ThunderSizzle

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Comment · 3 days ago
It seems disingenuous by our government. Create a tax strategy that is so complicated, people feel like they have to hire professionals. However, if the professionals err, it's the citizenry that pays the penalty.

Seems like simplify or just erradicting the tax code would be more just at this point.

Comment · 4 days ago
I wouldn't be surprised lower security on a government website could be an artifact of the fact government websites tend to have crap security, at least in my experience.
Comment · 5 days ago
I was hesitant, so I went with a hassle-free return route when I bought mine.

My stack uses a local llamacpp ROCM build, modified by https://github.com/stew675/llama-cpp-rdna-boosts

The build uses my machine's ROCM and I just link it instead of embedded all that in an image, like the published ones do.

Then deploying it via docker compose to my local machine. The models I want to run are stored in a docker volume, so it's easy to switch the model while keeping the same build.

The biggest negative for me is that I don't think it's enough to do parallelization through llamacpp (I'd prefer to work on one thing faster than two things slowly). I haven't gotten vllm working yet. Also, once you have one, you constantly start thinking about a second card...

Comment · 6 days ago
Put the liability on the AI companies, and they'll slow down.

However, that also means AI will be even more lobotomized since the cloud providers will panic over being liable

Comment · 6 days ago
If you already have a machine, throwing an r9700 in it is one of the cheapest ways to get qwen3.8 27B Q6 with 100k+ context working.

Sadly, the r9700 has gone up in price, but it's still the cheapest route. I use It on an old x99 Linux desktop and it achieves 50 tps decode and 1000+ tps prefill.

Comment · 8 days ago
You could do smaller increments and script it so your only doing 10GB at a time.
Comment · 8 days ago
Probably should still consider voting with your wallet though...

Why trust Google of they aren't acting in your interest?

Comment · 12 days ago
It's not a transfer. If a trust owns a game, then the trust owns the game. A transfer of trust is not a transfer of ownership of the trust's property.

Now, moving a steam account into a trust might be a breach, if they care. Even using a trust to buy a game might also be a violation of some form, perhaps, buried in the toc.

But the trust itself is a legal entity and it can own things. Just because the people behind the trust changes doesn't mean it was a transfer on the public side of the trust.

Comment · 13 days ago
I'm not sure it's legal to do a dog search just because you pulled over a car for a turning light violation.

No one gets pulled over for turning light violations for safety reasons, but that's beside the point. I just hate how many laws we have that are just selectively enforced.

Comment · 13 days ago
If the human is doing a proper workflow for the AI, I'm not so sure it's big central. Yes, AI needs to be guided strongly, and if it's not, it makes very poor choices/decisions routinely, but that's why you keep an engineer controlling the process.

I force all work to be split up into chunks, properly investigated, spiked, and planned out, and then implemented via TDD (with only system-boundary mocking permitted). It's not perfect, but I've seen regression bugs very much cut so far.

Beyond that, if it's a GUI app, I also require the TDD cycle to require GUI tests with screenshot evidence, and proper assert statements.

Comment · 13 days ago
How so? Companies and trusts are legal persons, just like anyone else...
Comment · 14 days ago
What if my trust or business buys it? My trust/business is a legal individual that can be passed down to other owners over time?
Comment · 17 days ago
The spec doesn't matter. The implementation of the spec against users freedom matters.
Comment · 17 days ago
I think the point is I can make a physical copy of my backup email and password. How do I print a passkey for safekeeping?

In other words, my email can be signed in from anywhere on purpose. It's a feature. The chances of me forgetting my password is zero, because I can back it up 7 way to Sunday.

A passkey seems to miss these basic accessibility issues. For a random website, that's fine, but for the service all of websites use to auth me, access is more important than locking it down to one device.

Comment · 17 days ago
The real problem is that companies/institutions should procure one domain name, and stick with it. There's no reasons so need to be redirected through 6 domain names when signing into Microsoft, all of which look like a phishing attempt URL.

One domain, one account.

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