dr_analog
razorboy
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I had a personal experience almost turning into one of these sitcom characters. The pull is bizarrely tempting.
A little before the election I made a deadpan joke about a domestic annoyance that was completely misinterpreted and then quote tweeted by a major culture warrior. I got so much insane negative attention from that. Death threats. People following me around the Internet leaving shitty comments. Even phone calls of people threatening me.
It got so tense I was looking out my front window regularly and making sure I had my gun nearby whenever I went.
And then it subsided and I was relieved, but a major recurring thought since then has been "I should troll these fucking idiots again. Maybe I can make some money off of this"
I don't. But I can see how if I had a different temperament this would be totally irresistible.
dr_analog
razorboy
11d ago
don't they limit model choice
I'm not really sure anymore. I think they were at first but this led to people trying the free version, seeing how crappy it was, and deciding AI was a fad.
dr_analog
razorboy
11d ago
They can't do medicine/math/..? Have you tried?
Yes. The number of times I've gotten a better differential diagnosis from an LLM than in an ER is too damn high.
dr_analog
razorboy
12d ago
I found that one a bit mid and kept skipping the flashback chapters.
My favorite one so far is Surface Detail. Player of Games was decent, I thought. I also enjoyed Consider Phlebas as a good introduction.
Definitely don't read the short story book.
People here say they liked Matter but I thought it was snoozeville and gave up after 3 chapters.
I'm reading Look to Windward right now that's going okay.
dr_analog
razorboy
12d ago
It's not about spam. It's that the models they give you access to for free are expensive to run and they throttle you pretty fast. They don't want people creating tons of free accounts to circumvent the limits.
dr_analog
razorboy
13d ago
Unclear. Employers in the US vary on how comprehensive a health plan they will buy for their employees. Additionally, some households will have one spouse enroll in their employer's family plan while the other opts out entirely (and maybe even gets a monetary rebate for declining it).
Another complication is even with 65%+ total employee cost going to taxes, professionals in France opt for additional supplemental insurance so they don't have to share services with the poors.
dr_analog
razorboy
13d ago
I believe what's missing from this analysis is the employer-side taxes in France are an additional 40-45% of employee compensation, whereas in the US the rule of thumb is more like 10%
dr_analog
razorboy
13d ago
It's ironic that the Buffet quote about how he personally pays less tax than his secretary stimulates outrage about capital vs labor, but if this outrages you then you should be especially outraged by how much of the tax burden is being carried by the middle class in more socialist nations.
dr_analog
razorboy
13d ago
AI would need to deliver, like, 8% annualized growth or something to pull out of our debt problems. Our historical average has been 2%
Basically, this is in crack pipe fantasy territory. Not that a man can't hope though...
I have to wonder if social media and smartphonification is making people give up on relationships.
They're simultaneously encouraged by toxic groups and subreddits to dump that gaslighting abuser already!! while also being programned to feel shitty about themselves. You shouldn't have to compromise so much when it comes to love!!, after all.
There's an endless doomscroll of ways to learn how your partner is a narcissist taking advantage of your empath nature while he weaponizes his incompetence to leave cleaning the bath tub to you.
Maybe the Great Awokening is not the cause of relationship collapse so much as another head on the social media-smartphone serpent frying people's brains.
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razorboy
16d ago
Hmm yeah, snap is installed (which I expected) and lists some random packages. Apparently I installed ghidra and thunderbird with it, both for one off projects.
Easy enough to just nuke them now, and snap entirely. Thank you for your vigilance, sir!
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razorboy
16d ago
I've been using Ubuntu for O(decades) now and don't think I've ever used snap.
I only ever install stuff from the CLI using apt. Anything GUI or snap related I usually X out of.
Oh. There is a pop-up periodically that offers to update packages that I click okay on. I do notice it runs apt so I consider that fine.
Maybe I'll be rudely disappointed soon enough.
Oh. There's some. Telemetry for a Linux distro will be pretty weaksauce compared to the rest of the world because of how fickle Linux users are.
But yeah no harm in Mint if you want the full anti-corpo experience.
dr_analog
razorboy
16d ago
Oh. There probably isn't much substantive difference between desktop distros if you do a mainstream one. Mint might come with nicer defaults out of the box and that's cool but if you can flip over to a Mac or Chromebook without much trouble than a random distro like Ubuntu probably wouldn't be any more wack.
dr_analog
razorboy
17d ago
Thanks.
I think Intel was desperate to have the fastest single thread performance, even if it means losing at energy efficiency and risking physically killing the chip. Worse, despite these sacrifices it can't even sustain the top speed for very long.
Re: Windows, I don't fucking get why Microsoft doesn't worry about performance more. Even if you aggressively tune Windows and disable a bunch of crap any default Linux distro feels more responsive.
What made you select Mint?
Homies: Ride or Die and also my Tron lighting project have not had much progress this week. Instead I became consumed by
(rant follows)
a silicon degradation issue in my Intel i9-14900k.
I bought an i9-14900k about a year ago and it was fine for a few months. Then I started having random segfaults in browser processes and also when running compile jobs. I noticed that 95% of them were happening on core 4 so I disabled that and life was mostly okay again.
But not completely. Once in awhile I'd run make clean and then make and one random compilation unit would segfault. Re-running make would be fine. I tried either clang or gcc and the same thing kept happening. It would happen within like 2 seconds if I let all cores get used.
Weirdly, it wouldn't happen if I ran a more traditional CPU benchmark like stress-ng letting that run for hours and hours, and it wouldn't happen if I played an intensive FPS game since I guess those do all of their parallel tasks on the GPU. Apparently nothing stresses a CPU like big compilation jobs.
I tried dicking with BIOS settings for awhile before finally giving up and deciding to replace it with a Ryzen 9 7950x, which was supposed to be comparably powerful but doesn't have notorious silicon degradation issues like the Intel does.
Unfortunately this meant I needed to also get a new mainboard and upgrade the 128GB of RAM I have to DDR5. Also a new CPU cooler.
The Ryzen stack arrived and I rebuilt my PC with it (e.g. swapped the PSU and case and some NVMe drives) and I'm relieved to say it's been humming along beautifully.
Now I'm barking up Intel's tree to at least RMA the busted CPU so I can look to either build another PC with it (at this point I just need a PSU and case) and hand it down to my kid, or maybe I should try to sell it as a complete system and recover some of my losses. I expect if I try selling it all I'll about $800 on this experiment due to the mainboard and RAM and cooler being used.
Why didn't I just RMA the Intel CPU with the cross-shipping option where they send you the new CPU first and then you can return the broken one? Because I just was so done with Intel. I can understand a CPU not working from day one, but something about it degrading with time and this being such a widespread issue is really crazy-making.
Oh yeah while I was trying to make this decision yet another Intel CPU security issue was discovered https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-injection/
Basically sealed it for me. How far Intel has fallen.
In the meantime I decided to switch my diff tool to difftastic, since it understands the ASTs of 30 different programming languages (thanks to tree-sitter) and it can show you AST related diffs that are better at displaying what meaningfully changed rather than mere line/word diffs. Should reap insane efficiency gains.
dr_analog
razorboy
18d ago
I am unlikely to. But, why would Glenn Greenwald being into pervy stuff matter if I was?
Is the implication that if I tried to do anything about Epstein, powers that be would hack my pervy stuff and leak it too?
dr_analog
razorboy
18d ago
maybe I'm not the intended audience but I would never have heard about his interview with Tucker if not for this leak, so...
I love the insinuation that intel agencies are behind the leak of his sex vids. Are you so fucking edgy a journalist that Mossad used 0-day cyber arms to hack sex vids out of your possession somehow to embarrass you? Jokes on them, I have nothing to be embarrassed about, because my sex vids are 🔥🔥🔥
Please don't watch though, this is a violation of my privacy. My private hot gay sex, that is. Because I bring the truth so hard.
dr_analog
razorboy
20d ago
We live in the PNW and thought we were spared from this stuff. I'd never seen a tick irl before the one in my son's head. Guessing we're only a decade or two away from fighting them off by the handful.
My kids ran through a path in a park the other day with shorts on and the path had tall grass hanging into it and I freaked out, rather irrationally.
Moving to a place where ticks can't survive is starting to sound appealing to me as well.
No. Just a person who has taken my kids to the ER too many times.
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