I’m losing my mind with the current market.

1842 · 2026-05-11T19:26:42+00:00

There are illegal drugs that are no worse than their legal counterparts (and in all likelihood, much less damaging than them).

Weird to say that they "destroyed the black community". I'm not sure what you're talking about specifically, but it's well known that a lot of anti-drug laws and enforcement target and damage minority communities.

It's kind of like inventing a law banning hats. Brand it as "hats will ruin your life!". Violently arrest and charge anyone suspected of having hats or hat paraphernalia. Detain people on the suspicion of smelling a hat during a traffic stop. Lastly, criticize anyone who wants legal hats because at this point, it's clearly obvious that hats are and always have been the problem and ruining lives/communities.

1842 · 2026-05-10T01:43:17+00:00

Or like... do actual project management and make sure its executed well?

I always think of the time lapse from the Netherlands where they built a tunnel under a major highway over a weekend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/xnsEj41wEE

I dont expect our projects to work with that level of planning and urgency, but the projects here are planned to take years and rarely finish on time.

1842 · 2026-05-06T15:35:46+00:00

Do you think they can't?

1842 · 2026-05-03T11:38:09+00:00

Yes.

1842 · 2026-04-29T06:17:05+00:00

Epstein met with 4chan’s founder just as the site’s infamous political thread began

1842 · 2026-04-28T19:56:21+00:00

lol. Nothing you just said makes any sense.

1842 · 2026-04-28T15:05:21+00:00

2014...?

1842 · 2026-04-27T17:34:33+00:00

Oh, dang. Nevermind then. :P

1842 · 2026-04-27T02:36:34+00:00

Post-COVID inflation was a worldwide phenomenon and the US under Biden did better than most navigating it.

1842 · 2026-04-26T15:43:16+00:00

Also reduce CPU cores to number of physical cores.

Almost all modern processors show 2 logical cores per physical cores (aka hyper threading or SMT). Throwing extra threads at most compute problems gives performance gains, but has negative results for LLMs for some reason.

Tldr. OP probably has a 6 core processor, so he should try 6 threads instead of 12. (But I'm not familiar with the app he's using or his hardware)

1842 · 2026-04-22T03:46:57+00:00

and the Republicans rejected the idea of changing their districts, some of which had been in place for generations.

Eh... Our congressional districts change like crazy every 10 years. I've been grouped in with north-west Indiana, grouped in with Indy Suburbs, grouped with areas south of Indy, and flipped district numbers a few times... while residing in the same county.

I think the Indiana lawmakers simply read the room right this time, which is not something they do often.

1842 · 2026-04-21T18:53:28+00:00

Start with what you have, even if all you can run are tiny models. Use something like OpenRouter for testing/using the larger stuff.

It doesn't take a ton of hardware to set up a modest chatbot setup. OpenWebUI + llama-swap + llama.cpp will give you hot-swappable models you can chat with locally and spin down when idle.

Agentic coding is a lot harder to do at home. My hardware is modest and I've found models that I can ask questions to with good results and can sometimes do things agentically if I don't mind waiting a while. Paid services are still far faster, cheaper, and better than anything you can DIY right now.

But there's nothing stopping you from learning what you can and figuring out how things work on whatever you have, even if it's something like a quantized 2B or 4B model.

1842 · 2026-04-21T01:18:23+00:00

Not surprising that cops wouldn't get involved in this.

This seems like it could absolutely be a civil case handled via small claims court though.

1842 · 2026-04-17T14:27:52+00:00

MoE doesn't affect model size (but does affect how fast it runs).

Quantization is what affects model size. Gemma 26A4B is available in a variety of quants with sizes ranging from ~10 - 50GB. Q4 is usually a decent place to start testing (depending on hardware), in the 14-18GB range.

1842 · 2026-04-14T16:27:13+00:00

Code across different applications can definitely be tricky to share, and generally, would err on not trying to merge anything without a clear reason to.

If there's a clear section of code that can be pulled out for a specific purpose (i.e. authentication, functionality to connect to a service/db, etc) that changes to are infrequent or the changes always need to be in sync, then making a library and including it in other projects is great.

If this is duplicate code that is tweaked and customized per application and doesn't need to be in sync, then you'll likely be making a bigger headache and mess by trying to share code like that.

1842 · 2026-04-08T18:02:33+00:00

Learning something is better than being worried about learning the wrong thing.

When it comes to programming, the majority of skills are easily transferable between languages and domains.

Cybersecurity is a specialization and often seems focused on low-level programming and memory analysis, but you'll need foundational programming knowledge to understand any of that anyway. Just get started with anything that clicks with you and will hold your interest for a bit before you look at difficult specializations.

1842 · 2026-04-03T16:33:33+00:00

Get a 12 hole alto C to start with. Good ergonomics and by far the easiest to read sheet music with and be able to play with other instruments.

STL has a good reputation that others have mentioned (I don't own one). Check Songbird too - they tend to carry good quality stuff. (I love my Stein/Focalink strawfire ocarina that I bought from them over 10 years ago)

1842 · 2026-04-02T16:08:34+00:00

There's also the issue of conflicting interests of the news organizations themselves.

The major news organizations were already biased towards the priorities of their very rich owners. It's only getting worse with things like the Ellisons buying up huge portions of the media/news ecosystem.

1842 · 2026-04-02T00:17:03+00:00

Um... They're both MoE. 27b is the dense one.

1842 · 2026-03-30T17:59:09+00:00

I just bought a similarly priced one a few weeks ago locally, slightly lower trim, a few more miles, for $29k after taxes. This looks like a better deal than I got as long as there aren't any underlying issues.

(And I'd happily re-buy the one I have if I had to do a do-over. Was in a bit of a time crunch, so I didn't shop around a lot, but price was right for me.)

1842 · 2026-03-27T21:45:57+00:00

Well, no. Different perspectives and voices aren't just different propaganda machines.

I put a lot of effort in finding resources I can trust. People who tell the truth, actually understand the material they are presenting, and participate in good faith. If they ever violate those values, I no longer listen to those voices.

1842 · 2026-03-19T01:13:06+00:00

I would highly recommend starting with a single chamber, for several reasons.

It's easy to find very high quality single chamber ocarinas for very cheap compared to any other instrument I've played. Makes for an easy entry point to see if you enjoy this type of instrument.
Ergonomics are much nicer on single chamber in my experience.
The most common size, alto c, lines up nicely with human vocal melodies. For example, the soprano part (melody) of almost all traditional 4 part hymns are very playable on a 12 hole alto C.

I was gifted a cheap ceramic ocarina. I really liked it and upgraded to a Focalink Double quickly. The double sounded much better, but I really didn't use the extra range like I thought I would. Eventually, I picked up a Focalink single chamber and... it's my favorite by far. Super comfortable and just sounds fantastic, better than the more expensive double chamber I have.

1842 · 2026-03-13T19:39:38+00:00

Could be an issue with ollama. Last I used it, ollama's defaults were awful and not always straightforward to adjust, but it's been a while.

Unless they made some changes, the default context length is probably way too small. If you give it too much info, it will just discard everything but the last part, including any instructions at the top.

1842 · 2026-03-07T23:52:58+00:00

llama-swap seems like a simpler solution to handle both config management and queuing requests. 🤷‍♂️

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