You can also do the multi-tier thing, either the traditional way (swap on zram, and a lower-priority swap on SSD), or with zswap (large compressed RAM cache in front of all swap devices). Which works better depends on a variety of circumstances.
Back in the Second Age, my 386 came with 1MB of soldered-on RAM and two slots that could each take 2MB of RAM, for a total of 5. This was still not very much for running OS/2. I made the questionable-even-at-the-time decision to by a very cheap ISA memory extension card with 8MB of RAM. Surprisingly enough, the motherboard recognized all of it. If the operating system had been able to distinguish the two banks of RAM and use it like this (or even just to swap to a ramdrive on the slow ram), it would have been actually good. As it was, everything just ran slowly, but could run more without thrashing.
Now it’s not even good for that anymore.
“Slop” as we use it to describe AI outputs came into the discourse via left-wing twitter and podcasts using “slop” as a term for mass entertainment media (like Marvel movies — cape slop). Used negatively but also self deprecatingly: I can’t wait for the new episode of “Stranger Things”, because I need my slop. The explicit metaphor is pigs happily eating buckets of food waste from a trough. It’s just slop. Nothing nefarious.
The phrenology and physiognomy come along with the “race science” as a package.
Someone who has never heard of fanfic and just had their mind blown by the worst example of fanfic ever.
There’s a virtue ethics argument to be made for not doing this. It’s not bad for the LLM (because it’s not sentient, nothing can be bad-for-it), but it’s perhaps bad for the experimenter. The main argument for doing it is out of spite for the promptfondlers.
The main thing I take away from this is that KDE does not consider their users part of the community.
Yeah, his clarification means he may be a liberal or anarkiddy rather than, as was my first reaction, a fascist.
Oh, gods damn it. I’m only going to have a couple of servers to move, but it’s going to be a huge pain in the ass. What VM provider is recommended these days for USAian customers?
When I was 17, I thought it would be great to live forever, even though my life at the time was not especially happy. But now that I’m over 50, I have trouble understanding how people can make it to my age or older without at least becoming somewhat comfortable with the prospect of death.
I always assumed it was a package deal with the California Ideology.
they argued that the TESCREAL thesis is little more than a leftist conspiracy theory
The thing about leftist conspiracy theories… right wing conspiracy theories tend to be things like “the (((lizard people))) are kidnapping and harvesting the adrenochrome from white children”, whereas leftist conspiracy theories tend to be things like “the CIA illegally funded right-wing Latin American militias by illegally selling arms to a country that had in recent memory held US diplomats hostage but was, at least, anticommunist”. Leftist conspiracy theories tend to get validated in substance if not in details a few years after it’s too late for the knowledge to be useful.
It was sneered at here a while ago.
I’ve wanted to put poison or “go fuck off” statements in AGENTS.md in some of my repos, but didn’t want to give a false slop signal for people that see it but don’t read it.
Yeah, seeing that gave me the black pill. I chose Common Lisp for personal projects to avoid techbro bullshit.
The fake research company listed Dr. Elena Vasquez, one of the most commonly made-up AI names, on its staff page. I guess Elara Voss was too busy.
Lacan by way of Land.
I assume that “Cathedral” is a Curtis Yarvin/Moldbug reference.