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127··on German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism
Every force has an equal and opposite force. The more you push, the more push-back you will get.
127··on True Rate of Unemployment
Job and slavery are two very different things. I love free markets too but not to the level of autism (for lack of better word) and ignoring how things actually work in the physical world. Shallow economic theory doesn't create happy and functional families. Economic theory that is mostly rigged to serve the rich, entrenched, and powerful anyways.
127··on Sonic Pi
Is there alternative syntax? I don't want to be typing "end" everywhere. Stack based, declarative, sexp, indentation, anything?
127··on Qwen 3.8 27B
And you're claiming Anthropic and OpenAI are not doing the same thing?
127··on DeepSeek API Pricing Update
For the price of can of Coke, you can do a week of work. For most, that is not a bottleneck.
127··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
DSV4 Flash is in a tier of its own, until at least the price change arrives.
127··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
DSV4 Flash 0731 already runs on RTX 4090 24GB + 128GB system RAM at a usable tok/s and quantization.
127··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
IoT works just fine with Zigbee that can be 100% local.
127··on Dolmenwood: Fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules
Didn't know this existed. Have to say that's some great looking art.
127··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Similar market correction happened in 2008 and the the US has definitely not gone more free-market-let-the-bad-businesses-fail direction since then. Rich a-holes always find ways to build systemic risk where they can reap the rewards and socialize the losses.
127··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
OpenAI and Anthropic valuation crashing would crash the entire AI story, which would crash the market.
127··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
AI labs have been doing "distillation attacks" against actual creators like artists and engineers since the beginning.
127··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
DeepSeek V4 Pro is only ~3-4x as expensive as Flash. It won't replace GPT-5.5 (nowhere near) but I've been using the $20 sub to punch through tough cases and use Pro for rest.
127··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
The fact that so many European green parties have been so strongly anti-nuclear was always a bit of a head-scratcher for me. It seems so dumb on so many different fronts. Goes to show the power of uninformed public, wildly misleading or actively lying stereotypes and scaremongering.
127··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
I get 150t/s peak, 120t/s avg with Qwen3.6 27B Q4 with a 4090 on Linux. Now that MTP has landed into llama.cpp.
127··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
Well if you discount the people China has killed and is killing within its borders, the number is definitely smaller. As well as another land empire called Russia.
127··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
You should read about the difference between a land empire and a sea empire.
127··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
Strange. I'm switching from Codex and Claude to Pi with Qwen3.6 27B local and Deepseek V4 Flash which is dirt cheap but powerful.
127··on Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech
It's not democracy when it's not the votes that determine what government does, but money.
127··on 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
No, it doesn't miss the point. Different people have different interests. Knitting just hits more overlapping Venn diagrams than just one.
127··on From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024)
To people who aren't yet aware also: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
127··on The whole thing was a scam
You are against private property rights? Because abolishing the right to owns things is the only way to prevent any form of capital accumulation.
127··on The whole thing was a scam
Every unmaintained system degrades. That's next to a tautology. In my opinion, the base problem is modern technology itself that creates the capability for widespread wealth inequality and social fragmentation, without needing real labor or social bonds anymore.
127··on The whole thing was a scam
Free market capitalism and corporatocracy are two opposite things. (Free markets don't exist without strong institutions and regulation)
127··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
The cure for high prices is high prices.
127··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
Only if you don't want or need any geopolitical gradient at all.
127··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
...because the point of surveillance was never to solve crime.
127··on The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)
I don't see how that is related to my comment in any way.
127··on Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
...for Putin
127··on The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)
Responsibility of intellectuals, or wise men/women, has always been to guide the tribe towards security, happiness and prosperity. Not to sow dissent inside the tribe by moralizing, while completely ignoring all the ills in other tribes.

So called "intellectuals" who do it just to further their own selfish goals, should not be awarded high ranking positions.

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