Considering how expensive it is, I'm surprised so many people are doing it.
Here in the UK, I'd much rather just cut my diet a little bit. Faced with the choice of eating less or paying around £250 a month for the maintance dose, that's actually a huge motivator to get me to diet.
Makes sense. I used to work in electronics retail around 10 years ago and barely anyone bought a desktop unless it was gaming.
Now I work in corporate IT and all the desktops are being replaced during the next upgrade cycle. The desks have docking stations and everyone has a personal laptop that they can use for WFH or the office.
Personally though, I prefer a desktop at home, I like to sit at my desk and use a big screen to get stuff done, if portable, a laptop is too annoying and I usually only want to look up stuff or view content, so for me Desktop + iPad is the best combo.
Half the comment section seems to be entirely missing the point of Stoicism.
Stoicism is not merely just accepting everything and allowing it to happen, without pushing for advancement. That is absurd.
Under Stoicism, you would still push for that advancement and speak up for it, as doing so is not living according to virtue or nature (which Stoics defined our nature as our ability to reason). It's just that you will focus within that on the things that you can control, such as your own personal activism.
If anything it pushes people to do more in this area, not less. Because often people feel helpless so don't do anything, Stoicism would teach to do it anyway, because that is the part you can control and the only way to live a life of virtue, what the world does in reaction to that, is up to the world.
People that have a problem with this way of thinking/being seem to have taken a reductionist version of the philosophy to argue against it.
This is nonsense though. How are people using stoicism to shut you up? I've never seen anyone do that. If they are, they are misunderstanding the intention.
Doing what you can control and focusing on that, doesn't mean that you also don't speak up for change, because that is entirely something you can still control. In fact it's encouraged, because of stoic 'virtue', "That which you do the right thing, that is all that matters"
If others are using it to shut up up, that is what is outside of your control, you ignore it and do the right thing anyway.
Under stoicism, you would still push and advocate for change as an individual, but you would understand that if the world doesn't change or doesn't respond, that is out of your control, but you can and should still excuse your right to do that, because that is within your control.
The entire argument here seems to be missing the point.
i've got some issues with my older iMac from 2015 after my internal SSD failed and i'm booting from an external that all appear to be software related with little I can do about it as my Mac is out of support, even though these issues must have existed previously, it's so frustrating.
-- On Monterey no disk images will mount and no external drives or SD card. Everything is fine on older versions of OS, some forum posts suggest others with the same issue, but without any resolution. The only way to get DMG images to mount is to use a third party mounter like FastDMG, upgrading to Ventura fixes the issue with Disk images and my SD card, however this is not an officially supported OS for my model, so I have to use OpenCore Legacy patcher to achieve this. External drives still do not mount, the OS just doesn't see them at all, even in the recovery mode for these OS versions However running another MacOS inside Parallels I can access them, so they must be accessible somehow.
-- This is all perhaps caused by my firmware being out of date, i'm running 173.0.0.0 and it should be something like 530.0.0.0, this is updated with the operating system, however it has been found that on custom order macs with SDD's rather than the standard fusion drive, such as mine, the firmware update fails due to it incorrectly looking for a drive via the sata port. Apparently this is fixed on 195.x but you have to open up the iMac and plug in a drive into the Sata port just to get it to do this.
Extremely frustrating considering I paid a lot extra to spec this model up but due to Apple's mistake with the firmware updates (Or other unknown issue) I'm left with these problems. Since the machine is no longer in support, Apple aren't interested in helping.
This article is one of the dumbest takes I have ever seen. The author claims that OpenAI is out of ideas because they are only improving what they already have since GPT3.
That's like saying, getting a new computer is pointless, because it only has a better CPU, more memory and a better GPU, but is still the same parts, so it's pointless and they are out of ideas for making new computers.
One thing does not preclude the other. If someone keeps selling you incrementally better computers that consume more energy, and they also happen to sell you the energy you’re using, then (a) you should be suspicious and (b) you’d be right to suspect they’re out of ideas.
But you don’t necessarily need to stop buying the computers if it still makes sense to you.
It wasn’t really until GPT-3.5 came out as ChatGPT that the world really started paying attention to OpenAI. I guess the author must have been one of the very few that had actually experimented with GPT-3 before the whole ChatGPT era.
As someone outside of the US, I'm sure this is happening in other countries too but watching it from afar without a political party alliance or direct bias that I am aware of, it just seems crazy.
People like Musk, pumping in millions of dollars, running fake competitions to register to vote for Trump in swing states, then once winning being included on phone calls to other heads of states and having a top government job (What!?)
Dropping a meme coin days before joining office.
Having a large amount of people that absoutely did not support him previously, suddenly paying lots of money to his inauguration fund. Particularly big tech companies. To carry favour.
The TikTok ban, which started when he was in office and now TikTok are literally sending messages to everyone in the US with his name on and saying when he takes office they hope it gets sorted. That's like brainwashing millions of kids into supporting him, it's an incredibly unprofessional sounding message.
It seems his erratic but bold behaviour has actually worked. He won the election easily and he has got people and the other countries lining up to support him, because they know that is how he works and if they don't, they fear what he could do. It's both terrifying and interesting to watch, how he's managed to get everyone fall inline.
as someone outside the usa.. biden's legacy is larger gap between the poor and the rich, unqualified people getting hired out of dei instead of merits, lots of illegal immigrants geting in usa and doing crimes, and an unnecessary war between ukraine and russia.
Here in the UK, I'd much rather just cut my diet a little bit. Faced with the choice of eating less or paying around £250 a month for the maintance dose, that's actually a huge motivator to get me to diet.