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Comment AI Incest (Score 1) 37

I like this if only because it means AI generated content will enter circulation at a rapid rate (because people can now make money from it) and it will ensure that LLMs start to ingest and crap out their own works. I've been told this turns out a bit like actual inbreeding and results in LLMs that are essentially retarded if we were to draw a comparison to humans.

Comment Re:EU to the Rescue!! (Score 1) 401

Apple wouldn't name their products that way. They'd come up with something like the MacBook Air Light or the MacBook Breeze. It wouldn't tell the customer anything and is just pointless masturbatory action on the point of bureaucrats who believe the know better than everyone else.

Comment Re: 8GB is only to claim lower starting price... (Score 2) 401

There is a technical reason for integrating the RAM into the CPU package. Having it very close coupled does allow for very tight timing.

Dude you're seriously fucking bonkers if you believe that provides any material benefit at all. The absolute best it can do is add a very miniscule amount of energy efficiency, but we're talking on the scale of adding less than one second to a ten hour battery life.

Putting the ram on the package means both making everything cheaper and smaller. Having equal length traces between modern CPUs and memory is not feasible so you also have to add latency to compensate. Apple probably gets a measurable performance boost this way, but making the system cheaper and smaller certainly matters more.

None of that excuses selling such a low-memory configuration at all, or the prices Apple charges for versions with larger storage, let alone having soldered storage. Ram on package makes sense, it saves space and significant money. SSD soldered makes little sense, it saves almost no space or money. The soldered SSD is on the same kind of bus it would be on if it weren't soldered!

Comment Re:insubordination (Score 1, Interesting) 231

It is retaliation in English, but it is not retaliation in legalese.

And only the latter matters when it comes to having something done about a firing.

I had an employer who did not pay the wages legally required by the state. The state was unwilling to do anything about my wage claim. Although what he did was technically grand theft (here in California, wage theft over a certain amount is now legally grand theft) they had no interest in prosecuting. This is why wage theft exceeds all other theft combined, it is not at all enforced. District Attorneys across the nation are not willing to do their jobs and prosecute. But once we got to my retaliation complaint things got a lot more serious and I was able to secure a settlement.

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