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by tharmas 3y ago
This video demonstrates using LM Studio to run an LLM on an RX 7600XT 16gb so you should be able to run it on an RX 6900XT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXHryjPu52k
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by tharmas 3y ago
I highly recommend you read some William Blake. He was Milton's greatest critic (but a great admirer too): "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because
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Thatcher was able to pay for her tax cuts without hitting social programs by using the Oil revenues. That's gone now. Lizz Truss tried to do a Thatcher with tax cuts but there was no Oil revenues to pay for it. The govt debt was going
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Yes, totally agree. I really wish they would disaggregate GDP by Geography and Income bracket. If you factor out London's GDP the rest of the UK has a GDP/capita similar to Mississippi, the State with the lowest GDP in the USA. Th
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Yes, its a mirror image of the mentality regarding Ukraine and Gaza.
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Yes, the mess Canada is currently in started long before Trudeau but his government certainly accelerated it. A key problem is no investment in making things, only investment in housing. I blame the banks partly for that mentality and the g
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Noam Chomsky criticizes the US press in the book for being a mouth piece for government propaganda. e.g. Judith Miller, New York Times on the WMDs in Iraq. etc etc. Why does his views on Dictatorship make his critique of the press invalid?
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Thanks for your response Mr. Thomas; and congratulations on getting your idea launched into a real thing. Also, very nice job on the speediness of the site.
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I seem to recall the Journalists had an argument with Assange over the leaking. The Journalists wanted to take their time and carefully filter out any info that was not necessary such as informants identities. Assange wanted to get the stuf
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I find it disturbing that both political parties seem to be goose-stepping towards Authoritarianism albeit for different Ideological reasons.
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Yes, Im curious too. His Twitter account mentions Next.js and Vercel but I'm wondering if he's using an AgentAI to make the book selections etc.
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Ah, so ad hominem.
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Because Wikipedia says so? or you have a credible source, explanation?
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Uber and Lyft pulling out of Minneapolis is a good thing. Why? Because those companies are in California. That means the profits are leaving Minnesota and going to California. Sure, a Taxi company operating in Minneapolis could be Californi
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Operation Mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird Yeah pretty "wild" I know, but true.
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Read Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent". Then you'll realize where my "wild" statements are coming from.
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What evidence has Congress presented that Tiktok is a National Security threat? Didn't Congress try to shut down Tiktok before but it failed? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/31/us-tik
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by tharmas 3y ago
Not sure if this is sarcasm but the main stream media are basically propaganda. MSNBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, WASH POST, NYT et al. AIPAC wants Tiktok shut down because it doesn't censor content on Gaza.
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Its called Great Power Politics realism.
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Why is it a stupid question? Their country is destroyed. The demographics are abysmal. All the youth destroyed. The USA and Ukraine should've negotiated a deal years and years ago that Ukraine would be a neutral state and NOT join NATO
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According to this article it was much earlier. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-truth...
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They signed when they were weak. That's Great Power Politics. The USA was sole Hegemon. It could do whatever it wanted. The West continued to provoke Russia because the West knew Russia was too weak to do anything about it. The West&#x
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Study great power politics and you will understand what I mean. Russia is a nuclear power. That means no matter how much you dislike them for whatever reasons you don't go giving them the finger. That's like giving the Mafia boss
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There's also the argument that your taxes paid for it so you're entitled to it too. Hence why Paul McCartney gets a monthly senior's bus pass in the UK. Its also cheaper to "dispense" it universally as you don'
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"Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind's made up".
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Fun fact: if you disaggregate London GDP from the UK GDP, the rest of the UK is as poor as the state of Mississippi.
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Just TAX the rent-seekers and the speculators. Tax the $&%# out of them. Lower sales taxes to zero accept on luxury goods and a few other things like cigarettes, that sort of thing.
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Didn't it really start with Newt Gingrich in the 90's? "Contract with America" etc. Also, I would argue that Trumpism, at least from his base's point of view, is about challenging the Establishment. Sure, Trump is n
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by tharmas 3y ago
Is transit a thing in the Niagara Region? Niagara Falls, St. Catherines, Welland, Fort Erie? Only major cities in this country have adequate transit. How many cities north of Toronto have adequate Transit?
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Take public transit? How many cities in Canada have that? Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, a couple of others with adequate Public Transit. There's plenty of cities in Canada that have VERY LIMITED public transit. And Canada's Winter

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