100% agree. The mac mini was offered with 8GB for some time as well, and when my dad needed a new desktop, I thought that would be a good option. It was basically unusable. Even when you only have a few finder windows and a few (less than 5) tabs in safari open, you can feel the swap slowing down the system; just opening a folder or a new tab is noticeably slow, opening safari itself takes multiple seconds, and with just that basic usage you can run into the out-of-memory dialogue, something I had never seen before in macOS.
I have no idea how apple can believe that the neo won't damage their brand reputation. They must have optimized something to make 8GB viable.
This is fascinating. I scrolled through that page and immediately felt like something was marketed to me. I actively hated reading this because it felt so much like the tech company's buzzword-filled landing pages that I have come to despise over the course of my career.
But giving the paper to Claude and having a dialogue about it was a very pleasant experience because I could ask questions to focus on the parts that seemed most interesting to me.
Are they? I couldn't find any info about this and my past perception has been that Anthropic has a stronger moral codex than other AI companies, so I would be genuinely interested in where you got this information from.
You clearly didn't read the whole article. He specifically explains multiple options for how you can get any software onto the system you want.
The goal of this project is to provide a platform that regular developers can write apps for and that regular users can understand and be productive on with minimum friction.
Could you explain what you like about it? I feel like I'm missing something. I've listened to half an hour now and there have been a like five minutes of substance, the rest is self-references and jarring editing.
If I listen to a podcast I want to learn something, gain a new perspective, listen to a well-moderated conversation or at least laugh.
This podcast does none of those things. Literally doing nothing and letting my thoughts wander is more interesting than listening to this.
I don't really understand how the data can be "only briefly exposed" but also it could be confirmed that the records were all new and never-before-seen. Like, is this a problem now or isn't it?
How is that relevant? A few examples do not disprove anything. It's pretty common knowledge that the more successful/rich etc. your parents were, the more likely you'll be successful/rich etc.
This does not directly prove the theory your parent comment posits, being that better circumstances during a child's development improve the development of that child's brain. That would require success being a good predictor of brain development, which I'm somewhat uncertain about.
This makes me curious; have there ever been security exploits that utilized the font rendering as an actual attack vector? To me it feels like font rendering should be pure (in the functional sense) and thus have no side-effects, but of course that doesn't mean anything in practice.
I have been dreaming of creating a mixed hardware/cloud service that would make this possible again in today's internet. Basically, you can open an account and get your own domain and nextcloud + mastodon + wordpress instance. You pay based on how much storage you use. If you want, you can get your entire cloud shipped to your home, attach it to a router there, and then you only pay for my service to be the gateway to the server you have at home. All the data is at home, you have full control.
Of course, the defaults would have to be basically zero-management. But people would be able to choose how much control over their own data they want versus how convenient they want it to be. Right now, it's pretty much all or nothing.
Those broad rules were proposed and rejected on the basis of being too broad. That is exactly what the mentions of "concern trolling" are about, and as that is an effective way of preventing any change to the structure that would allow to drive those people out, this cycle has continued for months, if not years.
I posted this somewhere else, but I feel it's important to note here:
Forking Nix would take an immense amount of effort, and the maintainers are already overworked. There would absolutely be a community split, which means that there would be even more work required than before to just maintain both of the forks and keeping them in sync. The nix language itself has no spec right now, meaning the behavior is defined by the singular existing implementation. Forking Nix itself will very likely introduce incompatibilities that are impossible to remedy. A lot of the power of nix comes from nixpkgs (where the entirety of NixOS is maintained as well), its build system hydra and the binary cache, the servers, CDNs and agents for which are sponsored by external companies (we're talking 0€ cost for something that would normally cost 10s of thousands every year). Forking would lose all of that, it's pretty much impossible financially.
> I think it really warrants saying it without sugarcoating... this is exactly what a terrorist does.
What about this situation made you think it warrants saying that? What is your definition of a terrorist? I thought a terrorist was a person that spread terror by acts of violence. Which is not what's happening here.
This answer by the developer of Rufus clears up this common misconception amongst Linux users; copying an .iso file to a USB drive with dd is the correct way to create a bootable drive and has the same result as burning the .iso to a physical disk.
TL:DR; This works with basically all Linux Distros, but only because of a hack/software called isohybrid.
One specific case that I encountered recently was implementing "integration" tests, where I needed to test some behavior that relies on the global state of a database. All other tests before were easily parallelized, and this meant our whole service could be fully tested within 10-30 seconds (dev machine vs. pipeline).
However, the new tests could not be run in parallel with the existing ones, as the changes in global state in the database caused flaky failures. I know there will be other tests like them in the future, so I want a robust way of writing these kinds of "global" tests without too much manual labor.
Spinning up a new postgres instance for each of these specific tests would be one solution.
I would like to instead go for running the tests inside of transactions, but that comes with its own sorts of issues.
> This high-end purifier uses PECO technology to destroy airborne pollutants, including pet hair,
> dander, and viruses. It's also effective at removing odors and VOCs. While it's one of the most
> expensive options on the list, it's a good choice for those with severe allergies or asthma.
This brand was specifically called out by the main article for being overpriced junk by a company currently in a lawsuit regarding false advertising.
In a few central european countries, Galaxus is a good alternative. I'm a little afraid to mention it here, because more users means more incentive for sellers to buy fake reviews, and currently one of the best parts about it is that I can trust the reviews. Many of them are well written, too.
But they do quite a few other things I like: If you choose that delivery is not urgent, they will wait for all articles to be available and send them as one package. You can pay a little extra to have the carbon footprint of your order offset. They have their own paid staff that answers questions on products in addition to the community. They pay their own writers to review products and write guides for selecting the correct product in a category, and they seem very genuine, it doesn't read like marketing BS.
So generally, I feel quite good about shopping there. And it seems their style fosters a community of buyers that care about buying the correct product for their needs, and wanting to inform others about their experience.
I have no idea how apple can believe that the neo won't damage their brand reputation. They must have optimized something to make 8GB viable.