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It's a bit like convicting Al Capone for tax evasion.

The worst crime you can do is take money from a rich person.

They (allegedly) had a problem or copying their mono-repo around their network so they solved it by making the server do all the work.

Sounds like a out of the frying pan and into the fire kind of solution.

With the added bonus that you now have a vibe-coded VCS, so good luck when that has strange bugs.

I recall seeing a audio technician test some of the modern VSTs and it seemed extremely impressive to me as an amateur.

It's to the point where you virtually put microphones around the virtual instrument and it behaves (according to the person who does it for a living) creates an intuitively correct sound.

Edit: and to be clear this was a demo from before the LLM times so it's something built the traditional way.

IIRC you can get the download link if you go to view "your content" on the Kindle website.

And if a book is on the no DRM list you can find a "download" link in the drop down menu for the book.

But I have not found a way to determine if a book has this option before buying it. So I'm not longer buying anything on Amazon.

There was a new jailbreak released quite recently which was quite painless to go through. IIRC it's called Sanctuary.

The only problem is if your device is connected to wifi and has updated to new firmware.

In the long term interconnected nations might make electricity cheap everywhere. Currently it's mostly making it more expensive everywhere else. (As someone living in south of Sweden.)

Edit: But to be fair... The biggest reason it's expensive is likely that companies like to make money.

For the problems ASICs exist they vastly outperform general hardware. Typically both in absolute speed and efficiency.

But it's only possible to make custom ASICs when you have a specific problem to solve. For newer crypto systems they can vary enough parameters that building a flexible enough ASIC to recoup the investment before the algorithm changes and makes your hardware useless.

For problems where the problem to solve remain in the problem space the ASIC can solve there is no point to use a thing else.

The different models of chips and memory config have very different memory speeds as well.

Eg the M4 Max 128GB has a bandwidth speed of 500GB/s+. And that's true for other models as well.

But as you note, the base speed has also increased over the versions.

The main PCB is pretty much everything that has value. The rest is a heatsink, case and PSU.

The PC platforms have anemic memory bandwidth in comparison. Eg, Strix Halo is 256GB/s max. If money is a bigger limiter than performance it can be an option though. As can Nvidia DGX Spark machines. (Also limited to 128GB memory and comparatively low bandwidth, but higher compute than Strix Halo.)

It's worth noting that the 5090 (or the RTX Pro 6000 big brother with 92GB VRAM) will run rings around the Mac when it comes to compute.

My old 3090 is typically significantly faster (almost 2x token/s) than my M4 Max 128GB machine, as long as the model fits in the 24GB of VRAM.

In most situations it's a better idea to just buy tokens. But there are definitely cases when that's not an option. And then a machine like the M5 Ultra can allow you to do things locally for a fairly limited budget. And in a simpler package to manage than a machine with multiple GPUs.

One case where Apple can be very useful is if you're traveling a lot for work.

Wherever you are you can probably find a local store that sells and services Macbooks. So if your machine is damaged during a trip you can get it fixed, or buy a replacement on the spot, and at least get through the work you are there to do.

For small-ish companies that can be a very useful feature.

I think the point was that even if you managed to make a O(n*2) parser it will ve fast enough for human entered problems.