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Going from past discussions, there seem to be two issues there. One is that Swift has changed massively since it came out and huge swathes of examples and articles and such online, that LLMs are trained on, are out of date and thus pollute
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To be fair, when a company's infrastructure construction, and planned operational activities have a significant impact on the local environment, it makes sense to explain and signal these up front. You can bet environmental groups and
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Lower weight while still having longer endurance isn’t a valid reason? How long the battery lasts, for it’s weight, is pretty much the only point of a battery.
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Do you think that the most important metric for the state of the art is raw battery capacity, or hours of real world usage?
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Selling phones with generally longer real world battery life yet lighter batteries, and longer battery longevity due to superior battery recharge rate management is the most anti-consumer stand possible?
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I successfully replaced the batteries of several iPhone models that were supposedly ‘full of glue’ without any issues. That stuff was always way overblown. After all, Apple needed to be able to replace the batteries themselves.
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See for yourself. https://youtu.be/sQ56ve39l2I?si=Y3TIUV9R3O2TA9qE
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The 1st amendment is about what laws the government can or cannot pass restricting your rights. It doesn’t say anything about what rights you can choose to give up by entering into a contract. There may be other laws governing the validity
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Overall welfare is about more than just income though. It’s about national security, the cost of living, and the benefits of things like innovation, technology, culture. Let’s look at US imports from China. Last year that was $462bn worth o
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Freedom is all very well until someone decides they are free to come and take your stuff, or lie about you, or pretend to be you.
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Sure, and I'm not arguing that designation is wrong, just that people have a tendency to package up a lot of assumptions with the developing country status that don't necessarily apply. It's a technical designation that needs
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Only because their population is so huge. Their Dollar GDP is about 2/3 that of the USA and is 4.5x that of Japan. In a sense it’s set of highly developed urban industrial zones that also has a massive underdeveloped rural area.
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They’re becoming developed like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.
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They could use Google Photos to store them off the phone, but… https://www.reddit.com/r/googlephotos/comments/xsn9ij/people...
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I don't think the Idiran lack of Mind level AIs and them losing are co-incidental. The Gzilt did have their own approach, using virtualised and hyper-accelerated crew. We're not told much more about that and how it works, so it&#x
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The question is, what do autonomy and mental sovereignty consist of when we're talking about massively genetically engineered citizens, and outright engineered minds (designed by other minds). It's a question I've been consid
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Sure, but given a universe in which Mind level AIs exist and many other civilizations have them, not having them and the attendant advantages probably just isn't viable. Human level intelligence probably just can't operate a Cultu
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They use optical fibres several km long. Both the Russians and Ukrainians do this heavily now because short range jamming has become very effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_optic_drone
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The fact is adapting a service to provide and support a generic API for the long term that others can hook into is extra work, compared to a private API tailored to their own hardware and that they can change whenever they like. It may be t
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Pressure on them to do what, if there’s nothing about this proscribed by the EU?
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The differences we’re seeing were all planned years in advance. This time around Trump had the time and experience to build his own team instead of taking the team the Republican establishment handed him. As for policies, it’s all in Agenda
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Right, so as I understand it people see that x86-64 designs score poorly on a set of benchmarks and infer that it is because they are x86-64. In fact it’s because that manufacturer has made architectural choices that are not inherent to the
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LLMs do have to be supervised by humans and do not perceive context or correct errors, and it’s not at all clear this is going to change any time soon. In fact it’s plausible that this is due to basic problems with the current technology. S
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It’s often been assumed that accuracy and ‘correctness’ would be easy to implement on computers because they operate on logic, in some sense. It’s originality and creativity that would be hard, or impossible because it’s not logical. Scienc
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It was a relatively sedate 2m per century a lot of the time, but there was one catastrophic Tsunami event called the Storegga Slide around 6200 BC that would have been pretty dramatic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stor
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This settlement is out at sea, about 8m underwater.
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What they were building under Raskin, before Steve took over the team, was nothing like what the Mac became. It was text only, no mouse or GUI, and used some weird automatic mode switching UI that Raskin tinkered with for decades after but
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It’s true Azure offered Linux under Balmer, but who was running Azure at the time?
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They’re not always or necessarily anthropogenic. That doesn’t mean they can’t be anthropogenic.
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He did that because he’s a western puppet? The west puts up with them despite such vile behaviour. It’s simply absurd to argue the west can’t tolerate prosperous non western nations when there are many of them we get on with just fine, or d

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