MBCook

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by MBCook 4mo ago
But why switch to this? Why not just make better Python bindings to libgit?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Isn’t git already just an interface over libgit? How is that different?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
> They all seem to be rewrites for the sake of "performance". And yet this performs dramatically worse. A slower, untested, incomplete git implementation, all for the low low price of $10-$15,000. And don’t forget it wasted a b
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Apple Intelligence supports a number of languages. They showed them on a slide in the keynote. The new Siri is limited at the moment.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Google has a similar thing they announced a year or two ago that uses the various hardware security stuff in the PC world that Apple is working with them to add to the list of approved stuff that gives PCC level security.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
> it is not Apple's problem Maybe legally. Customers won’t see it that way. Having to prompt users the first time an AI accesses each of the many different data stores on iOS sounds like an annoying mess.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
It sounds like they are whitelisting the hashes of all the Google software and OSes and stuff to ensure nothing is changed out from under them without them knowing. Even if you could make all the other possible vendors run private cloud com
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by MBCook 4mo ago
> The point is that if Apple's model gets all that access, they should give others access to those APIs as well, otherwise they are giving themselves benefits over the competition Yes. They SHOULD. So how did they do that without th
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Yep. Clash of priorities at a given time/deadline. This one does not appear to be Apple being a dick, like they have been on the App Store and a number of other things.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
That’s right, they can hand it over to their servers. And they’ve got special agreements with Google to do the same exact thing. That preserves privacy. Is it possible to do that with absolutely any company that wants to be able to be the A
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by MBCook 4mo ago
> Apple could build it in a way that other model providers could safely and securely interface with the Spotlight index How? How do you safely handover effectively every single bit of data on someone’s phone to any third-party company an
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by MBCook 4mo ago
In other things Apple has absolutely been a complete jackass and deserves a very large amount of the smack down they’ve been getting. I’m sure that’s a part of this. However they are also a 100,000 pound gorilla. If you fight with Apple ove
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Are we sure the EU would allow that? Or would it be seen as a way to stifle competition?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
They’re already two years behind on this. And they’re only launching with one language anyway. It’s not like the feature is fully finished. If it took another year to get out the door and be compliant, do you think they would’ve wanted to w
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by MBCook 4mo ago
But this isn’t a normal app. Apple is the one handing over all the data to the AI service. Couldn’t someone argue that they “knowingly participated“? Do you think they want that risk?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Not privacy, but as an example: NIST, MS, and the security community all recommend against forcing people to change their passwords on fixed intervals. They should only be changed when there is an indication they have been compromised. PCI
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by MBCook 4mo ago
It’s also only in English initially. They can only do so much at once. And Apple is not a “hire an extra 30,000 people“ kind of company. Apple usually rolls stuff out in stages. This is just an extremely high profile example.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Which I would argue is HARDER to do while preserving privacy.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Don’t forget they’re already basically two years behind when they originally promised this stuff.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Every animal seems to be dumb until we study them. We always assume nothing is as intelligent as us until proven otherwise. Cows are too stupid to live. Oh. Birds are dumb. Oh. Even human infants. They’re too dumb to even feel pain early
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by MBCook 4mo ago
It’s what I was thinking of when I said “lots of industrial generators” too, but I couldn’t remember where it was.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
The problem with that is one of the best things we have to control pollution at power plants is the rules that go into place when connecting to the US grid (I know TX is different). I really don’t want to incentivize private power plants th
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Same as stolen TVs, catalytic converters, and anything else. There’s always someone who likes the money/discount more than morals/the law at the next step in the chain. Somewhere.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Literally.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Bandwidth by going wider, not faster. That makes sense.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I mean is it possible to make unified memory systems with good performance or is it not really feasible due to memory timing/trace length issues? It’s possible if you’re willing to go with much slower RAM than GPUs like but CPUs often
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by MBCook 4mo ago
There’s something else. Memory size. Even if a Mac isn’t the fastest in raw numbers it may be faster if it can load the whole model in its ram (went up to 512 GB before shortages) than a couple 32 GB cards could with the data having to be c
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by MBCook 4mo ago
No. Let’s define terms, as others have pointed out they’re not perfect. Unified memory is what Apple is doing, other phones do, and many low end built in GPUs have done in PCs for ages. There is only one physical memory pool. Both the CPU a
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Is that required or just a choice Apple made?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Should bash link in every program the user might want? Load them up as dynamic libraries?

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