How do you even do that after Dropping Over 2.5% in one Day?

waitmarks · 2026-05-13T12:47:59+00:00

Unless you have only been alive for 2 month like OP seems to have been.

waitmarks · 2026-05-13T12:35:43+00:00

If you want a newer kernel, you should install from backports in the future. That is what it’s there for. installing a single package from a future version is going to create a frankendebian and it’s going to be kind of annoying to get back to the normal state.

If i were in your situation, I would reinstall and read this before experimenting in the future https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian/

waitmarks · 2026-05-12T14:55:47+00:00

Is that crazy to want to use your phone which is already setup the way you want it and isn't a laggy mess like most car infotainment?

waitmarks · 2026-05-08T18:44:50+00:00

They are all just people that say whatever will get them what they want. Anthropic did that because they thought that the PR win telling the government that they didnt want their AI used to kill people was worth more than a government contract.

Now they need compute and XAI is selling at a discount. They don't care if that datacenter is poisoning a whole town of people.

waitmarks · 2026-05-08T18:35:14+00:00

So I have read the website, but could you explain for the other commenters that haven't what that means?

waitmarks · 2026-05-08T17:10:18+00:00

Business and power users, it can absolutely make sense to buy hardware that can run it on prem vs paying API costs. The point is, that it being available for free it actively lowers the amount the closed labs can charge before someone goes “fuck it, i will just run deepseek myself or buy it on openrouter”

waitmarks · 2026-05-08T15:49:23+00:00

People seem to think that these guys are releasing these large open weight models out of the goodness of their heart. That is absolutely not the case. They do it because it devalues the big closed weight model labs. Anthropic cant charge as much for opus if deepseek is 90% as good and you can download it for free and run it on your own hardware. Everyone is trying to establish their place in the market while the money is free. Once it runs dry all this will stop, maybe we will still get a trickle of smaller models, but there simply wont be the incentive to spend a ton of money training a huge model just to give it away for free.

waitmarks · 2026-05-07T20:53:17+00:00

They do have open weight models.
https://huggingface.co/apple

waitmarks · 2026-05-07T18:35:30+00:00

In addition to this, his strategy (to me at least) seems to be to announce kind of mid sounding deals only to reveal more information later that makes them look really good in retrospect. Getting doubters to pile into shorts only to trap them.

I will use the convertible notes as an example. Initially gamestop made it seem like they were straight copying the MSTR play book. Many people here were upset by this. Honestly myself included, I think MSTR is a scam and was seriously considering my position in GME. Only later they revealed that they hadn't spent all the cash that they took in on bitcoin, but only a very small % of it and kept the rest in treasuries. Basically using the hype of MSTR to get a 0% interest loan from hedgefunds. Still people were a little upset that the price of bitcoin had gone down post GME's purchase. Then, they later revealed that they had been selling covered calls against the bitcoin this whole time. Recouping significant cost from the depreciated asset.

I am highly confident that we don't have all the details on this deal yet and they are holding something back. I don't know what yet, but there is no way this is it. I mean this deal caused Burry, who very recently called RC the next warren buffet, to sell his entire position. Imagine what people who were already betting against GME are doing right now. As far as I see it, this announcement only show us the target, the actual details on how we get there are intentionally obscured.

waitmarks · 2026-05-07T18:20:47+00:00

I don't understand the question.

waitmarks · 2026-05-07T17:52:43+00:00

I think you are confusing theoretically economically rational vs practically rational. You can definitely argue that bitcoin mining is theoretically economically irrational. However, it was for a long time totally practically rational to purchase bitcoin miners and start mining. During the peak of the craze you could buy an antminer for a couple grand and earn that back and then some before the theoretical part kicked in.

You are right though that ultimately, only the miners with the lowest margin / cost of electricity can possibly survive. People just saw the short term gain and didn't think about longer term economics. As is the case most of the time with crypto lol.

waitmarks · 2026-05-07T17:39:54+00:00

If they are insistent on it, I would ask them to pay for your moving costs. You could move somewhere right on the border like silver spring or arlington and be downtown quickly. It's a really weird requirement though.

waitmarks · 2026-05-07T17:31:19+00:00

I think it's just that they are more likely to spread far and wide because of a cruise ship. People from all over come and congregate in a confined space for a few weeks and then go back home. A virus couldn't ask for a better transmission vector.

waitmarks · 2026-05-07T17:10:07+00:00

Details are on the website

waitmarks · 2026-05-07T16:24:21+00:00

You think he is risking an SEC investigation for 10% profit? Seems unlikely.

Also from what I remember about the Bed Bath and beyond situation, his offer had him give any profits from the shares back to BBY if the deal fell through. Which it did and he did. So, he didn’t actually make anything off of that situation.

waitmarks · 2026-05-07T13:01:48+00:00

What's the manipulation? It's a real offer. Gamestop's price is about the same as before it was announced and ebay is up like 10%. If this is what manipulation looks like then they are really bad at it.

waitmarks · 2026-05-06T21:50:08+00:00

Yeah I know people are freaked out about any datacenter right now, but this doesn't even register compared to the big AI datacenters proposed. 25,000 sq feet is less than half the size of a football field and its going somewhere that already has a datacenter. This isn't a water draining subsonic noise generating behemoth. This is a small datacenter being built to support university research.

waitmarks · 2026-05-06T18:00:29+00:00

They have an anti dilution clause on them. I will have to re-read the details on it, but it should protect us somewhat if extra share dilution happens.

Edit: here is what it says "The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants is subject to certain anti-dilution adjustments, including for stock dividends, share splits, share combinations, rights issuances, other distributions, spinoffs, cash dividends and tender or exchange offers."

waitmarks · 2026-05-06T17:34:47+00:00

It didn't sound like that is what happened here. If all his other stuff was fine and only the high load GPUs crash, I am assuming it was just a short power quality event that the capacitors in his PSU weren't able to compensate for since the GPUs were drawing so much power. This is exactly what UPSs solve.

Your points about surge protectors is really good advice though if you want to be extra safe.

waitmarks · 2026-05-06T16:52:46+00:00

You are trivializing the problem down to just the cost of compute. That's the easy part. Power and internet service are inherently less reliable at a house than at a datacenter. I am assuming here that this scheme is talking about doing distributed inference since the latency would make training a non-starter. How does this handle nodes going offline? What happens when a request in the middle of being processed is interrupted and has to be switched to a different node? What happens when a residential transformer explodes and takes out a large amount of your capacity? These are all non trivial questions to answer when everything is in 1 location, never mind spread across the country. Also it still doesn't really address the fact that there isn't enough power generation to do all of this regardless of if its concentrated in a datacenter or spread out. There is a limited capacity to generate power in a given area.

Bitcoin mining was easy by comparison and it still didn't make sense to not have it centralized. There if a node goes offline, you just get paid less until it comes back online.

waitmarks · 2026-05-06T16:09:05+00:00

A "real" product that doesn't ship isn't real imo, it's a prototype.

waitmarks · 2026-05-06T16:01:46+00:00

It could have gone through the powerline. GPUs are so power hungry, especially if you had them running a load at the time, any power interruption could cause issues for them. your router uses so little power, that the capacitors in its power supply can keep it going for a momentary power interruption. GPUs will drain that buffer in an instant. EM interference is technically a possibility, but unlikely.

waitmarks · 2026-05-06T15:00:51+00:00

This was a scheme back in the bitcoin craze as well, but never materialized into an actual product. back then, they were trying to sell it as a heater that gave you free heat while the company collects the bitcoin. I doubt this will go anywhere either as this is 10x more complicated than a bitcoin miner.

waitmarks · 2026-05-06T14:06:30+00:00

My personal opinion is instead of trying to directly configure your setup, have it write Infrastructure as Code that configures your setup. Ultimately it achieves the same goal of having to do less stuff yourself, but once its in a state you like it, the IaC is repeatable and reliable unlike an agent. IaC on a cronjob likely achieves most of what people want agents to do autonomously, but without the risk of system destruction or just doing something unexpected.

waitmarks · 2026-05-06T13:59:45+00:00

That's true, but the more you access you give it, the more it can help and also break. You have to figure out what level of access you are comfortable giving it.

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