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by bri3d 8mo ago
They have two products: * Subscription plans, which are (probably) subsidized and definitely oversubscribed (ie, 100% of subscribers could not use 100% of their tokens 100% of the time). * Wholesale tokens, which are (probably) profitable.
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by bri3d 8mo ago
Hackaday, and you, omit the last sentence in the comment they quote: “The compromise is going all in contained areas where alternatives exist.”
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by bri3d 8mo ago
For what it's worth, generally in the US you can still buy a limited time subscription to the manufacturer's own diagnostic software for a reasonable price, for example BMW ISTA is $32/day, VW ODIS is $130/week, and Ford
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by bri3d 8mo ago
Can you read the article a little more closely? > - MiniMax can't fit on an iPhone. They asked MiniMax on their computer to make an iPhone app that didn't work. It didn't work using the Apple Intelligence API. So then: * T
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by bri3d 8mo ago
If you’d read the whole thing, you would go on a debugging journey that both involved bypassing the LLM and was appropriate for HN (vs not dismissing the article), so you might want to do that.
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by bri3d 8mo ago
> Or, rather, MiniMax is! The good thing about offloading your work to an LLM is that you can blame it for your shortcomings. Time to get my hands dirty and do it myself, typing code on my keyboard, like the ancient Mayan and Aztec progr
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by bri3d 8mo ago
Dongles were extremely widely used in the 1990s and early 2000s; for anything more advanced than consumer software you'd almost expect them? Almost every DAW, video editor, high-end compiler, engineering/CAD package, or 3D suite u
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by bri3d 8mo ago
Yes, "floating point accumulation doesn't commute" is a mantra everyone should have in their head, and when I first read this article, I was jumping at the bit to dismiss it out of hand for that reason. But, what got me about
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by bri3d 8mo ago
In fairness, the decompiler didn't work on the protection method :) I think that both halves of the author's thesis are true: I bet that you could use this device in a more complicated way, but I also bet that the authors of the p
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by bri3d 8mo ago
I mean, Apple's LLM also doesn't work on this device, plus the author compared the outputs from each iterative calculation on this device vs. others and they diverge from every other Apple device. That's a pretty big sign tha
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by bri3d 8mo ago
Somewhere along the line, the tensor math that runs an LLM became divergent from every other Apple device. My guess is that there's some kind of accumulation issue here (remembering that floating-point accumulation does not usually com
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by bri3d 8mo ago
I love to see real debugging instead of conspiracy theories! Did you file a radar? (silently laughing while writing this, but maybe there's someone left at Apple who reads those)
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by bri3d 8mo ago
It’s LVGL based, if the GUI and widgets are what you wanted you could use that on Android, although if you have access to native Android this actually doesn’t seem like the best approach to me.
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by bri3d 8mo ago
https://templates.blakadder.com/esp32.html Here’s a list of just a few. They’re insanely popular not only because they’re just good to use, but also because they’re one of the cheaper FCC approved modules you can buy, which
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Many years ago. It’s called Firebloom. I think it’s similar in theory and lineage to Fil-C. https://saaramar.github.io/iBoot_firebloom/
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Appears on HN with some frequency, last time 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45384653 The “showcase” composition / implementation of Genode, Sculpt OS, is pretty fun to install and run.
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by bri3d 9mo ago
I think all of the kernel allocators and most (?) system processes in iOS 26 have MIE enabled, as does libpas (the WebKit allocator), so it’s already doing quite a lot.
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Global Entry absolutely is a completely voluntary social credit system? It’s an optional thing you literally subscribe to that says “I’m squeaky clean so I can skip the investigation line.”
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by bri3d 9mo ago
The argument, if there is one, would probably be that following ICE was a violation of an immigration procedure (note that the person who had their GE revoked doesn’t claim they attended a protest, but rather that they were following ICE an
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Overall you can have Global Entry revoked for almost anything; one of the clauses is “The applicant has been found in violation of any customs, immigration, or agriculture regulations, procedures, or laws in any country.” which falls dramat
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by bri3d 9mo ago
This is a really crappy tool for dealing with the North Korean Workers problem; it doesn't sound particularly fraud-resistant and that issue should already be handled by any competent corporate IT department with 10000 better and highe
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Thanks for chiming in! This is how I expected the feature to work once I read the real product brief, so that's a plus at least. You might want to tell your product people to ask whoever deals with this stuff at Microsoft anymore if th
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Yeah, it's mostly just a weird feature in terms of ick-factor vs. utility. I will say that "IT knows where I am" and "my manager / manager's manager / whatever sees where I am on Teams" would represen
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Sure, and your corporate IT also have the roaming logs from their APs and the access logs from the VPN (and maybe your location from MDM anyway), but it doesn't get shown to your boss and coworkers in real time, probably, unless your c
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Nobody knows, as far as I can tell; I haven't found any actual sources and I don't think the code is present in a public release anywhere for anyone to look at. I'm assuming it must work off of MAC at a minimum, since most of
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Yeah, I couldn't find any sources that weren't rage-bait either. Honestly, to me the feature seems so incredibly low-functionality that I'm surprised they're pushing it forward after all of the controversy it's gene
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by bri3d 9mo ago
IMO that's probably how the feature will work, I haven't seen any actual non-speculation/rage bait evidence to the contrary.
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by bri3d 9mo ago
> Plus employees will have to opt in? I mean, that's not really how "opt-in" works for features that your company owns; you might have to "opt-in" technically but your company will probably make that a little mor
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Yeah, the whole feature brief seems like either a really flimsy cover story or truly awful product management since it's a completely useless feature.
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by bri3d 9mo ago
The implementation details are sketchy/weak in all sources I can find, but I don't think it's pure (coordinates based) location tracking, but rather a "feature" that will show which WiFi network you're connecte

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