“…and we will make more”

Kind of misleading without the rest of the quote. Basically saying no more AI layoffs for now.

This is not a change of course, its a pause in the carnage.

Is 30,000 a lot for China? I feel like it might not be.

Also this is kind of the bottom line: “The LX 7G100 remains a poor buy for anyone chasing performance per dollar…”

We have an “occasional absence” policy where you can take a few hours in the middle of the day for a doctors appointment or such.

Science routinely solves problems like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51

In some sense this is the very heart of science: taking disparate views of the world and drawing likely conclusions that are testable and reproducible.

Finally poked their head out

There are scientists who make their careers peddling shady results for big companies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

Its tragic

The Hamburgler

Scooby Doo

So they take CO2 from the atmosphere and chemically transform it into solid materials that reduce greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere?

Congratulations you have invented plants.

When you use biometrics with passkey, they are stored on-device. In that sense they respect privacy.

Its a great question, I was able to find this on the Framework site: https://community.frame.work/c/community-market/202

That is completely fair. For the way I use my laptop I need fairly current hardware, but if you do not, the premium price might not make sense for you.

The audiobooks are amazing, super-talented narrator who does a while host of voices.

The way I justified it was by saying that it will last longer than a laptop I just throw away after 5 years. If I can keep it for 10 years with an upgrade ir two the economics starts to make sense.

When the waitress said “Enjoy your meal” and I responded “You too.”

What size model? I can run 8 billion parameter models on my Geforce 3070 with 8gb of vram. Bigger models need more memory. For $1-2k you can upgrade to a 16 or 32 gb video card. For $3k you can get a Framework Desktop with 128 gb unified memory. For $6k you can get a DGX Spark with a blackwell chip and 128 gb unified memory. Mac mini or Mac studio are also good choices in this price range.

This works surprisingly well. Even though the relief is temporary, exerting some control over the pain makes it more manageable.

Wow it has treads!

Specifically the brainwashed assassins were programmed with an urge to buy copies of the book. The CIA tracked purchases and used it to keep tabs on the assassins movements.

It is kind of ludicrous, but not a bad movie.

Rough surfaces can be more aerodynamic than smooth ones

“For more than 80 years, the principle of “the surface of an object must be smooth” has been the basic premise of aeronautical engineering throughout the world in order to suppress the transition to turbulence and reduce aerodynamic drag. This premise was based on the results of a 1940 study by Ichiro Tani, a Japanese aerodynamicist who quantitatively demonstrated the relationship between “surface roughness” (an indicator of the state of the machined surface) and turbulent transition, arguing that surface roughness, which was unavoidable with the manufacturing technology of the time, prevented laminar flow from being realized.

However, in 1989 Tani reinterpreted the experimental data on rough-surface pipes obtained by fluid engineer Johann Nikulase in the 1930s, bringing a new perspective that “roughness may not necessarily only promote turbulent transition and increase fluid resistance.” Inheriting this idea, a research group led by Yasuaki Kohama of Tohoku University experimentally demonstrated in the 1990s that fibrous rough surfaces, which have fine fibrous irregularities on their surface, have the effect of delaying transition under certain conditions.”