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by mft_ 9mo ago
I'm neutral here, but I think the person you're replying to already covered your points when they wrote > It’s possible to simultaneously believe that ICE has a clear and ethical mandate while also believing that they are goin
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> The ways in which Musk dug himself in when experts predicted this exact scenario confirmed to me he was not as smart as some people think he was. History is replete with smart people making bad decisions. Someone can be exceptionally
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> I agree in broad terms, but let me re-capitulate this. Which OS do you think would offer a better experience for non-experts when installing on bare-metal? By my reckoning, Windows is a nightmare to install afresh on random hardware, a
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by mft_ 9mo ago
Given a good proportion of his success has rested on somehow simplifying or commodifying existing expensive technology (e.g. rockets, and lots of the technology needed to make them; EV batteries) it's surprising that Musk's respon
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by mft_ 9mo ago
I’m not especially speaking for MacOS, but to your question, I suspect if you tried to install an appropriate version of MacOS on Mac hardware, you’d have very close to a 100% success rate. That’s certainly my past experience with Mac and,
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by mft_ 9mo ago
Or maybe the operating system should just work reliably for (at least) the basics? Or if it can’t, at least give an indication why? Blaming a new user like this is one of the cultural reasons why the ‘year of the Linux desktop’ has alway
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by mft_ 9mo ago
I jumped on the Linux bandwagon with my main work laptop last week, when my perfectly fine (I thought) Windows 11 installation nuked itself without warning (possibly related to merely opening Teams). I somewhat randomly chose Mint, and a fe
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by mft_ 9mo ago
It's not in vogue these days, but rather than forgiving, we can compartmentalise and rationalise. Being a bad person in one domain doesn't mean that someone can't generate value in another.
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by mft_ 9mo ago
You’re right, but it’s like that kid at school who’s a bully and a d*ck but everyone tolerates and stays kinda friendly with because they’re a bit scared of him, and his parents have the best house for parties. The US can probably go a lot
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Then you’ll be glad to know that they will offer a range of designs (or skins, I guess) including one based on retro VW speedometer designs. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/8u_8ohSpOh4
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by mft_ 10mo ago
As someone with no skin the game in either direciton, it's interesting that you're so triggered by the mere mention of someone's name. Is it really so difficult to parse out different aspects of a person's existence, suc
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Aside from the edgy Unabomber quote and calling both established US political parties racists, everything there is reasonable analysis. What exactly got your goat?
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Nah, I think the point is that if you do something deliberately in public, be it social media or something tangible in the real world, you relinquish control over its usage. If you don’t like this, then you can either try to restrict things
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by mft_ 10mo ago
I' m not defending Tesla for a moment, but I disagree with your take... 1) Wasn't it always inevitable that, once tha large established car manufacturers really started to knuckle down to creating EVs, that Tesla's lead and &
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Basics for a casual traveller are 'hello, 'please', 'thank you', 'two beers', 'can I have the bill', and 'I'll take the schnitzel please'. Perfectly understanding rapidly-spoken Ge
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Yeah, the S1 from Munich to the airport splits regularly, and you have to be in the rear half of the train. The first time (as a not-perfect-German-speaker) I'd have missed it but for the kindness of another traveller. Now, at least,
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:o
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Yes, totally agree... and of course you (I) wonder what else there might be (as the OP-Z isn't reviewed super-well, is maybe a bit restricted, and doesn't have the awesome LED buttons of some of its competition) and you get into r
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by mft_ 10mo ago
> Also, that video is really making me want to get an OP-1 haha. From experience, I get you. There are many videos on the internet that do the same. I bought one and found it... a little constraining for my taste. My observation was th
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by mft_ 10mo ago
OP could make it more generic by removing the Time Machine mandate, and instead using any of a raft of cloud-based backup options. (e.g. I use pCloud, and my approach to a new system is equally quick and pain free.) Then it just comes down
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Totally the opposite, from my recollection. Number and value of child’s toys/belongings correlated directly with parental income, with parental attitude as an independent variable. For example, my parents were probably at the lower-end
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Maybe also think about a structure for such things. As in, it’s all very well to reverse engineer something for your own edification or benefit, but sharing the fruits of your labour with others would be so much better. And further, serendi
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ExpressVPN Cyber ghost Private Internet Access ZenMate Intego VPN According to [0] though there are various other sites that roughly align with this list. [0] https://blog.boycat.io/posts/expressvpn-israeli-ownership-1b
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If in doubt, buy a musical instrument. Or paint. Or glitter.
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It’s a lovely, wholesome, heartwarming story… but it also made me sad that there wasn’t something more reliable than incredibly-unlikely-serendipity to help this man (who as well as autism, had a difficult family background and may have bee
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by mft_ 10mo ago
No, it wouldn’t. You’d be limited to using the CPU and the lower bandwidth system memory.
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Thank you for this interesting perspective. I’ve moaned a little on HN previously about the relative value of the FW13 - IIRC it was roughly 60% more than an equivalently (or in some areas, better) specced ASUS. Taking your position —that r
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by mft_ 10mo ago
You’re not wrong that Apple’s memory prices are unpleasant, but also consider the competition - in this context (running LLMs locally) laptops with large amounts of fast memory that can be purposed for the GPU . This limits you to Apple or
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They can be hard to find! It took me about 15 minutes of searching in PMI one time recently…
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I’m never clear, for these models with only a proportion active (32B here) to what extentt this reduces the RAM a system needs, if at all?

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