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Agreed - I think we're one or two (GLM/Deepseek probably)release cycles away from exactly the inflection point in the cycle you mention.

Once a certain baseline capable model is open and available (hardware non-withstanding, I know a 128 mac/spark is expensive now, but they don't need to get faster - just cheaper), there's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube (I hope).

it's a private fork of ds4 - vibecoded to optimize for my platform while maintaining correctness. There's a ton of headroom on the software side for consumer hardware.

especially with 5.3 Flash's combination of KDA+DSA attention, the decode speed scales amazingly well with context.

I've been extensively using GLM 5.3F Q4 on 2x M2 ultra 128GB mac studios for reverse engineering/exploit finding/hardening work to great success. 50t/s tg and 600 t/s pp is more than enough for me.

Hopefully the Anthropic fearmongering doesn't stop/delay the 5.4 release.

This is amazing work - RDMA on these smaller unified memory boxes (somewhat) bridges the gap for consumers from the ~24GB 3090/4090/7900 card that are around to 128GB/256GB! Still not cheap, especially now, but... obtainable?

I do hope that apple opens up RDMA for their TB4 machines... ds4 using TB5 macs works great - but there are a lot of capable tb4 (M2/1) machines out there and afaik there's no hardware limitation preventing RDMA from working (at lower bandwidth, but with the latency gains!) on the older stuff.

No one is asking for your compassion or complaining, they're largely just expressing how the piece made them feel - and again, reminiscing about their own parents.

you're characterizing them as ungrateful, which isn't really coming across for me at all.

to me this makes it all the more odd - at a glace the top level responses are about how the piece made them emotional/sad or are reminisces about their own parents.

What's wrong with that? Because these folks experienced the "best outcome" (presumably to see their parents live to old age) they shouldn't get emotional about it?

That is surprising - considering how close they are. I've always ended up flying out of New York or Toronto, at what I'd consider reasonable prices. I suspect it's because of the sizable expat/2nd/3rd gen population in the northeast.

Wow, this is the first tech podcast I've ever found with a guyanese host - also interestingly they appear to have a carribbean-focused cricket site that appears to be still maintained:

https://caribbeancricket.com/

I've had a near identical experience, every ethnicity form is makes me feel like I'm lying a little.

I appreciate the response, and it does indeed help. Maybe I'm not missing out on much after all.

The activity is good advice. Some of my closest friends I've meet though hobbies I enjoyed - I'll just need to apply the same strategy, though it definitely feels tougher to do without having school as a crutch to force socializing.

Hah, appreciate the response. Being able to stay out the drama is nice - though I do find my self sometimes craving the support structures and sense of belonging that these cliques provide. Especially when at work all I hear around me is Mandarin or Hindi, in the hallways, at lunch, essentially in any context except full-on work meetings where it almost feels like they're _forced_ to speak English for me.

Being Guyanese in tech is an interesting experience. FWIW I have yet to meet another Guyanese person at work. In every workplace I go to the experience is similar - initially the south asian folks approach me, but then once they realize we're not that culturally similar I end up in a sort of limbo. Not to say that folks aren't welcoming, but every large company ends up having sort of cultural cliques, and I never seem to fit into any of them.

Curious if there are any other Guyanese folks out there who're willing to share their experience.