oceanplexian

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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
Price controls will screw over the most vulnerable consumers. Small businesses will offer lower prices to price sensitive or low-income consumers or repeat customers. Because despite what you will read about on Reddit, the owners are not ca
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
The author is saying that it's worth noting that their privacy is more important because they personally identify as a group with the same mainstream popularity as Coca Cola and Football. Nothing is being rubbed in anyone's face.
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
Because 71% is practically a supermajority. That's the opposite of persecution. "I'm super special and worried about my privacy because I have a lifestyle that's as completely mainstream as Coca Cola and Football" i
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
> That includes gay people like me, who could hardly have admitted under our names to how we lived our lives for most of America’s history, as well as many other groups with minoritarian lifestyles While the points made are completely va
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
> Benchmarks are toys, real world use is vastly different, and that's where they seriously lag. I'm not disagreeing per-se but if you think the benchmarks are flawed and "my real world usage" is more reflective of mod
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
> And the fusion with a one-party state government that doesn’t tolerate huge swathes of thoughtspace being freely discussed That would be a great argument if the American models weren’t so heavily censored. The Chinese model might dodge
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
All these number are peanuts to a mid sized company. A place I worked at used to spend a couple million just for a support contract on a Netapp. 10 years from now that hardware will be on eBay for any geek with a couple thousand dollars and
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
There are a lot of companies who would gladly drop half a million on a GPU to have private inference that Anthropic or OpenAI can’t use to steal their data. And that GPU wouldn’t run one instance, the models are highly parallelizable. It wo
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
You can just use Claude Code with a few env vars, most of these providers offer an Anthropic compatible API
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
Here comes another post reminding me of the SF crowd with Peter Pan syndrome and delusions of grandeur. Maybe if they weren’t such insufferable assholes, the rest of the country wouldn’t dig on California so much. Software is fun, but lots
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
Technically incorrect, Supreme Court precedent has held that aliens are entitled to lesser First Amendment protections while seeking to enter the United States. You could be on US Soil (i.e. entering customs at an airport) and those protect
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
Well duh, the purpose of Privacy and Security was never Privacy or security. The purpose is to lock you into Apple's ecosystem and prevent you from installing your own software.
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
Putting a UPS in a rack is a prosumer/corporate IT thing, it’s not done in real datacenters. They typically have their own UPS in another room and multiple power lanes. And it’s going to be much more reliable than a laptop battery.
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
Well, it exists, but it exists if you’re willing to buy server hardware on eBay, hustle to get old parts working together, negotiate a good deal on a cabinet, get space from ARIN and announce it and so on. There are probably 10-50x cost eff
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
They’ve also started auto-translating and cross posting Japanese X content, which has been the coolest cross-cultural thing I’ve experienced on the Internet since I started using IRC.
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
HN is still great but it’s in decline, I still hear about AI developments on r/LocalLlama and X sometimes weeks before they make it here if even at all. And all the commentary here is negative, skeptical and mean. It’s like Slashdot wh
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
We already have this in Utah with Utopia with 53% coverage across the state (A state 5 times the size of Switzerland) so kind of weird the post is acting like Europe is special or something. And there are lots of ISPs to choose from, severa
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
> my belief that it is intended to be little more than a quick, dirty, and vainglorious Apollo repeat by a failing government. If the USA successfully sends people to the Moon, achieves all of NASA's technical goals, and the astrona
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
Pretty sure the US does not buy energy from natural gas pipelines to Russia, neither are we shutting down all of our Nuclear Power Plants (like Germany) because it's green to import more gas ? As an American I couldn't tell you wh
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
Vaccines, Mobile Phones, Internet, GPS (How do you think container ships navigate), High yield seeds/fertilizers and the Green Revolution, Weather Satellites, I could go on. It's really getting tiring repeating this stuff over and
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
Global rates of poverty are 83% lower than they were in 1969 when we landed on the moon. So actually, millions of lives have massively benefited from science and technology. To be cynical in the face of all that is a personal take, not a re
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
At least the US still has energy infrastructure, while the EU is forced to financially support Dictators in Tehran and Moscow to keep their economy from collapsing.
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
Correction: 350,000 years being riddled with parasites, fending off wild animal attacks, and avoiding being eaten alive by cannibals when your tribe runs out of food.
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
> This administration doesn't do things because of deep understanding, it does them because of gut reaction. Do you think that the overwhelming tactical success in Venezuela, or the basically flawless decapitation strikes in the ope
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by oceanplexian 6mo ago
> (The) Output was coherent but its ‘style’ was very boring and overtly inoffensive, which was (and still is) a clear limitation of the technology. The style isn’t a limit of the technology, it’s a limit of the lobotomized models from Op
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by oceanplexian 7mo ago
I’m a frequent flier and flown into all of the above, the ones with TSA issues have been perpetually mismanaged under the best conditions, it’s not even remotely surprising that they are having issues under pressure.
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by oceanplexian 7mo ago
I have ADS-B in my airplane and can see everything on the ground on a pretty map as if it were literally a video game. I can see landing aircraft in realtime while holding short or crossing a runway. The emergency responder should have had
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by oceanplexian 7mo ago
These things don’t have Flash Attention or either have a really hacked together version of it. Is it viable for a hobby? Sure. Is it viable for a serious workload with all the optimizations, CUDA, etc.. Not really.
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by oceanplexian 7mo ago
It will work fine but it’s not necessarily insane performance. I can run a q4 of gpt-oss-120b on my Epyc Milan box that has similar specs and get something like 30-50 Tok/sec by splitting it across RAM and GPU. The thing that’s less us
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by oceanplexian 7mo ago
Delta is still stubbornly refusing to adopt Starlink. I've got status with them and have started booking with other airlines b/c it doesn't matter how nice the seats are if you can't get any work done. Most airline reven

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