- organsnyderMy kids are absolutely learning how to use AI: every syllabus has guidelines for when AI usage is acceptable (it's not a blanket prohibition against), and they talk about both the pragmatic and ethical implications of it.
- School IT departments are unlikely to allow this. Even if they don't have technical restrictions, they'll have policies that prohibit it (at least my kids' school district would).
School-issued devices are generally intended to be similar to devices a corporation would provision for non-technical workers.
- > They don't take your ID, your picture and store it forever and then sell information about you to other people.
It would not surprise me in the least if there are brick-and-mortar businesses doing this, especially larger companies in jurisdictions (such as the majority of the United States) with weak/nonexistent privacy protections.
- I don't think it's "censorship" so much as it's defaulting to less-problematic phrases to avoid the opposite happening (you meaning to say "fill myself" or something). That could be jarring and lead to embarrassing situations.
Maybe 99 times out of 100 someone means to type "fuck" instead of "duck", but it's a completely legitimate UX decision to optimize preventing that 1% case, even if it's annoying the other 99% of the time.
- I'm in Grand Rapids. We use tons of salt here.
- I have a 2009 Civic that has no noticeable body rust, despite being in Michigan. Two times I've had to get minor body work done (not rust-related), the bodyshop owner commented that he never sees them this clean anymore. I chalk it up to being diligent with car washes, especially in the winter. Purists will cringe at this, but I'm fine with sacrificing some surface appearance (the paint doesn't look too bad, considering how many carwashes it's seen) in exchange for longevity.
- I think a big part of it is the stakes were just lower. There wasn't money and careers in it the same way there is with egaming now.
- No, there was no way to "dial back" performance in any meaningful way. This was before CPU throttling was really a thing.
- > it wasn’t really solving a problem that anyone was struggling with
They did push the envelope on efficiency. My Crusoe-equipped laptop could go six hours on the stock battery (12+ on the extended batteries) back when most laptops struggled to get three.
- I used a Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046 laptop at university. It had an 800Mhz Crusoe chip. IIRC it shipped with 256 MB of RAM, which I eventually upgraded to 384.
Somehow I managed to tolerate running Gentoo on it. Compiling X, OpenOffice, or Firefox were multi-day affairs. One thing that annoyed me was I could never get the graphics card (an ATI Rage 128 with 4 MB RAM, IIRC) working with acceleration under Linux, and that was when compositing window managers were gaining prevalence; I kept trying to get it working in the hope that it would take a bit of the load off of the struggling CPU.
Despite the bad performance, it worked really well for a college student: it was great for taking notes, and the batteries (extended main and optical drive bay) would easily last a full day of classes. It wouldn't run Eclipse very well, but most of my CS assignments were done using a text editor, anyways.
- > I built my house without any inspection or licensing and connected to the electric grid without anyone from the government ever even looking at it or taking money for it.
That's... not common (perhaps more-so in rural areas).
In my area, being connected to the grid brings a lot more hassle: the utility gets a say in how much solar you can build, as well as how it's connected. Some of it makes sense (they want to make sure you're not going to backfeed during an outage and cause a hazard to linemen), but a lot of it is them protecting their bottom line.
- My kid's high school provides each student with a MacBook while they're enrolled. I'm sure they'd be an ideal market for this.
- > I would recommend using GPT
Perhaps this is obvious to many in this context, but this refers to the partitioning scheme for the disk—not the LLM service.
- This is common in corporate environments.
- > From the US perspective, we have been asking ourselves "can we trust Europe's military capacity" for a very long time and the answer (prior to 2025) was: NO.
NATO's mutual defense clause has only been activated once: after 9/11, when the United States declared war on the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Out of the 3621 deaths of coalition soldiers, 1160 of them were from nations other than the United States, including 457 from the UK, 159 from Canada, and 90 from France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghan...
- It's not like those used EVs are getting thrown away—they're just going further down-market than they otherwise would.
- I don't see anyone worrying about planetary mass. I'd be more concerned about atmospheric effects.
- > it creates documents based on your actual business practices – what data you collect, how you process it, where you store it, and which jurisdictions apply to you
How is this information collected? In my experience, writing the document is not the hard part of this process.
- Then we need to change that. Those with power are best-equipped to effect that change.
- Their laptops don't have Strix Halo chips.