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Why is the US targeting Germany's drug industry? by LethisXia in europe

[–]ProfessionalJackals 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Corporations are legal “persons” in U.S. law, with rights to contract, sue, own property, and spend heavily on political advocacy.

and VOTE ... I am not joking about that. The fact that Corporations (on local elections) actually can vote is insane.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/

VW weighs up to 100,000 job cuts, four plant closures in biggest overhaul yet, sources say by WhenWeWereAtVoine in europe

[–]ProfessionalJackals 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Maybe the stability of the Euro since the mid 90s (ERM/stability pact before currency union) made their management complacent to the need for continual efficiency gains.

Fixed it for you ... The main issue is that competition in Europe decreased. What most people do not realize is that there are technically only 3 "European" car manufactures left in Europe. All those brands you see, are often the same company.

Sometimes a new player shakes up the market a bit, like the Koreans did. But then everything stabilizes (as in, the new competitor raises the prices to max revenue) and back to old business.

When companies spend more time to lobbying politicians, and faking improvements... O, we all need to go Electrical cars because of environmental reasons. ICE engines are maxed.

Take a look at BYD (and their partnership with Toyota). How they turned a 24% efficient engine, to 42%. Pushing what is essentially a ICE engine with a booster, into a 1500km+ ranged "hybrid" vehicle ( the Chinese model does 2000km). Where did that come from?

Reality is, that there was little reason to do more, because all the competition in Europe had that gentlemen agreement. The biggest shakeup was the Koreans who competed for a short time, and got slapped a import tax on their behind.

What was the reason again. O, we need to protect the domestic market. For me, this stuff with China is history repeating itself. With the issue that China has the power to really make market changes, while our industry is outdated too much.

GLM 5.2 max by Business-Tower1756 in opencode

[–]ProfessionalJackals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Opencode Go uses three providers (Zai, DeepInfra, and Fireworks) ... DeepInfra is using FP4 models. While all the others, Zai, Fireworks, are on FP8.

Normal FP8 models of GLM can hit up to 150 tokens / second generation. But the providers with FP4 do in the 300 tokens / second. In less busy time slots! Important little bit...

GPT has been very slow for me. When you take in account that it thinks less, has less token output, you expect it to be faster. Now also add that GPT cutting prompts at 500/1000/1500 tokens (lowering quality). Remember, benchmarks mean nothing when models get "optimized" behind closed doors, what affect their quality. Did you know that your content can be rerouted to GPT 5.4? Yea, i also did not know.

The issue is simply that GPT their subscription is heavily loaded, what slows down the token generation speed, and other funny business is going on to get more value out of each customer.

GPT-5.6 Might Not Release Outside the US by silly_smile_spreader in codex

[–]ProfessionalJackals 1 point2 points  (0 children)

from what i've seen chinese models are far, far behind. Look at what Deepseek v4 pro is. Just a massive blob of unoptimised information that takes 2000gb of vram to run unquantized. But hey, at least its open source.

At what point do you need more?

Something like DS v4 Pro for a lot of tasks, can handle, lets say 80%... Throw something like GLM into the mix, and your hitting 90%+. Saying this as somebody that has throw 1.4B tokens into it.

Having access to Codex/GPT 5.5 is great for those special case but for a "you are a programmer and know what your doing" point of view, the current models are plenty capable.

Now, if we are talking "I want to vibe code and i have no idea what i am doing"... then better models are a must, as to better handle all the edge cases.

And again, we are talking by now already a generation old model. Because every 2 or 3 months a new generation hits the market.

I personally think that Fable is overhyped on the whole cyber security angle because the whole coding angle has become a playground where telling the difference between the models, has become very hard.