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Obvious massive asterisk that benchmarks are not always realworld use: Apple M5, Single core Geekbench: ~4,200 ( https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-14-inch-2025 ) Apple…

A strange retort. "Yeah well, your CHILD'S COMPUTER is better, but that's for CHILDREN. We're talking adult computers here!"

This comment is untethered from reality. Apple Silicon at present beats every single laptop on the market at CPU-bound workloads using a fraction of the power draw. Exceptions exis…

Work for me or I will publicly shame you, try to damage your reputation, and make your employees potentially question your loyalty. Threatening people if they don’t take a job with…

For me, the fact he tried to compel the WPE CEO to work for him or else he would expose that she was in negotiations with him is the most unhinged thing I’ve ever heard in a hiring…

Having an ad partner that is doing bad things on its own direction is different from explicitly paying a company to do a specific bad thing. Far be it from me to defend Meta on pri…

For what it’s worth, in most cases, an organization that overly focuses on process is superior to one with a naive individualism that throws employees under the bus by default.

If you took the "no it won't" side of every argument about "how in X number of years, AI is sure to Y", you'd be way ahead. In any event, raw parameter/weight count to me seems lik…

You would think so, but people like Sam Altman have suggested that they can use AI-generated data to train their own models. See here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology…

Yeah, sure. But the marginal cost is zero, whereas a Slack subscription for every person in our org will cost about 1 million dollars a year. And it doesn’t integrate as well with …

I would disagree. I work in healthcare and we’ve always used SQL Server. While I wouldn’t pick it, it’s been reliable and integrates with auth. No one “loves” Teams, but honestly i…

My experience with DataSpell has not been great. Granted, my workflow leans toward R, and it DataSpell has a Python-first approach, but the app was basically completely broken to e…

As I'm sure you know, there are a lot of variations on how quantiles are calculated in various software. The 25th percentile, e.g., doesn't always line up with a value in the datas…

I do stats and data viz for a living and the article seemed perfectly reasonable to me. He isn’t dogmatic. He makes reasonable arguments. I’m confused by these hopelessly uncharita…

Why? They’re non-parametric and make zero assumptions of normality.

He paid 54bn to have the run of a web site where he creates his own reality, surrounded by sycophants. It cost a third of that for Boston to do the Big Dig. To each his own.

> Academic science is excluded from market mechanisms by legal fiat. This to me just seems untrue. What is your basis for this claim? There is plenty of research privately funded b…

A family member is paid very highly. He has switched jobs almost ever year for over a decade, including at top tier tech firms. I'm not sure why he does this but I have my suspicio…

2854684 Not an elite 6 number UIN, but at least on the bottom side of 7 digits.

Strange that people would be upset over an optional feature. I like the idea and may enable it.

I did not say they're destroying the chargers. You are nevertheless underselling the potential implications IMO. These chargers are finicky. People's primary complaint with Electri…

I understand the competitive advantage has changed with the NACS deal, but the last major Tesla brand advantage I as a lay-observer saw was their clearly superior charging network …

I hosed an iBook G4 repairing a hard drive back in the day. Oops

What was enlightening for me was watching my wife, who is a physician, work in electronic medical record software like EPIC. It's ugly, it's dense, the colors are high contrast. It…

I've always wondered if the "hard productive way" as understood by conventional wisdom (using VIM, using a language like APL) is actually more productive. For this topic, I have in…