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by bhelkey 6d ago
Apple's announcement: >Live Rewind, which can help users recall what was just said in conversation. A double press of the Digital Crown shows the previous 15 seconds of a conversation as a text snippet...Users can ask Siri about the
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by bhelkey 6d ago
The two fold format is much more popular than the three fold format. Samsung actual discontinued the Samsung z trifold [1]. Making the first folding iPhone a two fold format is a very prudent decision. [1] https://www.samsung.com
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by bhelkey 6d ago
Will the watch only record conversations in public? There is nothing I see in the press release about that.
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by bhelkey 6d ago
I (again) am not a lawyer but I strongly suspect that one still has a reasonable expectation of privacy even if the person they are talking to is wearing an Apple Watch.
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by bhelkey 6d ago
There are two different features: "Siri Recap" records throughout the day without the user needing to constantly enable it. It provides AI summaries of the recorded conversations including direct quotes. "Live Rewind" sh
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by bhelkey 6d ago
There are two different features: Siri Recap records throughout the day without the user needing to constantly enable it. It provides AI summaries of conversations recorded including direct quotes. Live Rewind shows an exact transcript of c
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by bhelkey 7d ago
>Outside of phone calls, you are generally allowed to record anything you can legally hear I am not a lawyer but I do not believe that is true in any state except Nevada. Two-party consent almost always includes in person conversations.
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by bhelkey 7d ago
This is a new feature. It is an always on recording of conversation.
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by bhelkey 15d ago
>Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads, wherever usage is billed by token.
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by bhelkey 16d ago
Firefox declared that they intend to keep MV2 support[1]. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-manifest-v3-adbl...
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by bhelkey 19d ago
This calls the top coding model for the Apple M1 Pro: qwen2.5-coder-7b, a model released September 18, 2024 [1]. I question this choice. Coding models have improved significantly in the past 2 years. [1] https://qwen.ai/blog
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by bhelkey 19d ago
Are you familiar with Ollama [1]? It is a particularly easy to use tool to download and run local models. They sort models recent popularity and specify size for the various quantization levels. I would try using ~1/2 your available ra
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by bhelkey 21d ago
Why did you use 1-bit quantization vs 3-bit quantization? It looks like the 3-bit requires 90 GB[1] which, I imagine, would fit within the DGX Spark's 128GB of unified memory. [1] https://unsloth.ai/docs/models&#x2
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by bhelkey 22d ago
He often promises incredibly ambitious things that don't happen. But, with a fairly reasonable frequency, he promises incredibly ambitious that do happen. For example, SpaceX is responsible for a massive spike in orbital launches [1].
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by bhelkey 26d ago
> But the rare books under discussion are closer to the end of their life and less likely to have been already digitized. It is not at all clear that this is true. The number of books published every year is growing rapidly. According to
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by bhelkey 26d ago
> it would be easier for them to distribute the work after the copyright of the work expires Copyright does not expire for a very long time. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was released ~30 years ago in 1997. It remains protec
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by bhelkey 27d ago
Potentially I am misunderstanding you. My point is that we already pay $2 Trillion dollars for existing single payer healthcare (Medicare/Medicaid). I think it's fair to call that extremely expensive. You say that universal single
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by bhelkey 28d ago
> universal health care reduces aggregate costs, but the public cost in aggregate is enormous. This means large new taxes for everyone. If the US could spend healthcare dollars as efficiently as the UK, the US could pay for a single paye
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by bhelkey 29d ago
There are not enough physicians because we have limited the number of physicians. This was done, in part, by limiting the number of residency positions. [1] https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-sc
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by bhelkey 29d ago
Who said anything about outlawing private insurance? The UK has a single payer healthcare system but folks may purchase (or obtain through work) private insurance.
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
English is descriptive not prescriptive. The meaning of words change over time. "Disappoint" was originally the inverse of "appoint" and meant to remove from office.
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
Pixel Watches have an unlocked bootloader [1] and publish factory images [2]. That being said, it appears that the main open source version of WearOS (AsteroidOS) only supports watches that are 5-10 years old [3]. I suspect that if you did
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
Phone manufactures have settled on the term "flip" for phones that start as a long rectangle and fold in half vertically to roughly a square. The most popular flip phone is Samsung Galaxy Flip but other brands like Motorola and Op
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
I assume due to price. The 5070 Ti costs ~$1k, the 5090 costs ~$3.5k.
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
Ironically, Google Pixel phones are the best phones for leaving Google behind. The have an unlocked bootloader and are the only phones supported by GrapheneOS [1]. If you don't want to go to GrapheneOS, any Android phone should be able
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
Waymo has logged 67M miles in the SF Bay Area and 50M miles in LA of autonomous miles driven with a passenger [1]. It looks like the rollout is going quite well in California. [1] https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
> Apparently NY state laws also require a human driver at the wheel. Earlier this year, Waymo had a permit to test 8 autonomous vehicles with safety drivers in NYC. The permit was not renewed [1]. Waymo can no longer drive autonomously (
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
At the start of this year, Waymo had a permit to test eight autonomous vehicles with a safety driver behind the wheel in NYC. The permit expired March 31st [1]. Waymo may no longer test autonomous driving (even with a safety driver) in NYC.
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
Why should drugs in America cost >2x the price of drugs in other countries?
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by bhelkey 1mo ago
Drug prices in the US are >2x the price as compared to other developed countries [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK611301/

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