Got hamster cages from two separate companies that need returning.

Cons: really annoying.

Pros: consumer capitalism coming apart at the seams?

We are not at post scarcity, but we are in an age sitting on the scarcity/abundance threshold, where certain things are produced at abundancy levels or close to that with respect to worldwide needs. The problem continues to be distribution and the ideology and conflicts behind that distribution which prevents most of the world from benefiting from this.

Whether by accident or design, global leaders and the wealthy are holding us back from realising the potential of this.

What is the practical benefit of splitting persistent volume and persistent volume claim resource definitions in kubernetes when they have a 1:1 mapping? Is it helpful or just extra boilerplate you're forced to write?

#kubernetes #k8s

Will #AI really get both cheaper and better over time because of improvements in hardware and techniques? Probably not. Today AI is massively subsidised by venture capital and is unprofitable. In the medium term, it will get more expensive as the reality of training and inference costs asserts itself in the market.

In the long term, there is a massive curation problem. AI has to filter out AI slop to prevent model collapse. This will be a quickly growing cost, outpacing GPU improvement