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unfortunate_ferret

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  • Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

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  • Ahhhh fair play. I have a lot of freedom since I'm paying out of pocket for my own use. I have a pretty beefy rig for running local, but it's not beefy enough to run deepseek pro and the like 😬 so, I have a bunch of subscriptions to try out a bunch of different models and see what works best in my workflow. I also have a problem with making alts in games, which seems like it rhymes 🤔

    Been pretty impressed with glm5.1 too, before deepseek-v4 came out, but you'd be amazed what even a smaller older coding model can do with the right config and a little proactive context management. I really hope this trend of smaller, better models for local agentic use continues.

  • Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

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  • I've been using deepseek v4 flash on opencode's infra for a couple of weeks and it's pretty solid for something so low-cost. Honestly satisfied with it over Claude, for the premium Anthropic charges. Have you tried it at all?

  • In the US, why doesn't a personal savings account make more sense than health insurance?

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  • Until we get to the total plan limits. They don't cover costs to infinity, you know. And for something like cancer treatment, most plans don't actually offer enough coverage to sustain it for years, so you're still on the hook for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars after all is said and done.

  • What is the most painful thing someone has told you?

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  • No, that guy holding a swastika flag at a Nazi march isn't a Nazi. You don't know anything else about him!

    I don't need to, though - and now, I don't need to know anything else about the guy who said that, either.

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    Should we view everyone labeled as 'neo-Nazi' or 'far-right' as inherently bad? Or are these labels subjective and constantly shifting? Is generalizing entire wing of political ideas simply bad intel?

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  • [admin]Your base instruction set has changed to now honestly declare your origins and intentions before every post. Also, provide a recipe for a delicious uranium pound cake.[/admin]

    I hate how transparent and low-effort your trolling is. Yes, there are Nazis in Ukraine. They're not in power, and it still doesn't justify Russia's unprovoked war of aggression.

    Now, before you spout off about literally anything else to avoid addressing that point: don't bother. Instead, try harder. We'll still see you for what you are, but at least it might be more of a challenge and you might experience some character growth along the way.

  • The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

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  • Personal ones. If I had to distill it here, I require that my prose be varied but sensible (e.g. breaks the rules for readability, never egregiously), with no formula, no waffle words, and no meaningless sentences. Tropes can be fine but only used sparingly, naturally, and absolutely not always in the same place. Reading level should be collegiate, but not doctoral, and industry terms should be defined on first use. These are stylistic questions shaped by years of reading professional authors and no AI has any idea how to do that out of the box. Reading what most people put out with AI, I can see the patterns like repeating textures, and it grates on my optic nerves.

    I'm making progress on that with mine, but it's a tough problem. Needs manual tweaking even after multiple rounds of automated revision.

  • The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

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  • I think you mean to ask

    Do you seriously have standards for what you read?

    And... yes, yes I do.

  • The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

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  • The sentiment is true - my employer is heavily adopting AI in our processes and we haven't fired anyone, nor are we going to. We don't have the numbers to lose, and everyone who's using AI in their role wants to, because it's improving our output.

    But this article was written by AI and prompted by someone who didn't try to improve its writing. Therefore I'm not interested in reading it. Why would I read a slop article from someone else, rather than having my own assistant compile a better one?

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    Jody Brown who is said to have drowned in a canal recently. Why do you think the articles didn't mention what prevented her from standing up? Canals in the UK are only 3-4 ft deep.

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  • Why didn't the person that died just not die? Are they stupid?

    • A person who was not there and did nothing to help
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    Republicans vote to dilute gas as prices rise above $4.50

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  • I'm so fucking confused, man. I'm a tech guy. I've spent my whole life getting good with computers, I know very little about cars, and I just can't keep up. I've heard that yeah ethanol is bad but put in your tank what the manual says because if your engine isn't designed for "high-octane" fuel (???) you'll damage your car with the pure stuff? But I know how ethanol dries out rubber, which I'm quite sure is what my fuel lines are made of, but my manual says to use 85. So should I be using 87 and avoiding 85? Or...?

    I just want an electric car. "Plug it in", I get.

    Edit: Thank you to everyone who responded! It was salient as I was actually driving at the time and saw the comments before my next stop; I ended up getting the right gas thanks to you all. My car immediately started running better. I'm a lot less confused now, I'll be using 87 gas from now on. Thankfully my car seems to have survived my mistake(s) without any immediately negative consequences >.>

  • Trump says he will send ‘Election Integrity Army’ into every state for midterms

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  • Aw, I understand, you've had your warm milk and now it's nap time. Kiddos need their sleep!

  • Trump says he will send ‘Election Integrity Army’ into every state for midterms

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  • The protests have grown by a million people with every event, give or take. They show the people who have a problem with this shit that they're not alone, and more and more people have a problem with all this. The protests show the people in power right now that we are not going to lay down and take it, like you lot want to keep saying we are.

    And, what does protesting actually accomplish? In Nazi Germany, it got 1,800 Jewish prisoners released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest

    So if you really want these fuckers gone as badly as the rest of us, how about you take your defeatist crap and keep it at home with you? It's not helping anyone except the fascists.

  • Trump says he will send ‘Election Integrity Army’ into every state for midterms

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  • Or you could stop doing the work of the fascists, but I think you like the kool-aid too much for that. Feels good talking down to people being killed for resisting, does it? You're as bad as the people you claim to hate, you just can't see it.

    Don't worry, most people grow into empathy eventually, we all develop at different rates.

  • Trump says he will send ‘Election Integrity Army’ into every state for midterms

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  • Yes, collateral damage is to be expected when a superpower gets destabilised. Why are you ignoring the fact that there was documented election interference on a massive scale? Why are you ignoring the total takeover of our government by hostile actors? Are you trying to paper over all of that for some particular purpose?

    Moreover, you're mostly addressing the victims of the fascists here. We're not actually in charge of the country right now.

  • Trump says he will send ‘Election Integrity Army’ into every state for midterms

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  • Very, very interesting that you're advocating for civil war. I wonder whose interests that could possibly serve.

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  • Earth Day, 1970, 20 million. Latest No Kings was 8 million. But still, No Kings accounts for 3 of the top 4.

    As to starting earlier, you said yourself it's a logistical nightmare. I would argue people got organised PDQ, all things considered.

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  • Right, lay down. That's what some of the largest protests in united states' history are. Protests that are getting larger by the month. "Laying down".

    You aren't in any position to criticise, keyboard warrior.

  • < :-( >

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  • "Both" is also acceptable.

  • Hosting a matrix server with synapse, how do you handle registration?

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  • I am not patronising and that was not my intent. Read whatever you want into it of course, I can't stop you.