But that in itself is telling in a way: if national security was a true concern, access should be limited to people who passed background checks.

It really depends on whether the Chinese government wants to make good money or "win" the current AI bubbke.

But you can learn to phrase your WTFs about your colleague's code politely and constructively. I would even argue that this an absolutely basic skill for professionals. It typically leads to faster and better answers whenever a discussion arises.

Even if confusion seems to spread in a discussion, I would expect the person who realizes this first to call that out and and to reset the conversation.

There is nothing magic or onerous about this.

The only difference that I can see here is that the standards layer hasn't solidified yet.

But Apple's position here is actually really wild: Apple claims to protect user privacy all the time. But they can't offer a product in a major jurisdiction that has actually meaningful privacy laws? Didn't they consider that while designing the product?

This is quite the contradiction.

Let me put it this way: what I care about is how quickly data arrives after a bunch of shader threads request it. Throughput is one way for hardware to reduce that time. The other way is to hide the latency (GPUs do a lot to keep themselves busy while waiting for memory), but those strategies can only do so much.

Lower memory throughput almost always leads to a longer runtime of GPU calls in practice, and thus lower update rates.