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The problem is that those kinds of responses are rare in the tech world. But when you have someone competent at the helm, it's much better than reading human slop.
The Tx SoCs themselves should have never locked up because there was a watchdog that would power cycle it when it became unresponsive.
The T1 and T2 and its associated controllers were actually part of a gradual and public transition to Apple Silicon!
Most people didn’t realize it at the time though.
About the only good thing to come out of the open web dying is a revitalization of open and accessible computing hobbies.
If the HN audience didn’t want AI stories, they wouldn’t keep making the front page. You may not like it, but AI isn’t going away. It’s going to keep evolving and become integral to tech.
If you want a version of Hacker News without AI, I suggest the following website with the AI filter. But then you'd be ignoring the biggest technological advancement in a long time.
https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude
But, if you're not into AI and you're planning to stay in tech, I suspect you're going to have a hard time adapting.
I still code for fun.
I write detailed specs for AI. Although I feel like this is, or is about to be, obsolete.
I read books.
I play chess.
I play words games.
I make stuff with wood and tools.
I go more places.
I cook more food.
I am not jaded about any of this. I am highly adaptable and refuse to think about myself as a victim.
I am optimistic and excited to see what the future holds. But it will require much adaptation and reflection on my identity as part of that process.
My police chief is okay with it and the case number "abc123" is FOIA-exempt out of operational security concerns.
I'd love to be able to tolerate Safari, but it's just not a good day-to-day desktop browser.
It's hard not to, given your comments in this thread.
- I had to write a moderately complex program. I didn't want to do it in C, and I didn't want to learn Rust.
- So I spent roughly about 2 hours becoming familiar with Go and playing around in Go playground. I decided that this would work.
- And then I got started on my program and I was immediately productive and that software is still running today, along with all the other stuff I've written since then.
Programmer productivity is excellent with Go. And it has a thriving ecosystem. Of course, some things could be better, but I don't really have much issue with it's error handling or types.
The article specifically discusses how Go is well-suited for LLMs. It's not going on about general programming topics.
https://old.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/g6vyjc/old_ele...
I tried to get my kids interested with the modern equivalent, Snap Circuits, but they didn't take to it. It was too limited and toy-like.
I later acquired an old electronics kit like the above, and they were much more interested in that. You can still find the older kits on eBay for not too much money.
Keep in mind they may not take to it like you did. My kids' own interests went to more mechanical stuff and small gasoline engines and electric motors instead.
Don't steer their interests, feed them. Provide breadcrumbs for their curiosities.
What am I missing?
We don't have to like it. From Larry's perspective, our natures are strange and perhaps repulsive to him.
Maybe Zuck has, but I haven't seen a pledge that he'll keep models open. And even then, he might not stick to his word, citing dangers or some other excuse.
But yeah, open models is a great concept.
In other words, Larry Ellison is going to do what Larry is going to do, and there's no use wondering why.
Usually, that's to make money and sue people, at any expense. It's in his nature.
"Use only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English when communicating with me or writing documents, comments, and other communications intended for humans."
As a result, I've never seen Claude or Codex use it's weird terms like "load-bearing".
(This isn't a condemnation. AI can often do a better job of representing thoughts than humans.)
Examples:
- The article organization
- The general language flow
- The bullet points with a bolded gist, a colon, and then elaboration (and bonus with details stats).
- The images are almost certainly AI generated. They look AI generated.
- Don't do any of it on work equipment, otherwise your employer may own your works. Do you like being sued?
- Don't discuss it with people at work, otherwise your employer may own your works because: time and IP. Do you like being sued?
Keep your mouth shut, use your own equipment and probably even network (eg: cell) and you should be fine. Or do you like being sued?
Put another way, don't you think companies have considered this? It's a rather obvious idea. So, assuming it's been considered, why don't they do it?
Spoiler: it's probably not economically viable based on the current consumer client, which is "buy cheap, throw away when broken, repeat". It's pretty sad how quickly the US has gone from repairable to throw-away products all while proclaiming concern for the environment.