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Re:Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:52PM (#49513427)
What is your M2's total memory? I find this application really interesting.
Midterm media bedwetting over socialism has begun
Re:Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @10:56AM (#48660946)
...that use gasoline, and come from a dealership that is actively hostile. I'd rather take my chances on the Slate to replace my 13 year old car.
Re:Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @10:42AM (#48660714)
That strikes me as a forced correlation. Something along the lines of "some people are willing to pay more for British racing green, so let's charge $X for it".
Pazuzu
A personal letter on transformative AI
Re:Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @06:00AM (#48119889)
> editing is thinking.
I hadn’t realized until just now how accurate that is for me as well. Thank you.
Re:Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
on Thursday February 05, 2026 @06:21AM (#46898480)
I’d love to know how Mercer County, West Virginia was chosen. I grew up there.
Re:White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying
on Friday January 23, 2026 @09:04AM (#46732602)
There was, I believe, a hairdresser rounded up by ICE and sent to CECOT with images/video of his head getting shaved and audio of him crying for his mother. I think about him all the time, and wonder what happened to him because it's so horrific. He doesn't strike me as the kind of person who would survive a situation like that, and yet nothing on his status, or his family, has noticably trickled out as information in the last nine or 10 months. My short little comment here will do nothing to encompass the context of the situation, but to have this humiliating experience documented and highlighted only to have it disappear so quickly and easily it's downright depressing.
Re:ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:45AM (#46539541)
It is. Pretty much anyone who actually believes the “millions of illegal immigrants” line is detached from reality.
Re:Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440...
on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @06:05AM (#45501268)
Bingo. Therein lies the difference between a “client” and a “customer”.
Re:Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify
on Sunday October 05, 2025 @07:32AM (#45480736)
This is the best example of documentation I’ve seen posted here in a very long time.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bullet...
on Friday March 14, 2025 @06:51AM (#43361340)
I think of this every single time I see or read about a cybertruck.
Re:The year I didn't survive
on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @06:02AM (#43024110)
Good one. I’m going to add that to my list of metaphors and analogies. Some people just don’t understand the experience, and this seems helpful.
Re:Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search re...
on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:20AM (#42709698)
Because corporate blogs are predominantly nothing but marketing fluff that dominates search results so thoroughly that they drown out any actual useful information.
Re:New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entangle...
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @10:15AM (#40574888)
> Now imagine for a second, that the whole universe was a big cycle, and that you are going to be repeating this very same life in a “future” cycle, and maybe infinitely many times
I've heard this called 'Eternal recurrence of the same' in a past life (pun not intended). It fascinates and terrifies me at the same time.
Re:Exotic selfhosted solutions for personal usage
on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:36PM (#39266799)
Litter box cleaner: A kinect, a digital weight scale, a couple of cameras, a robot arm, a litter box, an internet connection and I would pay 25c for people using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to manipulate the robot arm and clean the litter box for me. And people would wait in line to take the job.
This blows my mind, and I love it. What sort of limits did you put on the Mechanical Turk service to keep people from farming the... you know... turds.
Re:Why Aren't More People Buying Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids?
on Thursday December 28, 2023 @11:14AM (#38794923)
I need hearing aids. I even want hearing aids. After finally getting to see an audiologist I looked at the $5000US price offered by the in-house shop and could not stomach it (in part because they were not covered by my insurance). This was back in February of this year, so OTC hearing aids were officially a thing, and I'd hoped against hope that the prices would reflect that. After surveying the OTC hearing aid landscape for the past 10/11 months I may just go ahead and get them, because I've not found any good sources of information on them. Just lots and lots of marketing copy.
Re:Why we’re dropping Basecamp
on Friday December 01, 2023 @12:47PM (#38489689)
Could you expand on this? I'm genuinely curious because I'm a former academic librarian, emphasis on 'former'.
Re:Benzodiazepine
on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:02PM (#38133437)
I believe he did, but I'm not convinced it went as well as he'd hoped. I'd read something to that effect, but am unable to recall what and where.
Re:Benzodiazepine
on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:00PM (#38133397)
Yep. 3 x 0.5mg a day for over ten years. Started my taper in 2018 and it took 3 1/2 years. In retrospect even that was probably too fast, because things started to go very wrong in 2020 and went catastrophically wrong at the end of 2021.
Send me a DM (email in profile) if you have specific questions. I'm more or less an open book.
Re:Benzodiazepine
on Friday November 03, 2023 @08:56AM (#38128000)
If you've been on these long-term, I cannot stress enough how slowly you need to taper.
Edited to add that I wish I could contribute more to this conversation than lived experience, but saying that benzodiazepines "...are associated with an increased risk of suicide due to aggression, impulsivity, and negative withdrawal effects"[0] is like describing the sinking of the Titanic as a fender-bender.
Re:Building a Digital Audio Mixer
on Friday November 03, 2023 @08:48AM (#38127921)
Now this is something I would love to learn more about. I feel like I'm always tinkering with audio hardware, and if I can bring a Teensy into the picture, then even better.
Re:Tao Te Ching
on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:39AM (#37691202)
Mitchell's translation of part 50, in particular, has long resonated with me:
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and he has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.
He admits (in the end notes, If I remember correctly) that this is not a literal translation; but comparing it to translations that do stick more closely to the original text I find that there's a lot here I prefer.
Re:Garbage In, Toxics Out
on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:55AM (#37690433)
I've pretty much given up trying to recycle plastic, and instead throw it in the trash. It's toxic to make (I think?), contaminates food and water when you heat it, and--apparently--can not be recycled safely or efficiently. I realize I can't remove it from life entirely, but I'm actively avoiding it where I can and replacing it as opportunity permits.
Re:How too much daydreaming affected me
on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:12PM (#36880131)
Lol. I loved Calvin and Hobbes for many reasons, but one of them was definitely because I could relate. I need to read them again...
Re:How too much daydreaming affected me
on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:55AM (#36879858)
Whoa, this takes me back to 2nd grade when I did almost nothing but daydream during class. My daydreams were elaborate science fiction. I got in a lot of trouble for it, both with my parents and the (substitute) teacher. The teacher ended up paddling me for doing it, which was a terrible punishment for being so far ahead of my peers[0] that I had to find a way to compensate.
--- [0] I need to be very specific here: I do not think I was smarter than my classmates, or some special genius. I had just been afforded more of an educational foundation by that point in time.
Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook
on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:38PM (#36525656)
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that aluminum Macbook (sans pro). I was working in a multimedia lab at the time and we were pretty dependent on firewire for student projects and putting the Macs into targeted disk mode.
Re:OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT
on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:13AM (#36519919)
I am not a lawyer, just a Sysadmin; but with that said, the linked pdf of the complaint is absolutely fascinating to me. It's worth it (to me) for the list of resources it cites.