Is it still a riot if the government forces caused it?

I've been armed most of my life, because you never know when you might need to reason with someone.

Last decade, though, every round of ammo I bought was with Nazis in mind.

AceMagic barebones Ryzen AI 9 HX 370: $680
Two sticks crucial 64GB DDR5-5600: $300
Crucial T705 4TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD: $390

Call it $1400.

You give up 4 cores, 8 threads, compared to the Strix Halo AI Max 395; and, the biggest gap, you go from 40 compute units in the Strix Halo's 8060s, to 16 in the HX 370.

But it's $600 cheaper and you get a better SSD.

... If you're serious about AI development, it's probably worth the extra $600. Or $800, to get you to the same SSD configuration.

@steveperry Just finished it yesterday. A little slow, tbh, but I skipped almost all the torture porn until the last couple episodes. This sped it up a fair amount.

Reminds me of Breslin regarding the Mob. How are they so successful if they're so stupid?

"We'll kill you."

All these savages know exactly one trick. It's not a surprise a low level grifter could use them, he offered them the opportunity to kill, to send a man to a death camp in another country. They lunged at it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/mC0Y1PZkCSQ?si=DAzvcoIuUbuHfvJB

I went to a talk lately that was mostly about something else, but the speaker came out with:

“If you only remember one thing from this talk, remember this. Everyone in this room who likes helping people, raise your hand.”

Every hand, or nearly every hand, went up.

“If you like asking other people for help, keep your hand up.”

Almost every hand went back down.

“As you can see, people like helping you. When you ask for help, you’re making them feel good, even if you don’t like asking.”

I’ve genuinely forgotten the rest of the presentation but I won’t forget that.

They say they're shipping. At 128GB, you could devote 96GB to AI models -- for $2k instead of upwards of $10k. This is going to make local models a lot more accessible.

https://www.gmktec.com/products/amd-ryzen%E2%84%A2-ai-max-395-evo-x2-ai-mini-pc?spm=..index.image_slideshow_1.1&spm_prev=..product_ba613c14-a120-431b-af10-c5c5ca575d55.header_1.1

@FunkETown I've only worked with it once, but it's a good tool. I can't say that I was any faster with it than I would have been with SQL Server ETL, but I'm as hardcore a SQL Server guy as there is. So simply getting Databricks working without any major drama should count as a win.

Lennon was right in 1969 when he said this. He'd have been wrong 30 years previously, in Germany. He's wrong today.

Every now and again I follow Anarchist feeds for a while. They're right about a lot, but inevitability they spill into morally corrupt pro communist stupidity.

Look, you can be a socialist and have my respect. The Scandinavian countries exist.

But if you can't tell the difference between that and putzes rocking Che Guevara caps, you're part of the problem.

@FunkETown haven't ever looked at it

I'm very intrigued by AMD's new Strix Halo APUs.

16 cores, 128GB shared RAM, 96GB of which can be allocated to video memory -- meaning your AI models can run in a 96GB space ...

Video performance roughly that of an NVIDIA 4060 GPU ... In a laptop chip.

Desktops I'm seeing run $2k. I'll wait for the inevitable mini PCs.

My next computer, I think.

I'm with Pat.

@KarenTurley I am watching Slow Horses. Best thing I've seen in years.

"Fuck you. Tuck me in."

"Excuse me?"

"Teenagers. They need to hate you so they can leave when the time comes, but at the same time they don't want to go, so they drive everybody nuts."

- Dept Q, Ep 4.

... not wholly my experience of my kids, but enough of it to recognize. If you have a healthy relationship with them, the certainty you want what's best for them muffles this stuff, though it doesn't stop it.

I don't know if the current Nazi form of American conservatism is what they always were. I go back and forth on it.

But it's what they've been for a very long time, now. It's not an artifact of Trump, it goes back at least to Gingrich, and probably solidified when the Soviet Union collapsed, and the last great external threat evaporated, leaving them with only internal enemies.

Leonard: Did it ever occur to you that not everyone has the compulsive need to sort, organize and label the entire world around them?

Sheldon: No.

I don't often feel Sheldon in my bones, but that one got me.

@irilyth no one is. This is new territory.

@ratel obviously this one post is my entire understanding of history, sure.