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Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage(macrumors.com)
30 points by scuppernong 8mo ago|4 comments
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by scuppernong 8mo ago
Apple quietly updated Mac Studio configuration options this week, removing the 512GB memory upgrade. As of yesterday, there is no option to purchase a Mac Studio with 512GB RAM, with the machine now maxing out at 256GB. The Mac Studio s
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by scuppernong 8mo ago
Your worldview is not an appropriate substitute for objective reality :)
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Show HN: LaTeX Salon, a Trystero-based multiplayer LaTeX scratchpad(latex.salon)
2 points by scuppernong 8mo ago|0 comments
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by scuppernong 9mo ago
I've seen Pinker's arguments dismantled too. The blog whose post we're commenting on even has a piece dismantling the totally made up GDP numbers coming out of Africa.
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by scuppernong 9mo ago
Debunked by Jason Hickel: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-...
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by scuppernong 9mo ago
Yes, typically what this would disprove is the thesis that neoliberal economics are what have led to the decline in global poverty
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by scuppernong 9mo ago
"What if it was just China?" is a reasonable guess for many of the dazzling claims of statistical worldwide improvement made by Steven Pinker/Noah Smith and their ilk
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by scuppernong 9mo ago
it depends on whether you're a power user in terms of getting lots of actual work done, or you're a power user (and this seems much more common) in the sense that you spend lots of time tweaking your productivity setup.
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by scuppernong 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure there was a project Euler problem premised on this property but I can't find it at the moment.
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by scuppernong 1y ago
genuinely curious to hear your reasoning for why this is the case. i'm always somewhere between bemused and annoyed opening the daily HN thread about AGI and seeing everyone's totally unfounded confidence in their predictions. my
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by scuppernong 1y ago
sorry, this is just self-righteous axe-grinding. the linked article in no way advocates for giving more power to the government
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by scuppernong 1y ago
hmm last time i tried it, Safari blocked the sites correctly as did Chrome. just tried it again and Safari let me through, so maybe that one's not on Orion.
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by scuppernong 1y ago
A selection of recent ones: - Site blocking with /etc/hosts doesn't work consistently with Orion, it intermittently and inconsistently ignores these rules. (this is sort of niche but it's bizarre for a browser based on W
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by scuppernong 1y ago
Given that Orion (which I repeatedly attempt to daily drive due to the dearth of browsers meeting my requirements right now on macos) is still full of bugs that hamper usability, and seems to introduce new ones with every update, I don&#x27
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by scuppernong 1y ago
this is very polished and intuitive
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by scuppernong 1y ago
That would certainly be interesting, though I don't know of any matching definition in knot theory. There is a notion of "positive" and "negative" crossings, so you could define the positive and negative unknotting