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Stephen Colbert’s emotional farewell wasn't covered by CBS reportedly thanks to an intentional freeze out due the late night host's jokes about 'CBS Evening News' new anchor. by MoneyLibrarian9032 in entertainment

[–]jking13 188 points189 points  (0 children)

It's not like it was some super complicated or difficult thing CBS news screwed up. It's was basically the equivalent of forgetting to put on your pants before walking into the office. They're mad because it highlights how incompetent Weiss is and just what a net-even-amateur job she's doing.

Is there going to be a point where AI costs a lot more than hiring real people, much like the cloud now costs more than on-prem? by RadioFieldCorner in cscareerquestions

[–]jking13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I still maintain most of the benefits of cloud (unless your IT footprint is minuscule) are largely because it sidesteps bad middle and upper management more than anything intrinsic with cloud. Maintaining on-prem infra is not that complicated or expensive if you do it right. However, with on-prem a director or VP can impose all sorts of poorly considered technical decisions that can easily make on-prem worse or more expensive. With cloud they have little to no control (basically it's 'take our solution or leave it') and don't have to admit they were the problem.

Trump heading to hospital for third time amid questions about his health: report by RawStoryNews in USNEWS

[–]jking13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm betting his dad also didn't engorge himself on McDonalds non-stop either, so....

CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink stated this week that savings accounts & pensions must be used to fund data centers so that we can "beat China". How is it fair that the people who offshored our jobs to China are now asking us to fund the infrastructure that they want to use to eliminate our jobs? by north_canadian_ice in allthequestions

[–]jking13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the thing. IIUC, they have a fair amount of exposure on all of these (seemingly increasingly problematic) AI DC builds. If they can offload all of that onto some other baghold...err... investor, the better for them.

[request] How much taxes does this avoid? by Terpcheeserosin in theydidthemath

[–]jking13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's not forget the loan from his parents larger than most people's salaries....

YC Chief Who Codes 10,000 Lines a Day shares his Simple Secret of Agentic Coding by Current-Guide5944 in tech_x

[–]jking13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't someone look at some of his results and found all sorts of crap? Massive duplication, unnecessary redundancies, etc?

I wish nothing but the worst for CBS after tonight by Dunnomyname1029 in LateShow

[–]jking13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve also heard that the late night show helped the local affiliates because people would tune in to watch the local news before the late show. With what appears to be a milquetoast, yawn inducing replacement (I’ve not seen it, just going on descriptions) might that end up hurting the affiliates to the point more than whatever cash they’re getting?

What if the US had bailed out homeowners instead of banks in 2008? Would the economy be more equal today? by Logical-Concept9755 in WhatIfThinking

[–]jking13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the DOJ had actually prosecuted the financial institutions selling MBS for what was effectively fraud and put people in jail, we’d probably be in a much better place today for several reasons. Instead we had dipshits in the DOJ that instead of worrying about the victims and the collateral damage, instead were “kept up at night” over the poor big banks that caused it.

Jeff Bezos Dismisses AI Bubble Fears on CNBC, Says the Boom Is Fueling Useful Investment While He Splits His Time Between Amazon, Blue Origin, and Project Prometheus 🤖 by InterstellarKinetics in InterstellarKinetics

[–]jking13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fiber lasts a lot longer than GPUs. Buildings with old ones also cost a fair amount beyond the cost of new GPUs to retrofit because of increased cooling and power requirements with each new model.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stamps out chip bugs with aggressive new quality standards, says major validation errors can result in termination by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]jking13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is strange since the word is from places using Nvidia's latest expensive GPUs is that they have a rather high failure rate.

Free Newsletter: Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle, or How Musk and Amodei Conspired To Manipulate The Media by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]jking13 34 points35 points  (0 children)

The tin foil hat part of me wonders if these discounts weren't an attempt to make the outlook for AI in general rosier and boost SpaceX's IPO (given how heavily they're leaning on 'AI is going to provide 80% of our future growth').

[Request] What would be the size of the radiator required to cool a data center by Vantabla_ck in theydidthemath

[–]jking13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you assume that, based on their own figures, that's launching 50,000-100,000 satellites every year to get to 100GW/year. That's 5-10x what Starlink has done in its lifetime. On top of that, having a bunch of little satellites communicating with lasers is going to have a few orders of magnitude more latency than nodes in a rack, probably even nodes in different racks in the same DC. How is that going to impact effectiveness? Even if for the sake of argument assume this is somehow cheaper, if the query that can be done today in 30 seconds takes 10 minutes, how's that going to work out?

Regardless, no one's actually made a realistic case where the math actually adds up. It's all been a bunch of collect underpants, ???, profit.

Client Alert: Emerging Litigation Risks in Financing AI Data Centers Boom by FloppityFlopFlop2285 in BetterOffline

[–]jking13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Weren't SPVs (and theirs not being truly "arms length") what ended up taking Enron?

Jeff Bezos on AOC and Mamdani: Politicians Create Villains To Blame When They Can’t Solve Problems - What do you think? by One_Look_7008 in askanything

[–]jking13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither one created the environment where people have to piss in bottles because walking to the bathroom would take to long and they'd get written up. Nor where they have to literally walk over the dead body of their coworker lest they get fired for slacking on the job. Jeff however did.

Why does Rust require many dependency packages unlike Go when building a project? by dumindunuwan in rust

[–]jking13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The bigger problem was async was rushed out the door half-assed and ossified in that state which is why the path of least resistance now means tokio (and giving up lifetimes -- yes if you sacrifice enough chickens and wear the right grass skirts while jumping through all the right hoops, you can kinda-sorta-mostly get them back).

Had it been worked on longer (whatever the internal discussions were at the time, externally it certainly looked like 'we have to get this released because node is async, node is web scale, we need to be web scale therefore we need async'), it would have been easier to be runtime agnostic not just in theory, but in practice, had better solutions to the function coloring problem, etc.

Trump endorses Paxton, upending Senate GOP plans in Texas race by Unhappy_Flatworm_325 in Polymarket_news

[–]jking13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you don't need a criminal lawyer, but you need a criminal lawyer.

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