We cannot compute anything without internet access and a Facebook account.

It’s ok we will get cheap chips from Taiwan without having to invest a single dime once the bubble bursts.

We will keep working on philosophy, theory and arts. Let the rest of the world get their hands dirty building things.

Philosophy, theory, and arts are so intertwined with technology that a nation which does not build cannot be expected to remain at the forefront of those three.

In thermodynamics, through cycles of expansion and compression, useful work can be extracted. Similarly through economic cycles, America is able to extract wealth from rest of globe.

Implementation reviews are not useful anymore. CRs should be replaced with design reviews where reviewers validate the sanity of the specs and the coverage of the tests

I wonder why Apple did not do the same thing?

Shove all of the compute in the external unit, instead of having all of that weight in your face.

It is clear signal but its causes are multiple and I am not sure what percent attribution each one has:

1) Roles with high turnover. Likely the posting stays always on. 2) The pay is bad and nobody takes the job. 3) The role is too niche and the candidates in the market with visibility to the role are very few. 4) Aggressive hiring. Candidates have many options and until they actually show up at work, you keep interviewing other candidates. 5) Forgotten posts / ghost posts (my gut feeling says that this is the lowest contributor to the spike we observe, as likely it should be flat over time)

Reposts from recruiting agencies or other unrelated companies to resell the candidates or simply farm user details for fraud etc.

So, you’re saying it’s not really a clear signal?

The IPhone runs on a battery, with no active cooling.

There is no chance the sustained single core perf is better than a 150=200+w ryzen with a big noctua cooler on it. The power draw alone would kill the battery in a few minutes(?), and the heat would make it catch fire. lol

I don't think you are correct for single-core performance.

A20 Pro scores around 4725 at 8.9w. Geekerwan's review showed that the iPhone 18 pro could dissipate as much as 6.4w during long gaming tests. Cutting power by 50% likely still keeps around 80% of the clockspeed.

As 9950x scores around 3400-3450 in geekbench, or around 28% slower.

There's a very good chance that the iPhone single thread performance is genuinely faster even during sustained loads.

Sustained performance is usually based on cooling, not the chip. There is no reason the iPhone chip can't sustain its performance if you give it a small fan.

So whatever your argument is, it doesn't make much sense.

The M6 is based on A20 Pro and it sustains its performance in a Mac Mini indefinitely - likely longer than Ryzens.

Yeah but we are talking about the IPhone not the mac mini!

>Single core performance still worse than an iPhone.

I can believe the core with active cooling can sustain good performance at least, but not in the IPhone.

The 9800X3D doesn't pull anywhere near that much in single threaded workloads, it'd fry the core. It's also way less efficient than the iPhone CPU design and on an older and less efficient semiconductor process from TSMC.

If you compare like for like, ie. take the process node out of the picture, then you need to compare the Ryzen 9000 series to the A16, as both use TSMC's 4NP process.

There is nothing like for like. We're comparing a fanless phone chip to machines that might have water cooling and nearly unlimited power.

I can guarantee you that it was not. Check out DO-278A, and its standards and guidelines that must be followed.

So it was vibe coded by a junior consultant making $20 an hour..?

Honestly. Of all the places to deploy first I’m happy it’s that one.

The government politicians who approved this are frequent flyers out of there, so they’re at least getting their lives out on the line before the rest of the country if it proves ill managed or conceived.

It’s basically dogfooding.

You can serve Fable from a cloud vendor (like AWS, Azure). They have frozen versions of the models, so likely this should not be an issue?

I would do a test to verify my suspicions.

In my experience, the API versions are as good as ever; it's the subscriptions that are severely degraded.

Sounds like a good smoke test.

I’m actually so far removed from this tech that I couldn’t run such a test myself lol

Also all of the subscription services now have such draconian IP checks, that the false positives for password sharing have become super annoying. Every time I have to prove that I am me.

Literally netflix, disney+, nytimes have become so annoying to use that I had to cancel.