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I gave away my base spec (8gb ram, 256gb ssd) M1 air just a few months ago and it's still working fine, I just needed something higher than base spec for work but the new owner of the M1 loves it, for general purpose use it may as well be an M5.

I do wish they had removable storage though, I originally got that Macbook as it was the cheapest way I could try out MacOS and M1, once I decided I liked it, I was stuck with 256gb or spending all that money (and then some) again. This time, I went with 1tb.

From what I can tell, it's the thing they notice more than almost anything else. I was recently shopping for a new phone and my brother, who has no interest in tech, kept telling me I need to get the one with it (I forgot the exact term he used, it wasn't 120hz admittedly).

Off topic, but it's interesting how Recraft might've accidentally produced the closest thing to actual art from an AI model at least that I've ever seen. Is there any meaning to it at all? Is it taking "controversial take" as an unflattening image? Theres actually something to engage with it.

Unfortunately for the pro-ai-art people, even in this case it wouldn't make them the artist, as the "mind" of interest is the AI itself.

For some it certainly is, I remember it being very controversial (especially for Pebble) at release, but it's not something I'm particularly concerned about. Considering the current options out there, it's the best for privacy and thats more of a concern for me. If they stop producing them by the time mine dies, I've lived long enough without it, I'll be fine.

Can certainly see why others wouldn't be such a fan though

You might be interested in the Pebble Index 01, thats pretty much what that is, plus it's a smart ring so it's easy to keep on you, and can do local transcriptions. Downside is that it's disposable, it has roughly a years battery life and cannot be recharged

Maybe that's how it'll end up but it's important to understand that trillions haven't been invested in AI as just another skill, but as the "skill killer". If we do settle on it being just another skill, you shouldn't expect it'll be receiving nearly as much investment.

I'm somewhat of an AI skeptic so obviously I don't believe this, but even in the best case scenario that being skilled in AI lets you be skilled in any other field, thats still just an abstraction. If I'm hired as a programmer, I doubt my employer much cares if I can also do plumbing.

Perhaps your argument is "hire me and I can do your programming, accounting and analytics at the same time", but that somewhat dilutes the skill argument, since one human can only do so many things skillfully at once, and that'd just reveal yourself as really just a relatively unskilled middleman.

Even in this best case scenario though, I can't imagine an "AI practitioner" has an easy time getting hired. If I'm a Django expert, it'll be much easier for me to get hired by non-programmers as python programmers as I speak a language they don't, whereas AI uses natural language, so everyone already does speak your skills language. Even if it really does take skill, theres no denying it'll be harder to convince people that already speak the language of that.

I'm sorry to say but the business people don't want to talk to you, they want to replace you, that's what the LLM is for as far as they're concerned. Currently you're just filling the role of beta testing that replacement. The fact that you're so happy to throw away your fellow devs in the hopes of getting in bed with those people just makes this whole situation quite sad.

Maybe just get an MBA or something, I doubt its any safer from LLMs but thats clearly what you want to be doing

Funny that with Bun being acquired by Anthropic, if this big bet on AI doesn't work out we'll end up right back where we started; Node. Obviously Deno will still be OSS, Bun would likely end up that way too, but you get the idea

> It does so because, as Keurig notes, it’s collecting data about your household in order to let Keurig sell it to advertisers.

Off topic, but an odd and dubious upside to AI is that it provides an actually valid reason for this mass data collection. Before AI, as you note it was for advertisers, but what are they actually doing with it?

The promise was that with all this data, advertising would be perfected. I seem to remember fears back in the day that it could end up being a form of mind control, with this perfect understanding of you an advertiser could sell you anything, and you'd willingly consume adverts as entertainment they'd be so perfectly tailored to you. Not something any of us would want I'm sure, but that was the promise for advertisers. The opposite ended up happening. Nobody wants to use the internet without an ad-blocker, when you're forced to use Youtube or something without an ad-blocker you're counting down the seconds until you can skip it, and the rest of the time you don't even notice they're there, let alone any kind of mind control. Of course you do get thinly veiled advertisements as entertainment, but none of them use mass data collection, they're really not much different to how tv shows used to get made to sell toys in the 80s.

The reason I bring this up is for the question; what is this mass data collection for? We (really) don't want it, advertisers are either unwilling or unable to use it and it costs a tonne of money and effort. The obvious, and disappointing, reason is that we all need to pretend it works or the internet as we know it collapses, for better or worse. That plus AI being the new excuse I suppose.

Programming as an art form always reminds me of the Einstein quote; "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas". Both are just art forms you cannot appreciate without some understanding of it. Arguably thats true of all art actually, its just that the more familiar forms, like painting or music, can be understood at a basic level without an understanding, whereas mathematics and programming are essentially alien to the casual observer.

That's pretty much all enterprise software though, it's pretty much how Microsoft stays in business, and even then if the question of switching is even humoured (the idea of a big company switching away from Office would be inconceivable to many), that'd imply its not sticky enough

To be fair they are correct, there's a "Download TTF" which seems to be at least partially broken (cmd-click works fine, but just clicking it takes you to an error page), but you are right, the files are there in the repo and download fine.

The readme isn't the first place I'd look for a download link either, but it is there