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New comment by boppo1 in "Combustion engine web-based simulator"

boppo1 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:44:38 +0000

I wish he was still making posts.

New comment by boppo1 in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

boppo1 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:19:48 +0000

lol they made a movie about this called minority report.

New comment by boppo1 in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

boppo1 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:57:35 +0000

Have you tried qwen 27b q4_K_XL? It's a little bigger than the 4080 but not too much

New comment by boppo1 in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

boppo1 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:50:31 +0000

Have you considered this may never happen? What if datacenters continue to swallow all capacity?

New comment by boppo1 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

boppo1 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:59:16 +0000

>can train insainly powerful models on my laptop

Can you give an example or two?

New comment by boppo1 in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

boppo1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:47:39 +0000

>Tech companies should ignore it and just publicly name whoever attempts to prosecute them

The most powerful tech companies are in favor of this.

New comment by boppo1 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

boppo1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:54:06 +0000

Didn't the Combine give humans immortality?

New comment by boppo1 in "Alan Greenspan has died"

boppo1 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:15:33 +0000

I took multiple econ classes in college. Just because it's in the books doesn't mean it's true. Not to mention some of the books we studied were contributed to by people involved in the interventionist monetary regime. LIRP scooped the guts out of the middle class & handed it to the tech industry and I've seen nothing convincing to the contrary. Expecting everyday people to learn about inflation and manage a portfolio to try and make sure their earnings aren't eroded is borderline class-war. And I'm no socialist.

New comment by boppo1 in "Alan Greenspan has died"

boppo1 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:19:06 +0000

>That in aggregate makes the economy much worse.

Does it really? A lot of our problems seem to stem from conspicuous consumption. People will still need things (food shelter clothing) and that will motivate purchasing. "Oh n0es people won't buy flavor of the month consumer garbage, what ever will we do" just doesn't track.

New comment by boppo1 in "Alan Greenspan has died"

boppo1 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:56:39 +0000

How did a guy who wrote that "gold and economic freedom" wind up running two decades of LIRP?

New comment by boppo1 in "Alan Greenspan has died"

boppo1 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:31:23 +0000

I always wondered how someone who wrote that could go on to chair the fed with LIRP policies that fueled crazy asset bubbles.

New comment by boppo1 in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

boppo1 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:19:11 +0000

What about blender?

New comment by boppo1 in "Running local models is good now"

boppo1 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:37:43 +0000

I have almost your system specs, how do they work for non-coding stuff like chat/knowledge/discussion? I've been using models to talk through social stuff I'm anxious about but dont want to annoy my friends with and it's been amazing, but I don't want to share that info with google/openai/anthropic anymore. I shouldn't have in the first place, but I couldn't help it, the exercise was too interesting.

New comment by boppo1 in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

boppo1 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:01:11 +0000

Why mitochondria?

New comment by boppo1 in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

boppo1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:29:46 +0000

Wouldnt that hurt the conservative cause though?

New comment by boppo1 in "Open source AI must win"

boppo1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:01:30 +0000

I agree. But this won't happen in the US because Anthropic / OpenAI is a big ol economic recession risk because we levered ourselves to the tits and put our chips on them.

New comment by boppo1 in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

boppo1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:57:54 +0000

The US will try to ban them, for being too dangerous or for being an IP violation[0] of some companies we've deemed too big to fail.

[0] lmao how ironic

New comment by boppo1 in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

boppo1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:55:09 +0000

Yes, I want that 'super weapon' in everyone's hands. Better than the hands of a few. Same thing as literacy. I believe in the power of the do-gooders to overwhelm the do-badders.

New comment by boppo1 in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

boppo1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:51:36 +0000

I pay for codex & claude. Both out-code me but I'm a novice. Fable is really good and shockingly capable. But they're still dumb as hell in various ways. They're faster than the best humans but they are not better problem solvers, especially for novel stuff like implementing SOTA 3D boolean algorithms in Blender.

New comment by boppo1 in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

boppo1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:17:35 +0000

This take feels a little like the clergy saying printing presses are dangerous because people will read bad things and spread bad ideas. Turns out they totalky did, but on net it's a small price to pay for widespread literacy.