It’s the Friday before WWDC during which Apple is going to announce an “improved” Siri based on Google models (a locked partnership, for now). Maybe it’s a coincidence, but this might be Google releasing models that will be showcased next week by Apple?
I'm fully expecting an updated foundation model of some kind, but I would bet money they don't utter the words "Google", "Gemini", or "Gemma" even once.
FWIW, this has been my experience since 2003 when I had to get suspension work done. Doesn’t matter if it’s a BMW or Honda, dealership or indie repair shop, the story I have heard consistently is that the bushing is part of the arm for structural integrity, stability, <reason I can’t remember, truth or crock>. Bushings typically fail faster than the arm does, and this repair is expensive ($1000+ for performance cars, not that much cheaper for Civics).
The “Design for purported Safety vs. Design for Saving Dollars” principle at work.
> repair is expensive ($1000+ for performance cars, not that much cheaper for Civics)
I can almost guarantee the lion's share of this is shop labor, not parts, and pressing a bushing out and back in would be more expensive after accounting for that labor than just swapping the suspension arms. This is often the piece that gets missed in these discussions of "why am I replacing this huge assembly for a tiny part", if the whole assembly is coming out to deal with that tiny part anyways and shop labor is $200/hour it's cheaper to swap the assembly a lot of the time.
Try getting any repair beyond routine maintenance done on a car in the US for under $1000 these days. Car maintenance is one of the things I'm happy to DIY in most cases because the delta on costs is massive and as someone that works on computers all day it's vaguely enjoyable to get angry at a mechanical object for a change.
I’ve moved in to doing my own plumbing, electric, HVAC. Tend to keep new enough cars that they don’t need much, knock on wood. But it’s not uncommon in “making” $500 an hour or more doing electric or HVAC.
In my area, no tradesman is willing to even get out of bed for less than $1000. They have more high dollar work than they know what to do with and some of them don’t even pick up the phone anymore. You have to be made of money or learn how to DIY everything.
and pressing a bushing out and back in would be more expensive after accounting for that labor than just swapping the suspension arms
Really? It's literally a few minutes (a few dozen $ at $200/hr, or $3.33/min) for any shop with a press. Removing the assembly from the rest of the car is going to take much longer.
Your observation makes sense given the population density and sheer number of people that the Bay Area has relative to Montana. If the Costco in where-you-are Montana weren’t chill, there would be similarities between that area and the Bay Area / LA.
As a commenter noted as well, you can perform the swap using two std::rotate calls vs. three (less than 2N operations). This said, Raymond’s use of reverse is still most efficient at N operations (not considering paging/caching issues).
To swap B and D, with intervening C (i.e. B C D), what he his doing is individually reversing each of B C, and D (= total N swaps), then reversing the combined B' C' D' (= another N swaps).
Surprised that Apple didn’t acquire Sky. Raycast might be an acquisition target if their code can become a service / extension for Spotlight in macOS. Usability win for macOS users if done right and Apple puts the right guardrails & privacy protections in place.
Maybe they tried but the founders rejected. The founders created another company that was acquired by Apple and worked there for a few years. Probably not a fun place to work for ambitious engineers who want to build AI products.
I feel like they just wanted to work on new thing to make macOS better with no guard rails. If Tim Pool was worth his salt he would hire them to let them do that, Apple needs a skunkworks for macOS. They should “overpay” them for it. If it yields superior internal products whats not to love?
Apple _should_ have acquired them. They've worked with the people behind it before (Shortcuts) and the demo videos I saw a few months ago were light years ahead of what Apple has demoed.
First tranche sold at 93c to the dollar; second sold at 98c to the dollar, with a surprise from X which covered the 2c loss, so essentially dollar for dollar.
Morgan Stanley and Bank of America came out on top of this trade. Musk's government involvement was not known with any certainty when he bought X.
No knowledge, just speculation.
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