upboundspiral

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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
I think if you look at how AI is being used anywhere outside of computer science the quote makes a bit more sense. AI is being used to dehumanize people's jobs, provide bad customer service, a bunch of people are being fired for dubiou
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
crypto is a solution in search of a problem.
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
World reserve currency was solved by Keynes and Joan Robinson in the 1940s. What you do is have a currency no country controls that acts purely for exchanging one national currency for another. Give it to the united nations or something.
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
The Supreme court recently already ruled against warrantless mass surveillance along the lines you describe: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-applauds-important-... What we need now is laws that turn this rulin
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
The spirit of a hacker is not to ask whether it is hard, but whether it is valuable. I find protecting civil liberties valuable.
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
crypto is a solution in search of a problem.
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
Unless we get legislation passed that bans this use in public and private spaces prepare for this to be combined with Flock et al to track your movements inside your house (already is being tested by some internet providers), track the mome
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
If I allocated proportionally pieces of $5 to my favorite content producers a month they would get orders of magnitude more than what they get from me watching ads. I hate ads, I hate the experience of having something in between me and wha
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
With AI I am reconsidering my stance on micropayments. I recently loaded up a few dollars on Deepseek to try it out, and the value I got out of it far surpassed my balance lost (tens of cents). If this is a sustainable business model for De
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
It's incredible how modern news is straight propaganda these days. The article is criticizing Amodei but I take issue with the fact that they printed the story at all. Whether they say something that seems smart or stupid, newspapers k
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by upboundspiral 2mo ago
you have the choice to run a custom build of grapheneOS with root. If you think its valuable there probably are other people that think so too and you could coordinate and figure out your own builds / releases / QOL, etc. The grap
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by upboundspiral 3mo ago
"Never happen in practice" is objectively false given the civil rights wins of the past century. While incomplete they were real, and real change followed. Starting with the premise that it's impossible won't improve soc
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by upboundspiral 3mo ago
gamescope is a custom wayland compositor that Valve built for gaming... In steam big picture mode there is no xwayland or anything, just gamescope. What you are reading from the readme notes that it calls into xwayland only when gamescope
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by upboundspiral 3mo ago
assuming 2% inflation over 30 years, that means that a dollar in 1996 is now worth $1.81. 80% depreciation versus 25% increase in income is not comparable. The wealth inequality in the past 30 years has dramatically shifted in favor of the
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by upboundspiral 3mo ago
The purpose of a deficit, as discovered by Keynes, is to stimulate economic activity. If spent well, it can help reverse recessions and overcome the inertia of a depression to get the economy to a more prosperous equilibrium. To have a perm
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by upboundspiral 3mo ago
Phones and laptops from a few years ago are not suddenly unusable. Yes, the cutting edge is very nice, but any laptop past 2016 is useable for the average person. Even gpu inference on older process nodes is perfectly doable. The HPC space
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by upboundspiral 4mo ago
Tech bros whether they realize it or not are living a philosophy of fear. They say: in order for YOU to be healthy and safe, we should be allowed to trample THEM (the undesirables), because trust us, the end result will be worth it. Why not
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by upboundspiral 4mo ago
you can run Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B (3 billion active parameters + some GB for context) that can easily fit into 10 GB of ram while the not currently active experts are offloaded to the cpu ram with llama-cpp.
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by upboundspiral 4mo ago
Yes absolutely. You can install nonprivileged google stuff on the main account. Alternatively you can setup a private space (accessible to the main user but mostly separate from the main system) with a few clicks in the settings. If you pre
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by upboundspiral 4mo ago
with llama-cpp and offloading non-active experts (from MOE architecture) to cpu RAM, you can easily run 50 tok / s QWEN-3.6 35B on 8-12 GB of VRAM. KV cache is a few GB, experts are ~3-5 GB (assuming q8 quant from Unsloth for example)
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by upboundspiral 4mo ago
Friedman's gift to the world was erasing the legacy of justice and desire to help the common person Keynes left behind. Keynes lived through two world wars and learned that global trade does not in fact mean that nations won't irr
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by upboundspiral 4mo ago
Spotify rigs their system to benefit the large label companies and anyone with a critical mass so the people that "matter" say 'good enough' and the people with no voice get screwed. I suspect an honest implementation co
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by upboundspiral 5mo ago
I know many teachers and funding already works the way you describe: the better a school's students do, the more funding it gets (schools also get funding for the number of days the students show up). What this does is make it so anyon
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by upboundspiral 5mo ago
Stories like this one, though rare, often remind me that there is hope, and that society is not static. That even though there is corruption, and setbacks, by continuously pursuing a goal we can slowly claw our way towards a better tomorrow
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by upboundspiral 5mo ago
Milton Friedman's direct quote on immigration: Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It’s a good thing for the i
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by upboundspiral 5mo ago
Your solution (of tackling unemployment by tacking it onto national defense), is eerily close to what they discussed in an episode of Yes Prime Minister in the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_d_vMKswE https:/&
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by upboundspiral 5mo ago
Anyone who wants to understand southern Italy should read "Il Gattopardo" (The Leopard) by one of the last peers of Sicily. Not sure about the malaria cause, but it is true that the South of Italy has traditionally been far less f
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by upboundspiral 6mo ago
While interesting the post is incredibly vague and jumps to conclusions that in my opinion other data can explan or at least requires further testing. 14th gen intel have "big" and "little" cores. Unless you specify to p
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by upboundspiral 6mo ago
I've been using Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B with images as input so I suspect you perhaps didn't include the vision part of the model during testing (I use llama.cpp and I learned I needed to include the separate mmproj part).
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by upboundspiral 7mo ago
I think the article briefly touches on an important part: people still write blogs, but they are buried by Google that now optimizes their algorithm for monetization and not usefulness. Anyone interested in seeing what the web when the sear

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