As an outsider I see a country where kids kill other kids at schools with guns and these guys are focusing on legislating age restrictions on apps?

I've worked for myself as an independent developer for more than a decade now.
Apps and websites and I do well working on my own.
I'm getting old though that the saying "can't teach an old dog new tricks", is starting to make sense.
AI couldn't have come at a better time in my life.
As I've always warned youth thinking of getting into tech at higher education, the older you are the less valuable you become. The complete opposite of the other white collar grad workers. You want the old experienced doctor, lawyer, accountant etc. Not the fresh faced grad; unless you are hiring software devs.
Since I started using AI I've found I'm a magnitude more productive in my output and my overall success.
It's such a time saver my home looks fab this summer (I'm in NZ) as I've had so much spare time to enjoy gardening.
AI has knowledge. What it doesn't have is wisdom.
As long as you remember that and have the wisdom and intuition to know when it is wrong you can't lose.
Which gives me hope as an old timer in this game.
Maybe after all I have what the other white collar grad workers have that is most valuable.
Experience and wisdom which is why AI is no threat to any of us right now.

I got Cisco stock 31 years ago, luckily I sold most of it off before 2000.
Regret not holding it a little bit longer but I was lucky and can't complain.

I see the same happening again with the AI bubble.
Another generation of lucky individuals who'll benefit from a stock option leg up like I did.
Will it pop sooner I wonder?
I'd advise cashing in chunks on a regular basis and being happy with what you get rather than holding on and dreaming of more.

I'd like to see smart phones translating apps not translated to the local language.
Why stop at apps? Web pages too. iBooks? Kindle etc.
As an App developer, a lone one man app developer, I'd love to reach a wider audience but translation is a big overhead to take on.
My hope is that the phone's will take care of this at some point,
Opt in/out with caveats and I think most using it would accept it as a good compromise.

Fenbendazole is a broad-spectrum de-wormer that is used to treat many of the intestinal parasites that affect pet animals.
According to much literature it is also a broad-spectrum cancer cure, so claims this article backed up with a long list of scientific papers.
Is it safe for humans? Seems to be as a variation of it, Mebendazole, is already widely used for intestinal parasites in humans and some cancer patients have already tried it with success.

Big Pharma, and industrialists as a whole, are the ones who are damaging science using their deep pockets to fund what research they deem fit for their own ends.

I would also point the finger at the Oil & Gas guys for the decommissioning of already launched satellites that will almost certainly add weight to the global warming issue.

Greed is killing science.

Here's an idea.
How about each $100k paid for a H-1B visa is used to educate an American bright enough to fill that job but too poor to put themselves through higher education.
I'm all for taxes to solve problems so long as the money raised is actually spent fixing the problem.
It's not that the country doesn't have the talent. It's just too much talent is going to waste.

Let me re-write that slightly.

Fuck off Elon.

What speeds did you see with your setup? response/prompt tokens/sec?
I found that the 70b R1 wasn't much different than the 32b or 14b in answers just slower in response.
It would be interesting to see comparisons between 120b and 20b gpts.

I've finally* got it running on my M4 Mac Mini (Pro C14/G20/N16, 64G Ram) and it's significantly better than R1 using the same questions.
Much more detailed answers and very nicely formatted output. That's for 20b and comparing it to deepseek-r1:70b.
Speed was ok, not blazing.
response tokens/sec was ~30, prompt tokens/sec ~175
I would guess it runs well too on an entry level M4 Mac Mini (C10/G10/N16) with its, now minimum, 16G ram.

* (Ollama got to 95% and then took 2 hours to get the last 5% downloaded. Everyone doing the same thing right now)

Why would you buy a M2 Ultra Mac Pro with 192GB Ram, 76Core GPU ($9599) rather than an M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 256GB of Ram and 80Core GPU ($7099)?
The Pro Mac seems pointless and over priced compared to the recently updated Studio.

And "What’s in the Box" at the bottom of the Pro page lists Mouse (or keyboard) and keyboard.
So I'm wondering if I'm even looking at the same rig as @Shaitan or @williamyf

Why stop at just picking on Silicon Valley, and by extension California's produce.
What about the car & tractor manufacturers?
The dealership lock in that's been steadily evolving over the years, as technology has become more prevalent in vehicles, needs reining in.
Too hot for the politicians to touch I think. Easier to stick it to a Democratic state than the likes of John Deere.
You're going to get e-waste regardlessly, thats just the nature of consumer computing technology and smart phones as they rapidly improve & update..
To claim it prevents tons of e-waste is just spin.
Vehicles on the other hand have a significantly longer life span and therefore repair and life extension is more applicable.

Saw same news article over on Macrumors.
I read the MR comments to gauge what the ill informed opinions are and I come here for more tech savvy ones.
So it was a nice surprise to see long time MR poster Gengar post this in the MR article comments:

I write and publish my own apps for a living, I've been doing this for about 12 years now.
Over these years I've come to realise that App user's don't really understand who it is that they purchased from.
At least the ones who've gotten in touch and asked for a refund.
They think it is my company and I can issue a refund (different with Google Play, I can because Google lets me. With Apple there's no touching their payment system).

So reading this I get why Apple is keen to emphasise who it is that a user would be making the purchase from.
I can see the potential nightmare for both users and Apple when payment support is needed and there is a 3rd party in the mix.
It's still going to happen because, again from my own experience, it doesn't matter the warnings or text you put in front of their eye balls there's going to be many who don't pay attention.
Of course Apple doesn't want to lose their 15 or 30% cut but there's also the end-to-end user experience and their brand reputation at stake here too which is much more valuable.

I personally use google search a whole lot less now in favour of my preferred LLM.
This is one of these headlines that makes me wish we had an in comment section poll pinned to the top of it rather than just reading opinions and trying to weigh the sentiment.

AI's are only as good as the material they've learned from.
I had a bug of sorts that I fixed by myself only today that I'd been trying to get the various flavours of ChatGPT to shine light on.
None gave me the answer and even when I came up with the solution and proposed it to GPT it said "yeah, sure, you are probably right but I couldn't find any references to back up your solution".
I've been writing software professionally for 35 years. AI has knowledge but lacks experience, wisdom, intuition, call it what you will.
AI is brilliant, I couldn't work without it now as it saves me so much time, but it isn't going to replace me in its current form.