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vimy··on Apple M5 could ditch unified memory architecture for split CPU and GPU designs
> That being said, such a split design may help with improved AI inferencing.

Unified memory is the only reason Macs are so coveted right now for local AI. A single 192 gb ram Mac costs less than the equivalent in standalone GPUs.

vimy··on Ask HN: Does Duolingo Work?
Duolingo’s is designed to keep your streak alive so you use the app every day and are exposed to ads. That’s its main function and Duolingo is very good at it.

If they were serious about helping you learn a language they would use flash cards to memorize vocabulary as a main feature.

It did help me learn some words and concepts but I see it more as entertainment than anything else.

vimy··on The price of shutting down coal power, and what would be gained
50 years ago France build more than 50 reactors in a decade.
vimy··on Ask HN: Product Hunt or Paid Ads?
Product Hunt is a strong backlink that will improve your SEO. That’s reason enough to launch on it.
vimy··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
China has the largest navy in the world. And the gap with the US keeps growing.

Times are changing.

vimy··on Ask HN: Recommendations for Eye Tracking Hardware?
iOS 18 had built-in eye tracking. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-a...
vimy··on 300k airplanes in five years
> Don't worry about the shipbuilding. China doesn't have carriers. They don't have a navy that can leave shore more than a hundred miles or so.

They have 3 carriers and are rapidly building more. They have naval bases as far as Africa.

A lot more misinformation in your comment but it would take too long to correct it all.

vimy··on Sweeping chronic fatigue study brings clues, not clarity to mysterious syndrome
If you have too much inflammation and if you have a stressor that causes cortisol to go up, like lifting, the conversion of T4 to T3 may be disrupted and you have too much reverse T3 instead. This causes hypothyroidism two days later.

Easy test is to take T3 (liothyronine sodium) on such a day. See if you feel better.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8895357/

vimy··on Ask HN: Are tech layoffs happening abroad?
There are rules to deal with this. Lots of French people near the border work in Belgium for example. They are even actively recruited.
vimy··on Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud
Right now there are already local LLM apps with uncensored models in the app store.
vimy··on Show HN: I spent 6 months building a C debugger as a 17-year-old
It’s the opposite. Computer literacy has gone down for gen Z, iOS and Android are too simple and locked down.

So this is very impressive at that age.

vimy··on Ask HN: What Anti aging pill was Edward Thorp Taking?
Have you heard of Bryan Johnson? https://fortune.com/well/2023/09/19/bryan-johnson-blueprint-...
vimy··on Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes
This is really cool. :D

There’s a typo on the message founders page.

vimy··on Ask HN: Do you look for freelance tech opportunities? What do you hate about it?
It’s been a while since I did iOS but maybe I can help you. My email is in my profile.
vimy··on Ask HN: What movie about entrepreneurship would you recommend?
The Founder. Not a movie but Halt and Catch Fire was really great.
vimy··on Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin
Low dose naltrexone.
vimy··on Ask HN: Websites that works with old browsers (mid-2000's browser)?
I think a lot of the websites on this list will still work: https://stumblingon.com/
vimy··on UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
That’s the whole point of the third party app stores that are coming next year. Apple will only be able to control apps on their app store.
vimy··on Ask HN: LLMs to help with coding. What are the best options ATM?
https://www.cursor.so/
vimy··on On the link between Lyme disease and bioweapons (2019)
French study from 2023:

> This study aimed to demonstrate that severe neurological motor deficits in the context of late tick-borne disease with mixed microorganism involvement are eligible for long-term combined antibiotic/antiparasitic treatments. The inclusion criteria were: 1. neurological limb paralysis with a disability score >4 according to the EDSS Kurtzke disability scale; 2. serological tests pointing to an involvement of the main tick-borne microorganisms Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., Babesia, Anaplasma, and Bartonella; 3. a general disease for more than 6 months with fatigue, pain and subjective cognitive deficit. The patients were administered long-term treatments with repeated cycles (at least three) of 35-day IV ceftriaxone and repeated oral regimens of azithromycin–doxycycline and azithromycin–doxycycline–rifampicin. For Babesia, repeated courses of atovaquone–azithromycin were administered. Ten patients had intractable or severe motor deficits before treatment in the context of Borrelia (two cases) Borrelia–Babesia (four cases), Borrelia–Babesia–Anaplasma (two cases), Borrelia–Babesia–Anaplasma–Bartonella (one case) and Babesia–Anaplasma (one case). For several months, five had been in wheelchairs, and four had been walking with sticks. Seven patients out of 10 (70%) showed complete remission after a mean active treatment duration of 20.1 + 6.6 months, with a mean number of 4 ceftriaxone cycles. Three patients showed an initial remission but suffered secondary antibiotic/antiparasitic-resistant motor recurrences. Among the nine patients with Borrelia serologic positivity, treatments obtained complete remission in seven cases (77%). The findings of this ten-case series suggest the usefulness of long-term antibiotic/antiparasitic treatments in patients with severe late tick-borne neurological deficits with highly significant elements of tick-borne involvement.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10294829/

vimy··on 200k Compromised OpenAI Credentials Available for Purchase on the Dark Web
Chatgpt is programmer art. I don’t think they have actual designers or frontend devs working there.

I accidentally deleted my chat history because of the confusing UX.

vimy··on An annual physical exam costs $400 USD on average in the USA
Yeah, taxes are really high but that's not relevant in this case. The actual costs are just way lower.

US healthcare costs are too high in the US because of the broken insurance system. I don't think it needs to become a public system like Europe. I don't see anything inherently wrong with private insurance. But the system needs a reset, back to normal prices.

One of the reason costs are too high is because hospitals, doctors, labs, know that insurance will haggle down so they just overcharge a lot. That's how you end up with an ER band-aid costing $ 500.

vimy··on An annual physical exam costs $400 USD on average in the USA
Are you sure?

Doctor: € 25 (Of which you get at least half back)

Standard lab test: € 20 (Real cost is € 50 or something)

Still pretty far from € 400.

vimy··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
Yeah, this is the equivalent of a freelancer quoting an absurd price for a job they don’t want.
vimy··on ChatGPT app for iOS
> Allow me to put stuff onto the phone. Via USB. Like every other god damn device in the world. * Allow me to take stuff off my phone. Via USB. Like very other freakin' device in the world.

You need to use iTunes. There’s a file transfer tab somewhere. Or wait, it’s Finder now. They took the syncing out of iTunes. It’s also not called iTunes anymore I just realized. Ok, I’m old. :p

vimy··on Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler messaging app (2020)
Is it still using Objective-C? Is there still a job market for Objective-C developers or only in big companies to maintain legacy apps?
vimy··on Ask HN: I won't have Internet access for months, How could I use my time?
Local large language models can give feedback and be a private tutor.

https://gpt4all.io/index.html

vimy··on Upwork removing 5% commission bracket and moving everyone to 10% bracket
An empty threat. There’s no way they would know.
vimy··on Show HN: Praxis, an iOS browser that blocks all JavaScript and cookies
I had an app like this in the app store. I made € 10 / month. :p Hope you do better.
vimy··on Show HN: Realtime Video Calls with ChatGPT
Looks really nice. How did you animate the face?
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