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turzaak

@turzaak.bsky.social

Mechanical Engineer who knows too much EE (and now CS) for their own good. I build robots.* *robots may or may not be apocalyptic in nature

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Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 5h ago

Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.

turzaak@turzaak.bsky.social · 6d ago

I remember how the day after the 2016 election, I walked into my grad advisor's office and said I couldn't finish the PhD because both of us knew we couldn't guarantee funding. They already destroyed STEM PhD track for domestic grads and with everything else, this is a nail in the coffin for int'l

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 6d ago

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

turzaak@turzaak.bsky.social · 6d ago

Every time I see a post about how AI is going to take Every Job, I have to roll my eyes. People. I've worked in high-precision robotics and semiconductor. The robots run into walls. The STATIONARY robots. The precision vision can't handle glass windows. The machines aren't taking shit.

turzaak@turzaak.bsky.social · last mo.

I see we have all forgotten the news stories about how China's AI chips require a fraction of the processing power and hit comparable metrics. From over a year ago. They've only gotten better. Considering the the global trade situation... Well necessity is the mother of invention.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

Incorrect! China consumes ~half of what the US does in terms of per-capita KWh of electrical energy! China also has far lower data centre energy consumption both in absolute, grid % and per-capita terms! These people are just making things up and that's the story! bsky.app/profile/keta...

turzaak@turzaak.bsky.social · last mo.

I've just overheard in this bar someone declare 1985 was Gen-X. Oh you sweet child, no. We were the original batch of "fucking millennials". Get in line.

turzaak@turzaak.bsky.social · last mo.

This part of the thread reads very much like someone who does not understand the concept of the trust thermocline. It's that simple. Corps can have a lot of trust but as soon as you hit that inflection point, it's downhill fast and very hard to recover.

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 2mo ago

First, and most importantly, anti-data center folks refuse to believe data center developers and tech companies engage in good faith. They have staked out a purely reactionary position. Negotiation is useless. Just reject everything by default. They're playing this as Always Defect.

I find it frustrating, personally, when anti-data center organizers say that the job creation is a myth. Because I think that 500 six-figure jobs, for folks who go through apprenticeships but maybe don’t need college degrees, that last two to six years — that’s enough time to build a family, that’s enough time to buy a home. I think it’s supermeaningful. And when I talk to technicians, when I talk to workers, clearly it was extremely meaningful work. One of the things that was the most surprising to me, when I talked to data center activists, was that they responded to so many of the pro arguments with: I don’t believe them. So this company says that they are going to treat the water with chemicals in it so that it doesn’t flow into the lakes. People would say: I don’t believe them. I don’t think they can do it.
turzaak@turzaak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I want to staple this thread to the forehead of everyone trying to tell me that there are "really good FOSS CAD software" now. Yes, even FreeCAD. Especially FreeCAD.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2mo ago

Look, I’m an open source maintainer, and if you want people to use that FOSS software as an alternative to that proprietary software it’s good to understand why people wanted to use that proprietary software in the first place and why they might be hesitant to switch It’s not because users are dumb