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New comment by bugglebeetle in "Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program"

bugglebeetle — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:31:40 +0000

> he framed his part as addressing the challenge not the ethics

I didn’t know that Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil was something people willfully embraced.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

bugglebeetle — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:26:36 +0000

OpenAI is now part of the national security state and so is now above anything beyond performative legal vulnerability.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "vLLM v0.28.0"

bugglebeetle — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:35:11 +0000

I recently switched to using for some large volume inference with small, fine-tuned models and was surprised how nice and painless things were. vLLM seems to have a lot more gotchas and kludged together stuff once you get outside of anything straightforward.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

bugglebeetle — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:51:49 +0000

> Hopefully the anti-trust enforcers

Let me stop you right there…

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:59:50 +0000

I’m old enough to remember the heavenly times before people repeated phrases like “the taxi cartel” as if they were original thoughts vs. cooked up by Uber’s comms team.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

bugglebeetle — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:58:39 +0000

I forgot this was in effect. I’ve been hitting my weekly rate limits two to three days in because of needing to steer Slopus 5 with Fable. Absurd that they’re being cut further in the face of steep competition from open weights models.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

bugglebeetle — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:26:44 +0000

The datalab models are the best ones.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

bugglebeetle — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:54:26 +0000

Not exactly. See:

https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2026/mgh/

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Nvidia's Risky Business"

bugglebeetle — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:44:03 +0000

Undoubtedly, the frontier labs are already doing something akin to this as part of their new chip design endeavors.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

bugglebeetle — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:01:50 +0000

I haven’t used their platform so can’t speak to this, but super brilliant team and big fans of their work overall!

New comment by bugglebeetle in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

bugglebeetle — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:58:01 +0000

Tinker is pretty cheap. Prime Intellect if you want more flexibility.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB"

bugglebeetle — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:44:17 +0000

It’s not “deeply weird” but was intentionally legislated to prevent labor from obtaining similar sectorial bargaining power and political influence as they had in Europe. Some entertainment industry unions had already achieved similar stature pre-WWII and were grandfathered in, but the US learned their lesson here and explicitly sought to atomize at the workplace level.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:33:48 +0000

See OpenRouter’s recent announcement on a model fusion setup, which they now support via API:

https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-fronti...

New comment by bugglebeetle in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

bugglebeetle — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:56:05 +0000

Use their API directly, this is an openrouter issue. I ran something like 5 billion tokens through them directly recently without any bumps in the road.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:44:48 +0000

Anthropic serves quantized versions of their models and you can run q8 locally.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:30:30 +0000

The frontier Chinese open source models are already at this level, GLM-5.1 and Kimi K2.6 specifically.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

bugglebeetle — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:56:54 +0000

Deepseek has demonstrated that there is no reason for it to actually lose money. The awful business practices and monopoly tactics of the frontier model labs in the US are the problem.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

bugglebeetle — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:52:45 +0000

As Benjamin noted, “Christianity’s history is essentially that of its parasite […] capitalism.”

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:28:55 +0000

If you ever heard them talk about each other, you would definitely assume as much.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:26:02 +0000

>homogenous country

Tell me you know nothing about Switzerland without telling me you know nothing about Switzerland. Try asking a German Swiss what they think about a French Swiss or either about the Romansch.