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Thats insane!

does that mean since this is the iPhone 16 cpu, by proxy the iPhone 16 can also run Windows in a virtual machine?

Maybe/maybe not (we don't know how identical the A18 chip is to what shipped in the iPhone) - but it does determine that the virtualization stuff that was added to the M1 (in the era of the A14) has now moved over to the A series, at least enough to support macOS.

Speculation I’ve heard from Ben Thompson of Stratechery is this machine is, in part, a way to get value out of iPhone Pro chips that had defects.

The Neo has a 5 core GPU. The iPhone 16 Pro had a 6 core.

So, if he’s correct, these are the same exact chip. Just with a fault in one GPU core or one GPU core disabled if it was good. That lets them use extra chips they already made that would have gone to waste, at least until they run out.

Which would mean they both would have identical abilities, assuming no software lock for segmentation purposes.

It’s all supposition. But it make a lot of business sense.


What a cool and smart way to utilize those chips!

It would explain why they picked such an arbitrary number of cores.


Thats pretty cool.

Is this a trick question? Of course. However Apple imposed artificial limitations, like disabling JIT.

So they're purposefully crippling it?

Yes. See UTM: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id156...

Unfortunately, the performance is very poor due to Apple restrictions on iOS.


What do you mean by Apple restrictions?

Are they arbitrary restrictions Apple puts on them to prevent this kind of thong?


It is mostly around Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation. From what I can tell, it is an arbitrary restriction for apps published on the App Store. It looks like UTM can be sideloaded without the restriction.

See the UTM iOS installation documentation for more information: https://docs.getutm.app/installation/ios/


I mean, in principle you already can: https://getutm.app/

It doesn't work well - probably not at all for a modern version of Windows - but the tools exist.


Ironically you can actually use AI to replace Jira.

Counterpoint, I have been using Nix for several months and have no problems.

I use LLM's ALOT for the config file which is in a custom nix DSL. I couldn't imagine how long it would take before LLM's.

But with an LLM I'm pretty happy with nix.


He was suffocated by the corporate aspect Meta I suspect.

It's wild that in the year 2026 modern science can't recreate a SINGLE cell (which is what a human egg/ovum is).

Well, that seems a bit reductive because nothing can create a single cell right now. All cells are self-copied-and-divided. Omnis cellula e cellula, as they say. There is no cell constructor anywhere. Both Nature and Artifice use the same device to make more cells: a previous cell.

Theres components though. And where theres components theres building blocks. And where theres building blocks engineering is possible.

It wouldn't be wild if you understood how complex cells are.

Trees are high technology. I’m not sure we’ll match that even in 100 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium describes the closest we've gotten; synthesizing the DNA and swapping it into an existing cell which then propagates the synthetic gene line.

To encode all the atomic data and relative position of a single human cell probably would take a good chunk of all the hard drives in the world. A cell is not like a silicon chip where 99% of it is just repeating the same patterns.

it's possible to convert stem cells or skin cells into functional egg cells (ova) in lab settings, though the technology remains experimental and not yet ready for routine clinical use

I'm always reading about amazing stuff like this with modern medicine. Things that work great in lab settings: cures for cancer, organ scaffolding, regrowing teeth, etc etc.

Never hear about it again after the initial news.


Lots of tech gets discovered, is heavily patented, and then 20 years late,r when that large first round of patents expire, people start working on and developing the tech.

"Regrowing teeth" started human trials last June. Development takes time.

And there is no single cure to cancer.


Are you looking for an explanation,

or a fix,

for this?

(The fix is to consume less popular science types of sources.)


> Never hear about it again after the initial news.

Perhaps it is because you're not a specialist—all of these things are still worked on.


I honestly don't look forward to the day that we can do that. It may redefine our very existence more so than even automation.

That's exactly why I look forward to it!

Families is where wings take dream.

We must stop the terror. I call upon all nations, to do everything they can, to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you.

Now watch this drive.


Mission Accomplished

How come no one ever makes a joke?

The joke is in the long-winded, self-centered empty apologies and appeals to God; the punchline is in the subsequent brief and clinical descriptions of completely unforgivable acts. These are nauseating to read.

I advise having a read through Sapolskys book "Determined" to get another perspective

I appreciate the recommendation and I will read it (I also appreciate that you made a recommendation instead of downvoting me), however I don't think free will has much to do with this. If they were predetermined to be like this then I have sympathy for the bad dice roll, but once they've stomped an infant to death they're always that person. It doesn't change much about how to deal with them; you can't trust that they won't do it again no matter how much time passes, and that means that saying sorry and making Pascal's wager come off as completely hollow.

"If they were predetermined to be like this..."

Lack of free will is not the same is predeterminism.


What is your goal in asking someone to read this book, we're supposed to have sympathy for those who have had a bad rap in nature and nurture.

That 'the system' is responsible for driving them to their actions ?


> That 'the system' is responsible for driving them to their actions ?

not the system, but the design of life itself we all sustain. the "system" is only a projection of it.

everything that happens in the world is your responsibility also, as you help make it happen. it's our world after all.

if something happens but is not supposed to happen, either the person made a mistake, or the design is broken and nudges to make it happen, or both. blame-the-person is the default strategy, but it doesn't lead to a better design, and it denies the plain reality that the design puts some people at the center, so they can party and are not to be bothered by the downsides of their actions, and others are pushed to the edge, and will fall off. by design.

you probably prefer to pay the police than to pay someone a meal so she doesn't need to steal and expose herself to the risk of killing someone. it's what people at the center would think, but it's not a good idea to give them power over the design of our lives that puts them first.

there's clearly worthless trash on both sides of the equation.


> everything that happens in the world is your responsibility also, as you help make it happen. it's our world after all.

No, there clearly are things that are 'outside the individual or groups control'. There are three kinds of events, things we can control, things we have partial control, and things we can't control.

Nobody is responsible for the sun rising, nobody is responsible for gravity. Nobody is responsible for another persons actions, each person has choice, love it or hate it they do.

If you can't see that I don't know what to say, we fundamentally have a disagreement on reality.

If individuals are 'responsible' for everything, we all should share the same yolk of punishment for individual actions, and this should extend to all sentient life, why stop at people, why not kill their pets and farm animals, trees and plants nearby, (I assume this is what you want, see what i did there ?)

> you probably prefer to pay the police than to pay someone a meal so she doesn't need to steal and expose herself to the risk of killing someone

Please don't assume my take on caring for people, this take is very wrong.

> there's clearly worthless trash on both sides of the equation.

Right back at ya ;P


You didn’t find the “that will be 5 dollars” one funny?

I love being alone as long as I have a couple of the friends to talk to a couple of times a week.

It's actually my ideal setup.

However I'm lucky enough to have some friends I can just chat with occasionally which makes all the difference.

When I was truly alone it was rough.

I feel like making friends is somewhat of a part-time job at first. You just got to do whatever you can to get around people.

A warning: predator type people can also sense vulnerable lonely people so don't just make friends with anyone who will be friends with you right away. Be vary careful and if you get a sense that something isn't right don't let the pain of loneliness override your safety.


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