While the premise from the headline is ridiculous, considering the contribution to CO2 emissions caused by human metabolism is not.

Humans don’t have a good efficiency, compared to e.g. a electric motor.
Also, the “fuel” used by humans itself typically already comes with a gigantic CO2 burden.

That’s also the reason that biking without electric assistance is not quite as carbon neutral as most people believe.

Putting it this way: The primarily meat-based overconsumption prevalent in many western countries offers many opportunities to significantly reduce CO2.

A bit much of a hassle to save 7.99€…

Also those useful prepaid credit cards silently seem to have disappeared (at least where I live).
Had to switch to a neobroker that issues credit cards as an alternative some years back.

Anyone knows, why 4bit quant is only marginally smaller than 8bit quant, though?
And shouldn’t 8bit be roughly equal to the number of parameters anyway, so ~300GB?

Wow, already unsloth quantizations available? That was fast.
Didn’t even know they released the weights until just about now.
This will probably also mean that we will have alternative providers on Openrouter soon. Can’t wait.

DS V4 will have a huge impact on many usecases. Dirt cheap and insanely capable, if only a part of the benchmarks translate to real life.

Increasingly interesting times for the big US AI companies, I guess…

If you love tinkering with your bike, let me introduce you to the well-known German concept of “borutizing” your bike!

This advanced concept might cover both your need for personalization and substantially increase inbuild theft protection!

Link to site (naturally original only available in German, use your preferred translator to get most out of it):
https://borumat.de/fahrrad-diebstahlschutz

Who doesn’t, as the optimal number of bikes is officially recognized as being “n+1”?
;-)

depends on […] whether you matter

My original point exactly.

*insert Peter Griffin traffic control meme here, but with a car vs. a bike instead of light vs. dark skin color*

Highly depends on where you live, as “poor” is defined relative to the money the median person in your specific environment earns.

Here in Germany, a single person with net earning of less than ~1800€ per month is considered officially poor, while for a family of 4, the limit would be ~4200€.
(and keep in mind that’s for Germany, where stuff like health insurance and basic social insurance is already included).

The jobs in this pay region are much more likely to depend on owning a car, partly because of work hours, but also because low income jobs are more likely to be in rural areas.

Whereas higher income jobs offer e.g. flexible work hours, home office and funnily enough, often fewer work hours (as these jobs often are union controlled), making it much easier for the employees to use bikes as their main mode of transportation.

So the mentioned inversion of poor and wealthy regarding the mode of transportation is probably only a thing in developed countries with general higher standards of living.

Why do you expect wealthy people to get better treatment??

Not wealthy people.
Car people.

You know, real traffic participants!
/s

Not considering bikes part of normal traffic and also as being so low cost as to being not worth to bother is still a mindset surprisingly common, especially in the older parts of population.

And regarding the poor/wealthy distinction:
Where I live, it is by now often the other way round:
The poor drive car, because they have to, while the more wealthy ride bikes, because they have the opportunity to do so.

Wow, didn’t know that.

In Germany, where I come from, “Unfallflucht” (“fleeing an accident”) is a criminal offense, and for criminal offenses the police has to investigate by law.
And it’s also no joke, the penalties are potentially severe.

Basically this also applies to damaging a parked bike with your car, only the final penalty for the offender might be lower, depending on amount of damage, but it would still be a criminal offense (as opposed to a purely civil matter).

Wouldn’t have expected the US to be that different, especially given the grim no-joke-reputation the US police forces have…

Some comment, as I am running the model in a very similar setup, only with koboldcpp and a much older PC (but featuring more RAM):

I noticed that the speed penalty of using the 8bit quantization compared to the 4bit one is negligible in my case for some reason (perhaps 20%).

So, if you have enough system RAM, one might give this a try.
Output quality increase is noticeable, and might be worth the reduced speed for you, if not too huge.

Now imagine your car being obliterated in a similar way and the Police saying “Nah, we won’t investigate that…”

And bike frame 5mm bend basically is a 100% economic damage if it is made of aluminium or has carbon fiber components.

That for sure is an unpopular opinion and I also strongly disagree.

So, take my upvote ;-)

Apart from that, In my experience there is such an incredibly large pool of great music I haven’t even heard yet, that the avalanche of AI generated music does not even improve the useful quantity for an individual in a significant way, not even talking about the quality.

I already know of it and had it installed when getting into the game in the first place. Turned out, that even the base game with the expansions is so huge, I haven’t even finished the main quest yet :-)

But I am looking forward to setting up the latest release of TR when I am finished with the main game and start over again on the mainland!
I read that it is designed to be best played from the ground up with a new character, my by now completely overskilled mage might be a bit to powerful ;-)

Definitely. Park your car with its hot catalytic converter at the wrong spot and watch the world turn into fiery apocalypse…

Basically looks exactly like my backyard does at the moment. 😥

Some good news today, at last.

Although one might want to insert the WWII airplane hit distribution picture here, especially with regard to exploits used by governments, as those are not part of the disclosed sets and targeted attacks are also in general much less likely to show up using simple attack monitoring.

RPGs.

I had my first encounters during the nineties (still the old 2D/2.5D ones), got confused and overwhelmed, so didn’t consider them to be my thing.

Briefly trying out Gothic during the mid 00s, and instantly getting killed by some big wolf or bird without having the slightest idea what was going on or what I was supposed to do didn’t help.

Fast forward 20 years to the early 2020s when I started gaming again after a 15 year pause, see everyone praising Elder Scrolls, grab Oblivion as it was on sale at GOG: Completely blown away and probably hooked for life.

Currently playing Morrowind, which will last me a while still, but I am excited to revisit tons of old and newer RPG games that turned out to be exactly my thing after gaining some experience and finally understanding how to play them.

Never thought I would feel grateful that the bank notifications I got so far in my live have been practically 100% inquiries to go see my bank clerk so he can sell me an underperforming pension scheme…

To my surprise, the brand new HP company laptop I got at least still has a RJ45 port, so not completely unhappy! :-)