Da Vinci Resolve recommends 16GB for video editing and 32GB if you're doing Fusion compositions. Basic video stuff. Blender definitely benefits from more RAM. The M-series Macs are good for doing renders. If you're a…
But you can also get a "Pro" phone in safety orange for some reason. It's not even consistent.
Companies should also be legally barred from hiring for three years if they engage in layoffs. Mergers should also be off the table for the same period. It's deleterious to the economy. As the recent Microsoft game…
Its spiritual successor is the crown on the Apple Watch. I never swipe to scroll on the watch. It's way more fluid (and you get neat haptics) to twist the crown.
It's going to be great, between this and the Adobe totally-not-using-any-decompiled-code-wink clones: people are going to get sued into the ground and LLM code is going to become radioactive to corporate lawyers.…
"We've always been at war with Eurasia." - Republicans
I'm fairly pessimistic about LLMs, but I do find they're a good research tool. If I can accelerate finding answers amid the slurry of Confluence, Slack, assorted other intranet places and the web, I can get back to…
Fred Brooks wrote a whole ass book based on that premise, and people still haven't learned the lesson half a century later.
Sure, it did some meaningful things: * Higher load on senior engineers who are about to burn out hard from fighting an endless battle against unreviewed slop people keep trying to yeet into production * Less junior…
And the LLMs exist to further those problems. People can't afford houses? Well, now they won't be able to own computers either. That's a feature, not a side effect. Once the K-shaped economy progresses enough, you won't…
There's a list of 81 known instances of police stalking romantic interests, sometimes querying Flock hundreds of times: https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-rea... Some of the cases involve sexual…
That mitigates one specific problem with Flock, and not entirely. Firstly, as long as any jackass can fill out a form and set a "hit," they can still target and stalk people. And ALPR is only one method that Flock uses.…
Something like 15% of PS5 game sales are physical now and only 5-10 games managed to crack 100K disc sales in a recent year, last I heard. Games are also exceeding triple-layer BluRay size now in many cases, and average…
The most legendary drift car of all time was a Corolla: the AE86, which people still fix up and have meets at tracks with. It was a sport model. The modern spiritual successor is the GR 86, which attempts to retain the…
My Civic reminds me that it's on on every startup. The "don't do dumb things with the screen when you should be paying attention while driving" message (which goes away after a little bit) has a note that data sharing…
Yes, absolutely. Every microservice where I work is architecturally scrutinized by multiple groups over things like PCI, GDPR and SOX, with major features requiring review. And then third party auditors get to review…
A civil dispute over patent details (which is basically business as usual in technology) is not the same thing as orchestrating a criminal corporate espionage ring to exfiltrate inside information. One is arguing over…
It's the same technique of the "3D touch" the iPhone 6S had, though that was discontinued. Capacitive sensors measure microscopic changes in the glass, as it slightly flexes when you press it. Then a haptic motor does a…
Apple was "near bankruptcy" in the post-Jobs 90s period of the late 90s. Closer to the time of the 1997 CRT iMac, which was one of the first products Jobs launched after coming back. (And could be credited as the major…
The acceleration of careless developers is a sign that we desperately need professional licensure and some sort of professional association or guild. Maybe people will care more if they have more legal accountability…
Even if one believes that piracy on an individual level isn't the big deal that has been made of it, a large business doing it on a massive scale with the goal of destroying others' ability to continue to meaningfully…
As someone who cashiered in college, I vastly preferred monitoring self checkouts over being monetarily forced to interact with an endless line of the kind of people who don't use self checkouts. As a shopper, I don't…
The GDPR does. Consent to data processing must be unambiguous, accessible, informed in plain language with no legal or technical jargon, and not have any preselected boxes. https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/ The…
The corporate espionage ring targeting Apple also isn't a good look. A company that does that is a company that will lie to you about harvesting internal materials from your company.
Automatic braking alone is a huge deal: if you're a bit late in braking, you get a warning. If you go past that, brakes auto apply. When configured correctly, I don't even notice it's there 99.9% of the time...and the…
Da Vinci Resolve recommends 16GB for video editing and 32GB if you're doing Fusion compositions. Basic video stuff. Blender definitely benefits from more RAM. The M-series Macs are good for doing renders. If you're a…
But you can also get a "Pro" phone in safety orange for some reason. It's not even consistent.
Companies should also be legally barred from hiring for three years if they engage in layoffs. Mergers should also be off the table for the same period. It's deleterious to the economy. As the recent Microsoft game…
Its spiritual successor is the crown on the Apple Watch. I never swipe to scroll on the watch. It's way more fluid (and you get neat haptics) to twist the crown.
It's going to be great, between this and the Adobe totally-not-using-any-decompiled-code-wink clones: people are going to get sued into the ground and LLM code is going to become radioactive to corporate lawyers.…
"We've always been at war with Eurasia." - Republicans
I'm fairly pessimistic about LLMs, but I do find they're a good research tool. If I can accelerate finding answers amid the slurry of Confluence, Slack, assorted other intranet places and the web, I can get back to…
Fred Brooks wrote a whole ass book based on that premise, and people still haven't learned the lesson half a century later.
Sure, it did some meaningful things: * Higher load on senior engineers who are about to burn out hard from fighting an endless battle against unreviewed slop people keep trying to yeet into production * Less junior…
And the LLMs exist to further those problems. People can't afford houses? Well, now they won't be able to own computers either. That's a feature, not a side effect. Once the K-shaped economy progresses enough, you won't…
There's a list of 81 known instances of police stalking romantic interests, sometimes querying Flock hundreds of times: https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-rea... Some of the cases involve sexual…
That mitigates one specific problem with Flock, and not entirely. Firstly, as long as any jackass can fill out a form and set a "hit," they can still target and stalk people. And ALPR is only one method that Flock uses.…
Something like 15% of PS5 game sales are physical now and only 5-10 games managed to crack 100K disc sales in a recent year, last I heard. Games are also exceeding triple-layer BluRay size now in many cases, and average…
The most legendary drift car of all time was a Corolla: the AE86, which people still fix up and have meets at tracks with. It was a sport model. The modern spiritual successor is the GR 86, which attempts to retain the…
My Civic reminds me that it's on on every startup. The "don't do dumb things with the screen when you should be paying attention while driving" message (which goes away after a little bit) has a note that data sharing…
Yes, absolutely. Every microservice where I work is architecturally scrutinized by multiple groups over things like PCI, GDPR and SOX, with major features requiring review. And then third party auditors get to review…
A civil dispute over patent details (which is basically business as usual in technology) is not the same thing as orchestrating a criminal corporate espionage ring to exfiltrate inside information. One is arguing over…
It's the same technique of the "3D touch" the iPhone 6S had, though that was discontinued. Capacitive sensors measure microscopic changes in the glass, as it slightly flexes when you press it. Then a haptic motor does a…
Apple was "near bankruptcy" in the post-Jobs 90s period of the late 90s. Closer to the time of the 1997 CRT iMac, which was one of the first products Jobs launched after coming back. (And could be credited as the major…
The acceleration of careless developers is a sign that we desperately need professional licensure and some sort of professional association or guild. Maybe people will care more if they have more legal accountability…
Even if one believes that piracy on an individual level isn't the big deal that has been made of it, a large business doing it on a massive scale with the goal of destroying others' ability to continue to meaningfully…
As someone who cashiered in college, I vastly preferred monitoring self checkouts over being monetarily forced to interact with an endless line of the kind of people who don't use self checkouts. As a shopper, I don't…
The GDPR does. Consent to data processing must be unambiguous, accessible, informed in plain language with no legal or technical jargon, and not have any preselected boxes. https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/ The…
The corporate espionage ring targeting Apple also isn't a good look. A company that does that is a company that will lie to you about harvesting internal materials from your company.
Automatic braking alone is a huge deal: if you're a bit late in braking, you get a warning. If you go past that, brakes auto apply. When configured correctly, I don't even notice it's there 99.9% of the time...and the…