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@varunvibe @VaibhavSisinty Probably a $70k laptop

Man, we're entering the era where the selling point of your next laptop won't be the camera or the display. It'll be which AI models it can run locally. And Apple just made the biggest move yet. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is reporting Apple is building an M7 Ultra chip with up to 1.5TB of unified memory. For context, 8 Nvidia B200 GPUs together give you 1.44TB. One Apple chip would match that. To put that in real terms: Llama 4 Maverick is a 400B parameter model that needs 200GB+ just to load. Right now it's basically a datacenter-only model. With 1.5TB, you'd run it at full precision on a single machine with room to spare. No cloud. No API costs. No tokens. Just your machine doing the work. But here's the part nobody is talking about. This doesn't just help Apple. It helps every open-source model. Meta's Llama, Google's Gemma, DeepSeek, Mistral the models anyone can download and run for free. The hardware to run them locally has been the bottleneck. That bottleneck is about to break. The next laptop war won't be about specs. It'll be about which machine runs the best AI without an internet connection.

@berryxia @yacineMTB

兄弟们，感觉3D建模 CAD “要死啊”？ Kimi 3直接吊打头部的模型了！ 这个质感和交互都是一气呵成，根本不需要你搞很负责的Prompt. 不废话，直接看视频。👇🏻

@Steve_Yegge Your company can afford 20 concurrent fable sessions?

After working for a month with 20+ concurrent Fables all day, I've realized my job only has a few components to it anymore: - asking for what I want - setting up accounts and credentials - taste-making choices presented to me - communication with team and customers

@sudbalaji @mattjay This isn't much different from having malware npm packages in your repo. Which most IDEs would execute. Yes, a user prompt might pop up for permission, but that's not going to stop most people.

@mattjay a bunch of people in the replies claiming that this isn't a big deal - it surely is bad that an IDE automatically executes a binary from the currently open git project just because it happens to have a specific name unusual and probably rare? sure bad? absolutely!

Woah. Cursor 0day dropping due to 200 days of them ignoring the disclosure.

@samlambert You aren't required to use AI to write software. There are many niches where AI doesn't write good software. Some people are skilled at writing software without AI Being opposed to using it personally is not a big deal, as long as you don't object to the company using it.

We had a talented engineer apply to PlanetScale but they told us they are ethically opposed to using AI. How do people think this is a possible stance in 2026?

@HotAisle youtu.be/lgox_u4AgxE?is… There is a more detailed one private on YouTube, can't find the link. But I think they were one of the first to run tests during idle

@matchaboar Got any links to the videos?

Another NeoCloud CEO (focused on Nvidia) reached out to me to tell me about themselves. After reviewing their website, I asked the most important question first. This sort of dialog is all too common. Non-technical people don't understand the benefits of automation. They think that explaining away their deficiencies as a "conservative SLA", is actually the right direction for their business. Technical customers see right through that. I'd give the same response if I already made the hires that have to do the work. Unfortunately, this route is expensive and eats into your bottom line. We don't need to make those hires because we don't make the same mistakes. We skipped all that, and this puts us at an advantage over nearly everyone else in the business. Our software and tooling doesn't have to be just AMD, it can be any platform out there. But we decided to focus on AMD because the world needs viable alternatives. AMD is also the lowest TCO. But, if you truly want to be the lowest TCO, then you also need automation for your entire business stack. Otherwise, you're going to be handing out credits to your customers for problems with your deployments. Problems that are fixed with automation.

@HotAisle Wish I could work on this stuff tbh

@HotAisle Correct, 24 hours means the business doesn't know what they are doing. Making sure the instance is ready should be happening automatically, every day. Coreweave has good videos explaining how to do it. Automated testing. Not on demand.

@BicycleSocials @AmandaAskell Is that worth paying for? Probably not for most people. But it can advance science

The view that we shouldn't do more medical scans because incidental findings cause a lot of harm doesn't sit well with me. It seems like the issue it points to isn't the scan but the response to it. If you see something on a scan but have no other symptoms, you could ignore it.

@DerivativesDon @Merridew__ They could spend it if they wanted to

@Merridew__ They are limited by something far greater than taxes, time. They nor their living descendants could ever spend all their money in the rest of their lifetimes This does not prevent them from engaging in the chase (whatever the motivation)/work any less harder

@swe_zach Because outside of a few jobs, it requires a higher level college degree. More people would do it if it wasn't gatekept.

moving to SF and working on AI seems like the obvious best high level career path I’m kinda surprised more software engineers aren’t doing this Most of the people I know and most of my coworkers seem completely fine not doing this which seems odd

@NomadSilk57993 @justalexoki Au pairs legally do get paid

She blocked me for calling her out. She posted the picture, thin white shirt, showing midriff, in her PJs. Tried to say she wasn't getting paid and that she lived there. They pay her food, pay the utilities, pay for the house, etc etc. Like female, you work there. Dress appropriately.

are women just stupid?

@johnloeber @lugaricano He should do some time, and learn his lesson. But everyone who lost money got most of their money back in the bankruptcy. 25 years is ridiculous if no one was physically hurt. Murderers get less time. Just my opinion.

@lugaricano A “brutal” 25y sentence for stealing billions of dollars in deposits? What planet do you live on? What do you think an adequate punishment would be for stealing your life savings?

I was moved by the post of SBFs Mom, Barbara Fried. She has started a series where she will explain her reading of the facts leading to the brutal 25y (!) sentence. A lot of what she tells is quite disturbing. I will follow it. open.substack.com/pub/barbarafri…

@edgaralandough Rent in SF, NYC, $5k/ month = $60k/ year What is $100k after taxes?

Friendly Reminder: Only 18% of American adults make over $100k per year. Stop letting people on the internet convince you that $100k isn't great money.

@DryanaGhuba @DoingFedTime Because they sell to California

@DoingFedTime I don't get one simple thing. Why this is S76 problem or any other company? If people of California want to live in dystopia they deserve it. Otherwise, we should see protests probably with molotov's

System76's CEO/Founder: > spent 1,200 words explaining why these ID laws are harmful, ineffective, and comparable to Chinese censorship infrastructure >closed with "we believe in the rule of law" >Said System76 exists to "remove user limitations" >announced compliance with limitations >admitted the law was "agreed in concert with" Apple and Google, then fell in line behind them His own blog post is the strongest case against his position and he doesn't even realize he wrote it.

@HealthyAlfred Another illegal ad

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The bacteria bleeding from your gums is colonizing your brain right now. They found it in Alzheimer’s patients’ brain tissue - the exact same bacteria from gum disease. P. gingivalis (the bacteria causing bleeding gums) was identified in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Not just “present” - actively colonizing brain tissue and producing toxic proteins (gingipains) that correlated with tau pathology and amyloid plaque formation. Study on mice: Oral P. gingivalis infection → brain colonization → increased amyloid production (the plaques destroying Alzheimer’s patients’ brains). This isn’t correlation. They found the bacteria FROM YOUR GUMS physically inside brain tissue. The mechanism: Bleeding gums = open wound → bacteria enter bloodstream → travel to brain → colonize tissue → produce gingipains (neurotoxic) → trigger amyloid plaque formation → neuroinflammation → Alzheimer’s pathology develops Cardiovascular disease study: P. gingivalis also found in atherosclerotic plaques (arterial blockages causing heart attacks). Stroke study: Periodontal disease + dental caries increased stroke risk by 86-158%. Your bleeding gums aren’t just a dental problem. They’re a bacterial highway to your brain and arteries. 50% of adults over 30 have gum disease (P. gingivalis infection). Most don’t know until bacteria already spread systemically. Mastic gum kills P. gingivalis before it enters your bloodstream. Study: 1 gram daily mastic gum: → P. gingivalis: suppressed → Gingival bleeding: significantly reduced → Gum inflammation: decreased My gums bled every time I brushed. Started mastic gum 1g daily. Week 3: Bleeding stopped completely. Dentist asked what changed - gums went from inflamed to healthy in one visit. The bacteria causing Alzheimer’s and heart disease lives in your mouth. Every time your gums bleed, you’re letting it spread. 1 gram daily. Kills bacteria before it colonizes your brain.

@VladTheInflator Bullshit law, but write your local government. This law does have a teason to exist, as it allows throwing bike thieves in jail if they have a stolen serial.

Sad

@deedydas S3 is certainly overkill for data they don't need to have accessible to the internet, but this is basic IT infrastructure. This is maybe a business accomplishment, but throwing your must valuable engineers at this is a waste. It's not a complex technical challenge

So many startups think their engineers are "cracked" but have no idea what that really means. This team of 5 19yr olds built a 30 petabyte storage cluster in SF for ~$500k to get a 40x cheaper AWS S3 as a side quest to store 90M hours of video. Now, that's cracked.

@johnloeber Wow

@matchaboar Five years of Python experience, self-proclaimed expert, doesn't know what the Global Interpreter Lock is... has never even heard of it. 🫠

Unwarranted Self-Importance I interview so many candidates who claim to be experts in things. They write it on their resume and they believe it, too. And then I ask them mid-level questions and they are completely out of their depth. They sit at the very foot of the mountain. They do not even know how tall it is, for they can't see the peak covered by clouds. There's hubris here, which is disappointing in its own right, but worse, there's a lack of curiosity: the journey to expertise is about learning -- every fact raises a question, you follow the question to a fact, and the cycle repeats. It's enjoyable. Imagine you've been in a field for years, so you think you know it all, but you've never bothered following any of those questions. Bleak.