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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Apple helps me. That's a bit of a stretch. Apple, much like every other business, cares about you insofar as you're a paying customer. That's why they don't let you use... well, stuff like third-party payment proces
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I've said it once, I'll say it again; the evaporation of support for OpenCL is why CUDA will never die. We already identified the CUDA GPGPU compute gap a decade ago, but stakeholders in killing CUDA abandoned it so they could e
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Yep. Lenovo did this with the Thinkpad Carbon X1 and abandoned it veeeery early on. I liked the design philosophy of the XPS Plus last year, but I'd wager their capacitive function row is headed for the exit.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I digress.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It entirely depends on workload. This blog has a diligent mixed-model comparison of the M3 laptops lined up against the Titan RTX (2019) and Tesla V100 (2017): https://www.mrdbourke.com/apple-m3-machine-learning-test/
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by smoldesu 3y ago
That's fine. Can we agree that neither definition in our dialect applies to robots or software?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Race is something you inherit, I'd argue it's part of your heritage. I used a wider definition to include instances of racial profiling and inter-generational discrimination. Both of which are large sources of racial tension all o
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The 5800u is a 25w chip, though. The MX chips are ARM so the idle draw is probably better on the Mac, but for most tasks I don't understand how the Ryzen would be disqualified. It's probably the best low-power x86 solution on the
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> These devices take 10W idle & 80W while running compute heavy tasks like stable diffusion/LLM using it's unified memory - magical. That... sounds like you're describing the average Ryzen APU? My 8-core 5800u feels pr
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by smoldesu 3y ago
In fairness to the naysayers, nothing Apple has released yet is like this. The price is enormous even by Apple's standards, and the value proposition appears to be entirely unproven. Only time will tell where the market goes with this
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Do you know what racism is? Racism is when humans, by-and-large identical, are separated because of arbitrary and meaningless differences in appearance or heritage. We are talking about software right now. One cannot be "racist" t
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It runs faster and cooler than the software-accelerated alternative. Probably cooler than my 3070 too, my laptop sat ~50c when using AVX to generate Stable Diffusion Turbo images.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
iTerm 2 is a shoo-in, for me. It's open source and will please all but the most stalwart Mac purists. Warp never sold it's value prop to me.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
On your CPU, you should be able to leverage the same AVX acceleration used on Linux and Windows machines. It's not going to make any GPU owners envious, but it might be enough to keep you satisfied with your current hardware.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
NewPipe has a manual option that just disables rendering of a thumbnail altogether, which is fine for me. No AI, no latency, no nothing. Apparently Invidious has this on their web client as well, as the "thin mode" checkbox that s
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by smoldesu 3y ago
NewPipe is perfect for me: https://newpipe.net/
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Google Chrome can't even use it's rendering engine on iOS, you're comparing WebView implimentations (which Apple will always be superior at... since they control the OS and every API entitlement). Antitrust regulation says wh
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by smoldesu 3y ago
No, the current free alternatives to the YouTube frontend are too compelling to me.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I've had fairly good results using gtkcord4, though it takes it little finagling to get up-and-running: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> You can't overclock mac parts Source?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> every faculty member knows that once their work is targeted by AI, they will be outed. No body of written work in academia can survive the power of AI searching for missing quotation marks, failures to paraphrase appropriately, and&#x2
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Something I don't endorse and I hold Phys.org responsible for benefiting from Phys.org probably doesn't know about it either. Most advertisement schemes just involve the website-owner putting up Google AdSense windows around
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> probably much to law enforcement's chagrin. It's 2024, we have to stop playing pretend. Apple can't even keep your push notifications to themselves, I'm not convinced they do anything "to law enforcement&#x27
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Basically, if this was an open source project that did exactly the same thing nothing would have happened. Because users would have been able to control their software's behavior in the first place? Or because Open Source projects
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> imagine if a public broadcast included random copyrighted images of movies, and you want people with antennas to be charged for watching. What about it? That could still be protected by Fair Use considering the nature of the copyright
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> For example, some applications that use screen capture, global hotkeys, or clipboard managers may not work well with XWayland. If you're using Wayland it would be dishonest to default to the x11 behavior. Making XWayland behave id
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I wish you luck. I have limited perspective, but I'd wager that the externalities of greed and human conflict will prevail over the thoughtful and pragmatic limitation of technology for human benefit. I hope I'm wrong (for everyo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
That's an interesting perspective. What's the hope that AI will ensure human symbiosis when traditional software models (arguably) fail to do so? The best analog that comes to mind for me is Open Source software, and viral license
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by smoldesu 3y ago
That's contingent on how Apple implements the features. When Apple works with standards and local computing, we get great user-respecting software like the OG iTunes and QuickTime. When Apple works against standards and local computi
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Without leverage, your sticks and stones mean pretty much nothing to Apple. I left the Apple ecosystem because complaining about poor cross-platform support and dwindling API coverage fell on deaf ears. Nobody here can wave a magic wand and

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