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by atwrk 8mo ago
I'm not really using them for coding (only played a little bit with minimax2.1), which is probably the most common use case here. I mainly use them for deep work with texts and deep research. My main criterion is privacy, both for lega
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by atwrk 8mo ago
Well a mac isn't really an alternative to a mac, or is it? ;) Personally I'm not interested in having a mac as I work with linux. And yes, they outperform them, but only if you ignore the price. When comparing what you get for ~$2
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by atwrk 8mo ago
Directly from Bosgame.com, for ~1.7k€ in December. I see it's at $2.2k / 1.9k€ now.
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by atwrk 8mo ago
A Strix Halo with 128GB unified memory is less than $2k and the more suitable alternative to a mac. I'm pretty happy with my device (Bosgame M5).
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by atwrk 8mo ago
The part you are leaving out is treating them solely as "illegals" means these people will avoid going to physicians to get their shots, because they would risk deportation. The obvious solution for better health for all would be
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by atwrk 8mo ago
There is no fundamental right to a particular business model. This wouldn't mean this type of content would disappear - for every single business producing such content there's a bunch of people doing the same for free. And then t
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by atwrk 8mo ago
Wero, the system the article is about, already is free for personal transfers and 0,15€ for commercial acounts (at least for my bank)
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by atwrk 8mo ago
Many comments here assume this is about some hypothetical future project. Just to be clear: Wero is already live and in use.
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by atwrk 8mo ago
I mean if you'd only care about the affiliate revenue, there probably are better niches to serve than citizens looking to protect themselves from tear gas.
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by atwrk 9mo ago
You just click "buy" with another provider? They just host the model for money, nothing more. To be clear: The models are open weights everyone can simply download, because many labs publish them as such. The providers in question
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by atwrk 9mo ago
OK but what if, staying in that analogy, you just have to wait 6-12 months to become as fast as Usain is right now?
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by atwrk 9mo ago
To add a few more details: llama.ccp now both has a web ui out of the box that even supports model switching, and easy model file downloads from huggingface using the cli: '-hf name_of_model:the_quant_you_want'.
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by atwrk 9mo ago
.gguf is the native format of llama.cpp and is widely used for quantized models (models with reduced float accuracy to reduce memory requirements). llama.cpp is the actual engine running the llms, ollama is a wrapper around it.
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by atwrk 9mo ago
"run" as in run locally? There's not much you can do with that little RAM. If remote models are ok you could have a look at MiniMax M2.1 (minimax.io) or GLM from z.ai or Qwen3 Coder. You should be able to use all of these wit
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by atwrk 9mo ago
Looking at the data it seems that uk industrial electricity is the most expensive before taxes, is that not correct?
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by atwrk 9mo ago
Wang explicitly said that support for Russia in the war is about diverting the US focus from China. If the US shows it doesn't care about Ukraine's future (and Wang told the truth), then I doubt Chinas support will stay as is for
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by atwrk 9mo ago
Pronouncing this out loud I wonder whether the name has been chosen on purpose for the marketing effect: "Where's my bitchat"
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by atwrk 9mo ago
The comments here seem to show a typical US-EU divide in perspectives, people talk past each other. Yes, mass-market low-margin consumer products (the US view) probably won't be produced much in the EU in the next few years. But much o
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by atwrk 9mo ago
no it means u_sama has (correctly, IMO) observed that the US has made it very clear in the past year that they don't regard the EU as an ally. I mean the openly talk about annexing EU territory right now .
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by atwrk 10mo ago
You have the Stored Communications Act, the Patriot Act, the Cloud Act, FISA, and so on. Most of which don't require warrants if it is about non-citizens. Which is then shared, through Five Eyes and similar agreements, with foreign cou
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by atwrk 10mo ago
That was kind of my point, I don't buy any of these surveillance appliances. But answering as a hypthetical roomba owner: As I am from the EU, this new ownership would actually be better for me. The US already mandates spying with devi
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by atwrk 10mo ago
So the actual problem is the "feature" set of the vacuum cleaners, not the nationality of the new owners, right?
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by atwrk 10mo ago
Effective corporate tax rates were between 12 and 14% for the US, with some of the biggest corporations bordering 0%.
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by atwrk 10mo ago
BTW this also works the other way: I find myself to avoid US products more and more because they tend to come with inbuilt obsolescence, or, for digital products, with dark patterns preventing subscription cancelling.
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by atwrk 10mo ago
$100 put into S&P 500 in 1975 would be about $7500 today, or about $1250 in 1975 dollars. $100 put into gold in 1975 would be about $2600 today, or about $440 in 1975 dollars. S&P 500 would have had 3x the returns of gold.
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by atwrk 10mo ago
I find it very telling that both Samsung and SK Hynix already stated that they don't plan to expand capacity - officially to prevent overcapacity in the future. It would also be plausable that both doubt OpenAI will follow through with
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by atwrk 11mo ago
This is about international relations. You won't get any insight into it if you reduce any point you don't like to argumentative metaphors. Even within the framework of (structural) realism so popular in contemporary US politics
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by atwrk 11mo ago
No. I pointed out that both the "by force" statement for China and the "Taiwan doesn't want" statement are so oversimplified that they became factually incorrect. The "logic" is your inference and neithe
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by atwrk 11mo ago
Both points are not really true. For the China part: Yes, the "by force" part certainly exists as a position, in competition to the peaceful unification approach. It's important to keep in mind, though, that the confrontative
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by atwrk 11mo ago
How many crashes per mile for Waymo etc. would be the more interesting metric - if the competition has better numbers there is no excuse for risking people's safety with inferior tech

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