piperswe

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Comment · 1 day ago
I do think it's easy to not fund LGBTQ+ hate by not eating at Chik-fil-a, and it's easy to not fund trans hate by not funding JK Rowling. If you do either of those things, I do think lesser of you because you obviously think lesser of me if a chicken sandwich or book is more important.
Comment · 2 days ago
Whether or not it’s extreme and weird, it’s certainly widely held. In North America, buying a Tesla is widely seen (and rightly so IMO) as condoning Elon’s Naziism.
Comment · 4 days ago
Everything always has bias, and nothing is ever neutral. Claiming something is "unbiased" just means you either don't know or don't care what bias it has.

(ultimately I believe objectivity is somewhat of a lie we tell ourselves, but that's a discussion for another time)

Comment · 4 days ago
...accurate username? I'm genuinely not sure if this comment is satire or not
Comment · 4 days ago
Most providers of open weight models allow it, it's the closed weight providers that don't
Comment · 4 days ago
They're known as the Romance languages because the languages are rōmānicē (Roman-style), not because they're romantic.
Comment · 12 days ago
Recently I've become more and more aware of the disconnect between my "self" and what my brain does - I'll often do or say things then, a few seconds later, find myself processing what I just did or said then correcting myself. It's quite strange to remember yourself doing something incorrectly, but not remember actually thinking about doing that thing.
Comment · 17 days ago
I love that I could justify my answer to it - spoiler below

I chose CompuServe for oldest file sharing service, and it told me that it was an online service not a cloud file hosting service. I then answered "CompuServe had file sharing" and I received 100pts

Comment · 17 days ago
Nowadays the scraped training data is only one part of the training process. The RL phase of training can instill a knowledge of tactics like sub-agent delegation without documentation about them being present in the training corpus. Context isn't the only way for a model with an early knowledge cutoff to know about it.
Comment · 17 days ago
Even after ensuring GPU acceleration is enabled on Firefox on Linux, it's still sluggish.
Comment · 18 days ago
Also horrifically sluggish on Firefox on Linux.
Comment · 21 days ago
Except for Workers AI, I don't see any reason this wouldn't run on celld.
Comment · 22 days ago
I've never understood recreational use of amphetamines. When I take them (prescribed, of course), I feel like garbage but I'm able to get my work done (which is the only reason I take the damn stuff). If I could choose to shed my executive dysfunction but never be able to take stimulants again, I wouldn't even have to think about it - obviously I'd take that deal.
Comment · 22 days ago
Cloudflare doesn't retain request bodies by default, and if you don't trust that then you shouldn't trust the third party AI provider either. Cloudflare does cache responses, but that doesn't typically apply on API endpoints and is trivially disableable.
Comment · 1 month ago
Still a hell of a lot better than the twin turbo V8 that's in the high-end gas Cayenne

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