For reference this is a big price hike:

Plus went from x10 usage to only x2 vs the free tier. Pro from x33 to x4 Ultra from x166 to x80

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1thmta0/i_underst...

I think it’s too little for this day and age as well, but in Apple’s defense, their RAM compression on ARM works amazingly well and performs similarly to 12GB on Windows.

With that said, I hate that you can’t upgrade the RAM or storage.

I hope that at least one side effect of this is that developers will have a business case for performance improvement dev time, as those machines will become a juicy target, similar to video game consoles that may not have the best specs but are consistent and have a large number of units in the market.

What I think was a wasted opportunity was not bringing the xserve back, being one of the few e2e solutions out there at scale.

AI being a bubble it's not mutually exclusive of being a real and useful technology and the existence of non-snake oil companies.

Cisco was a bubble in the dot com crash, despite being a company that provide real value and profit, just not at the level of the crazy expectations from the time.

I'm literally talking about the fact that Anthropic is making $30B Annual Revenue, which is the result of less than $10B investment two years ago.

The public hasn't seen the insane ROA/ROI on GPUs. So all AI adjacent stocks are massively undervalued.

I’m not sure your numbers are accurate, they raised $13bn in funding in September last year. Also do note that a lot of the money is cross-subsidized by Google who is funding the TPUs as an investment, so I wouldn’t be so confident that they are returning money quite yet (though it does seem that Anthropic might make it).

The Winner Takes It All lyrics are great for commits and Pull Requests: I don't wanna talk If it makes you feel sad And I understand You've come to shake my hand I apologize If it makes you feel bad

Strix Halo 128 w/ linux 7x

Totally. I would add that code that "works" it's easy to do. Code that it's efficient, easy to maintain and safe... That it's another story.

But the sad truth is that most software can be or it's done with shitty code that "kinda works" as long as the CPU it's fast enough.

And if you're in one of those jobs, you don't get paid the big bucks.

Yeah a ramdisk would probably work wonders. It's a shame Intel optane didn't became a standard, those type of workflows would be amazing for it.

Ya know, here on the local market there are a bunch of optanes hanging around, I'll try to manage one to check if there's any improvement

Optanes will be good for latency, but not so much for BW which seems to be your major bottleneck if I'm not mistaken?

yeah, the mobo upgrade is something I gotta do anyway, so I'll cover that up more or less, the optane is something I didn't thought about

Ahhh damn it. Intel! Come back!

I bet we'll the the SUV mania in the future as something crazy, like smoking in a plane or using lead for gasoline. Irrational large size cars that people get because everyone it's afraid of another SUV hitting them in a sedan. The tragedy of the commons.

You're right, but there will be some brand new, even worse social psychosis by then, surely. Cigarette smoking actually makes more sense to me than giant cars -- at least it only hurts the person doing the smoking!

I think this is the way, automated testing for all patches, small changes, and manual testing for big releases.