diffeomorphism
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Except that you then have to pay a "use tax" of 6%:
https://tax.idaho.gov/taxes/sales-use/use-tax/online-guide/
This is difficult to enforce, but it seems that "taking advantage" is strictly speaking just tax fraud.
Comment · 2 months ago
Buttons etc. have direct binding. So even if your hub goes up in flames those will just keep working.
The automated stuff like "starting at sunrise gradually adjust the lights" might be delayed by 30 seconds. Annoying but hardly rage inducing.
Comment · 3 months ago
People making decisions.
Pay me 8x to get 10x, great. Pay me 8x to get 3x, nope.
Comment · 3 months ago
Being a "failure" means it fails to meet its success criteria.
If you claim 10x and deliver 3x, that is a failure. The 3x may still be impressive or a gamechanger or ..., but it still falls short of its promises.
Comment · 4 months ago
Entirely different perspective: If I have to add a separate repo, then this is a red flag.
> Any serious project in this space supports as many distros as possible.
Wrong way around. Any serious product is supported by lots of distros. Distros curate their selection and if nobody bothered packaging your stuff, then your stuff is not good enough.
Comment · 4 months ago
The US has it much easier not harder.
The average population density is pretty irrelevant here. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_population_map.pn...
Lots of high density cluster and much easier geography (Switzerland famously has lots of mountains in the way).
So the question is "Why do US metropolitan areas not have 25gbit fiber for about $60/month?".
Comment · 6 months ago
There are different notions of "reproducible". Nix does not automatically make builds reproducible in the way that matters here:
https://reproducible.nixos.org
It is still good at that but the difference to other distros is rather small:
Comment · 7 months ago
How would "bit-identical" or "free of side effects" make an actual difference in practice?
Rollback is already very easy with filesystem snapshots. Configs are already tracked by etckeeper. New laptop: either copy the whole drive or the package list and dotfiles. Also, how often do you have to get new laptops for this to be relevant ?
Comment · 7 months ago
That reads like blatant nonsense.
For a 5 (five) document library you added 3 (three) documents just to override a single response. Nothing at all is hidden and all three documents are in clear human understandable language.
This is not an "attack" or "poisoning" but just everything working as intended.
Comment · 7 months ago
Because AI needs so much more power and in particular RAM.
Comment · 7 months ago
The apple pricing ladder is all about the confusingly named overlap.
The Air with more ram costs just a bit less than the pro non-pro. But then maybe you want the pro pro? Or do you need the pro max? Oh, and the ultra will come later but not for laptops. Also it will then be a smaller number M but ultra.
Oh, and the iPad air is, of course, heavier than the pro because "air".
Comment · 8 months ago
Heavier than competing 14in laptops.
Just okay res display.
Low refresh rate.
No oled or mini led.
Basically unrepairable.
There are reasons the MacBook pro exists. The air is a nice machine but there are definitely trade-off.
Comment · 8 months ago
Wrong question. If you sell a 6k€ machine "for AI", then you are judged on your own merits.
Replies like "but, but other laptops" are very weak attempts at deflection.
Comment · 9 months ago
Under local deployment:
> Local backend server with full API Local model integration (vLLM, Ollama, LM Studio, etc.) Complete isolation from cloud services Zero external dependencies
Seems open source/open weight to me. They additionally offer some cloud hosted version.
Yes.