It is my understanding that this isn't happening in any meaningful capacity, they're simply using the kit no longer relevant to R&D.
I'm still not entirely convinced they actually did Arc themselves. It has all the hallmarks of a project that was bought or taken. Every meaningful iteration keeps getting pushed back further out towards the horizon and the only thing they've been able to offer in the meantime is "uhhhh what if we used two"
SwiftUI is straight up the worst thing Apple has ever shipped. Absolute fucking pile of dogshit. They should be ashamed of themselves. Steve would have fired everyone and I mean that.
It remains the only UI framework I've prototyped something in where I've had to respond to a well paying client with a list of what it (still!) can't do, doesn't do well, and a long list of documentation that does not match the code. I have a sense of integrity so I do this work honestly. There are plenty of devs out there that will happily tell you xyz can be done just so that they're paid to make something they know will be subpar.
Feels like this website is yelling at me with its massive text size. Had to drop down to -50% to get it readable.
Classical indicators of good software are still very relevant and valid!
Building something substantial and material (ie not an api wrapper+gui, to-do list) that is undeniably well made, while being faster and easier than it used to be, still takes a _lot_ of work. Even though you don't have to write a line of code, it moves so fast that you are now spending 3.5-4 days of your work week reading code, using the project, running benchmarks and experimental test lanes, reviewing specs and plans, drafting specs, defining features and tests.
The level of granularity needed to get earnestly good results is more than most people are used to. It's directly centered at the intersection between spec heavy engineering work and writing requirements for a large, high quality offshore dev team that is endearingly literal in how they interpret instructions. Depending on the work, I've found that I average around one 'task' per 22-35 lines of code.
You'll discover a new sense of profound respect for the better PMs, QA Leads, Eng Directors you have worked with. Months of progress happen each week. You'll know you're doing it right when you ask an Agent to evaluate the work since last week and it assumes it is reviewing the output of a medium sized business and offers to make Jira tickets.
You can get really, really far with this approach. Even 'naive' approaches like classifying what you're embedding and directing it to different models, or using multiple and blending scores can get you to a point where your results are better than anything you could pay (a lot!) for.
What is especially beneficial about that approach is that you can hang each of the embeddings off of the same bits in the db and tune how their scores are blended at query time.
If you haven't tried it yet: because what you're searching is presumably standardized enough to the point that there will be sprawling glossaries of acronyms, taking those and processing them into custom word lists will boost scores. If you go a little further and build lil graphs/maps of them all, doubly so, and it will give you 'free' autocomplete and the ability to specify which specific acronym(s) you meant or don't want on the query side.
Have recently been playing around with these for some code+prose+extracted prose+records semantic searching stuff, its a fun rabbit hole
"Overall, mice and humans share virtually the same set of genes. Almost every gene found in one species so far has been found in a closely related form in the other. Of the approximately 4,000 genes that have been studied, less than 10 are found in one species but not in the other." https://www.genome.gov/10001345/importance-of-mouse-genome
I know you want to think, or have been told to think that the reason this happens is because they need more cops.
Brother let me assure you, more cops will not help. I have lived in cities with more than twice as many cops per 10k. Both times I actually needed one it took over 3 hours.
They were never intended to provide basic safety to you in your home. That's your job. Their job is to deal with what comes after that.
On a side note, the suggestion that police numbers don't affect crime is obviously false. We've seen what an arbitrarily large police presence does to Washington DC this year with the national guard deployment.
> They were never intended to provide basic safety to you in your home.
Uh actually i do think police presence has a deterrent effect on crime. In fact, number of police on the street is one of the strongest measures for reducing crime!
Something I've always believed, and my experience with shipping multinational software on a schedule that has severe drop-dead dates confirmed: If you are contractually obligated to deliver a product that does x, y, and z correctly? QA is the only way to do that seriously. If you don't have QA, you don't care about testing full stop.
This only compounds when you have to comply with safety regulations in every country, completely setting aside the strong moral obligation you should feel to ensure you go far above & beyond mere compliance given the potential for harm. This compounds again when you are reliant upon deliverables from multiple tiers of hardware and software suppliers, each contract with its own drop-dead dates you must enforce. When one of them misfires, and that is a "when, not if", they are going to lie through their teeth and you will need hard proof.
These are not small fines, they are company-killing amounts of money. Nobody profits in this situation. I've been through it twice, both times it was a herculean effort to break even. Hell, even a single near-miss handled poorly is enough to lose out on millions in potential future work. The upsides are quite nice, though. I didn't know it was possible to get more than 100% of your salary as a bonus until then.
Don't take my word for it, though. Ask your insurance agent about the premiums for contractual liability insurance with and without a QA team. If you can provide metrics on their performance, -10-15% is not uncommon, this discount increases over time. Without one? +15-50% depending.
that tracks, it's not staying loaded and is buzzsawing back and forth between power states. They'll likely fix it with some power management tweaks. Had a pair of modded Vega 64s that sounded like a tiny CNC mill when they did this, but that's what ~900W will do if you let it.
I haven't used a mac in a while but there's probably some values you can fuck with if you disable sip to stop it from ramping back down so aggressively, or keep it in the higher power states.
I'm still not entirely convinced they actually did Arc themselves. It has all the hallmarks of a project that was bought or taken. Every meaningful iteration keeps getting pushed back further out towards the horizon and the only thing they've been able to offer in the meantime is "uhhhh what if we used two"
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