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Yeh; I mean he's still just a dude, not gonna glaze him, but IMO early public ed should really just focus on math and basic physical experiment design for kids

Save specialization in other fields for later in life. Most fields jargon are bolted on top the physical geometry, color gradient, and additive/subtractive behavior in the natural world anyway.

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 out for years, likely not long after the switch to Intel

They were just waiting for manufacturers to hit the right metrics

Because users like dull products that just work

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 seem in such a rush to emit anything they produce a mess that needs steering all day anyway

While I have not tested it, it feels like my local setup going slower is better at producing code that works the first time as its not trying to look fast for marketing sake

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 there with unused compute. Wasted cycles are all over businesses running unused cloud apps and subscribed to services they don't use.

Still need a local computer to access the cloud; so a barely used gadget still exists. And this creates duplication of effort; we built RAM for servers AND the edge devices.

Seems redundant when tech nerds and corporations are really the only people that care.

And all that data in the web is meaningless yet we create a supply crunch storing it in servers.

This an out of touch nickel and dime perspective given the big picture to say nothing of the mess of strip mining and manufacturing pipelines that go into every screw, wire, and such

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 need to optimize and normalize low level code.

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 swamped with boogie uninteresting characters. When I moved here almost 30 years ago now the locals boasted about having some of the lowest TV ownership rates in the country. Now I walk my dog and see glowing massive TVs in every house.

Bunch of lame college kids from Nowhereville community college Arkansas and Kentucky shirts everywhere; never see Oregon State or UofO anymore cause those grads know the local economy sucks and leverage their degree to get out.

All the local boogie ice cream shops with lines out the door? Venture capital businesses. Not truly local.

Multnomah county population been on the decline since covid lockdown ended. First time a years long depopulation trend has happened in Portland ever.

People outside of Portland find out I live here and trash it for turning into a gentrified snooze fest.

Can't wait to gtfo out of here once my kids are older