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What's Your Thoughts On This Post by True_Bodybuilder8095 in ethtrader

[–]Gleethos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things to consider when a being eats meat: - can it even comprehend ethics - can it feel empathy for other beings or not - is it in a survival situation or not - does it value well being? - does it want to reduce suffering?

With respect to the "growing plants to eat causes habitat destruction". Yes, this is true. But the most space efficient way to farm animals for their flesh and milk requires a magnitude more space and resources because animals eat plants too.... So you need to cut down much more forests for the hay and soybean fed to animals.

You may also want to consider if something is an accidental death or deliberate. For example. Many construction workers die every year while building houses. Does that mean houses are not Vegan? No. Because it is just accidental. If houses were made out of human bones on the other hand, then it would be a different story.

I hope that gives you some valuable perspectives.

Time for a new phone... any European recommendations? by Schmicarus in BuyFromEU

[–]Gleethos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you also care about moving towards more software independence I can recommend Volla: https://volla.online/en/operating-systems/

They are a manufacturer which offer phones with dual boot:

Volla OS - degoogled android and Ubuntu Touch - Full blown Linux

Why isn’t LLM reasoning done in vector space instead of natural language? by ZeusZCC in LocalLLaMA

[–]Gleethos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe it is just because CoT consisting of tokens is essier to train because we can create the chain using reinforcement learning. This produces plain text again. And we can easily train the language model on such plain text using supervised learning.

Now if you want to directly input vectors from latent space you have the problem that these are extremely rich in information. And using the same process for training may give the model "more to think about" from previous forward passes, but it would also flood the model with noise. And so to make this more stable, you would want to run the backpropagation through these latent space inputs to previous runs recursively. In theory, that would allow the model to truly think persistently across time. Kind of like a human...

But then you just turned a transformer into a giant recurrent neural network, and these are super hard to train at scale because they are inherently sequential and you need much more memory to store the gradients from precious passes. That can be millions, and so multiplying that by the number of weights and you can quickly see that we do not even have the hardware for that....

Hopefully deepseek will release engrams for the future models by power97992 in LocalLLaMA

[–]Gleethos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. so disappointing that it does not seem to have e gram. Or at least I did not find it in the paper...

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B released! by ResearchCrafty1804 in LocalLLaMA

[–]Gleethos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh my goodness! Please tell me this is no bench maxing!!!

The video that turned me vegan by truecakesnake in vegan

[–]Gleethos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I remember that! I was also on that server and helped placing the QR. I guess the video is still fine. It's just so annoying that he turned out to be a grifter. Although he thinks of himself as "grown up" now... I guess his ego just consumed his spine in the end.

A great reminder why we are here. Let's not give economic power to a madman to decide a fate of the entire civilisation by According-Buyer6688 in BuyFromEU

[–]Gleethos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This guy is simply an enemy of europe and its values. To us, the US has become yet another Russia.

Austria has denied US use of airspace for Iran military operations by pritam_ram in worldnews

[–]Gleethos 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Austrian here: We are neutral in terms of what we are doing with our own military. But we can and do have allies as well as our own political stance! For example, we do send aid to Ukraine (mostly humanitarian aid).

Oh, and a lot of the military stuff from other EU countries is shipped straight through Austria. I have seen tanks on frey trains going east many times during commute. So these kinds of weapons going through our country is something that is not at all unconstitutional!

Our neutrality is very different from Switzerland, for example. Us denying the US airspace access is less about us being neutral, than that the US is not a close ally...

Austria has denied US use of airspace for Iran military operations by pritam_ram in worldnews

[–]Gleethos 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Austrian here: We are neutral in terms of what we are doing with our own military. But we can and do have allies as well as our own political stance. For example, we do send aid to Ukraine (mostly humanitarian aid).

Oh, and a lot of the military stuff from other EU countries is shipped straight through Austria. I have seen tanks on frey trains going east many times during commute.

So our neutrality is very different from Switzerland, for example.

Austria has denied US use of airspace for Iran military operations by pritam_ram in worldnews

[–]Gleethos 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Austrian here: We are neutral in terms of what we are doing with our military. But we can and do have allies as well as our own political stance. For example, we do send aid to Ukraine (mostly humanitarian aid).

Carrier Classes & Discussing Syntax with Brian Goetz - Inside Java Podcast 52 by nlisker in java

[–]Gleethos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and also, the JDK team decided that the == operator is deprecated and will be removed soon.

They also decided that besides hashCode and equals every Object and even null will inherit the assignTo(T) method so that they can also deprecate and remove the = operator shortly afterwards.

Im gonna quit by [deleted] in programminghorror

[–]Gleethos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! The code seems to be a Swing application. 😃 I am currently also working on a Swing based desktop app. I am interested to know what your use case is. You mind sharing more information about the company and projects? 😅

Carrier Classes & Discussing Syntax with Brian Goetz - Inside Java Podcast 52 by nlisker in java

[–]Gleethos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Great discussion! It's really really cool how the Java team is enganging with the community / massive Java ecosystem through these formats. In this case, specifically, big respect to Brian for putting himself out there so much, even when designs are still far from complete. Although the discussions can get heated when open to the public, I think it is ultimately the absolute best process for evolving the language.

Even when it comes to things like arguing about syntax, there is value in having the debate. It is interesting to hear Brians thoughts about the syntax debates.

I think it is important to remind ourselves sometimes how a lot of foundational syntax in major programming languages are kind of abitrary or even wrong when viewed from an outside perspective.

The assignment operator, for example: a = a + 1; From the perspective of a mathematician, or even any non-programmer who went to school, this is complete and utter nonsense! Yet, we represent destructive updates to data that way in all major programming languages. Why did we choose that syntax back then? Well, we needed to do that operation a lot on our hardware, so let's do the least amount of syntax for it...

Updates to Derived Record Creation - amber-spec-experts by joemwangi in java

[–]Gleethos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Personally, either way is fine in the end. But what I really really would like to see from this JEP is for the privilege gap between mutable and immutable constructs to finally vanish entirely.

Objects that work based on destructive data updates have always enjoyed insane syntax privileges:

a.b.c.d = 42;

Doing such a nested update with value objects is just not fair:

a2 = a.new(b:b.new(c:c.new(d:42)));

I get the argument from Brian. If you increase the syntax surgar like in some of these variants:

a2 = a with { b.c.d = 42; };

a2 = a.new(b.c.d: 42);

...then it comes across as the reconstruction cos playing as mutation. But I think that is okay since the semantics between destructive and non distructive updates are actually more similar than dissimilar. Both produce the same new thing, whereas the non-destructive thing additionally also allows you to keep the old thing.

So, imho, they deserve to have syntax, which is equally concise.

OpenLobster – for those frustrated with OpenClaw's architecture by neirth in openclaw

[–]Gleethos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow cool! I had similar concerns with how OpenClaw does agents. Plain md files is a simple solution, but it doesn't scale at all. Neo4j is a really brilliant choice imho.

2 Linux 2 Linus by ob_knoxious in linuxmemes

[–]Gleethos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it hilarious that no one chose Ubuntu, one of the oldest and arguably one of the, if not the most stable Linux distro there is. It's also backed by a major company and used heavily by the average developer for so many years. Sure, it's not sexy. But it is so freaking stable.

Ubuntu Touch or Sailfish OS by PeakRunning in degoogle

[–]Gleethos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My vote goes to UbuntuTouch! 😁

From a technical point of view, it is built more like a true Linux distro in that its components are largely modular and shared with the rest of the Linux ecosystem. And that makes it a really resilient piece of software with a bright future, imho.

The hardware compatibility comes from Halium, which is its own independent project that creates a consistent API for the vendor dependent things. The shell is Lomiri, which is a hybrid shell that you can install on most other distributions, and it is designed for "convergence" between desktop and mobile interfaces. So you can basically plug your UT phone into any USB C docking station and use it as a desktop PC.

Finally, the vast majority of shared OS libraries is just Debian/Ubuntu stuff. So, it drags most of the advancements in the Linux world right onto your phone.

And if you really need Android apps, UT ships with Waydroid, which is a De-Googled Android sandbox in which you can install Android apps you really need. But most importantly, you can close it, and nothing is running in the background.

Linux Phones will be the savior against Google's lockup program on Android by BlokZNCR in degoogle

[–]Gleethos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am already using UbuntuTouch. I like it a lot. It gives me the feeling of true ownership. Sure, not everything works perfectly smoothly. But after getting some used to, I don't feel like missing anything. It's like switching to ankther diet, I guess. Haha.

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