Simon 𐕣he 🪨 Johnson

Lol the suggested hardware for usable performance is ~$50k MSRP for the GPUs alone and that’s an SXM5 socket so all proprietary extremely expensive and specific hardware.

My PC currently has a 7900 XTX which gives me about 156 GB combined VRAM, but it literally generates 1-3 words per second even at this level. DDR5 wouldn’t really help, because it’s a memory bandwidth issue.

TBH for most reasonable use cases 8 bit parameter size quantizations that can run on a laptop will give you more or less what you want.

From my perspective making software, it’s improved. Prior to 2016, I had to be the one pushing WCAG. After 2016 it’s been explicit customer facing criteria managed by product managers.

Just a reminder that Reddit was once difficult for people to understand.

I honestly don’t believe this at all.

Snapshat was popularized by a generation that grew up only using apps, and it was designed to be obtuse, mysterious and difficult to learn in comparison to other apps as a feature. It grew regardless.

To be honest though, I’m a bit disappointed by the other users here. The quality of comments is really poor, both idiotic and adversarial. I’m talking fox news comment section level.

Yeah so is reddit. The best moderation and engagement in fediverse typically exists in the highly moderated communities that people constantly complain about not respecting their freeze peach and antisocial tendencies.

REI is not a workers coop. It’s a consumer coop. It’s not even the same thing. The fact that it’s so difficult to even find a workers coop that is a national retailer shows you exactly why competing as a coop on the capitalist market is difficult.

Mortal Engines is literally a refutation of liberalism in a capitalist system. It’s about how municipal darwinism doesn’t work.

CapEVs are almost nowhere on the American tech radar. It’s entirely an industry dominated by China. Ironically the industry started out in the US. Foton America was a subsidiary of Foton. China’s first trials in Shangai in 2006 were done with Foton vehicles made in America. Foton America folded because America was not investing in the tech or public transport. Foton reshored the tech in China and continued development.

Almost every major European metro is doing a field test. Belgrade installed Chinese Higer busses for a lot of its’ routes. Graz is running 2 lines from an American manufacturer (with no presence in America lmao) called Chariot Motors (how much longer until we see the Foton America story play out again). Paris is running tests with busses made by German manufacturer MAN, but they’re hybrids because Westoids can’t stop relying on fossil fuels “just in case”.

I fully see China dominating Eastern Europe with these things because the value proposition is so good, Foton and Higer are miles ahead in testing, deployment and development than any other manufacturer. Since China is generally hotter than Europe and America they have a lot more practical experience with keeping the capacitors from overheating which has been a problem for this type of tech esp. ~15 years ago.

Either way it’s essentially a trolley that doesn’t require continuous lines which is why it’s so hated in the US, ever since GM bought up a bunch of lines and left them to rot.

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The chilling effect this causes will make communities even more like echo-chambers, as dissent will be pre-emptively squashed.

If only there was a tool that allowed you to host an instance on a federated network that allowed you to make your own community and control how the rest of the network can interact with it. Why has nobody built this???