katzinsky

So what do you do when it turns out there are large groups of people who just can't socialize well in an environment like that where other groups are a majority?

Liberalism doesn't answer this nicely because of the belief that everyone is more or less fungible.

I think he probably means that the LLMs never see the rasterized image output.

I like Linux phones but it's hard to justify spending $700 on any portable computer, especially one with only 3gb of ram.

I think for most people there really isn't any competition, especially with the lock in from icloud. It was painful for me when I switched to a pinephone (I just use cheogram on a laptop with a 4g modem now, I don't think most people will do that) and I'm generally very careful about using online services like that. Most people just switching between Android and iOS will turn their whole lives upside down.

Developed countries are absolutely swamped with immigrants (skilled and not.) We're not short on workers but we are dysfunctionally short on social cohesion. Immigration exacerbates that and people check out.

EDIT: I'm out of posts for the day, here's my reply.

I mean people being able to communicate and empathize with eachother.

No one works

No one can get jobs (all the fake job postings and applications)

No one is dating

etc etc. These are all fundamentally the result of the destruction of social cohesion. This is a well known cyclical phenomenon and immigration is absolutely the opposite thing you should be doing in this phase of the cycle.

EDIT2: You can have large portions of the population unemployed and unemployment at historic lows if enough people have dropped out of the work force. According to the BLS that appears to be exactly what has happened in the US and is consistent with what I'm arguing.

Yeah. Knowing my tools are judging my political positions and could self destruct if the authors disagree just makes me love using my computer.

This is why I only use local models these days.

EDIT: Out of posts for today but I've been pretty happy with Gemma2. The context is short but the performance is very good and it's easy to disable refusal.

This is why I keep all but ~$200 in a bond ladder in my brokerage and pay my credit card bills directly from my paycheck.

The bank is just an ACH terminal now.

Ignoring sanctions the US has not defaulted on its debt since the 70s. Those periods where a new budget has not been approved resulted in the US being late to fulfill invoices but all of the coupons on the bonds still went out.

If that didn't happen a lot more than just the government's credit would unwind. That's the primary reason debt is still purchased despite the obvious fact that it will never be repaid.

From what I've seen not only are they taking it from otherwise productive components of the economy they tend to produce and encourage economic actors that are a net loss themselves.

We'd probably see much higher GDP (after a short period of readjustment) if the spending was stopped cold turkey.

The way I handle it is having separate pages for stuff that updates often and then link them from my now page.

This isn't a problem on Linux because there's a careful community oriented path for users who may not understand what they're doing without cutting things off from knowledgeable users.

In fact OSX let everyone just download and run binaries and even that didn't have this problem. That's not a hypothetical situation, literally everyone used computers that way until recently.

There's a long tail of people who will manage to blow their devices up regardless but maybe they shouldn't be using computers unaided. It's very frustrating to make literally everyone else's lives harder just for them.

This isn't a problem on Linux because instead of force you have a small group of maintainers who the users are able to outsource the decision making to.

There are other ways to do this which work much much better and don't constrain the user's freedom.

If Apple cared about privacy ssh would be well supported OOTB and you'd be able to build your apps from the source.

There's no way to do this, even if you pay all the fees push notifications won't work unless you publish to the app store and that will get rejected for being a duplicate.

Not on an iPhone. I'd probably buy one today if that were allowed.

After people doing this to White men for at least the past few years and largely being encouraged by people from Israel it's a little hard to feel sympathy.

It is for now. I'm sure they'd fork it if they had to.

Git without github is pretty much the same as with it. It's just PRs that are different.

Depending on the protocol you can probably do reflection attacks over tcp with TFO.

It will probably be Opera. The only reason I don't use their browsers is because I don't like running non-free software and really don't like using it heavily or for anything important but losing ad block would push me into it.

Have you tried using threads in mutt? Having them collapse by default seems to reproduce what I remember the gmail experience being.

I haven't read his book but I've watched my parents try to follow his ideas and I'm worried they're going to bankrupt themselves. They're not dumb, my dad has a much more successful career as an SWE than I've had (at least so far) but he's never been great with investing his money.

There are so many bad ideas out there. You really have to be discerning. I don't really know what else to say but I'm glad I never expected an inheritance.

EDIT: I'm out of comments for today but they encourage leverage (specifically with mortgages) without really talking about how VAR works. I'm not sure if it came from the author or somewhere else but they have this really bizarre idea about how real estate markets work. The models he comes up with flat out don't sound like viable economies to me.

Actually I think you're overly optimistic.

I think we can both agree that for example liberalism and Islam are incompatible. So if you want to conserve liberalism you'll have to exclude Muslims. That's not universalist -> liberalism and universalism are incompatible.

I think he means it in an abstract sense where people can transgress "natural law" are criminals even though the de jure law might contradict it. I think it comes from this old idea that legislation is really about discovering the natural law that governs human socialization and conviction is about discovering criminals.

It's not a complete definition but he is right that conservatism is completely incompatible with universalism.

This is a little confusing in the US and other Anglo countries because traditionally we have been fairly liberal so sometimes people confuse liberalism and conservatism.

I don't have to do this on my laptop. I have 10 and 15 year old laptops that I can run the latest version of Linux straight from kernel.org on for free.

I think it is a little more complicated. The actual native population in the US is shrinking so demand and thus cost should be shrinking.

Heh I guess that's a good point. All I have is a ten year old iPhone just to run Cisco DUO for work and there seems to be no way to run llama.cpp on it even with a very small model.

Occasionally I'll use i.sh to ssh into a decent computer but it would be nice to be able to just run normal software on it.

idk I was happy with whatever the iPhone 3gs did.

Yeah there's some really amazing stuff the new phone can do but I honestly don't care. If I need a piece of correctly specked camera equipment I'd probably buy a dedicated device with proper cooling and a removable memory card.

It would be nice to be able to run llama.cpp on my phone but if I had the choice between that and a root shell and c compiler I'd definitely take the shell.

The only thing that would make a new phone interesting is Linux support.

Otherwise email works, the web works, mms works, and the camera, screen, and RAM, on phones ten years ago was already way more than you need.

The phone specific software barely justifies maintaining a phone (and doesn't for me so I don't even own a modern smartphone.) There's certainly nothing to justify upgrading it.