With Advanced Data Protection enabled (it's not available globally but it is in the US), Photos is E2EE.
It's frustrating that Apple doesn't have their own Screen Sharing (VNC) application on the iPhone/iPad, if even just to provide a basic screen-sharing experience. They have something builtin to FaceTime (that I've never…
Another data point: I got 94.74 tokens/s on an M4 Pro Mac mini 64GB with the simonw prompt "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle". TTFT was 0.37s. The model thought for 40.75s before answering. (The resulting…
Another: A particular street address only maps to one person, entity, or family. Counterexample: Giant skyscraper with a zillion tenants, each in a different suite. Or a giant apartment building. Etc. Still another: One…
I saw this linked from MacRumors during the AT&T iPhone 18 Pro Max lockup news discussions. It was interesting to see what AT&T/Apple did to try to get ahead of the issue. So far it looks like they disabled 5G…
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beyond-2
Holy cow, thank you for this. On that same IBM[1] link, it reads: Maximum wet bulb temperature (Only LTO-8 and earlier cartridges) / Maximum Dew Point temperature (LTO-9 and later cartridges), all across the board,…
Go up a level in the URL, or click on the logo in the upper-left on the "try" page the post links to. https://strata.do/
https://archive.is/20260916181240/https://www.nytimes.com/20... (Even the NY Times gift link requires a login.)
I think GP and TFA mean that some of the states are afraid of public-key disclosure.
Well, you know what they say. The best time to blow tens of billions you might never get back on a risky memory fab in your home country is ten years ago. The second best time is today!
The colors may also fade/drift upon exposure to air and humidity, not just light.
That lander had all sorts of fiddly protrusions on it, so the multiple charts could have been to avoid self-shadowing all of them. Or they were worried about chart stability after shipping it across interplanetary…
Laurie Anderson, with some of her bespoke live MIDI instruments (no actual cutlery AFAIK), got pretty close.
These are great, even for manually-adjusted color workflows. Fun fact, though: You have to replace them every couple of years (or sooner) because no pigment/dye is stable, especially if exposed to bright light. Having a…
We're still doing it! You've just described the AI labs: They'll trade safety / alignment for +1~2% of any positive metric, any day of the week. The "ethical" employees will think they'll solve the problem later. The…
I've heard this referred to as a "dark sector", or "hidden sector": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_sector The scary thought is that, were it true that there is voluminous richly-interacting dark matter, we would…
Sigh. I want my damn em dash back. I had the Mac key combo memorized back when the phrase "AI winter" was coined. Now everyone thinks it's AI slop.
No agentic harness; I just prompted literally "svg owl" into LM Studio 0.4.21+2. macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Mac mini M4 Pro (14 core, 20 graphics cores) 64GB RAM. (I put the machine config so the 17m12s of thinking has some…
"inclined to overthinking," holy cats you're not kidding! On a Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB I prompted it with "svg owl" and it thought for 17m12s, outputting 36.3KiB of thinking chatter. It did end up producing a 20.2KiB…
Agreed. Here's a start for posterity. Using their prompt, "Write a 300-word explanation of how attention works in transformer models, aimed at a junior developer. Use one concrete analogy.": Note that my mini is the…
Floridian here. WWVB has never worked for me indoors (never tried outdoors). I've tried multiple vendors' clocks in multiple houses (wood frame and concrete). I assume the coverage is fine outdoors or with a…
This looks like the Prism folks, who are making binary/ternary versions of popular edge models, so that those models will fit on constrained devices like phones. E.g., their Bonsai model derived from Qwen:…
Thank you, I was unaware of that. It looks like it's already support in the acme.sh client, but there is a Let's Encrypt discussion saying it's still pending at LE:…
I do this exactly, using ACME DNS: https://github.com/acme-dns/acme-dns CAUTION, though, the last time I downloaded a binary release, ClamAV triggered on it, so I kept my old version which worked. I was using the 1.0…
With Advanced Data Protection enabled (it's not available globally but it is in the US), Photos is E2EE.
It's frustrating that Apple doesn't have their own Screen Sharing (VNC) application on the iPhone/iPad, if even just to provide a basic screen-sharing experience. They have something builtin to FaceTime (that I've never…
Another data point: I got 94.74 tokens/s on an M4 Pro Mac mini 64GB with the simonw prompt "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle". TTFT was 0.37s. The model thought for 40.75s before answering. (The resulting…
Another: A particular street address only maps to one person, entity, or family. Counterexample: Giant skyscraper with a zillion tenants, each in a different suite. Or a giant apartment building. Etc. Still another: One…
I saw this linked from MacRumors during the AT&T iPhone 18 Pro Max lockup news discussions. It was interesting to see what AT&T/Apple did to try to get ahead of the issue. So far it looks like they disabled 5G…
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beyond-2
Holy cow, thank you for this. On that same IBM[1] link, it reads: Maximum wet bulb temperature (Only LTO-8 and earlier cartridges) / Maximum Dew Point temperature (LTO-9 and later cartridges), all across the board,…
Go up a level in the URL, or click on the logo in the upper-left on the "try" page the post links to. https://strata.do/
https://archive.is/20260916181240/https://www.nytimes.com/20... (Even the NY Times gift link requires a login.)
I think GP and TFA mean that some of the states are afraid of public-key disclosure.
Well, you know what they say. The best time to blow tens of billions you might never get back on a risky memory fab in your home country is ten years ago. The second best time is today!
The colors may also fade/drift upon exposure to air and humidity, not just light.
That lander had all sorts of fiddly protrusions on it, so the multiple charts could have been to avoid self-shadowing all of them. Or they were worried about chart stability after shipping it across interplanetary…
Laurie Anderson, with some of her bespoke live MIDI instruments (no actual cutlery AFAIK), got pretty close.
These are great, even for manually-adjusted color workflows. Fun fact, though: You have to replace them every couple of years (or sooner) because no pigment/dye is stable, especially if exposed to bright light. Having a…
We're still doing it! You've just described the AI labs: They'll trade safety / alignment for +1~2% of any positive metric, any day of the week. The "ethical" employees will think they'll solve the problem later. The…
I've heard this referred to as a "dark sector", or "hidden sector": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_sector The scary thought is that, were it true that there is voluminous richly-interacting dark matter, we would…
Sigh. I want my damn em dash back. I had the Mac key combo memorized back when the phrase "AI winter" was coined. Now everyone thinks it's AI slop.
No agentic harness; I just prompted literally "svg owl" into LM Studio 0.4.21+2. macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Mac mini M4 Pro (14 core, 20 graphics cores) 64GB RAM. (I put the machine config so the 17m12s of thinking has some…
"inclined to overthinking," holy cats you're not kidding! On a Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB I prompted it with "svg owl" and it thought for 17m12s, outputting 36.3KiB of thinking chatter. It did end up producing a 20.2KiB…
Agreed. Here's a start for posterity. Using their prompt, "Write a 300-word explanation of how attention works in transformer models, aimed at a junior developer. Use one concrete analogy.": Note that my mini is the…
Floridian here. WWVB has never worked for me indoors (never tried outdoors). I've tried multiple vendors' clocks in multiple houses (wood frame and concrete). I assume the coverage is fine outdoors or with a…
This looks like the Prism folks, who are making binary/ternary versions of popular edge models, so that those models will fit on constrained devices like phones. E.g., their Bonsai model derived from Qwen:…
Thank you, I was unaware of that. It looks like it's already support in the acme.sh client, but there is a Let's Encrypt discussion saying it's still pending at LE:…
I do this exactly, using ACME DNS: https://github.com/acme-dns/acme-dns CAUTION, though, the last time I downloaded a binary release, ClamAV triggered on it, so I kept my old version which worked. I was using the 1.0…