danuker

Really it should be a "report as spam" option

I should be running my own LLM

I approve of this, but in your place I'd wait for hardware to become cheaper when the bubble blows over. I have a i9-10900, and bought an M.2 SSD and 64GB of RAM in july for it, and get useful results with Qwen3-30B-A3B (some 4-bit quant from unsloth running on llama.cpp).

It's much slower than an online service (~5-10 t/s), and lower quality, but it still offers me value for my use cases (many small prototypes and tests).

In the mean time, check out LLM service prices on https://artificialanalysis.ai/ Open source ones are cheap! Lower on the homepage there's a Cost Efficiency section with a Cost vs Intelligence chart.

Some services have the down thumb

Placebo and nocebo are strong effects. Even when the people taking placebos knows it, they still work.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83148-6

Perhaps JetBrains should reconsider AppCode, since Xcode only got this crappy recently. Apparently they didn't get the market share they had hoped for.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/appcode/2022/12/appcode-2022-3-re...

The consequence of efficiency is inflexibility.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794

Bit of a tangent, but I recently learned of "quiet eye" and how it is studied to improve aiming in sports.

Maybe Numbeo is more to your liking.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

I sure as hell wouldn't go there.

Don't even go close:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/belarus-divert...

I don't think they made up for it. They are training AIs off of personal data. The open stuff are a desperate red herring.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/meta_ai_training/

only the baggage a project needs

What projects need manual memory management? Those where the hardware costs are comparable to development/maintenance costs. That is much rarer than people think.

RAM is cheap, and few applications really need bespoke allocation. And it's not just a question of skill; even the most disciplined make mistakes. It's one of how much brainpower you want to allocate to... memory allocation.

Do you also consider Bitcoin a pyramid scheme?

That is when you realize "free market" means "our buddies at the top can charge whatever they want, and you may not compete". Same with healthcare, telecom, financial services...

Hell, even reading the policies and responding whether I'm covered (and where it says so/hints towards) would be a worthwhile service.

I remember being most productive at work when I was also indulging in Factorio. Maybe I should get back to both.

If there is no way to tell, then reasonable doubt will become much more prevalent.

And yet, there still are illegal immigrants.

I am particularly salty about HBO's Chernobyl.

Thunderfoot showed how misleading it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsdLDFtbdrA

No! I meant Cuba.

Still has a higher life expectancy than the US, though their GDP per capita is less than 14% that of the US.

If I've got a laptop and am looking for "normal" gaming experiences, rather than the latest AAA games, I'll load up an old or light game on it.

Why would I buy a separate piece of hardware taking up more space in my home and life? More money down the drain.

Sure, it's nice that it "just works", but so does `pacman -Sy xonotic`.

Which begs the question: why do people buy consoles at all? Why don't they buy PCs? I have never owned nor seen the attraction of a gaming console as opposed to a general PC.

they would be laughed off by the judge.

Still useful for taking advantage of employees not in the know.

maybe it was "steel manning": pick a particularly hard-to-beat baseline

Looks like VFINX returned 8.8% since 2022-05-01. How did you get to 18%?

https://totalrealreturns.com/n/VFINX,VBMFX,USDOLLAR?start=20...

My guess is induced demand. A CSAM user will want more, the more they get. Same as any addiction.

Maybe they're not ignoring it. They're just not attracting attention to the fact that they're pushing down the price of supremacy on human attention.

Been to both. The one in Romania had dusty stairways, and my nose went stuffy. Only the one in Poland had clean air.

I'd argue not just clarity, but correctness wrt. order of operations.

... says an unidentified entity serving you a website.