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chmod775
·14 часов назад·discuss
This is more of an ad, not a review, and reads like the author has hardly any experience with the things he's trying out. That Z Image Turbo diffusion model would've also run on many consumer GPUs and with way higher performance for a fraction of the price. Misleading.
chmod775
·21 час назад·discuss
Let's ask the thing whose mistakes I iron out all day to think for me.
chmod775
·вчера·discuss
> The standard answer is greed: rapacious ambulance operators, owned by villainous private equity firms, exploit patients at their most helpless. But I don’t think that’s actually what’s going on. Ambulance providers are chronically unprofitable businesses; margins are thin, crews are underpaid, and operators exit the industry every year.

The author does not understand how private equity extracts money. The high-liability and heavily scrutinized business is intentionally left with little profit: the actual profits are funneled up the supply chain. This is why private equity buys "nonprofit" hospitals - they can now control who that nonprofit buys services and equipment from.
chmod775
·4 дня назад·discuss
> A team I talked to recently wired up an agent to do something simple: pull a metrics API every morning, reshape the JSON, and drop the result into a table. Clean idea. It worked on day one.

So a team of people with access to "intelligent" help did not immediately figure out that they could just have the model write a small script that does the job perfectly every time? That's "call a doctor" level of stupid that should be impossible in vivo. I'll believe a lot, but not this. The rest of the article is not much better - only an overexcitable LLM could believe anything there constitutes a deep insight worth writing down.

Do we need a new category for this sort of made-up, probably LLM-generated, garbage? Is this AI brainrot blogspam engineered to be upvoted by people who don't read the contents?

How do you not die of shame publishing something like this on your company blog?
chmod775
·8 дней назад·discuss
> I wonder how these will fare in Saxony. I presume it's an industry which will attract and depend on highly qualified foreign workers.

Saxony has had a decently-sized or large (by German standards) microelectronics sector for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Saxony

As you'd probably guess, they're mostly situated around Leipzig and Dresden.
chmod775
·11 дней назад·discuss
> A pardon absolves one of the sin as if it didn't happen, legally.

This is incorrect. A pardon is not an expungement. The conviction remains a usable historical fact and could still be referenced in later legal procedings.

Exact ramifications vary between innocence-based pardons, rehabilitiation-based pardons, and pure discretionary clemency.
chmod775
·12 дней назад·discuss
If it makes you feel any better, the reverse holds as well. Grass is greener mentality exists everywhere.
chmod775
·12 дней назад·discuss
There's a post every other month where some dude who put nonsense information online celebrates because it actually ended up in some frontier models weights.

If it's easy enough that some randos can do it for fun, what do you think happens when there's commercial interest behind it?

Obviously companies are going try nudging AI towards recommending whatever they're selling. It's a logical extension of SEO - and that's a 100 billion USD industry.

Additionally, if I believed myself to be in some sort of spending - err - AI race, I'd try to poison the data sets of my competitors by putting crap out there for others to ingest.
chmod775
·14 дней назад·discuss
Most Europeans do not think about some ill-defined "communist threat" at all. The majority of negative opinions about China stem from economic worries.

Also FYI: the CCP has officially adopted the designation "socialist democracy" for themselves*, so I don't think you're going to bother them much by using that term. You'll have to get more specific about what you think their "democracy" should look like for them to start giving you the side-eye.

* Many places that are not really recognizable as democracies from a western POV do this. People, we have democracy at home!
chmod775
·14 дней назад·discuss


  sudo pacman -S transmission-gtk
I suppose it's time to form a new media consumption habit.
chmod775
·16 дней назад·discuss
The reason most people reach for Kubernetes is because it's cool. The entire infra the vast majority of Kubernetes users have could run on a single bare metal machine with a second one for redundancy.

To be fair: using Kubernetes anyways builds the skill just in case you become one of the 0.1% who actually need it down the line.
chmod775
·17 дней назад·discuss
> In Germany getting 25k as a working adult is hard

German median household wealth is 4x that.
chmod775
·17 дней назад·discuss
This effect is temporary. Otherwise one could run their AC once for a few minutes and then it'd be cold inside your home for the rest of the year until you turn up heating.

In reality equilibrium is restored quickly (and the thermal mass we're cooling/heating here is insignificant anyhow).
chmod775
·18 дней назад·discuss
You know what... go ahead and build your panopticon somewhere. The rest of us are going to have an actual society somewhere else, the way it has worked for thousands of years.

If you're so scared of your own shadow you'd tie a noose around your own neck and hand the other end to those in power in exchange for an illusion of safety, I won't stand in your way.

Build that cage around yourself and hope the jailer will be benevolent. Just don't drag others down with you. Some of us have decided to learn from history.
chmod775
·18 дней назад·discuss
What if lots of murders happened in bathrooms?
chmod775
·19 дней назад·discuss
When the new client was built, microservices were the hot new buzzword.

The new client is some weird plugins/services based architecture. Things that'd barely warrant their own class in a boring OOP-based UI framework are instead now "isolated" services. The reality of this isolation being that if one piece breaks, the whole UI becomes unusable anyways. Dozens of things that in another app would've been just a simple synchronous call now behave like remote procedure calls and messages, forcing all the complexity of distributed systems into a local application for no reason.

That's why it runs like ass, breaks if you look at it wrong, and your CPU draws more power when using the client than when playing the game at 200FPS.
chmod775
·20 дней назад·discuss
> I would say information density was too high. All those always-on indicators: 3D scrollbars, buttons, etc. create a very busy picture.

Have you been in nature recently? We've evolved to deal with very busy pictures and parse relevant information from them.

New UIs often don't have relevant information - like what is clickable or scrollable - and that's a problem.

It used to be that grandpa couldn't find a button with his poor eyesight, since everything was cramped and too tiny on the small screens we used to have.

Nowadays the clickable label is hidden behind a tiny hamburger menu that you can't tell apart from a mere stylistic flourish on the massive screens we keep mostly empty. Now neither of us can find the button.

That's progress? Every time I open an old application I breathe a sigh of relief because I can feel the cognitive load decreasing. Not having to put myself in the headspace of the designer to figure out what random geometric shape happens to be interactive is like taking a vacation.
chmod775
·22 дня назад·discuss
I'm not getting what I want on free speech, because the center left form the ruling parties. And I wouldn't want the right to be in power anyways, though soon they couldn't do much worse to this democracy.

People here are getting police visits and legal mail because they called a politician a name on twitter or get investigated over a sign they held at a political protest.

Thousands of cases at this point.
chmod775
·22 дня назад·discuss
Yeah. On pretty much every other topic important to me, their official positions are either diametrically opposed or lean into another direction far enough that supporting other parties would be a better choice.
chmod775
·22 дня назад·discuss
I've read this five times and I still can't reconcile it with what I said.