Arn_Thor

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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Excellent. I appreciate what you've done there!
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Color me surprised. But good on them!
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
It befuddles me too. My understanding is that government spending is approved by congress and that all organizations except the Pentagon have passed their audits. This is not to say that there isn't _some_ waste, fraud and abuse in bet
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I’d like one source please
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
No, it won't. But that's not the point I was making
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Except I can run R1 1.5b on a GPU-less and NPU-less Intel NUC from four-five years ago using half its cores and the reply speed is…functional. As the models have gotten more efficient and distillation better the minimum viable hardware for
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Touché
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
In my 10 years in HK, including months worth of weekly language classes, “n” and “l” were treated utterly interchangeably. Not to say that it’s not worth the effort in some contexts to make a distinction, but if the aim is to get a function
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I’m not paying a cent but I see AI buttons and ads for it all over my OS and software interfaces. Let’s just say this renaming makes me think that’s not about to improve anytime soon.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I haven't sat down and quantified the difference, no. But it doesn't matter if the number is 2x, 10x, or 100x. The point remains the exact same: to not get personally offended when people point out our privilege. They are not, and
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I'm not in great disagreement with that argument you put forward on behalf of Reed. I'd just say that the many causes of social justice go far beyond who gets to sit at the table with the other capital owners. I'm not so inte
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I see. I have indeed seen a handful of comments espousing those views through the years, but they're few and far between. To me the "class-only" framing is rather old fashioned, and often voiced by those at the top of the pec
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
And there's the rub. You feel like your hard work is dismissed. To be honest, that's a framing problem. I think you misunderstand what people are saying. Take me as an example: I'm in a very enviable and privileged position.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
By the time I gained political sentience, PC referred to perceived limits on speech and conduct that went at the expense of current or historically marginalized groups. All these things have been derided as "politically correct" i
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
> If an unapologetic Marxist is attacking "Woke", that really disproves the contention that it is purely some right-wing bogeyman Except, no. A concept can be multiple things at once, we are complex thinking beings. Woke is all
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
It's funny how we're going back to centuries-old architectural practices. In the before times we didn't have climate control. In the middle times we had climate control and didn't have to worry about the energy usage. An
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
It is handled with climate control, at great energy cost. It's all fine for the person in the office, less so where fossil fuel is burned to generate electricity.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Another catch is heat management in summer (and much of spring and autumn). The problem gets dramatically worse closer to the equator, of course. I love the natural light of a glass structure, but with the abundance of high-quality LED ligh
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I'm saying the fear people feel is real, and "valid" in the sense that the rest of us must recognize it, not dismiss it. Only when we meet people in the fearful place they're at, and they feel heard, can we start to try
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
You're entirely ignoring the fact that it is effective in getting people clean. That is the outcome we're trying for, and achieving with this policy. The fact that you're paying for a drug user to be warm and safe may stick i
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I think perhaps your biases are showing in the language you deploy (junkeis, free to destroy). You're asking for evidence that's readily available, if you want it, from studies to meta studies. The evidence ranges from conclusive
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Whether the very real fear of the homeless/mentally ill/drug addicted is justified and rational is a big elephant in the room.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
This point of yours resonates with me (paraphrased): if we assume that inaction is not an option, the conversation can progress to solutions.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Any frame gen gains don’t improve latency so the usefulness is reduced
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
We’re trying to explain to you that they’re NOT interchangeable. What you’re doing is applying a false syllogism, but in question form. Let me illustrate with an example in a statement form: “A rock can’t fly. You can’t fly, therefore you a
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Except in many, if not most, cases a company’s inefficiencies IS your problem. The perfectly informed rational consumer doesn’t exist. We’re forced to buy what’s on the shelves that we can afford, and the water in the pipes and power on the
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Let me quote you: "Are you suggesting there is no possible way to make the government more efficient in a way that reduces costs by some significant amount?" The poster said no such thing.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I think they were being sarcastic…
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
That is a straw man, and an ugly one at that. Every system has inefficiencies, including the government. The fallacy is to assume that businesses inherently have less inefficiencies than government and/or that a government’s cost/
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Those people are so exhausting. I work with one.

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