SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 3d ago
I mostly agree with you, but this one: "- so controlling they are the only US company blacklisted by the US government" They were blacklisted by the US government because they didn't bribe Trump. While all the rest of the tec
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by SwellJoe 6d ago
So far, I've seen no evidence AI wants anything. So, I'm not saying the AI won't take over, but for now, the threat is that the people with the most AI capability might decide to skip the middleman (everyone who isn't th
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by SwellJoe 6d ago
I don't play games for them to "transfer to real life". I play games for fun. Chess can be fun, it has an interesting history and the strategy of various kinds of play open up to you as you play/learn more, it has a stru
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by SwellJoe 6d ago
Even a single person can now build/maintain native apps. It's literally a day of effort for an experienced dev working with the best current models to port an app to a new native platform. Maybe another day or two to walk through
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by SwellJoe 6d ago
It's been said before, and it remains a concern, that if AI reaches a point where it can do/build/launch anything without a huge amount of human labor, the AI companies have no reason to let you or I extract that value. And,
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by SwellJoe 6d ago
What role in government do you believe Hunter Biden holds?
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by SwellJoe 7d ago
Sure, but, even with AI and the technical competence to steer it, it's still a pretty big lift to switch from, e.g. WordPress with billing and various other stuff to some ad hoc other thing. Even when I decided I was done with managing
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by SwellJoe 7d ago
There really are a lot of things that they could do it with it, but they've already done a lot of things over the years; you can't say they haven't tried things, though I can't say they've always delivered a fun exp
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by SwellJoe 7d ago
WordPress dominance of the web has certainly peaked, but history indicates there will be several years in which to continue to extract comfortable profits while riding it down. e.g. Oracle, a database that almost no business has actually ne
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by SwellJoe 7d ago
The best things about the game (and it is a good game at this point, they continued to add to it at a steady pace since launch) are the human written stories. But, once you've exhausted those human stories, it's like wandering aro
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by SwellJoe 8d ago
C'mon. Be serious.
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by SwellJoe 8d ago
I dunno, man. Bin Laden's words: "Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to
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by SwellJoe 8d ago
I didn't say anything about what al-Qaeda wanted. I said, "Bin Laden wanted to destroy America". Am I wrong for believing the evidence of his actions supports that assertion?
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by SwellJoe 8d ago
It's hundreds of billions of dollars in personal self-dealing, so far. So, yes, the corruption of the Trump administration vastly outstrips all prior administrations in scope, and I can't believe I need to point that out. It is, a
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by SwellJoe 8d ago
Did they need the real estate under the World Trade Center to establish a caliphate?
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by SwellJoe 8d ago
They've never witnessed functioning policy on any front. Bin Laden wanted to destroy America, and he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. The current administration is the logical result of fear and ignorance and xenophobia being eleva
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by SwellJoe 8d ago
Even at 30 t/s, 3.8 thinks so long, even on medium, it still takes 3x or more longer than any cloud model, in my testing.
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by SwellJoe 9d ago
You've listed off a bunch of examples of why it would work, but none of them do what you've suggested or anything like it. None of them try to force a date to happen on penalty of a large fine for not showing up. None try to get
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by SwellJoe 9d ago
That doesn't really track, though. Even tiny models, like Gemma 4, have coherent prose. I know Opus isn't being quantized that small. It seems like it must be some kind of...I dunno. Maybe over-fitting toward some user metric that
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by SwellJoe 9d ago
Just another normal day of someone blogging about crimes and other immoral acts they have committed using LLMs. The LLM didn't send fake invoices, it didn't send spam, a person did. And, the tool they used to do it was an LLM. Thi
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by SwellJoe 9d ago
My policy is that if someone doesn't understand the tool they've vibe-coded well enough to make the documentation coherent, they don't actually use it, and so I probably shouldn't use it either.
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by SwellJoe 9d ago
Opus can't speak coherent English anymore. I dunno what happened, but it's not speaking a language humans can understand. It uses unusual shorthand and slang, which it seems to use pretty consistently, so it's probably possib
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by SwellJoe 9d ago
"Instead it’s the equivalent of a trusted friend or relative setting you up with someone they know will suit you." A random dating app is a "trusted friend or relative" now? Sorry, that's not a reasonable expectatio
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by SwellJoe 10d ago
Have you looked at the CPU performance of Apple Silicon lately?
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by SwellJoe 10d ago
"I had the idea that the way this could work is a totally automated match making system akin to Uber where you are penalised for not accepting matches made by the system. You don’t have to get married or anything, but if you don’t both
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by SwellJoe 10d ago
I can't speak for the person you've asked, but, I have an M5 Macbook Pro and Asahi Linux only recently got support for M3 Macs, and that support is marked WIP on most features: https://asahilinux.org/docs/plat
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by SwellJoe 10d ago
I do most of my work in the terminal, so the Finder is less of an issue than it would be otherwise. I like for the desktop environment to be nice, but I don't necessarily need it for much more than managing the browser and terminal w
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by SwellJoe 10d ago
My most recent laptop purchase was a Macbook Pro, because the price/performance is just so lopsided with the price of memory pushing everything up to Apple-like prices, it didn't make sense to buy an x86 laptop. But, coming from L
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by SwellJoe 13d ago
They're solving that problem. Look at Spacex. They not only got the rules changed for fast-tracked inclusion in Nasdaq and Russell indexes to pump the price on their garbage asset, they changed the rules so insiders could bail early. I
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by SwellJoe 13d ago
I mean when Anthropic made Fable sabotage the work of folks who they believed were working on competing products, by silently degrading performance. They backtracked after pushback from users, making it an explicit downgrade to Opus.

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