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Having worked in many languages and debuggers across many kinds of backend and front end systems, I think what some folks miss here is that some debuggers are great and fast, and s…

Whats your prompt processing speed? That’s more important in this situation than output TPS. If you have to wait minutes to start getting an answer, that makes it much worse than a…

I don't know what I'm talking about, but could you use distillation techniques?

I think you missed the last bit: > scientists have found no evidence this phenomenon might make sounds that are audible to the human ear. Which I take to mean they’ve measured ultr…

Meta: Can someone with Linux/bootloader knowledge tell me whether most of these comments are as clueless as they seem?

Many people in this thread are extremely cynical and also ignorant of the actual security guarantees. If you don’t think Apple is doing what they say they’re doing, you can go audi…

This is what the “attestation” bit is supposed to take care of—if it works, which I’m assuming it will, because they’re open sourcing it for security auditing.

I would agree, except the seller seems to have made a new forgery of their receipt on the fly in response to Cabel's inquiry, which leads me to believe they probably made the origi…

It means you compile-in a direct reference to the node that needs to be updated when some property changes, so instead of searching the tree of n nodes to find it, you already have…

The fact that the data exists somewhere is small comfort if users cannot read the privacy implications in the app store itself when they're deciding whether to download an app.

I do not like working with people like this, because I don't want to be anywhere near the maintenance burden of a pile of hacks that technically can run a single Excel spreadsheet.…

My notes on the upgrade from 14 to 15 I took during the announcement: * Twice as bright screen * Dynamic Island * Smaller bezel * Contoured edge * New better plastic back * Big cam…

The article talks about why it's maybe politically or economically difficult, but not why it's physically difficult.

> The voice is the only instrument where you can "play" (sing) what note you think. This is not even close to being true.

Perfect pitch is actually kind of a curse in many, many contexts. I’d be very hesitant to experiment on my kids this way without their understanding of the consequences.

Do NOT read a CSV file by splitting on commas. Python has a perfect CSV library built right in: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html . If you split on commas, your code will …

There is no “serious competitor” in VR/AR, because there is no market yet. The number of devices sold is miniscule. When AR/VR actually takes off, it’s going to look very, very dif…

FYI, you’re looking for “sticky wicket.”

It is a potato battery—that's what it's called when you use a potato as the electrolyte for a battery.

I'm not defending potato batteries, I'm just pointing out that the article already explains all of this.

If you’d read the article, you’d know that it explains that the potato is just acting as the electrolyte, and it does mention that replacing the zinc electrode is cheap.

These are not the same kind of stupid. One makes the assumption that costs will always be the same, and the other makes the assumption that cost decreases are linear, or predictabl…

It seems like there are a dozen or more fusion startups that are pursuing concepts that are much smaller than ITER. I'm no nuclear physicist, but it seems like there might be room …

We're talking about a laptop, and it sounds like you're talking about desktop GPUs, unless you meant GTX 960M.