SMEbooop

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   by SMEbooop 16d ago

   TL;DR Cook kept an already mature Jobs era initiative alive Apple's first chip, A4, was released in 2010 before Jobs was gone Given how long it took then to get a single chip physically manufactured the business plan had been sorted ou
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   by SMEbooop 16d ago

   Because users like dull products that just work
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   by SMEbooop 16d ago

   Yeah this is my experience. My 24GB 3090 + 64GB RAM takes a couple hours to crank out some code with largest Gemma 4 and Qwen3.8 models it can run But in the meantime I get dishes done, vacuum, flip laundry... etc etc Frontier models also s
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   by SMEbooop 16d ago

   What supply crunch? Tons of RAM available for purchase. It's just expensive. That there is a "supply crunch" is made up to benefit from Trump administration not giving a shit how big corps operate There's cloud hosts out
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   by SMEbooop 16d ago

   Tech startups aren't a great example. Tech improves and stabilizes. Always will. Startup ideas back then were actually useful bleeding edge work. Now it's all git pull and import the world with a languages package manager; no more
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   by SMEbooop 16d ago

   Same in Portland, OR. Cost of living is through the roof for one of the least diverse and culture-less metros of the well known metros in the US. Been around most of the 50 states and found way way more going on for less money. It is swampe