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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
The problem described in the article is unsolvable, given that a mid-range desktop from a few years ago can easily clone a voice that's convincing enough and there are no guardrails to those. Some silly KYC laws might limit a highschoo
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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
Proton is already good enough that you don’t need SteamOS. I’m not that much of a gamer so my numbers are hardly representative, but about 90% of video games I tried ran with zero issues through Heroic Launcher and GE-Proton. The ability to
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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
Given the nightmarish nimby gridlock I’m less and less convinced it’s a good thing. I’d rather have people mad about windmills being eyesores than be perpetually chained to oil and gas for energy, as an example. I’m also not a fan of endles
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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
> I don't think many consumers (outside of hardcore games) could tell the difference between the graphics of a game from 10 years ago to the graphics from a game of today My half blind aunt could probably tell the difference between
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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
Benchmarks look really promising. Suspiciously good, even. I guess we’ll see soon enough. My question to previewers: how are the guardrails for random joe that wasn’t personally blessed by the ai pope to access the non-nerfed model? Fable i
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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
> when it was really just Google falling behind the same way it did with Tensorflow, Angular and GCP Not sure I agree. Angular fell behind in popularity but was (is? unsure atm) still eminently usable. I gave gemini a test drive recently
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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
While I have no experience with it personally (no interest in image gen) my aunt was raving about current chatgpt image model for "restoring" / working with old photos - sharpening, changing some small details like ill-fittin
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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
Because the market pays less for DDR4 than for HBM (or DDR5), and since HBM is heavily modified, vertically stacked DRAM, it competes for the same raw inputs and fab space than DDR4 used. If I can produce DDR4 for modest profit or HBM for a
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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
> sunlight causes most of the heat issues; cloudy days are unlikely to be extremely hot > solar panels convert sunlight to electricity > AC converts electricity to cooler air indoors Ah, if only there was a way to solve those three
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by revolvingthrow 3mo ago
When the highest offices of the land are packed to the gills with liars and grifters and anyone with a brain can observe there’s no downside to such behavior, "just be honest" rings rather hollow
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by revolvingthrow 4mo ago
This is a real head scratcher. Unless this is a very short term action it seems to have only downsides for everybody: - people pay much more for US models than Chinese models because right now they're the best. Once they're no lon
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by revolvingthrow 4mo ago
>what's the timeline of the RAM shortage ending? Barring unusual market forces like Taiwan invasion the timeline to ending the acute shortage seems to be mid 2028. The AI still has plenty of money to burn and is the biggest driver,
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by revolvingthrow 4mo ago
Oof, that’s a ~20% increase across the entire lineup. Ram and storage are particularly expensive, as can be expected: mbp m5 pro $1700 -> $2000, m3 ultra $4000 -> $5300. To be expected, there’s only so much margin apple is willing to
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by revolvingthrow 4mo ago
People using google’s models: am I holding it wrong or are the guardrails really overtuned? I had the dubious pleasure of testing gemini of late and I kept running into refusals. How do I transfer a sim number from one provider to another?
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by revolvingthrow 4mo ago
The funniest thing about this post is not the fact that some people took it as anything but satire, but that it’s likely very close to what the true believers at Antrophic actually think. Ah, those wacky terrorists and their non-aligned mod
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by revolvingthrow 4mo ago
I subscribed (with some distaste) to the $20 tier to check out fable. I got two refusals in a row on innocuous tasks, then ran out of quota halfway through the third one. Truly, the future is here.
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by revolvingthrow 4mo ago
After saying for weeks of how Mythos is in a league all of its own you’d think it was a bit more than the usual iterative few % on the benchmarks (and even more guardrails as a bonus). IPO gonna IPO, I suppose.
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by revolvingthrow 4mo ago
Why learn to read and write when everyone carries a computer capable of TTS? Why learn anything when your pocket computer has access to AI doing the thinking much better than the average highschooler and has 100x the knowledge?
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by revolvingthrow 4mo ago
I’m not meeting with friends to work on our speeches, I’m meeting friends to do friends stuff. Go join toastmasters if you want to do work stuff as a fun pasttime.
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
Amusing that just when the big three AI providers from US raise prices significantly, even for the mini models, you’ve got a Chinese model slashing their already-cheap offer by 75%. Not to mention you can run this model on your own hardware
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
Semi-related: has the rate of published exploits picked up as if late, or is it simply the fact that there’s hype around ai as security tool (offense or defense) so it’s simply in the news more often? Feels like there’s something new every
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
A local Answer Machine is the dream, especially when the internet is decaying and generally on its last legs, but the hardware requirements seem like a huge mountain to climb. Things are progressing tremendously - deepseek v4 flash is very
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
Is it possible to dual-boot on android? It sounds defeatist but I no longer believe it’s possible to change course - the increasingly authoritarian governments, google and most moneyed interests are all on the same side, so it’s just a matt
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
Regional pricing makes sense for products that don’t have ongoing costs or where most of the input cost can be offset by local labor. You’re not buying server racks nor electricity at 1/3 of the price to serve poorer markets
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
Given the topic and the fact llm providers charge global rates, the absolute take-home money is much more relevant. Even if you live like a king on $1000/mo, 5.5 pro is still $200.
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
Boomers love slop. Even when they know it’s ai (and it can be increasingly difficult to tell even for people who don’t struggle to send an email) they love it almost as much as they love political ragebait, and they love political ragebait
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
Damn, those li-ion sure seem like a bad long-term solution. Very convenient that you use lifepo4 for at-home battery storage, and either lifepo4 or possibly sodium for grid scale. Inverters aren’t a problem. China produces roughly half of t
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
If openai / anthropic / google were the only game in town then yea, we’d already be paying 5x as much as we do. But local models are so close to sota that it just isn’t going to happen. If I’m a lawyer getting billed $500k/yr
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by revolvingthrow 5mo ago
Eh. Those results would be noteworthy if it was a a MoE. A 120B dense? Firmly in meh territory.
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by revolvingthrow 6mo ago
I used (and will continue to use) most of those. Quick rules of thumb: - markdown is .txt with just a tiny bit of syntactic sugar/syntax highlighting, and you can export it to pdf or html - quarto is markdown-but-I-want-to-execute-code

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