It’s insane that companies are going back to metrics like LOC (or tokens generated), when the industry figured out decades ago that these are horrible, counterproductive metrics.

“The hard thing about building software is deciding what one wants to say, not saying it. No facilitation of expression can give more than marginal gains.” - No Silver Bullet (1986)

I think this entire war was so Trump and the admin could personally enrich themselves by taking control of Iran’s oil in some way. They had success doing it Venezuela, and they were then convinced they could do it in Iran too. Attacking these countries would only produce limited, “well I agree, but don’t like the way he’s going about it” push back from establishment Dems and Western politicians in general. Israel “helping” is just a bonus, and provided further buy-in from the many Zionist politicians. They thought it would be a quick decapitation and puppeting like Venezuela was. I think Israel made things worse for the admin by bombing the people the admin had in mind for being the leaders.

Nah, I don’t want to see two nuclear powers directly fight.

Many of the super wealthy obviously want to create company towns again (I think Musk is already in the process). Child labor laws are being rolled back. Wouldn’t be surprised if stuff like debtor prisons come back. We are in the process of building concentration (and likely labor) camps for the homeless. We have and are building concentration camps for the undocumented. People are openly talking about denaturalization. I think it’s clear where the “elite” want to see things go. Open question is how far we collectively will let them.

Its literally a choice if you live on the streets here.

What if you can’t find work for whatever reason (e.g. there’s high unemployment and not enough jobs for everyone, or the person is somehow considered “unemployable,” but not necessarily disabled)? What about single parents with infants/toddlers? Are there a lot of “bullshit jobs” where you live?

Key is having it write tests and have it iterate by itself, and also managing context in various ways. It only works on small projects in my experience. And it generates shit code that’s not worth manually working on, so it kind of locks your project in to being always dependent on AI. Being always dependant on AI, and AI hitting a brick wall eventually means you’ll reach a point where you can’t really improve the project anymore. I.e. AI tools are nearly useless.

I mean, you could. Just encode 100ms chunks or whatever into tokens then push them through the same model. I’m pretty sure that’s what the claim to do (though with MoE/routing now, maybe).

I don’t think it’s so much “fear” of defying the president as it is they’re getting what they want from him (white christo-fascism), and they’re getting bribed by the same people. Most of the Dems are also dependant on the same interests as well (not necessarily the white Christian-nationalist stuff, but the same money). The concentration of wealth has put far too much power into too few hands. These same people are heavily influencing politics and public opinion worldwide. Idk, how we get out of this mess; have to bring the entire global economic system to its knees; forcibly redistribute their wealth or make it worthless I guess.

According to their tech/marketing papers, it’s supposedly multi-modal, encoding audio to tokens.

Yeah, chronological is an algorithm, and can be and is gamed. Would be cool if they had multiple algs like Lemmy that you could easily switch between.

I tried some new ones recently (though I have a 24GB GPU). Qwen3.5 9B is pretty impressive for such a small model for agentic stuff like Claude Code. (I can run the Opus distilled model quantized to 6 bit with the full 256k context and no CPU offloading). Gemma4 26B is good if I don’t need agentic stuff or a lot of context (it sucks for agentic stuff). You can probably run the smaller versions of these, or with less context.

Hmm, just looked it up, and the image of Rosie most famous today was commissioned by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for internal use to discourage strikes.

Yeah, this community has a lot of tankies. I think there’s stuff to learn from the past, but too many people try to whitewash or emulate it. These are different times that require different ideas and solutions; especially if we want to be better than we were in the past.

US oil export terminals are operating near 100% capacity. The US can’t physically export more than they’re doing already. I think that’s the main reason for the WTI and Brent gap.

Seems like more people are getting involved in direct action (against ICE). Starting around the time of Bernie’s primary campaign in 2020, I’ve noticed the amount of people getting involved in mutual-aid-type stuff slowly growing. The US has been “helping” Ukraine with “lethal aid,” though it’s debatable that’s the best way to help, and it’s probably more about enriching arms manufacturers and making sure Ukraine is perpetually indebted to the US.

Fair enough. I was just trying to point out that the entire hardware industry, and pretty much the entire executive and investor class is doing the same stuff as Nvidia.

I had a friend who had a janitorial position. Cleaning a particularly stubborn toilet and dumped a bunch of bleach into the bowl. His coworker came in behind him and proceeded to piss in said boil, creating a toxic miasma that forced them to exit the restroom quickly and heavily ventilate it before returning.

Lol, I’ve done that before in my apartment. Guessing it’s the same thing as an ammonia-bleach reaction.

A tetrix is a fractal-like object that approaches zero volume and keeps the same surface area as the number of iterations increase. (I only know about it because I saw a 3d printable version of it on a YT video the other day).

The more you buy, the more you save!

Would have to boycott pretty much all hardware. I don’t know of any large hardware manufacturer that’s not chasing the AI investment money and bribing the Trump admin.

I do try to give it a chance and use it every once and a while (most recently Claude Code; last year, Cursor), and it has been my experience that it personally decreases my productivity and quality. I found that even CoPilot’s autocomplete would introduce bugs if I decided to “trust” it and try to work too fast without meticulously reviewing every token generated. I have seen people I work with use AI to quickly create decent looking prototypes (i.e. bog standard, boring design), but I think this is still detrimental because they lose the full benefit of exploratory programming (and of course, the prototypes just have all kinds of faked data and functionality, glaring security problems, bad architecture). I’ve also experienced people submitting nonsense vibe-coded pull requests that would break tons of things they shouldn’t have even touched for the issue. I could see a less interested or overworked reviewer letting stuff like that through, which is why I think we’re seeing all these failures and bugs at these big tech companies. So for me, at least, I haven’t seen the benefit. Using CoPilot in VSCode actually caused me to go back to using nvim and lsp plugins :)