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It's incredible how modern news is straight propaganda these days. The article is criticizing Amodei but I take issue with the fact that they printed the story at all. Whether they…

you have the choice to run a custom build of grapheneOS with root. If you think its valuable there probably are other people that think so too and you could coordinate and figure o…

"Never happen in practice" is objectively false given the civil rights wins of the past century. While incomplete they were real, and real change followed. Starting with the premis…

gamescope is a custom wayland compositor that Valve built for gaming... In steam big picture mode there is no xwayland or anything, just gamescope. What you are reading from the re…

assuming 2% inflation over 30 years, that means that a dollar in 1996 is now worth $1.81. 80% depreciation versus 25% increase in income is not comparable. The wealth inequality in…

The purpose of a deficit, as discovered by Keynes, is to stimulate economic activity. If spent well, it can help reverse recessions and overcome the inertia of a depression to get …

Phones and laptops from a few years ago are not suddenly unusable. Yes, the cutting edge is very nice, but any laptop past 2016 is useable for the average person. Even gpu inferenc…

Tech bros whether they realize it or not are living a philosophy of fear. They say: in order for YOU to be healthy and safe, we should be allowed to trample THEM (the undesirables)…

you can run Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B (3 billion active parameters + some GB for context) that can easily fit into 10 GB of ram while the not currently active experts are offloaded to the c…

Yes absolutely. You can install nonprivileged google stuff on the main account. Alternatively you can setup a private space (accessible to the main user but mostly separate from th…

with llama-cpp and offloading non-active experts (from MOE architecture) to cpu RAM, you can easily run 50 tok / s QWEN-3.6 35B on 8-12 GB of VRAM. KV cache is a few GB, experts ar…

Friedman's gift to the world was erasing the legacy of justice and desire to help the common person Keynes left behind. Keynes lived through two world wars and learned that global …

Spotify rigs their system to benefit the large label companies and anyone with a critical mass so the people that "matter" say 'good enough' and the people with no voice get screwe…

I know many teachers and funding already works the way you describe: the better a school's students do, the more funding it gets (schools also get funding for the number of days th…

Stories like this one, though rare, often remind me that there is hope, and that society is not static. That even though there is corruption, and setbacks, by continuously pursuing…

Milton Friedman's direct quote on immigration: Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over t…

Your solution (of tackling unemployment by tacking it onto national defense), is eerily close to what they discussed in an episode of Yes Prime Minister in the 80s. https://www.you…

Anyone who wants to understand southern Italy should read "Il Gattopardo" (The Leopard) by one of the last peers of Sicily. Not sure about the malaria cause, but it is true that th…

While interesting the post is incredibly vague and jumps to conclusions that in my opinion other data can explan or at least requires further testing. 14th gen intel have "big" and…

I've been using Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B with images as input so I suspect you perhaps didn't include the vision part of the model during testing (I use llama.cpp and I learned I needed to…

I think the article briefly touches on an important part: people still write blogs, but they are buried by Google that now optimizes their algorithm for monetization and not useful…

The purpose of grades is to punish students, something which they are keenly aware of. Remove grades from the equation and hold students back until they have mastered the material …

National defense is important, just ask Europe post Ukraine war. People taking a good idea and extending it to do bad does harm twice: in the bad act itself and in making a good th…

I am bullish on AI being used in all sorts of useful and discreet and non-discreet ways in the present and future. However I am exceedingly skeptical of NPUs being some winning bet…

Heads + TPM is solid but I suspect it is not at the level of Google/Apple secure enclave. And a strong secure enclave provides benefits outside of first boot to secure certain proc…