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Melatonic

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Melatonic··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
How does it determine what "80%" is ?
Melatonic··on Gemini 4 Argon
YouTube requires a hell of a lot of infrastructure and Compute to do well
Melatonic··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
I wouldnt be surprised if they had a backdoor into the Qualcomm chip that Apple decided to oddly still include in most of their US iPhones vs the international versions that come with their own internal modem
Melatonic··on Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Suspect they will release Gemini 4 flash not too long from now as the cheaper option
Melatonic··on Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
Can't you just not run a Raid 6 or whatever ? If it takes a week to rebuild but is just making a new redundant copy of the old failed drive then it doesn't seem like a huge deal ?
Melatonic··on Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
Yeah seriously - this might be the most valuable info !
Melatonic··on Dots: Always-on agents
Seriously

Can AI do my laundry yet ? Take my car to get the oil changed ? The annoying parts of my life I want to optimise away are not often the stuff in a virtual world

Melatonic··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Same with anything that requires a security clearance. I know a lot of good engineers and they all tell me it's tacitly accepted a few of their coworkers are functioning alcoholics. Because that's the only drug they're legally allowed to do
Melatonic··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
In my experience it also often makes that mildly annoying person a lot more annoying (as in their behaviour)
Melatonic··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Is it actually measured per mile ? As in if your a mile or less from your destination you can have a higher blood alcohol ?
Melatonic··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Same ! Very cool
Melatonic··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
But at what cost ? If your society needs alcohol to help the introverted and slightly neurotic fit in then you are just incentivising those people to have substance abuse issues.
Melatonic··on When did Google get so weird?
Replicants could have been implanted with any memories. And if someone was manufacturing illegal replicants why would they be using specific memories that were known ?

It was about judging emotional response and relationship to subtle physical cues.

Melatonic··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
NOPE
Melatonic··on When did Google get so weird?
But have you asked the Steven Hawking of Golden Retrievers ? And then added LSD ?
Melatonic··on When did Google get so weird?
They became the thing they originally killed
Melatonic··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
It's always DNS !
Melatonic··on Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
Don't they rent all their infrastructure ? They're not exactly hiring top tier people to build out compute clusters if they just get it from Microsoft
Melatonic··on Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike
"Almost Entangled" - the new Quantumlike Rom Com coming to a movie theater near you !
Melatonic··on Docker releases cloud sandboxes, enabling safe agentic workloads in the cloud
Service accounts with proper privilege isolation should really be the norm here
Melatonic··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Why would that many people have so much vitamin A ?
Melatonic··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
They've also been out for awhile. And scale super well to tiny sizes
Melatonic··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Vendor lock in sucks - I was talking about the research side.

And yeah integration with Google Workspace is still surprisingly not as good as you would expect.

Melatonic··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Probably $$$ and limit to internal compute. Rumour is they even internal google employees have trouble getting compute for AI stuff. Guessing they're pretty slammed infrastructure wise with adding AI answers to default Google searches
Melatonic··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Honestly I think their approach is the long term most useful one. Being SOTA is probably very costly and difficult. Optimising all the smaller stuff that's real world useful for people seems like it would have better long term use.

On top of that I would imagine the research side of Google might disk over things from one modality being useful to another - something like an audio optimising or memory optimising for text to speech could maybe also be useful for translation or world models. Etc etc

Melatonic··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Seriously. It's very annoying. Add to that the corporate Google Workspace also getting models later
Melatonic··on UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
Pretty sure there's no way current satellites can even get close to the bandwidth of satellite links.

Also isn't GPS always wireless ?

Melatonic··on Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
You could almost say like it was TIME something like this hit number 1 !

badoosh

....I'll see myself out

Melatonic··on Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
Heathrow I'm guessing ?
Melatonic··on OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'
AI doomerism more importantly I think legitimises current AI as being super powerful and useful. If something can take over the world then surely it's a powerful technology !

What we instead really have is Simple Skynet

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