I had 2x MMR. Just got a 3rd shot anyway, just in case.

EDIT: For more context, the Costco pharmacist told me (even with 2 shots) its immunity does wane over time. She said I’d probably be fine skipping in my age bracket, but I’m in Texas and I don’t like ‘probably.’

Completely depends on your laptop hardware, but generally:

• TabbyAPI (exllamav2/exllamav3)
• ik_llama.cpp, and its openai server
• kobold.cpp (or kobold.cpp rocm, or croco.cpp, depends)
• An MLX host with one of the new distillation quantizations
• Text-gen-web-ui (slow, but supports a lot of samplers and some exotic quantizations)
• SGLang (extremely fast for parallel calls if thats what you want).
• Aphrodite Engine (lots of samplers, and fast at the expense of some VRAM usage).

I use text-gen-web-ui at the moment only because TabbyAPI is a little broken with exllamav3 (which is utterly awesome for Qwen3), otherwise I’d almost always stick to TabbyAPI.

Tell me (vaguely) what your system has, and I can be more specific.

True, though there’s a big output difference between the 7B distil (or even 32B/70B) and the full model.

And Microsoft does host R1 already, heh. Again, this headline is a big nothingburger.

Also (random aside here), you should consider switching from ollama. They’re making some FOSS unfriendly moves, and depending on your hardware, better backends could host 14B models at longer context, and similar or better speeds.

One can get Deepseek R1 from many providers (including US hosts, or various other nationalities). Microsoft even has their own anti-CCP finetune, MIT licensed: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/MAI-DS-R1

…Banning the app is reasonable, and a tiny inconvenience for anyone who needs DS.

In other words, this is a big nothingburger because V3/R1 are open models. The story would be different if it was (say) an API-only model like Qwen Max or GPT4o, where ultimately one is beholden to the trainer’s servers.

They will have to pick between lip service (and hiding the changes by, say, quietly pulling out of places?) and government retribution. Mark my words, at some point they will go after any kind of “climate agenda.”

And that balance will depend on leadership. I mentioned Berkshire specifically because (at the top level, at least) they’re pretty old school with a low tolerance for nonsense, and big enough to eat the retribution.

And you are bringing up a red herring (salutes) that doesn’t matter, because, well, I don’t know. But that’s the whole point of the saying.

Depends. Some of their CEOs will shamelessly bow to the party line, though not all. Definitely not Berkshire-Hathaway.

My generation called that kind of party a “sausage fest.”

And not the fun kind.

Tim Waltz does not have eugenics-adjacent beliefs.

Also, I think you may have misinterpreted what “red herring” means.

IMO the AMD 7900 GPU series is in a sweet spot R/N (at least with used listings I can see).

It’s not really in demand for AI, very fast, but not “4090+” fast to shoot the price through the roof. New but not too new. Plenty of VRAM to give it longevity. Going forward they will probably get more scarce and get swept up in tariff prices.

So… Maybe get one of those. Or a 7800.

Others mentions a 5700XD, which I am a huge fan of, except prices for it seem to be sky high, like way more than a 5800.

Nah its much simpler label than that.

“Troll”

The topic doesn’t matter, it more about fishing for provocation. In this case I couldn’t help myself, but… you know, don’t feed the trolls.

As a serious answer, Musk is into modern variants of eugenics and some scary techno-authoritarian stuff he shares with Peter Theil and other Silicon Valley royalty.

Maybe he’s a techno-neonazi? That’s just semantics.

His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring. But “Nazi” is an reasonable enough descriptor for his beliefs.

I mean, DLSS looks great. Can’t speak to FSR, but if it’s anywhere close that’s incredible.

I’m speaking as a major pixel peeper. I’ve spent years pouring over vapoursynth filters, playing with scaling algorithms, being really obsessive about video scaling, calibration, proper processing bit depths, playing games at native res even if I have to run on mostly low, omitting AA because it felt like blur, modding shaders out myself… And to me, DLSS quality or balanced (depending on the situation) looks like free lunch.

It’s sharp. Edges are good. Overprocessing artifacts are minimal. It’s not perfect, but infinitely better than naive (bilinear or bicubic) scaling to monitor res.

My only complaint is improper implementations that ghost, but that aside, not once have I ever switched back and fourth (either at native 1440P or 4K) and decided ‘eh, DLSS’s scaling artifacts look bad’ and switched back to native unless the game is trivial to run. And one gets pretty decent AA as a cherry on top.

Eh, Tesla was bound to lose Europe. I want to see American markets go down.

Yeah, I was trying to figure out the argument. She brings up podcasts being treated as journalism by millions when it’s not (a good point), but PP in fact did not take the interview, and her complaint ends up being:

But whatever the reason for not doing the interview, I think it was a good thing that he didn’t do it. If only because selfishly having to sit through that Jordan Peterson interview with Pierre Polyev really tested my sanity. And I think one with Rogan might genuinely break it.

Meanwhile, Joe Rogan and whoever he’s with (IDK I don’t watch this podcast) don’t say much of anything? Just comparisons to Kamala and kinda dumb complaints. I don’t get why people would watch that, but I don’t see how they dove in to Canadian politics at all.

Then it’s talk of right-wing ostensibly pro Canada Twitter accounts being Trump shills. Well, duh, they’re farming the algorithm. Twitter will bury them (and their influencer income) if they bash Trump.

Then the referendum thing, which i don’t know enough about to comment on… but seems topical I guess.

Isn’t Catholicism considered too liberal these days? I have some religious evangelical family that really hate Pope Francis.

Being this close, it’s probably img2img, with the artist straight-up using the original as input.

In other words this is deliberate, lazy theft, with a shitty model at that. IE classic tech bro…

What time travel rules? See: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TemporalMutability

Going with “overwriting the timeline,”

• buy yourself an hour to live on the first day, should be easy enough

• make fat cash with options trading in minutes

• buy hella security

• repeat until the seven days have passed

I would also rig a “dead man’s switch” on my phone in case the assassin ever does get me, to reset things (by telling my past self of my current situation, so they can avoid it).

+1 for Pokemon Colosseum.

Isn’t that like the black sheep of Pokémon games? And one of my favorites: I’m feeling majorly nostalgic RN.

Another +1 for a wireless GC controller. This is a man of sophistication and culture.

It’s an opinion column, so not like WSJ’s more sourced reporting.

I see opinion sections as a red flag for basically any outlet.