Synaesthesia

Americans use a lot of power. Buying big houses means they have higher heating and cooling costs. All this makes a big difference.

I was quite impressed to learn that the E cores of the M1 are about as fast as an Intel i5 6600/i7 6700 CPU. And they've improved from there.

That was literally my desktop CPU for a very long time.

We need more like this. Europe is totally dependent on US companies for cloud computing.

It has 101 stories.

You used to be able to have the entirety of Wikipedia on an iPod. Back when the entire text was 4gb.

But I mean considering Wikipedia pages are so small, and Internet so cheap. Why?

That's not true. Russia continued to supply gas after 2021.

Well you need fossil fuels for feedstock in the chemical industry. It's one place they can't be replaced.

The real reason is because Europe cut itself off from cheaper Russian gas.

LMAO

You can easily copy and paste rectangular selections from PDF's into Pages. I haven't found anything analogous on other OS'es. I used this to compile exam questions for my students.

It's also great for editing PDF's, you can markup, reorder, rotate and delete pages with ease. Yes other software does that but not as intuitively as Preview.

You can compress PDF's by exporting them and selecting a filter.

It's also the fastest and best-rendering PDF viewer I've used.

You can write a UNIX program for MacOS though.

Edward Snowden takes apart his phones and removes the microphones. He was a senior level employee at the NSA.

But at the end of the day it's about trust. Why should we trust this company?

And they have little displays on them, OLED displays which show the battery life and remaining fluid.

So there we see that the vast majority of the country opposes this war.

Bombs are not the solution.

It says in the article other manufacturers are using 4680 tech in their cars, BMW, Rivian ...

It's up to us to keep the government accountable. Democracy does if we don't put pressure on the government and participate actively in politics.

Cloud computing, that is

We are still the standard by which intelligence is judged.

It's brilliant at recapitulating the daya it's trained on. It can be extremely useful. But it's still nowhere close the capability of the human brain, not that I expect it to be.

Don't get me wrong I think they are remarkable but I still prefer to call it LLM rather than AI.

He's not wrong. It's not intelligence. It's a simulacrum of intelligence. It can be useful but ought to not be trusted completely.

And it's certainly not a boon for freedom and openness.

I don't think so, in fact it might be counterproductive. I think it could and should be done within existing structures. But it will require mass mobilisation and counters to mass propaganda.

It's up to us to create the future we want to see.

I'm referring to the ascendance of Bertrand Aristide. Now he was quickly removed but it was a remarkable triumph of grassroots democracy.

AI could be a boon for mankind. it can be a useful tool. We could employ it in a manner which provides more dignity for workers. That is, let them work less hours, have more leisure time etc. That necessitates something which will keep the powers of capital in check, and people don't seem to think that this is possible.

Corporations are just so large and powerful, that people feel hopeless. Byt we could still get together and enact legislation which will override them. Othing is impossible, it just takes some imagination and organisation.

Like Chomsky once said, if the peasants of Haiti could organise and overthrow their government and create a functioning democracy, then surely we can too, with far more advantages.

I would say the primary difference is that the state supersedes capital, rather than the other way around. The Chinese state permits capitalism, but only when it's to the benefit of China's economy and wellbeing.

So, for instance they just banned sports betting outright, as it's not productive or contributing to the economy.

The state runs the "commanding heights" of the economy, the banks, and directs investment, coordinates with industry. Of course it invests in infrastructure development.

No, I'd rather not we test more nuclear weapons.

Jailbreak the Tesla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWQL_XORalY

Can someone please figure out how to make my AirPods Pro 2 work with my MacBook Pro M1? Because they just don't work.

On Linux and Windows it is IMO the best browser and it's pretty good on MacOS too, although Safari is still my fave on that platform.

It's stable, got good UI and light on resources. The excellent adblocking is a huge feature.

For the average Joe user, they might want some AI features but most techy users have already got that figured out.

The Mac Mini M4 is crazy small though. This steam box is still really small, even if it is 5x the volume of the Mac Mini M4.