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Apple M3 Ultra 1 year ago

Most recent GPUs will do. An older RTX 4070 is over 400 TOPS, the new RTX 5070 is around 1000 TOPS, and the RTX 5090 is around 3600 TOPS.

Apple M3 Ultra 1 year ago

The full deepseek R1 model needs more memory than 512GB. The model is 720GB alone. You can run a quantized version on it, but not the full model.

This marketing is dumb, and if Apple believes that not even they themselves can get access to the information running on the platform, then they could put their money where their mouth is. Increase the max bounty reward from $50 000 to $50 000 000 000 with no other rules than if you can get access to users' request data without having the phone it's sent from, then you get the money, and Apple will not legally pursue the attacker.

Is it as secure as they say? Then it doesn't matter if all the money Apple has is the reward, because nobody can get it. A max bounty of $50 000 for "Accidental or unexpected data disclosure due to deployment or configuration issue" is silly low.

Did it hallucinate? I haven't looked at it, but lowercase i and uppercase i is not the same number if you're getting the number from ascii

BMW has not abandoned it. i3 was a cool cheap car, with a carbon fiber cell. It was ugly as hell, but cool tech.

BMW platforms now are both for ICE and EV, but "Neue klasse" that will start to arrive soon is a from-scratch, new, electric only platform. That will really make the cars more spacious. The sportiest platform is supposedly architected for 1350 hp, so it will be interesting to see if BMW will take up the lap time fight with Porsche. That would be interesting.

Can confirm that Paddle support is really bad. Onboarding and calls was very hands on(at least before they opened up for all), but everything after that was terrible and frankly idiotic. At least they can switch to using LLMs now, cause even those would do a better job.

And yeah, VAT and GST is annoying. Terrible for small businesses.

Safari has been holding back web development for many years. In this announcement Apple requires support for X features to allow a browser, but if you look at the page, Safari is worse than Firefox and Chrome/Edge.

The browser is unstable, has had large amounts of bugs and race conditions, refuses to add features that can make the browser a better competitor for apps unless forced to by regulation, and so on... Safari on iOS is garbage, and that's the way Apple wants it to be. It just has to be OK so that iOS users don't understand how bad it really is.

Literally 15 minutes ago a customer asked me if I could add push notification support for iOS, as Apple has refused to do so on iOS for many many years. But Apple did add it when the pressure around competition increased, so now it should work with updated iOS.

Apple is a shit company for consumers, and they are actively sabotaging the web to increase their profits. This is not just something I'm saying. When Apple was forced to allow other browsers in the EU, they announced that they would turn off support for progressive web apps in the EU(apps added to the home screen, push notifications they just added because they were afraid of this and so on). They did go back on it after developer pushback. I haven't looked into this, but I'm pretty sure that Apple has done something to make sure other browsers can't develop PWA features. Cause that is what Apple does.

With android it varies. Samsung has a camera icon on the lock screen by default that you just use, so that is very easy to figure out.

By default, quickly doubletapping the power button also opens the camera, screen on or not.

Gesture navigation is also better on Android, but this is probably because iOS never had a back button.

As someone who is 27 yo and dropped out of school when already having a job offshore(oil) lined up, I certainly can agree with a lot of this.

I had been doing software development for 4 years and I figured I'd rather work with that than automation and electronics. I had a side project(game) that was earning some money.

Note that this was in Norway so I could have (and still can) go to university for free.

My girlfriend ended up getting a masters degree in software development and is currently working in a consultant firm. She's currently tanking another masters degree in entrepreneurship, mostly for fun.

I've always doubted my skills, but after helping her out every now and then I've realized that 10+ years of experience really can't be matched by going to school.

On the other hand I've also learned that university is a great way to kick off your learning. Some things they're learning are things I often ended up with too, on my own, with trial and error. At least I really understand why some things are what they are because of it.

I started very young and was quite successful with my first project. People has spent thousands of years(combined) actively using my first project.

But even though I have done well, I still feel like I'm taken less serious than those with a full education, cause I've just created a strange game.

I'm considering going to university now just to get cheaper insurance and the degree, but I don't expect I'd learn a lot of new things. But I do enjoy fiddling with stuff, so it might be fun.

Do I regret it? Not really. Am I worried? Slightly, if it all falls down then I need to get a normal job or come up with something else.

Would I recommend it? If you're really driven and are already seeing signs of success, sure, give it a shot.

I'm still dreaming about a world where OpenID is the norm. Just think if Apple forced all apps to use that instead, that would be a great move for privacy and security.

But no. Instead they make more proprietary shit without having the basic skills to do so. Then they force that shit on their users.

Me: "Hey Google, set a timer for 15 minutes."

Google: "Created a timer for 15 minutes, how long do you want it to last?"

There is also hilarious things going on with Google assistant on iOS. Like Norwegian with English pronunciation.

These voice assistants are terrible. Sure, they are better that before, but still really bad. And it's even worse in other languages than English where stuff like the above happens.