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Here's a more personal benchmark showing simular results: https://x.com/PawelHuryn/status/2110009814067577229

Yes, I'm on OpenCode Go too... and it's great they raised the usage levels on DS4.1 Flash. But I was really thinking of cancelling it to get either a 2nd Muse Code sub or to go up to the $50 tier.

You have to realize that $15 Muse Code sub with Muse Spark 1.3 gets you around $1500 worth of usage. Neither Opencode Go or really anything else is even in the same ballpark of value. https://x.com/PawelHuryn/status/2106724136932327458

I was hoping this level of subsidization would last a long time but today's announcement make we worried it'll end pretty quickly. There's a lot of AI influencers noting just how fast Muse Wonder uses up their quotas so hopefully fixes are made.

As someone who got a Muse Code sub last month, I find this announcement a bit disheartening because it makes me think the lower tier subs are going to get rug pulled. I'm on the $15 plan for a month now and it's value with Muse Spark 1.3 Max-contributor beats everything else by a long shot. Two somewhat small prompts with Muse Wonder Max-contributor used 4% of my weekly quota and I quickly switched back. I was thinking about getting the $50 plan and I'm actually less likely to do that right now.

Weird you didn't post the comparison he made a couple weeks later where he says that sometimes DLSS beats native rendering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5B_dqi_Syc

The past couple weeks there have been a few times I've been completely startled that google hadn't indexed a site. One of them is a forum that google used to completely index and now I have to use the forum search itself to find old posts.

I'm still very skeptical but humor me,

Given these anecdotes from Wikipedia:

"As the officer pulled his car into a busy intersection, he suddenly felt as though his head were going to explode. His two-year-old son, in a car seat in the back, started screaming. As the officer sped out of the intersection, the pressure in his head ceased, and his son went quiet."

"In 2019, a White House official reported experiencing debilitating symptoms while walking her dog in a Virginia suburb of Washington; the incident was publicly reported in 2020."

The most common explanation is microwave radiation. So, how large of a device do people think it would take to induce these symptoms?

Speculate, what would this device look like?

---- EDIT: China used microwave weapons against India in a border dispute. How similar are the symptoms?

https://eurasiantimes.com/has-india-finally-acknowledged-tha...

If you want to get canceled, say that Vladimir Vladimirovich was obviously partly confessing when writing a story about Humbert Humbert.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Nabokov and Pedophilia https://www.jstor.org/stable/40754944?seq=1

I don't use facebook, but one thing I noticed with my parents it that it's pretty much replaced craigslist.

I fully support breaking up big tech, but there are geopolitical dimensions I'm surprised many pushing breaking up big tech don't seem to consider. It's much easier for non-US entities to selectively block and pressure smaller services.

Xfce, Cinnamon, and MATE all have a significant user base and they use GTK.

Well, if you're worried about censorship(and lets be real, 99.9% of what people use mailing lists for won't be affected), don't use Mailchimp.

"We’ve updated our language to further clarify our Rules (Section 17 of STOU), which state that Mailchimp does not allow the distribution of Content that is, in our sole discretion, materially false, inaccurate, or misleading in a way that could deceive or confuse others about important events, topics, or circumstances."

No mention of Stary Olsa?

Death in Rome does neofolk covers of pop songs.

One thing I noticed on music videos is that if I click on the Mix on the sidebar for that video it has a heavy bias for videos I've previously watched even if it has nothing to do with that song's genre.

I have kind of weird tastes that go from old country to happy hardcore to synthwave to many different genres and it's just weird how I get songs in the youtube mixes that are extremely unrelated to one another. I could be wrong, but it seems like it used to be much better than it is now.

"I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked."

All these apps use behavioral design to get you hooked.

Tiktok is oversocialization on steroids. You have people not only acting out the behavioral scripts embedded and triggered in some meme music or voice you have people mimetically acting out what others are acting out. The psychological manipulation possible though TikTok is immense.

"But what really kills the argument is looking at how our medical professionals have stepped up and responded to COVID-19, putting their lives on the line every day, with utterly inadequate gear. And still they serve."

You can't compare spontaneous heroism with mundane risk.

A bit OT, but the World Figure Skating Championships are being held in Montreal at about the exact same time as SXSW is suppose to be held(a couple weeks in mid-March). Which is fine by me. They're taking a lot of precautions but a lot of these people who attend these events come from east-asian countries... especially Japan. And they don't offer refunds on tickets which I think could result in quite a few people attending because of the "sunk cost" mentality that they don't want to lose what they paid for.

Governments are extremely reluctant to restrict travel and thus event organizers too are reluctant to do much more if it affects how much money they make.

I live nowhere near Montreal, but if I did I would lobby the local governments to see what can be done to reduce travel from the most affected countries.

Coronavirus is all over Fox News webpage. It's one of the "hot topics" at the top. There are a lot of mentions of it.

The subpoenas you're talking about were purposely not taken to court.

This is about 15 years too late. We haven't been monocultural for a long time... hence the frequent grasp to reboot things for when we were more monocultural.

A power database for genetic geneology could be developed just with the DNA of police officers. The government should be providing incentivizes to people who make their DNA information open for genetic genealogy searches rather than resorting to warrants on information people didn't agree to it.

Dependency leads you to getting screwed over in negotiations... from American IT to Chinese manufacturing. Autarchy is not a serious option but you've got to have options for exiting lopsided relationships.

"The photo-sharing social network has begun locking down its platform by preventing signed-out users from having unlimited access to public profiles.As a result, you’ll now be prompted to either sign up or login after viewing a handful of photos and posts via mobile or desktop web. Worse, there’s no getting around it."

I don't like the change, but it's about 36 photos which is quite reasonable.

Law enforcement in the US could build a pretty powerful genetic genealogy database just using their own DNA.

Extremely lame article...

I remember back 10 years ago either google or the internet archive had a temporary search engine that went through the wayback machine... and a lot of interesting things were found. It was through this IIRC that it was discovered that Obama filled out a questionnaire in 1996 saying he supported same-sex marriage when that was not his public position at the time. I've always wondered why that search engine went away and who currently has access to do such searches.

The licence is BSD-3... so completely unenforceable. They're just asking nicely and you can kindly tell them to f off.

I have no idea what I'm talking about here, but isn't there more biodiversity that hasn't been fully explored in the Amazon compared to forests in temperate climates? That's what I'm more worried about.

The whole Instagram influencer phenomenon can be obnoxious and sometimes kind of sad... but it's been a kind of godsend to athletes from niche sports that can gather a sizable Instagram audience but make very little money. And the main athletes I have in mind are figure skaters. Even if they win Olympics or the World Championships they can't make much money. But they can gather a sizable Instagram audience which make them attractive to brands. I'm sure this applies to a lot of Olympic sports where fame is fleeting.

If these fires are being set intentionally, shouldn't it be possible to pinpoint exactly where these fires are occurring and monitor who is reclaiming the land for other purposes... and then sanction them?

"China appears to be making rapid advances in the development of Ben Garrison technology"

https://twitter.com/hikikomorphism/status/116247064336062054...