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AI labs have been doing "distillation attacks" against actual creators like artists and engineers since the beginning.

DeepSeek V4 Pro is only ~3-4x as expensive as Flash. It won't replace GPT-5.5 (nowhere near) but I've been using the $20 sub to punch through tough cases and use Pro for rest.

The fact that so many European green parties have been so strongly anti-nuclear was always a bit of a head-scratcher for me. It seems so dumb on so many different fronts. Goes to show the power of uninformed public, wildly misleading or actively lying stereotypes and scaremongering.

I get 150t/s peak, 120t/s avg with Qwen3.6 27B Q4 with a 4090 on Linux. Now that MTP has landed into llama.cpp.

Well if you discount the people China has killed and is killing within its borders, the number is definitely smaller. As well as another land empire called Russia.

You should read about the difference between a land empire and a sea empire.

Strange. I'm switching from Codex and Claude to Pi with Qwen3.6 27B local and Deepseek V4 Flash which is dirt cheap but powerful.

It's not democracy when it's not the votes that determine what government does, but money.

No, it doesn't miss the point. Different people have different interests. Knitting just hits more overlapping Venn diagrams than just one.

To people who aren't yet aware also: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

You are against private property rights? Because abolishing the right to owns things is the only way to prevent any form of capital accumulation.

Every unmaintained system degrades. That's next to a tautology. In my opinion, the base problem is modern technology itself that creates the capability for widespread wealth inequality and social fragmentation, without needing real labor or social bonds anymore.

Free market capitalism and corporatocracy are two opposite things. (Free markets don't exist without strong institutions and regulation)

The cure for high prices is high prices.

Only if you don't want or need any geopolitical gradient at all.

...because the point of surveillance was never to solve crime.

I don't see how that is related to my comment in any way.

...for Putin

Responsibility of intellectuals, or wise men/women, has always been to guide the tribe towards security, happiness and prosperity. Not to sow dissent inside the tribe by moralizing, while completely ignoring all the ills in other tribes.

So called "intellectuals" who do it just to further their own selfish goals, should not be awarded high ranking positions.

Mating is where humans are still closest to nature. Traffic has rules. Love has none.

Sex and violence intersect and interweave. It's not realistic to avoid any hurt.

You call it a straightjacket, I call it a railroad track for reliably delivering software.

Another argument for open source devices that are easily repairable and modifiable by the user (or a 3rd party shop).

"People in EU" are Hungary and Slovakia for pipeline gas and crude oil. Belgium, France and Netherlands for LNG. Most see a huge problem with it and pledge to phase it out by 2027.

Source: https://energyandcleanair.org/june-2025-monthly-analysis-of-...

Easier than with either cash or gold.

Moment of truth.

Yeah, this is one of those points that are likely to get drowned out in the noise, until they are too late to do anything about.

Because there's no obvious universal optimal data structure for heterogeneous N-dimensional data with varying distributions? You can definitely do that, but it requires an order of magnitude more resource use as baseline.

ComfyUI addon for Krita is pretty close I think.

It's very weird to me how some state entities think cannibalism will cure famine.