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what if i use the fat i skimmed from the bolognese to make the béchamel? what then???
December 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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doing really bad 🤘
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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this cyber monday i'm going to treat myself by biting hard into a high voltage power line
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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one cousin walk hold the cousins please
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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i had never really thought of myself as a sex furniture type of guy but it's almost kind of flattering that my instagram ad profile does
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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if i was mayor off-leash dogs would go directly to "a farm upstate", speeding would be punishable by death, and bars/restaurants get fined for not having their address in their instagram bio
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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david duchovny IS a lesbian and this show IS guilty of queerbaiting
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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the x-files title sequence is too scary
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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born to cook eggs
forced to write emails
November 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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chasing guys in ICE costumes out the bar with a dude dressed as king arthur
November 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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lol. lmao.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Oct 30
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The cost of data centers GPUs may make it impossible to make a profit from AI. Here's $10 off annual.

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So, big tech has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of capital expenditures, and much of those expenditures are on GPUs. These GPUs, once installed, immediately begin decaying in value, and the more you use them, the more likely they are to crap out, and even when sitting idle, these GPUs have some power consumption — somewhere between 7% and 14% of their power in the case of the H100 — making them a consistent burden on the infrastructure of any purchaser whether they have customers or not. This becomes an even bigger problem for more expensive GPUs like the B200, which has an idle power draw of 140W per GPU. Extrapolate that out to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of them, or to the 50,000-per-building of them inside Stargate Abilene’s NVIDIA’s , and you’ve got yourself a problem. Even without customers, even without IT load, these servers sit burning power, and while a company could turn them off and boot them on for a period of time, these racks are often run in clusters — servers of GPUs that are synced together using high-speed networking — and while I can’t find anything firm as far as how long it takes to set up a cluster, this presentation on cluster design from the CEO of Lambda details a cluster’s sheer complexity, involving discrete networking, software layer and storage methods just to get the bloody thing working. In simple terms, it may be expensive to leave them on, but it’s going to take a bunch of time and energy to restart these things, meaning that they are more than likely left on, slowly burning energy. Imagine how bad that is at a scale of hundreds of thousands of GPUs? Yet things might be a little wonkier, as the reality may be that while hyperscalers have customers, those customers might not be using all their GPUs at all times. Although there may be some customers that agree to a minimum spend or throughput, it’s hard to imagine that these contracts are enough to surmount the destructive margins. And when … And when I say “destructive margins,” I mean so much more than just the power to run and cool them. There’s the construction of the data centers to house them, the necessary maintenance, and, of course, any and all debt used to buy them. While I can (and will!) say that for every $50,000 GPU bought, big tech needs to make another $100,000, I believe that the hole created by the GPU’s existence is likely larger than just $100,000, with every construction delay, power outage, or moment of idle compute adding dollars to the hole for each and every GPU. Need a very real example? The Information reported recently that Oracle lost $100 million between June and August 2025 on rentals of NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips: In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly $100 million from rentals of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which arrived this year. That’s partly because there is a period between when Oracle gets its data centers ready for customers and when customers start using and paying for them, the documents show. It’s not clear what causes the gap or how Oracle plans to shorten it. So, while we can’t say for sure, there’s a chance a large chunk of these losses were caused by the spread-out deprecation of those Blackwell GPUs — after all, its most recent quarterly earnings included $1.35 billion of depreciation, right? Sidenote: For context, Oracle reported depreciation of $804m in the same period last year, and depreciation of $3.867bn for the whole of FY2025. This should give you a sense of how rapidly these GPUs are becoming a millstone on its earnings. …is there any way to actually recover that $100 million through the margins on these chips? Oracle only has 4.5 years of depreciation on these Blackwell Chips, and The Information reports that those GB200 server racks have a negative 100% gross margin according to internal Oracle documents. If that’s the case, we have a much, much bigger problem, but even if the margins aren’t literally negative…will ther…
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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mad respect to the chinese takeout spot by my office called "Profit II" with 2.9 stars on yelp
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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can the mta bring back those subway ads about taking your fucking backpack off on a crowded train? maybe I'm drawing false conclusions but i think the passive shaming actually helped a little.
October 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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becoming radicalized against modern technology not because of ai or social media but battery powered leaf blowers
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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had the sort of saturday night out where i will be stopping at taco bell on the way home ever though i'm not hungry
October 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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not me experiencing ASMR for the first time in years from the crazy guy on the train muttering gibberish and clicking his tongue
October 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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five foot nothing guy with a deloitte branded hiking pack and the tightest dress pants I've ever seen
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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listening to young thug is stimming
October 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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remember when we all thought our phones were listening in us and the tech companies were like “what no we’re not shut up lol” and every 9 months since there’s been another news story about how they WERE listening in on us but nobody cares because we’re all chronically ill and complicit in genocide?
October 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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this is our cracker barrel moment
dragom.bsky.social Christmarnstime is here @dragom.bsky.social · Oct 3
WHY DID THEY GENTRIFY THE AUDACITY LOGO
the regular audacity logo on the left (a waveform between two headphones) and the REAL NEW audacity logo on the right (flat style red headphones, where one of the headphones is a half-circle to fit with the rest of musehub's design Thing. It simultaneously looks extremely generic and like a sperm cell is flying out of a semicircle)
October 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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shout out to the shady debt consolidation company sending out mailers that look almost identical to the nys stimulus checks that’s some dark shit
October 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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upsetting british colloquialisms from the newest season of taskmaster, part 1:

calling a gift basket a "hamper"
calling an IUD a "contraceptive coil"
calling a mallet a "lump hammer"
October 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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optimum online should be publicly executed
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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seeing a really cool elderly person is one of the best things that can happen to you on the subway
October 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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maybe this is the calvados talking but pizza rolls hold up
September 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM