It is, they never changed their retail strategy (1-2 showcase stores per state + rebel & JD) here

Eat Up Martha

An icon, one of the best of us and a true one of one

It's crazy that universal health is the political third rail in most modern countries but for the opposite reasons

In most of the world it's the policy that cannot be touched, just in Europe, Canada and Australia its _existance_ is invoilable, in the US the _introduction_ seems to be the unwinnable war

Very good point. In the UK, the NHS is on the same level as a religion.

The NHS can NOT be meddled with whatsoever.

Complete political suicide.

Medicare is the first scare campaign bought up in any Australian election

> minimize the wandering of your mind

To paraphrase the wonderful Thich Nhat Hanh, include that in your meditation. None of us, even the most skilled mediators can get to the kind of clarity and simplicity that people expect from meditation.

It's not about emptying your mind, that's impossible, it's about learning to be fully present in the moment. Anchor in your breath, in your senses, in the right now and think "Breathing in, I know my mind is wandering"

I like to imagine it as a clear afternoon day. Some thoughts, some clouds will appear, but my presence is the sky behind them.

https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/key-books

Exactly, Nolan's use of CGI is perfect. Elegant and purposeful, and incredibly well executed.

WE. JUST. WANT. GOOD. STORIES. WELL. TOLD.

First Om, now Dvorak.

Such a loss, the prototypical cranky geek. Loved his takes with Curry and Leporte

The "640k should be enough for anyone" quote (even if Gates didn't exactly say it) is making the point is that _right now_ we have no idea about what our future needs and capabilities will be, we can't imagine what "should be enough" will be

640k was enough ... in 1981 ... almost fifty years later is 50,000 lower than a standard off the shelf PC now

If that’s the case I still don’t get it. 640k was enough in 1981, same as how 150 (or 9k) tok/sec would suffice for 2026

The comment seems like the nerd equivalent of 6 7

The original quote was supposedly Bill Gates saying that "640kb of memory should be enough for anyone".

The quote became famous because it's a failure to imagine that people would find new uses for computer memory if it became plentiful and cheap. In the quote Gates is not expecting people to come up with more demanding applications for computer memory (RAM) than the ones which were available in 1981.

Computer memory did in fact become plentiful and cheap after this, and computer programs became more complex and memory-hungry and today we wouldn't consider a 640kb an acceptable amount of ram for even the lowest-end device.

OP is repeating the quote about memory to indicate that they think that modern LLMs will be a similar resource. We should not expect that demand for LLM inference will stay flat, and that once everyone has cheap access to Fable level, we won't find new more demanding uses for it.