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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember liking Opposing Force and Blue Shift too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calcrelatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  NCalc+ is pretty good. I don’t use it for anything complicated though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yann LeCun would probably be a better source. He does actual research (unlike Altman), and I’ve never seen him over-hype or fear monger (unlike Altman).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZeroTrust Your Home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is more complicated than some corporate infrastructures I’ve worked on, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Production AI is highly tuned by training data selection and human feedback. Every model has its own style that many people helped tune. In the open model world there are thousands of different models targeting various styles. Waifu Diffusion and GPT-4chan, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI are people, my friend. /s

  But, really, I think people should be able to run algorithms on whatever data they want. It’s whether the output is sufficiently different or “transformative” that matters (and other laws like using people’s likeness). Otherwise, I think the laws will get complex and nonsensical once you start adding special cases for “AI.” And I’d bet if new laws are written, they’d be written by lobbiests to further erode the threat of competition (from free software, for instance).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The search engine LLMs suck. I’m guessing they use very small models to save compute. ChatGPT 4o and Claude 3.5 are much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromecast / Firestick Self Host Replacement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OSMC’s Vero V looks interesting. Pi 4 with OSMC or Librelec could work. I’m probably going to do something like this pretty soon. I just set up an *arr stack last week, and just using my smart TV with the jellyfin app installed ATM.

  My PC running the Jellyfin server can’t transcode some videos though; probably going to put an Arc a310 in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the Texas counties I’m most familiar with, if you’re arrested and they don’t have a good case, they just keep resetting court dates for years instead of going ahead with the process. If you can’t afford a bond, you’ll be in jail that whole time (which pressures people to take plea deals), if you can secure a bond, you’re out, but with limited rights and a whole lot of hassles to deal with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find Kagi results a little bit better than Google’s (for most things). I like that certain categories of results are put in their own sections (listicles, forums) so they’re easy to ignore if you want. I like that I can prioritize, deprioritize, block, or pin results from certain domains. I like that I can quickly switch “lenses” to one of the predefined or custom lenses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their line goes up when they show they’re investing in AI, and it goes down when it looks like they’re falling behind or not investing enough in it.

  TBH, a lot of times I find myself interacting with ChatGPT instead of searching. It’s overhyped, but it’s useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the things you mentioned, the vegan and gluten-free options are processed much more. Beef, for example, is arguably a “whole food.”

  Gluten-free isn’t healthier unless you have specific conditions. Most people can handle gluten fine, and some vegan foods are primarily gluten (such as seitan).

  Vegan isn’t inherently healthy, especially if your eating mostly processes foods. A primarily whole-food vegan diet is likely healthier and cheaper than most people’s diets though.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Router died - Replacement/solution recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the Turris Omnia and (highly configurable) Turris Mox. They come with OpenWrt installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Hosted AI is pretty darn cool⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK, looks like 48GB cloud pricing would be 0.35/hr => $255/month. Used 3090s go for $700. Two 3090s would give you 48GB of VRAM, and cost $1400 (I’m assuming you can do “model-parallel” will Llama; never tried running an LLM, but it should be possible and work well). So, the break-even point would be <6 months. Hmm, but if Severless works well, that could be pretty cheap. Would probably take a few minutes to process and load a ~48GB model every cold start though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit. Mixed it up with Argentina.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Venezualla has somewhat of a history of workers seizing their factories. I think it would be extremely hard in the U.S. due to the well-funded police. Generally, I guess the movement would be “anarcho-syndicalism.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I think I’ve read that a single GPT-4 instance runs on a 128 GPU cluster, and ChatGPT can still take something like 30s to finish a long response. A H100 GPU has a TDP of 700w. Hard to believe that uses only 10x more energy than a search that takes milliseconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Xenophobia and racism, mostly. And yes, it’s a solution to the aging demographic crisis many countries face (at least in the medium-term).

  I remember seeing a video of a presentation back in the Bush years by some neo-con group that advocated for immigration to Pentagon or DoD officials or something. The argument for immigration was mostly the same: we have an aging population, so we could integrate immigrants (who are statistically younger) to solve this issue. I didn’t agree much with the broader idea of the presentation though. The broader idea was that there were still some parts of the world not a part of the global U.S.-led hegemony (mostly the middle-east and Africa), and we must spread democracy and capitalism to them. The argument was that globalism/capitalism ensures peace, and that both WWI and WWII happened because globalism was falling apart shortly before those wars. So, to ensure world peace, we need to globalize the entire earth and bring all countries into the the U.S.-led hegemony, even if that means starting wars to spread democracy, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor countries, such as the countries people are immigrating from, have a more terrible environment and higher birth-rates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like the most plausible explanation. Only other thing I can think of is they want to develop their own CoPilot (which I’m guessing isn’t available in China due to the U.S. AI restrictions?), and they’re just using their existing infrastructure to gather training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what is the general use for the Mac Mini, MacBook Air, iMac, and MacBook Pro? People generally seem to do all the lightweight stuff like social media consumption on their phones; and desktops/laptops are used for the more heavy-weight stuff. The only reason I’ve ever used a Mac was for IOS development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was looking at notebooks at Walmart the other day, and I was amazed that they almost all had less or the same amount of RAM as my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think SSDs are also soldered to the mainboard on most apple products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea Time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never used it, but the idea is that nutrient uptake will be faster than if someone just dressed the top of the soil with compost. The extra aerobic bacteria could also be beneficial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss console ads being this weird⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those type of bags are usually used to hold illicit substances, and typically only bought by small-time drug dealers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most CEOs are also conmen and not any smarter. It’s mostly just a nepotism racket at the executive level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is very therapeutic to garden, though.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of industrial produced food is cheap because of child, forced, and otherwise exploited labor (undocumented workers, for example). Heavily mechanized farming (mostly used for grains) is cheap because of the vast amount of fossil fuel “energy slaves” used. And that’s only cheap because the costs are externalized.

  Anyways, growing your own food can definitely be cheaper than buying it. Of course, not if you start plants under lights, build raised beds and fill them with purchased soil, buy organic pelletized fertilizer, or stuff like that. It can be nearly free to grow your own food (if you don’t count the cost of your own labor) by saving seeds and intercepting materials from waste streams (wood chips, lawn clippings, manure, used coffee grounds, etc) to “feed your soil.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of the problem is that new cars are bought mostly by fairly well-off individuals; with other people buying used cars. Economy cars sell poorly in the U.S.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok sues the US government over ban⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  China can’t arrest people in the U.S. The U.S. and state governments can.