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by benoau 4mo ago
> Assume a 55% profit margins, and $1200 ASP, you're looking at $28,160 in profit from making iPhones instead. No wonder Apple discontinued the M3 Ultra 512GB. How would that work? They purchase 512GB from Samsung and then it doesn
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by benoau 4mo ago
Only the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air have 12GB of RAM, and they're ~10 weeks away from new models so probably well past their peak sales.
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by benoau 4mo ago
The only challenger is Chinese fabs, but they could just as easily end up banned from western markets. Immense profits have proven a very endurable shield against upstarts for "big tech" so... we'll probably end up watching r
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by benoau 4mo ago
Doesn't this essentially argue any use of JavaScript requires consent?
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by benoau 4mo ago
Don't think so, there's always been the option to do this with a Raspberry Pi or a NUC-like box and Windows even supported being used for this for a while a long time ago, but the whole conversation these days seems centered aroun
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by benoau 4mo ago
> Isn't it going to be old in a few years and then you have to get rid of it because upgrading components isn't a viable option? I expect to get the rest of this decade out of my Steam Deck so IDK, very different to my normal e
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by benoau 4mo ago
Mac Mini will handle 1080p very well.
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by benoau 4mo ago
AI credits expire because they make the least money off you if you actually use your full quota, now or later.
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by benoau 4mo ago
There is a tier of farming below that, subsistence farming, where you're keeping a few small animals and growing food for your own consumption. It's still very common outside of developed countries and cities. Although it's
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by benoau 4mo ago
On an individual level there's always opportunities to find happiness, but in aggregate seems like the future is pretty bleak for a handful of preventable yet unavoidable reasons and most people will be adversely impacted.
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by benoau 4mo ago
I feel like this applies to all code bases not just legacy ones! It's setting developers up to default-fail and making them accountable if they do, and the crazy thing is companies insist on this when a solid test suite and occasional
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by benoau 4mo ago
> But for Spotify, why not? Spotify is subject to the DSA already which sits parallel to the DMA and focuses on content moderation, transparency in advertising etc. The argument for making them subject to the DMA is flakey because there
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by benoau 4mo ago
Because the threshold was designed around consumer-facing services and requires 45 million monthly users. However the regulation also has flexibility if something is deemed critical but doesn't meet the numbers. https://eur-
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by benoau 4mo ago
Key detail is ... > with no cloud API cost This is presumably going to cost money to use and in the meantime Apple is footing the bill, so of course they limit it to unpopular developers with unpopular apps.
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by benoau 4mo ago
I think they are wary about macOS becoming a designated DMA gatekeeper, it would certainly be very close to the user and income thresholds.
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by benoau 4mo ago
I always thought it stood for "no preference" between old/new, but now I see it actually meant "no participation" to avoid vote manipulation. I guess now they want to facilitate vote manipulation to juice their per
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by benoau 4mo ago
It worked this time! Also in a similar vein Apple pulled a feature real fast last year when it was doing something similar to BBC news summaries - https://www.macrumors.com/2025/01/06/bbc-calls-out-apple-ai-..
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by benoau 4mo ago
> In this case, Google's AI had wrongly linked two publishers to scams and shady business practices. Guess that's the end of their AI overviews in the EU!
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by benoau 4mo ago
> At a certain point the regulation is self-defeating. What is that point? This is the discussion that the EU lawmakers cannot acknowledge. Because it's not self-defeating, what would that even be FAANG packing up and abandoning Eur
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by benoau 4mo ago
They've just announced PCC for Google Cloud using Nvidia GPUs and Intel CPUs so it would probably run on just about anything - https://security.apple.com/blog/expanding-pcc/
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by benoau 4mo ago
EU starting to throw their weight around finally, rumour has it that Google is about to be ordered to allow rival voice assistants on par with Gemini too, and about to receive the largest fine issued under the DMA (meaning north of €500 mil
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by benoau 4mo ago
Once the little square iPod Nano existed a watch was inevitable - https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/a-new-era-for-design
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by benoau 4mo ago
Meta already did that, right under Apple's nose for three years! https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
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by benoau 4mo ago
Not only that but it's an honour system they aren't checking any of the privacy policies or labels for accuracy, just last year a whole bunch of high-profile apps like Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans got caught claiming suitab
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by benoau 4mo ago
Why don't you just try clicking the contact link and asking?
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by benoau 4mo ago
There's actually eight authors of that paper, if ChatGPT is accurate: - Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones and Lukasz Kaiser stayed on at Google - Aidan N. Gomez became a researcher - Illia Polosukh
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by benoau 4mo ago
You can get poor results "for free" from your laptop, but the devices you need for the large models are very expensive.
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by benoau 4mo ago
It's technically feasible, really just a question of whether this is worth $10,000(s) to you and you're willing to spend it.
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by benoau 5mo ago
I don't think $600 - $650 is very likely considering you can't even get a Steam Deck for that price anymore, and that's surely a much cheaper device. Personally I think with the Steam Deck at $800 - $950 this more powerful m
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by benoau 5mo ago
Sure, it's got a loooooot of complexities that undermine those upsides. But sometimes problems get solved, undersea cables faced (and still present) a lot of challenges too.

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