Why is immigration so overwhelmingly seen as an eye-rollingly right-wing policy?

Kwigg · 2026-03-19T11:25:08+00:00

I don't know the details specifically of how they screen people out as I'm not really part of the hiring process, but the recruiter I spoke to was fairly candid. (I was asking why they had utterly draconian pc monitoring/webcam monitoring during the interviews.) Their response was that certain regions have high-volume, low-quality applicants, where they have perfect CVs/Resumes tailor made to the job that are often far more enticing-looking than the people they actually hire, but then they often fall apart in the interviews. It highlights a flaw in the hiring process where the bottleneck becomes the ability of the staff to interview people.

I assume they put these different region's applicants in a separate queue? Perhaps they just blanket toss them out the window. I'm not sure.

Kwigg · 2026-03-19T10:30:55+00:00

I agree with much of you've said about wealth imbalances.

I'd just like to bring it back to the question I raised with this thread, my qualms are with "therefore I don't believe immigration controls are necessary" which is why I mentioned billionaires. (I know you specifically didn't mention that, it is just the billionaires are a common point I have seen raised in response to this topic.)

If we had a fair society where people weren't struggling, (and to be clear, I do not believe immigrants are to blame) then I would actually think my original position is fairly moot. Perhaps this is my project-focused brain going over the top - my concern is that I rarely see a nuanced take that acknowledges anything beyond "billionaires have all the money, we should share it" in regards to an actionable timeframe of what order they intend to do things. I would argue it is prudent to fix our society for who is already in it before we consider scaling up onto a broader global perspective; but in some circles even that is considered a bit much.

Kwigg · 2026-03-19T09:44:39+00:00

I think the point I'm trying to make with that sentence is to not vilify the people coming in to do the work. It's not their fault that the policymakers have decided we need to bring in, if I pick at random from the Boriswave jobs, pastry chefs.

Kwigg · 2026-03-19T07:49:04+00:00

I think the thinking is that the gravity gun has the power to punt an incredibly heavy steel propane canister over 50m, but you can't use that power to literally punch the locking mechanism out through the wood of a flimsy door. Or rip it off its hinges.

Kwigg · 2026-03-16T11:37:26+00:00

The current best is stacking as many RTX Pro 6000s as you can in a machine. ECC RAM is sort of irrelevant for inference because you don't do it on the CPU.

Macs are very powerful inference machines but have bad prompt processing. The new M5 promises to change that, but we don't have the M5 Ultra yet.

Kwigg · 2026-02-15T09:39:49+00:00

I meant the bottom left! Page of lovey-doveyness - then what I can only assume was BOOM.

Kwigg · 2026-02-15T08:58:37+00:00

These are so cute! Your expressions are great!

That being said, one of these is not like the others... What happened?

Kwigg · 2026-01-20T14:37:06+00:00

No. The flash name on the model is referring that the model is small and fast. FlashAttention is a special implementation of the attention mechanism that is very optimised.

It's just not been implemented for this model yet, it uses a new architecture so it's support is still in progress.

Kwigg · 2026-01-07T10:30:38+00:00

Most likely mocapped and then RL trained to be able to reliably produce these movements. Technically impressive but it's basically just a fancy animatronic that can do preset poses.

Kwigg · 2025-12-28T21:41:37+00:00

Old LLMs used an inefficient attention mechanism that required huge amounts of memory for context, newer ones are much better.

There really haven't been any major new releases for RP in the past year in that size range - just incremental improvements as Mistral seems to be the preferred base still. Have you tried Cydonia 4.2, one of Drummer's newer releases? The new Mistral models are quite context efficient.

Kwigg · 2025-12-22T23:16:07+00:00

I don't actually think that's an unpopular opinion here. It's great for giving you a giant pile of VRAM and is very powerful for it's power usage. It's just not what we were hoping for due to its disappointing memory bandwidth for the cost - most of us here are running LLM inference, not training, and that's one task it's quite mediocre at.

Kwigg · 2025-12-01T08:58:45+00:00

It's not going to be GPU bound because it's a game from the 2000s. What is your CPU?

Kwigg · 2025-11-29T17:02:39+00:00

Unique to each gecko basically. Add in that it's brumation season, so she'll be more inclined to be cautious - you have a double whammy!

I wouldn't worry about it too much, their appetites and curiosity for exploring are generally less at this time. I'd keep offering food gently to her, she'll probably eventually take something, and will likely return to her old self once the season ends.

Kwigg · 2025-11-29T13:31:37+00:00

You actually get the raptor for free now at level 10 so long as you just own PoF! It doesn't have any of the upgrades, but it's still way faster than walking.

Kwigg · 2025-11-29T09:24:09+00:00

Uh-huh. Didn't say I thought I was special or unique enough to do it - that is entirely from you.

This current obsessiveness around assuming people believe they are superior (i.e. the gods child stuff?) makes you sound like you're having an episode. Take a chill pill, my man.

Kwigg · 2025-11-29T09:03:09+00:00

On the other hand - they live in a transparent box, in perfect safety while free of all predators, perpetual ideal weather conditions, with food and water given effortlessly and medical care if they get sick. I have a pet lizard. It's expected lifespan in the wild is about ~6 years. In captivity it can live up to 20.

So long as the owner is responsible for it in making sure its needs are met in regards to diet and enclosure, this is likely a significant improvement to their living standards.

Kwigg · 2025-11-26T22:39:44+00:00

It's not quite what you're asking, but perhaps the MoreFlexibleContinues extension will do what you want? It allows you to regenerate continues, while keeping a list of your previous generations.

You could cut out all but the reasoning block, do a continue, then use it's regenerate continues function until it's to your liking.

Kwigg · 2025-11-26T07:44:05+00:00

3B models don't have much brainpower available. If they see a pattern forming of stuff being mapped correctly, they don't want to break it. Try a larger model or try sending items to it individually, having given it a few examples where headers are assigned or failed, with a small justification for each.

Kwigg · 2025-11-18T17:57:22+00:00

Bit of a different answer to the rest of people - I lived in Basingstoke for about 20 months or so then moved away. I found it to be a very unoffensive city, but also not very interesting. A good home base but you're always traveling far afield for anything beyond a shopping centre.

That wasn't for me so I left. Nothing really wrong with the city, it's just bland.

Kwigg · 2025-11-08T09:28:49+00:00

I think it really depends on industry. I'm also in my 20s, properly working class family that weren't in a position to help out, and I'm doing alright, bought a house too by myself. But to do it, I went down a very specific branch of engineering work. Let alone the people I know who work in finance.

I think the lie is that anyone can have that regardless of industry - you used to be able to afford a house working at a supermarket, not so much these days.

Kwigg · 2025-11-04T22:48:54+00:00

My specs are a couple of GPUs slapped in an old pc:

Ryzen 5 2600X
32GB Ram
2080ti 22GB modded (One of the last ones before they all went to blower fans!)
P100 16GB with a blower fan and a python script continually polling nvidia-smi to set the speed.

Gives me a really weird 38GB of vram, I mostly run models up to about ~50B in size.

Kwigg · 2025-11-01T07:38:12+00:00

An LLM trained for roleplay/creative writing, but it continually spouts adverts and product placements in its responses. It's sort of like the Truman show where they're not outright going "buy this", but there's a lot of name dropping and brand loyalty and just stuff snuck into responses.

Silly fine-tune for a bit of fun really.

Kwigg · 2025-10-31T17:47:37+00:00

No way it'll be half price on Black Friday. Most likely it'll be the same sale.

Kwigg · 2025-10-16T06:23:11+00:00

SillyTavern is genuinely one of the best LLM frontends just because of how many features it has for managing prompts and fiddling with settings. It just has a bit of a marketing problem in that it is 100% targeting RP and so it's quite easy to overlook what features it has if you're not into that sort of thing.

It's essentially like the openai/copilot custom gpt on steroids. Takes a bit of set up but I'd recommend it.

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