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garbageman

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My mind is full of garbage. Listener beware.

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garbageman
·15 घंटे पहले·discuss
Both of those problems you cited are far smaller and easier to fix than the ~1,500 gigatons of C02 humans have emitted in the past century. CFC's have a half life of only 50 years, C02 just persists now forever since we're dumping it faster than can be consumed. Acid rain was a mostly localized problem, not one spanning the entire Earth and affecting ocean temps, ocean currents, etc etc. The cited problems are insanely easy to solve compared to global climate change.

It's likely / probably unsolvable at this point as we're hitting tipping points for which there is no effective return such as permafrost melting and releasing more co2, causing more heating, melting more co2, etc and partial shutdowns of critical ocean currents. But yeah I know...MUH FREEDOM.
garbageman
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Interesting to hear a different perspective on the touchbar. I have yet to meet someone who liked it. Removes touch typing, requires you to refocus attention, etc. Changing the volume is easy, button same place always - but with touch bar I have to look down and do the slidey thing. If they implemented real keys with that display built in...now we're talking!
garbageman
·4 माह पहले·discuss
100%

All the touch screen does is make it top heavy and the hinge less effective at damping the movement.
garbageman
·4 माह पहले·discuss
I agree generally that on Mac you can 'get by' with 8gb and for the target audience on this, and how they'll likely use it - it's totally acceptable.

But if it's for serious work, this is not the device. 'Managing' the software to 'use the machine well' to get serious work done is unacceptable in 2026. It needs to just work and disappear into the background. I have enough to think about and micro managing the software running is out of the question.
garbageman
·4 माह पहले·discuss
I'm curious, what does the 'determine intent' mean in this case?
garbageman
·6 माह पहले·discuss
It doesn't hurt to add it....but it doesn't help as it's happened to me.
garbageman
·9 माह पहले·discuss
It's an absolutely brilliant bit of maths that breaks a complex waveform into the individual components. Kind of like taking an orchestral song and then working out each individual instrument's contribution. Learning about this left me honestly aghast and in shock that it's not only possible but that someone (Joseph Fourier) figured it out and then shared it with the world.

This video does a great job explaining what it is and how it works to the layman. 3blue1brown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY
garbageman
·11 माह पहले·discuss
Then use ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude on your phone.

They are giving it away for free - if you NEED a local LLM, the least you can do is spend the 2 minutes to download LMSTudio and pick a model.
garbageman
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
I trusted them to at least pick an encryption that only they could break...rather than one that other nation states may be able to crack as well.
garbageman
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
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garbageman
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
Some hobbies also happen to be exercise and can be done nearly daily. Just do more of them and now there's a much lower 'cost' to exercise. Whether or not you find these types of hobbies enjoyable is another story.
garbageman
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Intel ARC B580 is $249 MSRP and right up your alley in that case.