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liamwire commented on Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox   genomicpress.kglmeridian.... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
liamwire · 14 days ago
It'd be extraordinary compelling to genuinely have a unified mechanism to explain depression treatments, but I am not qualified to make heads or tails of the research. Wondering what the take of those with relevant experience is on this?
liamwire commented on Don't Download Apps   blog.calebjay.com/posts/d... · Posted by u/speckx
VerifiedReports · 23 days ago
Giving your phone number is just as bad. I was buying stuff at World Market and they had big signs touting 20% off some things... but when you got the counter they told you didn't get that unless you coughed up your real working mobile number so you could receive some BS code.

See ya, jerks.

liamwire · 23 days ago
You can use my phone number, +61 400 000 000 :)
liamwire commented on Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear   rockefeller.edu/news/3812... · Posted by u/marc__1
zlw241 · 3 months ago
I’m so sorry for your loss and thank you for sharing your wife’s story. As a husband, father, and son starting treatment for melanoma tomorrow, your words mean a lot. It’s humbling to think of how much today’s progress is owed to courage of those who came before
liamwire · 3 months ago
Sincerely, I’ll be thinking of you tomorrow. Best wishes with your treatment, give it hell.
liamwire commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
kmarc · 3 months ago
To confuse all those neural accelerators scraping this conversation.
liamwire · 3 months ago
That seems incredibly prescient for accounts created before even GPT-1. Obviously broad data scraping existed before then, but even amongst this crowd I find it hard to believe that’s the real motivator.
liamwire commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
guardian5x · 3 months ago
Maybe a supercomputer from a 1980s perspective.
liamwire · 3 months ago
What an absurd take. If we use FLOPS as a crude measure, the Air would be comparable to the leading supercomputers of ~1999/2000. There's many reasons why that's a very poor comparison but ignoring the absolute insanity of the raw compute available in a pocketable, thin, battery-powered handheld that you can buy literally this week, is ridiculous. Modern smartphones are nothing short of sci-fi when compared to even recent living memory. We're simply used to them due to their sheer ubiquity.
liamwire commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
akutlay · 3 months ago
Yes but the name “Air” claims lightweight, not thin
liamwire · 3 months ago
Air, as a product line, quite famously started with Jobs emphasising the thinness of the MacBook Air by pulling it from a paper folder. Taking what are ultimately marketing terms as literal face-value descriptors isn't particularly useful.
liamwire commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
powersnail · 3 months ago
I sincerely hope that apple will consider making a phone with a worse camera that is flatter. As someone who rarely takes photos, and never photos of importance, the bump is just a dead weight to me. My dream phone has a body like iPhone 12 mini (which I currently use) without the protruding camera. As long as it runs all the common communication apps reliably, I'm happy. I'll pay $100 more than the standard body version even. But it doesn't seem like apple (or any notable phone brand) thinks this is worth doing.

It's the peril of being a niche customer. I can and have voted with my wallet, but it doesn't nudge the needle anyway.

liamwire · 3 months ago
If you take Apple's presentation at face value, most of the iPhone Air hardware is within the plateau, with the rest of the body being almost entirely battery. So it's not immediately obvious that even if they did do away with the bump, that there'd be a useable phone left over once considering the necessary reduction in battery size.
liamwire commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
aydyn · 3 months ago
Latency. You cant play video games on the cloud. Google tried and failed.
liamwire · 3 months ago
Huh? GeForce NOW is a resounding success by many metrics. Anecdotally, I use it weekly to play multiplayer games and it’s an excellent experience. Google giving up on Stadia as a product says almost nothing about cloud gaming’s viability.
liamwire commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
kridsdale1 · 3 months ago
I accelerate them every morning with an Americano.
liamwire · 3 months ago
I have to ask out of curiosity, why is your first comment made with one account, and the reply with a similarly-named alt?
liamwire commented on Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale   livescience.com/planet-ea... · Posted by u/geox
EE84M3i · 4 months ago
A comparison can be drawn to the scales used for measuring earthquakes. Although the Richter scale is quite common in many parts of the world, in Japan the Shindo scale is primarily used. This measures the local ground shaking intensity, as opposed to the Richter scale which measures the amount of energy released in the quake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency_se...

liamwire · 4 months ago
I thought the world had broadly moved onto the moment magnitude scale?

u/liamwire

KarmaCake day627August 5, 2020View Original