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by mft_ 3mo ago
> If you want to make me responsible for the fate of Germany, make me chancellor, or get off my back. Suggesting that you’re not responsible for your opinions because you don’t have the ultimate power to change the country? Don’t be chil
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by mft_ 3mo ago
The indigenous Swiss have the same attitude; it's just that in the major cities and companies, the concentration of English-speakers is so high, it's not such a problem.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
You seem to be completely missing (or avoiding?) the point. It is widely recognised that Germany is one of the most at-risk countries in the world regarding its aging population, low birth-rate, and need for skilled workers for its economy.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
Eh, it’s mostly a combination of conservative anti-digitalisation plus low-key tax avoidance. “Privacy” is a straw man argument.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
Individual Germans on the whole are very efficient, possibly because they have to be to survive the awful sclerotic bureaucracy in Germany . The country is a Darwinian training system. Possibly.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
There's a spectrum of possible explanation, from "this is a model training artifact which for now they correct via the harness" through to "this is deliberate, and creates a constantly moving target to make third-party h
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by mft_ 3mo ago
If we take the noise about Mythos' capabilities as read, then releasing it freely into the world could result in chaos, as attackers find myriad new vulnerabilities and use them, and code owners frantically hunt for them and fix any th
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by mft_ 3mo ago
Higher CO2 vs. free cat access at 4:17am. No win scenario!
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by mft_ 3mo ago
No, he’s running GLM 5.2, which is closer to SOTA.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
It has lower memory bandwidth than most comparable Macs.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
There are browser plugins to ensure you only ever get old Reddit. That said, now that Reddit seems to be going down the age verification/Persona path, its days are probably numbered with lots of old users.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
Yes. It would occasionally work once or twice, then stop. Just wasn't reliable. I have no idea what I was doing wrong, but: 1) I've installed -> played -> struggled with trains -> gave up and uninstalled the game about
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by mft_ 3mo ago
Having read what you wrote several times, I'm not sure whether you're agreeing or disagreeing with me. FWIW I agree with you 100% - we should judge "evil" on clear intent, impact, actions, etc.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
I agree that Nestle's actions are evil, based on an assessment of their actual actions and not just the fact that they have a strategy to deal with competition. Let's go back a step. You said Anthropic are "not trustworthy&
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by mft_ 3mo ago
I couldn’t get them to work reliably at all in an automated manner. I think I beat the level that needed them by mostly manually operating them, and then got fed up. > Since 2.0 it's quite straightforward using interrupts So this ti
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by mft_ 3mo ago
If we define evil as a company having a strategy to deal with a competitive threat, then many/most companies in the world are evil.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
AFAIK Apple’s “services” revenue is a little over a quarter of their total; everything else is hardware, dominated by the iPhone. Mac hardware is <10% of total revenue. iPhones are largely locked to their App Store so no risk there. Macs
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by mft_ 3mo ago
> …they're not trustworthy. The CEO has recently started taking a stance against local AI. That must tell you something: local AI is the future. Or… just that open-weights AI is getting good enough to present a reasonable level of t
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by mft_ 3mo ago
I was at risk, but weirdly I can never get automated trains to work, and this blocked my progress. And then I discovered Mindustry. Which is crack-squared, for me at least.
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by mft_ 3mo ago
You're totally right. :) That's just big corporate politics. Ever been involved in a 'lessons learned' exercise? Everything gets politically massaged so as not to upset individuals or functions, so that by the end of i
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by mft_ 3mo ago
> But with digital intangibles in the cloud, none of this holds true. Your "purchase" belongs to Chad and it's in Chad's garage: > https://m.xkcd.com/1150/ > So how can you be sore when Cha
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by mft_ 3mo ago
Eh, it's less fixed than you describe. If there is a higher level mandate or incentive to switch, people absolutely will - for example, if a government decides en masse to switch away from one OS or platform. [0]. This will likely be
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by mft_ 3mo ago
(I'm not one of the people you're speaking of with a 128gb M5 but) if you want to run one of the medium-sized open-weights models (Qwen 27b, 35b, Gemma 4 26b, 31b) or larger, you get into an interesting optimisation space. * yes,
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by mft_ 3mo ago
I wasn't making a comparison or a value judgement. We're obviously both aware that other countries (and blocs, like the EU) also play the same game. Rather, I was simply noting that the US' "freedom" branding that
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by mft_ 3mo ago
Gotcha. Agree that it's likely that GLM 5.2 could replace Claude/GPT in many easy-to-mid-level tasks. Given there's a (lot of?) uncertainty around the confidentiality of A/O amongst businesses even just looking at ado
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by mft_ 3mo ago
Maybe we have different definitions of 'normie'. I'm talking about people who aren't in IT, and who are maybe just learning to use LLMs for aspects of their daily work. These people only know of the big three models, at
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by mft_ 3mo ago
If the belief that open-weight/Chinese models depend significantly on distillation of the latest frontier models is correct, then presumably the gap will stabilise to the minimum time required for extraction of meaningful data (from
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by mft_ 3mo ago
100% agree. My impression is that the open-weight models have been drawing close-to-level at coding tasks, while Anthropic and OpenAI have been putting large amounts of effort into developing their models' abilities in other domains: l
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by mft_ 3mo ago
Your comparison falls apart in the first few words: > USA, a country that known for the land of freedom The US might say it's the land of freedom, but it's been playing the game of economic protectionism for centuries. This
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by mft_ 4mo ago
I assume it would be feasible for someone else to write an iOS keyboard relying on this model?

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