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"in the US" :(

We also still are waiting, for 10+ years for Siri in european languages. We have a lot of users e.g. in Poland, we can dictate in polish, but Siri still can't call a contact, because she doesn't understand names...


Tip: you can add a 'Phonetic' name to a contact, and Siri will try to use it.

So you can do stuff like:

Mieczysława -> Mee-etchiss-wahva Krzysztof -> Kzhyshtof Świętopełk -> Shvee-entoh-pehwk

It's still a bit hit and miss, but works quite well with diminutives:

Mieczysława -> Mietka -> Mee-etka Krzysztof -> Krzysz -> Kzhysh Świętopełk -> Świętuś -> Shvientush


'So what are we gonna do with those thousands of people, who changed the UI and could be fired? Let's make them roll whole controls idea back'

Companies hiring more people to build AI based, self-healing and self-developing systems faster? „We don’t need those old programmers, we need new people who know how to build harnesses around AI”. Hiring those „old” programmers, but from other companies.

So good to read one single sentence. After the team wasn't delivering (it's separate discussion why and who was at fault) - it was disassembled and issues were still being resolved. So much better than big corps leaving people as-is and then making hardcore reductions seen as bad...

- There was no leak - Here is sample data we stole

„Small, not harmful leak of non important data, few records only”


So the quote is right somewhat, right? If you are writing to non technical people and you use such high wording.


No, it's not right. When put in context, the quote claims that that manner of speaking is used because the speaker has an unwarranted belief that they've done something absolutely incredible and unprecedented. In actuality, the manner of speaking is being used because the intended audience of the article is likely to have little-to-no knowledge of the technical details of what the speaker is talking about.

For example, if the article was aimed at folks who were familiar with the underlying techniques, the last two paragraphs of the "Enforcing Determinism" section would be compressed into [0]

  Each FCM is time-synced and runs a realtime OS. Failures to meet processing deadlines (or excessive clock drift) reset the FCM. Each FCM uses triply-redundant RAM and NICs. *All* components use ECC RAM. Any failures of these components reset the FCM or other affected component.
But you can't assume that a fairly nontechnical audience will understand all that, so your explanation grows long because of all of the basic information it contains. People looking for an excuse to sneer at something will often misinterpret this as the speaker failing to recognize that the basic information they're providing is about things that are basic.

[0] I'm assuming that the time being wildly out of sync will indicate FCM failure and trigger a reset. [1] I'm also assuming that a sufficiently-large failure of a network switch results in the reset of that network switch. If the article was intended for a more technical audience, that level of detail might have been included, but it wasn't, so it isn't.

[1] If it didn't, why even bother syncing the time? I find it a little hard to believe that the FCMs care about anything other than elapsed time, so all you care about is if they're all ticking at the same rate. I expect the way you detect this is by checking for time sync across the FCMs, correcting minor drift, and resetting FCMs with major drift.


And overall performance in terms of visible UX.


Do not expect so many more reports. Expect so many more attacks ;)


That’s also nice joke! You are all killing it today


Incredible how Dec'25 to Feb'26 was such a shift point. I'm wondering for how long those models will stay so cheap, but what a time to be alive!


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