SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
It kinda feels like Yegge is trying to start a cult. And, I just don't find that very interesting.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
The player community seems to hold the opinion it's the latter. Steam reviews are pretty dire. Worse, there really aren't a lot of players. Certainly not enough to cover Yegge's absurd number of Claude Max accounts.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
This study did not involve tea. Do you have links to studies showing herbal tea has similar effect? (Sincere question, I drink a lot of peppermint tea for its mild decongestant effects.)
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
A Mediterranean place I used to eat at weekly served a hibiscus mint (spearmint, though) tea. Pretty nice.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
"our brains also just being a big blob of simple biological weighted functions" Describing the human brain in terms of how LLMs work is an interesting rhetorical tactic. You don't know how the human brain works, nobody really
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
I hadn't even considered it, and we're in a much bigger mess than I'd thought if people are seriously discussing the idea. People really don't understand these things.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
While I was inclined to push back on the results, with Fable and Sol being so low, I have to admit I've also run into refusals several times since the latest models have arrived, and I've had to use Kimi K3 or DeepSeek to complete
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
The usage graphs indicate trust doesn't matter all that much. Nothing has been adopted by all of the software development industry faster or more thoroughly, except maybe git. I'm also highly suspicious of the motivations of Amode
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
I have a real CZ 101. And, I've implemented a synth engine that emulates it quite closely. But, I still want a modern Casio CZ. I just think it'd be neat. The sampler is cool, though.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
They ate American manufacturing's lunch and now China is eating theirs. The circle of life, or something. But, yeah, I have fond feelings for a lot of Japanese brands, not just electronics (my favorite car since childhood is a Nissan Z
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
Awesome. When I was researching the CZ 101 (still am, actually), I spent some time reading the MAME implementation, including the NEC upd933 chip emulation. I was going to say I'm surprised I didn't find your docs, but it looks li
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
According to what I can dig up, the original MSRP of the DX7 was $1995. The original MSRP of the Casio CZ 101 was $395. So, by my reckoning, the CZ has a higher collector value than the DX7 based on relative price change over the years. Edi
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
The prices are pretty similar to Yamaha DX series synths on eBay right now (starting at about $300 and going on up to $700 for working specimens, depending on model and condition).
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
They've also dipped their toes into guitar toys with the Dimension Shifter. They do seem to be kind of paying attention to the music market again, after decades away from it. So, I'll keep hoping for a really good CZ re-issue.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
There's not much to rolling one's own FM synth, either, and there are dozens of successful commercial products built on it.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
I don't think I buy that argument (that there aren't enough people interested in it). It's not quite in the ball park of something like the DX 7 or several of the better known analog synths, which have nearly all seen re-issu
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
They don't have far to fall in the synth world. Their current keyboard line has no synthesizers to speak of. But, also, they still have a keyboard line and relationships with music dealers, so presumably they wouldn't need to outs
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
Casio has been leaving a lot of money on the table in terms of nostalgia products. There's been a low rumble of demand for the Casio CZ series of synthesizers for a decade or more, and a bunch of non-Casio companies have cashed in on i
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
Switching from xhigh to medium roughly halved the time it took on a task for me. It's still a very verbose and long thinker, even so. It's hard to say for sure what the impact on output quality is at medium, but it seemed pretty c
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
The Blackwell and Strix Halo will be similar to each other and much slower than the number I'm getting on the dual V620 setup (I see about 10-15 t/s on my Strix Halo with this model at 8-bit quantization depending on context). Pre
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
And, the software side isn't finished being optimized, either. We've seen with Qwen 3.8 27B and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and GLM 5.3 that quite small models can pack a punch. Intelligence density will improve, efficiency of kernels
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
Update on this: When I enable tensor parallelism in llama.cpp, I see 25-33 t/s. With reasoning effort set to medium, Qwen 3.8 finished the same task that previously took 11 hours in a little over three hours, which is still more than t
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
In what way? If it's written by a human, as is still a thing someone can do, it can be copyrighted.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
You're just making up your own definitions of things. If the complete source is available and distributable under an OSI-approved license, it is absolutely Open Source. Accepting outside contributions is nowhere in the definition of Op
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
As long as it was proprietary, I could ignore it. Now, I guess I have to learn a little something about it.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
It researches what it doesn't know, just give it a web search tool. It searches unprompted, if it can. It's impressive.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
Somehow, I doubt you're an upholsterer.
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
So you pronounce it "a hexit" with a hard "h"?
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
A lot of kink participants are sensitive to oppressive language and try not to use it (outside of a consensual scene that includes it, perhaps). Consent culture is necessarily a culture that doesn't use slurs in daily public life, and
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by SwellJoe 2mo ago
What do you believe the word "force" means?

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