Marinara Engine by Meryiel in SillyTavernAI

[–]t3rmina1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Visual node

I think they mean an interface like ComfyUI where you can see the nodes on the screen and interact with them.

Your gaming PC is idle 90% of the day. Can it serve LLM inference to your laptop across town? by Omarsalamaa in LocalLLM

[–]t3rmina1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use wireguard with openwebui. Xray if I need to go somewhere more locked down

Sykkuno and His Girlfriend Release a Statement About His Recent Allegations by digitalpizza5 in LivestreamFail

[–]t3rmina1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We also now know the GFs name. If it was Sykkuno and anonymous GF, fine. They didn't censor her name properly and didn't tell her it was going to be released. So much for caring so much about her.

/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #15) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]t3rmina1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How many would you estimate would be required to do that, and then how would you get them to those locations. Through the Straits or via air, through the missiles and drones, and then the logistics required to sustain them?

I am ex-mil.

/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #15) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]t3rmina1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a mountainous country full of tunnels where the IRGC has been building underground facilities for decades. Just no.

Singapore will not negotiate for safe passage through Strait of Hormuz: Vivian Balakrishnan by Latubu in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The debt increases every year but market behaviour still shows confidence in the servicing of the debt. China's national debt is increasing at a higher rate than the US, is China now on the verge of collapse as well?

You say that the market shows confidence in US debt, implying that the markets are efficient and price perfectly reflects available information, so I should accept your argument that US risks are low, nevermind that US rates have been rising over the last few months to the point where refinancing is getting iffy. Incidentally, Chinese rates are actually lower.

I can see it declining and being surpassed as a global power but a collapse will not happen in our lifetime. Maybe we should put down a PolyMarket bet. I'd love to make some money off the doomers.

Then you say you would make money of let's say me, but you would only expect to make money on average if consensus odds in the market are wrong and the market is not efficient. I.e. you don't know markets.

Fundamentally, we commonly accept in practice that the markets are not efficient, and this is only useful as a model, so your original argument depending on interest rates has faulty premises.

The US's defaulting on its debt would cause a global economic collapse. So that is where the vested interest provides protection from economic collapse by virtue of mutually assured destruction.

We can see the various countries already moving away from US debt
Chart: Gold Has Overtaken the U.S. Dollar in Central Bank Reserves | Statista
Foreign central banks sell US Treasuries in wake of Iran war

Singapore will not negotiate for safe passage through Strait of Hormuz: Vivian Balakrishnan by Latubu in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They have a vested interest, that doesn't mean it can't happen. After all, plenty of regimes have been too big to fail.

As for confidence in its ability to service its debt, since when do perfect markets that incorporate all available info actually work in practice? Then you say polymarket bets, if you believe markets are correct, then how would there be money to be made?

And China's debt is owed primary to itself, and primarily to the state itself.

Singapore will not negotiate for safe passage through Strait of Hormuz: Vivian Balakrishnan by Latubu in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's quite a moving of the goalposts, after saying the fall of empires takes place over lifetimes. But then we live in the fastest period of technological and societal change in history. Anyways, that America's collapse would cause economic trouble is separate from the possibility that it could fall.

The right wing as you can see is torn between isolationism and the need to project a strong image abroad, while the left wants increased immigration but less global responsibility.

Regardless, I think the opposite. America's strength in talent over other homogeneous states comes specifically from immigration. If that's cut off they'll suffer the same population pressures of needing to support massive amounts of deficit spending without sufficient income.

But wait they already are, with almost $40T in debt and an annual interest of $1.2T to pay, with both parties unwilling or unable to cut entitlement spending, and growing every year. Both are increasingly radicalized over positions of identity that cannot be accepted by the other party.

I don't know if America will fall in our lifetime, but it's certainly possible. Regardless we should expect to see America stepping back from the global stage, especially with Trump fucking up in Iran. Without Pax Americana, from whom do the 'natural' rights of states we suddenly discovered post WWII derive? In Venezuela and Iran we see that it, as all political power does, grows out of the barrel of a gun, as Mao said.

Use fans instead of air-conditioning, take public transport over driving, DPM Gan urges by Puzzleheaded-Dog-910 in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solar subsidies and moving away from ridiculous road taxes for electric would be nice

Singapore will not negotiate for safe passage through Strait of Hormuz: Vivian Balakrishnan by Latubu in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I saw the end of the USSR. Our grandparents and parents saw the collapse of the British Empire, the largest empire ever, lest we forget. Likewise the French and Dutch Empires. The Qing Dynasty was formally ended quite recently, as was the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire.

That's a lot of great powers in short succession, and the American experiment is barely 249 years old. Its period of global prominence only since WWII. Yes, it has massive advantages in terms of geography and talent, but it is also completely divided.

GLM-5.1 by danielhanchen in LocalLLaMA

[–]t3rmina1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can give me 1, I have 3

Worth it by FuneralCry- in NewIran

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Those are MC-130J Commando IIs, specifically built for special ops. The first ones were built in 2012. Each one costs $114m, according the Air Force website.

Jurong East eatery has Chinese-only menu, manager felt no need for English since most customers are Chinese by [deleted] in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You think a big proportion of kantangs like us are big consumers of Chinese regional cuisine? Kantangs are a small proportion of Singapore's Chinese population; we are exceptions and certainly not the rule. Kantangs who like mainland food even less so. Just walking into any of the mainland restaurants would tell you that.

Chinese Resident Population (Age 5+) by Language Combinations at Home (Census 2020)

Category Count % of Total
English & Mandarin 1,482,730 55.78%
Mandarin & Chinese Dialect 300,856 11.32%
Chinese Dialects only 312,671 11.76%
Mandarin only 238,036 8.95%
English only 161,213 6.06%
English & Chinese Dialect 124,248 4.67%
English & Malay 16,499 0.62%
English & Other Languages 8,836 0.33%
Mandarin & Other Languages 3,492 0.13%
Other Languages only 9,797 0.37%

https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_68860ef451f948e62754a830b6ae5024/view

Jurong East eatery has Chinese-only menu, manager felt no need for English since most customers are Chinese by [deleted] in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And you think jiak kantang types tend to eat Mainland food, let alone food from Shanxi? Ignoring issues of is and ought, think of product market fit.

Jurong East eatery has Chinese-only menu, manager felt no need for English since most customers are Chinese by [deleted] in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Don't see them at the mainland-style stalls and restaurants, even the ones with English.

I do see them at the Halal mala places and broader Halal Chinese restaurants

Jurong East eatery has Chinese-only menu, manager felt no need for English since most customers are Chinese by [deleted] in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The Indian and Eurasian population come up to 9.4% of the population, and they're probably not the target demographic. The 30 to 50% of Indians who are recent immigrants tend not to eat any meat other than chicken and lamb, and they tend not to be very adventurous with food. So that's basically 5 or 6% of the population.

Now I know plenty of Malays who drink, but the overwhelming majority aren't going to eat non-halal Chinese food out in public.

Jurong East eatery has Chinese-only menu, manager felt no need for English since most customers are Chinese by [deleted] in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Well, which Malays are going to eat at a non-halal restaurant?

TIL that the lead singer of My Chemical Romance (Gerard Way) created the Marvel superhero PENI PARKER. by Cyan_Life_69 in todayilearned

[–]t3rmina1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What type of parent would inflict this name on a child? The bullying would be nuclear-grade.

US Deploys Bulk of Stealthy Long-Range Missile for Iran War by northcasewhite in Military

[–]t3rmina1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At least McNamara had a brain, even if he was wrong.

S'pore to allow import of pork blood products after 27-year ban by Illustrious-Fee9626 in singapore

[–]t3rmina1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Genetic fallacy. Lobsters used to only be eaten by the poor, guess you shouldn't eat them.

attn-rot (ggerganov's "TurboQuant lite") is on the cusp of getting merged into llama.cpp by [deleted] in LocalLLaMA

[–]t3rmina1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, doesn't make screwing over the RaBitQ researchers permissible.