seanmcdirmid

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by seanmcdirmid 1mo ago
The swiss system mostly works because the people are disciplined, believe in lots of self responsibility, they actually have militias with mandatory participation (like America's 2nd amendment, but the first clause isn't flavor te
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by seanmcdirmid 1mo ago
I loved my Dyson but switched to Chinese robovacs because, even if stick vacs made cleaning the floor easy, I still sucked at consistency. Now I have three robot vacuums because my townhome is three floors.
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by seanmcdirmid 1mo ago
Dreamers aren’t (by birth) citizens because they aren’t born here, they just came here at very young ages.
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by seanmcdirmid 1mo ago
Poor people pay payroll taxes, which usually is flat and doesn’t have a big deduction. At $50k, a single person is paying just as much if not slightly more in payroll as they are in income tax.
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by seanmcdirmid 1mo ago
Moderate, business-oriented Democrats and Republicans would all agree with you, BUT these are a group of people that both sides of the party are railing against so they have basically no influence at this point. Even Obama, people selective
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
They did vote to ban minarets, which was odd. Also, the Swiss are fairly conservative in the classical personal responsibility sense, which makes for good citizen voters. They do this through an aggressive policy of education and assimilati
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Tariffs are very populist and both sides have some amount of support for them, so I don’t see them going away. If anything, the democrats are less libertarian than the republicans (historically, before Trump), so I just don’t see them liber
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
It’s called dummy-mandering, when you try to create more districts that are less safe with tighter margins, but you get the math wrong or sentiment changes by the time the election comes.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Are 3.5, 3.6 any better? It is pretty flaky, Deepseek v4 flash is more reliable than 3.7 flash at least.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
DDR-5 is still expensive, at least until China can get more production online.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Uncensored models are also popular reasons, although it’s more of a niche.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Alaskans actually prefer Denali, even the republicans didn’t want the name changed back again. The state of Alaska itself officially adopted Denali as the official name in 1975, long before Obama made the political statement you are halluci
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
The article feels a bit late since we have come full circle: OOP attempted to force natural language ontologies into deterministic code, while LLMs can now process natural language ontologies directly. Prose has become the source code human
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
I'd much rather there be a pre-tax on loans rather than a wealth tax to prevent premature liquidation. The former makes sense: if you borrow money, you should pre-pay the tax you would pay once you pay off the loan, or at least some fi
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
supply and demand is about as basic as things get, and its never been proven wrong.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
International control hasn’t solved the nuclear weapon problem, the best we can do is threaten to invade people who try to develop them and don’t already have them. Once you join the club, you are in and cant be kicked out. I’ve considered
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Assuming China makes progress only because they copy the west is really arrogant. And it would require strict international control as you say, a world government that isn't going to happen anytime soon.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Stealing an EV battery is harder than stealing a cat.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
That would be like stopping nuclear weapons. You can totally do that, but the other people in the world who compete with you probably won’t.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
https://huggingface.co/Jundot/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-oQ6-fp16-mtp is my favorite right now (and nothing else is even close), you should be able to get 80-90 tok/sec enabling MTP and disabling turboquant. Supposedly the 6
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
You need to look at where those nuclear plants are being built, in the east, and where the new energy is out west that makes it appear that nuclear is falling behind. Having power generation that doesn’t need to be transported via UHV lines
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Buyers bid higher because sellers are giving up their low property tax, not because the buyer will have a low property tax in a decade or two. Sellers are hesitant to sell because they are giving up a lot, California had to pass a special l
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
With rent control, you are limited in how you can increase rent later, so it’s to your benefit to let the apartment sit vacant longer until you get a desirable rent. Without rent control, because you can just increase rent next year by what
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Oh, now I remember: Tianfu Tong (Chengdu) isnt supported, and I didn’t spend anytime in Shanghai or Beijing on my last trip.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
128k, 256k is also possible, but my tok/s drops off and the performance isn’t good.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
It’s totally possible, but would seriously need to not use much parallelism, and definitely not going to use the GPU much. So it would be really slow, but possible.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
for 3.8? I can get 40 tok/sec on it (M3 Max 64GB), but I don't use it because I can get 90 tok/sec with 3.6 MoE (MTP + 6 bit quant), and I don't notice any quality improvements for my tasks using a dense model. Did you a
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Thats interesting, but it seems most subway systems are still QR code based? Anyways, I’ll try to see if I can get that to work next time I go to China.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
Thanks, I forgot about. I have an iPhone so didnt have to worry about the incompatibility with Android. If it makes android users feel any better, here in Seattle orca cards can go on android phones but not iPhones.
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by seanmcdirmid 2mo ago
That isn’t right. Use oMLX or something similar to serve the model with internal MTP enabled. You should get at least 40 tok/sec, but I’m not sure what hardware you are using. Dflash will mess up batching, not really worth it. You need

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