bigyabai

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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Why do you see things as negativeism vs positivism? Do you not live in a world where good and evil are syncretic? That mindset is bizarre, to me. My personal experience with Starlink is that it's an expensive LTE alternative. It's
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Oh no! > Yes, dear reader, Cuba has as many as 300 drones — thanks to Russia and Iran — that are capable of striking the United States under this fan. > The drone that gives me the greatest amount of concern is the Iranian Shahed - 13
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Counterpoint; now the entire industry know they are morally flexible, and have secrets worth suing over. They won't struggle to find future employment.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
All the same, that attitude towards developers sucks. We're now viscerally living through the consequences of centralized software distribution, because people ignored developer discontent.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
I got bad news for you - GLM 5.2 runs on basement-level hardware and supports 1 million token contexts for bioweapon research. There are already people halfway finished with novel bioweapons research as we speak! A man in Tuscon is design
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
That's the thing - even when you choose to pay for Apple's developer program, they can kick you out. This is why Fortnite kickstarted an important discussion around App Store centralization. Today, Apple removes apps like ICEBlo
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Sure - again, this is like saying that "NSO Group is under the microscope" - which they were! But Apple lacks the political intuition to take NSO Group down. Apple is reliant on the US Federal government, which in-turn is deepl
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
It's really not that hard. If Apple Silicon was competitive for inference, then Apple would not be shelving them: https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep... They're not usable f
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
This isn't a very great defense, either. Apple started the trend of seeking federal protectionism to avoid liability for market damages. Now OpenAI, with their own federal connections, are going to seek to exert political pressure fo
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
> I don't see why they'd accept a settlement. glances at Kushner's $1 billion OpenAI investment through Thrive Capital Are you sure they won't settle? Apple settled their case with NSO Group, even though they were
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Developers didn't get a choice. It was either "pay for Apple's development services" or "don't publish apps" which isn't a very competitive or fair option when the App Store can arbitrarily reject you
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
It's feasible that the ultimate goal is to use the AESA sensors as an SAR solution in the long-term.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Unless Apple protracts the case, that won't become an issue.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Apple does have a history of settling out-of-court after claiming disproportionate damages. NSO Group and Corellium come to mind.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
But surely you understand how your preferred customer is the less profitable one? Apple won't subsidize these low-margin enthusiast products with the profits made from services and higher-margin hardware. Tim Cook would much rather shi
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Nothing that Steve Jobs advocated for coincides with OpenAI's business ethos. OpenAI would be just fine. The burden of proof falls on you to defend that theory.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
"Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - Steve Jobs
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
It's not exclusive to PC: https://www.pcmag.com/news/another-xbox-price-increase-is-co... https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/the-ps5-is-getti...
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Outperforms doing what? Inference is not a homogeneous workload, memory bandwidth correlates to decode speed and layer swapping but not necessarily inference speed overall. The other half of that equation is latency, predicated on prefill p
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Form factor is the easy part - both Nvidia and Apple are experienced SOC designers. The hard part is the GPU architecture. Apple Silicon was designed with a laser focus on raster efficiency (similar to AMD's GPUs) which makes a lot
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
You should not buy a fully loaded Mac Studio for AI unless you absolutely NEED macOS. You will be wasting so much electricity idling on prefill while your GPU pulls 150-250w from the wall. Buy an Nvidia Spark, then whatever cheap Mac you
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
It's really not. Apple's phone margins have been as high as 30-40% per-unit, it's likely that they make at least ~$80-150 per Macbook Neo sold. At the $150 mark (which is probably accurate factoring in lifetime service spend)
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Memory supply isn't what held back XServe. We wouldn't need XServe if Apple treated the Mac like a regular computer and supported usable, first-class headless workflows and eGPUs. The writing has been on the wall since 2019. App
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Apple sure doesn't act like it. The Mac is still a minority market share of PCs, and their entrants into spaces like AR do nothing to compete with incumbents. Now that the Mac Pro is depreciated, Apple's plan to pivot to service o
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Or they could use that same amount of memory to ship 64x Macbook Neos, and probably make higher margins off the hardware volume. Those Macbook Neo users would be very reliant on Apple intelligence, enough maybe to pay for a service with i
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
No? The next Siri update will be powered by Gemini. Dozens of Google products integrate and deploy AI to billions of users.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Which is cheaper to use? The size euphemism is a really roundabout description vs "Nano" and "Pro" for the layperson.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
The naming convention is bizarre and doesn't really mean anything to normies. Trying to pick between "Sol" and "Terra" is like asking the average person if they want the Max or the Ultra chip.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Are you going to take your phone and laptop with you? If so, then it doesn't really matter where you're going. You'll be populating multiple surveillance systems regardless of where you choose to live.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
You're asking a community that couldn't decide if Client Side Scanning was safe and private at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068741 Surveillance is a branding issue. If you wrap a shit in crepe

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