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behold: vibe driving (or maybe it's just DUI for silicon)

It’s funny (read: farcical) to see a person posing as leftist say they are “pro-AI” but “anti-AI industry”.

not looking to start instance war or anything btw

iirc one of db0 admins is of this opinion which boils down to, in their case, that they're pro-ai but only if self-hosted (ie "yes, i'm pro-ai, just not pro-the kind of ai that is actually used in 99.9% ai output"). they join it with pro-piracy and anarchist positions and it's part of the reason why ai content is allowed on that instance. iirc it's not even consensus among their other admins

you can just put a flywheel on synchronous machine and it also works, especially where you have infra left over after coal plant shutdown or something similar

they might have done it this way because hydro, nuclear (or any steam turbine based) or gas (or any gas turbine based) generation is rotating generation, which helps to stabilize grid in a way that solar or (some of) wind power doesn't. on top of that, many of solar installations won't output energy without mains (grid-followers). getting rid of that would be a is a complex problem that would require infrastructure buildout and policy changes

there were reports of roombas not getting up because us-east-1 was down, don't be so surprised

random sample of 1000 people is a decent one, they even included error bars:

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at a 95 per cent confidence level.

why is aweful systemes broken today? does it depend on aws somehow?

i heard from reliable source (ed zitron) that he has one

tldr is that anthropic spent on aws only 2x their revenue in 2024, spent on aws approx the same as their revenue in 2025 up to september, and they also pay unknown amount but known to be a lot for google cloud, on top of everything else like salaries and who the fuck knows what else

kbin social imploded some time ago

you're not missing anything, it's an unhinged tradeoff that you do because you need to conserve copper for brass casings because nazis are in calais, there's zero reason to do this today. apparently it's still allowed in uk for some unthinkable reason but i haven't heard of it anywhere else. yes, single fuse *per ring is used, rated at double what it would be in star/radial circuit

you don't even need a fault, sufficient asymmetry in ring geometry or load distribution already will cause this problem