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New comment by literatepeople in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

literatepeople — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:32:56 +0000

Looks neat for sure. However you are sacrificing some core performance on the CPU (and likely gpu) if these benchmarks of the Core 5 320 pan out.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/18169809?baseli...

This is sort of the brilliance of Apple's supply chain moves here, they get to use binned iphone chips to sell higher performance computers in the lower cost bracket at margins impossible for the competition, and this is just an A18. When they upgrade it to the A19, it'll have 12GB of memory out of the box, giving it even more of an edge in this category. I don't see how others are going to be able to compete here, outside of just being "not apple", which in the entry level market is not enough.

New comment by literatepeople in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

literatepeople — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:36:29 +0000

gotcha, apologies for my comment! will do in the future, appreciate the response

New comment by literatepeople in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

literatepeople — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:04:14 +0000

This is a bot account

New comment by literatepeople in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

literatepeople — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:24:23 +0000

ublock has been on safari for the past year! there were others before. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

New comment by literatepeople in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

literatepeople — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:32:46 +0000

Seems great to me. Perhaps GitHub should look into incorporating this into the UX somehow? So many projects are issues linking to other issues, I would love to see other projects adopt this to make github task tracking more usable.

New comment by literatepeople in "Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server"

literatepeople — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:09:54 +0000

Given their seeming affinity towards signing in with "X" I doubt you'll have the option.

New comment by literatepeople in "GPT-5.2"

literatepeople — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:30:43 +0000

I would say it's very different to what we do. Go to a friend and ask them a very niche question. Rather than lie to you, they'll tell you "I don't know the answer to that". Even if a human absorbed every single bit of information a language model has, their brain probably could not store and process it all. Unless they were a liar, they'd tell you they don't know the answer either! So I personally reject the framing that it's just like how a human behaves, because most of the people I know don't lie when they lack information.

New comment by literatepeople in "How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services"

literatepeople — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:55:33 +0000

Ed has constantly done this, and it's a shame because it has taken the air out of the room for real AI criticism. Most of Ed's criticism comes from a place of giving a narrative to people who are wishing for a magic bullet that makes ChatGPT vanish tomorrow rather than actually pressuring companies about the harms this technology can cause. This in part is why his writing so often focuses on perceived financial issues (despite his lack of credentials in financial journalism) rather than the social harms the technologies cause today (slop, delusions, manipulated truth).

New comment by literatepeople in "ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical replacement for Windows/macOS"

literatepeople — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:04:18 +0000

I am still a sponsor or elementary and used it for years, and often the first few months are fine until you hit a wall or need to upgrade it. recently switched to Fedora and have been much happier.

New comment by literatepeople in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

literatepeople — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:19:37 +0000

Who could have ever expected this to happen. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158403/openai...

New comment by literatepeople in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

literatepeople — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:43:16 +0000

It's hard to describe to people who don't have family there, but this exactly. The goal is similar to American "manifest destiny". They want to, through whatever means necessary, displace (at best) the existing Palestinian population and take their land.

New comment by literatepeople in "France to recognise Palestinian state in September"

literatepeople — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:36:29 +0000

As someone with Israeli parents, it's because of decades of propaganda. People in Gaza are viewed as evil and subhuman. It is sickening to me.

New comment by literatepeople in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

literatepeople — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:05:12 +0000

Can be, but why not take them at their word? The people building these systems are directly stating the goal is to replace people. Should anyone blame people for being mad at not just the people building the systems, but the systems themselves?