UncleOxidant

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by UncleOxidant 6d ago
As an American reading this I feel like we have fallen far behind when it comes to home HVAC (and bath) tech.
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by UncleOxidant 9d ago
This is happening to the technocratic centrist parties all over the world - such as the Democrats losing in '24 to Trump. The irony is that if the technocratic center would stop being paralyzed by fear (fear that the the right wing par
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by UncleOxidant 20d ago
I've seen recommendations for locations near the Great Lakes. Upper peninsula of MI, for example. Plenty of water. A warming climate should actually make the winters there somewhat less harsh.
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by UncleOxidant 20d ago
If Kerensky had been successful maybe Russia would have ended up with a Nordic democratic socialism model. Not that he necessarily had the wherewithal to be successful ( Ordered an ill-fated military offensive against Austro-Hungarian force
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by UncleOxidant 21d ago
> We skip over fixing the birthrate You're assuming the birthrate can be "fixed". Japan has an even worse demographic problem. They've tried "fixing" it and nothing much works. Similar for South Korea. Japan
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by UncleOxidant 21d ago
> that sort of individuated cosmopolitanism only works for educated men and women with means, who have or have the capacity to self-actualize. So because not everyone can afford to travel freely we shouldn't let anyone do that?
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by UncleOxidant 21d ago
Our birthrate has been below replacement for several years now. We need immigrants to mitigate that.
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by UncleOxidant 21d ago
Didn't we used to fast track citizenship for immigrants who married a US citizen? I mean, the default should be that after the wedding you're now on track to be a citizen within a year or two if the marriage is still in effect by
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by UncleOxidant 21d ago
1946 was quite a year. Three presidents born that year: Clinton, W Bush and Trump.
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by UncleOxidant 22d ago
Speculation that this is GLM 5.3 Flash.
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by UncleOxidant 23d ago
I'm just not sure that stronger punishment and enforcement is going to be the answer here. It seems like many of the Asian cultures have a much higher level of social cohesion even without the threat of punishment. How do we get (back)
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by UncleOxidant 23d ago
Alternate take: How many people have known how to program in assembly for the last 30 years or so? It's been a skill on the decline. Good compilers made that happen.
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by UncleOxidant 26d ago
> I fully expect a new president to be ushered in, whether R or D, and for some level of normalcy to start creeping back. I'm pretty sure that barring shenanigans we'll get an D president next time. I'm also pretty sure th
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Is there a RISC-VI in the works where they try to learn from the RISC-V mistakes to make improvements?
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
> It [The Bible] is full of great wisdom and great stories, and also cruelty, evil lies, and reminders that the world now is in many ways better than it was because people are better. Are people better? And if they are what made them be
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
I'm hoping for a 3.8-122B MoE
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Wait for the MTP variants that will likely be out within days. I'm on a 128GB Strix Halo box and for 3.6-27B 8bits I was getting about 9tok/sec (not great). With MTP that gets closer to 18 tok/sec (kind'a usable).
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
If it's as good as Sonnet 4.6 for most things I'd be happy.
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Good morning Dario!
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
But what if the model you're using doesn't have image processing capabilities?
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Yes, 3.6 Flash is very fast. I used to get a fair amount of usage of the Gemini Flash models on the free tier. I signed up for their $4.99/month tier (includes 400GB of Google space which was also enticing) and it turns out I only get
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
I agree about AI not killing humanity in the next 5 years, but why do we need rapid AI adoption?
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Telephone operators? Word processors and typists? These sound like job categories from the 80s. This just the first couple I noticed in the graph there. Aren't those jobs that were already largely gone even prior to AI? Anyway, they ha
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
> With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization. It's even worse than that. We've got a CEO who has suddenly learned how to vibe code and the stuff he's
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
We're all really waiting for the 3.8-27B which is due out in 2 days.
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Just tripping a bit messed up my SI joint pretty bad a few years back. It didn't even seem serious at the time, just a bit of a stumble off of the curb, but the next day I could barely get out of bed and was in pretty serious pain for
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
The more things change...
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
With Opus 5 as the underlying model.
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
And once we also decided that we needed to attack Iran.
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
I guess I'm not understanding why this makes sense for AMD to buy Taalas unless they plan to get into hosting. It doesn't seem like a great fit.

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