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Hard to predict. Waymo is trialing in several northeast cities. Search for "waymo trial boston" or "waymo trial nyc". But beyond the technical issues, there are also political issu…

Patrick McKenzie, aka patio11, used a LLM to generate and run a DnD campaign for a gaming convention/conference, He discusses the process and results as part of this podcast on the…

Not exactly. Apple released 2 press releases today, the article you link to is about the laptops, this discussion is about the CPUs.

Unfortunately, in many organizations, "the library we use doesn't follow this recommendation" is a valid compelling reason. Which means that in practice "SHOULD" effectively means …

Huh, for me the very first non-ad result for googleing RFC English is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments , which is the correct citation.

There's no reason Intel had to give the same price they would have given Apple to another customer. Intel often cuts prices to favored customers to win business, for example they d…

Second reason it didn't take off faster was that iPhone was typically a carrier exclusive, and in most markets, the iPhone carrier was typically one of the smaller carriers. So iPh…

FWIW the linked article is reporting on a 5 minute YouTube video montage of Jonathan Blow interview snippets. Might be worth it to watch/listen to the video directly. https://www.y…

I remember seeing a Vector Graphics computer at a computer store around 1978, when I was shopping for my first computer. I was excited by the name Vector Graphics, only to be disap…

The web could have plausibly existed as early as FTP did. Which would have been 1972. Plenty of documents from that era had URL-like manual links of the form "pub/foo/bar.txt at MI…

I don't think that was the original Apple HQ, I think it was just one of many buildings that Apple occupied around Cupertino in the '80s.

Just as a point of interest, AIUI the names "Schumpeter" and "Babbage" are "house names", not the real names of the people who write the columns. Any given column might be written …

The article starts, "Nestled in the hills of Mountain View", which is worrisome, because as anyone with even a passing familiarity with Silicon Valley geography knows, Mountain Vie…

Supposedly Stable Diffusion was trained on 512 x 512 images, so it's not clear that it will work well for larger images even if you had the RAM. To generate larger images, it is st…

It's likely that a significant fraction of the perf difference between Apple' GPUs and NVIDIA GPUs is due to NVIDIA's CUDA being high optimized, and Pytorch being tuned to work wit…

Having to use "source" means you have an older version of conda. Python package management is kind of a mess.

That's probably due to swapping due to the 8GB of RAM. People who have run Stable Diffusion on M2 airs with 16 GB of RAM seem to get performance that is in line with their GPU core…

Some engineer (I forget if it was an Apple engineer or a Handspring engineer) once remarked that Graffiti was a much smarter way to do handwriting recognition than Newton, because:…

I remember that shadow! FWIW it was just one line in smaller Trinitrons, and it was located 1/3rd of the way from the top or bottom edge rather than in the middle. Apple mounted th…

As an outsider, I believe Rareware's secret sauce was a combination of a can-do, down-to-the-metal, fast-feedback-loop game development style that came from the pre-PC British bedr…

Presumably because the 6+ has a much larger screen.

Most devices that launched with Android 3.x have been upgraded to Android 4.0.

Yes, indeed, those schools don't seem to have a quota. However, this study appears to show a quota in place (starting around 2003) at the Ivy League schools. http://www.theamerican…

Unfortunately, you can't really trust a device, since there is always a chance that it could be rooted. See the long history of rooted game consoles. The best you can do is sort-of…

Not exactly. Most Android devices come with a very simple shell named ash, but it's no relation to busybox's ash.