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In my dream version of this: a) the timer would be cumulative, so that solving the early words faster gives more time for the harder words, b) going negative wouldn't end the game,…

> Prohibiting a user of your software from modifying it and using it to run their business I don't think it does that, it prohibits them from modifying it and then using that mod t…

Whoops thanks, was going from memory. At any rate, the effect is that it's somewhat slower than the 3090, when using a model small enough to fit entirely in nvram, but can fit mode…

Might as well add my own experience since I just set up a local llm this week. I went with a 32GB card made by Intel called Arc B70, which is cheaper than a 3090 and more has ram, …

Always a pleasure to hear capital explain to labor why taxing capital is bad, but this seems like a giant red herring. I don't want a wealth tax so I can cut my income tax, I want …

How can they ever see a dollar of profit without a rug pull, license change or hosted moat? This is a neat idea - besides just replacing github, a network of loosely-federated git …

It also doubles as a way to verify that someone is a real person using their real identity, which is starting to become pretty important these days. If Alice and Bob are both on th…

I am on board with basically everything this article is arguing, but I think it covers the easy part (that "people run their own servers" is the only solution to the problems cause…

> Usually getting an AI to act badly requires extensive “jailbreaking” to get around safety guardrails. There are no signs of conventional jailbreaking here. Unless explicitly inst…

Agreed, but I'm not nearly so worried about people blaming their bad behavior on rogue AIs as I am about corporations doing it...

It feels like you're missing the whole point of the whole article, which is that treating public pensions like a bunch of 401ks misses the opportunity to invest all that money in s…

The depositors were using SVB because SVB was willing to hand out loans to startups with no revenue that other creditors wouldn't fund, right? Using a less reliable vendor to get a…

> However, they recently switched to investing in private equity funds and now they are getting much better returns TFA says otherwise, in detail and with a lot of supporting data.…

https://ineptech.com is sort of my personal site and sort of a software site parody, which may or may not be what you're looking for, but I'll throw it on the pile.

The lede IMO is near the end: > The federal government responded to the 2008 crisis by limiting the ability of traditional banks to take on big, risky loans. Since then, however, p…

I feel like we've always been living on borrowed time, due to the historical accident of the internet being built by academics and public institution employees. If internet protoco…

The #1 thing I want from Firefox is for it to keep existing in the long term, as a hedge against Google's monopoly. Burning capital on hardware-intensive AI features to get FF from…

People like getting more money, but they don't die without it. You can get a job that pays just enough to pay your bills and work at it until you die. Companies can't do that under…

The u-turn came long before that acronym existed, as I remember it. The Dems had been trying to build consensus for some kind of single payer plan for almost twenty years by that p…

The issue isn't people going too fast, it's people turning left. 26 basically connects Portland on one end and Mt Hood recreation stuff on the other, and it used to be that there w…

The realistic path off looks like this, I think: * I use Bluesky to chat as a Twitter replacement, which gets me into the Fediverse and gets me a PDS * I use my PDS to store my pay…

Sorry to have missed this, been traveling (naturally). You can see it yourself if you like, ineptech.com/flash. It is absolutely the bare minimum, but it worked fine for me.

Last week I wanted to quiz myself on German vocab words, and after searching in vain for a simple "flashcard" site without subscriptions or bullshit I ended up just making one myse…

This has nothing to do with search engines, it substitutes the argument from the search bar into the destination url. "wp XYZ" -> " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ "

Another FF feature I love that I believe Chrome lacks: text replacement in bookmarks. Add a bookmark with url " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s " and keyword "wp" a…