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All other things held fixed, it would. Unfortunately, other things are not held fixed; proper unixy[0] Linux phones today are either 1. devices designed for that case, which are underpowered hardware and/or really expensive, or 2. devices not designed for that case (generally devices that shipped with Android) which have fairly awful hardware support.

[0] If you have a better way to describe both GNU/Linux and Alpine derivatives, I'm all ears, but postmarketos is arguably the biggest player in this space and it's not GNU/Linux so I'm a bit stuck.
> As someone who mucks around with running LLMs and other large models on my computer the 32GB maximum RAM is a show-stopper for me.

To be fair, I don't think people mucking around with large LLMs is the primary target market for the iMacs.

The sort of people who muck around with LLMs almost certainly already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse. And so are more likely to pick up a Mac Studio which will no doubt be coming soon with M4 Ultra.
If you use your PC to only run a single application at any time then yes, 8GB might be usable. If you need to have an Electron app opened, a few browser tabs and XCode (let alone some less efficient IDE)? Your compute will grind to a halt...
I am Italian and was taught cursive in elementary school and I can barely remember upper case cursive letters[0] thirty years later.

In my experience, most people of my generation have generally forgot and usually just write "lower case letters but big" or block letters.

So yeah, I don't think there's anything inherently chinese about forgetting writing things you don't use.

[0] https://www.genitorialmente.it/2016/10/alfabeto-corsivo-maiu...
Tesla Model Y is the most sold car in Europe right now. Not most sold EV, most sold CAR.
Not possible for raising children. Or caring for the elderly until we perfect an immortality elixir.
I wonder how long it will take for the sort of tone this generates to become the baseline for what to avoid in high-volume email.
Mill looks interesting, but, _from a Java development perspective_, it has the same fundamental challenge as Gradle (and most other build systems), which is that its config language _is something other than Java_. That means there's a significant cognitive burden to understand and manage something that one hopes to not have to think about very often.

I find that the pain I experience with Gradle isn't usually about how to do something clever or customized etc, but instead it's when I haven't thought about Gradle syntax in the last 3 months since everything has been silently working, but now I need to figure out some small thing, and that means I need to go re-learn basic Gradle stuff - whether it's groovy, Kotlin, or some aspect of the build DSL - since my mind has unloaded everything about Gradle in the meantime.

Simplifying the semantic complexity of a general purpose build system will always help, but the most useful thing for me would be if the configuration for a Java build were to natively use the Java language directly.
Somebody else mentioned Strong Towns, and that's a good organization who have been thinking about this issue for a while.

You're right that they're not easy problems, and it's because it encompasses more than just road layouts, but city design, land use and culture. North American cities, for example, tend to put a bunch of their amenities like supermarkets in a few places, with homogeneous swaths of housing-only suburbs so people have to drive, and those drivers have to use all the same roads to get where they're going.

One thing you've noticed is the so-called "stroad", a highway that's attempting to be both a road (an efficient, high speed connection) and a street (a destination, where people live, work and shop). These two objectives get in the way of each other, so you end up with a road that can't carry traffic well because it has too many entrances and intersections, and a street that is hostile to anybody not in a car. Generally, efficient road design separates these two, so the higher speed connections don't serve any destinations directly.
Yeah, that's my biggest complaint with iMacs: I want to be 100% certain I can repurpose them as monitors later in their lives.

I have a ten year old iMac at the moment that would make an amazing second monitor... but it doesn't quite have the features I need to use it like that. An HDMI input would be great.
> The screen is such a major point of failure.

The screen of an iMac (at least the 5K 27" one) is the part that still has value, so its annoying when you can't use it on new hardware.
(Un)safe is a bit of an overloaded term but Rust's concurrency model is safe in the sense that it statically guarantees that you won't have data races. Trying to mutate the same memory location concurrently is a compile-time error. Neither C++ nor Golang prevent you from doing this. Aside from that
Non-paid human interactions exist.
I get what they were going for: force the user to use it as intended because the battery really lasted long enough for most people. Otherwise people would just have left it plugged always, and the cable+port would have needed different mechanical strength. But that really annoys anyone who would have left it charging if not most of the time. I think it would have been a better experience by leveraging software instead: detect that it is close to the end of the day and battery is low, and notify the user thwt they need to charge it when they stop using it, if leaving the underside port, or use notifications to annoy people into disconnecting the mouse when fully charged, if the port was moved to the obvious place. You're still annoying people, but you're less likely to end up with an unusable belly up mouse midway through your day.
It does. Although I don’t use it and use this instead: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse
My first LCD monitor is still actively used in our house, about 18 years old now. My mother has gone through several computers, kept the same screen for 15 years. Apple Consumers are not "Average Consumers". Starting at $1300, it's a luxury desktop.
I'd love to see a regulator mandate that computers like the iMac that have built in screens must have HDMI ports that allow them to be used as monitors.

This would be great for the consumer and prevent a lot of ewaste as people can use obsolete computers as monitors well past their useful lifespan as a monitor.
The Studio Display is priced as if it's an iMac.

It's insane that we've had retina displays for over a decade, and Apple still seems to be more-or-less the only game in town for a 5k 27" display.
On the one hand, sure, Apple loves to get that extra margin for more RAM and SSD, no doubt.

On the other hand, the MacBook Air ships with 8GiB RAM standard, and it's robustly popular. One could suppose that all those customers are suffering from the lack of RAM, or one could suppose that for many use cases, it's an adequate amount.

The latter is more likely. macOS manages memory well, and a fast SSD means that swapping is fast enough that it often results in no visible delays to the user.
You're getting the cause and effect wrong. For a company to exist, there needs to be stable structures in place. Foundational things like money, infrastructure, laws, people - "Capital".
I am intrigued by the concept of an open source Uber equivalent. I was involved early in a few rideshare app concepts before Uber came to market and it was surprisingly complicated. You have the technical challenges combined with being a "market maker" for both riders and drivers. It's possible but hard.
>Our Industrial Revolution was 500ish years ago?

Yeah, and we're talking about maybe we could cause the oceans to rise a few fractions of an inch in that time.

The impact of humanity has been massively overblown by people like you, which only take away from any worthwhile conversation.
LG Ultrafine 5K Has burn-in issues. :/
The OS will use more RAM if you give it more RAM. The fact that you are currently using 46GB on an (I assume) 64GB model doesn't necessarily mean that your workload would run badly on a 32GB or 16GB model.
I can't play any of them but have long enjoyed his work and very much agree it sounds like the A part of an ABA structure.
Boeing launches funding round to stave off credit downgrade
I took their comment to mean that these people are standing on the massive mountains of progress that have been made, but not acknowledging that a lot of wasted effort was lost learning these things.

It's easy to only talk about what should be done with perfection in mind, it's another to talk about what can realistically be done.

It's no different in regards for anything else the humane race has done, we know the solutions to be done in regards to climate change, inequality; it's another to convince society to then go and try to solve these things with the solutions we thought of.
Scraping the barrel: when bad customers improve SaaS economics
I've been working on a free, in-browser "pre" video editor. Upload your clip, use a transcript interface to cut it down to the takes and salient bits you want to keep, then export your cuts to FCP or Resolve to complete your editing. This tool saves me about 25-30% of my editing time.

Uses transformers.js & WebGPU for running transcription, so it's pretty fast. It's still a bit rough around the edges, so I'm looking for feedback.

https://matcha.video
> The iMac is basically the same as the M4 iPad Pro, and the iPad Pro doesn't have a chin.

Cooling seems like it might be a factor here. The iMac's display is probably going to be run at a brighter (and thus hotter) setting AND it's more likely to be used to do things that require high load for extended periods of time, so putting it in its own space probably helps.
Marketing Automation for Fintechs
Yeah 8B is fine but I really want to run 70B (or even 405B but that's way outside my system at the moment).

I can run 70B at the moment... but not if I also want Firefox and VS Code at the same time.
How Apple developed the first end‑to‑end hearing health experience
"In our view, the ring-like image found by the EHTC is not the intrinsic structure of Sgr A* but arises from the sparse u-v coverage of the EHT array in 2017; that is, from the corresponding [...] structure in the PSF."

I.e. authors assert the image processing path inserted rather than revealed the famous correlation with Interstellar black hole imagery.
> The stolen data varies by individual, but Change previously confirmed that it includes personal information, such as names and addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses, and government identity documents, including Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and passport numbers. The stolen health data includes diagnoses, medications, test results, imaging and care and treatment plans, and health insurance information — as well as financial and banking information found in claims and payment data taken by the criminals.

Note that this breach became public in February and they’re admitting the scope of affected Americans only now. United/Change won’t tell individuals what info about them was compromised. They’re hoping they can just get away with offering credit monitoring, when they should be compensating every individual and expecting to end up in prison.
You should check the DoJ site re FARA prosecutions. That's what's next for Elon. Maybe he could pay lawyers before he violates the same rules everyone else gets jacked up for instead of making lawyers clean up after him. Like not committing visa fraud. Not getting naturalized after committing visa fraud. Not talking to Vlad and not reporting talking to Vlad which should get his clearance yanked. That's all his own doing.
i’ve been the arsehole who demands high standards and then lambasts folks when they don’t achieve it.

i’ve also been the lovey dovey safe space hippie-esque person who just wants everyone to be happy and comfortable, saying yes to everyone and everything. no discomfort anywhere.

yeah, both of those are absolutely rubbish for getting high quality stuff done.

but yeah, this definitely tracks with my experience and nice to see i’m kind of working on moving toward the right path now, albeit after getting quite lost along the way (and being a bit of an arsehole).
Perhaps it is a question of the different meanings the word care can take. Care in its normal everyday usage is indeed a natural human emotion, however this was not the subject of my post.

"Carers", are people who perform functions for people unable to do them themselves. Whether they "care" or not for their charges is not directly relevant (though often they are relatives, and certainly do care for, and love the people they are helping very much). Not always though - consider a "care home", which is essentially a dumping ground for the old and inconveniently frail. Having seen the inside of a few such places, I very much do not want to end up in one.

Enter the Robots, and technologies such as the LLM. In my imagination, a robot equipped with some facility with language, could act as an assistant for an elderly person, allowing them to maintain their independence for much longer without a human carer. This is not a replacement for human connection with their loved ones, but it is a replacement for putting them in a care home, or having ones own children spend part of their lives unable to have a job, or a normal social life, due to complex care requirements of some relative.

For what its worth, I doubt we disagree too much, I think it was a misunderstanding. However I'm interest to hear your thoughts.
Don't be foolish. We may one day cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane or conceive of a motorised carriage capable of traveling 50 miles per hour but some dreams are simply impossible!
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Way way beyond my comprehension but I will marvel at how peer-review works in science and wonder how much further the world would have progressed if everything worked like that.
The track pad and keyboard don't need to move, which would introduce mechanical stress on the port and cable.
I've been working on an android app that lets you automate android the JavaScript way, it's made using Cordova. The tech stack is Vue, Sqlite, bootstrap and jQuery.
The idea is that a user can create js scripts containing methods I have provided that programmatically interface with androids native features like sim card, Bluetooth, WiFi, battery, network, TTS, Flashlight, etc..
https://github.com/MurageKabui/PhoneDo
I wonder how much of this is attributable to legalization or other factors.

Teen Alcohol use has gone down ~50% over the last 30 years, and but there has been no legalization effort there. Similarly, teen sex rate has also gone down ~50% over the same time period.

Overall, abstention from behaviors seems to be a major trend. I would be curious to know if this is due to a cultural aversion to perceived risky behaviors, lack of autonomy, or some other factor like rate of behavior modification medicine.
And frankly, the “upgradeability” of most desktops is a myth in my experience.

By the time I’ve ever wanted to upgrade a Windows or Linux PC, a new CPU probably isn’t going to fit into the same socket as the one I had so now I need a new motherboard too. I probably want a new GPU if it was a gaming PC and if it wasn’t I would be using an integrated GPU anyway.

I think the only thing I’ve ever kept from an “upgrade” was my case and some memory sticks. But I probably would have been better off—both in time and money—just selling the damn thing as a whole and buying an entirely new set of components.

TL;DR, year-over-year bumps just aren’t worth the price of upgrades, but by the time it is worth doing you probably want to upgrade so many parts there’s little left to keep. YMMV.
ive had a magic mouse and only had to plug it in and charge it and walk away for 10 minutes... maybe... 5 times in the past three years? like it's annoying when it happens, but you also only have to charge it once every couple months, and i mostly have this annoyance because i have notifications 100% turned off and i don't see the low battery notification.

however i will say three years in, either a software update or hardware issue is now killing the battery and i have to charge it every week or two and that sucks

salty that i now have airpod pros, an iphone 13, and the magic keyboard and mouse all with their dumb lightning bolt or whatever it's called. going to have to rebuy all this to forever rid myself of non-usb-c cables but at least in 2024 it's finally happened as an option
What's the smallest model to achieve high accuracy on MNIST?
> If you hadn't described your technical choices above I'd think this was just done using normal procedural text generation. Every NPC feels like it's giving the stock phrase they'll say when you run out of dialog options.

During one iteration of testing the NPCs decided to throw a party for the hero and they all congregated in the tavern. That was 100% awesome and if I can hit that type of WOW factor more often I think it'll all feel magical.

> There doesn't feel like there is a narrative, reasons to care about these NPCs, reasons to care about the Hero, or some sort of character development over time. If you want to engage people you need to get them to care about what's happening.

This is just a tech demo so I'm not sure how much I want to put into it. Especially since the end goal is to get a recognized and get a job!
That is partly true due to biology. But it's partially culturally inflicted.

In previous decades kids were allowed to do much more unsupervised. And the pressure to prepare for high stakes college admissions from early ages was much less extreme.
This may not be exactly what the author is writing about (which is a more about creativity), but I find that Matt Levine's writing is just about the perfect ratio of serious to glib. The playful parts are clever and usually in service of whatever point he's making. Entertaining and relatable without the air of trying too hard.

James Mickens is another example, though he leans toward being a humorist first rather than a Serious Person being a bit playful.
I don’t think it’s that they are incompatible by definition. I think the large organization is a result of low-trust.

A trust-breaking event occurs, so a new form gets added, a compliance process is created with a new team monitoring, etc. etc. Have enough of those and you eventually get your typical, modern healthcare bureaucracy today.
Also, my next app is a stacking game (it's very rough around the edges): https://stackable.vos.lol/app
Long ago I set up my terminal program to keep a log of everything that came across the screen. It's been a game changer and I wouldn't want to live without it again. Any command line I ever ran, SQL query, results of those queries, I can search and refer back to. And it helps with smaller questions like what directory was I in when I ran this command, roughly what time was it, how many times did I run it, or am I misremembering whether I ran it yesterday or not?

I don't know if I'll use this Recall feature since I have my own solution set up already, but ignoring the typical Microsoft outrage, the general capability to have access to your history of work actions is powerful.
No, it's not. It's a $1300 high end tablet, which (among other things) will not run arbitrary programs of the user's choosing, and which has aggressive memory management and background process restrictions. All of these factors contribute to 8 GiB being a reasonable amount of memory for such a device.
What does limited supply of doctors even mean? There’s a finite supply of doctors everywhere, regardless of pricing. Where is the evidence of your claim in Norway, Finland, Japan, etc.?

The U.S. has limited supply of doctors in rural areas, and that’s not due to government pricing. So what justification is there for pointing at government pricing at all? Why is that relevant here, and what makes you believe there’s a broad, general, or causal truth here, given the fact that it’s not true everywhere.
My parents have had an iMac in their living room sitting quietly doing stuff (web apps, mainly) for 9 years now. Still works fine for all their use cases and the 5k screen remains a delight to behold.
27" iMac has been my daily driver for over 10 years, and I only replaced my last one because the screen cracked when I tried to repair it. I've got 64GB of RAM and a 27" thunderbolt display on both sides, making excellent for both software development and video editing. I don't know what I'd replace it with if it died.
I'm guessing they were covered under warranty, but the cash-equivalent costs were listed.

I think the bigger problem here is the inconvenience. You don't get much value out of the thing you purchased if it's in the shop most of the time. Plus you have to take time out of your day to bring it to the shop (if it's even possible) or wait for a tow truck to come get you if the vehicle is immobile or unsafe to drive, and then find a way to get home.

Warranties pay for parts and labor, but they don't cover incidental expenses, or more importantly, your time.
It's literally Apple to Apple
>> Acceleration is not relative (like velocity), it's absolute.

May be a naive question, but why is this so? Is there a different type of 'ether' when we consider acceleration?

Edit: Actually I have the same question for rotational motion too.
And now everyone gets to benefit via the museum rather than letting it hide in a private collection.
In Brazil, many areas of the industry, unfortunately, don’t pay well, even for software engineering roles. It’s one reason I hadn’t really considered industry positions here—there’s a noticeable gap in salary and benefits compared to roles in tech companies. However, I’ve never actually looked for industry jobs abroad, so it’s definitely something worth exploring, especially since demand seems to be high.

Thanks for recommendation!
It’s a lot easier in C++ or Java. In C++, you make the virtual calls to some base class, and all you need to demonstrate is that only one concrete class is being used at that place. For example, you might see a List<T> in Java, and then the JIT compiler figures out that the field is always assigned = new ArrayList<T>(), which allows it to devirtualize.

In Python, the types are way more general. Basically, every method call is being made to “object”. Every field has a value of type “object”. This makes it much more difficult for the compiler to devirtualize anything. It might be much harder to track which code assigns values to a particular field, because objects can easily escape to obscure parts of your codebase and be modified without knowing their type at all.

This happens even if you write very boring, Java-like code in Python.
My phone is on English (US) and I live in San Francisco.
> I’ve been a paying subscriber to The Washington Post for many years. Not anymore. I recommend you do the same.

Sadly Bezos won't care.
Fair comment. I'm very much opposed to the "Croydonisation" of the countryside in the UK

With rising pressure to house hundreds of thousands of new arrivals every year, there are no easy answers. Do we make miserable dense cities even denser? Do we build new sprawling, characterless "garden cities"? Do we build around historic countryside towns and ruin their character?

Personally, I'd rather see net immigration returned to the manageable levels it was prior to New Labour (who doubled net immigration) and the Conservatives (who further tripled net immigration).

In recent years of high net immigration our economic productivity has fallen, our public services have worsened and the prospect of owning a house has slipped away from our children and grandchildren. We need a political re-think on this issue, as opposed to trying to patch over the inevitable environmental and congestion related issues.
If you glance at the notification to decide if something needs attention now or later, then read the mail(s) in full - that's something different entirely and not a problem I'd think.
Vanilla JavaScript Performance: The Myth of VDOM Speed