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Distant area code SIMs do wonders.

I was still living in Vancouver, Canada when I learned maybe six or so years ago AT&T has removed all roaming restrictions in North America. So a few of us banded together, one of us crossed over to New York picked up a group subscription of sorts and we had very cheap subscriptions. Only the last 1-2 years did Canadian providers caught up, somewhat.

But the real advantage was if anyone called from a "local" number, local to my SIM at least, I immediately knew it was spam. I do not know anyone in Buffalo, I do not do business in Buffalo, there's no authority which has anything to do with me there, nothing. It's spam.

Iffy blogspam? Phoronix? To me it reads like a well written summary.

Nothing but Rust is safe from being attacked by the Rust zealots. It's been extremely annoying these last few years.

> the court has left nearly no sphere in which the president can be said to be acting “unofficially.” And more importantly, the court has left virtually no vector of evidence that can be deployed against a president to prove that their acts were “unofficial.”

So you agree this is a formally written PR piece copy-pasted and as such it's spam. Got it.

What would've been not spam? Spontaneous writing with a link to the puff piece.

Care to elaborate in what ways Firefox counts as successful? Maybe it had a brief period of success (maybe) but that was long ago.

> there is also no way to prove it’s “unofficial,” because any conversation the president has with their military advisers (where, for instance, the president tells them why they want a particular person assassinated) is official and cannot be used against them.

> while the Supreme Court says “unofficial” acts are still prosecutable, the court has left nearly no sphere in which the president can be said to be acting “unofficially.”

> while the Supreme Court says “unofficial” acts are still prosecutable, the court has left nearly no sphere in which the president can be said to be acting “unofficially.”

The problem is that official vs unofficial designation does not exist. The Supreme Court just invented it out of thin air. Further https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-immunity-sup...

> the court has left nearly no sphere in which the president can be said to be acting “unofficially.” And more importantly, the court has left virtually no vector of evidence that can be deployed against a president to prove that their acts were “unofficial.” If trying to overthrow the government is “official,” then what isn’t? And if we can’t use the evidence of what the president says or does, because communications with their advisers, other government officials, and the public is “official,” then how can we ever show that an act was taken “unofficially?”

Just like that.

Say you invested $22 and bought one Apple stock at IPO. Thanks to splits you now hold 224 stocks each worth some $210. Let's presume you die. Your heir inherits 224 stocks at $210 and so if they sell them at $210 then no taxes are paid.

This is how the rich avoid paying taxes: the money they spend mostly comes from bank loans secured by their stocks which are only paid back by their heirs using this scheme.

Since this is led by the Gates Foundation, I would recommend https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#g... on them.

Nah, there are a lot of powerful organizations fighting pornography and sex work in the United States.

> If even a single one of the over 12,000 connections was a little flaky, it could slow down the entire training run

It's an unusual enough sentence to be remarkable and I was like "I read this exact same sentence before". Indeed, this and most of the writeup appeared on Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit it seems word-by-word. Is this just spam ?

https://x.com/imbue_ai/status/1805629547473518695

https://reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/1dobgbs/t...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mattboulos_training-a-70b-mod...

Those ThinkPads still had a separate magnesium alloy structure frame of course they are indestructible. (Marketing term used to be "roll cage")

How could anything related to LLMs be serious?

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.

Yes, people get bamboozled because LLMs are trained to bamboozle them, Raskin didn't call them "a zero day vulnerability for the operating system of humanity" for nothing -- but that's all there is.

Win 10 telemetry can be removed and there's no advertising.

Visible polish is utterly irrelevant when the problem is with drivers -- the manufacturers have zero incentive to produce Linux drivers and the open source ones are of uneven quality simply because they don't have the information. This is not to shit on the developers, it's 100% the manufacturers fault but at the end of the day, it's my printer-scanner that doesn't work regardless who is to blame.

Win 10 + WSL is currently the only working desktop OS I am aware of. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40782058

I have been an open source developer for twenty years.

Disabling telemetry is easy with O&O shutup, I have been using that.

After I moved continents (again) I am now more stable and since I use my 55" 4K TV as my monitor, I decided to make a desktop PC which can game on it -- I went with an 5700X3D CPU with a 7900 XT GPU and 64GB RAM.

I do not think there's anything like it in the Mac world.

Yeah I ran Linux as my daily driver 2004-2017 and I regret it.

Since then I run Windows 10 + WSL and life is good.

Win10 support ends next year and I am at a complete loss at what to do.

Linux desktop never worked, never will, the incentives are not there. It's only free if you don't value your time. As I wrote before , your choices are Ubuntu where an OS upgrade shatters your entire system so throughly it takes days to get back to a working system or you can go with Arch where Bluetooth/multifunction device/etc might break every so often. But at least most of the system remains standing. And if you need to connect to some funny enterprise wifi or VPN, the IT department of the client will have Mac and Windows support but Linux? X Windows doesn't get new features, Wayland is not ready, and the package manager landscape is just getting worse https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/616/9...

Windows 11 is hot garbage. No other way to put it.

Send help.

> Microsoft has built up good will through efforts like VS Code

That's the Trojan Horse

https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

I do not think I have seen a better example of a post being so drunk on the LLM kool-aid.

Your slander doesn't mesh with the EPA report.

It's utterly not worth it. Your time to get it working, the equipment... but even if you have all of those if you get caught they will throw the book on you to scare away others. You can be charged by Unauthorized use of computer, Fraud and who knows what else. All of that to save four dollars on a ticket? When every station has cameras?

They are not comparable. There's a prevalent metaphor which imagines the brain as a digital computer. However, this is a metaphor and not actual facts. While we have some good ideas on how the brain works on higher levels (recommended reading Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman) we do not really have any ideas on the lower levels. As the essay I link below mentions, for example, when attending a concert, our brain changes so that later it can remember it but two brains attending the same concert will not change the same way. This make modelling the brain really damn tricky.

This complete lack of understanding is also why it's completely laughable to think we can do AGI any time soon. Or perhaps ever? The reason for the AI winter cycle is the framing of it, this insane chase of AGI when it's not even defined properly. Instead, we should set out tasks to solve -- we didn't make a better horse when we made cars and locomotives. No one complains these do not provide us with milk to ferment into kumis. The goal was to move faster, not a better horse...

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...

Sony in 1989 bought CBS which got renamed to Sony Music Entertainment (SME) in 1991. This was the beginning of the end for Sony as an engineering pioneer. Walkman, CD -- completely gone from these markets, crushed by noname, at the time tiny rivals. But seriously, Apple in 2001 was basically nothing and yet they won the US market with the iPod, more or less. Sony was too busy DRMing its music to bring an MP3 player to the market. It was an astounding defeat.

the KV-3000R is not the PWM-4300 though? And since the second but older post is from a deleted redditor it's unclear whether it's two or one.