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Comment · 1 month ago
Apple intelligence is listed as 29 GB in the Storage settings. Which should be the amount of space you get back.

MacOS 27 is also diffrent in that it does still downloads the data for EU users and removes or hides options in menues to dissable functionality. This means users lose the said space when upgrading to 27.

Comment · 2 years ago
DMCA § 1201 makes reverse engineering modern consoles illegal.

Any modern game console has some form of decryption, which can be argued to prevent access.

This is when we run into the chicken/egg problem because you can't write emulation without violating 1201. It is also in part the argumentation Nintendo used in the yuzu case.

Comment · 2 years ago
> Marketplace developers will need to pay €0.50 for each first annual install of their marketplace app. First annual installs included in your Apple Developer Program membership can’t be used for marketplace apps.

Apple really makes you pay for it.

Comment · 2 years ago
Both are problems to solve, architecture is as much of a problem as data.

Data has the problem of getting successively tainted by LLMs as well as the lack of open high-quality datasets.

While architecture has the problem of shifting too much focus on a flawed architecture - transformers.

Comment · 3 years ago
got attention from this tweet: https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1675732777873063936?...

Quote for people without account or rate limited:

"When you do uint8array.buffer in JSC the first time, it calls slowDownAndWasteMemory()" -- links to the github

The tweet has ~60k views, and 24 retweets.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
The question should be "why". The reason is that we find ways to utialize it. Once Moores law or the essence of it comes to an halt, more effort will be put into making things more efficient.

Maybe that's even a bit too pesimistic. Cloud computing already gives companies incentive to focus on efficiency for cost saving and there is a growing trend to write simpler more performant software to replace existing tools, however not specifically in the general purpose computing space.

Comment · 3 years ago
The thought process of apple is that every saved person is worth whatever cost it might have especially if you as a company don't get to carry it. And the topic is fairly hard to discuss given that justification. You only need one single case where the feature was helpful to win the argument.
Comment · 3 years ago

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