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New comment by karim79 in "The state of open source AI"

karim79 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:48:13 +0000

So...it's a commodity. It's running water. Is there a way to stop the dollars flowing away from ordinary people consuming this tech, to the doomsday Bunkerist/ Apocoligarchs of today who literally give zero fucks about lives and humanity?

We already have most of the benefits from these models and have even captured them. We can now have such a system running at home on a lower power SBC which costs about a thousand dollars or much less, and requires no Internet connection.

Once we have the "good enough" model which can be run at home, and with very little usage of electricity, will all this stuff finally stop messing with society like how it is messing with society now? One wonders.

This is a money grab. It's a bubble. Also, I'm pretty fucking sure that Spaghetti Bolognese recipes will not improve with more and more reddit content (much of which will probably be AI generated anyway).

New comment by karim79 in "The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB"

karim79 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:12:12 +0000

I am a greybeard and I always find this stuff to be fascinating. Should I invest time in it for relaxation? I think I have the diablo-ish Minecraft thing on my Xbox series X. Is it worth the time?

New comment by karim79 in "The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID"

karim79 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:10:37 +0000

Sorry I misread the whole conversation.

New comment by karim79 in "The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID"

karim79 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:46:41 +0000

What the hell are you even talking about?

New comment by karim79 in "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research"

karim79 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:18:14 +0000

Understood. I now know what to do. Many thanks sir.

New comment by karim79 in "Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers"

karim79 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:20:46 +0000

In the same way as Pablo Escobar was "brilliant" I suppose. By being financially successful while destroying countless lives.

New comment by karim79 in "Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets"

karim79 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:28:47 +0000

At first glance I imagined this was a magic way to heal a wound by rubbing a jellyfish on it. Skin irritation be damned, this is gonna save lives.

But no. No such joy.

New comment by karim79 in "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research"

karim79 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:51:28 +0000

Thank you sir. I actually got my CS from distance learning and somehow the combination of growing things and monitoring everything using CS just grabs me. I would work on any farm anywhere with appropriate agency.

New comment by karim79 in "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research"

karim79 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:38:33 +0000

Absolutely this.

New comment by karim79 in "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research"

karim79 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:01:59 +0000

True and also, the actual physical contact and results are absolute magic. Maybe we need to create a "computer scientists for botony" forum. I think that has legs.

Botany is great because the results are basically what I'd call magic. It's such beauty (and horror on occasion).

The marriage of CS and botany seems like a match made in heaven and just from writing these comments I've convinced myself that it's probably the most practical way to go forward in life.

New comment by karim79 in "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research"

karim79 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:26:51 +0000

I grow marijuana and chillies from time to time. I got good at it. I will say that plants are malleable in untold ways and so I find this article to be unsurprising.

Plants will do what they need to do in the end. I've done stuff like co2 bombing, and increasing nutrients to the point to where I get a whole new ecosystem of insects and an entirely new situation.

It is such fascinating stuff that it's actually the life I want to live. I'm a computer scientist but now I yearn for the botanical sciences.

I highly recommend checking out defoliation strategies and low-stress training methods for anyone interested. Plants are not dumb creatures. The results you can get from them are astonishing and the science of what plants actually are becomes more profound by the day.

New comment by karim79 in "Slow Breathing Can Rewire Your Brain and Change the Choices You Make"

karim79 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:36:17 +0000

I mean, holding your breath to steady your hands to get a good shot, what other interesting chemistry could be going on? I think there's a lot of fun to be had here.

New comment by karim79 in "Slow breathing can rewire your brain and change the choices you make"

karim79 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:29:15 +0000

This somehow always reminds me of video games. Press to hold your breath and your accuracy increases, your aim is more steady.

Anecdotally I think there is some truth to this; hypoxia might lead to greater accuracy and better decisions.

I've had this thought for years and I don't know what I'm talking about just so you know.

"Hold your breath" does have some legs and seems to be quite a common theme especially when dealing with situations which require immense concentration.

New comment by karim79 in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

karim79 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:52:00 +0000

I have two strats. Both signature editions. Ed O'Brien and Mark Speer edition. I also have a fender accoustic which is perhaps my most favouritist guitar ever. I fucking love fender and will forever.

New comment by karim79 in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

karim79 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:25:54 +0000

The 2026 budget for Hasbara is $730 million. That's a lot of push.

New comment by karim79 in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

karim79 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:06:43 +0000

"Israel has of course no intention to interfere in the French political process, be it at the national or municipal level," it said in a statement."

Yeah right. Surely not. Why would they even?

New comment by karim79 in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

karim79 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:12:20 +0000

You're probably talking about cooking/recipe blogs? I need those 12 paragraphs and all the ads to get to the recipe. It's dopamine.

New comment by karim79 in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

karim79 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:59:28 +0000

Assuming it's an "all-weather" jacket I think it would be cool for it to spout out umbrellas when it starts raining, batman style, to catch rain water as well and drop it into pouches. Mp3 player would be great as well.

New comment by karim79 in "Apple Core AI Framework"

karim79 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:06:52 +0000

I'll take two of them. A thousand a piece.

New comment by karim79 in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

karim79 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:24:58 +0000

I mean 730 million isn't a lot, right? It's all good all safe. 730 million dollars. Which could solve hunger in parts of Africa. But let's just use it to protect our image.