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niklasbuschmannon Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

For me, changing Settings > Siri > Language to German freed up the space reserved for Apple intelligence after some time.

niklasbuschmannon Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

Changing Siri’s language worked for me

niklasbuschmannon A succession crisis that tore England apart (2023)

The naming in this one is so confusing

niklasbuschmannon Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/mtlgpufamily

niklasbuschmannon The Entropy of a Markov Chain

Stochastic thermodynamics covers this

niklasbuschmannon How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

At least for the fermions the answer is a nice power of two for each generation. There is the electron, the neutrino, the red, green and blue up quark and the red, green and blue down quark, giving 8 fermions per generation. Since one can distinguish between particles and antiparticles, one could also argue for 16 fermions per generation. Also one can distinguish between left and right handed particles, giving a total of 32 fermions per generation.

niklasbuschmannon Warm up your MacBook (2019)

> openssl speed

niklasbuschmannon Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.07160

niklasbuschmannon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://niklasbuschmann.github.io

niklasbuschmannon Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

You really believe that skinny people are just more disciplined than obese? I would highly doubt that most skinny people actively try to keep their weight down, it‘s just how they are.

niklasbuschmannon Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]

I think this would look much better if the blur radius / strength would be increased

niklasbuschmannon Gaussian Integration Is Cool

Gaussian integrals are also pretty much the basis of quantum field theory in the path integral formalism, where Isserlis's theorem is the analog to Wick's theorem in the operator formalism.

niklasbuschmannon I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil (2015)

https://archive.is/SKAKk

niklasbuschmannon Bond rout starting to sound market alarm bells

Many people here were so confident a few days ago that the tariffs were just some 4d chess to get interest rates down, despite this not making any sense.

niklasbuschmannon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

This is just delusional. Everybody is looking for some reason that makes this less stupid than it looks, but there is none.

Intentionally causing a recession to lower the debt burden makes no sense, neither politically nor economically. Besides that the US is not some third world country that issues debt in a currency they have no sovereignty over.

niklasbuschmannon Trapped Antarctic scientists plead for rescue after 'assault'

https://archive.is/6ENhS

niklasbuschmannon NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable [fixed]

Fuck Elon Musk

niklasbuschmannon Muon's magnetic moment exposes a hole in the Standard Model, unless it doesn't

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/calculation-solves-m...

This article was a lot clearer for me

niklasbuschmannon Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle

@lcamtuf: It's Igor Pavlov, not Ivan Pavlov

niklasbuschmannon Is the world really running out of sand?

I assume there are taxes and transmission fees on top of the spot electricity price

niklasbuschmannon The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it

Related to "A teen's fatal plunge into the London underworld" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39272278

niklasbuschmannon Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (2015)

> Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

Without additional assumptions this original wording is not clear, it could be that the host always shows a goat, then one should switch, or the host shows something at random and we just look at the cases where he shows a goat, then it doesn't matter.

niklasbuschmannon AI needs so much power that old coal plants are sticking around

https://archive.is/spRaU

niklasbuschmannon Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

Honest question: What about someone doing the opposite, simulating trillions of suffering flys? Shouldn‘t we worry about that?

niklasbuschmannon Treasury’s $1T Debt Deluge Threatens Market Calm

https://archive.is/xCgDQ

niklasbuschmannon The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble

https://archive.is/KLntB

niklasbuschmannon Elon Musk reportedly had his own tweets prioritized out of jealousy

Simply block him and he won‘t show up in the timeline

niklasbuschmannon Track Lawmakers’ Stock Trading with These Two ETFs

I mean if you make money with this strategy, then the stocks bought were undervalued (overvalued) and by buying (shorting) them you pushed the price more to the stock‘s fair value. I really see no problem here.

niklasbuschmannon Intel's horrible quarter revealed an inventory glut and underused factories

On the plus side, you can just avoid companies paying nonsensical dividends and focus on companies actually creating shareholder value with their money.

niklasbuschmannon As inflation falls, eggs are a high-priced outlier

No, he did it because at the time, oil was in backwardation, making the move very profitable. It just makes sense economically for anyone who stores oil.