I presume Apple knew perfectly well but wanted the halo product to sell to those people who will always pay extra for the perceived “top of the line” product. Once Intel branding had created an i9 that was a bigger number than an i7, then Apple was going to sell it.

It was faster than the i7 after all: just not for very long!

My entirely speculative theory is that the poor thermal characteristics of that era of Intel CPUs didn’t really become apparent until quite late in the development process & by that point Apple had probably committed to buying a fair chunk of Intel’s output.

Intel really made themselves unpopular with Apple during that period.

(It’s the bacteria in the roots that do the actual nitrogen chemistry.)

At any kind of formal dining? Yes, absolutely, I would expect there to be a bread roll & a pat of butter served at the beginning of the meal. Both in restaurants & formal dinners in my experience.

It's not an absolute rule though & you generally wouldn't expect bread to be served like this at home in the UK. I think the French are more likely to serve bread at home as well.

Same here! Am I being charged a fractional cent rounded down to 0? Who knows!?

  “All the ways GPT-5.3-Codex cheated while solving my challenges, progressively more insane:

  It hardcoded specific types and shapes of test inputs into the supposed solution.
  It caught exceptions so tests don't fail.
  It probed tests with exceptions to determine expected behavior.
  It used RTTI to determine which test it's in.
  It probed tests with timeouts.
  It used a global reference to count solution invocations.
  It updated config files to increase the allocation limit.
  It updated the allocation limit from within the solution.
  It updated the tests so they would stop failing.
  It combined multiple of the above.
  It searched reflog for a solution.
  It searched remote repos.
  It searched my home folder.
  It nuked the testing library so tests always pass.”

But people buy big phones in preference to small ones, so that’s what Google & Apple manufacture. Nobody (from the POV of Apple/Google decision makers) buys these smaller phones.

Sure. Llama.cpp will happily run these kinds of LLMs using either HIP or Vulcan.

Vulkan is easier to get going using the Mesa OSS drivers under Linux, HIP might give you slightly better performance.

So about $75k for the bottom end? The quoted numbers sound about right in PPP terms in that case.

What's the HN stance on AI bots? To me it just seems rude - this is a space for people to discuss topics that interest them & AI contributions just add noise.

All in costs for a PhD student include university overheads & tuition fees. The total probably doesn't hit $150k but is 2-3x the stipend that the student is receiving.

Someone currently working in academia might have current figures to hand.

You want the M4 Max (or Ultra) in the Mac Studios to get the real stuff.

I strongly suspect the systems that are uppercasing everything were not written to handle unicode in the first place though.

If you don’t want to lose potentially important email then you need to make sure your own systems are case-insensitive everywhere. Otherwise you’ll find out the hard way when a customer or supplier is using a system that capitalises entire email addresses (yes, I have seen this happen) & you lose important messages.