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BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI(futurism.com)
30 points by jsheard 6mo ago|2 comments
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by jsheard 6mo ago
That was already the case with the M-series chips, which are shared between Macs and higher-end iPads. The Neo just extends it to the A-series as well.
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VideoGamer.com removed from Google after pivoting to AI-generated articles(thegamer.com)
4 points by jsheard 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jsheard 6mo ago
OP did just say M5 (implying the base model) Those speeds on the Pro/Max are impressive though, more in line with Gen5 NVMe drives. Those have been available in desktops for some time but AFAIK the controllers are still much too hot an
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by jsheard 6mo ago
It's been done, the ZSNES and Project64 emulators have both had exploits which allowed a malicious ROM to run arbitrary code on the host. ZSNES is written mostly in assembly so that was kinda asking for trouble though.
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by jsheard 6mo ago
I'm seeing ~6GB/sec: https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/m5-macbook-pro... That's decently fast but not especially remarkable, most Gen4 NVMe drives can hit 6-7GB/sec.
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by jsheard 6mo ago
They don't: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-dolphin-donations?pid=...
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by jsheard 6mo ago
Looks pretty fossilized to me: https://keybase.io/blog They haven't added or really changed anything since the acquisition AFAICT, it's just trucking along exactly as it was the day Zoom bought them out. Twitter a
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by jsheard 6mo ago
It's kind of bizarre that Zoom is still bothering to keep the lights on at Keybase when it's been completely fossilized for six years now. The writing is so obviously on the wall that nobody should be relying on it for anything, a
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by jsheard 6mo ago
Sam Altman would love to sell you a solution to the fire that he dumped gasoline on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)
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by jsheard 6mo ago
My money is on 12GB in the second gen since that's what the A19 Pro has, and it would still conveniently differentiate from the other MacBooks with at least 16GB.
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by jsheard 6mo ago
I can't be the only one who remembers the celebration 18 months ago when Apple finally stopped selling Macs with 8GB of memory... only for 8GB to suddenly be excused again when the Neo arrived. Perhaps it's not the same people but
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by jsheard 6mo ago
Or the Wiz IoT company, which seems like something Google might assimilate into Nest, but they didn't.
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by jsheard 6mo ago
They say it doesn't: https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/faq/#wil... Further down they also mention that the requests come from CFs ASN and are branded with identifying headers, so third party
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by jsheard 6mo ago
That's almost exactly the premise of a Black Mirror episode (S2E1 - Be Right Back ) so you know it's going to get Torment Nexus'ed into existence.
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by jsheard 6mo ago
He's only meant to be filling in temporarily per the Wired article, but we'll see.
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by jsheard 6mo ago
https://blog.gts-translation.com/2025/04/07/the-state-of-mac... > 12.08% [of translators] say MTPE produces high-quality output. > A significant portion (around 50%) of respondents do not offer discount
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by jsheard 6mo ago
> MTPE (Machine translation, post-editing). This works just like it sounds. The initial translation is done with machine translation, then human translators review and edit the resulting translation to try to correct any mistakes. And th
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Following AI generated reviews, Resident Evil AI guide books flood Amazon(frvr.com)
2 points by jsheard 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jsheard 6mo ago
It was much easier to pirate games on the Dreamcast - the copy protection was broken to the degree that you could burn a game to a CD-R and have it Just Work without modifying the console in any way. It being both a total piracy free-for-
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by jsheard 6mo ago
But for ML workloads the comparison isn't between slotted CPU RAM and Apple's unified RAM, it's between Apple's unified RAM and dedicated GPU VRAM, which can more than double even the M3 Ultras bandwidth at up to 1.8TB&#
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by jsheard 6mo ago
> Understanding the memory ordering requirements from binary without source and without killing performance by being overly conservative (and hell, the source itself probably has memory ordering bugs if it was only tested on x86) sounds
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by jsheard 6mo ago
Nothing yet, but the upcoming Steam Frame VR headset is ARM based. The relevant detail is they're bankrolling the open source FEX x86 emulator, with the goal of bringing the whole Steam back-catalogue to ARM systems.
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by jsheard 7mo ago
I can't imagine why you'd want to buy a beefy SOC with unified memory, only to have it host a discrete GPU through it's narrow PCIe x4 interface. You'd be better off with a traditional CPU that supports a proper x16 slot
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by jsheard 7mo ago
The Framework Desktop motherboard does actually have a PCIe x4 slot, their case just doesn't expose it for whatever reason. But you can buy the board separately and put it in your own choice of Mini-ITX case which does.
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by jsheard 7mo ago
> https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ Kids these days are always saying "snaoƨd" and "foʀaṅr"
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by jsheard 7mo ago
Because software needs to be aware of the memory lifecycle to avoid losing data when its process gets culled. iOS apps are explicitly built for that, but to my knowledge macOS apps aren't, they are allowed to assume they will run forev
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by jsheard 7mo ago
> It's got a phone SoC. The use case for this thing is stuff you could do on a phone I think the key difference is that phone operating systems are designed around extremely aggressive memory management where any background proces
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by jsheard 7mo ago
This is the first Mac to use an A-series (i.e. iPhone) processor, so it's a distinct class in their lineup.
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by jsheard 7mo ago
Stating the obvious - because keeping them separate means Apple gets to double-dip on people buying more or less the same hardware twice.

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