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by 827a 2y ago
My understanding of the executive action is that it authorizes this sovereign wealth fund as a place to store the Bitcoin that US authorities seize from criminals; that the Treasury is allowed (but not required) to develop a budget-neutral
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128gb each, so two would have 256gb. Its half that of a max spec Mac Studio, but also half the price and eight times faster memory speed. Realistically which open source LLMs does 512gb over 256gb of memory unlock? My understanding is that
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The kinds of workloads that could truly leverage the M2 Ultra over the M2 Max were vanishingly small. When comparing the M3 Ultra to the M4 Max, that number gets even smaller, because the M4 Max will have ~15% higher single core perf. The i
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True. But with Project Digits supposedly around the corner, which supposedly costs $3,000 and supports ConnectX and runs Blackwell; what's the over-under on just buying two of those at about half the price of one maxed M3 Ultra Mac Stu
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Very curiously: They upgraded the Mac Studio but not the Mac Pro today.
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Is this actually true? Were people doing this with the 192gb of the M2 Ultra? I'm curious to learn how AI shops are actually doing model development if anyone has experience there. What I imagined was: Its all in the "cloud"
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by 827a 2y ago
I had to cancel Apple Music because, bewilderingly, sometimes I'd click a song to play and it just, wouldn't, play. Like, the most basic, simple thing I'd expect a music app to be able to handle. No error. Just nothing. This
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All the data available supports the conclusion that the majority of Americans prefer progressive policies. The problem for Democrats in 2024 was the candidate, and thus, turnout. - Biden won more popular votes in 2020 than any candidate eve
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Couple notes: 1. I don't like the characterization of "go it alone" because it obviously implies adherence to some kind of extreme that simply isn't represented in reality. No one is shutting down the ports and firing am
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These were early rumors, but I recall there being some hope that the first chips this factory would produce would be used for something made by Apple also in the United States, like the Mac Pro or something like the HomePod Mini.
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Its easy to think in extremes, but the reality will be far more moderate than your characterization. Remember: US policies have a way of flip-flopping every two years as new Presidents and Senators take office, and its very likely that unle
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I tend to agree, with the exception of: I don't agree with the assertion that the US is broadly intending to renege on many of its security guarantees. I don't think that's a fair characterization on the Ukraine situation. If
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Though, to be fair, the level of tariffs we're talking about in the 30s was like 60-70%; that's a very far cry from where we're at today.
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Around 150,000 people leave the Federal Government every year anyway [1], and there's likely significant overlap between those who accept the DOGE eight month severance and those who were already planning to leave this or next year. In
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Imports may be neutral to GDP, but they aren't neutral to this forecasting model [1] [1] https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/03/a-comment-on-gdpn...
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Agreed; Apple's software quality is rapidly approaching unacceptability. I'm in a regular video call friend group, every day we call and chat for a bit. A few days ago we "officially" decided to just call in Discord inst
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I can confirm that screenshots are totally fine on Apple TV+ on Firefox + Pop OS. I don't know what the quality is, but it looks at least 1080p and as great as I would ever want to my eyes.
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The pricing behavior of a modern economy is entirely dictated by the component prices of four things: Energy, Real Estate, Food, and Water. There's some interplay in how the pricing of one of these impacts the other (e.g. expensive ene
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Trump just stated to the media before departing JBA that Putin has communicated a desire for peace to him. Granted: its possible we did not know that before literally just twenty minutes ago, and we obviously don't know the framework t
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I generally expect that a country's leader should do everything in their power to defend their country, land, and people, as you say. Of course, what we're talking about here is: Zelenskyy's power is not infinite, no one&#x27
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Sure; so maybe his focus should be on attaining those security guarantees. If not from the United States, then from other countries; is the United States the only World Police on the globe? Why is the Moral Onus on the United States to be t
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There's nothing else in that link beside the current situation with the AP. Don't just post links; use your words, and discuss in good faith.
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Yeah, at the end of the day its hard to agree with the language and demeanor of the administration, but I struggle to disagree with the outcome. What are Zelensky's aims? To secure additional funding for their war machine? If so: I don
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American journalists aren't being silenced. One organization is being denied access to privileged executive spaces, which I disagree with and do not believe should be happening, but you need to be more honest in the language you use to
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Agreed. Open source is great, but the only way we build the software world we want to see is by supporting the software projects which align with your values. Using software is not supporting it; contributing to it is, but that simply isn&#
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> Alexa+ costs $19.99 per month, but is free for all Prime members. Prime costs $140/year ($11.66/mo). Why would they even waste their time with the other subscription? To make the Prime option look more enticing?
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Your "logic" (masking) conveniently avoids the point I raised: That these tariffs are being enforced to the tune of 10%. That isn't enough to alone justify this level of investment, or relocation of significant production cap
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A nice model, does not a billion dollar company make. The hard part of AI is not the model; Apple needs people to do the 80% rest-of-the-work; how do you make AI useful to the average person? How can we get inference on edge devices as chea
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All else being equal, companies are going to use the source of labor that results in the cheapest product they can produce. No one is forcing companies to move this kind of manufacturing to the United States. A 10% (let me reiterate that: T
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Shame is for people who don't have receipts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6r3-mZ25sDI

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