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by addaon 5d ago
Ordered one for OpenFOAM. Excited for it. Will be nice to not have my laptop running CFD 24 hours a day, but my M1 Max is currently my fastest machine… I’m expecting about 3.5x from the M5 Ultra.
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by addaon 5d ago
How would that work for all the software that distinguishes between them? The standard (see e.g. Mathematica) is for `return` to create a new line in a multi-line text field, and `enter` (`fn+return` on a keyboard without a dedicated key) t
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by addaon 6d ago
> Mac laptops use it and they're consumer products No, Mac laptops use LPDDR, currently LPDDR5X.
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by addaon 7d ago
Why? If you’re spending 2000 hours a year servicing your current customers, surely it’s worth 20 hours to add on 1%, even ignoring that that 1% is probably more valuable than your average customer, and the halo effect of giving a good exper
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by addaon 7d ago
> How many customers do you expect to be running on Duo for the first year of its existence? I’d be surprised if it was >0.01% for anyone. How do you figure? Assume the average Apple cell phone replacement cycle is somewhere between 3
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by addaon 11d ago
> Selling somebody who owns a $4000 watch another watch is an uphill battle I’d wager the future lifetime spending of someone who owns a $4000 watch on other watches is at least one and maybe two orders of magnitude greater than the gene
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by addaon 11d ago
The author is a tool, not a person. Tools cannot hold copyright. Copyright requires human authorship. Licenses depend on copyright as their essential mechanism.
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by addaon 11d ago
> Code under the MIT License If the code is written by an LLM, then it can't be copyrighted, and a license can't be applied.
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by addaon 11d ago
"Traditional" isn't really defined here, but seems to mean "first half of the 20th century," which feels like a relatively narrow tradition. Not a lot of preference for teepees and yurts.
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by addaon 12d ago
Pretty useful if you’re a Puppeteer, though.
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by addaon 15d ago
One challenge is that if everyone uses AI to build their own websites, the security vulnerabilities will be different per site, which is very inconvenient if you want to compromise a huge number of sites simultaneously. It's possible t
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by addaon 15d ago
> when the whole benefit of computers as a tool is that the UI is infinitely flexible I think this statement is insane. The benefit of computers is that they allow complex behaviors to be defined and implemented. The benefit of software
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by addaon 15d ago
I’ve been doing something similar, tracking the price of technology purchase in terms of AAPL shares for 20+ years. It’s amazing how much cheaper computers have gotten!
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by addaon 16d ago
> It's why only software like text editors and web browsers gets to be really good. Huge user base. Lots of developers involved. There's lots of great software out there that you interact with every day that was written by a sm
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by addaon 16d ago
Take this with all the salt that random third-party guesses about a still-in-investigation event should be taken with -- think fully salt-cured ham -- but it looks like the landing was with a quartering tail wind, and the upwind (left) gear
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by addaon 27d ago
> Do those laptops not have on the order of ~64 GB/s bandwidth? The Macs? No, they go up to 614 GB/s, nearly an order of magnitude more.
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by addaon 29d ago
> They're trying NOT to say it had a 1440 watt power supply. It isn't, though. That rating is for circuit sizing. Power supplies are rated by their output power. If you assume an 89% efficiency for the power supply, and assume
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by addaon 1mo ago
This is a difference between selecting Highest or Automatic for performance under the battery menu item.
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by addaon 1mo ago
A lot of those "up to"s are expressing user options, though -- "up to" 512 GB RAM means that there are configurations that include that, but also cheaper configurations that don't. That's a pretty different bea
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by addaon 1mo ago
> Who pays for them? Americans. The same population as most of the beneficiaries.
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by addaon 1mo ago
It depends how easy it is (now, or in the near future) to turn information into weapons, and how realistic control of materials is. There's a reason we control access to plutonium, but information about metastable hafnium.
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by addaon 1mo ago
> What we have done and what comes next "You've seen what we've done. The August 21st outage comes next. See you then!"
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by addaon 1mo ago
X86 asm as she is intended to be wrote. `repe cmpsb` for symbol table string comparison, etc.
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by addaon 1mo ago
Wow that site blows right past awful to baffling. "The AI job-search Operating System" -- I'm on the first phrase and already so confused. "job-search" suggests we're not in title case -- and I don't know
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by addaon 1mo ago
"These are the exact commanded sRGB values shipped in every export." Tell me what that sentence means and why each of those words is there. Challenge: In the context of the first sentence of a section, with no preceding target for
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by addaon 1mo ago
Which is what separates us from the animals.
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by addaon 1mo ago
It's a 30-pax (32-seat), Part 25.
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by addaon 1mo ago
Except the constitution is clear that issuing letters of marque is reserved for congress, not the executive branch.
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by addaon 2mo ago
Why are zero plural.
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by addaon 2mo ago
Unlike the Fortran statement which is pronounced `jo toe`.

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