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Thom, exceedingly pure Jun 22, 2024

The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.

All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.

I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.

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Miłosz Jun 22, 2024

@thomholwerda still, Apple can sell their castrated products in full price to EU citizens without doing any work to stick to the EU law.

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mxk Jun 22, 2024

@milosz @thomholwerda "castrated" would imply, that something of value is being lost.

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RealWaaagh Jun 22, 2024

@mxk @milosz @thomholwerda there's going to be a lot of value missing

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Andreas K Jun 23, 2024

@realwaaagh @mxk @milosz @thomholwerda
Not really.

As some developers have correctly observed, the iOS 18 Beta is missing all the new exciting features, which is highly atypical, but there are good reasons:

- Apple finds it a bit hard to tune the AI features to Apple quality expectations. Guss what, seems like Apple has not solved the LLM/world model problem, so they will take a long time to fine tune that AI beast.

- building the private AI cloud will take ~2 years.

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Andreas K

@realwaaagh @mxk @milosz @thomholwerda

(Yes now it hurts that Apple has been always stingy with RAM on their iPhones, running even 3B models locally will take some careful quantization, and thus quality of outcome tradeoffs. But the real LLM for SIri and similar uses will all have to run in the so called Apple Private Cloud → building these data centres takes time, money, and difficult to get GPU. 2026 is a realistic time frame for Apple Intelligence to come as an update for iOS 18/19)