• CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    Tell me if you know, does EZ have brsinworms, about China or anything else, or is he reliable? I used yo like his coverage on LLMs but haven’t listened in a long time because it feels like it’s 30% ads that break up my focus too much

    • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      Not really? I haven’t seen any. I was very much inserting into the title of this post, that isn’t his take, he was talking in the article I found this in about this just being a natural problem with current LLM architecture, that the operators have no real ability to control costs or limit user access.

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    It’s always ridiculous to me when people call it “abuse” to use the service you paid for. Rate limit it or don’t. But if you sell it as unlimited, how is making use of it’s unlimitedness abuse? All kinds of tech stuff is like this, bandwidth etc. Don’t sell it as unlimited and be transparent about the limits. Or maybe this user is offset by others and the business is fine with it :shrug-outta-hecks: but it’s not abuse to use what they allow.

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      Feels like the wire line and wireless carriers’ “unlimited” plans that decided to punish everyone for a minuscule number of power users. Obviously the reality is that they used the exceptions to push rate and data caps to extract more money from all users.

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        Bandwidth is one that particularly annoys me because of how often it is falsely advertised as unlimited when it is not. I don’t have a problem with limits, I understand unlimited is not cheap, just advertise it correctly. Don’t do the whole, unlimited but subject to abuse policies. Just spell out for me what the limits are.

        Like, if you advertise unlimited bandwidth mobile plan and I watch a ton of youtube, how is that abuse? How am I supposed to know how much “unlimited” means?

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          In your example, they would want the end user customer to pay for the extra bandwidth and the content provider to also pay more for interconnect and colocation fees.

          Any bandwidth cap is effectively also a data cap but they get around it in the US because of regs that say they can do “normal” network management to maintain some level of service quality. So they can advertise one speed which end users experience as a lot slower but they can claim that it is part of network management.

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    Ehhh I was using several 50tb on an unlimited plan with inmotionhosting at one point. They did bring me up on it at one point and made sure I was actually using it for something the site actually serves and not as just a bottomless storage solution. When they saw it was actually legitimately being used by the app they were happy and fine with it. Probably caused them some problems and I was definitely a power user on the service but ehhh, if it’s sold as unlimited then I don’t see the problem.

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    It’s either unlimited or it isn’t. Uimited means it can’t be abused because there isn’t a limit to abuse.

    It’s fine if it isn’t unlimited but it should state that.

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    build a hydroelectric dam that can’t withstand an errant pebble in the intake

    an errant pebble finds it’s way into the intake

    “This FUCKING pebble is the reason we won’t have electricityrage-cry

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    7 days ago

    Mr Chinese Man Chen Ing Ai is right, I can’t believe a Chinese would do something so horrible, but in retrospect it all makes sense, I sure am glad I hate their government and not their people.

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      To me this reads as racist or culturally hegemonic in some way. Yellow peril shit. Tell me (please don’t) how a few Chinese webcomics have given you special insight into the entire culture of modern China.

      Dogshit methodology + confirmation bias = China bad.