I saw another post on reddit with something like a hundred trillion dollar bill. I wish I had saved that link to share it, the comments were quite comical!
One of the big rules of commerce is that competing on price is generally a no-no for large markets. Usually, the powers that be would rather compete on a perceived value; that is how “informal price collusion” works.
Price/cost is the last thing you compete on unless you have a wholesale advantage, which nobody in this particular industry does (visa/mastercard set core rates)
Source: I’ve worked with higher ups in numerous commerce operations.
Commerce is actually even worse than many realize. Look up pepsi and walmart as a small example.
Just a note: the article focuses on the ladies, but men should absolutely get it as well because it cuts risk for other types of cancers. I was looking for a better link, however this is the only one I found (I had an older one saved, however I can't find it):
yes! Apparently the rate of penile and throat cancer occurs at only half the rate in men as it does as cervical cancer in women, but the harm caused by the male versions of the cancer are worse, so in actual fact it may overall cause more harm in the male population.
My bet is that it has to do with the mechanics of receptive vaginal and oral sex, the penis just reaches deeper and causes more lesions. Compared to insertive vaginal sex and oral vaginal performance, those lesions would be less frequent and on more distal parts of the body.
If the rate is 50%, I'd also expect MSM to be overrepresented there, which would make the difference of risk between heterosexual sex even more imbalanced.
For some reason not really talked about in mainstream medicine for straight men. It makes no sense. Very safe vaccine and you're eligible into your 40's to get it. Everyone sexually active probably has some strains but not all.
I think we will eventually discover that almost all cancers are caused by viruses, and future healthcare will be all about how to stop the spread of viruses where vaccines don't work well.
HPV spreads even when condoms are used - any skin to skin contact can spread it. So yeah, not everyone, but it’s exceptionally prevalent. Luckily most strains are relatively harmless.
It is exceptionally prevalent, but that's not the same as everyone who is sexually active has it. There are plenty of people who do not put themselves at risk prior to getting married and are then faithful to their spouses.
I despise that line of thinking. It completely ignores incidents of things like date rape. Jane Pristine gets assaulted by her high school boyfriend but doesn’t tell anyone because that’s how it commonly plays out. Joe Angel marries Jane and gets the HPV she got from her ex. Jane dies of cervical cancer. Joe, the widower, marries Jill Virginal and she gets HPV from him.
Not one of them did anything wrong, but all got it. Yes, not everyone who’s sexually active has HPV, but even people abiding by what I assume are the Biblical principles we’re discussing here (because abstinence is nearly only a religious thing and we’re talking about it on a heavily American website) can be affected, even without disobeying the laws they try to follow.
this is a reminder to do a refresher on STDs, the situation for heterosexual men who dont do anal is overpowered. scare campaigns from the early 2000s and 90s arent that full of a story
the things you can get are either
A) benign when caught early. Test 3 weeks after every partner. Take a medication for a week if positive, your next test will be negative
B) can be vaccinated against in advance
or C) condoms don't prevent at all to begin with
D) new HIV infections is faaaar more rare to a hetero man, compared to women and people doing anal. And Prep/Pep has essentially solved that too.
the landscape is different for people being receptacles and their risk profile just has to be different.
devs left this unpatched
I can understand why districts wouldn't want teenagers to know it this way. That has nothing to do with you.
No need to be defensive. If you ask an epidemiologist, they would almost certainly agree that it is essentially a marker of sexual activity at this point. It is transmissible even with condoms, it has many strains, it is widely prevalent, and the WHO states that basically everyone is sexual active will get one strain. Guardrail prevents against 9 - the ones we were able to create vaccines for and we know have negative effects.
There's also not really great tests for it, so you do not know if you have it or not.
Well, it also cuts the transmission to unvaccinated women (and men, when they swing that way, too). If men got it consistently, women would be at a lot less risk.
GitHub == git, which is free. You can clone the repo and push it to wherever. No comment on the rest. I am just pointing out that using GitHub for source code doesn't mean mean that code can't be easily forked or used elsewhere. I suspect GitHub is for convenience since the majority of folks using git use it.
> but if you want all the other stuff (the "github based workflows") then you have to use github.
Except what would you want it for? The issues and wikis and "github based workflows" are for people working on a thing, not for people using that thing or depending on it.
People that write standards and work on committees that write standards are working on a thing.
SMPTE have chosen github because it has the other stuff to allow them to manage the committee work, handle the issues raised in committees, drafts, tagging different versions, dealing with the committee processes etc.
They could have chosen something like JIRA, so at least we've avoided that.
That's what they said in the post about it being open.
They've moved the internal email mailing lists and other workflow to github as well as using git for the version control of the source.
Right. But people that write standards and work on committees that write standards are going to use whatever it is that the coordinating org wants, or whatever they can agree on, and they by definition will have access to it. For everyone else, none of that is of any relevance (at least beyond the ability to listen in on the process as it happens).
That's fine. The second I stopped caring, which is the day I stopped working for a living, I stopped worrying about what Google thinks. I don't use Google for email or search. (my email addresses are with proton, iCloud, and Hey, and my search is DDG) I'm not a big video person so I never use Youtube, the few times I need to use an office product I will either use OnlyOffice, or the Apple stuff. My Phone is an iPhone (with the stuff mentioned above) My browser is Firefox with uBlock Origin, and I almost never have problems with this setup.
The "problem" is that people are looking for problems. This "problem" isn't specific to Bluesky, ATProto, or anything else. Look at any organization: profit, non-profit, group of volunteers, etc. and you'll always find someone that folks have a problem with.
I'm not an investor and have no conflict of interest with Bluesky beyond being one of the earliest of users. I also understand the protocol, the company, the website within my own limitations.
The site (and app) works just fine. Folks are really focused on finding problems rather than coming up with bigger and better solutions.
Note: the majority of folks don't want an ad-hoc p2p solution like lemmy or mastodon. they want their content in one place, and they want to be able to hold that entity accountable. Because of this, p2p social networking will never take off. I've seen more drama surrounding both Lemmy and Mastodon than I have ever seen with twitter, reddit, facebook, etc. combined.
That's my 2 cents. Also, apparently my spouse feels the same way. So do my friends.
llama.cpp to get 115 tok/s on RTX 4090 with Qwen3.6-27B. For example in Windows the latest CUDA variant llama-b9678-bin-win-cuda-13.3-x64.zip and Unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL MTP gguf:
Note that this does not use kv cache quants as in my case quants offload to CPU and tanks performance. Also keep in mind this almost maxes VRAM usage so any additional browsers or other programs that use VRAM should be closed.
For chat go to http://localhost:8080/ and minimize the window to maximize perf as the web page UI draw itself consumes a lot of GPU perf via constant context switching.
Can try bigger than -c 75000 until perf gets lower than 100 tok/s - that means something is off as windows starts paging out memory or other issues. -c 50000 seems sweetspot if running browsers and stuff that consume 2GB VRAM. If wanting more than -c 140000 then likely need to use a bit smaller model quant.
CPU usage should be near zero, maybe 1 core load. If you see 8+ core load then settings are off and something is offloaded to CPU (for example kv cache). GPU load should be about 100%, meaning it utilizes work optimally in this case.
-t 16 can be omitted or set to the amount of physical cores, not important in this dense model that is 100% in GPU.
Can be pushed to 125 tok/s with that model if using --spec-draft-n-max 4 but VRAM usage also increases, so context needs to be smaller.
If speed is not important and want max context length then remove the draft-mtp parameters and also might need to use k and v quants like --cache-type-v q8_0, leave k f16 if possible to keep quality.
Honestly, anyone using Github as a basis for hiring to begin with is approaching hiring with flawed thinking. Github isn't the only source for git, and git isn't the only standard for version control. Further, Github has been pushing companies AWAY from the platform thanks to high costs and other nonsense. I've seen more than one company either run a local git server or something like a local git lab instance. Using github as a metric just ensures that you eliminate anyone not using github. That includes many amazing open source devs, for example.
Except companies aren't looking for the smartest programmer, they looking for a cog to fit into a spot in the machine. In that sense, evaluation someone on how well they do on the de-facto standard platform makes sense, unfortunately.
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