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by TillE 3y ago
I'm still using an iPhone XS (2018) and have zero complaints aside from a lack of RAM. I plan to upgrade this year, so it will come out to $200/year. Seems like a good deal.
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by TillE 3y ago
Primitive graphics accelerators are exactly why console games were much more advanced and fluid for a long time. PCs staggered on thanks to much faster 32-bit CPUs, but they didn't really pull ahead until 3D cards became the norm towar
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by TillE 3y ago
> emails containing classified information It's incredibly embarrassing if they're not using any kind of encryption for this.
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by TillE 3y ago
One cool feature that Twitter briefly had, way back when, was the ability to see the feed of another user. Like, construct a feed of all the accounts this person is following, since it's all public information anyway. It was a great wa
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by TillE 3y ago
Top-level speedrunners of action games are definitely able to feel input lag changes on the order of 10-20ms. For everyone else, you'd really want to prove it with a high-speed camera or something.
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by TillE 3y ago
This really nicely echoes a response to Eliezer Yudkowsky that I saw: if you always just play the odds on stuff like this, you're gonna be wrong about the real breakthroughs, which by definition defy the odds. There are plenty of reaso
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by TillE 3y ago
I think it'd be more fun to spend an extra $700 and get an M2 Ultra Mac Studio with way more GPU cores and 128GB of RAM, and set up a private server. But if you really want a portable offline thing, sure.
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by TillE 3y ago
It's fine, it doesn't ping anybody. Unless you're doing something embarrassing or spammy, I doubt anyone cares. I like being able to see how an issue affects other projects, that can be useful information.
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by TillE 3y ago
> If you think your job is just writing code, then yeah, you're about to get replaced. Honestly, even that would require major advancements, which is speculative at best. The last time I used Copilot to generate a few lines of code,
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by TillE 3y ago
Their VS Code demo question ("Do we use tabs or spaces?") is a clever one, but then it's just pulling from an answer on their Q&A site. Not particularly impressive in an AI sense. The Copilot Chat beta is able to answer t
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by TillE 3y ago
All the amateur debunking just smells like the usual confidently incorrect contrarianism, which is always popular on sites like Reddit. There's just way too much going on for this to be a sloppy mistake. It's either real or a frau
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by TillE 3y ago
> policy experts assumed China would become more liberal No one actually thinks that, it's just the line they use to justify themselves to the public. Like how Saudi Arabia has been promising amazing "reforms" for the bett
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by TillE 3y ago
Hell, Sigma Aldrich will sell you LSD. Established labs have no trouble with lightly restricted drug precursors, they've done all the paperwork.
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by TillE 3y ago
Buying a high-end gaming GPU also lets you do, well, high-end gaming, 3D and video renders, etc. If you only care about ML stuff, sure, the calculation is different.
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by TillE 3y ago
Even on Windows, you can do practically anything with a signed driver. There's just no such thing as verifying a "secure environment" outside of extremely narrow, controlled scenarios.
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by TillE 3y ago
Google could have designed and licensed Android in such a way that devices would receive direct OS updates, with the manufacturer's custom garbage as a strictly separate layer on top of that. It's not a trivial challenge, but it&#
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by TillE 3y ago
I looked up the last Android phone I owned: a Galaxy Nexus (2011), which shipped with 4.0, and stopped receiving OS updates after 4.3. Which is pretty much why I stopped using Android. I think Google is doing a better job of supporting thei
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by TillE 3y ago
It is really funny how the official Vulkan tutorial is hundreds of lines of code just to display a dang triangle. It's all justifiable of course, and Vulkan actually isn't too bad if you just want to push your own vertices within
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by TillE 3y ago
Reverse engineering is not onerously difficult if you have the right tools, some experience, and a decent grasp of assembly language. It's only really annoying if you can't use a debugger.
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by TillE 3y ago
That's my guess too; I'm sure Google drives the overwhelming majority of SO traffic. A few years ago, my programming-related queries would hit Stack Overflow as the first or second result. Now it's very frequently spammy garb
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by TillE 3y ago
Big fan of Mentour, it's like Mayday (Air Crash Investigations), but with better analysis and without the bloat of silly reenactments.
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by TillE 3y ago
RPG setting books can be a ton of fun even if you're not into roleplaying per se. I picked up one of the AD&D Lankhmar books as a kid, and while I love Fritz Leiber, reading those books can immerse you in a richly detailed world in
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by TillE 3y ago
This is Apple, they have billions in cash on hand. There's very little pressure to make money on the first gen Vision Pro, not if they're committed to the product line long term. Anyway, it's been reported that manufacturing
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by TillE 3y ago
They didn't talk about VR gaming in their promotional material, but they partnered closely with Unity, and had a whole WWDC session about it. They care. They're probably just not quite ready to make a big deal about it. https:&#x
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by TillE 3y ago
> - Win16 support It also doesn't work on Windows XP. OpenSSL does. This is, unfortunately, still important for many users.
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by TillE 3y ago
We're long overdue for a "digital property" law that defines specific rights around purchasing media, for consistency if nothing else. To my knowledge no country is seriously working on this, which is a bit surprising.
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by TillE 3y ago
Data for a million accounts takes up about as much space as maybe a single long YouTube video. I mean, you can move inactive accounts to a separate table or something if you really want a small performance optimization. Delete them after 20
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by TillE 3y ago
That was his idea for the name at the start though, rather than a rebrand. I think "Relentless" isn't terrible, but "Amazon" is vastly better for international branding.
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by TillE 3y ago
Purely subjective, but New Age-y stuff had a bit of a renaissance in the 90s, then fell off around 2000 - 2016ish, and now in recent years astrology in particular is back in a big way. What's new is that a lot of the recent interest in
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by TillE 3y ago
It's also where 99% of businesses are, client-side. Not everything is Electron or the web.

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