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Either. Where there is a need. The latter is legitimate, isn't it? Do we not anticipate trying to arrest people who might be in the process of committing a terror attack, on the ba…

An M1 Max MBP manages roughly 10 tok/sec without the Dflash speculative draft support so that tracks; the M1 Max apparently has trouble actually saturating its memory bandwidth.

There’s another! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1l6vm84d0o

> I think your take might be based on myth and dramatisation too, You are arguing that terrorist attacks on public transport in the UK are mythical or dramatised? > I invite you to…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccin... "The order recommends that all shots be given at separate medical visits, a frequent point Trump has made despite th…

Let's not get all Humpty Dumpty here. "Upon request" is reactive by definition. "Proactive" sharing would quite literally mean sharing on one's own initiative.

There are two largely different concepts/epochs separated by more than 40 years. The negotiations and partition of Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-gover…

> In the UK if you keep your mouth shut during an investigation, it may harm your defense. There is zero right against self-incrimination. By "may harm your defence" what is meant …

> You WILL be charged for not giving the PIN to your phone in an investigation. It’s a strict liability offence which means there’s no legal defence. Again, no, not just "in an inv…

> Did it ever cross Britain's mind that the whole IRA debacle is of its own doing? Can't you just leave Ireland for good and let them be? That people still ask this question betray…

That does not at all suggest that UK ISPs proactively share anything with the state. What it means is the GDPR doesn't stop ISPs choosing to share when asked , rather than waiting …

I have to tell you I am not that bothered. Twice I nearly lost my father to terrorism in London. (Sliding Doors commuter moments both times — by sheer chance not being in the very …

> Your ISP proactively shares your web history with the state. Citation please. "Proactively" is just untrue.

It's not about grounds to arrest them, it's about practicality. If you need to arrest someone in London (someone who might be about to cause harm) then there's a very good chance t…

Sainsbury's and B&M and a couple of others use Facewatch, I think. A very badly run system, but alas no better or worse than USA stores and malls are doing.

The concept of the UK "surveillance state" is actually quite overcooked. It's largely based on myth and dramatisation. BTP probably have a national live feed of railway station cam…

It might be an indication that analysis of photography is something of an ideal discipline for an LLM since so much content online involves discussion of pictures. A lot of what I …

That is interesting, thanks. And I see separable wake-word detection there. I'd always assumed that was likely to be closer to the metal (more like recognise a sound than turn soun…

Yeah. Clearly the target for these models is on-device assistant/analyst tasks where really everything is agentic. Thinking out loud: any text-based generative AI application is on…

> If I understand correctly, you're saying people are compute-poor but not necessarily GPU-poor because there's a lot of GPUs out there but nowhere to plug them into? If so, I'm no…

> So far everyone seems to be consistently GPU-poor, despite the huge buildout That is seemingly not the case. The buildout is actually slow; almost nothing of these giant projects…