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New comment by klausa in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

klausa — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:50:02 +0000

No; the person I replied to line about "having to transition these by the end of the year" was a reference to a fact that Apple's publicly announced deal with Qualcomm expires this year/early next year.

New comment by klausa in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

klausa — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:48:59 +0000

The modems are made by _Qual_comm, not Broadcom.

Different company.

New comment by klausa in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

klausa — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:02:13 +0000

You can use past tense there.

New comment by klausa in "A global workspace in language models"

klausa — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:49:51 +0000

This is something that anyone learning a foreign language could tell you is very much a thing.

Understanding a word when you hear it, is frequently much easier than remembering the same word when trying to speak/write the language.

New comment by klausa in "A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time"

klausa — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:21:43 +0000

And perhaps more importantly for the final price, if you’re paran^W concerned enough about security to the degree of commissioning custom iPhones without cameras, you’re also not going to let a random guy from the street drill into them.

(You also need to remove the front facing camera, which is also a more involved operation.)

New comment by klausa in "AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules"

klausa — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:33:20 +0000

"AI output is patentable but it's not copyrightable" is going to be tons of fun.

New comment by klausa in "GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box"

klausa — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:00:41 +0000

Ironically, frequently _because of_ compression.

AIUI the process of building asset packs and compressing them can mean that modifying a single texture can mean complete reshuffling of the resulting file; and that means redownloading the whole compiled "pack".

New comment by klausa in "GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box"

klausa — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:33:02 +0000

You can buy games directly on Steam without buying a physical box too; I presumed from context it was clear I was referring to retail, physical editions.

New comment by klausa in "GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box"

klausa — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:13:39 +0000

It's mandatory for literally all (native) PS5/XSX games; because that means the games can rely on SSD speeds and not worry about supporting fetching data from the spinning disks.

New comment by klausa in "GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box"

klausa — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:06:36 +0000

Doesn't really matter, PS5 games can't be played from disk anyway; they have to be installed to the SSD first.

New comment by klausa in "GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box"

klausa — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:05:39 +0000

> I mean, when I got Skyrim's legendary edition, the box only had a code in it, and that was 2013! 13 years ago!

Because PC and console games have (had?) different cultures.

This has been normalized for PC games for decades, but it absolutely is not the norm for consoles.

New comment by klausa in ""Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds"

klausa — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:31:57 +0000

You’ve missed (or ignored) the “compiler enforces leaving the scope” part.

New comment by klausa in "Japanese symbols that speak without words"

klausa — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:39:43 +0000

>If I am in the middle lane (lane 2), and I realize I need to get into the leftmost lane (lane 1) to make a turn, but lane 1 is too full for me to simply move into it without affecting others, then I would have no choice but to cut someone off.

...you could just miss your turn, instead of cutting someone off?

New comment by klausa in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

klausa — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:00:05 +0000

Sure, it was a rhetorical flourish that maybe didn't land :)

New comment by klausa in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

klausa — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:31:50 +0000

I've seen you comment along those lines before, and I think you're both right, and terribly wrong.

By all measures, the way you describe any hiring processes you've designed and had input on designing the metric and the work sample, probably is both high in signal, and not very arbitrary in scoring. They sound genuinely and refreshingly good. Maybe one day I'll interact with one :)

But man, that is very much not how work sample tests work in _a lot_ of places out there.

Places with actual, formalized rubrics for what constitutes a "pass" or a "good" score are very rare, it's almost always just based on vibes of whatever person is reading your code. If there _are_ formalized rubrics, then they have "suggested allowed time" that is incongruous with what the requirements for a "pass" actually are.

All of that is downstream, fundamentally, from the design of the tests not being taken very seriously by the people doing that. And because they're not actually thinking about it very deeply (or they're not allowed to because of time constraints or whatever); "sit down and redesign this task from first principles thinking about what AI enables now" is just not something that happens, and you just get people increasing the scopes of the project blindly.

New comment by klausa in "Sakana Fugu"

klausa — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:51:21 +0000

I think OP meant noise-cancelling headphones, which were fairly ubiquitous in tech circles in open offices; before Apple launched AirPods.

New comment by klausa in "Rent collections are down in New York"

klausa — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:03:02 +0000

Yes, and then what was their last sentence?

New comment by klausa in "Rent collections are down in New York"

klausa — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:37:29 +0000

What judgment? I literally wrote that they’re a nice person!

“Money into a void” is the phrasing _they_ used!

New comment by klausa in "Rent collections are down in New York"

klausa — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:30:49 +0000

“Money into a void” is the exact phrase that the _person I’m replying to_ used when comparing themselves to a corporate landlord.

New comment by klausa in "Rent collections are down in New York"

klausa — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:04:47 +0000

Look, I'm sure you're a nice person and a better landlord than many corporate landlords; and trying to do well.

I'm genuinely glad you're trying, and helping your tenants when you can; but I think you've drunk a bit too much of your own kool-aid.

From perspective of your tenants, that money still goes into a void, no matter how nice you are.