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And you can’t tell anyone if you do, on pain of jail.

Gardening is my stress reliever for this reason. Though going to war with pests is… less stress relieving sometimes.

The one time an interviewer started describing fizzbuzz as a problem for me to solve, I said “oh FizzBuzz?” And he said “oh never mind then” haha. Got the job offer too, though I d…

Fish rot from the head, as they say.

Which some companies have done! Nvidia, I believe, among others.

I liked Nim’s take on checked exceptions personally, was quite lovely

I’ve always done that in my typescript code bases too, and I’ve never regretted it

Vinegar etching helps heaps with that I’ve found :)

The joy of working with a well seasoned carbon steel pan is similar, I find

Such a great operating system. I miss it.

> I doubt that you’d ever call them lazy to their face — why do it here? What makes you so sure about that? Posting LLM generated obviously un-reviewed slop and wasting people's ti…

God that belt and suspenders thing gives me a visceral physical reaction. Nauseating.

VALORANT for me is the only game keeping my gaming desktop on Windows

If you want to talk about this century and human rights, then you better look inwards. You're obviously a nationalist yourself, accusation in a mirror as is typical.

>You give up 200GB networking, but anyone 'daily driving' one of these things are probably not needing to cluster multiples of them at high speed.. I mean that's not as true as you…

Those don't have a lot of RAM though. Not like these 40, 80GB ones.

My DGX Spark-alike is currently selling in my country for nearly double what I paid for it too. We live in a silly, silly world.

We've not had cheap GPUs with this much VRAM before, though. Might be an interesting change, though I also doubt it personally.

Nah, it's fine! I just muted the tab, no big deal

Although one of the ones it cannot do is have/address 128GB of video memory, so it depends on what you want to achieve.

It writes in a bunch of annoying too-short sentence fragments, so, yes?

Your definition means that any example I can bring up, you can dismiss as “non serious” as you haven’t provided your criteria. This is a useless rubric and makes discussing this po…

Depends on the model; Step 3.7 Flash is surprisingly happy to chat about Chinese banned topics for example when run locally

I mean we shouldn’t pretend China isn’t run by a 1 party authoritarian state. It is. And it uses that absolute power how and when it pleases.

People absolutely use LLMs to research politically sensitive topics. I wish they wouldn’t, but people use LLMs as their general search engines now.