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randomopining··on Apple Delays Work on Next Year's iPhone, Mac Software to Fix Bugs
Not on the 15 pro. It uses the 3nm processor to get the snappiness back. Even my 13 pro was losing the snappiness. Crazy stuff.
randomopining··on Apple Delays Work on Next Year's iPhone, Mac Software to Fix Bugs
Will Safari get snappier?
randomopining··on Ask HN: If you went back to 2021 with the knowledge you've today, what'd you do?
its only up like 30-40%, that's not that much.
randomopining··on Covid's damage lingers in the heart
ME/CFS sounds like it has way many more possible causes, and different "types" of it.

Whereas Long Covid is caused by a virus that more and more is linked to endothelial damage causing microcirculation problems. And Fucoidan is almost perfect for that job.

So I really do think it could be "the one"

randomopining··on Covid's damage lingers in the heart
Fucoidan solves all of this. Amazing for post-covid issues.
randomopining··on Covid's damage lingers in the heart
Fucoidan is the one. It is anti clot but also immunomodulating and gut immunomodulating.
randomopining··on Covid's damage lingers in the heart
Fucoidan is the best treatment. It handles the issues in the article directly. Mark my words that people will catch on to this more and more in the coming years.
randomopining··on Covid's damage lingers in the heart
Fucoidan (from seaweed) is the solution to any Covid aftereffects for much of the population. It directly solves these endothelial issues. Amazing stuff.
randomopining··on Humans are biased. Generative AI is even worse
Ironically most journalists have a job BECAUSE of bias. Otherwise there would be just 1 news source kinda like Reuters, reporting completely unbiased factual events about the world and that's it.
randomopining··on The Tao of Programming (1987)
There's the programmers that just use it as a tool to accomplish stuff -- that's cool.

There's the ones that overcomplicate and overmystify everything, nerding out in pointless discussions etc -- that's just not cool at all to me.

randomopining··on Huawei teardown shows chip breakthrough
Are you sure? I think you are overly focusing on issues that are not even on the minds of international property owners in the US.
randomopining··on Running a 180B parameter LLM on a single Apple M2 Ultra
Is there any actual usecases to run this stuff on a local computer? Or are most of these models actually suited to run on remote clusters?
randomopining··on Ask HN: What does the world need from software engineers now?
Probably donate your excessive salary to something worthy.

Software is just software, it exists in the abstract realm. Only huge projects that leverage many types of "real world" engineers etc can also use software engineers to make an impact.

randomopining··on How might life migrate through the universe?
So you are saying having no purpose/meaning is wrong.

What if having a meaning is wrong too?

What if meaning is simply always a subjective thing and thus NOT OBJECTIVE.

Thus what is, is. And that's it. Anything else is just subjectivity applied.

randomopining··on How might life migrate through the universe?
Like you basically said, consciousness is just an awareness of self. Awareness of self comes as part of an evolutionary adaptation to survive and propagate.

Consciousness does not necessarily mean you are non-deterministic in your consciousness operating.

Everything may be deterministic, but too complex for us to figure out at this point.

randomopining··on The Transfer of a Russian ICBM to North Korea?
Yup. They loosely associate whatever poster with "being on the MSM's side" and basically attribute it to them. When in reality, an organization like NYTimes is on the leading forefront of fact collecting and verification -- even though it has a metropolitan liberal bend.
randomopining··on The Transfer of a Russian ICBM to North Korea?
"The media" -- just because randos say that doesn't mean mainstream news is saying it's a fact.
randomopining··on US Air Force wants $6B to build 2k AI-powered drones
"The US is only against them due to a perceived threat to global US hegemony. For instance, you forgot to list Saudi Arabia there, and they are one of our allies."

-- The US eventually wants democracy globally. Support of countries like SA etc are just stepping stones and temporary accepting.

"The US govt has been the largest exporter of misery and destruction the last 80 years. So yeah, you can lump them altogether. And yes, the US would happily use AI to exterminate 500k communists, 1 million Iraqis, or 1 million Vietnamese again."

-- This trite talking point is overused and mostly wrong. Since the US took partial hegemony in 1950s and complete hegemony in 1990s... things have improved greatly for the world as a whole. Despite many mistakes by the US, it is still pretty good. Do you think the alternatives of Nzi Germany (self-explanatory), USSR (millions killed by Stalin), or the CCP (millions dead, famines etc) would be better?

When has the US gov specifically targeted non-combatants for extermination? I do not believe that ever happened. Collateral damage due to military operations is terrible, but it's not willingly done.

So basically your answer is complete hyperbole, as well as mostly wrong.

randomopining··on US Air Force wants $6B to build 2k AI-powered drones
Well I think a truly democratic country like the US (even though imperfect) getting these technologies first and isolating/defeating the autocratic countries would actually lead to some form of self-governance over the use of these technologies.

This would avoid the dystopian nightmare he worries about.

randomopining··on How might life migrate through the universe?
When did I say inanimate objects aren't structured matter?

Actually I'm saying that life is like inanimate matter, but is just another step on a continuum towards greater structure.

The first "life" couldn't even affect a thing next to it. Now humans are changing Earth and the near solar system. In the future our reach will be galaxy wide and beyond. Increasing order from disorder.

randomopining··on How might life migrate through the universe?
Life is just structured matter. It gains consciousness that has a goal of propogating and increasing the structure of the universe.

This is a movement from disorder towards perfect order, perfect stillness.

randomopining··on US Air Force wants $6B to build 2k AI-powered drones
Autocratic surveillance states are here in the form of countries like China, Russia, NK, etc. The US is clearly the leader against these types of dystopias (despite it's many past mistakes and current faults), so I think to lump them all together would be naive and dangerous.
randomopining··on US Air Force wants $6B to build 2k AI-powered drones
Good, let's perfect them before our enemies and prevent war over Taiwan and Ukr.
randomopining··on Why are commercial airplanes still so slow?
A train from NYC to LA would be more efficient than a modern plane?
randomopining··on Why are commercial airplanes still so slow?
They do that so you pay to upgrade whatever pain point you have. Think of all the upper class and upper middle class families that spring for Business for the whole family for their 1-2 yearly big trips. That's a huge profit for the airline. If economy was amazing and only cost a bit more, they would lose a ton.
randomopining··on Young people were burned out. Then they quit the rat race to travel
So you could stratify people by how much they contribute to the collective production of goods. Do you think some are huge net drains?
randomopining··on Young people were burned out. Then they quit the rat race to travel
Traveling is just going to a lower rung on the rat race hierarchy, where your rat race earnings have more spending power.

Basically given limited resources, beings compete for those resources. There's no way for us to handle that unless we have carefully planned birth rates. But with unfettered immigration and high birth rates in certain parts of the world, it will not end soon.

randomopining··on Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin
Which ones do you think this applies to? Long term effects
randomopining··on Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood
So you are convinced the real benefits lie in macro and not micro?
randomopining··on Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood
Sounds like the reason why there's a backlash against exposing kids to all of these controversial topics in the "culture wars" in the West.
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