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Captainant

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  1. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-offers-political-asylum-elon-musk-over-trump-feud-2081887 Love to see the trolls fighting trolls
  2. See: leopards eating faces
  3. He's more like GDGD than Strong. Had everything he needed to get endzone damn near every play, but instead ran bubble screens for YEARS
  4. Idk man, consumer financial protections sound pretty woke
  5. I am getting a kick out of all these Cerveza Cristal memes
  6. My toddler is gonna be pissed
  7. What a wild way to end the game if it works out that way lmao
  8. ICE stormtroopers are dressing as public utility workers to gain entry, and then illegally arresting those inside https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_e949f7c5-d339-4546-804c-cbb3c970af38.html This is straight up evil cruelty. Someone is gonna have to buy a shitload of Haitian orphanages to pay off this stain on their soul
  9. CVN's aren't a defensive weapons system - they're power projection. The US policy for the last six or seven decades has been power projection as foreign policy. Since we're giving up on foreign policy the CVN's were a bad investment
  10. hooray, they've created paypal with extra steps and somehow even less guardrails! It's specifically breaking the trustless model of BTC to require trust in a 3rd party and the sidechain you set up with them to enable lightning network payments. And it requires up-front funding of any escrow lightning side-chains you set up, which is a considerable barrier to onboarding.
  11. Great, and why is putting a 30+ minute transaction confirmation timer into a tablet a panacea for any of the previously covered problems with actually conducting commerce with this so-called currency? And yeah no shit finance goons are figuring out ways to financialize the BTC and to do what, pray tell? Oh yeah, secure ACTUALLY USEFUL currency against it as loan collateral. None of it is actually useful - or to your rhetoric - freeing. It's just putting your financial life into the hands of profit extractors that definitionally do not have your best interests at heart
  12. The OSint YouTube community is allsome. New satellite imagery dropped to get better plane casualties from the attack. Crazy that's just a consumer service now It seems the attack was only 60% effective, with a few targeted airbases getting significantly less than maximum firepower effect. Another interesting wrinkle is that when compared to pre-attack footage, a number of their aircraft haven't moved in over a year and are missing components like engines or props
  13. What you're doing right now is what he gets out of it. He's a contrarian troll that enjoys disagreeing and getting people spun up. There's a reason he works in the death panel industry
  14. It's just funny, because you can't buy food, shelter, diapers, formula or medicine with BTC. We've beaten this dead horse over and over, and simply saying another protocol that is unused for commerce doesn't fix that either
  15. I'm running a 24B parameter model locally on my 5070ti and I get completely acceptable results with it, but it doesn't have the context window of a cloud hosted model and responses aren't as fast. I use ollama and chatbox as my local stack and it's a pretty capable solution for doing note summarization and other personal tasks. Heck, I can even power Cline with an ollama-hosted (local) model and it's been a lovely coding companion for helping fill out unit test coverage and fixing python version upgrade compatability things. Intel's newest B50 and B60 GPUs ($300 and $500) are really well suited for locally hosted models, 16GB of memory and 170TOPs at 70W of power is pretty compelling
  16. The amateur historian in me can't help but draw some similarities to the Battle of Taranto, in which Britain conducted the first successful naval airstrike that downed combat ready battleships and cruisers. The British pulled it off because nobody thought it was possible - they only had rinky dink wood and canvas Swordfish biplanes. That attack in 1940 is what proved the concept of naval aviation, and directly inspired the IJN attack on Pearl Harbor. I feel like another military tectonic shift happening with the success of these drone strikes. This is a victory that could have tipped the scales during the Cold War, or at least caused the USSR to significantly back off due to a leg of its nuclear triad getting kneecapped. Ukraine did pulled it off with fuckin QUADCOPTERS! The weapon efficiency seen on the video is wild - "that one is burning, next one, next one, oh I'll hit that one that isn't burning yet"
  17. A key difference also is that ChatGPT is specifically NOT a large language model - it's an application built on top of one. This sort of profiling and creepiness doesn't happen with a locally hosted LLM, and that sort of tracking is from the application built around the LLM. Kind of a nitty gritty difference but it's important Several of my customers have built their own $companyGPT using a combination of cloud hosted LLM for general queries, and local LLMs for queries with data sensitivity considerations
  18. Very literally just a formula with billions to hundreds of billions of parameters. It's expressed and manipulated upon as a matrix calculation, but it can and is decomposed into a big ass f(x) at time of inference
  19. You kidding me? The visionary Michael Bay has already shown us the best place to get new astronauts - oil well drillers, DUH!
  20. Along the lines of young men feeling left behind, this is a great article from Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/why-incels-take-the-blackpill-and-why-we-should-care/ The above is from the conclusion of the article, but it nails that there's no more "third space" that isn't online. There needs to be more that isn't online, and yet that's the direction that schooling and everything is moving to save costs.
  21. The only way through is forward. There's no good moves or good ideas with respect to dealing with fascists and authoritarians, except for removing them from power and stripping their influence wherever possible. It's like killing a cancer. It's gonna do a fucking doozie on the host that's carrying the sickness
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