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appletrotter··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
This is why I rip out spotlight on my mac and replace it with FZF
appletrotter··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
I never asked for it, I had to disable it
appletrotter··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Apple's AI and harnesses are trash and a complete waste of space

Also suggesting that sacrificing 1/20 of your disk space is NBD is crazy. I have to prune space on my drive all the time because macs ship with the least amount of disk space that apple imagines they can get away with as possible.

appletrotter··on Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
Looks like you saw the word ID and went off. OP never called it an ID system
appletrotter··on Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
> Being pedantically correct would ruin the intended rhetorical point of reversing the standard phrase, though

Maybe it's a sign

appletrotter··on Bird brains (2023)
> That all being said, every animal has it's own personality. So it's best to match them with an environment that fits their personal needs.
appletrotter··on A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging
That's a lot of words to explain a simple concept
appletrotter··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
Very astute observation. Might I even add, as humans we never know when our last day could be. So I find it silly to gamble, since I could easily die in a car accident on my way to pick up my winnings.
appletrotter··on Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
> You have to stuck with an OS that sucks, while in the PC market you have plenty of OS choices, Windows, a million of Linux distributions

Windows is 10x more enshittified than OSX

> An Apple machine is basically throw away: no component inside can be upgraded, you need more RAM? Throw it away and buy a new one.

Tell that to all the people rocking 5-10 year old macbook that still run great

appletrotter··on Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny
Germany?
appletrotter··on So where are all the AI apps?
"Everything that can be invented has been invented"

Ah my favorite, entirely made up quote.

Apocraphyly attributed to the U.S. Patent Office Commissioner in 1899.

appletrotter··on Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
This is apocraphyl :(
appletrotter··on Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums
Undefeated when they break into your home
appletrotter··on WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
Insufficient granularity of data
appletrotter··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Probably a bit, at least some execs might want to have some cool shit on their resumes
appletrotter··on A new AI winter is coming?
Your response is crazy to me. Humans are known to be remarkably inconsistent in behavior. Please read ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ or at least go back your HS psych 101 notes.

> Humans have the meta-cognitive abilities to understand when their abilities are insufficient or when they need to reinforce their own understanding

Two word reply: dunning kruger

appletrotter··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
I feel like this rhetorical question of yours was reductive enough to constitute B&W thinking

> So your argument is that Bell Labs should have never happened? It was a bad thing for humanity?

A person can appreciate the contributions of Bell Labs while still agreeing with the decision to ultimately have broken up the company.

appletrotter··on Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
I’m betting on waymo because they use lidar
appletrotter··on Post World War II Food
Because processed foods are associated with many health complications.

Sources to back your theorem on the cause of obesity?

appletrotter··on Post World War II Food
What? What would make you think that dehydrating a food would make it go bad quicker?
appletrotter··on ChatGPT's Name Bias and Apple's Findings on AI's Lack of Reasoning
I believe that they can already solve novel problems. I can’t find a link but I’ve seen something where ai-skeptical researchers were surprised by chatgpt’s ability to solve certain problems that absolutely wouldn’t be in its dataset.

But of course LLMs can’t handle basic math

appletrotter··on ReMarkable Paper Pro
Many of those projects are defunct, remarkable hacking is truly in a dark ace.
appletrotter··on ReMarkable Paper Pro
The Google drive integration is completely different to the connect one.

It’s not automatic, it’s manual.

It works essentially in the same way that the ‘send to email’ feature works. Which means if you make a change to a file, you have to delete the file on gdrive and reupload it.

appletrotter··on Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business
Not uncommon
appletrotter··on Techniques used by developers to bypass App Store review
> No, no one past middle school cares about the color of the bubble.

This is just objectively not true. The nature of green vs blue messages feeds into the in-group out-group dynamics that humans (children and adults alike) are prone to.

This is by design. This works well for apple.

appletrotter··on Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding
Idiot directors? I was going to rebut your comment but on second read I’d rather just point out how dismissive and inflammatory your comment is.
appletrotter··on Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep
Have you ever heard of lucid dreams?
appletrotter··on Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests
Great point
appletrotter··on Show HN: Mark Scroll Positions
Yeah, you can set a mark with ‘m’ and then go to it with the tilde key
appletrotter··on Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests
I think your ideas around ‘tradeoffs’ here are very confusing.

Tradeoff is such an intrinsically correct term to use here. People with autism/adhd are worse at some tasks, and better at others. That’s what a tradeoff is.

There are similar discussions around deafness. Deaf people often don’t like to see their deafness as a disability, but as something that defines their culture and experience. That’s still a tradeoff. You can decide to give your child cochlear implants, and integrate them into mainstream schooling - or you can opt out of that, and integrate them into the deaf community. That’s the very definition of a trade off, and it’s a very valid and difficult question.

The issue I have with your take is that its adoption can reduce people’s feelings of agency around their way of life. What works for you isn’t necessarily universal. The idea of a tradeoff is that the same decision can have different meaning to people in varying contexts. You might suggest that people have been conditioned to want to be ‘normal,’ but that is an oversimplification that ignores individuals’ agency, and again, unique contexts.

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