AbsurdCensor

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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
It's not sad, it's always been the case, and just expanding areas that are implementing it. It seems a lot of people here haven't travelled, or especially haven't travelled to 'restrictive' places in the past.
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Yep, travelling outside your country of origin, expect that your phone/laptop/ect is subject to search. Anything on you is, it's literally stated. Want to push against that? Sure, makes sense, but just carry a burner phone&#x
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
The US being the 'free-st' place on earth at anytime is quite the misnomer. Sure, you can be 'free' if you are white, wealthy, oh and land owning. Tale as old as time. Sure, you can protest, but many many other countries
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
> Don’t be a meat proxy. That's it in a nutshell. I think I need this up on my wall.
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
I want to use this as internal AI guidelines, I am so tired of people in my workplace simply copying and pasting whatever garbage AI gives them and expecting everyone to just go along with it and try to decipher what crap they were provided
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
You could say that same exact thing for the entire Industrial Revolution, but that doesn't mean we are going to destroy the looms even though some tried unsuccessfully.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Sure. Realistically you simply regulate them. Espresso martinis are already long a popular 'after dinner' cocktail with the assumption that you'll be buzzed from the caffeine and able to drive better.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
At least for the most part, if you are downloading from huggingface, you should be able to saturate your connection. I know I usually can pretty easily even with a 5gig connection at home.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
I am not sure references are easily faked. Especially in industries where there aren't a whole lot of references that someone is not going to know. "Hey Bob, I have this excellent candidate for the position you are looking for the
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Nah, no moral panic here. I don't see the reason to combine stimulants with depressants, you then just mask the underlying issues with both. Hence often the regulation of the combination.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Couple of rack mount batteries and roughly 5kw of solar panels. Feeds into a subpanel so I can flip it when I want a couple rooms of solar on the house, or hook a generator up if needed. Can't power the entire house, but works well for
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Strix Halo for me. If I am running something on my laptop, it's a much smaller usually around 12b model, but those are a bit less functional. I mean I think there is a a ROG FLow Z that has the Strix Halo setup, but that thing was supe
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Strix Halo as well. Bought it for $1,800 new on sale and shoved an extra 4tb drive into it. Been amazing for local AI. Maybe not the absolute fastest thing (usually around 30t/s depending on the task) but has been awesome for a local A
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Depends on how you are doing it. LM Studio and tool calling models can use the web, or you could go for something like Perplexica, or if you want to go real crazy, something like Hermes or OpenClaw.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Takes even less depending on your system. LM Studio or Lemonade and you are set up in minutes and now they can even tell you what models will fit with the memory you have.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
You don't need a 5090 to run local AI. A whole lot of people out there are doing it with Macs. Unified ram is the biggest thing.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Maybe not '0 investment and 0 commitment', but incredibly little depending on what you have laying around. It takes less than 5 minutes to download say LM Studio and an Open Model and as long as you have the hardware to support it
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Not OP, but I use it for a ton of smaller things. I have it hooked into Hermes and have been using it to help bulk rename my media folders so they all follow a common format, add titles that sort of thing which wouldn't be easy to &#x2
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Yeah, seems like the problem is alcohol + caffeine, and at least in the US, those combinations in a single drink have been banned (ie Four Loko)
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Meh, some people’s politics have very little to do with humanity and how society should be. In general, best approach is to avoid GRAPE topics in general.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
They were hired at a higher rate than anytime since the 90s. In the US they ballooned by almost 50%. So when you take layoffs in consideration, the US is still has 25% more programmers than it did prior to the pandemic. And looking at the h
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Certainly have. Patreon’s CEO isnt taking a salary and his comp package is estimated to be $250k. That’s sure going to save the salary of the almost 100 people, as long as they are making $2000 a year. Yes, there are outlier companies, but
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
I would agree with that. With so much economic uncertainty, it doesn’t make sense to hire people, and if someone is fired or quits, they aren’t replaced. The biggest change I have seen is lower raises and resets to base pay now that the pan
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
I work in research and that’s how we’ve been doing interviews for years. Still difficult to find qualified candidates, but better than doing it all online and hoping for the best.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
In my mind it’s simple, at least in tech it was massive over hiring during the pandemic that is being reduced. In many fields though such as science it’s due to the federal government. Anytime there is economic uncertainty there will be les
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
In tech at least in the US, there already has been a 20% reduction in jobs, because they were overhired by 200% during the pandemic. Plenty of bleed in the industry left and very little is because of AI.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Zero. Like in zero places would rent be less than a mortgage unless somehow the landlord was making 0, and then at that it would be the same price as a mortgage but without the risk of being locked in for 30 years.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
Yes and no to both parts. Mortgages often come with things like property taxes and insurance, both which go up over time, and often by significant amounts. These things also apply to rents, but are wrapped in. In many areas rents will rise
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
You know why a thank you works? It puts them back in your inbox. It shows professionalism and often genuine desire for the position. You sound like someone who most would absolutely dread to work with.
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by AbsurdCensor 2mo ago
At least my experience in the professional world, if the provided reference says anything negative about the interviewee it’s a massive red flag. Maybe you don’t think that way, but for every position I have ever posted you’ll get at least

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