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sobchak

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  • The Democrats are the undisputed masters of gaslighting

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  • The FDR admin was pretty helpful. Union membership was declining during the Great Depression until the admin started implementing labor and union-friendly policies. Wouldn't have happened without organization and all that either, of course. Even the NLB under Biden was marginally helpful. I mean, the politicians obviously won't want to overthrow the system or anything like that, and a lot of the reforms could be seen as a way to save capitalism from itself.

  • Mycology

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  • iNaturalist is amazing (not necessarily their auto-id model, but the community that helps ID things).

  • How useful are functional programming languages?

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  • I have not personally worked on large projects using functional languages. I know they are popular in finance/trading.

  • The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

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  • Been a while since I've used Scala, but I remember Scala being much more focused on functional programming than Kotlin.

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • They are establishment Dem propaganda. I've noticed recent instances where they seem to be somewhat complicit or cagey with their language regarding all the fucked up shit that's been going on. I.e. using language like "some people argue," instead of plainly stating obviously illegal or fucked up shit. Their rebranding to MS Now was specifically to distance its brand from be a "resistance brand," according to the CEO.

  • The FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says

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  • Yeah, I used to be in a group where I'm pretty sure a couple people were informants or agents. A couple people would fed-post in the Signal group sometimes.There were leaks that showed the FBI was indeed "monitoring" the group. I suspect any lefty group is infiltrated is some way.

  • Vanilla Ice

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  • Some of it is a function of media. Media typically doesn't cover when non-white people get murdered. Some of it is the media reflecting the racism of its viewers. Some of it is being caught on video and leaving less room for doubt (and the media deciding to show the videos). There's also been protests and action being taken by normal citizens before these white people got killed (these white people were killed doing it, after all).

  • RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!

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  • Every game I've tried works fine. Including resource hungry games like Cyberpunk 2077. It's my understanding that games are typically light on the CPU because they typically also try to target consoles which don't have very good CPUs. It is noticeably slower at some (highly parallelize-able) tasks, but is fine for any game I've tried. The CPU is probably roughly equivalent to the CPU in a Steam Deck.

  • RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!

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  • I've got a PC with an i7-4770k, 32GB of RAM, and RTX 3090 that plays games just fine (and does runs local LLMs just fine too).

  • Gold tops $5,000 for first time ever, adding to historic rally

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  • Price of gold is increasing faster than the dollar is declining. E.g. look at gold price charts in euros.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Dunno if that's true or not. Generally, much more compute is used in inference than training, since you only train once, then use that model for millions of queries or whatever. However, some of these AI companies may be training many models constantly to one-up each-other and pump their stock; dunno. The "thinking" model paradigm is also transferring a lot more compute to inference. IIRC OpenAI spent $300k of compute just for inference to complete a single benchmark a few months ago (and found that, like training, exponentially increasing amounts of compute are needed for small gains in performance).

  • Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne after Macron refuses to join 'board of peace'

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  • I don't think so. I think some lower courts did, but the Supreme Court changed the rules to ban "blanket injunctions," so every wronged party has to bring their case to the courts and considered on a case-by-case basis. I think there's a case about tariffs that the Supreme Court is supposed to rule on but haven't yet. The admin, right now, can seemingly do anything it wants by just tying up courts with large numbers of illegal acts. They face no consequences for doing so, and the Supreme Court is mostly complicit (and illegitimate).

  • Wikipedia is one of the last genuine places on the Internet, and these rat bastards are trying to contaminate that, too

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  • Even the paid models I've tried do that. The style LLMs use seems deeply ingrained. Either companies do it on purpose, or it's just the result of all the companies using similar training data and techniques.

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    To Every American Who's Sorry (from the Greenland subreddit)

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  • Meh, most of rest of the world are also supporting this regime by still trading with the US, using their services, investing in their companies, and buying their debt. None of what's happening would be possible without the world's support.

  • Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware

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  • It's possible someone would make it usable. A long time ago, I bought a laptop CPU that was soldered onto a board so it would go into a normal desktop socket. Guessing there was a glut of laptop CPUs at the time.

  • At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?

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  • Honestly, I'd take my fate into my own hands, and hope I could take a couple out before they took me out. Assuming I could get to a gun before they had me in their sights. Oragnaized and committed community defense could stop it from getting to that point, but the people participating also have to be prepared to die for their community.

  • What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET

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  • In my area, some people put small solar nodes on top of high buildings (office, university, and apartment). The node on my roof can directly communicate with one of these nodes ~20km away. Pretty crazy tor something that can run indefinitely on a 18650 battery and small solar panel. I've heard some people just place "guerilla nodes" to extend coverage.

  • Definitely the safest source for advice

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  • I always thought it was pleasant. Kinda like MXE. Have to be careful to get the ones with no other active ingredients though.

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  • That would also crush EUs economy, and hurt all the wealthy/politicians. Many citizens would get angry, and probably vote the status quo out of power.

    I agree that it still should be done, because the alternative would likely be worse. But, I think it's unlikely to happen because the people who benefit the most from the way things are won't willingly let it.