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Comment · 1 day ago
The fed was always a backstop to the FDIC by design. None of what happened suggests depositors "almost got wiped out."
Comment · 9 days ago
So, uhh, what's your sudo password? Can't get this thing to install software...
Comment · 13 days ago
Game basically plays itself but fun nonetheless
Comment · 18 days ago
If they put Steam on it with your whole existing library we'd be talking.

"We have tomb raider and death stranding 2 for $69.99" is not an interesting proposition except for Apple fanboy dads who hope that will placate their gamer child (it won't).

Comment · 18 days ago
Ternus was the Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering and by reports was leading the charge on this stuff.
Comment · 18 days ago
It's comparable to the free-tier AIs from the other providers but with a decent index of your personal data in a relatively secure and private fashion. It's not completely useless is the nicest thing I can say at this time. I hope it will become good.
Comment · 18 days ago
A lot of hardware and not much to do with it.

A different company could turn this hardware into a pretty serious gaming machine or a zero config NAS or something but Apple is not that company.

They couldn't think of any compelling Siri AI use cases to put in the advertising and neither can I.

Comment · 19 days ago
Suppose you're taking a math class and the instructor writes on the board:

> An eigenvector or characteristic vector is a (nonzero) vector that has its direction unchanged (or reversed) by a given linear transformation.

Do you understand eigenvectors now? Speaking for myself: certainly not. To really understand even that definition I'd need to do the calculations, play around with how they can be used in different circumstances, and allow my brain time to sit with all this new information and become comfortable with it.

I think LLM code descriptions are similar. They don't really bring understanding. Sometimes that is fine.

Comment · 27 days ago
Sounds like a reason to prefer multi threading over multi processing.
Comment · 1 month ago
Well, AI do lack motivation unless you use goal mode or whatever.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Why wouldn’t you be surprised?
Comment · 3 months ago
No it makes it sound like much of the rest of the world drives on the right.
Comment · 3 months ago
My understanding is that VLC and FFMpeg are both projects which develop in house codecs and also incorporate codecs developed by third parties.
Comment · 3 months ago
I assume it’s a GPL workaround.

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