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by noir_lord 29d ago
Weird it highlights Partial Function Application as the first on the list but doesn't mention that one of its killer features will be with the pipe operator added in 8.5 (which without it is just a single-parameter callable). That&#x27
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by noir_lord 29d ago
Probably better than a signature for the high end fancy ones given that mine never looks the same from one to the next, a stamp made of natural material is going to be more self-similar across impressions than my signature or most peoples I
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by noir_lord 29d ago
Some of us are citizens of what where previously world powers, even then it wasn't great for the average person living there (understating it wildly). When people go on about a Golden Age, I'm the awkward one who asks "Golden
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by noir_lord 29d ago
It requires general intelligence and we don't even have a good understanding of how our's works or a particularly good way of quantifying it. The counter argument is of course maybe you don't need to understand our kind of in
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by noir_lord 29d ago
LLM use has been polarised like everything else seemingly is. I have no issue with people using them to do things they could already do themselves as an efficiency thing and if they check and understand the result. Unfortunately that seems
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by noir_lord 29d ago
It's not an insurmountable problem if they don't have compatibility on standards It'll just take time to reach an agreement both sides can accept and it's in some ways simpler than something like the EU-Mercosur agreemen
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by noir_lord 29d ago
Trump is a symptom not the disease, when he's gone the people who supported him and voted for him still exist and another Trump-like figure is almost inevitable given they've basically ploughed and planted that field to grow the n
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by noir_lord 29d ago
Good, if the middle power democracies don't align/work together they are going to get torn apart in the struggle between the US and China.
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by noir_lord 29d ago
> To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no accoun
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by noir_lord 29d ago
> Asahi Linux folks are clearly more conservative and erring on the side of caution I mean they are working around and on hardware controlled by a nearly 5 trillion market cap behemoth who has resources on the level of some nation states
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Still supports a proper taskbar, one per screen with windows from only that screen on that screens taskbar (that's just how I've done it since the 90's but it's a must have because I think in terms of screen relations to
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
There is a point where those two lines do cross but with them effectively subsidising token cost by burning debt, it's further away than it will be at some point. That said I use local only models purely because I don't want to
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
It's just the way we wash the language when talking about the ultra wealthy. If you are poor and mentally ill, you are crazy, if you are rich you are eccentric. If you are poor and a felon you can't vote, if you are rich and a fel
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
More and more buses in my local mass transit system have moved to EV's (these specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_GB_Kite ) as they age out their older buses and build out the infrastructure they need
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
You'd need to spent ~£500K+ to get a studio in Kensington these days that isn't a shoebox. One listing is 410K for 280 sq/ft coming out at £1464 per square foot, almost exactly 10x the price per sq/ft we paid for our h
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
I do wonder if they are actually on the same level as was used in WW2 (which is what I'm assuming you are referring to and the routine use (by both sides but especially the Axis side/Germany)). SV has always had it's weird
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
It also makes the assumption that China's progress will slow down in lockstep and I don't really see any reason why they would , Regulatory capture in the US would actually be an opportunity for them to catch up further outside
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
I think the image in the article is AI generated/edited, zoom (enhance enhance enhance) and look at the the model numbers, it has some weird artefacts.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Why post what just looks like slop?.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
That’s not strictly true, they officially support some of them. My 7900XTX is supported, I run local models via rocm all the time recently, mostly to play with/experiment on, Vulcan works as well and for some models works better (or th
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
I did, Muse came close but what impressed me about Qwen is it’ll push back if it thinks it’s right even when it isn’t, I can work with that, Muse tended to flip between states too easily/too much. It is a good model but Qwen (at least
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Used Cinnamon (on Fedora) for several years, it’s an excellent DE in the classic (and therefore best) style. Fedora KDE is hard to beat on the features that matter to noir_lord scale though, it’s always good to have choices.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
The weird thing is that Ubuntu manages to sit in some unholy local minima. Debian rock stable, changes slowly and carefully. Fedora rock stable, changes rapidly and constantly. Ubuntu is just painful. Note: this is on the desktop, I just us
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Qwen 3.8 is both impressive in what a 27B model can do and then hilariously stupid the next second, literally smashing into the wall repeatedly when the door is 3ft to the right. That said it's the first local modal useful enough to ke
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
More specifically a very large number of dodgy companies spend a relatively small amount each but in aggregate it's a lot of money. Google has no interest in policing that because money and won't until they are forced to and sin
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> It's the latter part that was considered shady Because it was shady, deception is deception.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Same - 72 million if it gets you a government favourable to your interests is a cheap price for the kind of resources those famously altruistic billionaires can throw around. In the same week as the undercover documentary where one of the s
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Except A) he said none of that B) it's not actually relevant to what he did say. There is a vast range of ways you can regulate a corporation and only some of them qualify as communism . Germany has worker councils, it's still
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Regulation of corporations and the internal/external harms they do isn't communism. That's a hilarious leap.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
The worrying thing for me as a citizen of a European country (though one not now in the EU) is that we appear to be on a similar path though perhaps a little further back on it. It is not normal for a hard right/far right party to get

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