avidphantasm

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by avidphantasm 2mo ago
SO STOP FUCKING HOOKING UP LLMS TO EVERYTHING YOU FUCKING MORONS!!!
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by avidphantasm 2mo ago
> I went out to enjoy the Half Moon Bay 4th of July parade, occasionally checking in and prompting the next step for Fable from my phone. This intensification of work will not be good for workers’ health. Like, put your phone down man. Y
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by avidphantasm 3mo ago
The AI labs are racing to create a moat out of trillion-parameter models and the GPUs that can run them. The problem is this is the wrong architecture for most AI inference use cases. On-device inference is where this is going, clearly Appl
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by avidphantasm 3mo ago
They have proven to the world they have a deterrent akin to a nuclear weapon, but they can actually use it.
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
And if \ was an alias for C:\ this would just be \mountdir.
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
Or just use sane names like \\MyDivision\Share01\MyData and mount that to \Network\Share01 or some such.
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
Nonsense. You can mount filesystems to mount points in much the same way as is done in Unix. No one would ever need to do that.
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
It’s arcane and technical for no reason. /Users/ME/Documents, /Media/MyThumbDrive/…, etc. are much clearer and less confusing than C:\…
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
No, they need to ditch drive letters first. The NT kernel and NTFS don't even require them (I used to mount disks without drive letters back in the NT 4 era). They just don't care enough to get rid of this annoyance.
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
And how do you keep capitalists from capturing the instruments of justice and subverting them to punish their enemies?
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
Discusses the concept of Market Socialism, which is a hybrid system meant to avoid the worst aspects of both Socialist and Capitalist systems, while putting the goal of human fulfillment at its center.
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How Socialism Could Work(confrontingcapitalism.substack.com)
6 points by avidphantasm 4mo ago|6 comments
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
It's actually a bit faster than that now it seems, about 112 tok/sec. Configuration: Gemma 4 31B Instruct Q6K Context size 40960 LM Studio 0.4.13+1 Metal llama.cpp v2.14.0 LM Studio MLX (Apple M5) v1.6.0 Here are my results: promp
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
Not sure where 40 tokens per second is coming from. I’ve seen 95-100 tokens per second on M5 Max 128GB running Gemma 4 31B. I’ve done experiments where it is faster than Claude Opus 4.5 for the same prompts.
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by avidphantasm 4mo ago
Ultimately, information is a public good: it is non-excludable (you can’t stop people from using it) and it is non-rival (we can all use it at the same time). Public goods are often very useful, and because they are non-excludable and non-r
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by avidphantasm 5mo ago
Calculating hourly costs for these models makes me think that the decision of when to hire an SWE vs. increase use of AI may follow a similar pattern to the decision to use cloud compute vs. on-premises. I don’t cost $120/hr (incl. fri
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by avidphantasm 5mo ago
I would be very surprised if they can scale hiring contractors to reliably renovate buildings.
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by avidphantasm 5mo ago
If you start buying minis, then you need to house, power, and cool them. So you are building a mini data center. If you are building a small data center, economies of scale will drive you to want to build larger and larger. However, this ge
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by avidphantasm 5mo ago
I recently stopped using Backblaze after a decade because it was using over 20GB of RAM on my machine. I also realized that I mostly wanted it for backing up old archival data that doesn’t change ever really. So I created a B2 bucket and up
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by avidphantasm 5mo ago
I’ve recently switched from Minio and Localstack to Garage. For my needs (local testing) Garage seems to be fine. It’s a bit more heavyweight and capable than I need now, but I like that it may give me the option of having an on-premises al
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by avidphantasm 6mo ago
I think the major reason for the aggressive price point of the Neo, and for not raising RAM and SSD upgrade prices in the MBP much, is that Apple is willing to give up some hardware margin to have more devices to sell services to. Unless I
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by avidphantasm 6mo ago
What would China do to such billionaires run amok?
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by avidphantasm 6mo ago
And here I was hoping they would put an M5 Ultra in a MacBook Pro. Maybe they will add it as an option to the 16” at a later date.
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by avidphantasm 7mo ago
It’s fun, but also tiring, watching people come to the same conclusions Marx did from first principles, over, and over again.
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by avidphantasm 7mo ago
I kind of agree with you, but on macOS I still don’t have to ever think about drivers. The hardware just works. Linux isn’t quite there yet. My work XPS laptop running Ubuntu is close, but not quite the same.
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by avidphantasm 7mo ago
I use Siri to set alarms on my watch, that’s it. I don’t want much more than that.
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by avidphantasm 8mo ago
> The key point here (and biggest advantage of Japanese cities) is that nearly every building is mixed-use by default, Also, Japan generally has good mass transit throughout their cities, which essentially doesn't exist in the US. L
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by avidphantasm 8mo ago
I’m too dumb/lazy to run find and think for myself, so I’m happily digging my own grave. Yipee!!!
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by avidphantasm 8mo ago
…but civilized people do close them.
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by avidphantasm 8mo ago
There is a lot of idiocy/stubbornness among middle managers. I worked for a large consulting firm for a few years and would see hiring managers pass by candidates with good aptitude whom they could’ve trained in 4-6 weeks. Instead, the

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