FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2hr ago
I'll look into that, thanks!
But philosophically, it's less personal interest that I'm talking about than it is a sort of market competition threat against enshittification. As long as its possible to homebrew at some level of effectiveness, OpenAI won't be able to completely ruin their product and still market it. Social networks enshittify because I can't make my own at home. In my mind I'd like to set up a local LLM more to learn the process for the inevitable future where I can't trust the commercial variants that have been enshittified. Inasmuch as I find LLMs useful, I want to have full control over it to protect myself from losing a tool that I find useful because it is under someone else's control. Hosting my own might be the intermediate step...
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6hr ago
To what extent is it or will it become possible or practical to run a homebrew jailbroken LLM on local hardware? That's the big question in my mind.
I'm late to the party, and I'm aware of it, in that I'm only just now using LLMs beyond a toy for research and education purposes. But essentially every day I'm aware there's an expiration date, that the product is just a few bad days for the SP500 from being enshittified. Whether that comes in the form of censorship and legal caution that makes it useless for my purposes, or in the form of pricing that makes it prohibitive, or commercialization and monetization in ways that make it unreliable (pay extra for your product to be recommended!), or optimization for it as people start to operate their products specifically to be seen and understood by LLMs. There's going to come a time when I can't just log into ChatGPT and get a good result, I'm sure the old timers are already complaining; and there's going to come a time when there isn't enough VC money sloshing around to fund a competitor like Grok that throws off shackles.
So at that point, can I or will I be able to operate a homebrew LLM for my personal and business purposes? I'm not handy enough to know how possible that currently is, or how user friendly, I'm at the level of "I can run a Linux machine but I'll need to look stuff up once a week or so."
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
7hr ago
It's an odd example of how fashion turns. Beards were nearly extinct when I was a kid, became more common among Red Tribers largely as something perceived as manly-man and as part of a "warrior ethos," and now are being cracked down to promote a "warrior ethos."
Personally, I like no-beard policies because a no-beard policy makes for easier to enforce aesthetic standards than a neatly-trimmed-beard policy. The ideal policy is something like: no-beard or neatly-groomed-facial-hair as looks best on the individual > no facial hair policy > anything goes. There's a lot of guys that either can't grow a good looking beard (neckbeard, scraggly, gaps, whispy, etc) or won't choose to (stupid, lack taste). While I'd have no inherent aesthetic objection to a military of men with proper beards, we really can't have a military of men with whispy pedo-staches, neckbeards, foot long Gandalf locks, or whispy pseudo-amish long goatees. It's undignified, it looks bad, it's disreputable, it reduces uniformity and the sense that a soldier is a soldier is a soldier. It is much tougher to enforce "hey private your beard looks like shit you need to shave" than it is to enforce "everyone needs to shave" because the former is personal and specific, and I'm not sure the average officer is equipped mentally to enforce aesthetic standards anyway.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
17hr ago
I think the core message of the play is it's not stupid if it works.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
23hr ago
By some standards Silicon Valley Buddhists are more similar to US Protestants than the latter are to Eastern or Oriental Orthodox Christians.
To some extent this has been my personal experience: I could not convert to another religion if I chose, I couldn't take any other religion than Catholicism seriously, or I wound up back at Catholicism. Religion is in the blood.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
23hr ago
It's actually the exact opposite--the declaration explicitly says that polygamy was ended due to external interference.
So if it's legalized it would pop right back around? Is social tolerance enough?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Leading to considerable efforts to add the Book of Arnold in some quarters.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Anti-Gay extremism by blacks normally contains at least an angle of "being gay is a white thing" to it.
Whether we assume that the "red" homophobia washes out the "blue" black supremacy or vice versa sorta shows the limitations of the "red tribe vs blue tribe" dichotomy once applied outside of YTs.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Isn't the relevant question here whether the shooter considers Mormons Christians and attacked them as such?
It's sort of like the cases of Sikhs or Hindus getting the shit beat out of them by guys shouting about Muslim terrorism, that's still an anti-Muslim crime even if the victims aren't Muslims.
If the shooter intended to kill Christians, and perceived Mormons as indistinguishably Christian vis a vis Catholics or Evangelicals, then it was an anti-Christian attack.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I'm not sure you can code that left or right at all
It's amazing how this tranfers from one side of the culture war to the other as the natural excuse for an accusation.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
The entire Christian religion is predicated on the assumption that Jesus would have agreed with it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Every Christian who professes the Nicene Creed does so because they do know that Jesus professed its tenets. If we didn't believe that we wouldn't profess it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I think the Chinese - to avoid entangling themselves not only in foreign conflicts with America but with various other countries besides - have overtly toned down political content on TikTok
I don't think that the intent matters to the Zionist (non-pejorative) caucus. If TikTok had a purely meritocratic algorithm that prioritized views and engagement and it promoted Palestinian content because it's what their users engage with, I don't think it would change the reality for Netanyahu and friends. They would still want the app banned or censored, they don't put any moral priority on the idea that this is what people want to see, or what maximizes engagement/profit for TikTok. They value the Zionist project, they value the Jewish people, they value their own political power. All they want is a fair advantage.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
I'd guess that a Trek hybrid from 2012 is running an 8-speed Shimano Altus cassette
Damn, you're good.
So that might be the cause of the occasional missed shifts that are driving me nuts.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
It's turned out to be nothing, so my crackpot theory is that Hegseth for drunk and called the meeting to announce something big, got sober and realized his announcement was a terrible idea, so he gave a weird values speech to cover.
Just more wasted money I guess.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
Judging from YouTube, I think it's primarily useful for creating infinite quantities of music in genres that contain a lot of fuzz and vagueness already.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
Kidnappers are much more likely to wear masks, as they don't want to be seen and identified, so not wearing masks provides evidence that they're legit. Wearing uniforms and/or providing badges and names is more evidence against being miscreants. Obviously none of that is perfect, but the current videos provide zero evidence against the carjacking hypothesis, I just have to decide not to shoot.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
Appreciate the kind wishes
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
My condolences. Times like that are usually when my wife steps in and reminds me I'm old, and to stop trying to hurt myself. I probably defer to her judgment about half the time. Then probably about half the times I think "Naw I'll be fine" I wind up hurting myself.
Thanks. Hopefully it's like all the times I've hurt my shoulder or elbow, I stay off it for a week and while it might ruin a project it doesn't permanently change anything. As opposed to the first time I hurt my lower back, after which it's never been the same.
I haven't biked in like, 10 years?
I've really enjoyed taking it back up. My wife joked that as a white male professional, I hit a certain age and my biology kicked in and I needed to go get a road bike and some spandex like every dentist around here.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
Or if I'm giving one of my Venezuelan teammates a ride after jiu jitsu, or one of my wife's law school classmates is at my house, or the guys who come with my drywall contractor who don't speak English and I don't ask questions about...
It's unlikely but it's bound to happen to somebody.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
I tore something in my hip practicing single leg takedowns two Tuesdays ago. Thoroughly warmed up and stretched, we were half an hour into a class, at more or less the point at which I'd expect to be least likely to injure myself...but I was wrong. Normally, when I've hurt myself lifting or climbing or in jiu jitsu, there was a moment going in where I thought to myself "gee, I shouldn't be doing this right now." Trying to squeeze in a workout super fast when I didn't have enough time, or feeling a stiff back and trying to muscle through it, or going for that extra rep or that extra five pounds when I knew it wasn't feeling it, or trying to fight my way out of a guillotine choke when I should have just tapped, etc.
But this time, it was absolutely no warning, I've never had hip problems up until I went down for a penetration step and couldn't get back up. Pop, sharp, instant pain. I was able to get up and walk it off, but when I tested it again I couldn't get down and up, so I went home. I was so upset thinking that I wasn't sure how long it would take to recover, that I briefly went online and considered buying a ski-erg because I thought that might be the only workout I'd be able to do. But it recovered pretty quickly, so glad I didn't pull the trigger. Took most of the week off, and after a day of mild discomfort it quickly felt fine. After a couple days I felt ok on the bike, so I stuck to that for cardio. Went back to BJJ Monday, rolled a few rounds starting from the ground, felt fine, no soreness after. So Tuesday AM I go back to the same wrestling/stand-up class...and it's fine for the first half hour then the exact same thing happens. The exact same way. I hit a bunch of penetration steps and shots, I was moving well, but then I felt that same pain.
So I'm mad at myself for being a moron. The pain has faded now, I only feel a mild twinge when getting in and out of my car. But IDK how soon to go back to full sparring with no limits, or to hip dominant exercises like a deadlift or KB snatch. For the moment I feel comfortable doing BJJ on the ground with certain partners, but it's going to be a long time before I'm ready to try stand up again. Which bothers me because I felt like I was making real progress towards a decent standup game.
The one problem I've had with BJJ is that it sucks up all the energy from everything else. I'm always too banged up or exhausted or busy to get much of another workout in. Which, combined with hitting middle age, is what has me liking biking more as cardio, because I'm less focused on the numbers right now and achievement, I'm just going out and enjoying the ride. I guess I needed to be reminded I'm middle aged on my birthday.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
In this case, a heckler's veto is being exercised on good police procedure. You're saying I can't advocate for the basic libertarian principle that agents of the state have to identify themselves until every single person in the united states agrees to treat them well.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
I'm against no knock raids for the same reason. There should never be a situation where the boundaries of acceptable self defense and the boundaries of acceptable law enforcement activity intersect. That venn diagram should be two circles.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
It depends on your goals. Kamala's realistic goal was always to lose the electoral but win the popular vote and provide enough support to hold onto at least one house of congress. She failed at these minimal goals as well, because she was a bad candidate and faced constraints on maneuver (can't go against Israel). Wild moves might increase your odds of winning the white house marginally, while costing you seats in congress or require touching third rails (Trans, blacks, olds, Israel).
I'm sorry but when you see a pickup truck with two American flags on it, it's a red tribe supporter. You have to be really Galaxy brained to come up with something else.
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