entropicdrifter

I'm on the same page, personally, but what I was trying to emphasize with my previous comment is that the non-tech people only want Star Trek

Programmers mostly don't. Ordinary people see figuring out how to use the computer as a hindrance rather than empowering, they want Star Trek. They want "computer, plan my next vacation to XYZ for me" to lay out a full itinerary and offer to buy the tickets and make the reservations.

Knowledge work is work most people don't really want to deal with. Ordinary people don't put much value into ideas regardless of their level of refinement

If it keeps bipolar people on their meds, it will make the world better and safer, but also, those meds should just be able to be setup as "always fill this" in a saner system.

I'm personally convinced that the road systems of New England were of some influence on Lovecraft in his conception of cosmic horror. A map of Boston roads does tend to evoke the concepts of non-Euclidean geometry and tentacle monsters

You can do that in Polars, too

Adventure is the OG, the genre-namer. If there's only one adventure game, it's either this or Zork.

That game is so mind-bending

Yeah, agreed. It's a lot easier to be empirical when the scale of the requirements is quite literally unimaginable without just dealing with raw numbers.

I have a friend who is a Microsoft stan who feels this way about LLMs too. He's convinced he'll become the most powerful, creative and productive genius of all time if he just manages to master the LLM workflow just right.

He's retired so I guess there's no harm in letting him try

I'd rather see a distill on the 26B model that uses only 3.8B parameters at inference time. Seems like it will be wildly productive to use for locally-hosted stuff

Your posting of the pelican benchmark is honestly the biggest reason I check the HackerNews comments on big new model announcements

In many cases, children do cause poverty

They compared purchasing power for an actual apples to apples comparison. Did you even read the article, or just look at the graph without context?

Both ring true, in this case.

Better yet, it's literally a complex system!

Relevant power metal song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z769xf9ET5A

Why would they do that when they already paid for a corrupt new regime to do it for them?

Also the latest model year Bolt and Leaf are both awesome and under 30K

And yet, they're also directly supporting the developers of OpenTTD via a donation and not giving them any legal harassment.

This is, at worst, a morally-neutral compromise that's far better than any worst-case scenario

Why would you put that evil thought into other people's heads? Now someone might do that

Trolleys and Regional Rail work great in the Philadelphia suburbs. When the state actually gives SEPTA funding so they can keep their vehicles up to date and pay their workers fairly

The Diamond Age is feeling more and more prescient to me as time goes on

Yeah, I have a $60 dongle that does it in my Kona EV

Pretty sure by putting "me too" in quotes and not saying #MeToo, what they're talking about is really FOMO. The companies are performing layoffs because of the trend

I feel like "most repairable macbook" is a bit like saying "most edible dirt". While it's good that there's progress, it's pretty telling that they need to only compare it within the same company's products.

Agreed. They've been consistently high quality for the 12 years they've been put out at this point. I'm glad they stopped trying to force them into the "monthly update" mold because so many ended up being like "April/May/June/July Update!"

Right? I started reading them before I became a programmer. I think they helped me learn how to think about the inner workings of programs

It's also part of their longer-term trend of buying or burying any company that starts to get any press as a social media site of note outside of major players where that hasn't been an option.

Perhaps killing the corporate internet would be. The ability to connect to people from all over the world was improving society at an astronomical rate before virtually everyone was brainwashed by money-making addictive algorithms

Thinkpad build quality depends heavily on the model. The flagship T-series are still tough as nails, generally speaking