I like the windows reflecting the sunset!

the funniest zero-stakes grudge match I got into was over Heretics being the best of the original Dune books, after the Villeneuve films came out I believe my passionate defense of the Bene Gesserit/Honored Matres war as 'simply more interesting than a rehash of White Savior Complex' was justified

insane US gov export and "security" restrictions are hampering wide rollout of Chinese models and the only option for self-hosting in that case are crappy bloated US open source models and given the choice most customers are sticking with API-based frontier models for now even with high token cost

I work in the field and can confirm what others are saying, 1) when the response is coming from a model it is streaming in and a few hundred extra ms aren't an issue 2) inference takes longer 3) other stuff usually going on locally to obscure lag 4)these are mostly for training. also,

I also picked up a stomach bug and as a consequence have neither eaten nor coffee in close to 48 hours so I think i'm just going to pass out and hopefully feel better tomorrow

Wtf is meaningly. Meaningless

This is close in size to being able to feel the s-waves in my crappy high rise apartment in SF :(