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Dead Space was an amazing Action/Horror trilogy that had a brief comeback two years ago with a remake of the first game that was superb but apparently underperformed sales wise. The studio that worked on that remake (EA Motive) is still around and working on projects so there’s still some hope of a Dead Space 2 Remake.

I purchased my standing desk just over a year ago to help with my back issues and admittedly haven’t been coding with it at a standing level. That said, I’ve found it to be invaluable as my cats can’t jump onto it at it’s maximum height so my deskpad and electronics are safe from them.

I really don’t like typing on it while it’s standing since I’m not used to it. That said, I have multiple hour long zoom calls per week for my job where all I do is talk, so I should really try standing for those…

You stated that “the conversation about where the technology is going and what we’re going to do with it is happening among people who do not care … what any Christian church has to say on the topic.”

As a Catholic myself, I wonder what the church should say/do with regards to technology like this and would like to know where you stand on it. Personally I think that further public discussions need to be held on the morality of potential implementations of AI (I’m thinking ahead by decades once LLMs can really make a dent in the workforce) but question the effectiveness of the Church participating in discussions like that.

I'm not surprised to see reports like this for open source projects where the bar for contributing is relatively low, but am surprised to see it in the workplace. You'd imagine that devs like that would be filtered out via the hiring process...

I'm a coding tutor and the most frustrating part of my job is when my students use LLM generated code. They have no clue what the code does (or even what libraries they're using) and just care about the pretty output. Whenever I try asking them questions about the code one of them responded verbatim "I dunno" and continued prompting ChatGPT (I ditched that student afterward). Something like Warp where the expectation is to not even interact with the terminal is equally bad as far as I'm concerned since students won't have any incentive to understand what's under the hood of their GUIs.

To be clear, I don't mind people using LLMs to code (I use them to code my SaaS project) but what I do mind is them not even trying to understand wtf is on their screen. This new breed of vibe coders are going to be close to useless in real world programming jobs which when combined with the push targeted at kids that "coding is the future" is going to result in a bunch of below mediocre devs both flooding the market and struggling to find employment.

I'm somewhat convinced that (at least among the younger generation) the role that these talkshow hosts held has already been replaced by live streamers and podcasters. Even Conan has transitioned into primarily focusing on podcasts while others refused to adapt and stuck to the networks.

10 years ago I'm fairly certain these moves would have been met with a strong reaction from the public, but now nobody cares...

I hate phrasing a question like this, but I would genuinely like to know who the customer for this architecture is. My understanding is that cloud (and for that matter consumer) is all x86/ARM.

So is it science/defense that makes up their user base? I have an acquaintance who works at NASA mention that IBM stuff was really good for processing large amounts of data fast. Is that their primary advantage over other architectures?

I have a Teamster friend here in LA, and according to him practically nothing is being filmed in this area. The major studios are opting to film either out of state (Georgia) or in Canada.

As does Neovim

Does anyone have a good book recommendation on Yahoo? I’d love to read more on the people who ran it into the ground.

I just got an email from Anthropic stating that they’re going to be expanding their compute infrastructure outside of just the United States.

>Effective August 19, 2025, Anthropic will expand data processing to include infrastructure in multiple geographic regions (including US, Europe, Asia, Australia) to improve reliability. This affects Anthropic API and Claude for Work customers. Details about our infrastructure and security standards are available at our Trust Center.

>If you require US-only processing for compliance or other reasons, please indicate your preference here before August 19, 2025 to opt out of having your data processed in regions outside of the United States. If you have already expressed a preference for US-only processing in a custom agreement or order form, no further action is needed and we will honor that existing preference. Data storage remains US-only.

Hopefully, this will help alleviate the issues users here have had with API availability (especially recently).

For me I typically go with whatever fountain pen I'm carrying with me. It's also really easy to introduce it into the conversation since I can demonstrate it while jotting down a piece of info someone is sharing.

Living in LA where there are plenty of Waymo cars constantly driving around, I strongly disagree with that.

Well darn. I checked my battery’s serial number on their site and it was a positive match. I opted for a gift card but have had yet to receive it. Hopefully it won’t take long!

Honestly I would’ve liked to fork over cash for a book like this but the deal breaker for me is that it’s in PDF format. I like to read all of my books on a Kindle (with koreader installed) so epub files that can be resized to fit its weird dimensions are a must.

I wouldn’t mind signing up without a demo if there was more information about what this is exactly.

I would love to be able to download these in bulk to my Jellyfin server. That in conjunction with something like ErsatzTV would be fun to have running on my TV while I work at my current home office.

I use Navidrome with Amperfy on MacOS/iOS and love it.

TPUs (short for Tensor Processing Units) are Google’s custom AI accelerator hardware which are completely separate from GPUs. I remember that introduced them in 2015ish but I imagine that they’re really starting to pay off with Gemini.

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

I really hope this won’t affect International/European pricing for their laptops as I was planning on getting my GF (who lives in Poland) a Framework 12.

Additionally, I was thinking about purchasing a Framework Desktop to use as a server for my business. (I’d like to use LLMs but due to the sensitive nature of my customer’s data I would strongly prefer doing so locally.) I guess I’d have to send it to my GF and then smuggle it into the US in my carry on.

Being able to sync steps taken, heart beat, and especially sleep tracking with Apple Health would 100% push me to Core Time 2.