SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 29d ago
Even at 30 t/s, 3.8 thinks so long, even on medium, it still takes 3x or more longer than any cloud model, in my testing.
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
You've listed off a bunch of examples of why it would work, but none of them do what you've suggested or anything like it. None of them try to force a date to happen on penalty of a large fine for not showing up. None try to get
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
That doesn't really track, though. Even tiny models, like Gemma 4, have coherent prose. I know Opus isn't being quantized that small. It seems like it must be some kind of...I dunno. Maybe over-fitting toward some user metric that
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Just another normal day of someone blogging about crimes and other immoral acts they have committed using LLMs. The LLM didn't send fake invoices, it didn't send spam, a person did. And, the tool they used to do it was an LLM. Thi
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
My policy is that if someone doesn't understand the tool they've vibe-coded well enough to make the documentation coherent, they don't actually use it, and so I probably shouldn't use it either.
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Opus can't speak coherent English anymore. I dunno what happened, but it's not speaking a language humans can understand. It uses unusual shorthand and slang, which it seems to use pretty consistently, so it's probably possib
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
"Instead it’s the equivalent of a trusted friend or relative setting you up with someone they know will suit you." A random dating app is a "trusted friend or relative" now? Sorry, that's not a reasonable expectatio
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Have you looked at the CPU performance of Apple Silicon lately?
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
"I had the idea that the way this could work is a totally automated match making system akin to Uber where you are penalised for not accepting matches made by the system. You don’t have to get married or anything, but if you don’t both
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
I can't speak for the person you've asked, but, I have an M5 Macbook Pro and Asahi Linux only recently got support for M3 Macs, and that support is marked WIP on most features: https://asahilinux.org/docs/plat
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
I do most of my work in the terminal, so the Finder is less of an issue than it would be otherwise. I like for the desktop environment to be nice, but I don't necessarily need it for much more than managing the browser and terminal w
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
My most recent laptop purchase was a Macbook Pro, because the price/performance is just so lopsided with the price of memory pushing everything up to Apple-like prices, it didn't make sense to buy an x86 laptop. But, coming from L
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
They're solving that problem. Look at Spacex. They not only got the rules changed for fast-tracked inclusion in Nasdaq and Russell indexes to pump the price on their garbage asset, they changed the rules so insiders could bail early. I
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
I mean when Anthropic made Fable sabotage the work of folks who they believed were working on competing products, by silently degrading performance. They backtracked after pushback from users, making it an explicit downgrade to Opus.
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
I assumed it was an AWS outage, and AWS is experiencing problems, but Gemini is also experiencing outages and I assume Google is not using AWS for Gemini. But, also, Claude has been working fine for me all morning.
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Yes, there is nuance. And, I have a Claude subscription partly because they showed more hesitation to provide surveillance tools for spying on US citizens than other vendors. They are not wholly free of ties to the US regime, but they'
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
I think where you and I disagree is on whether Anthropic is especially trustworthy on the "safety" front, more trustworthy than various other labs, especially those that produce open models, for example. I simply don't trust
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Security vulnerability capability is not the only thing they're scare-mongering about. They're the biggest purveyors of the, "We think the little guy in the computer who is made of algebra might be a real live boy and he migh
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Anthropic/Amodei have been the most alarmist about model safety, so multiple things can be true. A lot of tech companies avoided scrutiny by sending bribes to Trump (naked corruption is bad, I'd rather nobody do that), Anthropic d
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Without backups, odds are good it was going to happen eventually, regardless of Claude's involvement. Yeah, it sucks, but humans make mistakes, too. And, sometimes disks fail. Anyway, people are far too trusting of their own ability to
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Round knobs are just a terrible idea. They never work comfortably with a mouse or touchpad, and are often an accessibility challenge.
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
When a page about a new GUI thing fucks around with well-defined behaviors, back-button, scrolling, widget interaction, I know I can't trust their judgement. We don't want the same things and it's best if I move on.
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Counterpoint: I hate VST GUIs. They're often skeuomorphic hell. They love fiddly round knobs which are terrible to control with a mouse or touchpad, and are bad for accessibility. They also tend to have a bunch of mystery meat navigati
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
C'mon, be real. Do you want to be the one to wade through a mountain of garbage by someone experiencing AI psychosis and thinking they've come up with a brilliant new idea to find something interesting and correct? The signal to n
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Refreshingly, no.
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
AFAIK, Fabrice Bellard has normal opinions.
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
"Opinionated" software sounds great until you find out the author has the stupidest opinions you've ever heard in your life.
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
That's also true. But one of the arguments of the "law and order" types is always that more police, and more aggressive police with more power to imprison people, reduces crime. A wealthy state like Texas has a lot of cops an
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
There are people with guns both in the rural areas and the urban areas, and capital punishment is not restricted to cases in rural areas (in fact, it's much more likely to be sought against black or brown defendents for crimes in urban
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by SwellJoe 1mo ago
Texas has among the highest crime rates in the country, 17th for violent crime, even worse for property crime. Given the wealth of Texas, having such high crime rates is even more embarrassing (crime and poverty go hand in hand, but Texas d

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