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asdff··on Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released
What sort of jobs are memory bandwidth bound that people are running? Will they actually see 10x speed improvement or hit some other real world bottleneck? Are these jobs "short" on the order of seconds or minutes or is the node being hammered for two weeks straight? I'm just curious about it.
asdff··on Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released
Didn't take me long to find a nice proof of concept, 4x mac studio cluster in this case:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-stu...

asdff··on Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released
512gb being more expensive than just two 256g is a little strange. You mean you can get the same exact total cluster ram but double the compute/storage nodes and save $700?
asdff··on Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
I mean its obviously just a fun gag tool the OP made to throw the tool stack on their resume. This post can land them a six figure job.
asdff··on Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
A book is a lot more of a sure bet than you maintaining a computer. We have ancient books today that have survived several civilization collapses.
asdff··on Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
Its just more work. If you have to verify from the sources anyhow, why spend effort reading the prompt to begin with? It just wastes your time and maybe even pollutes your subconscious with incorrect information.
asdff··on Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
The difference is back then we had the adage "don't believe everything you read online" that helped adjust our priors. Today, however, these companies are specifically marketing themselves as the source of ground truth. Your boss, or your school that a generation ago banned wikipedia, is now demanding you to use these tools and make the work dependent on them.
asdff··on Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
Wait till you get the captchas that are serving what appears to be local imagery data. Spooky.
asdff··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Funny how half the press release tries to hide the notch/island/whatever its called. I almost thought they gave up on that, then I finally saw it like 7 or 8 images in.
asdff··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
I always wanted to fingerpaint my notes
asdff··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
The pencil is bad enough but how it charges itself is even worse. Lets turn my ipad into a brittle stingray. It's up there with the mouse having to charge upside down for apples top own goals.
asdff··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Macbook hinges always get loose with time too
asdff··on Old.reddit.com Gone
https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issu...
asdff··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
No human goes “gee wall is soaking wet with fresh paint, maybe this is the one I need to paint”
asdff··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Ehh I'm not to caught up with window management on macos. Bunch of shells open I might use tmux. But otherwise I just keep things in piles organized in spaces, and use expose all to get to whatever I need in the pile. It works much like the piles on my desk in real life so I'm comfortable with it. But it was better in leopard when it was a grid of spaces vs a line of spaces. Less rigidity was nice.
asdff··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Yes but have you considered the M8?
asdff··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Is apple going to be so restrained to keep the design of the OS as a mouse first experience or are they going to cripple information density so I might be able to close a window with my elbow?
asdff··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Leopard was better because it introduced spaces. Honestly I think that whole concept (I know windows has something analogous now) was the biggest step change in OS functionality I've seen in my life having started on windows 95.
asdff··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
I think the biggest thing isn't really whatever it is but the act of changing and forcing everyone to change into the new ui that is the disruptive part. It is a combination of window dressing changing but also sometimes functions breaking. It is ironic because software written for developers prides itself generally on maintaining compatibility with say depreciated flags, or if things will be depreciated plenty of notice ahead of time. But that only holds for cli software. GUI software and the OS that all goes out the window. Stuff breaks, workflows break, you have no recourse and in fact they might make it genuinely difficult to go back to an older version. Like this part of it is the shitty part. Never mind how it happens to look. It is the forcing effect.
asdff··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
No fans though. I like being able to crank them full blast. I'm not sure this pro would ever actually run the fans all out with my usage with the existing fan curve. Apple always favors it running quiet and hot, but I don't mind loud and prefer cool palms. I grew up with far more noisy rigs.
asdff··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Why not just continue to use your m1 pro as your low end client? Save a couple hundred.
asdff··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
Still waiting on the "liberty and justice for all" too
asdff··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
If anything TSA checkpoints are constant advertisement of the failures of the state apparatus as they spend labor resources on suspicion my golf balls are a 12 rack of grenades.
asdff··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
Already is as a side effect of heterogeneous weed laws. Cops camp state borders and pull people over they think are bringing back dispensary purchased weed into an illegal state.
asdff··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
And is their rake on that correlated with site views? I'd guess not so linearly like it is with ad impressions. It is a different business model.
asdff··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
He was akin to a molotov cocktail they could toss at any oppressed populace in europe and have non small odds of civil war. It might be more fair to say they controlled him the same way an incendiary bomber controls fire.
asdff··on Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls
Exactly, and therefore they must be considered as such. Models based on the finite data that were collected and handful of conveniently observable variables selected under study, nothing more nothing less. Whether you decide to use this as evidence for reality is at your own peril. Not just polls but truly any question involving statistics.
asdff··on Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls
This is appealing to authority, assuming the work ought to be perfect just because people are professionals. What if there is no good way to control for these latent factors? What if the latent factors change by the year and their magnitude of effect on the overall result changes? All this happens. No matter what you model with statistics, you are only ever presenting your model and its assumptions based on the data that were used with it. You can never say "now I understand reality" if you actually believe in statistics as they are and not just the popular religion of 'statistics'.
asdff··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
According to deflock there's cameras in the berkely hills already, in particular on the grizzley peak and shasta road intersection. It's all over the bay area.
asdff··on New iMac with M6
They didn't always have the chin. Imac G4 put the computer at the base. Consider the size of a mac mini you could do something like that today without needing half a sphere like the g4.
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