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When purchasing any ARM based computer a key question for me, is how many of those can I purchase for the cost of a Mac mini, and how many Mac mini can I purchase for the cost of t…

I have a couple of earlier RISC V systems that were advertised as nearly desktop performance: I always like unconventional systems, but cant find a reason to like these, they are m…

This is why I will never get in an AI plane.

That is quite a confession from AMD. It's not X86 at all, just every implementation. It is not like the ARM processors in Macs are simple any more, thats for sure.

I have had gemini running as a qa tester, and it faked very convincing test results by simulating what the results would have been. I only knew it was faked because that part of th…

Look at computer systems that cost 2000 or less and they are useless at running LLM coding assistants for example locally. A minimal subscription to a cloud service unfortunately b…

The execs need to try actually using AI and verifying the correctness or lack of it in the results, THEY need to be more savvy about what AI is able to do. And if the results are g…

You will find development much faster if you use a computer. Bad joke I know, when I was a kid I wrote out my programs on paper first and at the college you had to submit on paper …

There is a solution for young people they should look at this demographic disaster and realise they need to have children for the sake of their own future. Meanwhile the next gener…

In the UK You don't get paid for lunch which is why real white collar hours worked are more like eight to six or a lot longer. And typically you get to work through your unpaid lun…

Let's be real the goal was just to write some rust.

I let a popular agentic ai refactor some code for me today, it looked really nice, but despite the fact that it was meant to be splitting a file full of functions that already comp…

I think it's the antivirus and security protection that makes windows slow at opening apps. As for people saying the M series macs are slow, those are the first macs that felt fast…

When workers save time, through automation, they are expected to complete more work. They don't get paid more. It is still the same job. Of course the employer benefits. The reason…

When the puppet pulls back on his strings.

Really great idea, I currently work for an AI, compiling and debugging its code, at least that's what it sometimes feels like. Who is the agent here exactly? The fact that the AI h…

Must be all the cholesterol they warned us about. I am sure we were told not to eat eggs. Well cool hand Luke eat them and he had a long and healthy life.

FAA post authorised the alien drones to fly out of the sea and hover over people's rooftops. case closed and no lies told.

Orlando springs to mind, the pavement just siddenly ends and people who see a couple walking with a kid pull over and offer assistance, from personal experience.

People who renounce contamination from digital content will be paid by AIs to answer their questions on simple terminals.

I needed transformers to talk to a local copy of Qwen, and a GUI, using tkinter on macos intel ventura. It all worked eventually. I have not got the AMD GPU to work yet. I don't ho…

Well I was describing what I actually experienced last week. I did get my script to work after hours of faffing around, your article may have been one of the articles I read, in an…

Write your python, run script, find missing import. Install missing import, find that you actually need a different version of python as the import does not understand the latest v…

The irony is that an LLM that knows more about most topics than most teachers, and most parents, and can patiently discuss any topic one to one, is a superb way to learn new inform…

I would like to see this new knowlege used to generate tiled desktop wallpaper. Also does this tiling seem like a form of compression?