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by smith7018 3mo ago
Unfortunately Sam Altman won't be the one to deliver us at-home hardware that can run Opus-level models
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by smith7018 4mo ago
Isn’t it just a mid-range PC for ~$1,100? Why would someone buy that just to use it like a regular PC and not use Steam? That just seems strange. I’m sure there are also many PS5 owners that bought the console but only got one or two games
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by smith7018 4mo ago
Does Valve take a cut of software sales on Steam? If so, why do we expect Sony to sell its consoles at a loss, while not holding the same expectation for Valve?
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by smith7018 4mo ago
"why not skip to that?" MRIs and CT scans are expensive, require referrals, and you usually can't get them without believing you already have an issue. If this technology can get to a point where it's high enough resolut
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by smith7018 4mo ago
"use the model yourself" I wish I had the time to set it up and work on side projects but unfortunately life and work have been crazy (as I'm sure many here feel). That's why I asked for anecdotes about it.
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by smith7018 4mo ago
Do you have benchmarks or at least anecdotes to back that up? I'm not arguing with you; I would just love to see some proof that open models are getting as good as Anthropic's models.
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by smith7018 4mo ago
Cheap labor has always been a thing; a random country getting more access to the internet doesn't change that. What's truly changed is velocity, quality, and quantity. Framing the pure firehose of slop targeting scientific researc
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by smith7018 4mo ago
Fwiw it's not available on my enterprise account: "Disable zero data retention to unlock Fable 5 access"
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by smith7018 4mo ago
I've long believed those numbers were faked by Anthropic/OpenAI to serve as a form of advertisement. The estimates are impossible to verify and their ability to do "2 days of work" in 10 minutes will presumably make the
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by smith7018 4mo ago
Apple really isn't as hostile towards OSS as people think. With that being said, the reason to discontinue Rosetta 2 is to push developers to upgrade their software. Allowing others to continue using Rosetta 2 by way of 3rd party maint
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by smith7018 4mo ago
I get why Apple wants to remove it but it genuinely sucks. I can't imagine it costs them a lot to put it into maintenance mode and just support 20 years of macOS games and apps going forward. They want developers to fully move to ARM b
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by smith7018 5mo ago
Agreed. IA should take snapshots of the articles over time and then make them publicly available X months/years later. There's no reason to immediately publicly mirror the articles beyond people trying to get around paywalls.
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by smith7018 5mo ago
They didn't sue OpenClaw; they sent a C&D over the name. That's how trademark law works. If they didn't defend their name then anyone can use it.
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by smith7018 5mo ago
This is one person's hobby project that presumably less than 100 people will actually install. Of course no one cares that it was made with AI and won't be maintained.
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by smith7018 5mo ago
Most applicants know that that outcome is antithetical to pursuing a PhD. It's common knowledge that a PhD involves 5-7 years of academic work (read: low pay) in pursuit of becoming an expert in a specialized topic. You don't ente
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by smith7018 6mo ago
Duke University is, in fact, in North Carolina, USA.
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by smith7018 6mo ago
Wow how hard was it to make the vac forming table? Have you used it since? I'd love a link to a tutorial if you have one.
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by smith7018 6mo ago
Hmm, three spam comments posted within 9 minutes of each other. The accounts were created 15 minutes ago, 51 days ago, and 3 months ago. Interesting. Hopefully these aren't bots created by Z.AI because GLM doesn't need fake engage
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by smith7018 6mo ago
I know that someone got Gemma 4 E4B working with MLX [1] but I don't know much more than that. 1: https://github.com/bolyki01/localllm-gemma4-mlx
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by smith7018 7mo ago
Apple added wired lossless audio last year when they moved to USB-C iirc
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by smith7018 7mo ago
I completely agree. The tech industry has long been overrun by people sacrificing morals for money and it's destroyed society and presumably the world. We've given people a free pass to work for companies we've all known are
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by smith7018 7mo ago
Yeah, the rumor mill says the redesign will feature their C1X/C2(?) modem for the first time.
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by smith7018 8mo ago
Apple makes some of (if not) the best hardware around. It makes sense that some people would want to buy a Macbook Pro for its hardware and run their favorite OS on it.
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by smith7018 8mo ago
Sure, but I've never experienced a 20 minute wait with CC before. It was an architectural question but it would have taken a couple minutes with a definitive answer on 4.5.
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by smith7018 8mo ago
I just asked Opus 4.6 to debug a bug in my current changes and it went for 20 minutes before I interrupted it. Take that as you will.
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by smith7018 8mo ago
According the MacRumors, yes but they cant confirm if its only for the new AirTags yet: "watchOS 26.2.1 is also coming, and it expands Precision Finding to the Apple Watch Series 9 and later, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. We have
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by smith7018 9mo ago
If a students needs Logic Pro for 3 months for a class then they can get it (with the other apps) for $9 total ($6 if you count the free month). That makes more sense than a one time fee of $200. On the other hand, if you're planning t
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by smith7018 9mo ago
> and yet the suckers are going to be telling us that being made to buy stuff we don’t want or use is “more value”. You're making up an individual to get mad at for no reason. > The other thing that’s going to go away is purchasi
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by smith7018 10mo ago
Is it circular, though? Is an AI company giving Disney $1B?
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by smith7018 10mo ago
Beyond Hacker News, I haven't seen anyone actively asking for AI features. People have been complaining about Siri for over a decade but it's not like users are turning against Apple because it isn't using an LLM (yet). Rathe

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