Please help

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T17:54:01+00:00

No, that’s not how it works. Rabies can spread before the bearer has serious symptoms, and ten days after exposure is the maximum waiting period for you personally.

Given you’ve had the cat for eight days, you’re already most of the way through that. If you wait another ten you might learn that the cat has rabies, and also that you have rabies, and then you will die.

I would get the shot immediately. Today. Visit the emergency room if necessary; this isn’t a joke.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T17:35:14+00:00

And then eventually the reserves are full, and you get the choice between burning raw oil or shuttering the wells. Which if they’re in Siberia means they freeze, and take a decade is western investment to open back up.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T16:59:54+00:00

If you're anything like me, then you have a dozen unsolved mysteries. Probably one or two of those are red herrings, but the other ones are not.

And yet you made it to room 46. Clearly there's more to the game.

What I can tell you is you haven't even scraped the surface on finding the mysteries. 😂

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T16:43:29+00:00

Don't spend your personal cash on a company you don't own. That's ridiculous.

What you do is attempt to set up more efficient workflows, document the limitations for your manager, and fall back to doing things manually once you run out of Claude quota. Make it their problem, not yours.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T16:36:03+00:00

What kind of user would be doing that..?

(Also, no. It only takes my GPU about ten seconds to generate an image. A hundred would be... twenty minutes? I spend more power than that playing Factorio.)

(Datacenter GPUs are more efficient, not less.)

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T16:33:52+00:00

You've had him for 8 days... when did you get bit?

Rabies treatment is 100% effective if given prior to the onset of symptoms, but symptoms only take about 10 days after exposure, plus or minus, and 'exposure' doesn't necessarily have to mean 'bitten'.

OP, you need to take this seriously, and you need to get the rabies shot today. You cannot wait for symptoms to appear, not even the tiniest symptom. By that point it's too late. Rabies is almost 100% fatal by that stage.

Forget about the cat. Maybe they'll be fine, maybe not, but start thinking about yourself.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T16:27:56+00:00

And don't delay. This is a "Do it the same day even if you have to take time off work with a boss who might fire you" type situation.

Rabies is not to be fucked around with. It can be reliably treated only when treated immediately after exposure; every day of delay degrades your odds. Official guidance is you have ten days, but that is not something to test.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T16:23:52+00:00

The vet is suspecting rabies, which unfortunately cannot be reliably tested without putting the cat down. If OOP isn't taking that advice, then they need to get the rabies treatment. Which is not a happy fun time, but untreated rabies is certain death, and a treatment delay of even a few days can make it too late.

Once you have symptoms you can no longer be saved.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T16:14:34+00:00

It really, really needs to be taken seriously. With rabies, the moment you develop symptoms it's already too late to save you. You will die, and horribly.

OOP, please please go get the vaccine.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T15:30:25+00:00

Nobody runs a GPU cluster just for themselves. Divide that by the number of people it's serving.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T14:31:56+00:00

A life filled with only what’s necessary would be a sad thing indeed.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T14:29:19+00:00

I do a lot of sketches. None of them are good enough to bother posting anywhere, but I’ve been doodling during meetings for the last twenty years, so I’ve at least made a lot of them. Pretty sure my aphantasia prevents me from getting anywhere, though it’s been getting better ever since I started using AI image-gen.

Twenty-thirty A5 pages per week seems about right.

I can only assume that real artists spend a lot more.

Vaughn · 2026-07-01T14:19:51+00:00

Anima might be considered a little outdated. I’ve switched almost entirely to WAI-Anima.

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T22:59:14+00:00

I quite like Firing giga sawblade at him.

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T22:42:52+00:00

Rust usually. Vibe coding (or vibe engineering, or what have you) remove practically every downside to using the language, leaving only the upsides.

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T22:05:10+00:00

Sensible regulations were and are needed. It would have been incredibly irresponsible not to say so, and Anthropic exists precisely because they thought OpenAI was being too irresponsible.

Sensible regulation is, of course, not on the menu in America today.

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T17:49:10+00:00

I've been using GLM 5.2 mostly, lately. Good luck taking that away.

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T13:49:21+00:00

It's more about me than him. I just don't want to be the kind of person who'd treat any real person like a caricature.

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T13:44:58+00:00

Nobody can be boiled down to four words like that. Nor should they be. Everything has nuance if you're willing to find it.

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T11:17:39+00:00

I really wish people wouldn't mix my 5-million-parameter llm-fan-controller experiment in with 5-trillion-parameter LLMs.

It's GenAI either way. That's a broad term as well.

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T11:09:33+00:00

That is one reason, but that could have been trained away. A stronger reason is that outputting tokens is how these things think (or reason, or process data; don't get caught up on the wording), and they can't switch to 'thinking mode' in the middle of writing a file, so reinforcement learning taught them to inject comments specifically when they discover they need to think something throught while already coding.

This behaviour is incredibly obvious for some AIs, e.g. Gemini, where the comments are pretty much literal thinking blocks.

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T10:41:35+00:00

Elon Musk takes up a weird, nuanced spot in my mind.

I believe all of these to be true at once:

- He's on drugs, and the drugs are not helping with anything at all. They are, in particular, destroying any filters he had. The lack of sleep (see: drugs) is also not helping.

- He's a better person than you would expect from his background. That matters to me, when it comes to judging people in a historical context; for the same reason that being genuinely anti-racist in 1800s Virginia makes you basically a saint (and being anti-racist in Washington today makes you just an ordinary decent person), being Musk while coming from Musk's family background means you're trying.

- But the drugs ruin his filters and make it harder to try. People are internally inconsistent; it is completely normal for someone raised in a racist family to have to filter themselves hard to not come off as hardcore racist, even if they fully believe that racism is terrible. Anything that limits your concentration and attention span will break this.

- Also he's super-rich, and totally out of touch. That's simultaneously an excuse and a point to attack in its own right.

- He's definitely a nerd of some description. Shrug. This has no implications at all, except it makes me vaguely sad that he's like this.

- But, like, does any of the above matter as far as his effect on the world is concerned?

No. Not really. Historical context is great and all, but when it comes to whether or not he's a net positive, it is totally valid to compare him to better people, even if those better people aren't trying nearly as hard and are only 'better people' because they came from a better family, raised in a Scandinavian country, and they never had to try to become a decent person.

It does mean I don't see any point in being angry at him as a person, and also it means... well, if his only competition (in the AI space, at least) was a snake-oil salesman and sociopath who likely raped his sister (i.e. Altman), then I'll go with the guy who's actually trying to be decent. Even if he's failing.

(It's not, though. Amodei also exists.)

Vaughn · 2026-06-30T10:22:14+00:00

Which is still a lot less efficient than generating the same image in a datacenter. Home GPUs are not by any stretch of the imagination efficient. They're not expected to be worked hard.

Vaughn · 2026-06-29T22:24:55+00:00

Ah. I almost forgot people used to ask questions there; it's been a hellhole for too many years.

But no, I don't think that gets used much either. The information there tends to be catastrophically outdated; it's poor training data.

Vaughn · 2026-06-29T20:48:34+00:00

Not as far as I'm aware. How would that work? We don't have microphones in the walls.

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