coldtea

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by coldtea 4d ago
They sell to dozens of major companies, plus sell their own retail. An added 0.4% revenue for selling the most expensive part (the display) of the new flagshit product, for the most popular high end phone line in the world, sounds about rig
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by coldtea 4d ago
Apple still has their 30% margins on top of whatever they give, like always. And has used Samsung and other parts since always. They, on the other hand, have razor thin, mass retail, margins, for what they sell to Apple.
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by coldtea 4d ago
So? It's an insignificant amount compared to Samsung/Apple scale revenues. Samsung's revenue for 2025 was 233 billion. They get 0.4% more. So?
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by coldtea 5d ago
Where exactly do I say "Apple _shouldn't_ add it to their earbuds"? I'm saying as an "incentive" to get to the new version of airpods 5, it's a lame one, since the feature existed in all kinds of cheaper e
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by coldtea 5d ago
> I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output. The way in which it sometimes shows up
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by coldtea 5d ago
Wild that you think he is not. He is clearly a product of a mindset and a large culture share, with a big cult following (way before he was a president) and he was voted into the highest office twice. > Has HN really fallen this low? W
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by coldtea 6d ago
> This has only ever been true in a relative sense. Until recently, one was expected to understand the software-level code they wrote. But not the machine code, or the computer internals at a deep level. Just because something wasn&#x27
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by coldtea 6d ago
> Up until now, LLMs have required outside input and interpretation to avoid collapsing under their own weight. This has been known for decades. What does "for decades" mean? That in 2000 we knew "LLM require outside inpu
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by coldtea 6d ago
> Did you guys ever manage to create a perpetuum mobile? Every time it is mentioned somewhere, it is fraud. An LLM should comprehend that it needs (trained) humans to exist, to evolve, and to be relevant in any metaphysical aspect of its
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by coldtea 6d ago
They're the same in this regard, and it’s insane that you think otherwise. Asians might get the fame today with movies like "Crazy Rich Asians" but Americans have long been seen as the typical "flaunting wealth" con
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by coldtea 7d ago
The iPhone 18 Pro and the Airpods are equally dissapointing. Even the folding iPhone is nothing special.
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by coldtea 7d ago
>Do you want open ear (AirPods) or closed (AirPods Pro). Some people can’t stand having something in their ear.* Both versions put something in your ear. There are wireless earbuds that stay outside next to the ear, that are actually the
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by coldtea 7d ago
> for those who were holding out from Gen1 or whatever, adding pro features at a non-pro price is definitely incentivising. I’m not sure why we’re pretending it’s not. Because it's a non-feature even the cheapest $30 wireless earbu
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by coldtea 7d ago
"Their main competitor" meaning western Europe. Not specifically Germany or the UK. So the point still stands. Whatever growth US had in the 19 century, Europe self-destructing through WWI and WWII ensured US will be the lead in t
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by coldtea 7d ago
Yeah, it's corporate-feudalism instead.
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by coldtea 8d ago
Doesn't matter which task. Compare it with about 40-50t/s an LLM oneshots with, and it, and whatever task now takes X time, takes X * 40-50 with this.
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by coldtea 8d ago
Doesn't matter what it is in principle.
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by coldtea 8d ago
Not to mention their main competitor self-destructed twice in 1914 and 1939
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by coldtea 8d ago
> Not every application of AI is "do the creativity for me." However it can lead to AI "doing the creative for them" and them out of a job in the near future.
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by coldtea 8d ago
If you dont know what you'll use a personal computer for, don't get one. Either you're living the life in an analog way in some exotic beach or farm, in which case, great for you, or you're doomscrolling on your smartpho
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by coldtea 9d ago
I can tell just from the title that this text is AI generated.
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by coldtea 9d ago
If that was the case it would be a constant throughout history. And often it's also just "compared to 5 or 10 years ago" not 20s vs 40s or 50s.
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by coldtea 9d ago
> I think the „my brain isn’t the same anymore“ sensation is pretty universal. One would hope so, but there are countless people that believe this can't ever be the case, and it's just lack of personal motivation that's t
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by coldtea 9d ago
We know that the Mac has fine margins.
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by coldtea 9d ago
Windows dual boot meant millions of potential switchers, if not for anything else, as a list item to tell them "you could still dual boot". Asahi-on-Mac would bring in irrelevant numbers for a company of Apple's size.
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by coldtea 9d ago
That would sure improve morale...
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by coldtea 9d ago
> I'm thinking less about shame, as corporations are dead to shame, and more about if you can prove the TV stored a record of your bank details it got from text to speech. Then they'll get a joke fine, and continue as before.
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by coldtea 9d ago
> The age of shame is over. Current world goernments have flourished under the premise of being terrible, horrible, awful, evil enterprises that do bad for the sake of either being bad or enriching the bad - a consumer device with a ToS
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by coldtea 9d ago
> In an age where AI can search vast amounts of data having something in your home or workplace turning what it hears into text looks like a problem waiting to happen. That's understating the problem. With or without AI, this shoul
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by coldtea 10d ago
> I'm reading your comment with a certain disdain for analysis and theory, which I get - a lot of people come out scarred from music theory training, and I'm sorry someone hurt you that way. I'm fine with contentional mus

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