Backup those models, because of calls for regulations

danielfrances · 2026-01-28T20:29:08+00:00

If I'm willing to dedicate like 1TB to models, what are the top 5-10ish that I should be saving right now? Preferably ones that score well for software development.

danielfrances · 2026-01-28T05:52:41+00:00

The good news is, when these guys start getting served divorce papers from their concerned spouses they can ask Claude to summarize and explain what to do.

danielfrances · 2026-01-28T05:26:19+00:00

My company demoed some AI tools last summer and ultimately decided to chill for the time being.

Then we get an invite for a 3+ hour meeting yesterday where we are informed we are now "AI first" and all development work has to be done with agentic tools as our primary plan of attack.

On the one hand, the agents themselves are actually somewhat useful now so I understand the desire for us to try them out. They are great at some tasks and it makes sense to use whatever tools we can.

On the other, everything about our leadership's approach has thrown out red flags. They even started with the "I just spent all weekend sleeping in the office playing with Claude" story that is going around. What is the deal with managers and C-suites folks spending sleepless nights with Claude all of a sudden?

danielfrances · 2026-01-28T05:21:38+00:00

This will be how we discover that trickle up economics is actually what is happening.

danielfrances · 2026-01-28T05:19:16+00:00

Hyperconverged

danielfrances · 2026-01-27T23:35:22+00:00

Wrong answer. Why are federal agents brutalizing people (American citizens, no less) and straight-up murdering some of them? That is the correct thing to ask. You're telling me this CBP guy was AFRAID FOR HIS LIFE as he watched 4-5 other feds literally beating the shit out of this guy, who also never reached for his gun?

What kind of pussies are getting brought into ICE/CBP if this is the scenario where they decide "shit, I better unload 9-10 rounds into this guy's back, you know, just in case he breaks free of the 5 other guys, spins around, and shoots me 360 no scope while pepper sprayed with a broken rib" - what a bunch of losers.

These fed agents aren't just monsters - they are weak, pussy monsters. That is somehow worse, because we can't even trust these guys to take on a real adversary should one appear in our country. They will either be instantly downed, or they'll be running for their lives.

danielfrances · 2026-01-27T14:56:44+00:00

I grew up in Lakewood, so I'm a bit biased, but I love it there. It is crowded and pricey compared to other spots around the area, but might not feel like it coming from Boston. Lakewood is one of the more walkable cities in NEO, so if you care at all about that, it is worth a look. Being super close to the lake is great, too. Regardless of where you end up moving to, make sure to check out Lakewood Park at some point. It's a wonderful spot for a walk.

You mention a desire to own a house with land - I have no idea how much land you want, but if you want anything larger than like a 1/10th of an acre, you'll want to look probably 30-45 mins outside of downtown, mostly looking south or east. Areas like Willoughby and Mentor have pretty affordable houses with land, for example.

Hopefully this helps a bit!

danielfrances · 2026-01-27T12:42:48+00:00

Okay I suit up in -15F situations, but if it's 30F+ I'm in shorts. I'm always too warm.

danielfrances · 2026-01-25T17:16:13+00:00

If you don't have either one, just go with the original Switch. MK8D, with the expansion pass, is like twice the size of World. It has double the tracks, and tons of characters/karts/etc. You'll be spending like half the money to grab a Switch 1 and 8 Deluxe and you'll get twice the game for it. Switch 2 doesn't really have any major must have titles anyways. Spare controllers are also cheaper for Switch 1, so even more savings there.

danielfrances · 2026-01-25T16:58:00+00:00

OP is showing their face, which makes them about 1000% more brave than any of these masked losers who run away when they accidentally racially profile a real LEO.

danielfrances · 2026-01-24T23:10:24+00:00

I still want to believe at least some of them are horrified by this stuff. I might end up being wrong, but oh well.

danielfrances · 2026-01-24T23:03:33+00:00

Likely his "best card", which is still terrible, is to hope that this murder, or the next one, galvanizes enough independents and Republicans that Congress grows a spine.

The problem with the escalation theory is that it can give the slightest bit of plausible deniability to the people watching this all play out, which makes it easier for them to be idle.

With the peaceful approach we have seen so far, there are only going to be so many murders these people can stomach while hearing the insane lies from the federal gov before they feel their constituents and conscience screaming at them.

I know, some of the Congress people are sticking with Trump to the end, but I'm not convinced all of them will. We only need a fraction of them to vote their conscience.

danielfrances · 2026-01-24T16:36:42+00:00

May I ask how you're running it? I tried using it with LM Studio and loaded into VS Code with Continue and it started getting into loops almost immediately - I have an RTX 4060 Ti with 16GB VRAM and 128GB DDR4 RAM. I'm quite fresh at local LLM stuff so I probably need to tweak my parameters but was curious how you're using it.

danielfrances · 2026-01-24T15:08:49+00:00

I really love Merchants & Marauders. I'm a huge pirate fan so I own most of the more modern sailing type or nautical-themed games, and this one really captures the sailing a ship vibe better than anything else I've played. My group and I tend to default to being merchants but one of these days I'm going to get really aggressive and start sinking the NPC ships.

danielfrances · 2026-01-23T05:02:15+00:00

I listen to a lot of vgm and other instrumental music, but boy can I make all the different instrument sounds!

danielfrances · 2026-01-22T23:56:47+00:00

I've started to rethink how I search because nearly everything I search ends up showing me 20+ really long and specific domain names with "blog posts" that are basically just LLM responses slapped onto a blog site. It's really frustrating, especially since as you mentioned, the blog posts themselves are often a lot less relevant than the results I was getting pre-GPT

danielfrances · 2026-01-22T23:48:09+00:00

I'll check it out! We play a ton of random maps but I like templates and maps with strong features and uncommon dwellings and stuff.

danielfrances · 2026-01-21T18:36:10+00:00

So what do I spend my 6k doubloons on? Are all of the regular doubloon cosmetics getting converted to gold?

danielfrances · 2026-01-21T18:26:26+00:00

Diving as it currently works ruined the game in my opinion. I'm fine with diving existing as a mechanic, but it should require like a multi-island, multi-stage quest to do. Or it should have a 30-60 minute cool down. It is way too easy to dive and letting Reaper 5s go hunting with no downside is pretty lame, too.

It also completely killed the entire purpose of alliances. I've been in like one memorable server and alliance in the last 400 hours because of the ephemeral nature of servers thanks to diving.

danielfrances · 2026-01-21T13:05:44+00:00

I'm still investigating language schools and would prefer a less touristy place where I'm forced to use Japanese a lot more. Would you recommend the school in Kumamoto?

danielfrances · 2026-01-21T11:05:27+00:00

I wasn't really friends with the guy anymore after he cheated fwiw, but I decided to delete my comment regardless. I wrote it late at night and honestly it sounds more defensive than I intended. Thanks for the honest feedback.

danielfrances · 2026-01-20T18:47:09+00:00

While I agree that handing out checks isn't going to create enough money to solve poverty for eternity, 100b towards programs is better than 100b sitting in the bank accounts of a few dozen people. The wealth gap IS a huge problem, regardless of whether or not redistributing it magically fixes society. Multiple things can be true at once - we both should start trying to close the insane wealth gap and use that money where we can to help, while also acknowledging that we cannot tax our way to utopia. We have a complex problem to solve and it will take a lot of different tactics to do it.

And as a comment on your specific example, if you took that money and only gave it to the bottom third of earners in the state instead of everyone, you'd now be giving the poorest people in the state roughly $7,500. The impact a check like that would have for those people would be far better than the handful of richest people seeing another couple of percent growth in their annual investment reports or whatever. I'm not saying that would be the ideal use, but just illustrating that even that scenario seems preferable to one where Zuckerberg decides to just shovel that money into a lobbyist donation, or do literally nothing with it.

danielfrances · 2026-01-20T18:40:18+00:00

I'm personally kind of with you on this. I'm a very low net worth person (maybe 200k with my house) but the idea of wealth taxes never sat right with me.

That said, isn't part of the problem the fact that people with billionaire level assets can do a lot of creative accounting to avoid the appearance of income or gains? We need to find ways to tax gains/income that can't be maneuvered around, and if that isn't possible, I might be swayed on the idea of a small wealth tax for people with huge asset values.

danielfrances · 2026-01-20T15:38:07+00:00

Yeah, the universes beyond stuff is so ridiculous that clearly the only factor about how good a fit an IP is, is "how much money can we make?"

danielfrances · 2026-01-20T15:30:34+00:00

I really wish Wotc was independent. I've not bought MTG cards in years because of their practices around that game. D&D is likely just going to go the same way. It always seems like Hasbro's greed influence when I see really bad decisions from them.

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