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Right, a bike. That’s going to help me bring all those groceries home, it’ll be an okay form of transport when it’s raining or -30°C, when I need to go across the city on an errand or appointment, when I need to give someone a lift, when I’m visiting a relative who lives the next city over, and so forth and so on.

I’m well beyond disappointed and into active disgust.

Yes, I know. You’re saying that a 32GB graphics card is millionarie hardware? You’ve got a weird view of the cost of these things.

Plus, the hardware to run a full sized LLM is expensive

It’s a regular gaming PC. Are you going to dismiss all gamers as “millionaires”?

I pay for my electricity. It uses roughly the same amount of power when I’m running an LLM as it would if I was playing a game. It’s negligible.

And contrary to all the breathless headlines about water-guzzling data centers, my computer doesn’t consume any water at all when I run an LLM.

So many of the complaints I see about LLM behaviour can be so easily solved by just adding “don’t behave this way” to the prompt. Most LLM frameworks these days let you add stuff like that to the default system prompt so you don’t even have to remember to do it.

The very first comparison fails, though. I run LLMs locally on my own computer, tokens cost me nothing.

Okay? That’s not what the meme was about, that’s a separate thing.

Fortunately FOSS software is often not beholden to companies or profit motives like that, and that’s specifically what this meme is about.

I’m not sure that this meme is using “offline” correctly. I use AI offline, which means I absolutely do know that it’s not going to “go away.” It’s running on my computer, it’s stored on my hard drive. Ten years from now I will still be able to run it regardless of what’s happened in the outside world. I welcome offline AI integration into software, that’s the best way to do it when possible.

Crypto bubble, not bitcoin bubble, don’t move the goalposts.

Okay, where was the crypto bubble, then? The total market capitalization for cryptocurrencies in aggregate had a significant bump in the 2021-2022 timeframe, but it’s since recovered from and far exceeded that so if that was the bubble it didn’t cause any permanent harm. BTC largely follows the overall cryptocurrency market.

As OP said, the crash of cryptocurrency has been exaggerated.

Shh, people don’t like to hear that cryptocurrencies are still around and doing just fine.

Real answer: it’s complicated.

Style-over-substance, thoughtless retaliation, maximalist response without strategy, these are American techniques. I’m fine with taking a more careful and nuanced approach, in the long run it’ll likely work out better for us.

Yeah, we can’t have a “as long as he’s on your property you can do whatever you want to him” situation like we see in some states. Which means there are definitely things you can do to an intruder that should result in you going to jail, and figuring that sort of thing out is what the courts are there for.

Obviously this is a new case and a lot of details are unclear, so I can’t speak much to this particular situation. But hypothetically, if some drunk guy came wandering into my house baffled about how “his” furniture was all different and rearranged and I started whacking away at him with a machete then I am clearly the asshole here and should be put away for a very long time.

Likewise if some guy comes in to rob me brandishing a pocket knife, I do the “that’s not a knife, this is a knife” routine brandishing my machete, and he backs away saying “woah dude I don’t want to actually fight” then I shouldn’t start whacking away in that situation either. Let him retreat. Though perhaps if I can make the argument that I couldn’t tell if he was retreating or attacking that might work as a defense.

It’s complicated. So to the courts it goes.

Have you tried asking Copilot what it is?

There’s a lot more to cryptocurrency than Bitcoin.

If only the Internet hadn’t spent the last decade collectively shitting on crypto instead of maybe learning a bit about how it works and what it could be used for.

You think Poilievre would have done a better job of standing up to Trump?

I don’t see what that has to do with this. The joke is that Poilievre is being parachuted in to “represent” this riding that he has nothing to do with, just like the other hundred candidates he’s complaining about.

The joke is Poilievre running in this riding in the first place. The 100 other candidates are just making sure everyone gets the joke.