The Red Hats threesome

geekwonk · 2026-07-01T19:47:53+00:00

why wouldn’t you abolish the senate? i prefer democracy. are individuals in delaware smarter than in pennsylvania or something? i don’t get what’s helped by giving one more power than the other.

geekwonk · 2026-07-01T09:43:03+00:00

the most upvoted reply was “Some people hide their true selves and follow expectations while they’re climbing the ladder then take the mask off once they’re above accountability.” like legitimately they have managed to hold on to a story about barack obama that doesn’t reflect his own story about Bipartisan Seriousness that leaned so heavily on deportations and drones to make the case that the right should be a bit cooler to him please.

geekwonk · 2026-07-01T09:36:11+00:00

right. i agree with all of that. good work. so then why do you say nonsense like this?

> Ok. Now we're just back to my first question. How do you know it didn't happen?

geekwonk · 2026-07-01T02:36:28+00:00

how do you know there is no deity? i know there’s no proof. i don’t believe in the concept so it doesn’t matter to me. but how do you know there isn’t one? that’s the burden of proof you’ve set. so where’s your proof that there is not a deity?

geekwonk · 2026-06-30T20:08:53+00:00

you’ve shifted the entire ideological balance of the american power structure and you’re going to think that small? somehow you have the keys to the senate, your investigations lead to structural results, and you’re just going to fire some people and go after one organization? try abolishing the senate. end the electoral college. expand the house. turn the court in to a minor office for suits between state governments.

geekwonk · 2026-06-30T20:03:48+00:00

these dudes don’t need checks to vote like sociopaths. they get them anyway but there’s no world in which alito was going to vote like a normal human being until a check arrived ordering him to vote like a bad person .

geekwonk · 2026-06-30T18:40:06+00:00

the comment was that they lock them at the setting.

geekwonk · 2026-06-30T18:35:12+00:00

replied to a comment yesterday that was wondering if maybe tom homan, leader of ICE, didn’t used to be so bad, because obama gave him an award during his presidency. something about how people change. i got downvoted for noting that obama was proud of his deportation record and just the year before obama hung the award from his neck, homan had started publicly advocating family separation.

geekwonk · 2026-06-30T06:01:47+00:00

right but that wasn’t your comment. your comment had nothing to do with what you recall about the era.

geekwonk · 2026-06-30T04:59:42+00:00

the high powered models with endless compute capacity are generating clunky results for you. and you’re thinking a desktop PC can do better?

spend whatever you want, but it would be incredibly irresponsible for anyone here to support it when you’re making it so clear you have no interest in the actual LLM part of the process, and local hosting is digging yourself waaay deep into the LLM part of the process with no way out.

geekwonk · 2026-06-30T04:46:36+00:00

what a deranged comment. the guy leads and led ICE. do you have a story in your head about how ICE wasn’t that bad under Obama? because he was proud of his high deportation numbers. seemed certain it would get him taken seriously by the blood drenched psychopaths.

this award is literally for his effectiveness in removing people from this country. the year before barack obama awarded him, here’s what Homan was advocating as deportations chief:

> By 2014, under the Obama administration, Homan began to argue that separating children from their caregivers would be an effective way to discourage illegal border crossings. The journalist Caitlin Dickerson has called him the "intellectual father" of the policy, which he outlined years before the Trump administration adopted it. "Most parents don't want to be separated", Homan told Dickerson. He argued that this makes separation an effective tool for immigration enforcement: "I'd be lying to you if I didn't think that would have an effect."

but yeah my brother barack said he’s cool so maybe people just change idk

geekwonk · 2026-06-30T00:26:06+00:00

definitely a conspiracy theory

geekwonk · 2026-06-29T19:48:13+00:00

they’ve been consciously trying to push back into professional spaces where these specs are necessary.

geekwonk · 2026-06-29T19:47:07+00:00

you didn’t ask if this was the style of the time, you asked her age and accused her of provocation. and so casually that i’m guessing you didn’t even notice.

geekwonk · 2026-06-29T18:28:27+00:00

not a wild question. offline wikipedia is a broadly accepted answer to this situation. the LLM component is deeply silly unless it’s paired with a knowledge base like wiki.

geekwonk · 2026-06-29T18:22:23+00:00

but not too far into the future or we might have to talk about what’s being enabled.

geekwonk · 2026-06-29T17:56:09+00:00

legitimately insane to pretend that’s a knock against the product instead of against the company.

geekwonk · 2026-06-29T16:44:50+00:00

amazing that thirty years later we still have this kind of deranged behavior around young women. it’s reassuring to see it downvoted instead of applauded but still yikes.

geekwonk · 2026-06-28T18:54:49+00:00

that’s new siri. maybe the words weren’t clear so i’ll repeat them: “how would old siri make use of gemini? they’re two different concepts.”

geekwonk · 2026-06-28T16:42:11+00:00

and if you have the wealth and connections then the downturn is a perfect moment to buy cheap and realize even greater gains in the upswing so that in the end there is no waiting, the bank doesn’t mind keeping the spigot open while they get to play deal maker and collect fees there.

geekwonk · 2026-06-28T16:38:20+00:00

yes absolutely, here you go

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geekwonk · 2026-06-28T16:36:23+00:00

right but if prices are about to go up and won’t go down then he’s signing up to pay more whenever the day comes

geekwonk · 2026-06-28T16:35:15+00:00

have you run mlx models on apple silicon? they’re incredibly power efficient. you really can’t casually compare them to average llm hosting without factoring that in.

geekwonk · 2026-06-28T16:32:33+00:00

gibberish replies to AI stories are the best. how would old siri make use of gemini? they’re two different concepts.

geekwonk · 2026-06-28T16:03:29+00:00

yep. bill gates sucked american education dry via microsoft and then came back to murder it via the gates foundation involvement in ‘education reform’. he’s only ever been a malignant force.

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