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Absolutely would not be a good candidate for a gov service in the US. Imagine the politicization currently applied to the Postal Service, but on the scale of everyone's email?

It's insane numbers like that that give me some concern for a bubble. Not because AI hits some dead end, but due to a plateau that shifts from aggressive investment to passive-but-steady improvement.

At least in OpenAI's case, it raises the bar for potential competition while also implying that what they have behind the scenes is far better.

Most people don't really care all that much about the distinction. It comes across to them as linguistic pedantry and they downvote it to show they don't want to hear/read it.

Could very well be his intention. Justifies killing it without admitting to it as a failure of Intel, instead it's a product without a buyer. No reason to keep it.

Ladybird couldn't have come around at a better time. I feel it's a much better candidate to fill the shoes Mozilla was intended to (but squandered).

If this can run Doom it will become my go to example for "Doom runs on everything".

Kagi got me to sign up as an early adopter because it let me banish pinterest forever.

You're fine. As one of those "rednecks" my problem wasn't with what you were saying, it's obvious it wasn't malicious in intent. The person who replied to you with their accusations of racism (??) was clout-seeking/rage-baiting at your expense and I call those kinds of people out in an instant.

Instead of getting offended on behalf of others, why not just ask one of those rednecks how they actually feel? Seems kind of like you are being inflammatory under the guise of concern.

The prices will continue to increase so long as buyers keep paying for them. In a car-centric country like the US, the demand isn't as elastic as it is elsewhere. People could buy more cost-effective vehicles, but they don't for a variety of reasons.

I foresee that car loans will contribute to the next market crash, as the abysmal LTVs trap people similar to the way vehicle loans originated during COVID did.

The OP is a poignant example. I have been in the market for an AWD Maverick, but I cannot find a vehicle on sale at a reasonable price. I see Mavericks with high milage selling for 80% as much as a brand new one MSRPs for. Dealers add to the fire by adding markups or tacking on insane windows prices. The outcome of the loan doesn't matter to them, just so long as they can get the initial sale.

I feel so much of this problem could be resolved be eliminating the middle man. Allow manufacturers to sell direct to consumer, and so much of the perverse incentive evaporates.

I have my doubts about the polymarket demo. We know the model searched the web, but they didn't show the comparison between the PM score and what the model came up with. How do we know it didn't just pull the PM odds?

I've been slowing working on a hobby project to 3D print a lookalike Sony PVM with a computer inside. There is a joy in knowing exactly how something works, and to be able to fix it intuitively.

Intel still feels the sting of Apple dumping them as a partner, and it shows here.

An increasing number of drones being used aren't the shitty consumer ones either. They are still relatively cheap, but their guidance systems and payloads are improving dramatically compared to the start of the war. Saturation attacks are still possible on automated kinetic kill systems, and for a price that is sustainable for the attacker.

As someone working in the mental health field, friends constantly ask me "Do I have this?" because someone on TikTok or Insta has intentionally lied or provided misinformation about an illness to further their agenda.

Sometimes that agenda is clout or attention, which is alarming and points to a larger societal issue. The platforms have been ineffective in addressing this. It makes actual mental health awareness more difficult and contributes to the surrounding stymies.

Asimov had a penchant for predicting the future, and it's been fascinating seeing aspects of his vision in "I, Robot" come to pass.

I went about it the opposite way. I started out in the IT field, then I got into mental health about ten years into my career. Now I'm back in college and doing both. There is a huge untapped overlap between mental health and good data science. I'm currently mining about 10 years of social media posts to uncover some community dynamics within a therapist community.

This is going to go over about as well as their Azure AD to Entra rebrand.

It's a shame we never got to see the fruits of TRON. Imagine how the world may have ended up if Windows had a solid competitor in Asia. I've been told you can still find TRON terminals in Japan.

Hugo has been wonderful for me. I use it to host my portfolio website. Only thing I dislike is themes can be a pain to edit if you don’t know where things are spread out in the source.

Encoded media either comes out blocky, with artifacts, or plain old slow. Some also have bugs related to the encoder that app developers have to contend with.

Consolidation of control and brand recognition. As soon as Redis revealed their hostile intentions, forks split off. Valkey seems to be the favored one, and in my direct experience is what projects are using moving forward. If we don't intend to use Redis' commercial services we have no reason to use them given the license fuckery.

Like IBM with Redhat, they tried to overstep their position and exert undue control, so the community rejected their status as BDFL. Now IBM has Rocky and Liberty to deal with, and Redis has Valkey rapidly gaining credibility as the go-to solution. The social contract of FOSS goes both ways, and greed is righteously punished with the loss of power.

The issues of range anxiety and cost are alleviated largely by hybrids. I imagine the transition will be a slow shift from petrol -> hybrid -> PHEV-> BEV. We could use it as an opportunity to build out infra to support electric vehicles better to help drive the adoption of PHEV and BEV.

You can consider the beta-amyloid fiasco as a prime example of biomed's replication issues. ML/AL replication issues largely stem from the source data used for training not being available.

In my field, of psychotherapy, social and cultural factors change over time making perfect replication impossible. I'm working on a paper now and we are trying to account as much as possible for replication of our results.

A big driver for the high salaries of medical doctors in the U.S. is the staggering educational debt their degrees leave them with. Is it the same in Sweden? Some degree of wage depression is practically inevitable if we had more doctors, but I wonder how much that could be offset with affordable education?

You can also use resource forks to change an app bundle's icon without affecting the code signature of the bundle. I used this technique for a PoC malware challenge at BSides Orlando two years back.

Everyone’s going to have their use case, but I have probably used the power button on my mini all of a dozen times in two years. Two of those being after I uninstalled Asahi and nuked the boot loader by accident.

Seems to me like it was low-hanging fruit that Apple (no pun intended) finally decided to pick. I imagine dropping to a BFU state will help curb possible brute force or physical access attacks. The relative security/ongoing improvements of iPhones/iOS have given LEOs a certain level of unjust paranoia whenever a new security feature is rolled out.

It might come even sooner as mobile internet becomes faster and gets lower in latency. I used to have Cox, and the service availability was so bad it was nigh unusable. Switched to TMobile home 5g and in some cases, it's actually faster. That shouldn't be a thing but here we are. I don't play twitchy games so latency isn't really a concern for me. By the time 6g or whatever it's going to be called is well established, I think we'll see the incumbents get blockbuster'd.