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by ezst 7mo ago
What the name reminisces me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightingale_(software)
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by ezst 7mo ago
> when our 3 month old baby is settled for the night Seemed a credible comment till that point! (/s) Congrats :-)
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by ezst 7mo ago
Or the tech executives barring their children from using social media.
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by ezst 7mo ago
> You're comparing a $1254-minimum laptop[0] No, I'm not: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/th... And I still stand behind the fact that, for that price, yo
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by ezst 7mo ago
Does that extend to generated/AI-edited articles? I don't see why the same rationale wouldn't apply.
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by ezst 7mo ago
I broke that circle by having a sibling ultimately follow my recommendation of getting a ThinkPad T at a discount (prev-gen during a sale) and then letting them advertise it to the rest of the family. If you ask me, for a comparable price r
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by ezst 7mo ago
Same here, MacBooks are decent hardware but nowhere near so superior as to justify all the downsides and increasingly dark patterns Apple has been pushing left and right.
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Apple M5 Pro and M5 Max CPU Analysis – M5 Max Is Not Much Faster Than the M4 Max(notebookcheck.net)
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by ezst 7mo ago
How long have you been around to still believe Matrix's empty promises? Sorry, this is admittedly a harsh response, but not out of the blue…
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by ezst 7mo ago
Reminder if one was needed that the future of your instant messaging shouldn't be above all "the same thing, but with more crypto" (e.g. Signal), but "less centralisation, then a reasonable amount of crypto" (federa
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by ezst 7mo ago
hg and git came weeks apart and fossil shortly after if that counts
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by ezst 7mo ago
> OECD countries' past emissions are causing the warming we see today. China passed EU's cumulative emissions in 2014, if I remember correctly. It's totally fair to blame industrialised countries for their share in causing
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by ezst 8mo ago
No it hasn't. Work mechanisation throughout history has resulted in a shift from manual labour to one that's more intellectual in nature. Modern AI believers pretend that it will take over those jobs soon as well. This would essen
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by ezst 8mo ago
> How do you figure? 20 dollars/month is insanely cheap for what OpenAI/Anthropic/Google offer. That absolutely qualifies as "empowering a common person". This must be sarcasm. This has to be.
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by ezst 8mo ago
JFYI, LLMs still can't solve 7x8, and well possibly never will. A more rudimentary text processor shoves that into a calculator for consumption by the LLM. There's a lot going on behind the scenes to keep the illusion flying, and
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by ezst 8mo ago
> You have fallen headfirst into the "Not now, so never" fallacy. Perhaps. Though we have empirical evidence of how much we can quantize and distillate models to the point of practical uselessness. That sets a bar for how large
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by ezst 8mo ago
Or not. I've been using Linux since 2006, initially for fun and giggles, and then by choice, and nowadays it's without a doubt the superior alternative. My successive employers forcing me through Windows gave me the "privileg
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by ezst 8mo ago
Or, you know, use software developed by humans, for human consumption, aka community software, the stuff you generally associate with open source!
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by ezst 8mo ago
Hey, OP here with their (apparently) controversial views. I stand firmly within those lines: - I shouldn't be paying more for my next CPU because it has a NPU that I won't ever use. Give me the freedom of choice. - Given that free
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by ezst 8mo ago
> the reality is that AI would change everything we do Your true believer convictions don't matter here. Those AI accelerators are merely just marketing stunts. They won't help your local inference because they are not general
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by ezst 8mo ago
Mine has a magnesium chassis, did that change along the way?
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by ezst 8mo ago
Says your rose-tinted marketing-loving glasses. Unified memory only means you lose some to graphics. Only your GPU wins this bargain, not your usual workloads.
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by ezst 8mo ago
We clearly have different values and priorities, and just to be clear, that's perfectly fine. I haven't considered "battery life" to be a bottleneck for about a decade, which is when all my devices started to be able to
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by ezst 8mo ago
Yep, let's drop the pretence that companies churning tech widgets do it for consumers. That's merely an inconvenience in the process of enriching stakeholders.
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by ezst 8mo ago
And the answer there may absolutely be "none", which equates to doing away with ARM, which is totally fine. I don't have a horse in the x86 vs ARM race, especially since it's pretty clear that performance per watt stands
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by ezst 8mo ago
Pretty simply because I don't want to use MacOS, its terrible window management, quirks and idiosyncrasies. In your comparison, my gripe wouldn't be about the hassle of finding 3rd-party compatible batteries, but about the daily h
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by ezst 8mo ago
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/10/apple-to-phase-out-rose...
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by ezst 8mo ago
That would only matter (to me, at least) if those Apple chips were propping up an open platform that suits my needs. As things stand today, procuring an M chip represents a commitment to the Apple software ecosystem, which Apple made abunda
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by ezst 8mo ago
Despite all the anthropomorphizing of LLMs, you must have come across already how each has VERY DISTINCT failure modes?
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by ezst 8mo ago
The world knows since Snowden at least (15 years, give or take) that this pipeline has not only been there all along but built by and integrated with the Surveillance State. Nothing new here.

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