I never thought I would live to see the regression of the human race in real time, but my wife is a teacher, and I've done technical interviews.
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116471554305970089
I never thought I would live to see the regression of the human race in real time, but my wife is a teacher, and I've done technical interviews.
If my kidneys were healthier, I would be drinking more often.
@da_667 Yes. This. It reminds me of when I used to be a French tutor. The kids were dropped right into conversational French without learning any basics --- like the alphabet, I kid you not. I discovered this when I told the kids to sound out words they didn't know. They couldn't because they were never taught the alphabet. This blew my mind because the alphabet is what I was taught first. So, I'd drill them on the alphabet and that improved their abilities. I know that there are different ways to learn languages, but not being able to spell or sound out words blew my mind.
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@da_667 oh, we're already in feudalism 2.0 along with the Great Robber Barons at the same time.
On the upside, that means it's literally impossible for them to ever make a profit. I've run the numbers. There is not a single person who isn't an oligarch who could afford what it would cost to make the scam profitable.
@da_667 "it can't be *that* bad, right?"
Oh, it is so much fucking worse. Because you have a bunch of techbro douchebags who understand NOTHING about how computers work. It is the most inefficient, poorly written, incompetent code in existence. And I don't mean the output. It takes them a cab full of $750k machines to attempt to do what 6 PPro200/512's did in '03.
Except somehow they do it even more poorly.
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@da_667 Yes. This. It reminds me of when I used to be a French tutor. The kids were dropped right into conversational French without learning any basics --- like the alphabet, I kid you not. I discovered this when I told the kids to sound out words they didn't know. They couldn't because they were never taught the alphabet. This blew my mind because the alphabet is what I was taught first. So, I'd drill them on the alphabet and that improved their abilities. I know that there are different ways to learn languages, but not being able to spell or sound out words blew my mind.
@InfoSecSherpa jesus, I'm so sorry.
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join house 667. We stand for burning down the datacenters of the major houses, re-establishing data sovereignity, renewable power, and turning billionaires into mulch.
@da_667 I was with you until the mulch part. I'd rather not scorch my earth with toxins.
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also shitposting. lots of shitposting.
@da_667 *removes a bratwurst stuffed into a sword scabbard* I pledge my sword to house 667!
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@da_667 "it can't be *that* bad, right?"
Oh, it is so much fucking worse. Because you have a bunch of techbro douchebags who understand NOTHING about how computers work. It is the most inefficient, poorly written, incompetent code in existence. And I don't mean the output. It takes them a cab full of $750k machines to attempt to do what 6 PPro200/512's did in '03.
Except somehow they do it even more poorly.
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@InfoSecSherpa jesus, I'm so sorry.
@da_667 I once tutored a guy in college who told me to my face that he hated me, called me a bitch or something, for how I tutored French. He later apologized sheepishly when he told me that he passed his French class.
Reminded me of this from SNL:
"Back in 2008, Tina Fey went on an epic Weekend Update rant about people who call Hillary Clinton a bitch. “Let me say something about that: She is,” Fey snarled. “And so am I. And so is this one (Amy Poehler). You know what? Bitches get stuff done. That’s why Catholic schools use nuns as teachers and not priests. Those nuns are mean old clams, and they sleep on cots and they’re allowed to hit you. And at the end of the school year, you hated those bitches. But you knew the capital of Vermont.” -
@Epic_Null @da_667 the emotional guidance they need is very simple:
- reject it. Violently if necessary.
- take pride in developing your own skills
- throw bricks at the motherfuckers demanding you use it
- take time to enjoy the little things in life
- here's how to make a Molotov correctly -
@Epic_Null @da_667 the emotional guidance they need is very simple:
- reject it. Violently if necessary.
- take pride in developing your own skills
- throw bricks at the motherfuckers demanding you use it
- take time to enjoy the little things in life
- here's how to make a Molotov correctly -
@Epic_Null @da_667 if their parents are demanding it, that's a matter for DCFS.
For everyone else, that's why we educate them that it is not just 'gasoline in a bottle.'
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also shitposting. lots of shitposting.
@da_667 if youre handy at the command line and can read english, and also have a 3090 or a 4090 or higher, you can run larger, more interesting 120b models like gpt-oss, deepseek, nemotron and qwen locally. if youre lucky enough to have a cracking rig not used for cracking anymore, all those gpu and all that vram can be used to run larger llms - so there will be pockets of folks who can still access the tech
