nickwitha_k (he/him)

The fact that formula is now pretty universally behind the counter or behind a locked cabinet door says a lot about the current situation in America.

Eh. On Reddit, karma was intended as an indicator of quality and authenticity. It was heavily flawed and abused by bots and propagandists.

The motivation to do so confuses me. There’s no karma to farm here.

That is concerning. Should just let them be. The rattle is just their proclamation that they are introverts (in relation to other species) and would not like to be interacted with. It’s a really civil way of handling things, especially for a reptile.

it suddenly occurs to me upon reading this thread that I haven’t tried the new card out with GPGPU or LLM-type stuff yet, and since I’m not using the proprietary driver this time I guess I still need to install ROCm.

I’d recommend using OCI containers (docker/podman) there. I was even able to get models working with ROCm on my 780m iGPU that’s not officially supported.

Ever been somewhere that rattlesnakes are native? Those fuckers are loud.

Ethically, I hate it. Realistically, the pandemic largely happened in the US because it was used as biological warfare against the populace, hoping that it would stay in blue areas and, turnabout is fair play.

Oh my. That makes more sense in an awful way.

Greens are in bed with Putin, same as the GOP. They never attempt any campaign that can have a positive impact. They’re not leftists or worth support from anyone who is remotely left of center.

To be fair, some of them are members of the Church of Accelerationism and believe that making life worse for people and offering up vulnerable populations as sacrifice will magically lead to the world getting transformed into a better place, despite no historical data backing such an idea. So, they want Nazis to win, despite claiming to be leftists who care about fellow human beings.

I do use AI for simple questions, and it works fairly well for that, but this claim by MS is just marketing bullshit.

This is my experience. It can be useful for simple things that used to be found with a web search before AI slop broke things. For example, I was having trouble getting a simple CGO program for a POC to communicate with the main Go process. This should have been solvable easily with documentation but the CGO docs are pretty bad and sample code was near impossible to find due to AI slop in the search results. GPT was able to provide the needed sample code to unblock me.

Is that why I thought it was so shit? I was somewhat tempted to rewatch and see if it was any better than when I watched it on broadcast TV and episodes seemed out of order.

That’s who people (non-)voted for. Anti-electoralists/accelerationists must be having trouble containing their joy at the human suffering that’s building.

(I have to assume wealth and intelligence have a decent correlation sometimes, but Heritage proves the relationship is certainly not 1:1)

They decidedly do not have a correlation. The majority of wealthy people inherited their wealth. Inheriting enough wealth to pay a competent finance professional has been the primary means of accruing wealth since at least the 80s. Those getting wealthy from startups and the like are outliers.

But they will also be falling apart too.

It would be like castrating the entire penis and testicles.

That is very much not accurate. Genital mutilation (of both genders) generally focuses on removing the ability to obtain pleasure from sex while maintaining reproductive capability.

Circumcision is roughly analogous to clitoral hood amputation (one type of FGM). The foreskin also contains a substantial number of sensory nerves (Meissnar’s corpuscles, and ~10k-20k nerve endings specialized for pleasure). Additionally, the glans (head) is subjected to the external environment in a manner which it was not adapted for, resulting in formation of thickened, layer of skin to protect it. These two things, taken together, result in greatly reduced sensory and pleasure capabilities in the penis. The reason for its commonality in the US is the historical puritanical belief that sexuality is wrong and desire to repress sexuality in little boys.

FGM is wrong. So is male genital mutilation. Inflicting either on those who can not consent is a crime against humanity that should not be accepted as commonplace.

Thank you. It’s exhausting and cathartic at the same time to call the little shits who go through mental gymnastics to support their anti-electoralism/accelerationism as the literal cause of the current state of the world. Yes, bad actors have been doing bad things but they’re basically just holding the door open for the guy walking up to the house with a can of kerosene and lit blowtorch.

As a white dude, I really wish. I don’t see much evidence of it though.

An AI company not respecting copyright and licensing? I’m shocked.

This is more heavy-handed than high-security military bases. Usually, there’s a dedicated spot to do a U-turn BEFORE the gate and, unless the marine is in a shitty mood, they’re often willing to point you in the correct direction.

ETA: Probably, they’re trying to pump up deportation numbers because Trump was angry that they were so low.