Riskable @ riskable @programming.dev

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I've already stocked up on maple syrup 👍

Of course, I was stocked up before Trump got elected but still...

I really want to see Stable Diffusion/Flux benchmarks.

It's time to preorder Trump's guide to being a good conservative: "Everything bad that happens is the fault of the people I hate"

Well there is a plus side: Being a generalist means that when you're looking for work you have a lot more options than say, "Java Guy" and a lot more options than say, ".NET Dude".

The pay won't be as good as "COBOL Beastman" but that's just survivorship bias 🤷

It would require that and then a follow-up step: Those against the impeachment would need to have something happen to them too.

...or the banks can just collectively say, "fuck this guy; he's ruining the economy and our profits" and Trump will be gone in no time.

Something like 25% of all campaign contribution to both parties comes from "finance" (aka the top ten banks).

So many are bitching about how, "there's no way it only cost $5.6 million (to train DeepSeek)." Yes, yes there is: It's called subsidies and government assistance.

What do I mean? A simple example we can all understand: When you buy something from somewhere in China (e.g. AliExpress) the shipping price is often free or so cheap as to be negligible. How can it be that shipping is free on a $1 set of earrings‽ It's because China subsidizes the shipping!

China isn't really a capitalist nation (they're not communist either but that's a different matter). That means they have no qualms whatsoever about giving businesses resources for free or next to nothing. That includes loans, reduced shipping, employee recruitment (and straight up loaning them experts), and AI training data.

Did the folks who made DeepSeek copy trade secrets from OpenAI? Sure, that's possible but why would they need to? China has access to the same free-on-the-Internet training data as everyone else plus a very, very special resource no else has: Everything that's ever gone through WeChat.

That's another thing about China: If they come into your business and tell you, "give your data to this other business" you have no say in the matter. You bow and hand it over or you get arrested and maybe don't live for much longer.

This sucks for businesses 99% of the time but every now and again it gives China a massive competitive advantage when everything comes together juuuust right. This is one of those cases.

30% of veterans have disabilities.

Republicans: "Yeah... Fuck them. If they could just go and die that would be great."

40% of all breast reduction surgeries are performed on men. Sorry, dudes! You're going to have to live with those tits your body made after getting cancer (or just a slightly abnormal puberty).

Quakers: Putting ICE in oatmeal is a sin!

Oh yes! Loads of fun.

Trying to get a good workflow for Micropython at the moment. It's so I can make things easier for a robotics team I'm coaching.

Those who support JD Vance don't care about evidence. They didn't care about it when it came to sex education, abortion, vaccines, or science in general.

They really do believe that not all people are created equal and that only certain people (that look like them) should be procreating. Any policy that benefits everyone is doomed to fail because it also helps the people they hate and they'd rather go extinct than help a bunch of brown people/immigrants make more babies.

Why? These poor, worthless souls don't even want to work! Instead, I have A Modest Proposal...

By "criminals" he means his political enemies.

I mostly use my computer for:

• CAD (both 3D modeling and circuit board design)
• Programming (mostly embedded firmware in Rust lately)
• Chatting because doing that on a phone is too slow and autocorrect sucks.
• Work (remote desktop, mostly)
• News
• AI tomfoolery with stuff like Stable Diffusion and LLMs.

Every now and again I'll get addicted to a new game and use my PC for that too. My latest addiction was Baldur's Gate 3 when it came out 🤷

It takes too long for the stress to work its way down.

Gold foil over shit

This display is fowl.

How to stop black people from entering the military.

When he says, "They'd have much better health coverage" he's talking about the rich people. Not normal people!

He doesn't consider normal people, people.

If it runs Windows it's still garbage.