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abhibeckert

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  • Maybe you should try an AI translator. :P

  • M3 MacBook Advice

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  • Blender and games run great on my M1 MacBook Air which doesn't get hot even with no cooling at all except via the external case and I mostly play games on the couch with the laptop on my lap.

    After two or three hours with all 8 CPU cores and the GPU both pegged under 100% load, I can notice the heat on my bare skin but it's not uncomfortable. And it only does that in games - Blender gives the CPU/GPU enough of a break between renders to keep it cool.

    The MacBook Pro, which does have a fan, is definitely not going to get hot. Forget about that issue. The fan will make it run cooler, and also faster since the CPU won't be thermally throttled (my M1 is permanently thermally throttled while playing games... still fast enough to get good framerates at moderately high graphics settings though);.

    Just buy the most expensive one you can afford. You're going to love it. The only thing to be aware of is external display support, which isn't very good on the low end models... but the M3 MacBook Air has improved that significantly and Apple has said there will be a firmware update to the M3 MacBook Pro soon to do the same thing.

  • Gemini WONT SHOW C++ To Underage Kids "ITS NOT SAFE"

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  • Let me guess - learned from all those websites about unsafe memory(ies)?

  • Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text

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  • Reddit was open source until relatively recently. According to the source code, editing comments does overwrite your data. Or at least it used to.

    Keeping old data is expensive, and usually a waste of money.

  • Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text

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  • Admittedly, I haven't read the TOS... but I don't need to. At least where I live it would be illegal to claim ownership of someone else's work (unless you paid a living wage to create it, or something along those lines. A software company for example can claim ownership of employee created software).

  • Public trust in AI is sinking across the board

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  • One of the big problems is that the large language models will straight up lie to you.

    Um... that's a trait AI shares with humans.

    If you have to take the time to double check everything they tell you, then why bother using the AI in the first place?

    You have to double check human work too. So, since you are going to double check everything anyway, it doesn't really matter if it's wrong?

    If you use AI to generate code, often times it will be buggy

    ... again, exactly the same as a human. Difference is the LLM writes buggy code really fast.

    Assuming you have good testing processes in place, and you better have those, AI generated code is perfectly safe. In fact it's a lot easier to find bugs in code that you didn't write yourself.

    There is also the issue of whether or not it just spat out a piece of copyrighted code that could get you in trouble

    Um - no - that's not how copyright works. You're thinking of patents. But human written code has the same problem.

  • UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content

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  • We have culturally drawn a line in the sand where one side is legal and the other side of the line is illegal.

    Of course the real world isn't like that - there's a range of material available and a lot of it is pretty close to being abusive material, while still being perfectly legal because it falls on the right side of someone's date of birth.

    It sounds like this initiative by Pornhub's chatbot successfully pushes people away from borderline content... I'm not sure I buy that... but if it's directing some of those users to support services then that's a good thing. I worry though some people might instead be pushed over to the dark web.

  • Bitcoin hits $69,000 in new record high

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  • If you make bets like that, not just once but repeatedly in a broad portfolio, you will get filthy rich.

    But that's based on the false assumption "it's just as likely". The price of bitcoin is not random, and to really get filthy rich you want to use a decision process that better understands market pricing patterns.

    A wonderful video on that was posted a week ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5w-dEgIU1M

  • Facing reality, whether it's about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management

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  • I agree with the article - treating the EU like the USA is the core issue here.

    So many people are arguing over and over that the EU solutions won't benefit consumers in any meaningful way. And they're right - because that's not what the EU is trying to do. It obviously is painful for everyone who owns lightning cables to have to buy USB-C cables.

    The EU is trying to benefit businesses. That's their job - make sure the EU is a good place to do business (if you play by the rules anyway). This will, in the long term, benefit consumers indirectly since it creates a thriving competitive market where you have to offer good products at fair prices to be successful. Those lightning cables were going to wear out anyway, and USB-C cables are technically better and also cheaper.

    The US approach is to try to achieve that long term goal directly, but they rarely actually succeed. The EU's approach is the right one in my opinion. But even if you think the EU is taking the wrong approach that doesn't really matter, like it or not that's the approach they are taking and trying to fight it is a waste of time.

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  • Developers: I don’t find your rules worth access to your user base

    What are you talking about? You really think Spotify is going to cancel their iPhone app? That's never going to happen.

    Small developers can be android only (I'd even argue they should, since they don't have the resources to spread their engineering across multiple platforms). But no large established developer will limit their customer base to just Android users.

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  • Still a drop in the bucket for them

    It's really not - this is something like two years of revenue for Apple Music in Europe.

    Spotify is free to sue Apple in every other jurisdiction around the world. Imagine if Spotify wins the same amount of money in a couple hundred more countries? Anti-competition law is largely the same everywhere in the world and Apple has the same business practices everywhere, so Apple would lose the same lawsuit elsewhere. It could easily end up with hundreds of billions in damages and why wouldn't Spotify sue Apple in every country?

    I bet Spotify and Apple are working as we speak to settle this dispute out of court with a settlement that applies globally — this one is only for the EU.

  • Opinion: It's Time To Ditch 2.4GHz WI-FI

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  • What are your walls made of? Mine are steel reinforced concrete. Standard building material where I live, since timber is just too expensive here.

    Also I have three buildings (house, workshop, garage) on my suburban property and would like access in all three as well as out in the garden, since that's where I spend my weekends.

    Also, I've just never seen the overcrowding issues a lot of people complain about. Maybe because we have different building materials here. 2.4Ghz will go through a concrete wall, but it loses a lot of power... and there's at least two of them (plus a good sized air gap) to my direct neighbours.

    My access point does both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz at the same time. When I'm in the same room, I get 5Ghz. Walk through a doorway... it seamlessly switches to 2.4Ghz. You don't have to choose one or the other. You can do both and it will (if setup correctly, which mine was by default) pick the one with the strongest signal.

  • Opinion: It's Time To Ditch 2.4GHz WI-FI

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  • Edit: I am actually really surprised at how unpopular this opinion appears to be.

    2.4Ghz WiFi works perfectly for me, possibly because I'm not using an "OEM" access point - but rather went out and spent a couple hundred dollars on a good one myself. Both at home in the suburbs and at our office in the city with several businesses in one building, 2.4Ghz works great.

    In my experience 5Ghz only has acceptable performance if you have an access point in every internal room. I have zero interest in setting that up and like the fact that I can have reliable internet on my entire suburban block with a single (good) access point.

    "Upgrading" to 5Ghz would mean replacing one access point with eight access points. No thanks.

    As for wanting 400mbps... wtf for? I have a 10Gbps connection (wired) at the office and 50Mbps (wifi, 2.4Ghz) at home. Honestly can't tell the difference. Sure, large downloads are faster... but that's not something I do often especially at home. And if I did want that, I wouldn't be using wireless. Latency is far more important than bandwidth and wired has better latency.

  • Tinder to ban web developers who use 'engineer' in their bio

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  • There really isn't. For example web browsers can execute assembly now and a good "web developer" (I'd call them a software engineer) will use assembly where appropriate.

  • Researchers just discovered a massive 'jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure hydrogen' — a lucrative source of clean energy

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  • Great. Is hydrogen powered construction and mining equipment common? No. So until it is, my statement stands.

    It's expected to be the cheapest form of electricity soon. It's in the ballpark of natural gas pricing now and prices are falling fast.. while natural gas prices are rising. The long term future has it cheaper than anything except solar/wind... but those two can't easily be stored to be consumed later which is a big logistical win for hydrogen.

    So no, it's not common right now. But that's changing. Hydrogen is arguably the most promising area of our efforts to mitigate climate change.

  • Researchers just discovered a massive 'jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure hydrogen' — a lucrative source of clean energy

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  • Convince me otherwise

    Hydrogen, released directly into the atmosphere, interacts with methane and increases it's half life. And since Methane is 50x more powerful as a greenhosue gas than CO2... that's bad.

    When you "burn" hydrogen, on the other hand, you're converting it into water. Which is obviously harmless.

    So, capturing this hydrogen wouldn't just be "carbon free" it would potentially be "carbon negative" at least in terms of it's actual actual impact on climate change which is generally what people mean when they talk about carbon these days.

    Hydrogen in out atmosphere is generally not a big problem, so it doesn't get talked about much at all... but if you're going to talk about the greenhouse gasses to install an mining rig... then you are getting into territory where that type of thing is significant.

    Trust me, it doesn't take much energy (and therefore not much carbon) to produce a mine to extract more energy. If it did nobody would ever do it.

  • Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs

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  • Also, it's illegal in Australia for a business to make "false or misleading representations" about those rights. Maximum penalty is 10% of annual revenue.

    The contract isn't just unenforceable, it's just straight up illegal.

  • Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’

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  • Those rules might apply to the sender… but the customer who places the order doesn’t get off so lightly. They can go to jail for five years for importing a drugs without a license.

    That’s not even really a vape thing. Nicotine is a drug. Importing cigarettes is also illegal with the exception of travellers in person can bring a few packets with them.

    It wouldn’t be hard to catch people - international shipping requires labels declaring the contents. And if the vape seller is lying on those declarations then they’re breaking NZ laws.

  • GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code.

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  • Gitlab is open source. You can download it and host it yourself. A decentralized developer community is resilient against this sort of attack for the very reason GitHub is so vulnerable: size.

    Um, what? Sorry but if someone is going to send, say, ten million malicious contributions (or heck, even just one), I don't particularly want to deal with that on my self hosted server. I'd rather someone else deal with it.

    Git was always designed with decentralized development and collaboration in mind. Its creator, Linus Torvalds, prefers not to bother with servers like GitHub at all. Git can even be used entirely over email (Linus’s preference)!

    The Linux project created Git to solve problems they had. Pretty much no other project in the world has the same set of problems - it's a highly unusual open source project with tens of millions in market value. Other projects have very different needs.