roofs aren't as good at preventing evaporation as pipes, so if that is the point why roof it?
Theres a very narrow balance where canals covered in solar panels make sense.
It needs to have enough evaporation that its a problem, but not enough where it justifies piping it.
That's a very narrow market, and so unlikely to be scalable or prevalent.
Personally i don't think this makes much sense, it's not like there is no room to place solar panels, and the added costs of putting it over water makes it not as efficient. I suppose the main benefit is easy access to water for cleaning (which can then be dumped back into the canal).
I want to reduce the amount of trash being shipped straight from China to our landfills. And yes, that will come at the expense of some things. Is that evil? In my opinion it is a necessary solution to a problem
No right at all, nor do I, and indeed nobody is asserting or exerting that right: market forces will adjust prices accordingly in order to ensure that customers will be able to make purchases at the market rate (through reshipping companies, for example).
This sort of ad hom attack is a bad look. If OP’s stance is so evil, say why.
It’s ironic to see free trade maximalists, who are often associated with anti-woke, anti-DEI positions, be so “triggered” by protectionist stances. You’re not the first person I’ve seen react like this.
As always, an intelligent, measured rebuttal will go miles further than an emotional outburst. And I say this as someone who (mostly) agrees that tariffs are bad.
Ad hominem is "you're evil therefore your statement is wrong", not "that statement is the mark of an evildoer". And they do "say why": "What right do you have to tell me what i do or do not need?"
Either way, it's no lower in quality of argument than the wild assertion that everyone affected is just "importing things we really do not need" (what does that even really argue or justify?)
Not what I'm seeing in my woke, pro-DEI, pro-free-trade circles. But I suppose if you generalize enough, anything will overlap with anything else, much in the same way that humans overlap with mammals.
You can feel how you wish. Few dispute one should be free to express themselves in a way that does not impact others. You can do whatever you want in your own head. It is when your views butt against others that issues inevitably arise.
I do not get your point. Is it an issue that I have an opinion on policies that impact other people? Are you against the concept of causing issues?
I think we cause issues all the time. For example, by importing trash that we do not need. It is a part of living. But the we need to address these issues, like a tax on imports. This will inevitable lead to other issues, such as the small scale import of books not being economically viable. But the fact that it causes issues is, in my mind, not a good enough argument against it. Because all things that impact other people cause issues.
Btw, using llama.cpp you can achieve 55 - 45 token/second for processing/generation. if you use a qwen3.8-27B (IQ4_XS) verison, with decent quality in reasoning for coding/tool usage (with a 16GB nvidia).
I think now most of the struggle is getting a 32B-27B llm to work on 16GB/12GB card, because they are at least affordable/accessible for the time being compared to higher end models.
Recently the nvidia RTX 5090 32GB has reached price range of 7500 dollars (despite MSRP being around 2000 dollars when it was first launched). Crazy times.
Which card are you using? I was getting about 40 with an UD q3 quant with MTP (prediction) enabled and llama.cpp compiled for my compute capability, but was very limited in the context size. I have an 4060 ti 16GB. Wouldn't recommend it as there's a tradeoff between larger context without MTP and about 18 tokens/s.
I got a RTX5080 as primary and a RTX3050 (8gb) as secondary.
I always max out on context size so that means i need to split the model between both gpus + offload some into system ram when using LM studio. I'm guessing that is what accounts for most of the slowdown when i use that.
With this recipe i don't have to worry about it. It's pretty fast, and since its all running in the 5080 with max context it's stable (though i got to look out not to load anything big on the same gpu)
With llama.cpp (CUDA) and a 5060ti (16GB) I get 60t/s with 128K token space. Odd you got 7t/s, did you verify all the model was loaded in VRAM? (--gpu-layers all)
7 t/s not sure how you can use this?
And if it start thinking a bit. It works yes but that's really very slow.
On top it's very low quant that impact the model quality.
You understand that hospitals have more costs than just aspirin, right? Depreciation, amortization, utilities, rent, taxes, maintenance, salaries, etc...
Theres a very narrow balance where canals covered in solar panels make sense.
It needs to have enough evaporation that its a problem, but not enough where it justifies piping it.
That's a very narrow market, and so unlikely to be scalable or prevalent.
Personally i don't think this makes much sense, it's not like there is no room to place solar panels, and the added costs of putting it over water makes it not as efficient. I suppose the main benefit is easy access to water for cleaning (which can then be dumped back into the canal).
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