Somehow not surprising to see this take on the front page. How embarrassing.
Readit Newsgfosco commented on DOGE 'Audits': A Mask for Corruption, Not Efficiency medium.com/less-than-a-mi... · Posted by u/rbanffy
gfosco commented on Rediscovering Turbo Pascal journal.paoloamoroso.com/... · Posted by u/AlexeyBrin
I remember being an early teenager on IRC and joining a small BBS development team. I said I knew Pascal, but that was a fib... I did learn it quickly, though, and used it for many years. I can still find the code online, and see my contribution which I get a kick out of... It was a tool that you entered colored ascii frames for an animated "press any key to continue" prompt, and it output a valid pascal function file for that animation.
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gfosco commented on Apple M5 Chip's Dual-Use Design Will Power Future Macs and AI Servers macrumors.com/2024/07/04/... · Posted by u/doener
Maybe you're joking? I have an M1 MBP with 64gb of ram and feel zero need to upgrade. Great battery life and handles anything I need a laptop to do.
Same here... It's still amazing, and I have no legitimate reason to upgrade. Could be looked at as a failure of some sort, that they haven't given us a good reason.
gfosco commented on US intelligence community is embracing generative AI nextgov.com/artificial-in... · Posted by u/belter
Not mentioned in the article, but one major provider for this is AskSage.ai, which has built up a lot of features around creating government documents, proposals, RFPs, etc.
gfosco commented on The sun's magnetic field is about to flip space.com/sun-magnetic-fi... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Depends who you ask. To me, NDT is unbearable too...
gfosco commented on Can language models serve as text-based world simulators? arxiv.org/abs/2406.06485... · Posted by u/mpweiher
Not by themselves... but with a good program built around it, managing the actual state, and very careful prompting, yes. I've been thinking about this for a while, always have the desire to make a game.
gfosco commented on How Meta trains large language models at scale engineering.fb.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
gfosco commented on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/terramex
Regarding OpenAI, has Apple in its history ever relied so heavily on a 3rd party for software features?
(TSMC for hardware, but it seems very un-Apple to be so dependent upon someone else for software capabilities like OpenAI)
The OpenAI reference came at the end, and it appears it's mostly a fallback... an option, that users must explicitly allow every time. Hardly a dependency. Most of the time, it will be on-device or apple-hosted in "private compute cloud", not connected to OpenAI at all.
gfosco commented on Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right hugo.blog/2024/03/11/visi... · Posted by u/wolverine876
> Motion blur in passthrough mode ended up being one of the many reasons why I decided to return my Vision Pro, because it’s just uncomfortable
If I am in VR field, and wasn't very tight on the money (which I assume the author isn't), I probably will keep a Vision Pro with me even if it's a literal peace of junk just so I can play with it occasionally for my curiosity.
I wonder what's the difference between me and him.
To make it clear, this is not a loaded question but a genuine one. His decision is objectively more reasonable than mine (keeping unneeded junk around), but I just can't get it.
At the end of the article, that's my takeaway too. I can't imagine going to this level of effort on the Vision Pro and not keeping it to see how the software develops.