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It was the M3 Ultra that had that much RAM capacity, not the Pro or the Max. It is disappointing they didn't up it to at least 256GB on the laptops, but we'll have to wait for the …

Those people were a lot more desperate for food than we were too, though.

The second foundation was also made by Harry Seldon though, there wasn't a completely separate force that attempted to change history using his research.

I would rather companies do whatever they thought was best with no regards to the current administration, unless forced by law to take some action. Large companies feeling like the…

You are 100% correct, I lost a full prefix of performance there. Edited my message. Which does make the clusters a fair bit less impressive, but also a lot more sensibly sized.

A high grade consumer gpu a (a 4090) is about 80 teraflops. So rounding up to 100, an exaflop is about 10,000 consumer grade cards worth of compute, and a petaflop is about 10. Whi…

It took 6 years between the last largest prime number and the most recent. The two gaps before that were each only 1 year though. So depends on how lucky you think you’ll get.

I’ve always thought the real answer was to stop the businesses from hiring people. Make an actually useful national ID system that employers can use to identify if someone is allow…

I doubt there’s a business model there because who is going to opt in to a scheme that loses them money? What could work is social media giving people an easy button to block links…

Firing someone for having tattoos or having done sex work is completely legal in almost all US states. Generally speaking, the only things private employers can’t discriminate base…

You could freeze your credit, it you wanted to be careful. Realistically though, you should have already been monitoring to check if unexpected things were being done in your name.…

To me it’s similar to the whole “SSO wall of shame” thing, where a vital feature is locked behind more expensive pricing. As said in the article: “We tried saying that we don't nee…

Narrowing things down to “this group of people who live together” would be pretty useful forensically, I don’t really see a problem there. Has all the same issues DNA tests do on t…

That’s the internal use restriction. There is also the restriction more relevant to the use cases I’m talking about on Value Added Products which is “the customer is prohibited, ei…

And as I understand that license, you are allowed to use Timescale for anything that doesn’t involve offering Timescale itself as a service. If you were using Timescale to process …

No, the point of the ascension mechanic is that it gets harder and harder so that you need to play more and more optimally to have a chance at winning, there aren’t any benefits pa…

Even then, the Hong Kong Administrative Region has about 430 square miles of land, compared to New York City’s 300 square miles of land. This is a more reasonable comparison than N…

Or, perhaps, the sort of person who spends time on a website centered around reading is unsurprisingly in the top percentiles of reading amount.

Is it? I know that legally they could deport you so its not a great idea, but how often does someone actually get deported for doing remote work while spending a few months in anot…

The use case is watching something with people who are half a world away I think, not with people who are physically present with you.

In a vacuum, yes. In practice, a ton of people I know spent all that extra time commuting which is probably worse for most people than putting some extra work in.

The most efficient speed for virtually all vehicles is about 50-55 mph, and that’s probably going to be a more pronounced difference on something that’s less aerodynamic. 65-70 doe…

Would Apple even approve something going on the app store that tried to do things in ways that were that non-standard? More generally it’s not like you can choose to host your own …

Makes sense to me that only very popular and generic stuff makes the top of the list. Even if Wikipedia was used more for high level queries in aggregate, there’s so many possible …