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by llm_nerd 8mo ago
Canada's laws around this are...odd. The law prohibits ads from simultaneously naming a prescription drug and its therapeutic use. So you might see an ad pushing a specific drug, but it will never say what it's used for. Or you mi
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by llm_nerd 8mo ago
It doesn't ensure anything. But it does force an identity trail (you have to prove your identity), and more importantly allows Apple to have a rapid kill switch: If a developer uses their account to distribute malware, Apple revokes th
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by llm_nerd 8mo ago
> Apple will make users think you're a hacker trying to trick them Apple will make users know that there are loads of hackers trying to trick them. The threat is extremely real. > 10,000 are gaslit into thinking you were trying
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by llm_nerd 8mo ago
The connection isn't just implied. It's explicitly the entire foundation of the article. And it's positively ludicrous. I mean, to be clear the submission basically does exactly what most financial columnists do. Take every m
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by llm_nerd 8mo ago
I'm not holding it as a best practice, and I don't see how that was interpreted from my comment. I think installation through a copy/pasted script is terrible business. But it was held as something exceptional, when here in r
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
It is literally the method given to install a number of products. The first mechanism given as a fix, of sorts, is to install something via brew. Brew is installed by copying a command line- https://brew.sh I mean, I guess you c
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
This sort of comment occurs on almost any conversation that touches on road safety. A ridiculous "where there is chaos it is actually safer!" bit of nonsense. Absolutely, unequivocally destroyed by actual metrics. These "chao
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
As a bit more on this, until this piece I was oblivious to this COLRv1 thing, which is adding more of SVG-style functionality to already vector font standards. https://nabla.typearture.com/ https://developer.chro
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
This is a legitimately fun piece about a bug (or extraordinary levels of inefficiency) in CoreSVG, manifested in massive computational loads to display a single SVG fallback for a colour-specified emoji. But, isn't the heart emoji red
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Defending the Apple Neural Engine (ANE)(dennisforbes.ca)
24 points by llm_nerd 9mo ago|0 comments
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
>ANE is probably the biggest scam "feature" Apple has ever sold. It is astonishing how often ANE is smeared on here, largely by people who seem to have literally zero idea what they're talking about. It's often pushed
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
Did it have all the hype and momentum, though? It was pretty widely viewed as a low- to negative-value addition, and honestly when I see someone on here talking about how useless AI is for coding, I assume they were tainted by Github copilo
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
Sure, I directly and explicitly talked about Apple's version of tensor cores in the GPU. But the ANE is by every definition a neural accelerator. Yes, I'm aware of Apple's weird branding for their tensor cores. "In fact
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
MLX is a fairly esoteric library seeing very little usage, mostly to try to foment a broader NN space on Apple devices. This isn't something that is widely affecting people, and most people simply aren't trying to run general LLMs
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
Apple's documentation is utter garbage, but this code almost seems like a separate issue (and notably the MLX library uses loads of undocumented properties in metal which isn't cool). It looks like the change used to allow the NAX
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
There is a pretty large chasm between "When you explicit (or accidentally) use the siri functionality, it can record the interaction for quality purposes and per the agreement you made share that will Apple or its agents" and &quo
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
>The US is so developed, that even if the country was completely cut off from the world and operated as an internal economy it would still remain the world's largest. That's a pretty enormous assumption. The US economy tends to
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
Never like this. The way Noem et al. immediately started with the violent domestic terrorist rhetoric / we've done nothing wrong was absolutely unheralded, and the government was never like this. When there's a shooting you
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Behind the Scenes of Metropolis (1927): Old Photos from a Cinematic Masterpiece(rarehistoricalphotos.com)
4 points by llm_nerd 9mo ago|0 comments
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
It's the LA Times, a clearly American newspaper, so of course the reader must assume football = "American" football. This is not contentious. Further, the contention of the article is simply that there are many perspectives t
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
It goes the other way around. Enabling significant locations allows your device to queue up notifications like that to basically be "you have arrived" updates, versus while you are driving or otherwise engaged having a sudden noti
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
To all available information, your home has nothing to do with the alert. The alert occurs if one of the trackable items (airtag, airpods, etc) is moving with you, but the registered owner is not within bluetooth connectivity of the device.
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
Sure, that's accurate. I actually never said otherwise, nor did I saint Apple. They were basically forced to do it. Virtually any tracking or surveillance has a knock-on effect that we often overlook in our enthusiasm, but Apple absolu
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
The overwhelming bulk of production, in a massively oversubscribed industry, is in Taiwan. If Taiwan's production went offline, there would be enormous turmoil. " certainly Taiwanese have "contingency plans" to vaporize
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
Sounds like one of those "what if..." things someone made up. AirTags are terrible for surreptitious tracking, alerting every iOS user nearby of a tracked product following them around. I mean, years ago people, such as stalkers,
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Dear America(dennisforbes.ca)
5 points by llm_nerd 9mo ago|0 comments
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
"For a few years the UK had few enough that you could list their names, then gradually four, three, two, one, none" Sure, it's embarrassing that we still have any coal plants. But really, there are only eight small units rema
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
>there is still a whole bunch of coal power online in Canada. Ontario, Quebec, BC and Alberta, the four largest provinces by population and a heady percentage of the land area, have zero coal power generation facilities. Ontario is mostl
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
Solar is about 50% as productive during the depths of winter than the summer at 50 degrees North (65% or so of the peak power, but obviously the duration of sunlight is reduced). "Barely any"/"Useless" is not accura
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
>So Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war That's an astonishingly weird take-away. FWIW, Canada by almost any analysis "won" this trade negotiation. China was very eager

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