sobchak
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- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 5 days ago:
I don’t think he’s a grifter. He stopped running ads as soon as his contract with Twitch was over, doesn’t do sponsorships, doesn’t sell nutritional supplements, lets “fan channels” repost his content, personally donates to candidates and causes, runs donation streams, etc. I guess he does sell merch, made by union shops. I’m pretty sure most his income comes from subscribers. I think he could make much more money doing the things listed above if he wanted to. I don’t particularly like his personality, and he does seem to be fairly consumeristic and vain, but I don’t think he’s a grifter.
- Comment on Perhaps the only appropriate use of AI 1 week ago:
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).
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Perhaps the only appropriate use of AI 1 week ago:
According to their tech/marketing papers, it’s supposedly multi-modal, encoding audio to tokens.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 4 weeks ago:
The more you buy, the more you save!
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 weeks ago:
NNs are deterministic. Chatbot and image generator implementations just purposely add randomization to make them seem more intelligent.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 month ago:
At the most basic level, the Trump admin likely has plans to make bank on it. Perhaps bribes or “deals” with oil companies, Israel, weapons manufacturers, etc.
Also, a part of the MAGA coalition consists of Zionists (the Evangelical Christians and Zionists Jews [both are death cults, IMO]), which makes it easier for Trump to do these things without too much opposition from MAGA. And, groups like AIPAC have been somewhat successful at tipping the scales of US elections against politicians that don’t support Israel.
- Comment on Unlimited Power ⚡ 1 month ago:
My grandparents called it that. I guess it comes from a time where lights were the primary consumer of electricity in a household.
- Comment on Get. Out 1 month ago:
a robot is still going to be cheaper in the long run
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- Comment on Get. Out 1 month ago:
I’m working with people that seem to try to offload a lot of their work to AI, and it’s shit, and making the project take longer and shittier. Then they do things like write documents in AI and expect people to read that nonsense, and even use AI to send long, useless Slack messages. In short, it’s been detrimental to the project.
- Comment on Get. Out 1 month ago:
I don’t buy that. There’s little reason to automate those jobs because the labor is so cheap. And as someone who has worked most of those jobs in the past, most of those workers could be easily trained for different jobs; most are actively taking it upon themselves to train to get out of them.
- Comment on But bro please 2 months ago:
Perhaps. I read it as the “setup” being the emphasized part (i.e. the context set by the first part of the sentence), with the states being a representative of the “people” under the political theory at the time… This was written by the elite more or less fine with slavery and indentured servitude, and only thought that white male landowners really counted. Either way, I think regular citizens should be able own firearms.
- Comment on But bro please 2 months ago:
Maybe I’m just old, but suppressors seem pointless to me. If I understand correctly, you need to use subsonic ammo to get the full effect, which pretty much negates the extra “stopping power” of rifles (or higher velocity handguns). Simple foam ear plugs, like many people wear to work, can be as good or better in terms of db reduction if going to a range or popping some off in “the back nine” if you’re fortunate. If you need to run to your gun in an emergency to save you’re own life, I don’t think you’d take the time to grab your hearing protection. Hearing impaired is better than dead. And you’re definitely not going to EDC active hearing protection. Perhaps I’m not understanding the benefits though. I see the benefits if it’s like your job or something (work at a range, are a rancher that shoots vermin/predators at night). I suppose if you’re training in some kind of militia to work in a squad, active hearing protection with integrated radio would be nice, but virtually nobody is doing that.
- Comment on But bro please 2 months ago:
The interpretation of the 2nd amendment that the courts take never made sense to me. I clearly says states can have well-regulated militias, not that citizens must have rifles with 50rd drum magazines.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 months ago:
I assumed LaTex is a descendant of TeX. I’m not really well informed about the history of this kind of stuff, which is why I found it interesting.
Your POV is also interesting, as I always kind of held “hacker culture,” in pretty high regard. But, now that I think about it, I see the appeal of rigorous, well studied things, built very deliberately, on strong foundations. I guess that’s why I instinctively like things like Haskell, the kind of ML with provable bounds, information theory, etc. I’ve never messed around with Lisp-like languages, but I remember my ML-focused advisor speaking of them from when symbolic-AI and self-modifying code was all the rage.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 months ago:
This video gave me a background on LaTeX I didn’t know about before (didn’t know Knuth was behind it): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc
- Comment on Just vibing 2 months ago:
Low self discharge. Good for ultra low power devices like remote controls or lights only used on occasion where a rechargeable battery would self discharge faster than the rate of actual use.
- Comment on ICE agents attempt to arrest US Citizen in St Peter, Minnesota 2 months ago:
I read a post from someone in MN that said ICE typically doesn’t pursue people that run (on foot or vehicle). They can chase you, probably not legally in most cases, but laws don’t apply.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 2 months ago:
Honestly, I’d take my fate into my own hands, and hope I could take a couple out before they took me out. Assuming I could get to a gun before they had me in their sights. Oragnaized and committed community defense could stop it from getting to that point, but the people participating also have to be prepared to die for their community.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 2 months ago:
I always thought it was pleasant. Kinda like MXE. Have to be careful to get the ones with no other active ingredients though.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 3 months ago:
If everyone floods that market, they’ll be minimum wage jobs. The media always starts promoting various industries when the rich want to weaken labor power in that sector.
- Comment on Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together 3 months ago:
It’s possible to probabilistically determine when an SSH connection is being used like a VPN, then block that traffic. If they go full Great Firewall.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 months ago:
The ultra-wealthy shooting for stuff like The Network State and corporation-governed city-states.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 months ago:
I think the wealthy will get US/corporate-friendly far-right governments in place in many of these countries before countries are able to isolate the US without collapsing their own economy. Seems to be the way things are going at least (far-right politics gaining support nearly everywhere).
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 months ago:
At the moment, it looks less like a regime change, and more like puppetting the same regime. It looks like the Maduro opposition in Venezuela doesn’t have support of the generals, so we’re just bribing/coercing the rest of the Maduro regime.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 months ago:
I’ve known people that have done that. They were very poor, and never stayed very long at their jobs, so nothing ever happened. As an mass organized thing, it could be an effective means of civil disobedience (Thoreau famously refused to pay taxes).
- Comment on Grim Yagi is making his rounds 3 months ago:
You can buy cheap Chinese walkie-talkies that can transmit on ham bands. Yagi antennas are directional antennas that can be used for triangulation.