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read_if_gay_
3y ago
running 70b on 24gb has been possible for months (so basically forever) it just got like 2x speedup now. the issue that it's a lobotomized ~2bit quant remains.
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
turbo is likely nowhere near 70b.
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
yes but capitalism bad!
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3y ago
and you’re missing the point. no one argued that it’s not worth making changes at the population level. gp argued that stuff becomes problematic when done en masse. my issue with that is, if you disallow en-masse $thing, who’s going to gate
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3y ago
>It's not moral or ethical, but it doesn't make you a bad person. When it's done en-masse, is encouraged, and corporations monetize it, is when it starts becoming a problem. >If something is not perfectly moral/eth
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3y ago
even the dude living in the woods is still having an impact on the ecosystem, which is defined as negative by this eco-extremist moral framework. if you take it to the logical conclusion, it just means that all forms of human life are immor
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3y ago
as a musician, did you ever stop to consider the ethical implications of the emissions created by your particular frivolous hobby?
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
then I'm sure you also believe the logical consequence that all graphical user interfaces are unethical as well due to frivolously wasted compute. out of interest, how did you make this post? with moral standards as high as yours, you
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3y ago
just a typical degrowther take downvoters: is the video game industry unethical for making billions of players expend exponentially higher compute (= emissions) for something as frivolous as slightly better graphics?
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
why do you care about privacy? i have nothing to hide why do you care about free speech? i have nothing to say
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3y ago
most people here hopefully also understood that the point was getting better windows, not closing them
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3y ago
sure you would, tough guy
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
why aren’t we trusting the science anymore?
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
sure, bavaria is as bad as egypt or saudi arabia for gay people, suuure god this place has gone down the shitter
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
that is exactly the point being made about saxony...
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3y ago
surely there are no confounders here
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
it also fits the smug atheist stereotype that you seem to believe you’re above it all
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
>I wrote a blog post promoting him a while back. That's about 2 weeks after the drama around PR 613, which you factually touted as "your work" in several different places.
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read_if_gay_
3y ago
As a private company, Reddit can do whatever they want. You can make your own Reddit if you want to. You are not entitled to a platform if you do not abide by the rules. You don't get to abuse the town square to further your own politi
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4y ago
> HN has been surprisingly me lately in the viewpoints people are willing to say out loud on a public forum. or at least minimally a few vocal commenters. Me too, except I conclude that HN has finally managed to somewhat pull their heads
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5y ago
Yeah, Solzhenitsyn has that too. Here's a famous excerpt. https://mbird.com/literature/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-on-the-l... Except the way he came to that reealization was through spending a good while in the gulag
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read_if_gay_
5y ago
True, some trips can get more deeply philosophiocal than you are comfortable with, but typically no matter what corner of philosophy you think yourself into, greater minds have been there and done that. For me for example it sparked some in
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5y ago
That realization is not unique to drugs. If this scares you stay away from reading Solzhenitsyn.
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5y ago
I think once the software reaches some critical mass of users it won’t suffer from this problem. So maybe you just use more niche software than me because to me lack of maintainers hasn’t been a problem in practice.
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read_if_gay_
5y ago
Unless the software is fairly niche it’s not uncommon. For example a better maintained fork of youtube-dl made front page just yesterday.
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5y ago
> That means that the developer has motivation to keep the software up to date. If you use OSS, anyone can keep the software up to date.
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5y ago
But Ubuntu is still in a fringe market. The discussion is about what would be if it were in a mainstream market.
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5y ago
GP probably conflated distro with DE, which is covered in the next paragraph in TFA, maybe shouldn't have stopped reading after all.
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5y ago
At the end of the day even if all devs collectively decide they won’t implement these features (which already is utopian), there will be someone in a more desparate position who would just be too glad to take the job. You may have to go l
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5y ago
> Quality people. A bit trigger happy with the ad hominem there considering you probably think of yourself as the rational side. > ivermectin From the first link: > The use of ivermectin, among others repurposed drugs for prophylax
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