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Comment · 12 days ago
Everything aside from apps with SafetyNet dependencies. Banking apps come to mind.
Comment · 12 days ago
Why? Do you think frontier AI will never generate enough profit to justify its costs? The market seems to move on vibes rather than logic. I can imagine one of those company failing and the other seizing the market.
Comment · 1 month ago
I've always thought CSP as a robust design pattern where you have no shared state between components and they must communicate with each other using message passing. It also requires synchronous communication (rendezvous-style). If you follow those rules you can have a pretty robust system. Aside from these abstract rules, CSP has more formal research (algebra) but I'm not sure if there are any decent tools available.

TLA gives you a full toolbox and in theory can model whatever you can express. That's very different from a design pattern.

Comment · 1 month ago
Why decades?
Comment · 1 month ago
How does battery life compare to Sequoia? I heard there is a huge drop
Comment · 1 month ago
Google is the new IBM. All the signs are there.
Comment · 1 month ago
I thought supermarket loyalty cards were just a QR code of a simple serial number. Is it different where you are?
Comment · 2 months ago
The story about that AMD ARM core is that they were making it for Amazon. Performance was not good enough so it was canned. Amazon then went on to make their own chips called Graviton.
Comment · 2 months ago
> your average diabetic who has fairly good control over their blood sugars

I think it's huge for diabetics. It's a mental toll for them. They hate having to constantly prick themselves to take readings. It's awkward, inconvenient and you have to do it multiple times to be sure you got a good reading. And worse of all, it's possible to forget to take a reading when you need to.

Comment · 2 months ago
Tahoe slows it down, but Seqouia is still strong.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yep, even 600GB/s is barely usable and not fun.
Comment · 2 months ago
> Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later

Why? Tahoe hasn’t even reached its first birthday and plenty of us are still on Seqouia not wanting to put up with apple’s disaster release. There’s nothing a terminal needs from Tahoe specifically.

Comment · 2 months ago
7. Do you want the most contributions?

I hate to admit it, but GitHub has a massive community. I’ve personally seen a project leave it and then contributions dropped significantly.

Comment · 2 months ago
The larger 3.6 35B is actually a mixture of experts (MOE). This means a small proportion of those B's are actually active. It's fast and suitable for agentic tasks but nowhere near good as the dense 27B model, which has all of its parameters loaded.

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