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Jrockwar

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  • Eurozone current services trade deficit with the US.

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  • It's not quite EU, and I'm not saying it's necessarily better than buying from the US, but there are many non-US tech brands with nice products if you're okay with buying from Korea/Japan/Taiwan/China. Samsung, LG, Sony, ASUS and Xiaomi, for example.

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  • Reuters?? An international news organisation that operates in more than 150 countries and that reports with almost emotionless reporting just based on facts? They are making up lies for hatred points? Are you also going to try to convince us they employ reptilians?

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    Windows doesn't "just work"

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  • Over the past 5 years, I've installed ubuntu about 30 times on different computers. Not once has an install on an SSD taken me more than an hour, with it typically taking me 30 minutes or less except for rare occasions where I've messed something up.

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  • PREGANANANT

  • Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

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  • It's the other way around, an Apple Silicon Mac would be able to run an intel binary through Rosetta (I think there's almost no exceptions at this point). It's intel macs that can't run Arm specific binaries.

  • Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme

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  • I thought a few days ago that my "new" laptop (M2 Pro MBP) is now almost 2 years old. The damn thing still feels new.

    I really dislike Apple but the Apple Silicon processors are so worth it to me. The performance-battery life combination is ridiculously good.

  • Feeling like shit with meds

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  • Op, I'll try to remember to comment here about what the doc/nurse says tomorrow after that review.

  • Feeling like shit with meds

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  • Perfect timing! Yes, I feel the exact same thing.

    I've been on titration with medikinet XL with 20 mg for a month which was ok, then after a review got told to try 30 mg for two weeks and 40 mg for two weeks.

    30 mg made me feel a bit stressed at work, but nothing that bothered me. Like having 3 coffees when you have a lot going on and you need to get things done quickly. As you say, this feeling only lasts for a while only.

    Now I've moved to 40mg and I hate it. Roughly 2-3 hours after taking it, I get exactly what you describe. I've been trying to explain it as a 7-coffee panic. Same situation as the above but with so much coffee in my body that I'm at the edge of having a meltdown and bursting into tears.

    This, of course, comes with high blood pressure and heart rate. My understanding is with extended release you get a first "peak concentration", then lowers slowly, and you get a second peak at about 4h or so, depending on formulation. Yesterday, at a time I think matched the second peak roughly, I was watching a stress-free TV show on the sofa, in a stress-free environment with no tasks to do... And suddenly this feeling came in and I had almost 90bpm resting heart rate for no reason when I'm normally in the low 70s.

    I hate it and on Monday (I have my next medication review) I'm going to ask for alternatives or to get put on 30mg. That made me productive and motivated but without feeling like I'm being motivated by panic.

  • Nearly One in 10 Americans Now Identify as LGBTQ+, Thanks to Bisexuals and Gen Z

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  • No, but I remember seeing another recent poll about a year ago where the results were that about 20% of GenZ identify as LGBTQ.

    This would imply that 10% is the acceptance rate (which has gone up "thanks to GenZ's contribution") and the actual rate is higher than this, but that part is missing from the information.

  • HP to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin' • The Register

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  • Less conveniently while costing something like $700 plus a monthly $25 subscription.

    I don't get how it got pitched either.

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  • Mine is Clippy, but it's constantly retrieving information from the wrong word document.

    "Hey, it looks like you're on holiday abroad. Would you like to take your car to the garage? The MOT expires tomorrow."

    "Hey, would you like some help researching this really interesting camera equipment during working hours?"

    "Hey, I see you're going to the gym. Let me remind you of all the tasks you need to do at home and now you won't have time to do: (...)"

  • I want a programming language that supports German style composite words

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  • Also because, as a person who has studied multiple languages, German is hard and English is Easy with capital E.

    No genders for nouns (German has three), no declinations, no conjugations other than "add an s for third person singular", somewhat permissive grammar...

    It has its quirks, and pronunciation is the biggest one, but nowhere near German (or Russian!) declinations, Japanese kanjis, etc.

    Out of the wannabe-esperanto languages, English is in my opinion the easiest one, so I'm thankful it's become the technical Lingua Franca.

  • Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.

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  • It's UE in Spanish, from Unión Europea. (Non-doubled letters because it's a single Union, there's no plural like in "States").

    Sometimes people in Spain do use the English acronyms for both EU/USA, but I don't think I've seen it often. Both UE and EEUU are more common from what I've seen, and also people rarely say these out loud, it's exclusively a written language problem.

  • Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

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  • Well, it has 10x more speakers than German, but it still has fewer speakers than English and most of them are localised in a single country.

  • In Apple’s first-quarter earnings, the Mac leads the way in sales growth

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  • I'm talking about running them in GPU, which favours the GPU even when the comparison is between an AMD Epyc and a mediocre GPU.

    If you want to run a large version of deepseek R1 locally, with many quantized models being over 50GB, I think the cheapest Nvidia GPU that fits the bill is an A100 which you might find used for 6K.

    For well under that price you can get a whole Mac Studio with those 192 GB the first poster in this thread mentioned.

    I'm not saying this is for everyone, it's certainly not for me, but I don't think we can dismiss that there is a real niche where Apple has a genuine value proposition.

    My old flatmate has a PhD in NLP and used to work in research, and he'd have gotten soooo much use out of >100 GB of RAM accessible to the GPU.

  • In Apple’s first-quarter earnings, the Mac leads the way in sales growth

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  • If it's for AI, loading huge models is something you can do with Macs but not easily in any other way.

    I'm not saying many people have a use case at all for them, but if you have a use case where you want to run 60 GB models locally, a whole 192GB Mac Studio is cheaper than the GPU alone you need to run that if you were getting it from Nvidia.

  • In Apple’s first-quarter earnings, the Mac leads the way in sales growth

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  • So the lack of apple-branded AI Slop is slowing down the sales for iPhones but not for Macs?

    Edit for clarity: I'm aware sequoia "has" apple intelligence but in a borderline featureless state, so it's as good (or as bad) as not having anything.

  • 'This is ethnic cleansing': Trump faces backlash over Gaza proposal

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  • Yeah and at this rate, soon enough Israel will completely run out of Gazans to exterminate!

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  • I recently discovered dupe.com , which works quite well by giving it an Amazon link and finding it on potentially cheaper, definitely non-Bezos websites.