David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025English
5Ā·17 hours agoExtropic have been burning their runway, this is 100% an investor pitch. āWe have a thing! please give us more money? we swear weāre still Nazisā
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025English
6Ā·18 hours agoDavid Hamburger-Helper
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025English
5Ā·18 hours agowhen you get this working i am totally copying this for rationalwiki
i nearly installed caddy just to get iocaine
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025English
6Ā·18 hours agoIf youāre having yield problems, talk to that dude with his nose uncovered in the clean room @4:18
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025English
1Ā·1 day agosticky note under the keyboard
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025English
5Ā·1 day agounrelated extreme political rhetoric in slides, such as āfuck [name]ā and āpunch [group]ā.
why are they so bad at this
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢KeePassXC doubles down on AI useEnglish
12Ā·1 day agosticky note under the keyboard
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter ā by Nicholas WeaverEnglish
2Ā·1 day agoborn to e-waste
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter ā by Nicholas WeaverEnglish
2Ā·2 days agoIām failing to see the ambiguity here. He repeatedly says itās in the devices (PC, phones) and then that itās on the edge. So those devices are what he means by the edge.
This comes across as failure to read the text.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025English
10Ā·3 days agoKeepArseNX
lead dev: Jia Tan
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter ā by Nicholas WeaverEnglish
3Ā·3 days agoyeah. LLMs are fat. Lesser ML works great tho.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketingEnglish
8Ā·4 days agoi have a pile of long winded comments and emails pretending this tech can be apolitical and how dare i impugn their hard work and science
thereās a reason i moderate against fucking idiots. you have a billion other loungeroom floors on the internet to piss on
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI makes you think youāre a genius when youāre an idiotEnglish
19Ā·10 days agoIāM DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEYāRE ALL FP4
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!English
8Ā·11 days agoyeah even these converted jet engines are in short supply, but ProEnergy has some
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
5Ā·12 days agolooks pretty good to me, Iād be delighted to produce this sort of work and heās doing loadbearing work on the numbers here - that the finance press is faintly catching up to a year later.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
4Ā·12 days agodo please continue!
(i mean, like i can talk)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
3Ā·13 days agodid you read either link
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025English
3Ā·14 days agoāyor mums a code smellā
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025English
8Ā·19 days agofuckin pisses me off, given his clippy campaign is helping move pivot shirts
sigh
I WILL NOT CHANGE, CLIPPY SUCKED FIRST



















If you get under all the hype slop, itās an analogue computer using quantum to go faster [citation needed].
This can allegedly be used to do AI computations (so matrix math?) with lower energy.
At least they donāt claim to be doing qubits.