Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th October 2026 - awful.systems
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Just two weeks til’ Halloween now. Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high. > The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) > > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Happy Halloween, fellow sneerers!)

  • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
    15·
    5 days ago

    Uh-oh, renowned everyman Sam Altman opened his mouth again.

    Local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources.

    A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we’re going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data centre

    but from a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time

    you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment, somehow many people’s intuition is the opposite of that

    • BioMan@awful.systemsEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      And here I thought I was building servers two years ago because the next Asian war would disrupt supply chains.

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
      16·
      5 days ago

      Much better for RAM to be sitting behind a network hop with 100 milliseconds of latency amirite?

      if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,

      We’re all trying to find the guy who did this .jpg

      Edit: also lol at the unstated implication that no one should ever want to use RAM for anything besides getting blathered at by a chatbot.

      The CEO claimed that AI will potentially be able to create something as important as the transistor, or discover major efficiency gains

      Did anyone ever fall for this ridiculous argument when it was used for “uhmm actually the massive datacenter buildout is great for global warming because chatbots will chat at us how to make better solar panels or something”?

    • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
      12·
      5 days ago

      Not that Altman’s company is ahead in the AI coding race, but everyone’s PCs will still need increasing amounts of DRAM to be able to run the next generation of slop-coded JavaScript apps.

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      I’ll donate my RAM to SAlty if he comes to collect it in person, and only if I can deliver it straight to his dome