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Yup, some of the keys on my 2016 MacBook Pro started not working reliably and thankfully Apple had their extended warranty program for that and they replaced the entire top cover (keyboard, trackpad, aluminum housing) + battery. This was about 5 years after buying it. It was pretty nice because I had like 1200 cycles on the battery or something crazy like that!

I worked this schedule for many years (not in tech, "skilled" labour) and it's amazing. This was a 7 day a week operation and it worked quite well in terms of crossover here too. Each person had a fixed schedule but the day of the week for each person would vary so there'd never be a full "shift change over", so to speak, but always some overlap between the shifts and it helped with information exchange greatly. The guy working Monday-Thursday would overlap with people starting their weeks from Tuesday to Thursday, for example, so there was always a "working knowledge" of what was going on.

It worked well on the management side of things too, but with an actual "changeover", as you'd have a Monday-Thursday supervisor and another Thursday-Sunday supervisor, with one day a week of overlap however that Sunday-Monday changeover didn't have an overlap (although there was a lot of OT on this job so it did frequently happen).

Jeepey McJeepface would have won of this was a UK contest.

In my opinion this is most likely.

Scenario A, Sam Altman continues as CEO and the for profit arm of OpenAI continues to call the shots, growth and market share continue to be priority number one.

Scenario B, Sam Altman is fired, OpenAI non-profit board (re?)-asserts more control. Safety, alignment and other things like that take priority over growth and market share.

x% of Employees are Sam believers, and when the remaining x% of ambiguous/non-Sam believers realize the first x% might leave, their PSUs would be worth significantly less, so they sign the letter as well. There is also the peer pressure / fear of retribution factor as well once it becomes likely there is even a chance of Sam being reinstated.

Many employees choose scenario A because it is likely their "profit sharing units" will be worth more than with scenario B. There's a non-zero chance that OpenAI (the for profit arm) eventually joins the ranks of the "FAANG" companies. Those PSUs might be worth millions today, but in the future could be worth "fuck you" levels of money.

Has anyone played with Khanmigo yet? Is it basically Khan Academy with a chatbot to help with questions, or does it differ completely from Khan Academy?

About ten years ago I was thinking of returning to university and was required to pass a high school level math exam to prove I still could do math as an adult (I couldn't, really!). Khan Academy was a pretty incredible resource. I was in a time crunch so I also hired a tutor for two hours a week and the combination worked really well for me. I could see swapping out a real life tutor with an LLM being pretty amazing and much more affordable!

I didn't end up returning to school, but now I've gotten the AI bug and need to upgrade my math skills, and I'm thinking that using a LLM to help learn about foundational math that applies to LLMs would be pretty neat.

Oh wow, thanks! This combined with the new "web" view is basically what I've been dreaming of.

I haven't really thought it through but off the top of my head 250m from a house just passing by seems reasonable, and maybe something like 750-1000m for biouvacking? No one (who wants the right to roam in the wilderness) desires to roam around the suburbs, and having some reasonable limits like 250m/1000m would prevent people from doing that. It would prevent people from entering tracts of land that are even a few acres in size. When I think "the right to roam" I am thinking about places with vast tracts of wilderness. Think some "ranches" in the American West, though could be tens of thousands of acres of land not really used for much besides grazing cattle. No one advocating for the right to roam wants to camp in your backyard.

My ideal "right to roam" laws would be 1) you have the right to pass through any piece of land 2) you have to stay x amount of meters away from a house/building/etc 3) you have the right to camp for one night in a spot and you can't have a tent pitched until one hour before sunset and it must be down by one hour after sunrise. There should probably be an even further minimum distance from a house compared to the distance set for just passing by. 4) no fires / pack it in, pack it out / etc

There's a bunch of places in Europe now that have a no camping policy, but allow (or tolerate) "bivouacking", which originally meant sleeping on the ground without a shelter but now kind of includes small tents. I think it's the ideal tradeoff, it still allows long distance backpackers to do their thing while discouraging the "party camping" crowds.

It infuriates me that exact match searches don't work anymore. I understand that for the average person/average query, the modern google results are better (with info boxes, AI type stuff going on), but please let me type in "I want this exact phrase, including punctuation!". I don't even care if it tells me there's nothing found and then makes some suggestions below that.

Unfortunately it seems that Safari hijacks all google.com/search?q= urls and strips all (or at least utm) query params, except q, when google is set to the default search engine!

Even pasting in https://google.com/search?q=apple+sauce&utm=14 to the url bar doesn't work. The only way I was able to get this to work was set DuckDuckGo (or anything non-google) as the default search engine, then use the extension "Smart Keyword Search" to setup a shortcut. I have !g <query> for normal google search and !gw <query> setup for google "web" search.

Do we know that these voices are backed by real people? I kind of assumed that given AI tech in voice cloning, they could make a voice sound like anyone they want and don't need to go out and find someone that sounds like "the target" voice. I think it's more fair game if they actually found another human that could sound like someone famous, but if they just ran the audio of some of her movies through some AI and out popped a voice, that's a little bit less clear.

It's like an imaginary (horribly made) club sandwich!

From the bottom up, there's a layer of bread, then a layer of ham, then another layer of bread, then a layer of cheese, then the top piece of bread. The ham and cheese are your conductive layers, one carrying current the other the ground.

When you first make the sandwich, everything is good because the ham and cheese are not touching each other. However, when you cut it in half, the bread, ham and cheese all smoosh together at the cut point and the ham and cheese electrically short out. Now, if you are super careful, you can probably go in with a super sharp knife, cut it again very carefully, and make it so the ham and cheese don't actually ever touch.

Apple (or whoever) purposely put a cut in the sandwich knowing the ham and cheese would touch, making the sandwich inedible. This YouTuber comes along with a really sharp knife and cuts the sandwich again making sure the ham and cheese never touch.

It just so happens when Apple made the cut, they didn't cut anything important, other than "smooshing" the layers (ie: they didn't cut through any traces or capacitors, etc).

Depending on the intended use, copying 1:1 is kinda "useless" as well, as the picture is also included in the RFID chip. Some of those "quick entry" machines many countries are apparently are doing face matching between the person standing there and the picture embedded in the RFID chip.

You can actually read the photo from your passport with an Android phone. Some of the info in the machine readable area is required as a salt, so you can't do a remote scan of a closed passport.

Can't speak for their corporate structure, but according to this blog post about their new campus, they have 6,500 employees in Amsterdam alone. https://news.booking.com/bookingcom-officially-opens-new-cam....

They banned my account a few weeks back because I asked it to translate some Japanese text that was on a kitchen knife. Still no response from their Trust & Safety team. It's frustrating because Claude is really quite good at coding and I used it frequently.

I think in this case booking.com was founded in Amsterdam and were purchased by an American company at some point and they aren't there just for tax reasons. I guess it is possible it is the reason they stay there, though!

Ah, I didn't know LPDDR and DDR were fully different things! I always assumed since their generation numbers lined up they were based on each other.

Looking into it further, it seems booking.com is only "sort of European". Booking.com (headquartered in Amsterdam) is actually owned by Booking Holdings (an American company), which seems to have originated as Priceline, which then bought booking.com and renamed/restructured itself into Booking Holdings and owns Priceline, kayak, booking.com, Agoda and a bunch of other airline/hotel aggregators.

Is this Europe's first home grown digital gatekeeper?

From my limited understanding, the specific performance benefits in the article come from it being DDR5X memory. LP (Low Power) DDR needs to be very close to the CPU (short traces) because of how much less power it consumes. DDR5x should have the same bandwidth as LPDDR5x, it would just consume more power. Up until now, there wasn't a way to have "socketed" LPDDR, so it was soldered to the motherboard or even placed in the same package as the CPU (Apple M-series CPUs have the RAM in the same package as the CPU). Now they have a standard way to basically strap down a BGA chip that will live right next to the CPU.

This is what I want, but with an iPhone (with an iPad would be cool, too). Sell me some insanely expensive dock with a USB-C display port output for a monitor (and a few more for peripherals) and when the phone is plugged in, it becomes macOS.

I've never encountered an actual Apple Store not having specced up machines on hand (maybe not EVERY possible configuration, but a decent selection). If you go to a non-Apple retailer, afaik, they are limited to the base spec machines (RAM wise), it's not even a matter of them being out of stock. If you want anything other than 8GB (or whatever the base amount is for that model) of RAM you need to go through Apple directly. This was the case, at least in Canada a few years ago, correct me if I'm wrong/things have changed.

Not quite the same, but I used to play Duke Nukes 3D (iirc) with my friend over a direct modem link (like my modem would call his, no ISP involved). I don't remember the exact details, but playing over the proper internet was more or less unplayable with our 33.6 modems, but the direct connection worked pretty well!

I don't think it's really being "generous" with their competitors business value. Meta has a track record of open sourcing the "infrastructure" bits behind their core products. They have released many, many things like React/React Native, GraphQL, Casandra (database), Open Compute Project (server / router designs), HHVM and dozens of other projects long before their recent AI push. Have a look here, I spent five minutes scrolling and got 1/4 of the way through! https://opensource.fb.com/projects/

With Llama, they now have an army of people hacking on the llama architecture, so even if they don't explicitly use any of llama-adjacent projects, there are tons and tons of optimizations and other techniques being discovered. Just making up numbers, but if they spend x billions on interference per year and the open source community comes up with a way to make inference even just a few more percent efficient, the costs of their open source efforts might be a drop in comparison.

For example, Zuck was on the Dwarkesh podcast recently and mentioned that open sourcing OCP (server/rack design) has saved them billions because the industry standardized their designs, driving down the price for them.

I wonder if it's being used internally? Just looked back on the blog post and they actually say "Although most of the development for VR will still be internal, we hope to share more as soon as we can. We also anticipate that improvements to React Native for VR will surface in open source." Makes me wonder if possibly they are using it to create some app themselves, would be interesting to decompile some APKs and see.

https://reactnative.dev/blog/2021/08/26/many-platform-vision

There is react native for VisionOS already and the react team has hinted at react native for Quests/VR in the past..

At one point in time the React/React Native teams put out a blog post devoid of any actual details about “multi platform” support and mentioned VR in it. I’m surprised I haven’t hear anything else about it since.

I bought a cheap USB CD/DVD drive just to view my girlfriend's medical images. This was only two years ago and they wouldn't/couldn't just put them on a USB stick for me.

I recently discovered that the MBA supports two external monitors if one of them is an iPad via sidecar. I've been using an iPad as an extra screen for my mobile setup (MBA M2) when on the road for a while , and recently upgraded to a 14" portable monitor and was pleasantly surprised that both work at the same time.

Side note: the 14" monitor is a game changer if your priorities are light weight and portability. Roughly half the weight of an iPad and even bigger and only like 60 euros. I went with the 2K resolution model and it's great price/quality ratio wise (using BetterDisplay to bump up into HiDPI mode).

The M2 MBA can be specced up to 24GB. 32 would be awfully nice for local models, but 24 vs 16 is a decent bump in what models can be run (and at what quant). I debated a long time over the 16 vs 24 and ended up making the right choice (local AI was not in my mind at the time at all).