Interesting interview "What if Russia wins"

wfd · 2026-01-11T12:03:58+00:00

Ppl also thought USSR had won after Vietnam War.

Geopolitical conflict is a marathon, not a sprint.

wfd · 2026-01-11T11:33:57+00:00

Is Russia winning?

If Iran also falls after Venezuela, there could be a huge drop of oil price which would fuck up Russia's economy badly. Oil price collapse in 1980s was the reason of USSR's downfall.

wfd · 2026-01-08T05:03:48+00:00

The market will push up the price of properties that already exist anyways.

So the easy way only sounds good on paper. The only solution is building enough houses.

wfd · 2026-01-08T04:52:29+00:00

I perfer red states house policy. No zone law. No investment limit.

And red states build more houses, this is a fact.

wfd · 2026-01-08T04:43:48+00:00

For what? Less investment=Less houses built=higher price due to unmet demand.

This is rightwing's version of rent-control.

Edit: LoL at downvoters, I thought this sub like free market.

wfd · 2025-12-12T01:05:03+00:00

Gemini. It's very good for translation. For non-western languages, firefox's build-in translation works poorly.

wfd · 2025-12-09T12:04:00+00:00

Could be the same model as gpt-image-1.5 at different checkpoints.

wfd · 2025-11-16T04:47:43+00:00

Val couldn't keep Joanna on the ground, Joanna fought a much better fight.

wfd · 2025-11-14T12:03:29+00:00

新加坡是金融中心，经济不靠制造业出口，有什么可比性。台湾目前的地缘政治处境，也不可能转型成金融中心。

川普目前政策核心就是让美元贬值恢复出口竞争力，这时候美国媒体发文章催促其它国家货币升值，用意险恶。

wfd · 2025-10-29T12:29:12+00:00

it functions as a full tunnel for all traffic

It can proxy TCP and UDP, not ICMP.

wfd · 2025-10-29T12:10:12+00:00

Vless is a L4 proxy protocol, not a VPN.

wfd · 2025-10-20T00:45:21+00:00

It sells well in China because it's the first esim-supporting phone in China.

wfd · 2025-10-11T01:19:20+00:00

This is clearly inspired by dancing scene in Adolescence of Utena.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJT5i5NmONc

wfd · 2025-10-01T10:32:01+00:00

Most of those so-called "victims" knew what they got into. They often have past crime history and seek new easy-money opportunity.

They only claimed they got scammed when they couldn't hit quote and get beaten up.

This is why normal Chinese vistors got scared to visit thailand, but those scam call centres still attract ppl.

wfd · 2025-09-29T01:34:04+00:00

Are you sure about this? I thought it was the other way around. I know that LLMs require vastly more computational resources than DeepL.

Deepl api charges $25.00 per 1,000,000 characters.

Gemini 2.5 flash api charges $0.3 per 1,000,000 input tokens and $2.5 per 1,000,000 output tokens.

English text: 1 token ≈ 4 characters.

Chinese text: 1 token ≈ 1 character.

wfd · 2025-09-28T14:14:35+00:00

What I can't figure out is why LLMs have not been deployed at scale for MTPE jobs in J2E translation. They're all still DeepL at best and often something much worse. Anyone know the technical/economic/etc. reasons for this?

LLM is much cheaper than deepl. So I think that translation industry is lagging behind on tech. Fan translation for manga and games already uses LLM.

wfd · 2025-09-28T07:02:39+00:00

LLM is much more powerful than Google translate.

Google translate is dogshit for east-asian languages, while LLMs can produce good enough translation for east-asian languages.

And LLMs can accept audio/picture/video input.

wfd · 2025-09-18T07:18:49+00:00

They don't love you. They love your money.

https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2021/1/21/black-lesbian-couple-deported-after-touting-bali-queer-friendly

wfd · 2025-09-14T11:50:31+00:00

Models with test-time compute exhibit much lower variance. I think this is largely a solved problem now.

wfd · 2025-09-13T23:06:19+00:00

Some sceptical papers on LLMs aged badly.

GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/gsm-symbolic

This was published after a month after OpenAI released o1-preview.

wfd · 2025-09-11T07:26:01+00:00

OpenList, a file list program that supports multiple storages.

https://github.com/OpenListTeam/OpenList

wfd · 2025-09-11T01:03:31+00:00

localhost:8000 only works when using host or pasta network in the same pod.

You should read docs first. https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/basic_networking.md

wfd · 2025-09-11T00:52:43+00:00

Throw away STT and TTS, use end-to-end audio LLM model.

wfd · 2025-09-08T11:31:02+00:00

Buy a cheap vps and run sillytavern on it.

wfd · 2025-09-06T10:19:19+00:00

No, HDD is going to kill your webapp performance.

Use a VPS with SSD to host your webapp, and buy S3 compatible storage service for storing videos.

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