That is some impressive willful ignorance. “If it was anybody else threatening to beat this guy up for what he was saying, you’d probably praise them. But a cop does it one time and …”

Which is fine, but the vast majority of the things that get presented aren’t bothering to benchmark against my use (for a whole lotta mes). They come from someone scratching an itch and solving it for a target audience of one and then extrapolating and bolting on some benchmarks. And at the sizes you’re talking about, how many tooling authors have the computing power on hand to test that?

Sadly that wasn’t true in the past either for the majority of acts. The labels made money from both parts back then.

We need to have a talk about your pieces of flair.

Yeah, I bought that and SoaNM as a pair because my parents had copies back in the day. Never regretted it and went on to read everything he wrote. Will miss the opportunity to dive into some subject I know little to nothing about with him.

Wait, why wouldn’t you post it/ write it up?

If you release it people expect you to support it an answer questions. Some of them are not even nice about it. It pays to release this only if there is a group of people who will be constructive in helping make it better, otherwise it is a thankless effort.

The difference in ethics between reverse engineering something to be able to fully use/repair it vs. reverse engineering something to clone it. Also violating a license agreement I freely accepted and exposing myself to liability for IP theft. But is the IP just gatekeeping vehicle manufacturers hiding information from owners or is the IP the creation of this tool company or is it something in between

I think this sums up the disconnect between the devotees (I’ve been on Mac since 2005 or so, just long enough to buy the last PowerPC after a decade of Windows) and any corporation. I am not a devotee of any particular OS’ church but Apple’s market cap suggests there was a whole lotta nothing they got in return. I am a firm believer in the way European football fans see their clubs as belonging to them, but the reality with any brand is their loyalty is to money, not you.

Don't think it's Python-specific, it's humanity-specific and Python happens to be popular so it happens more often/ more publicly in Python packages.

Big old ad for Mongo right in the middle even with all my ad blocking, so I assume that is it. I hate being One of Those People because the trend toward doubting everything bums me out, but this is not 1982. People with fancy cars are not using some local guy with a lift in his backyard and even if they were, where is Dane located that he is missing 100s of calls for work on the Rolls, Ferrari, Bentley in addition to the ones that are keeping him so dangerous busy?

I think you're ignoring the inevitable march of progress. Phones will get big enough to hold it soon.

Instead of slapping on an extra battery pack, it will be an onboard llm model. Could have lifecycles just like phones.

Getting bigger (foldable) phones, without losing battery life, and running useable models in the same form-factor is a pretty big ask.

I think the future is the model becoming lighter not the hardware becoming heavier

The hardware will become heavier regardless I'm afraid.

Good. It's ridiculously tiny and lightweight these days.

Especially with phones; the first thing everyone does after buying their new uber thin iPhone is buying a case for it, which doubles its thickness.