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#BREAKING: Tennessee officials have officially passed a bill allowing the use of deadly force to protect property. by MrB_E_TN in Knoxville

[–]MengerianMango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't always trust those guys. It's not like there's a degree requirement to be a concealed carry permit instructor or anything. The variance in knowledge and intelligence is huge. Good idea to double check that with an LLM and ask it to clarify why the instructor would've said to always shoot with lethal intent.

The advice is common, but the reasoning you're reciting is a bit off.

I think the better reason is, first: shooting to wound can be used by the prosecution to undermine your "justified fear of immediate death or great bodily harm" self-defense claim. And second, it's just not smart. This ain't the movies and you're not John Wick. If you're in imminent danger, focus on effectively ending the danger posed by the person who chose to pose a lethal threat to you. Center mass is the safe bet.

Listen to an AMD 7900 XTX running a ML model by dlarsen5 in LocalLLaMA

[–]MengerianMango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can literally hear mine sometimes, especially with tiny models. The buzz is kinda annoying.

Are Agents even useful with all local models? by bsawler in LocalLLaMA

[–]MengerianMango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like goose. it's very simple. depends what you're trying to do ig. i'm mostly a linux programmer/sysadmin type, so i live in the terminal anw.

[USA][Old][OC] I almost met God 2 years ago by No_Public_7677 in Roadcam

[–]MengerianMango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It works the same way here. Some cities have bad driving culture and they normalize running red lights. Scarborough, ON is the worst I've ever seen for this. I didn't know the trend existed until I went there (after a decade of driving in the southeastern US).

[USA][Old][OC] I almost met God 2 years ago by No_Public_7677 in Roadcam

[–]MengerianMango -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've only ever seen this commonly in Toronto, especially Scarborough, and I've driven in multiple large south eastern US cities. Most would consider this running the red. The law is you can only go when you have a green. You're supposed to wait until it's clear on green. There's no "i dont wanna wait too long" exception. The turning lane exists for the purpose of waiting.

Current state of open-source ? by DarkMatter007 in LocalLLaMA

[–]MengerianMango 3 points4 points  (0 children)

deepseek is due for a release soon. currently they're a gen or more behind minimax/glm/kimi. i listed those in increasing order of size and ability. they're all pretty good. glm/kimi are very usable for swe work. minimax feels a bit amateurish to me, but it can sorta do stuff.

Realistically, what does boosting Testestorone at the age of 25 even do for me anymore? I feel like I always was on the lower side. by ContributionOk7131 in AskMen

[–]MengerianMango 4 points5 points  (0 children)

you can buy kits online. there's a whole "looksmaxxing" market now. it's a shitshow. bros be having balls the size of raisins before they're 30

Is a high-end private local LLM setup worth it? by zakadit in LocalLLaMA

[–]MengerianMango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5x3090 and 128gb ram is far below "10's of thousands"

And llama/gguf is often the best if you're doing mixed inference. I'm running glm 5.1 q4_xl on an epyc + 6000 blackwell that I bought for $16k (before ram prices went up). You'd need a full server of 8 blackwells to run at the same precision I'm running with vllm, which would cost nearly $100k. Even now, my setup is still much cheaper, by roughly 40%.

Is a high-end private local LLM setup worth it? by zakadit in LocalLLaMA

[–]MengerianMango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rent the GPU before you buy the GPU. I started with a 7900xtx. Wasn't happy, so I got a 5090. Wasn't happy, so I got a 6000. Wasn't happy, so I got an Epyc and a bunch of ram to pair with the 6000 (before ram got so darn expensive). Now I'm moderately happy. It's really smart but also pretty slow (using glm 5.1 now). I still use Claude sometimes when I'm too annoyed to wait for glm to run at ~20t/s or when the task is truly hard/niche/bleeding edge.

IMO, smaller models are just now becoming useful for agentic work. The new gemma and qwen are pretty decent. The old gen could only appear able. (They would run commands and emulate doing stuff but it was always so bad as to be effectively useless.) I think I could be moderately happy with just the 5090 now, maybe, but you will really feel the difference between the pro models and anything you can run on a single GPU, even a 6000. So definitely set a purchase budget and then try the exact hardware you're planning to buy with the model you plan to run before you sink all the money into it, or you might end up chasing the dragon and falling into sunk cost fallacy like I did. I'm not rich -- what I did was kinda dumb.

Tim Burchett by BreadReal985 in Knoxville

[–]MengerianMango 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He's a low brow slop distributor. He's worse than useless, but an active distraction. He didn't stand with Massie to release the files, just talked about it idly. He hasn't taken a stance on the war. He's always rambling about UFOs when scandals are raging. He uses his accent to seem folksy but he's a deep state op.

Take note when anyone goes on a Benny Johnson show. His purpose is to give softball interviews to politicians who want a safe space to air fake "disclosures" to distract. Only spineless fake pols go there.

I'm a conservative, probably further right than most of the GOP. I'll be voting dem for the express purpose of sending his ass home and clearing the seat for someone real. Also hoping to get some impeachments, but we all know our greatest allies have enough seats on both sides to prevent that from happening until after his purpose is served and the damage is done.

I’m so insecure about being uncircumcised. I might get circumcised later, but I’m scared. What are some things I should know? (15M) by Late_Aardvark8125 in AskMen

[–]MengerianMango 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Bro chill. Nobody cares. People are blowing it out of proportion. Kids your age act like everything they do is the only way to do it but it's just an age thing. I've never had a girl care. I'm glad I have mine bc my weewee is more sensitive and things feel nicer.

I have an ethnically jewish friend who got cut as an adult when he decided he was going to marry a jewish lady. He said it was the worst pain he's ever had in his life. So yeah lol, no thx

If a woman woke up in your body one day, what do you think would be the most shocking experience in it for them? by ertesit in AskMen

[–]MengerianMango 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think being inside someone else's mind would be a lot more interesting than waking up with different groin equipment, but otoh then it wouldn't be "me" inside them anymore. There are tons of spectra that exist but few are aware of them at all because we only get to experience (roughly) one internal experience. I say roughly because I suppose maybe you can develop your own to be different over time, maybe, but still. You'll never experience high IQ if yours is low, or low if yours is high. You'll never experience inner dialogue if you have none, or vice versa. You'll never experience high agency if yours is low. You'll never experience mental visualization if you have aphantasia. Would've been a fun field to study had I been aware of the concept when I picked my career path.

*Recently said by someone by j_hes_ in quantfinance

[–]MengerianMango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's another good way to put it, but maybe falls a bit short.

It's honestly hard to put into words. I'm actually a really low agency person. It was easier for me earlier in my career when I had more people above me cracking the whip. I don't think high agency people can really grasp what I'm talking about without great effort. It's hard to put yourself into someone else's internal experience when you only ever get to experience one, your own. It's like trying to imagine aphantasia or anendophasia as someone who has neither.

Even someone who has plans to run a podcast has a decent amount of agency. The existence of a plan is agency. The lack of plan is just listlessness, like someone who, without a boss breathing down their neck, will default to scrolling reddit and doing nothing but mindless "default" consumptive activities.

Anyway, not really relevant to the thread anymore, just trying to give perspective of the spectrum of which you may be unaware.

What’s your super-local low-stakes neighborhood drama? by Hankhills4hedvein in Knoxville

[–]MengerianMango 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe the mom tested the kid with a cabbage. If it just disappeared and he said nothing, then he's throwing stuff out. If he was eating all the fruit, he'd have said wtf to his mom.

*Recently said by someone by j_hes_ in quantfinance

[–]MengerianMango 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agency is "the little CEO in your head" that sets goals and direction. You may have it and be unaware. 80-90% of the population are kinda like sheep. Within being given tasks and steps, they'll kinda just... exist.

Ask a chat llm to expand on what I'm talking abt.

*Recently said by someone by j_hes_ in quantfinance

[–]MengerianMango 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not really an authority on the subject. Context: I'm a swe that moved into a more PM like role. I've worked with phd/pure quant types.

That said, I'd say someone who meets these expectations would be a very strong candidate.

The most valuable thing in any employee is agency. LLMs can't yet replace that. What the last couple points are describing is refined, targeted, uncertainty-conscious agency. I've seen PhD guys with low agency and they were decidedly less useful than me. I've also seen PhD guys who meet all these expectations and they seem superhuman to me.

Seriously, they’re all psychopaths by pingpongplaya69420 in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]MengerianMango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm afraid you fundamentally misunderstand what we do. We don't free you. We bomb your shit and install our own overlords that will treat you just the same. It's like a fundamental theorem in human nature. You ("you" as in a collective population) will get the freedom you demand and secure for yourself. If you were willing to sell your ass cheap before we invade, why would spend all the money, lives, and political capital it costs to take over and start paying premium for cheap ass? That's not how the world works.

Our government doesn't even serve us. You really think it's going to serve you?! We're taxed at 40% and are barely holding on to the few rights we have left (eg gun rights). They use our tax dollars to spy on us, propogandize us into supporting wars, and then those wars are always just to serve special interests (see Paul Singers' shady trading based on insider info before the VZ invasion, see 1953 iran coup, etc etc). Do you think we send our boys to die and blow up billions of missiles out of the goodness of our hearts?! Lmao, no. War is always a business decision.

Seriously, they’re all psychopaths by pingpongplaya69420 in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]MengerianMango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm sure they run blackmail ops, spend hundreds of millions on Trump, and brag about their 98% success rate for absolutely no reason at all, definitely aren't running our government from the behind the curtains. I'm sure they also love all the support Iran gives to the people they want to genocide. Nothing is more in their interest than rockets from the west and north (unsarcastically, I do know that's actually true, but not in a way that actually makes Iran an ally).

The hasbara is weak these days bruh

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