Yup, yet for some reason the MLs are always talking about how brave Russia is in standing up to western imperialism by invading Ukraine.

Almost like they cant see further than “west bad, therefore anti-west good”.

You cant just “fund a startup trying to make ram”. Chip fabrication is probably the most difficult and capital intensive production process there is. What manufacturing more ram looks like is investing tens of billions of real money (not the you give us stock we let you use our GPU deals the AI companies have been doing) and then waiting 5-10 years before the fab you funded starts to make chips, and hope prices are still high by then.

That’s why the existing manufactures are slow to scale up, they arent sure that the current spike in demand will still be there by the time their scaling up increases production.

Yeah, those awful working class northerners with their desire for things like

Survey in run-up to byelection also finds support for water renationalisation, wealth tax and cap on political donations

Yes, the French have palaces too, but they attract nothing like the numbers as the actual real, functioning palaces and castles actually used by a real, breathing monarchs.

Just FYI, this is incorrect, Versailles gets more visitors a year (15 million) than all British palaces combined (~2 million.)

You know that those dishes are British because people of South Asian heritage moved to the UK, brought their food with them and then merged with the local palate? Do you think they’re not British?

If they spent real money (not paper passing around deals between companies) over a decade and had tens of thousands of scientists and engineers and institutional knowledge and partnerships with academia in order to do it properly, yes they could.

But we both know they don’t have any of those things, so no practically they couldn’t.

FWIW on piefed (a re-implementation of Lemmy essentially, I’m posting from it here) you can do instance level blocks that prevent you from seeing any posts from users on the blocked instances, which might be more useful to you. I have .ml blocked myself, and can report significant tankie spam reduction.

There’s a good reason why it’s been talked about since the 60s but never happened:

In fairness, it seemed like that google engineer genuinely thought the chatbot flattering of him meant it was sentient. Google bundled him out the door for going public with it so I doubt that one was PR.

No, Strix halo is AMD’s integrated CPU GPU using unified ram. Its the non apple tax equivalent of the mac minis people have been using to run local models. On one hand its a bit slower as it has lower memory bandwidth and that’s the limiting factor, but on the other its less than half the price for more memory and runs linux rather than osx.

For Claude I have the lowest tier subscription through work. I also have openrouter to use occasionally when I need it. Gemma and Qwen I run locally on a strix halo framework desktop I bought just before ram prices went to the moon.

I’ve been using oh-my-pi agent harness with a mixture of Claude for planning and either Gemma4 or Qwen3.6 for execution.

Yep, me being dumb! I thought you were talking about the dip before.

US Tariffs on everything, feels like a lifetime ago already doesn’t it?

It is useful for programming, I know a lot of people here don’t want to hear that, but denying it now is being willfully ignorant. No it isn’t good enough that you can tell it “just go do the thing” and then accept what it gives you without checking it, but using it as a tool as a professional can very much improve your work and how quickly you do things.

For me recently I used it to unpick a nasty race condition that was occasionally causing a program I was working on to lock up and couldn’t figure out why. It took some back and forth with it but it did help me figure it out when before I had been stumped.

Whoever told you that really doesn’t know what they are talking about. Zig has a (IMO too strict) policy of no LLMs in any way to be used for it in an official capacity.

It stands for Create, Read, Update, Delete. Those are the primary operations on a database and a crud app refers to one which is little more than a front end to a database.

Fediverse is not private in any sense. Anything you post (or up/downvote) is blasted out to every federated instance and only gets deleted if that instance respects the delete command, which you cant rely on.

Thank you for providing a clear example of the “my side good your side bad” style of thinking that completely lacks critical thought.

So calling someone disagreeable a dick, or a bellend, or a prick, or a tosser, or a knobhead, or a wanker, is fine. But calling them a cunt is beyond the pale?