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by smoldesu 3y ago
On some level, the United States already distributes a form of basic income via welfare. A lot of people already apply for it, but very few of those are freeloaders per-se; they're using a government service to supplant homelessness or
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Power management kinda doesn't work on Linux, outside of ACPI. There are very minimal rules once you disconnect from AC, and most of the time you'll switch into high-usage mode when it isn't needed. There's not a clean w
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Yes, indeed. It is called X, where the transitory lands of the Lords of Twitter converge. In venturing north, the pilgrims discover the truth of the old words: "The network fades and the lords go without followers." When the socia
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by smoldesu 3y ago
People have been trying to stick Linux and the AOSP for the same reasons, but it's quite obviously never worked. Linux and Android are not popular because they are superior security tools, they are popular because they are free and acc
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by smoldesu 3y ago
There are certainly things you can reverse-engineer with relation to MacOS and Mac hardware. Not everything is reversible though, and even third-party projects like Asahi still have to run the Apple-engineered Boot ROM and device firmware
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It very well could be part of it. Part of it could also be the exclusive API access Apple has as a first-party manufacturer. It's kinda like saying "The App Store is a great product, this is very likely why it is so popular".
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Well, hopefully now you can see why some countries want to standardize something as simple as power delivery and serial data.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Regardless of incentive; every company I just mentioned already does more to let users run LLMs than Apple. Google wrote Tensorflow, Meta designed Pytorch, Nvidia wrote CUDA and the fundamental AI papers, and Microsoft distributes ONNX. B
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Well, my N+1 anecdata is that Lightning is a poor choice for most devices. For example: I own a Magic Trackpad, a Mac peripheral I use with my Linux desktop. As Mac hardware, it should connect to the Mac connector, USB-C. Curiously though,
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Yeah, why don't you reflect on why Lightning was such a "successful" connector and get back to me on that one. I'm sure there's a lot of interesting reasons besides the profitability of a license for a serial connec
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Is this a joke? Seriously, look at the competitors: - Google, who had been developing and distributing Tensorflow and Tensorflow-based hardware for computer vision and early transformer models before "CoreML" even existed, let alo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Mentoring usually entails teaching something, not writing the apologia for $180 disposable headphones. Do you have any particular reason why the Airpods aren't a garbage, forced iteration on the Earpods?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Brush yourself off, man. Apple used to make $20 wired Earpods that had a better mic and driver than the $180 disposable Airpods. They are, in fact, trash. Expensive garbage, intended to occupy your landfill and drive an upgrade cycle.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's hard to say. My theory is that the demand for complicated browsers is largely reciprocal to the power of your OS. If you have a Chromebook, then your browser is probably less locked-down than your root system. Same thing would hap
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Does android even have native OCR? Tesseract? https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I think it's shitty and has no excuse, but the parent is right. Apple has no incentive to respond to their users since all roads lead to first-party Rome. It's why stuff like the Digital Market Act is more needed than some people
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If the rumors are to be believed, Hamas leaders are outside the cough jurisdiction cough of Western tech firms: https://www.albawaba.com/node/was-huawei-behind-israels-fail...
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> then the companies decided that the most reliable monetization strategy in the face of widespread theft was microtransactions. A wise man once said that widespread software theft is a service problem. Legend has it that he still runs a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I have a feeling the "console game ports" will die out just as soon as the Alien: Isolation and Tomb Raider ports did.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's not moot; it's software! So many developers put their pearls before swine these days, when the technical side of things couldn't be more clear. Apple wants the same level of control Microsoft had with DirectX. It is blat
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It fully depends on the workload. The 4090 itself draws around 450w at load, and the M2 Ultra peaks around 300w. If your workload is >1.5x faster on Nvidia hardware, then it's per-prompt efficiency probably beats out the M2 Ultra.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Do you thing this is doable? It would be a lot of work, but I think it's possible. (Please do trash my theories if you think I'm wrong though =p) > Do you have some pathway to suggest? LLVM generates a bytecode called &quo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Have I been refuted? Hopefully you realize the original Europe claims were absurd. But uhh... up to you pal. Clearly we live worlds apart. > You could if you had the technical prowess create an Nvidia breakout box for the Mac right
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by smoldesu 3y ago
For applications that aren't latency sensitive, I run inference on a free 4 core Ampere server from Oracle. Once you ditch the "fast" prerequisite, a lot of hardware becomes viable.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Like I said in the last 2 comments, I honestly don't care about this. The fact that you reached for my CUDA meme as a legitimate counterpoint after being refuted so hard is almost heartbreaking. You can rest, you don't have to spe
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I'm conflating my justification, yes. My entire point was to break down your conflation that users would "lose access" to CS:GO. That is wrong, and you have not produced any evidence to contradict that. My "strawman&qu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Then you have the handheld/smartphone market that was a lot more diverse before Google Android hit the market. "Then you have the UNIX market that was a lot more diverse before Red Hat Linux hit the market." I think it w
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Now you're back down to ad-hominem again. > you can’t use CUDA - which only works on Nvidia hardware Tell me you've never used CUDA without telling me you've never used CUDA. Before Apple revoked Nvidia's certificates
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Because Google isn't at trial for their browser monopoly? If recommending a browser was monopolistic behavior, both Microsoft and Apple would be metaphorical rubble by now. The industry has done this for years, our glorious FAANG vangu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Apple products will be where high-quality VR content is created, proofed, and consumed Eh... I think this is a bit like claiming "Apple hardware will be where high-quality video games are created, proofed and consumed" in the

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