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by strictnein 2mo ago
I used to read a ton of that stuff too and I really miss it. Terry Brooks type stuff. Enjoyable adventures that focus on a small group of characters. I also don't want overly complex worlds and stories for that type of book. The rest o
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Interesting observation here. I still read a lot, but airplanes have become a place I rarely do. I used to always pick up a book every time I flew and would finish it on the flight home. I would still much rather read a real book on the bea
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Conversely, when animals are scarce, wolves will eat lots of blueberries. https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-wolves-may-be-helping-...
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Nothing. My point was simply that blaming people who did something 40-50 years ago is pretty silly.
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by strictnein 2mo ago
And since we've all known about this for 30+ years, is it still their fault, or is it ours?
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Why would Nvidia destroy the first place we all look for models to load on our Nvidia hardware?
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Possibly, but they were profitable already.
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by strictnein 2mo ago
> In some states, the budget for feeding inmates is explicitly a compensation package for the warden. This is an incredible claim, so I'm trying to find out where you got that from. Seems like maybe that was just in Alabama and they
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Would it be better if you could only do the former then? Also, if you worked 8 hours you'd be able to buy a lot more than a single pack of ramen. > While ramen costs about 35 cents at Target, prison commissaries charge between 24 ce
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by strictnein 2mo ago
While the first made up quote is inline with what Friedman said over 45 years ago [0], I'm not seeing anything that resembles the second one? In fact, he warned against the influence that large corporations can have on the government [
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by strictnein 2mo ago
The benefits of fossil fuels will also be felt for centuries as well. It's what moved us into the comfortable lives we all enjoy today and lifted billions out of poverty. The point isn't that they're wonderful, it's that
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by strictnein 2mo ago
I mean, they're in a thread on my comment whose point is "let's see power per watt". The goalposts started there. A comment responded to me by saying some Chinese youtubers found it to be good. The person responded sayin
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by strictnein 2mo ago
The US has the second most and has 1/4th the population. We're barely behind them in solar watt per capita. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country#Global_... Many countries on that list dwarf Ch
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Most of the benefits of cheap energy are also externalized. Why do we focus on one but not the other?
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by strictnein 2mo ago
> What a weird, rose-tinted view of the US you have Someone pointing out that the US is adding large amounts of solar with minimal government effort isn't "rose-tinted", it's just factual. > absolutely braindead po
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by strictnein 2mo ago
In this case, a Chinese company is using a Taiwanese manufacturer (TSMC), so they're not doing both.
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Missing the most important metric: processing power per watt. I have some server CPUs laying around that can also beat Apple CPUs. But putting them in a compact, densely packed, sealed box (aka a phone) would result in a fireball and almost
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by strictnein 2mo ago
> This is so pervasive you'll see airline attendants spraying glycol-based air fresheners during these times to COVER UP the smell of this toxic stuff I've never once seen a flight attendant do that. Flown hundreds and hundreds
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by strictnein 2mo ago
I don't live where cops get paid $500k a year. And you're acting like the exception here is the rule. Again, where I live the city has struggled hiring police. The mayor and police chief have repeatedly agreed on plans to help rec
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by strictnein 2mo ago
> "I've never heard anyone ever say this." Congrats, now you have. Police aren't just there for crimes you know. Wounded animals, car accidents, health emergencies, etc etc etc. > I see cops standing around the mal
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by strictnein 2mo ago
I've run 4, 6, and 8. Adding more video cards increases total available memory, so you can load larger models, but there are definitely some drawbacks. More cards = more communication over PCIe. The prompts don't come in and just
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Yes, you can. Ideally though, you want to minimize the number of cards and maximize the amount of memory in each card. Using multiple cards is one of the things that the models and software that Unsloth releases does really well in terms of
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by strictnein 2mo ago
> I know "defund the police" brings extreme ire from the neo-liberals to the conservatives in the US, but I don't know how you can look at this, and think anything else In my area, the "Defund the Police" folks o
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by strictnein 2mo ago
> "quantum chromodynamics" I had to google it: "the study of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons"
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Too many people think snark is a substitute for insight. The major GOP complaint about the entire thing was that it was the federal government forcing people to buy a product from companies. The Supreme Court ruled that it had that power.
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by strictnein 2mo ago
The Feds pay ~$150 billion a year and the states pay ~$20 billion a year for that Medicaid expansion. Those are increases on top of previous spending. How are we paying for that? Debt. On top of that, the ACA provides $100 billion a year to
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by strictnein 2mo ago
> "Findings suggest Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act saved about 27,400 lives between 2010-22, including among younger adults." > "Their findings show that Medicaid expansions led to a 12% increase in en
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by strictnein 2mo ago
Yep, in the US my wife had to wait a day. She could have gotten it the same day, had her injury been a little worse. There's this idea that there are no upsides to the American system, only downsides.
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by strictnein 2mo ago
They used to be, before Trump and the MAGA clowns destroyed the party. So prior to 2015 or so.
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by strictnein 2mo ago
> "Man I wish I could downvote a comment" I mean, you can do that here. The system just restricts what you can do until you've spent more time commenting.

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