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software
working on kernel and inference optimization

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I've been working on my own inference engine (rainference) to see just how hard I can push the AMD Radeon 9070 XT with qwen 3.8 27b

At this point I'm now more than double llamacpp at 84.8tok/s decode (this is with the DE sharing the card)

field report here: https://t.co/04rnyXw8vL

@LottoLabs plz add rainference to the engineName enum so I can post speedtests :D

[log4j @log4j]

2027 will be an incredible year for you if you’re technically gifted, neurologically forked and have access to exogenous focus enhancers

2027 for everyone else will be, idk, just be there for them

(nothing changes for the amish)

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bw fans stay winning

[Roy @usr_bin_roygbiv]

In terms of who I would hire
S:
Dota
Starcraft
Eve
OSRS
Paradox games
Factorio
A Tier:
Diablo/Poe
Traditional MMOs
Tekken
Minecraft mods

Wall of mediocrity/case by case

F:
League
Cod
Fortnite
Vanilla minecraft

It's far closer correlated to IQ than a degree is at this point

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@wolfie_ @Noahpinion @creatine_cycle @elaifresh

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@shakoistsLog I miss living in Seattle

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@graphtheory Just wait until you see how nice everyone is in the private airline lobbies 😂

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@usr_bin_roygbiv @YoshkaMJ faang asks this pretty much every loop

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the next decade is just going to be escalating this cycle

[zack @zack_overflow]

the best part of “fuck around and find out” was the dopamine of finding out what you were gonna find out

but then agents made the fucking around part so much faster and cheaper, that i find now that i am finding A LOT of things out

but because of this new abundance of finding things out, i eventually found that the finding out part was not as exciting anymore

so i started upping the ante and had the agents REALLY fuck around so i could find some quite spectacular things out

[Roy @usr_bin_roygbiv]

We have our first offer received through applystead

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@NoemiTitarenco paying deepseek directly has seemed to be the best bet for me

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@rob_mcrobberson wanting your partner to be hyper successful is also a red flag ime

you need to be chill about career and success to be well adjusted, imo

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@drjoshcsimmons did a similar thing where I took my first job off my resume

hr has biases against random things

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@kaitduffy argumentative? lazy? stupid?
have you considered a job in tech?

[dan @irl_danB]

Ronald Reagan eats the same Big Mac as you
Tim Cook uses the same iPhone as you
the NSA runs the same abliterated GLM-5.3 as you

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@thetalesoftayls much more

[Roy @usr_bin_roygbiv]

The only way to prevent garbage in prod now is to make sure that people understand what they are pushing, and there is no way to enforce that other than hiring smart people you trust to do things properly, which you should have been doing anyway rather than feeding egos

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@kittytreats You’ll get there, it can take months to get off the ground, but it’s so worth it.

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@drjoshcsimmons I know a handful of people who got good reviews and pay cuts because of how equity grants were given out

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@epsilver_ buzzed and LOUD