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I've charged a Mac with the Switch cable, and a Switch with the Mac brick. Nowadays I charge everything with the same brick from a dell laptop from 2018.

Is it the most efficient? Probably not. Is it hurting the batteries of my devices? I guess?? I haven't noticed any issues with any device and that's 8 years now. Perhaps I've been lucky.

That's for charging. Data can be trickier, that's true, but often devices that use USB-C for serious stuff come with their own. Chargers from aliexpress-grade stuff I just discard to the drawer of the 1M-cables from where nothing will ever come out.

I Changed My Name 13 days ago

Usually it is obvious, but sometimes you'll find weird combinations (or surnames that are usually names) that can throw you off.

The trick (both for Portuguese and Spanish) is to treat the last two words as the family name and whatever precedes it as the name. That works fine until you find an Argentinian :P

If you read the last link you'll see he just means Apple could slash its hardware margins (if needed) and still make tons of money.

As we saw recently, they decided they are, after all, a hardware company, since they decided not to slash their margins...

I like the aur wrappers for the convenience, but if I've already limited my AUR consumption quite a bit, I think from now on all aur updates will be manual.

One thing programs like yay could do though is to tie the packages to the maintainer. If the maintainer changes, it should be treated as a completely separate package. Not a perfect solution, but could avoid a few automatic upgrades.

I think it is simpler than that. For a lot of people he's the one who "created the AI"* so he is the reason they have been fired.

That's it, I don't think much of the rest has any weight outside internet forums like this one.

*I've seen people using copilot and calling it "chatgpt".

The issue I see here is: what counts as social media? Is this site social media? Will anything with a comment box be banned? If yes, what about online newspapers? If not, how will they prevent almost-social-media sites from popping up?

How will they deal with mastodon? If I have an instance in my home server at home, do I need to check people reading my posts are over 16 or is the onus on the servers where they are logged in?

For the record, I'm totally in favour of banning social media for kids and, contrary to other people here, I think it can be done without deanonymising anyone. I just don't think it is possible. Ban facebook, x, and bluesky and tomorrow all the cool kids will be using facemagazine, y, and greensky.

I agree. This is the first time I regret updating macOs.

I hoped the .1 or .2 would fix things, but I'm still seeing glitches and even random freezes.

Microsoft is a disaster right now, but if the new intel processor can compete on battery life with mac I might go back to linux.

I find the "censorship" frame funny. This is happening because certain countries in Europe are governed by soccer oligarchs instead of big tech.

Choose your poison, I guess.

I'd be fine with a warning. You can just dismiss it and continue doing your thing.

It is a bit more convoluted in macOS now but still something quick.

What Google is saying is that I need to install adb, search for a cable, connect it and _then_ run the cli command. It is very different, not even close.

Hi Charlie

what happens in a situation in which I might have access to a login node, from which I can install packages, but then the computing nodes don't have internet access. Can I define in some hardware.toml the target system and install there even if my local system is different?

To be more specific, I'd like to do `uv --dump-system hardware.toml` in the computing node and then in the login node (or my laptop for that matter) just do `uv install my-package --target-system hardware.toml` and get an environment I can just copy over.

This is what I fear as well: some companies might adopt a "sustainable" approach to AI, but others will dynamite the entry path to their companies. Of course, if your only goal is to sell a unicorn and be out after three years, who cares... but serious companies with lifelong employees that adopt the AI-first strategy are in for a surprise (looking at you, Microsoft).

While I don't particularly like twitter (X), in a situation like this it probably has a better reach than the website of REE.

That said, twitter should allow for official profiles and organizations to have their tweets (xs?) made public.

I think anaconda's rug pull was on the repository (you can still use packages from conda-forge for free).

uv just uses pypi, so it would be just a question of changing from uv to pip, poetry or whatever, all packages would still be coming from the same place.

I miss Vim 1 year ago

I also fell into the neovim pit of plugin horrors. The good news is, you can get out, empty completely your config (or rather, go back to vim) and start from scratch with only what you need.

(I now make sure that my config works equally well in vim and neovim so I don't have to worry about the odd server with only one vim)

I believe this site is missing a very important thing, direct links to the different categories with a list of papers. This is at least how I (and I believe many others) browse arXiv. I open it up in the morning, scroll through a few categories and open a few papers that look interesting to me.

I could see myself using alphaxiv for that, and then, if there's a comment section, I might even read it, and, who knows, leave a comment. But there's no way I'm going to be changing the address or going to some other site to search for papers just to see whether there are some comments.

ps: I see the extension adds a "discussion" link to arxiv, it is a pity that it is only available for Chrome.