Well he’s also got some disagreeable political opinions, so I dunno about redemption.

The success of Rust can be laid at the feet of many people, but critically Graydon Hoare — He wrote an article a couple years ago about his stewardship, and it’s been something I go back to frequently. Just reading you get a sense of the immense intelligence, maturity, and sensitivity he possess, and imbued the project with.

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html

For the vast majority of these companies, probably not.

If the company is AI-only, then if/when the bubble bursts, I suspect it’ll go under too. Only the biggest players will survive that, like OpenAI, since so many other services call out to their API.

Companies that can pivot back to core markets will be fine, Google, Microsoft. Shovel sellers will mostly be okay too. What that’ll look like for them is a period of huge overvaluation and then a return to sanity, you can see similar histories if you look at the stock price of still extant dotcom bubble companies.

And then the hype will be over, there will be a huge crater left in GDP, retirement accounts, and the larger economy, but some “AI” technology will remain — stuff that is actually useful, like transcription, natural speech, noise removal, automated rotoscoping. But the fantasy of replacing information workers and artists will not come to pass, though they probably won’t differentiate for the next several years, as the jobs market is decimated all the same by speculation hangover.

At this point if you’re going to use WebP you may as well just use AVIF instead, better compression ratio and the support matrix isn’t that different between them.

I’ve got an Intel 6900K 8-core X99 system. Also not compatible with W11, but serving me well.

The issue is even if I wanted to upgrade, that market segment is effectively dead; X299 and X399 (AMD) were the last real HEDT platforms. The only thing now is workstation tier boards, which are about $1K and processors to match

One of the biggest appeals of CloudFlare (aside from DDoS protection) is they don’t charge absurd^[1] prices for bandwidth egress. AWS, et al have honestly predatory bandwidth pricing, they could be 1/5 and still profitable.

So given the choice of paying $30 in AWS egress that could balloon to hundreds, or a flat $20/mo, it’s not hard to see why so many people choose CloudFlare.

If you search some people already have. https://kagifeedback.org/d/6842-non-ai-unlimited-plan/39

And… it’s not a priority for them, maybe they’ll charge you $5 to disable AI features though 🙃

It will take a prompt, then run multiple web searches to get relevant info, recursively if needed, and then give a meaningful response with citations.

Do you have an example of this you can provide verbatim?

I’m just curious; I think the one application LLMs might actually be viable for is exactly this kind of connection finding in a large corpus, and since I’m doing lots of research, I might actually find personal utility.

The AI assistant is backed by several different models which IIRC just call out to those providers (Op*nAI API, etc) and rack up tokens in the billing system: You might be right that the AI cost is included when below the plan price — to that I have to say, give me a fucking cheaper plan that doesn’t implicitly include the cost of AI.

As far as I can tell, you have to completely disable all keyboard shortcuts or else when you press A anywhere that isn’t the search box you get dumped immediately into their AI assistant prompted with whatever you already had in the search bar.

It didn’t track me more than a few pennies, but on principle the several times that happened made me angry.

Apparently some of the news views in search are also easy to dump you into AI land. There’s community CSS add on that hides all that stuff now, but I wish the company would let me just disable the AI traps.

I use Kagi because the truth is all other corporate alternatives at this point are unusable swill.

That said, I do not like the company and disagree with their choices in many aspects.

For one, while they don’t force you to use AI features, there isn’t a way to explicitly turn them off for your account, there always the opportunity to rack up token costs if you accidently hit one of the AI buttons.

They still don’t run their own index, instead complacent to just pay the other search providers. Additionally, if you’re trying to escape Google… Kagi runs on Google Cloud Services.

There’s more complaints, and I’m sure others will chime in, but that’s my take.

It’s funny because I’ve had this one particular issue with two Asus routers that I manage for family…

They use this plunger power button design, you push the button in and it toggle locks in to place, the problem is that after a few years whatever mechanism retains the plunger fails and it always springs back and keep the device from staying on. So far the solution has been to cram a paper clip down the housing to hold it in. I just find comedy in having to apply that fix twice.

What gets me is they’re still planning on using the advertising monetization model.

The sad thing is those GPUs are in specialized boards with specialized servers and cooling, and not really good at the kind of work consumers would want it for, assuming you could even get drivers. So most all of those GPUs will realistically get scrapped if the bubble pops.

Maybe we’ll see the EPYC CPUs get sold secondhand at least, those are socketed.

Kagi uses Bing as its primary search index AFAIK, so no Google search API there.

That said, it does run entirely on Google Cloud Services, which I personally find ironic.

I think we’ve tapped most of the mileage we can get from the current science, the AI bros conveniently forget there have been multiple AI winters, I suspect we’ll see at least one more before “AGI” (if we ever get there).

If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion.

— THX 1138

I agree with this viscerally.

A lot of people are expressing sympathy for the people in the Kirk crowd, but honestly I think it might be a good thing for them — to see first hand what Kirk and the Republican rhetoric is actually advocating for. Maybe it’ll snap them out of the fantasies they have of culling “undesirables”.

It’s fine, modern CPUs boost until they either hit amperage, voltage, or thermal constraints, assuming the motherboard isn’t behaving badly then the upper limits for all of those are safe to be at perpetually.

I share the sentiment. For me the results are acceptable, and being able to custom rank sites in results is very useful, but the killer feature is not having ads or forcing AI down my throat.

Last I saw they still paid Yandex for access to that index (weigh how important that is yourself), they also pushed back on suicide warnings if you ask Kagi how to kill yourself, and I learned from this article that they may be using additional data sources that contain higher levels of homophobic sentiment.

Basically, the company’s tagline is “Humanize the Web”, but I don’t think their actions thus far show we agree on what Humanize means.