You know that’s totally fair

What the fuck, I love my 7900XTX - why AMD?

You built a competitive card for $800, why focus away from the top end?

How can you reasonably enjoy Subwoofer: The Movie without the $1600 triple bass rumbler?!

I walked into a big bank ™ once looking to take out a loan.

They said: “Sorry, we don’t do personal loans anymore.”

I blinked for a moment and went: “You are a bank – who doesn’t do loans?”

She blinks back and says: “We do business loans, and we have mortgages but that’s all online. You can download our app.”

I’m like: “Yes, but I came into the bank, to take a loan, in person.”

She just stood there and smiled.

I felt like I was taking crazy pills, but she told the truth. Most banks are for/about business transactions. Our personal accounts are a drop in the bucket for them. Even if they stand to make ~10% interest on a giant loan – it sometimes doesn’t pay for them to bother.

That’s why capitalism will fall apart eventually – the idea of “too big to fail” and capital concentration removes the fear from these institutions in carrying out their basic purpose as defined in their corporate charters :)

That’s a hell of a vacuous argument. Would you rather get seen outside of a window or let into the store?

Nobody gives a shit about the non-voting numbers or third party ballots, if anything, their response is negative, not positive: They claim people aren’t exercising their right to vote, or that someone has “spoiled the election”.

Meanwhile, those aligned to parties are forming orderly queues and voting consistently.

Which strategy do you think is more effective, from a political science and historical perspective?

The final freedom is that of your own choosing:

The lack of, or a refusal for an afterlife is still a choice that will be respected in accordance with the wishes of the deceased. :3

Yeah, it’s definitely a vibe. I took a wormhole (time travel) to 1991, walked into a blockbuster and keeled over from nostalgia.

Nostalgia is such a complex/convoluted feeling – you can’t have it if you didn’t have a past to draw the experience from, but when you do have it, it’s almost like a religious or philosophical experience both acknowledging and becrying (or grieving) the passage of time.

Unfortunately, even with a “time machine”, we the people who walk through the portals are ever changed. We won’t ever live in the past again. We can see those places and experience them in our present states, but…

Just like a glass shattering on the ground and the pieces scattering: Entropy cannot be undone.

The computer can do all of that, including managing shields, it’s just slower, and has safety checks installed to prevent itself from unpowering or blacking out modules.

Human operators have a “chaos factor” and can do stupid things like diverting power from shields (down to 1%) to recharge the phaser banks just a bit faster, in-between enemy volleys.

At least, that’s what we want to tell ourselves to ensure that there’s still jobs aboard fully autonomous luxury gay communist spacefaring vessels ;)

Well, how disappointed are you feeling, personally?

Do you see your negative opinions of generative AI becoming more intense, or deeper within the next 6-12 months, or have they hit a plateau of sustained disappointment mediated by the prior 6-12 months?

Mmm, spicy mayo sounds good. How about cheeses, what goes perfectly with a black bean burger?

You’ve convinced me. I’m gonna try one next time I’m getting burgers. What sauces go well with black bean burger?

Well, the thing about falafel is that you’re not necessarily cutting back on meat. You’re just eating falafel because of how good it is –

There’s no mental disconnection that “oh man, I wish this was beef”, no, it’s just “God damn this tahina sauce and pickled cabbage is amazing”

Well, they died of heat stroke in the right place – imagine dying of heat stroke in the Valley of Prosperity

Just make falafel. A good falafel wrap is just delicious on its own. Deep fried chickpeas. Absolutely amazing.

It’s almost like they named it something as a warning to perhaps keep people out of it

I heard hammers can fix things

You got access to mega lounge if you never bought the gold for yourself and were instead gifted it

I went on “a hike” with “a friend” (big quotation marks here because they’re no longer a friend obviously) that quickly turned into an unanchored free climb with no way back down with one another friend who was baked.

Our chance of significant injury or death was 90% at 2200 feet up, and we managed to get out of the climb and back down without so much as a twisted ankle. A literal fucking miracle.

When we went for food later, all I could talk about was how close we were to death, and how I’m never doing that again, but they seemed completely unfazed.

My best assumption? Brain worms.

Toxoplasmosis Gondii destroys the fear impulse in humans and causes them to engage in increasingly risky behavior, until it eventually kills them. It’s how the parasite procreates in mice (leading them to predators and wild cats).

Anyone can download, but practically no one can run it.

With the absolute highest memory compression settings, the largest model that you can fit inside of 24GB of VRAM is 109 billion parameters.

Which means even with crazy compression, you need at the very least, ~100GB of VRAM to run it. That’s only in the realm of the larger workstation cards which cost around $24,000 - $40,000 each, so y’know.

This is literally one of the reasons the Holodomor happened – going after farmer’s seeds.

Monsanto needs to be dissolved and criminally charged.