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What is being argued in the article that AI Companies could be doing illegally:

-Using AI to “foster or advance deception.”

-Falsely advertising “the accuracy, quality, or utility of AI systems.”

-Create or sell an AI system or product that has “an adverse or disproportionate impact on members of a protected class, or create, reinforce, or perpetuate discrimination or segregation of members of a protected class.“

There's a terminal command to increase the maximum vram MacOS can use, you can try that as you're probably going over the limit and the system is resorting to treat as system ram. (I ran into this problem a couple of times using ollama).

Spot on. I've read the very accessible paper and it's better than any of the how-to's written elsewhere. Nothing against good content being written, but the source material is already pretty good.

Who's old enough to remember the joys of tweaking ClearType on Windows XP?

It was a great workaround for rendering smoother text on low dpi LCD displays.

IMHO the article is trying to elevate the importance of philosophy in AI development and success, but its arguments are weak, and the examples are too generic. I wish the article was more rigorous and less verbose. While philosophy and AI clearly have significant overlaps, this article does little to strengthen the case for their synergy.

I'm with you. The theme is cool for a brief blog post, but anything longer and I want out of the AS400 terminal.

Great collection. I can dive into content like this all day, everyday.

Pretty incredible how fast those videos are being generated. Excellent work! You can now spam YT shorts all day.

Last time I went to Milan, I remember that when I was in an empty alley with my wife I noticed something and my wife did as well, it was the only moment in the city we weren't smelling cigarette smoke. The city is beautiful and alive, but the pervasive smoking everywhere diminished my interest in ever going back.

Excellent comment, succinctly summarizing how a systems thinking perspective translates the monster of health care in a large system of interconnected parts, each with its own stakeholders. Trying to change a single part triggers a reaction from everyone.

Tough ecosystem to change. But, at the same time, seems to be the one needing change the most.

Merry Christmas, hackers!

But what about the ego? Any virtuous act might be fueled by the expectation of recognition.

Thank you for the submission, but next time please keep the original title.

Suppose I have a strong blue laser and point it at said unrecognized drones. Would I be in trouble? How long should we wait an answer from the government before we can "fight back"?

I'm a state that resonates a lot with what you wrote, thank you for that. Checking out your bio I found out you have a very interesting blog, I really liked "Unexpected Benefits of Being Vulnerable on the Internet" as it's something that I often wonder about, how we condition ourselves to say things we believe will be accepted (and to receive upvotes) instead of what we truly feel, leaving our true self behind.

Of course cells and tissues react to external stimuli, that's part of the homeostasis process, and a fundamental part of our adaptivity or we'd die with minimal changes in the environment. Calling it memory is the same as saying a bruise is my body having a memory of me hitting the corner of the table. Well toned bodies are the memories of the weight lifting exercises they've performed in the past, and so on.

But I can only imagine the extrapolations that alternative medicine people will make with this.

Under $100: Voice Dream Reader app. I'm not using it as much lately but I must have listened to thousands of articles and hundreds of books with it. I used to drop all sorts of articles and epubs on it.

Under $1000: noise cancelling headphones (qc35 was the first). Living in a busy city with a lot of noise ANC gives me peace.

What a way to make something good (stock market is up) into something bad.

Democracy keeps giving both sides a chance, meanwhile both sides always complain about the end of democracy when the other side wins.

Another curious thing on both parties, when they lose they always ask "why did the other side win?" instead of trying to understand why their candidate lost.

And the pendulum keeps swinging.

"...Intel disabled AVX-512 for its Core 12th, 13th, and 14th Generations of Core processors, leaving owners of these CPUs without them."

Well known to most but news to me, I've tried to find out the reason why but couldn't come up with a definitive answer.

Absolutely. If it's so bad let the shareholders pay the price. Market dynamics should take care of this mindset eventually (if it indeed needs fixing).

I have a MBP M1 16GB at home, and a MBP M3 128GB at work. They feel the same: very fast. When I benchmark things I can see the difference (or when fiddling with larger LLM models), other than that, the M1 is still great and feels faster and more enjoyable than any Windows machine I interact with.

People have different passions, I like computers. If I feel a new Mac is going to be fun for whatever reason, I consider upgrading it. Performance wise they last a long time, so I could keep them way longer than I do, but I enjoy newer and more capable models. You can always find someone to buy the older model. Macs have a great second hand market.

Copilot is getting more and more development effort in these updates. I personally don't like it, but I don't know how the rest of the community feels.

Related to that, there's the "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect[1], where an expert can see numerous mistakes on his area of expertise being reported on the news, but somehow takes the rest as being accurate.

[1]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

Absolutely. And regarding Linus' skepticism towards russian emails, my tiny hobby projects get tons of russian spam (and others), I can't imagine what Linux boards get. It must be really hard to trust new or infrequent users.

O+. I didn't know blood type could be a factor, thank you for the tip, I'll look into this.

Mosquitoes always seem to come exclusively to me instead of my wife. I would love to understand this "preference" but unfortunately the article doesn’t really explain it.

To everyone talking about EEE, what can they extinguish here, code editors?

If they get too annoying, like really forcing copilot or something like that, there are several other editors to choose from. Until this day comes I'm having a positive experience with VSC.

Doesn't mean they're making the decisions.