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by conradev 1y ago
For TPUs I believe it is Broadcom: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/22/google_broadcom_tpus/ Not sure about the mobile SoCs
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by conradev 1y ago
I bought a sticker pack that does this. Still being able to see the light is pretty useful
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by conradev 1y ago
I obviously don’t think that is wise, but Git is literally designed with this in mind: https://git-scm.com/docs/repository-version/2.39.0 Just like SQLite has an explicit compatibility guarantee through 2050. Yo
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by conradev 1y ago
Changing well-tested code is unsafe.
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by conradev 1y ago
A 10-frame hiccup is actually more of a hang (a single >50ms freeze) than consistent frame dropping (i.e. scrolling at 30fps) but I agree, the hangs in the latest operating systems are brutal. Feels a little half-baked. macOS Tahoe is mu
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by conradev 1y ago
When you say “running slowly”, do you mean: - Apps launch slower (time from app launch to interactivity) - Apps hang more frequently (interface freezes after interaction) - Apps drop frames (scrolling and animations stutter) I imagine it’s
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by conradev 1y ago
This is super cool, thanks for the link! I’m glad they were able to leverage the TPM
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by conradev 1y ago
and I imagine that the initramfs is not encrypted and trivially modifiable? Apple is able to achieve this securely because their devices are not fully encrypted. They can authenticate/sign the unencrypted system partition.
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by conradev 1y ago
Networking always comes up after cold boot, but WiFi passwords are stored on the encrypted volume. So, it depends on whether you use WiFi!
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by conradev 1y ago
Apple does a “userspace reboot” (killing all processes) after device unlock to categorically solve this problem
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by conradev 1y ago
They address that in the following sentences: For example, ChatGPT will be trained not to … engage in discussions about suicide of self-harm even in a creative writing setting.
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by conradev 1y ago
For you in particular, likely some moral precepts? or are you arguing that the deterrent effect of government punishment is the only thing stopping you? I don't really understand the line of argument.
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by conradev 1y ago
Nope. I was using tax in the sense of "mandatory cost enforced by the government" even though in this case the revenue goes to private entities.
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by conradev 1y ago
Rippling moved into an old Spotify office in NYC and they were required to use union labor to remove the old signage. They decided to leave the signage up rather than pay the union tax.
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by conradev 1y ago
At a glance, it looks like a lightweight vector database running on top of low-cost object storage—at a price point that is clearly attractive compared to many dedicated vector database solutions. They also didn’t mention LanceDB, w
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by conradev 1y ago
I believe this service works no differently. Lose that passphrase, lose everything.
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by conradev 1y ago
TIL that chemical sunscreen does go into the bloodstream: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-brief/fda-brief-fda-anno...
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by conradev 1y ago
No, the scatter plot on parameter efficiency! “Model Parameters (B)” has an “Unknown” column to the right of 1000, implying those models are 1200B or more parameters, which is just not the case. It renders the comparison useless, they can r
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by conradev 1y ago
The graphs that some of these companies make are brutal: https://docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-4.5#higher-parameter-effici... "So, we only know the Y-axis for some models in the scatter plot. Let's make up an
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by conradev 1y ago
I still agree with OP in that purchasing an EV, used or not, is brutal with depreciation. You can lease a used Tesla Model 3 for $5k/24mo. Say the used Leaf was $15k, it would need to be worth at least $10k in 2027.
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by conradev 1y ago
The best API design is likely to erase the public type to the `any Error` existential … … but Swift has also the tooling to declare ABI-stable enums without freezing them. Clients are forced to handle unknown cases.
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by conradev 1y ago
I feel like code size, toolchain availability and the universality of the C ABI are more good reasons for why code is written in C besides runtime performance. I’d be curious how much overhead Fil-C adds from a code size perspective, though
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by conradev 1y ago
In The Browser Company’s case, they have a lot of engineers who work on Chromium. Not sure about the other wrapper companies!
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by conradev 1y ago
Yeah, The “offscreen” terminology is Apple lingo: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Metal/customizing-... The buffers are not that different, it really just means “extra allocation”
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by conradev 1y ago
Yes, that all makes sense! My understanding is that the damage propagation gets worse with depth (no limit) in addition to breadth (screen size). If the compositor has N layers, a blur layer, N more layers, another blur layer, etc. then t
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by conradev 1y ago
I agree with Mitchell. Gaussian blurs are some of the most expensive operations you can run, and Apple has been using them for a long time. They’re almost always downscaled because of this. The first retina iPad (the iPad 3 if I recall) had
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by conradev 1y ago
Firing voice actors is not great. Replacing human-narrated audio with AI narrated audio is not great. But the coverage of audiobooks is… also not great? Of the books I've purchased recently, maybe 30% or less have audiobooks? What if I
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by conradev 1y ago
Yes. It’s just access controls. When people advocate for greater separation I remind them that separation is just one part of the cycle: https://xkcd.com/2044/ We’re in the “connect everything” phase (MCP), and are abo
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by conradev 1y ago
Yes, only some things for now! I hope it stays that way or decreases, but that’s not the way the arrow is pointing. Providers still implement it where they can, like for blackout restrictions for US sports games: impossible to enforce on th
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by conradev 1y ago
Yes: https://asahilinux.org/blog/

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