QWEN 3.6 27B can run fine on a 16GB video card and if you give it more time it’ll be as ‘smart’ as bigger models.

As much as I’d like this to be true (don’t believe all the benchmarks), in reality, using e.g. gpt 5.5 is still a lot less pain in the ass, mostly has to do with more reprompting (gpt is just smarter, oneshots stuff more often) + a lot slower (on an RTX 3090 for reference).

I’ve tried using it for some time, but I think I’m faster writing (better, although that’s also true for gpt-5.5) code by hand, than using this (+ I need the valuable VRAM for other stuff, as I’m a graphics/shader programmer most of the time).

That said, it’s already fairly impressive how much progress these smaller models have made the last year, it’s usable, you can “vibe-code” at least simple stuff.

Right now it just makes more sense to not use the API directly, but the subscriptions, they seem to be better priced. Also, Anthropic seems to be more expensive…

How that will look in the future, I don’t know, I’m fairly sure they’re progressively increasing the price, or rather reduce the amount of tokens you can use in the subscription (as they did with gpt 5.5 and claude opus 4.7). The chinese competitors are getting increasingly more interesting. It’s also quite impressive how well small models like qwen 3.6 27B run already on a (not so affordable) 24+GB GPU, unfortunately still far from the quality of say gpt 5.5, but probably comparable to o4 or something like that, certainly usable.

Right… But in the age of AI, data-harvesting the right data (i.e. the human/non-AI-slop) becomes very interesting to a lot of companies, “age-verification” is an easy argument (for policy-makers) of e.g. social-media companies to know whether the user is an actual human, thus the verified data is a lot more valuable.

Around 15 kCal/kg daily, maybe not very high indeed, but it’s significant, say I have 10-15kg more muscles than the average untrained person, that would be 150-225 more calories at rest, also you’re not always resting as you say already, the number will likely be higher, when considering daily activities, also since there’s more strength, it’s likely that the muscles are more used when doing sports (faster running/cycling, more weights, etc.), which is also relevant.

(For my case, I have a very inefficient metabolism likely (rather results in heat than fat-increase), I eat a lot even when I’m not trained, but right now, as I’m a little bit more packed I eat absurd amounts of food (due to a lot of drumming mostly btw. wouldn’t have thought it results in that much extra muscle/calories-burning))

Actually the more I have read into what is a healthy active routine (more on the athletic side of things, because I have overloading issues) Cycling to work, is like the perfect active rhythm for the body.

Especially when you do it fast (VO2 max).

The body needs time to recover and needs just little stimulus for growth/maintenance (so marathon is not good for your body, it’s just wear and tear), and after ~6-8 hours, needs stimulus for further growth again (so cycling back from work).

I have always wondered why I was comparatively muscular to others (for some part it’s likely genetics), I think it was/is because I cycle like a complete madman to work (well… VO2 max), because I’m an adrenaline junkie.

I just recently discovered that this is actually quite healthy (well not in the casualty sense obviously, but for cardio and general health).

If you’re interested I can recommend this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anB-UMXIDQA

I think that just means, that you have changed your microbiota to like more healthy stuff (I too just don’t like unhealthy food anymore, but that took years…).

Carbs though are something that you really crave while being active, the muscles want to be fed, whether that happens via Oreos or say more healthy fruits or something like that is a different story.

Yeah and don’t forget that the newly built muscle needs more energy as well just to maintain.

I have to eat painfully much… (I’m quite active, and even when not I eat a looot more than others…)

There’s vaultwarden, I don’t think it’s difficult to migrate to that.

In the US…

Different in other parts of the world, even in Europe this is a high salary (but it reminds me to still ask for a raise…)

The beginning of time…

If you inherit/“born rich” I don’t think so…

Yet what it did over the time with society is concerning (how much impact social media had since it was introduced). Personally, I’m just mostly annoyed, by the growing level of bullshit, and having to filter all of this. You can’t even believe shopping sites anymore because they’re infested with often incorrect AI-slop.

But yeah when filtering all that slop, it can be better even, there’s endless educative material on Youtube when you search for it. Wikipedia is a really great source of information etc. So it’s mostly the amount of information that you have to properly filter (which in itself can be exhausting though, since all these big-internet corpos are tuned to get your attention in any way).

Yeah less infested with all those big corpo “attention-based-economy” bullshit. More personal touch. This got way worse since AI too…

Not what I said, but have fun interpreting stuff into my comments…

Ah you’re also not missing in the party. Nah I’m not, I’m just realistic…

I have yet to see an authoritarian “state” that I consider communist (and that just doesn’t give it a bad name and fuel for western propaganda) that “uplifts the people” (and doesn’t repress them)…

It’s true though, that it’s probably better than capitalistic states (mostly, because all the systems we have are a mixture of all kinds of ideologies), I think China as example certainly does a better job than the USA at this point (various metrics, like addiction, mental/physical health etc. backs this as well).

Non the less, communism in its core is anti-authoritarism.

You really think those are “liberalists”?!

Why do you guys have such a black/white view of the world? There’s more room than just authoritarians, and authoritarianism and liberalism are somewhat antagonists anyways.

I mean on the other hand Marx was anarchist (though with the exception to have authoritarianism as means to change the system, which I don’t agree with, because it’s also unrealistic to assume that people in charge just throw away their power).

I think having Authoritarianism no matter how, just gravitates towards people that should definitely be not in charge. We see this everywhere. Power corrupts and dehumanizes.

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Well let’s say tanks are pictured…