jkf
20hr ago
Gamers are not flattered because no one but Elon ever wanted to be an accomplished PoE player on top of a world-class business career, and Elon did it in such a cringe way that if anything, he tanked their status along with his.
If they are so much better than him, they should be able to slaughter him despite his PtP account though, right?
Maybe the gamers feel low status because all their grinding doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the end.
jkf
20hr ago
I mean it's certainly possible to release your training code as well as the resulting weights for an LLM -- now I'm curious as to whether this company is actually doing that or not?
If not, agreed that "OS" is a big misnomer here -- there are certainly lots of individuals floating around who might like to train their own version of this and could afford to do so (FIRE startup retirees spring to mind) and "you can use our weights" is quite different from "you can try to make improvements on our process". More like free beer than free speech.
jkf
21hr ago
at least they had the fig leaf of 'it is not about ideology, but the bad term is hurting really people!'
"it's not about ideology, the bad (incorrect) term is polluting our data" seems pretty good -- we are talking about a medical database here, peoples' sex is actually a thing that matters; gender not so much.
(to the extent that it's a thing that actually exists, which I agree that the thrust here is that it's a 1:1 match with sex, and therefore would be redundant to track separately)
jkf
21hr ago
I think gardening leave is still legal in both places though; after all it's just an extended notice period with modified duties essentially?
jkf
1d ago
that Army Corp biologist page that included fish gender.
Fish... ah, pretty clearly don't have gender? It can be pretty hard to even tell what sex they are without cutting them open, nevermind enquiring as to their feelings as to the roles imposed upon them by fish society.
Maybe next time the Army Corp biologists will write their report using proper scientific language; serves them right if you ask me.
Canadian Scots were much less border-inflected in general, so I think the selection effect would be pretty different. Handgun availability is probably more like Massachusetts than Scotland, but nothing like the Southern states.
Scotland itself can be... pretty violent? Knife fights are I think statistically more deadly than handgun wounds...
jkf
4d ago
"don't party on your own supply, and never front on a front" is common knowledge -- sounds like this guy was doing both.
jkf
9d ago
Yeah I'm pretty sure he's talking about the shrubs around people's houses -- prophylactic burning is probably not a great control mechanism there...
jkf
10d ago
Should be possible to slaughter a calf in a rad suit -- the L*** helps those who help themselves, y'know?
jkf
10d ago
It's just the no-fun brigade up to their usual tricks -- Peterson has been railing about this kind of mundane intervention to suck the enjoyment out of life for regular folks as incipient tyranny for some time, and I'm inclined to agree. See also health-justified alcohol taxes (now spreading to countries where people can't really afford them and could really use a drink, eg Mexico) and 20 mph speed limits in the UK.
jkf
14d ago
If nothing else, a reasonable suspicion that someone bought the seeds of an illegal plant make it much easier to get a search warrant
Not sure how you get from "Bill got a letter in the mail" to reasonable suspicion?
The only way you are getting busted either way is the cops gaining entry to your house somehow (tipped off or there for other reasons probably), in which case "I just like to keep my fruit in a carboy" isn't going to do you any more good than "I thought those were tomato seeds".
jkf
14d ago
Yeah, but I thought you were arguing that controlling weed is harder relative to controlling alcohol, and I'm not seeing it.
IDK why you thought that -- I said ' "I dropped some seeds in the bush someplace" isn't bad... '
Doesn't that imply that attempts to ban it are actually keeping the potency down?
IDK, maybe? Careful illegal growers were certainly making very potent weed back in the 90's; probably earlier. How potent does it need to be?
jkf
14d ago
The US government did try pretty hard for like 50 years and failed abjectly, so it must at least be... fairly hard? I'm prepared to accept "both are above the threshold of hardness that the richest most powerful nation in the world can accomplish"?
jkf
14d ago
Ok, so, like, not like buying fruit legally at the supermarket, as if it's just a regular Tuesday grocery day.
No, more like putting the fruit in some sort of carboy, adding yeast, monitoring fermentation, etc -- do you really think it would not have been possible to charge somebody for doing this during prohibition based on the "I just like to store my fruit that way" defense?
What does it depend on?
Whether there are male plants present and whether flowering is correctly triggered before it gets too rainy (for outdoor growing) causing your weed to become mouldy. The proliferation of different strains these days is at least 80% hipsterism.
jkf
15d ago
What am I missing?
That marijuana is even than this! People are growing it illegally right now!
jkf
15d ago
You will be surprised to learn that people have been growing pot illegally for a long time -- you used to be able to buy seeds mail-order; I imagine you can get them on the internet these days without needing to go particularly dark. Or you get them from your pot growing friends. What I'm trying to say here is that the potency of marijuana doesn't depend as much as you seem to think on the strain.
jkf
15d ago
"Excuse me boss, I have a question: How can I cover for Tina if I'm also on maternity leave?"
jkf
15d ago
That barely narrows down the range at all, so I don't think it's a good distinguisher from "roadside trash grass".
I dunno what to tell you man -- that's really all it takes. Start some seeds inside with your tomatoes in ~March, plant them, cull the males then throw a trash bag over the rest for a few hours a day in the fall and you will have pretty decent weed. The trash grass mostly comes from people skipping some of the above steps.
jkf
15d ago
Homemade tends to be superior to the stuff you get in a store.
Homemade wine tends to be superior to the stuff you get in the store? That is... not true at all in my experience. And in the cases where it is, a tonne of work goes into it. Anything plausibly resembling "I left some fruit in a cabinet" is likely to be barely drinkable by desperate college students (I should know), nevermind better than what you get in a store.
You're not banning it unless you're planning to commit a genocide.
Ah yes, the great genocide of 1920 -- how could I have forgotten?
jkf
15d ago
"Decent alcohol" == "doesn't taste like rotten fruit"; "good weed" == "female plants that were triggered to produce buds", more or less? Not a really high standard, although if you wanted to up the ante I'd think that something like "good whiskey that you might find in a store" would be much, much harder to make at home than marijuana of reasonable potency.
(given that I know lots of people who I'd consider connoiseurs who do the latter basically for fun; you can have like five plants for personal use here, which is way more than anyone could reasonably smoke by themselves -- and these guys smoke a lot!)
I do actually also know a guy who bought some kind of still kit and made some harsh high potency moonshine (if you are into that sort of thing) and a kind of cherry liqueur that was... OK? He's sort of bored of it now because (get this!) it's too much work -- whereas the dope-growing guys just trade clones amongst themselves and put them in the backyard.
jkf
16d ago
I can fit your stated requirements into 1301 ft2. Use your imagination!
Congratulations, you just invented the double-wide trailer!
jkf
16d ago
"Roadside trash grass" is about the equivalent of the Jungle Juice you are talking about -- making any kind of decent alcohol at home takes a lot more effort than growing good weed -- which is basically just gardening with extra steps.
So what's the problem? He paid for a fancy toy and still sucks.
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