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Comment · 7 months ago
Were you born after 2001? Did you remember those planes that flew into the buildings?

Private planes can do the same thing.

Comment · 7 months ago
What's new about this with the H2 chip?

My H1-chipped USB-C Airpods Max (OG) seem to switch seamlessly between my iphone, ipad, and macbook pro already.

Comment · 7 months ago
Maybe things have changed but the last time I looked at this, it was only max 96GB to the GPU. And it isn't dynamic in the sense you still have to tweak the kernel parameters, which require a reboot.

Apple has none of this.

Comment · 7 months ago
Most workstation class laptops (i.e. Lenovo P-series, Dell Precision) have 4 DIMM slots and you can get them with 256 GB (at least, before the current RAM shortages).

There's also the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 that has 128GB unified in laptop form factor.

Only Apple has the unique dynamic allocation though.

Comment · 8 months ago
Insurance is likely using that same data to adjust rates.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Bought by Broadcom, now implementing classic strategy of leveraging vendor lock-in to milk customers.
Comment · 1 year ago
There's almost never a death where there is a single factor, regardless of aviation or not. You can always decompose systems into various layers of abstractions and relationships. But software bugs are definitely a contributing cause.
Comment · 1 year ago
> If all the examples you can conjure are decades old

They're not ALL the examples I can conjure up. MCAS would probably be an example of a modern software bug that killed a bunch of people.

How about the 1991 failure of the Patriot missile to defend against a SCUD missile due to a software bug not accounting for clock drift, causing 28 lives lost?

Or the 2009 loss of Air France 447 where the software displayed all sorts of confusing information in what was an unreliable airspeed situation?

Old incidents are the most likely to be widely disseminated, which is why they're most likely to be discussed, but that doesn't mean that the discussion resolving around old events mean the situation isn't happening now.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I would submit Google's TPUs are not GPUs.

Similarly, Tenstorrent seems to be building something that you could consider "better", at least insofar that the goal is to be open.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Back in the real world, no race team would agree that their cars should disintegrate after one race.

Wasn't F1 teams basically doing this by replacing their engines and transmissions until the rules introduced penalties for component swaps in 2014?

Comment · 1 year ago
They don't just specify 12 smaller cables for nothing if 2 larger ones will do. There are concerns here with mechanical compatibility (12 wires have smaller allowable bend radius than 2 larger ones with the same ampacity).
Comment · 1 year ago

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