Lots of Californians do not benefit from social programs but support them anyway.

Do they have a choice?

Yeah, they can vote against it. Most don't

> Nobody's going to pay me (assuming I even had the skills) to optimize for consumer GPUs?

People will but probably less, not many people are doing AI at the edge that can pay the mega millions

> And likewise similar fundamental differences between consumer and cloud hopper (where the majority of the perf is the cloud one's ISA?)

I think Hopper was the version where they did a clean split and it’s only for datacenter

> So I guess I'm wondering if I should buy a GPU myself or should I just rent on the cloud if I wanted to start getting some experience in this field. How do you even get experience in this normally anyways, do you get into really good schools and into their AI labs which have a lot of funding?

You can do performance work on any system you have really it’s just that the details change depending on what you’re targeting. You can definitely learn the basics on like a 3060 by following blog posts

They can and do.

> Starting a 'cold' debug session into a UI application may take 10-ish seconds until applicationDidFinishLaunching is reached, and most of that time seems to be spent with loading the symbols for hundreds of framework DLLs which are loaded during application start (which I never even need because I can't step into system frameworks anyway) - and seriously, why are there even hundreds of system DLLs in a more or less hello-world-style Metal application with minimal UI?

This is so you can see function names for system frameworks. You can step into them if you want too even if Xcode tries to stop you doing it by default.

Nit: symbol files are copied from a device.

Thanks for the correction.

Still have no idea what it actually means, or why it takes so crazy long.

If they have to update symbols upon every OS version bump, are they cleaning out the old ones? It's so frustratingly opaque.

Less annoying link directly to the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3774934.3786425?download=...

link if you don't want to automatically download files

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3774934.3786425

Would be nice if we could get rid of them, eh?

I sure do want to get rid of the entire concept of "economy" class.

If all seats were business class, than economics of scale would kick in and average ticket prices would be more like 2X per seat rather than the 5-10X that you pay for business class vs economy.

Flying is a war-crime in the sky for anyone not in business class.

You must have a very different idea than I do of “economics of scale” if your idea is to make every ticket cost more so fewer people can afford it.

Therapists are also supposed to take responsibility for their work.

Foundation has a Linux implementation.

I use async/await for my CPU bound problems and it works fine

So long as you "await"

Not really concurrent

Not very well known, but Swift has two builtin concurrency systems (in addition to the very well known async/await for parallelism): async let (not very flexible) and task groups (much more so).

You don’t have to await immediately!