As an independent, let me just say: fuck that. Trump and his voters are to blame.

All the democrats who ran with a candidate who couldn't convince other independents to vote for Harris, or convince all the potential voters who stays home to come vote are also to blame.

I did vote, but not for Harris or Trump. :)

Would I have voted for a Democrat or a Republican if they ran the "right" candidate? I suppose anything is possible, but given the history, I would consider that to be very unlikely.

Congrats for voting for Trump indirectly

Congradulations for ensuring we get more and more evil.

I'm focused on harm reduction - there was no credible non evil candidate on the ticket in 2024. I don't like either of them, but only one of them was whipping up a frenzy to disenfranchise my friends and cut them off from society on a fundamental level, and the other was not.

Enshittification strikes again.

For sure and the Mac Mini M4 Pro with 64GB of RAM feels like the sweet spot right now.

That said, the base storage option is only 512GB, and if this machine is also a daily driver, you’re going to want to bump that up a bit. Still, it’s an amazing machine for under $3K.

It would be better/cheaper to buy an external Thunderbolt 5 enclosure for the NVME drive you need.

I looked into this a couple months ago and external TB5 was still more expensive at 1-2 TB not sure about above, though.

Going from 500GB to 2TB built-in is €600 in the US at the moment.

Samsung 990PRO 2TB is $170 and Acasis T5 80Gbps is €300. So it makes sense to buy external for ≥ 2TB, more flexible as well :-)

For 1TB it makes more sense to buy built-in as you note above.

It also depends on the quality of that enclosure and whether or not it adds heat or fan noise.

Discussion of this issue on OpenStreetMap forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-o...

Perhaps. Another possibility is that the same societal shift that drove the UK to give up the right to be armed also pushed them in the direction of giving up other rights.

Even the A* search algorithm is technically AI.

Oh man, I really want to watch CNN folks try to pronounce Dijkstra!

We could have it both ways with a Convolutional News Network

Let alone Edsger

That reminded me of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icoe0kK8btc

die-jick-stra!

Well, it used to be. But whenever we understand something, we move the goal posts of what AI is.

At least that's what we used to do.

It's not "moving the goalposts." It's realizing that the principles behind perceptrons / Lisp expert systems / AlphaGo / LLMs / etc might be very useful and interesting from a software perspective, but they have nothing to do with "intelligence," and they aren't a viable path for making machines which can actually think in the same way a chimpanzee can think. At best they do a shallow imitation of certain types of formal human thinking. So the search continues.

No, it's still moving the goalposts. It just that we move the goalposts for pretty good reasons. (I agree!)

Btw, you bring up the perspective of realising that our tools weren't adequate. But it's broader: completely ignoring the tools, we also realise that eg being able to play eg chess really, really well didn't actually capture what we wanted to mean by 'intelligence'. Similar for other outcomes.

Moving the goal posts and noticing that that you mistook the street lights for goal posts is not really the same.

Does anyone know how divesting in this case would actually work?

Would Bytedance still own shares in the resulting US entity? Shares they could sell or get paid with via dividends, just no control over operations?

Wouldn’t this be an example of anchoring?

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

Believe it or not, it can be multiple things at once

If you wanted a similarly spec'd display for a Mac, what would you get instead? (what is the non-idiot alternative?)

> Those features are often assumed, but are NOT present in the Vision Pro.

Yes they are.

Source: I develop for the device.

Ok. Well that’s possibly under NDA, because in the Apple Store demo they say it’s impossible.

But in any case: Several browsers isn’t several apps. It’s really not like having several computers screens around you.

Are you using the Vision Pro, or are you relying on 3rd party information? I use the Vision Pro every day and I have several apps open at the same constantly. That said, it is currently only one macOS screen and macOS apps don't bridge. This isn't (to me!) a huge limitation as the applications I might put on a second monitor I simply run natively. So macOS has Xcode full-screened, and I have the relevant documentation website up in a native Safari screen (to my right), YouTube (Juno app) floating above the macOS screen, and the Music app on my left.