"Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast" is an advert. There's simply no better word to describe it.
Agreed. I’m planning on selling my 512GB M3 Ultra Studio in the next week or so (I just wrenched my back so I’m on bed-rest for the next few days) with an eye to funding the M5 Ultra Studio when it’s announced at WWDC.
I can live without the RAM for a couple of months to get a good price for it, especially since Apple don’t sell that model (with the RAM) any more.
Just out of curiosity, where do you think is the best place to sell a machine like that with the lowest risk of being scammed, while still getting the best possible price?
> Just out of curiosity, where do you think is the best place to sell a machine like that with the lowest risk of being scammed, while still getting the best possible price?
There are none currently on eBay.co.uk, so I'm going to try there. I'll also try some of the reddit UK-specific groups.
As far as not being scammed - it's a really high value one-off sale, so it'll either be local pickup (and cash / bank-transfer at the time, which happens in seconds in the UK) or escrow.com (for non-eBay) with the buyer paying all the fees etc.
I'd prefer local pickup because then I have the money, the buyer can see it working, verify everything to their satisfaction etc. etc.
> Wish you a speedy recovery for your back!
Thank you :) It is a little better today. Sitting down is now tolerable for short periods... :)
doesn't escrow.com charge a 50$/pound minimum fees.
I do know that Escrow.com is one of the most reputable escrow platforms, on a more personal note, I would love to know a escrow service where I can just sell the spare domains I have (I have got some .com/.net domains for 1$ back during a deal for a provider), is there any particular escrow service which might not charge a lot and I can get a few dollars from selling them as some of those domains aren't being used by me.
> Thank you :) It is a little better today. Sitting down is now tolerable for short periods... :)
I am wishing you speedy recovery as well. A cowboy gotta have a strong back :-)
According to the calculator, it’d be about £280 assuming the purchase cost was £11k. I think that’s probably an upper-bound on the sale-price, though I can see bids of $20k on eBay.com for the same model.
I sold a domain via escrow.com a long time ago now (20 years or so) but the buyer paid fees, so I don’t know what they charge for that. You could try the calculator they have though (https://www.escrow.com/fee-calculator)
But it feels really good to have more ram than you can think of a use for.
I have a faint memory of an interview ages ago with Knuth I think where he mentioned as an aside he was using a workstation with 3.2 Gb of storage and 4 Gb of ram :)
Around the year 2001 I recall watching 3d studio Max R3 tutorials in which the teacher had an electric purple desktop which possessed an entire 4 gigs of ram. It blew my mind. My computer had 128mb and an ATI Rage 128 Pro.
I was young and dumb and never would have guessed I'd own a computer with 32gb of RAM that felt pitifully underpowered for today's tasks.
You're right! Crazy, that brings me back. I wonder why he showed it off. I wish I could find it. He probably wasn't using it for the tutorial at all, just nerding out and talking about how beefy computers handle rendering and complex geometry better.
I was constantly constrained by my computers back then. Trying to navigate complex scenes or model very detailed meshes could get soooo slow. But man I loved it so much.
Ha, you nailed it. That's exactly what it was. Thanks for jogging my memory.
Back then Maya seemed like this unobtainable, magical machine for producing impossible imagery. When I finally got my hands on it, I was so disappointed to realize I still needed skills to make it do the cool things. I was ~16 and pretty clueless. I just knew Maya was used for the crazy stuff I was seeing in cut scenes from games or special effects in movies.
Took me until i was 20 and some change to give up.
I was much faster in 3ds max than my artist friend. But I was modeling cubes and he was ... actually modeling fantastic creatures and landscapes. So I stuck to programming and other text based activities and he's usually 'visual FX lead' in the gaming industry :)
Huh, interesting. I wonder if there's a premium price right now for the one on my desk...
Pretty sure the M5 Ultra will be out after WWDC, so my M3 Ultra is (while still completely capable of fulfilling my needs) looking a bit long in the tooth. If I can get a good price for it now, I might be able to offset most of the M5 post WWDC...
[sigh] and this is the first (mandated) step in that process. The UK don’t expect 4chan to pay the fine, which means, once the period to pay has expired, they’ll just be blocked instead.
I remember running this on an Atari ST with MiNT as the multi-tasking kernel. It took a lot less resources from my 4MB STe than running X11 did. It was actually quite usable to compile with gcc in one window and edit (with vi, of course) in the other.
> There’s no source mentioned and no link to substantiate this claim
.. when someone mixes up two things, saying for example "People previously said the UK rape gangs were debunked claims against minorities and we now know that to be false and that hundreds of thousands of poor girls were assaulted", the hammer on my bullshit meter starts to slam the right-hand bell.
The implication here is that "hundreds of thousands of poor girls" were raped by gangs in the UK, according to studies [1], that figure was actually ... 706 in the latest figures that I could find. Being absolutely clear, that is 706 too many, but it's not "hundreds of thousands".
The conflation is that half a million or so cases of sexual assault are made against minors on a yearly basis, but the bar for that is a lot lower than "rape gang". Also, to be clear, that's half a million too many.
The good news here is that investigations into police and governmental policy have been made, 12 recommendations were produced, and all have been accepted by the government. Hopefully this can help matters, and these poor kids (of both sexes) in the future.
> There is nothing wrong with not believing in trans ideology
Well, that's open to debate. If you believe that sexuality is innate, like skin colour, then discriminating against someone's sexuality is akin to being racist. Just saying.
> It’s also fairly obvious when one watches An Inconvenient Truth that global warning concerns were amplified beyond what actually happened in the next two decades
Uh huh. The Y2K problem was massively mitigated by a huge effort to fix it, and the success of that effort meant there wasn't much that went wrong on the actual day. Global warming has had a lot less effort (though still substantial), the ozone hole has been pretty much closed, but the world is still on a pretty terrible path. It's almost as if people can't see the ever-increasing heat in Summer, and "polar vortexes" in Winter as the evidence that's as plain as the nose on your face.
> Likewise it’s more likely that the novel coronavirus came from the novel coronavirus lab than a wet market
"Free speech has consequences" almost never refers to those consequences being imposed by the government of the day. It's generally used when (to pull an example out of the air) some woman cycling around might come across the Trump and Trumpets out and about in their convoy. Said woman might clasp one bicep while vigorously pumping that arm up and down in the air, with one single finger extended towards the top.
Sadly, that woman's employer might be more delusional than herself, support the pedophile rapist, and decide to terminate her employment. Now those are indeed consequences of her exercising her right to free speech, at least in a symbolic form, but it wasn't the pedophile-in-power imposing them, it was the toadying employer.
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