Google sold Apple the ability to run certain Gemini models on Apple's data-center hardware, using Google's orchestration layer. Apple hooks into that not dissimilar from an API-provider, and then builds everything upstream.
Meaning the system prompt(s), harness, entry and exit points, and skills. So the product is still "Siri AI", because of all the stuff that takes it from a raw infrastructure concern upon up into a "product" is Apple's responsibility.
Google are "okay with that" because Apple pays them $1B a year, per press reports, to be.
Any business can do this now actually - you just need to lease/rent hardware through a Google partner and you can run an Nvidia based server in your own datacenter running (supposedly) the latest full Gemini models.
I don't think you conceptualize Google's game plan. all these companies care about is b2b contracts so they can inflate their balance sheets because when it's digital, it doesn't have to actually exist for it to "make money"
Amazing how someone again finds a meaningless thing Apple does better than the rest then blows it out of proportions. Makes you wonder if they are on Apple's PR team.
It looks bad from every perspective. I've never seen two apple's in one URL for product category before. apple.com/apple-intelligence
To prove my point, I opened a random date on the Apple website matching today's date to compare. 16 years ago, June 8 (1) Apple released the iPhone 4. There's still no room for jokes about that release, and from this perspective, calling their AI 'Apple Intelligence' feels weak compared to what they used to deliver.
I agree that some years ago Apple was the strongest in marketing, their brand team had been setting the bar for tech, but I simply can't say that anymore.
Similar is when people refer to themselves or others as "content creators"
Not filmmakers or artists or writers... "content creators".
Like they exist just to produce a continual stream of this amorphous "content" for consumption.
Now, perhaps that's all that art/writing, etc ever was. But to just abandon even the pretense is another in a long line of surrenders we've made to commoditization.
Was there ever a time when any of the classical/fine arts were used as propaganda or promotional material, prior to the medium elevating to loftier aims?
Is this history repeating itself?
The idea that content creators could be considered artists is one I may have considered before, but only tangentially.
What I'm also curious about...is how this commoditization and consumption via "influencers" has altered any individuals attitudes towards blatant manipulation. Free will seemed to be a much more guarded value. Now, the willing surrender of our free will seems to be the norm...
On the UFS and suchlike filesystems, at the point that fsck is rescuing orphaned i-nodes, it still has not fully gone through the process of checking and correcting free list information, or indeed fully eliminating errors from the i-node table. Creating a directory involves allocating a new i-node from an unused slot, and free blocks off the free block list.
Ironically, because they are slightly or grossly different to Unix filesystem formats, on HPFS and FAT this is less of an issue. (FAT usually has unused slots in the root directory that it is sane to use at that point, for example.) CHKDSK on OS/2 did create its \FOUND.nnn files on the fly.
As the submission explains, the lost+found folder has pre-allocated space for the directory entries. From the mklost+found man page [0]:
mklost+found pre-allocates disk blocks to the lost+found directory
so that when e2fsck(8) is being run to recover a file system, it
does not need to allocate blocks in the file system to store a
large number of unlinked files. This ensures that e2fsck will not
have to allocate data blocks in the file system during recovery.
Pre-allocating space without making the directory visible would require more arcane file system magic.
You greatly overestimate the capabilities of computers of the era that this originated in. Major limitations of disk space, speed and addressability combined with limited CPU power and RAM mean that your hypothetical, “it could have been done” would require a significant investment in development and runtime resources all to avoid having a directory in root that would be empty until after a post-crash recovery.
Also remember that these systems would have all been multi-user time-sharing systems, not desktop computers.
Dang, given all the cool visual work on your website I absolutely would not have expected that. Always good to be reminded how disparate we all are from one another.
Makes me grateful I got my mom to sign that waiver to let me get on Neopets, I don't even see the hex code anymore, I just see marigold, umber, vermilion.
Take care here though, because shaders are almost always working in linear sRGB colors, while color codes are almost always defined in gamma-encoded sRGB.
This property makes it mildly annoying to copy color constants between different contexts.
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