a company helmed by a charismatic, mercurial leader who makes unrealistic promises and then cracks the whip on the employees to deliver has got special concerns.
You are aware that Steve Jobs passed away in 2011? Tim Cook is an altogether different person.
You seem to be making the assumption that Apple haven't been working on LLMs.
Apple haven't talked about, or demonstrated any work on LLMs, but they are famously secretive and this doesn't mean that they haven't been working on them for a long time.
iPhone, iPad, iOS, tvOS, iPadOS and now visionOS. Is anyone honestly surprised that Apple named something starting with a lower-case letter?
iPhone is commonly used with a lower-case letter at the beginning of a sentence. iOS is another one that people are seemingly happy to begin a sentence with. Why not visionOS? No-one writes Iphone or IPhone when it's at the start of a sentence.
Apple have also announced that RCS messages will no longer appear in green bubbles, as this is reserved for SMS. Instead, RCS messages will be brown bubbles.
Whilst ARM Surface laptops don't perform as well as x86 Surface laptops, over on the other side of the fence, Apple Silicon (ARM) based laptops absolutely smoke equivalent x86 laptops.
ARM doesn't just mean low power, it means more instructions per watt, which is important for energy efficiency. In a datacenter, this is important to pack more processing into the same amount of space and not need more power delivery or cooling.
If only they did it on a weekend where people can have a lie-in on Sunday.
Maybe they could warn people in advance, too, so that those with a weak heart could spread the shock to their system over three whole days. Getting up 20 minutes earlier/later isn't going to kill anybody.
Wait, what? What day do they do it on? Here it is always the wee small hours of Sunday morning, it either skips from 2:00 am straight to 3:00 am, or 2:00 am repeats.
Yeah, I understand what they were originally saying - these balloons were flying high with minimal metallic components and traveling quite slowly, so wouldn't show up on radar like, say, a SR71 would.
"We basically opened the filters," the official added, much like a car buyer unchecking boxes on a website to broaden the parameters of what can be searched.
Don't you love it when they try to add an explanation to something that was perfectly clear and sucked beyond their wildest dreams to make it more confusing than ever?
"much like a car buyer unchecking boxes on a website" what does that even mean?
A cooling fan *and* an external battery pack with a cable?
This sounds very un-Apple to me.
I might suggest that whoever has seen the headset in this state has only seen a working prototype. I can not see Apple going with extra cables and a noisy fan in a headset. I could be wrong, but it's more like Apple to wait another year or two for the tech to mature and build it all into a single piece of hardware.
That, and the trains up and down will be completely packed 24/7 and most people will never leave their houses. Did they even run a simulation as to how many people need to move from place to place and loading and unloading times? I think food supply will also be a difficult issue.
Hang on, how can the trains be packed 24/7 if people never leave their houses?
There is OpenGL which is an open framework for 3D graphics, however NVIDIA encourages developers to specifically target their own APIs as they have hobbled OpenGL performance in their drivers. ATI used to have decent OpenGL performance, but now they also hobble it so that developers are encouraged to use their Radeon APIs instead.
Then, we have OpenCL - which Intel has at some stage in the past supported on Intel processors, but now wants to move away from because reasons.
https://www.intel.com/content/...
I've had a number of SSDs in client systems fail, and I've had a couple of my own fail, and in nearly every case the drive has soft failed. The controller puts the drive into read-only mode, and you can still copy data back from the drive.
This can be quite strange to diagnose at first, some controllers tell the OS that they are read-only, but others pretend it's business as usual, and let you write data. They don't actually commit the data to flash, but tell the OS that they have. It can be difficult to work out what's going on the first time you see this - when you save a file it looks like the save operation has completed, but then when you open it again, it's magically gone back to how it was before.
This has been my experience with SSDs over the past 3-5 years. When they fail, the drive controller detects that the flash has passed it's lifetime writes or something like that and locks the drive into read-only mode. You can't dump any more data onto the drive, but you can usually recover everything that is on there already.
If the controller fails, then all bets are off, but this is a far less frequent occurrence.
My experience is quite different to this - most SSDs I've seen fail have been the flash that's failed, and the drive puts itself into read-only mode so that it won't damage the flash with further writes. This allows you to copy the data off the drive. Interestingly, some failed SSDs report to the OS that they are read-only, but others pretend to be a read/write device, but they silently discard all the writes. At least you can still get the data back that has already been written though.
If however the controller fails, then the drive can suddenly die - and as most drives are using some form of encryption on their flash chips, even if you transplant another controller, the crypto keys will not match and the data will be unrecoverable.
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