I don't "need" anything except a parenteral nutrition IV drip and a bedpan. I "want" to view my little visitors.php page on occation and see some friend in Oakland browsed around.
Readit Newsgeor9e commented on A blog does not need “analytics” thisdaysportion.com/posts... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives
geor9e commented on Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW · Posted by u/notdian
If I clicked download on some screensavers, I would never think it had downloaded _4K@240FPS resulting in 47 GB of lost disk space!_ The fact that a big warning doesn't come up with this fact makes it even less excusable.
It's like if I went to the dentist for a filling and received a bill for 1k because "you know, those titanium fillings are expensive". Who asked you for titanium you lunatic?!
>a bill for 1k
You're conflating a "one way door" with a "two way door" here. The permanant loss of money is a one way door you can't undo. Opting into a screensaver is a two way door you are a few clicks from undoing.
geor9e commented on Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW · Posted by u/notdian
NH users are a special breed. The slightest inconvenience in MacOS or Windows occurs, and instead of spending the 2 minutes it takes to fix it, they jump ship and embark on months long journey of pain and suffering, complete with blog essay.
geor9e commented on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/zora_goron
geor9e commented on University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test planning.e-psychometrics.... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
I still do not understand why we are wasting scientific resources trying to stack rank humans on arbitrarily defined concepts like cognitive ability or intelligence.
After over a century of psychometric research in cognitive abilities and intelligence, what do we have to show for it? Whose life has actually improved for the better? Have the benefits from such research, if any, outweighed the amount of harm that has already been caused?
I just think they're neat.
geor9e commented on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/zora_goron
Apple.com advertising a Mac Mini:
> Built for Apple Intelligence.
> 16-core Neural Engine
These Xcode release notes:
> Claude in Xcode is now available in the Intelligence settings panel, allowing users to seamlessly add their existing paid Claude account to Xcode and start using Claude Sonnet 4
All that dedicated silicon taking up space on their SoC and yet you still have to input your credit card in order to use their IDE. Come on...
To run a model locally, they would need to release the weights to the public and their competitors. Those are flagship models.
They would also need to shrink them way down to even fit. And even then, generating tokens on an apple neural chip would be waaaaaay slower than an HTTP request to a monster GPU in the sky. Local llms in my experience are either painfully dumb or painfully slow.
Yes! I've been using RSS (feedbro reader) to de-algorithm social media for a long time now. Twitter (via nitter), Facebook (public posts only), HN, etc. It's all in a chronological RSS feed. No algorithms choosing what I see, no infinite scroll. If it's not a public post from a user I added, I don't see it. Luckily all my close friends are public-only type posters so it works.
My pet conspiracy is that big tech has wanted RSS dead ever since Google Reader briefly took off, because they can't suck you into a walled garden of infinite ads when it exists. Obviously they can't kill it entirely, but they can pressure browsers to drop support, acquire and softly kill off the readers, paywall them so they suck to use, discontinue others, make scraping to RSS against the TOS of their site, etc, etc.
People will still search "firefox" and click the first Bing Search Paid Ad to install it
geor9e commented on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU blog.howardjohn.info/post... · Posted by u/ingve
Employers, even the rich FANG types, are quite penny-wise and pound-foolish when it comes to developer hardware.
Limiting the number and size of monitors. Putting speedbumps (like assessments or doctor's notes) on ergo accessories. Requiring special approval for powerful hardware. Requiring special approval for travel, and setting hotel and airfare caps that haven't been adjusted for inflation.
To be fair, I know plenty of people that would order the highest spec MacBook just to do web development and open 500 chrome tabs. There is abuse. But that abuse is really capped out at a few thousand in laptops, monitors and workstations, even with high-end specs, which is just a small fraction of one year's salary for a developer.
I know a FAANG company whose IT department, for the last few years, has been "out of stock" for SSD drives over 250GB . They claim its a global market issue (it's not). There's constant complaining in the chats for folks who compile locally. The engineers make $300k+ so they just buy a second SSD from Amazon on their credit cards and self-install them without mentioning it to the IT dept. I've never heard a rational explanation for the "shortage" other than chronic incompetence from the team supplying engineers with laptops/desktops. Meanwhile, spinning up a 100TB cloud VM has no friction whatsoever there. It's a cushy place to work tho, so folks just accept the comically dumb aspects everyone knows about.
If you want to skip the third party article:
Blog post: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measur...
Paper: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/measuring_the_envi...