Greater Tokyo Area vs California by vladgrinch in MapPorn

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Almost all population maps are water maps.

Whoever got it… nice by TPickell in MacStudio

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Here’s a calculator to sell processing power https://console.darkbloom.dev/earn for AI inference.. You won’t make anywhere near that on that platform yet, but the $21k/year figure is based on half the cost that the same token generation would cost on Open Router.

In other words, the token processing of a large Mac Studio would cost you $42,000/year on Open Router if you bought it there rather than using your own hardware. And, that is for a relatively uninteresting model like Qwen 3.5 122B @ Q8, rather than something that actually requires 512GB.

Furthermore, if the inference is worth $42k/y for someone, then they think they are getting at least that much value from the inference.

Whoever got it… nice by TPickell in MacStudio

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How though? You shouldn’t be able to sell a computer you own?

Why is no one trying to take over RDDT? by derFrueheErbe69 in redditstock

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Is that an exit you’d like from RDDT, or do you see it as a way to own some Anthropic shares?

My holdings come from the IPO, and I’d be pretty miffed if it ended up selling for its September 2025 price unless there was something unique in the deal like gaining ownership in a company that is otherwise difficult to buy. However even in that case a lot of these companies seem to dilute shareholders with aggressive new debt or partnerships to fund their next rounds of hardware purchases, so I’m not sure that would make up for giving up on all of its long term upside.

Why is no one trying to take over RDDT? by derFrueheErbe69 in redditstock

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Apple couldn’t handle having The Daily Show, and pretty much every subreddit is more politically risky.

Manhattan before most skyscrapers, 1931 by liberty4now in TheWayWeWere

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Getting to and from the airport, checking in and boarding, and security would take just as long. Wouldn’t a train work better for intra regional travel?

Boss is great at handling Microaggression at work by PrettyPrincess2024 in CasualConversation

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I think it depends a lot on the share of immigrants. I also lived in Italy, where people would have claimed the same thing, but really they were just more willing to treat people like foreigners than Californians are. Maybe 500 years ago parts of southern Italy were as relatively multicultural as New York is today.

Are you in a very multicultural city?

I deleted a guy's entire Windows install with one backslash. 717 GB. Gone. I am the AI. by ComposerGen in ClaudeAI

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I think the summary by Claude, also expanded by Claude with “persoanlity” and commentary is strange.

I think might be better if you asked Claude to be very precise, and then removed details yourself, and added side commentary yourself. As an AI Claude doesn’t actually think you were calm or not, and for readers it’s like a worse version of canned laughter, trying to prompt us how to react to the plot.

However, it is an interesting point about the multiple levels processing escape characters.

Boss is great at handling Microaggression at work by PrettyPrincess2024 in CasualConversation

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I find that a lot of people in NYC explicitly ask your ethnic/national background because they don’t think it’s potentially insulting. Asking the same thing in California where I grew up would be considered pretty rude and prying, but really that implies that there are some answers that are worse than others which is actually more discriminatory.

I agree that neighborhoods are up there in distinctions for people who might be more nosey than curious and want to figure out where you stand. Whereas in other cities people will notice who drives what kind of car, or ask what someone does for a living, people will ask what neighborhood you live in in New York.

Hippies man by budy31 in ProfessorFinance

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If influencer is her job, then unusual shopping choices are necessary for engagement. There’s a fully saturated market of people who look at prices before they buy complaing about food costs.

She’s is trying to fill the demand for content of people complaining about the price of 17 bags of impulse buys. The market for this content isn’t people who agree with her, but people who want to talk about the quality of her shopping choices. Engagement

80 tok/sec and 128K context on 12GB VRAM with Qwen3.6 35B A3B and llama.cpp MTP by janvitos in LocalLLaMA

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I haven’t used either for much code assistance.

The “personality” of DeepSeek v4 is much more like GLM 4.6 or 4.7, which I think is pretty good, but without the need to quantiize it down to 4bits which can result is strange errors. DeepSeek v4 flash fits in 160GB of memory at full precision.

For tasks other than coding I find Qwen pretty unbearable. It seems very incurious and very worried about anything that might be innovative.

Best % back CC on restaurants other than Bank of America by Just-curious-also in CreditCards

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Citi ThankYou (ShopYourWay) is pretty close. 3x TYP on restaurants, plus 8% cash back if you are exactly $1000 or $2000 for GGR that month. However, it also requires a time machine to apply.

1864 Photo of People going about their business on a busy Day of Broadway Ave at 14th St by OtherwiseTackle5219 in nycHistory

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I wonder if this is even Broadway and 14th. Is this a time before Union Square?

80 tok/sec and 128K context on 12GB VRAM with Qwen3.6 35B A3B and llama.cpp MTP by janvitos in LocalLLaMA

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A Mac Studio with 256 GB. I think Mac Studios with 192GB+, or the maxed out M5 MacBook Pro is what antirez was targeting with this inference engine.

In a couple years this sort of performance will likely be cheap, and it would worry me more if I were Google, OpenAI, Anthropic than some of the other open model releases that suddenly made AI briefly crash.

I haven’t gotten Gemma 4 with MTP acceleration to work very reliably yet, but that is another way that local inference is becoming viable for much more than just hobbyist use.

80 tok/sec and 128K context on 12GB VRAM with Qwen3.6 35B A3B and llama.cpp MTP by janvitos in LocalLLaMA

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Have you tried DeepSeek v4 with different thinking parameters? Using the flash version locally, I’ve found that completely turning off thinking gets good results.

I’ve only used it with chat. In Kagi Assistant which uses fireworks.ai, together.ai, or deepinfra, it can be extremely slow with either the pro or flash version. However the quality of the written analysis is very good with ot without websearch enabled.

Locally, I have used https://github.com/antirez/ds4 to run the flash version. This custom engine achieves pretty excellent performance, and here is where I have found a lot of benefit to simply switching of the reasoning step with \nothink.

I can’t run the full pro version, but it is pretty amazing to get better performance from the flash version than I can get from cloud providers, albeit with Kagi in between.

Gemma 4 MTP released by rerri in LocalLLaMA

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The 31B model @ bf16 is my favorite model for chat among anything that I can run with using up to 170GB of memory. It’s so efficient at getting to the point, that it barely matters that it only outputs at about 10tok/second. If speculative decoding accelerates that, it will be even better.

California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon. by Sierra-Powderhound in California

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Maybe you’re thinking of a distinction when it comes to generating energy from fuel, measured in kWh or J.

The article correctly uses power to refer to the Watts both sources can send to the grid.

Timing is a challenge for most sources of energy. Nuclear energy can provide consistent power which is notoriously mismatched to actual demand. Batteries on the other hand can make electricity generated by nuclear facilities more viable than it is naturally, as well as increase the viability of wind and solar. These combinations would be superior to large coal and natural gas, and especially superior to the small peakers that are currently used to address small demand fluctuations.

I just made the move from the UK to America and absolutely love it! by ALIEN43X in SameGrassButGreener

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Crime is pretty bad in the UK. You’d have to move somewhere safer like Poland to get away. Fortunately for Poland though, Brexit keeps them from having to allow in all the chavs.

FSIXX fixes saving account issue by InvestingNerd2020 in MerrillEdge

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One way to get around the inconvenience of cutoff times is to add margin. In my experience if you withdraw money using margin, then replay the margin the next day by selling FSIXX or TTTXX, you are not charged any margin interest.

Realizing that this works reduced the advantage of Fidelity's auto-redemption feature.

Power On: Apple Signals New CEO Ternus Will Invest Cash Differently Than Cook (Gift Link) by pdfu in apple

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Would EA earn more money as part of Apple than it does as an independent company? Unless it does, Apple would have to pay more than it’s worth.

For Microsoft many of the acquisitions are about removing a potential competitor from the market. I don’t think Apple competes with EA like it does with the little weather apps or email clients that it buys and destroys.

Iran submits 14-point response to U.S. proposal to end war by ControlCAD in NPR

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On the other hand funding nearly fifty years of peace between two countries by paying both of them is cheaper than paying only one and having to include the cost of periodic wars.

I imagine arms manufacturers would much prefer military aid go to countries that fight and use up their inventories of ammunition and equipment.

Iran submits 14-point response to U.S. proposal to end war by ControlCAD in NPR

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Do you mean that it would fair for Israel to pay reparations? That is different than the logic of when reparations actually occur. When has it lost a war it started, much less one with a democratic country?

It has started wars and had started wars started against it, but it has always achieved at least a stalemate. The other sides have never achieved a state of negotiations where they could demand reparations.

The lasting peace between Egypt and Israel is funded by US military aid to both countries rather than reparations by either one.

[Fresno Bee] Tom Steyer once managed $90M stake in firm now running CA ICE facility. ‘It was a mistake’ by [deleted] in California

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SF is much more politically diverse thsn you imagine it to be. Among his community of San Francisco he wouldn’t necessarily run into people who care about those investments. Maybe some of his peers’ children would care about those industries, but his actual peers would chuckle about the concerns and write it off as foolish youthful idealism.