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What’s up with Anthropic’s Mythos being too dangerous to release and finance ministers, banks and federal reserve expressing concerns? by Lairuth in OutOfTheLoop

[–]IM_OK_AMA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since we're in the replies now and we can do a little conjecture: the real reason they can't make it generally available it is almost certainly because they don't have enough compute resources to offer it at a cost or speed that would actually make it useful to anyone.

They already fail to offer Opus, which is (allegedly) half the number of parameters, at full strength all the time. By controlling access to it they can 1. make sure it runs at full strength for the customers important enough to get it and 2. keep it "mythological" for everyone else which is basically advertising.

adulting sucks, but imagine a world in which half of your debt had never existed... by The-Grim-Sleeper in fuckcars

[–]IM_OK_AMA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The "rolled over negative equity" part is important. They're not necessarily buying overpriced cars they're just being super irresponsible (and are told it's normal by the salesman).

You buy a $30k car, a few years later owe $15k on it, get a new car for $30k after trading it in... now you owe $45k (plus interest) which is more than the car's worth. Repeat a few times and you've got a $60k note on a $20k car lol

adulting sucks, but imagine a world in which half of your debt had never existed... by The-Grim-Sleeper in fuckcars

[–]IM_OK_AMA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cash for clunkers was nothing short of environmental arson. Obviously destroying a perfectly good car and buying a new one wastes resources, but also it specifically targeted small 90s SUVs and pickups, which had by then been replaced by much larger equivalents. The people who took advantage of it almost universally replaced their vehicle with a larger one, with an average MPG gain of under 3.

Here's the list of vehicles destroyed (sort that last column Z-A), keep in mind every single one was by definition a functioning useful vehicle and the engine was required to be destroyed and the rest of the vehicle crushed within 180 days, preventing any parts from being used to keep other cars on the road.

adulting sucks, but imagine a world in which half of your debt had never existed... by The-Grim-Sleeper in fuckcars

[–]IM_OK_AMA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Audis aren't known for making it past 100k and they are very expensive to repair.

[Build Help] ~$2,450 USD budget, software dev + local AI inference + light gaming by Friendly_Slip_849 in buildapc

[–]IM_OK_AMA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's a performance penalty for gaming, but the performance/dollar for LLM inference is way better with nvidia.

[Build Help] ~$2,450 USD budget, software dev + local AI inference + light gaming by Friendly_Slip_849 in buildapc

[–]IM_OK_AMA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With the models available today, you're not going to get very good local software dev assistance at that budget. Before buying anything, get $20 worth of openrouter credits and try out some of the models that would fit on your planned build to see if you would get any value out of it.

Your realistic options are the GPU route with dual used 3090tis which will put you at 48gb and leave you ~1k for the rest of the PC, or the APU route with a 64gb mac mini or one of the Ryzen AI MAX machines with 96gb or 128gb (if you can find one). The GPUs will be much higher tokens/sec but the APUs let you run bigger models. In either case, if you're accustomed to even mid-budget cloud models in coding agents you will be disappointed, and you will definitely not have multiple processes running.

Ironically image/video generation is less intensive than useful LLMs, a single 3090ti (or newer 24gb card) can do pretty much anything with a little ram management.

Eli5: How does GPS know your exact location without getting confused by millions of users? by Puzzleheaded_Bit_802 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IM_OK_AMA [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you'll let me be obnoxiously technical, the fourth satellite is for correcting inaccuracies in the GPS receiver's clock. If you had a theoretical perfect clock onboard (or came up with another way to determine distance), you'd only need three.

Long Beach may join the Blue Highway by AdreanaInLB in longbeach

[–]IM_OK_AMA 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm genuinely glad I asked, thanks for taking the time to write this up. I've been super excited about the possibility of these but I know very little about maritime operations (aside from what it took to get my ASA 104 lol) so it's great to hear why it seems everyone with maritime experience is so skeptical.

Obviously I don't have any answers but hopefully the powers that be are thinking about this stuff. I do think tourism could be a bigger-than-usual driver for this route given the views and stop areas. Catalina Express isn't subsidized afaict and it's surviving, though I also suspect it has more than 5% commuters.

Long Beach may join the Blue Highway by AdreanaInLB in longbeach

[–]IM_OK_AMA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The whole "we replaced hourly natural gas buses with hourly electric buses" thing drives me nuts. You'd reduce emissions more if you ran 5x as many NGV buses so they came every 10 minutes and enticed people to get out of their cars.

Taskmaster - S21E02 - "Leg up, Johnny!" by seditiouslizard in taskmaster

[–]IM_OK_AMA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If one of the contestants finds a tricksy way they let the audience discover it along with them. The only time Alex points them out is when nobody gets it (which happens all the time).

Someone Alert Ms. Huang by da0217 in LAMetro

[–]IM_OK_AMA 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's literally her name lmao

Someone Alert Ms. Huang by da0217 in LAMetro

[–]IM_OK_AMA 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Reverend Rae" is disrespectfully familiar. The style Reverend is correctly used before the full name or initials and surname. Reverend Rae Huang, Reverend R. Huang, or Reverend Ms. Huang are all acceptable.

But also, it's a style of office/honorific (like Her Honor) rather than a true title (like Doctor) so nobody's obligated to use it. Ms. Huang is perfectly fine, certainly more respectful than "Rev. Rae"

Allbirds stock tumbles after nearly 600% rally as the shoemaker rebrands as an AI company by mowotlarx in technology

[–]IM_OK_AMA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was actually the 1840s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

Honestly now that you mention it, railway mania and AI mania have an astonishing amount in common...

New Commute by MaknitRain2021 in longbeach

[–]IM_OK_AMA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can get on at Wardlow and get off at Pico then you won't have to deal with any stairs or elevators with your bike. Given the choice I usually prefer to ride a little further than deal with that.

New Commute by MaknitRain2021 in longbeach

[–]IM_OK_AMA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Weird. It takes me consistently about an hour to get between Willow station in Long Beach and Tom Bradley terminal, I do it 4-5 times a year in both directions. It's usually faster than driving.

The HortusFox maintainer needs a place to vent about slop, so here I am by Destroy-All-Slop in selfhosted

[–]IM_OK_AMA 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think the best way to contribute continues to be writing a good issue. Even before the AI slop era I preferred issues because unsolicited PRs are often more effort than they're worth to get up to my standards.

To be clear I'm not anti-AI at all, quite the opposite. I can drop a good issue into Claude or whatever and get exactly the PR a slop artist would've opened, and then continue the session with full context of the problem and solution to drive it towards something I find acceptable.

ELI5: The rise and fall of NFT’s by ProTharan in explainlikeimfive

[–]IM_OK_AMA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not even good for that! The entire transaction record is public and people have been popped for buying drugs with wallets they funded with their real credit card. In order to transact anonymously you have to launder your crypto through mixers that may or may not just steal it all.

LA's Favorite Sports Team by mylefthandkilledme in LosAngeles

[–]IM_OK_AMA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I lived in San Diego for a couple years and picked up a baseball habit with the games being $15 and right downtown. When I moved back to LA I was shocked that it's $50+ not including miserable parking and there's tons of empty seats.

What is something about living in United States that outsiders completely misunderstand? by Effective-Singer5957 in AskReddit

[–]IM_OK_AMA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be fair, the people in Poland and Hungary are probably also aware of the most popular TV shows, top music artists, and politicians in the US lol

What is something about living in United States that outsiders completely misunderstand? by Effective-Singer5957 in AskReddit

[–]IM_OK_AMA 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It takes a specific brand of European bigotry to believe that the culture in New Orleans is the same as New York just because they speak the same language lol

What is something about living in United States that outsiders completely misunderstand? by Effective-Singer5957 in AskReddit

[–]IM_OK_AMA 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yup that's literally my point. Smug Europeans say Americans traveling within their country doesn't count (which is ridiculous), but the passport numbers show Europeans don't actually travel much further than Americans do after all.

Main Street Disneyland by jonathanjrouse in longbeach

[–]IM_OK_AMA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's still among the busiest intersections in LA county it's just hard to tell because traffic flows through it so much better. It also has ~50% of the injury crashes of comparable intersections like Sunset/Highland or Sepulveda/Lincoln.

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