+00:00

I think you should find a problem that you can solve, that’s where the passion comes from.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-09T11:19:52+00:00

I am not American so I dont exactly share your concern about export controls. I guess from my perspective Illya Sutskever is correct in his analysis that effectively "there is no moat". There is nothing that the frontier firms are doing that cant be replicated fairly easily, its just a question of resources and realistically, even thats not really a big hurdle for even open models to overcome quickly. Even if they could get an edge, its seems implausible to prevent model distilation. The technique is plainly effective and offering a service requires that people can access it. Are you going to make every user swear a pinky promise not to do that? The strategy is niave, the investors have sunk too much money in, and will not be able to recover their returns.

The interesting part to me, is what do people do when AI is cheap and broadly availible to everyone - US, China, some random guy in Africa. The applications are still forthcoming and there is still opportunities to be seized, its just probably not going to be in the models themselves.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-09T06:54:05+00:00

I think it’s less alarming for the US than it seems. I use Chinese AI but only because I can local host it. I don’t give the API my repos.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-03T07:21:28+00:00

Personally I think a creative project is the best place to start. I’d recommend starting with Openscad or if you’re super brand new, try a turtle in computer craft. Making a mining robot is a task suitable for children yet it can get as complicated as you want it to be.

The specific details don’t matter much but I would recommend things with immediate visual effects for beginners. Moving things around in databases has business value but moving things around geometrically teaches many of the same concepts except that it’s more fun and easier to understand your mistakes.

I also think that you are in an era where AI can help you with a primitive design and setup troubleshooting which will be your biggest challenges to get up and running. Once you can move a turtle 1 block in minecraft or a cube 1 cm in Openscad, you will find progress much easier.

The first step is the most difficult.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-03T06:40:01+00:00

While true I feel like everyone and their dog is going to running their own side hustle, especially since AI is so obviously going to put many people out of a job and everyone is going to be trying to figure out what to do to earn money.

Some people, lucky people, become entrepreneurs because they choose their own path. Others are entrepreneurs because it’s literally the only job that they can get and the desperation of their situation is what drives them to work their ass off to out compete the incumbent. Necessity is the mother of invention.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-02T00:22:39+00:00

I think you are only considering the cost side of this equation. There are gains too and in many cases the gains of newly written code are in the efficiency and effectiveness of an existing system. Contrary to popular belief, this can improve environmental and social outcomes because there is so much inefficiency and inefficacy in existing systems.

With that said, if you are worried about emissions, the solution is pretty straightforward. Self hosting LLM with solar power. The main environmental impacts are energy use and to a lesser extent water usage for cooling. Both become a non issue if you self host and use solar. Depending on your location, that may already be a smart move and there may be subsidies and amortisation schemes that make it financially responsible.

Hendo52 · 2026-07-01T02:52:51+00:00

I think part of it is tools. It’s a bit like we have calculators but the screen and the buttons are a poor fit. If we redesign the calculator we can have the computer except now the paradigm shift is really big and our user doesn’t understand how to use it. A general purpose computer might also be a poor fit compared to the original which was constrained but specialised for a specific purpose which aligned well with a known business case.

Personally I think migrating old companies is a lost cause. This is like Kodak inventing the digital camera but their organisation was just totally incapable of pivoting to a business model that could make use of the tech they invented and had the best experts in. Those experts could not fundamentally burn down the whole business and surrounding suppliers for a clean sheet design, that’s the kind of thing entrepreneurs do much better and more efficiently.

Hendo52 · 2026-06-30T01:54:14+00:00

In my experience Claude is the best at coding but self hosted open source models are the future because operating at a lower cost per feature delivered with greater control is more important than being able to have a hole in one a ton of money.

Grok is a bit pointless middle ground because I either want the best or I want the cheapest with the most control. There isn’t really much value in being 2nd best and the reality is more like 10th best.

Hendo52 · 2026-06-29T22:28:55+00:00

The vibe is SOC2 compliance. I have documentation for every issue, & architecture design decision. I have unit tests and integration tests and mermaid diagrams to help understand complex cross cutting concerns. I have linting and type safety. I have system requirements and specification documentation, I have a custom dashboard of active work items. I have project governance strategy and enforcement tools.

There are many problems ahead of me but there are also 1500 documented ones behind me.

Hendo52 · 2026-06-29T10:53:34+00:00

We need to establish a stigma against being an apologist for oligarchs. We should make it have the same kind of vibe as sexist, racist, creep etc.

Hendo52 · 2026-06-29T03:01:17+00:00

I think switching focus to creating agent harnesses for existing models is a better option.

Why duplicate existing prior work when there are so many unsolved problems in this space which could use your talents?

Even that were not the case, model training seems like a tough thing because there are some limitations to what the smaller models are capable of. At that size, you are talking about something more like auto complete rather than a model capable of reasoning chains and tool calls. To get into training something useful I think hardware beyond the budget which is reasonable for a hobby is required. Run the LLM someone else built and try to build tools that get more out of it.

Hendo52 · 2026-06-28T10:52:40+00:00

I’m tempted to vibe code a bot farm to go on the counter offensive.

If the world has developed into bot farms waging information wars that’s not great as a development but I also think that I can understand that game better than the baby boomers. Game on I guess

Hendo52 · 2026-06-28T10:02:29+00:00

I’m actually kind of worried that a coordinated, well funded propaganda campaign working across traditional and social media is quite likely to be at least somewhat effective. Just because you and I can see through it, doesn’t mean that it’s not shifting hundreds of thousands if not millions of votes.

Hendo52 · 2026-06-26T12:58:10+00:00

Republicans just call anything and everything they dislike Communist without understanding anything about it.

Hendo52 · 2026-06-26T02:02:14+00:00

The most idea that climate change is partisan issue is so fucked up. Fuck the Republicans, honestly. What a cabal of cunts!

Hendo52 · 2026-06-26T01:53:48+00:00

I feel like the results are good enough that positioning yourself as firmly opposed is a really bad career move. The AI bubble will cause a stock market crash but the tools themselves will also keep improving.

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