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mfiguiere··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Also, batch processing prices are still 50% off, which put GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at $5 and $0.25 for output.

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing?latest-pricin...

mfiguiere··on Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
Wrong link. Technical, Cognitive and Intent Debt was discussed here: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html
mfiguiere··on JEP Draft: Enhanced Local Variable Declarations
TLDR

* Destructuring via Record Patterns

The most prominent feature is the ability to use a record pattern on the left-hand side of a local variable declaration. This allows you to "destructure" an object and initialize multiple variables in a single statement.

Traditional way:

  Point p = getPoint();
  int x = p.x();
  int y = p.y();
Enhanced way:

  Point(int x, int y) = getPoint();
This also supports nested patterns, allowing you to reach deep into an object hierarchy in one go:

  Circle(Point(int x, int y), double radius) = getCircle();
* Pattern Matching in Enhanced for Loops

You can now use these same record patterns in the header of an enhanced for loop to extract data from every element in a collection or array.

  for (Circle(Point(int x, int y), double radius) : circles) {
      // Directly use x, y, and radius here
  }
mfiguiere··on AI helps break the cost barrier to COBOL modernization
IBM down 11% following this blog post: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/IBM:NYSE
mfiguiere··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
In Claude Code 2.1.45:

  1. Default (recommended)   Opus 4.6 · Most capable for complex work
   2. Opus (1M context)        Opus 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $10/$37.50 per Mtok
   3. Sonnet                   Sonnet 4.6 · Best for everyday tasks
   4. Sonnet (1M context)      Sonnet 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $6/$22.50 per Mtok
mfiguiere··on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman:

> As I wrote a month ago, Apple is due for a major management shake-up and the spotlight is squarely on John Ternus as Tim Cook’s successor as CEO. But I don’t get the sense anything is imminent as the FT is claiming.

https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1989764365705515220

mfiguiere··on US Plans H-1B Lottery Overhaul to Prioritize Higher Earners
DHS Proposal: Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking to File Cap- Subject H-1B Petitions [1]

Summary: USCIS would use the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) wage levels for the relevant job classification (SOC code) and location to determine how many times a registration is entered into the selection pool.

Registrations would be weighted like this:

  • Wage Level IV → 4 entries

  • Wage Level III → 3 entries

  • Wage Level II → 2 entries

  • Wage Level I → 1 entry
A “unique beneficiary” is counted once toward numerical allocations, no matter how many registrations are submitted for them or how many entries they get in the weighted pool.

[1] https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18473.pdf

mfiguiere··on Apple to Rebrand Its Device Operating Systems to Mark Major Overhaul
> Other updates will be known as iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26 and visionOS 26.

Especially the consistency it brings.

mfiguiere··on CRAY-1 Hardware Reference Manual (1977) [pdf]
Jim Keller: "The best computer manual I've ever read." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/jimkxa/status/1900605071869833278

mfiguiere··on Application of Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to TikTok
> I hereby order the Attorney General not to take any action on behalf of the United States to enforce the Act for 75 days from the date of this order, to permit my Administration an opportunity to determine the appropriate course of action with respect to TikTok.

> I further order the Attorney General to issue a letter to each provider stating that there has been no violation of the statute and that there is no liability for any conduct that occurred during the above-specified period

mfiguiere··on TikTok vs. United States [pdf]
> While the court today decides that the Act's divestment mandate survives a First Amendment challenge, that is not without regard for the significant interests at stake on all sides. Some 170 million Americans use TikTok to create and view all sorts of free expression and engage with one another and the world. And yet, in part precisely because of the platform's expansive reach, Congress and multiple Presidents determined that divesting it from the PRC's control is essential to protect our national security.

To give effect to those competing interests, Congress chose divestment as a means of paring away the PRC's control-and thus containing the security threat—while maintaining the app and its algorithm for American users. But if no qualifying divestment occurs—including because of the PRC's or ByteDance's unwillingness-many Americans may lose access to an outlet for expression, a source of community, and even a means of income.

Congress judged it necessary to assume that risk given the grave national-security threats it perceived. And because the record reflects that Congress's decision was considered, consistent with longstanding regulatory practice, and devoid of an institutional aim to suppress particular messages or ideas, we are not in a position to set it aside.

mfiguiere··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
The examples given here are not on the same scale. The numbers known so far:

- 120m viewers [1]

- Entire Netflix CDN Traffic grew 4x when the live stream started [2]

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jake-paul-...

[2] https://x.com/DougMadory/status/1857634875257294866

mfiguiere··on The Future of AI: Synthetic Data Gen with Llama 3.1 405B and Raft
Code repo: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/raft-distillation-recipe
mfiguiere··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Apple Discontinues iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max [1], so iPhone 16 is the only new phone that can be purchased with Apple Intelligence.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/09/apple-discontinues-ipho...

mfiguiere··on Multi-Project Workspace Plugin for IntelliJ
Requires IntelliJ 2024.2
mfiguiere··on Concatenating a Binary Executable with a .jar
ChatGPT explanation:

When you concatenate an executable and a JAR file:

- The operating system reads the initial part of the file (the executable header) and treats it as a binary executable.

- The JVM, on the other hand, looks for the ZIP file structure when attempting to load a JAR. Since the ZIP file format places its directory structure and central directory headers at the end of the file, the JVM can still recognize and load the JAR contents even when the ZIP file is appended to the executable.

As a result, the file can be executed as a binary by the operating system, while the JVM can also load and run it as a JAR file. This dual functionality is possible because the executable and JAR components operate independently of each other based on their respective file structures and headers.

mfiguiere··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
> Privacy protections are built in for users who access ChatGPT — their IP addresses are obscured, and OpenAI won’t store requests. ChatGPT’s data-use policies apply for users who choose to connect their account.

> ChatGPT will come to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia later this year, powered by GPT-4o.

mfiguiere··on Jim Simons has died
Acquired Podcast did a 3 hours episode on the history of Renaissance Technologies last month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KjW4BqNFy0

mfiguiere··on New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro
Two different M4 chips come with the new iPad Pro depending on the selected storage capacity.

> Apple M4 chip Models with 256GB or 512GB storage: 9-core CPU with 3 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores 10-core GPU

> Models with 1TB or 2TB storage: 10-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores 10-core GPU

mfiguiere··on Meta Llama 3
The instant generation of pictures as you type in meta.ai is really impressive!
mfiguiere··on Rivian R2
Deliveries begin 2026. From $45,000.
mfiguiere··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
Sam Altman emails Elon Musk (2015): https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1763633741807960498
mfiguiere··on 'Sell Apple'
> To justify its current valuation, everyone everywhere needs to spend $800 a year on Apple products, says UBS
mfiguiere··on Sequence modeling and design from molecular to genome scale with Evo
> Code and models related to this study are publicly available at https://github.com/evo-design/evo
mfiguiere··on Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024
CFO: "In Q4 FY 24, large cloud providers represented more than half of our Data Center revenue..Strong demand was driven by enterprise software and consumer internet applications & multiple industry verticals"

Not clear if Meta is included in the "cloud providers", if not that would push the share of revenue from Big Tech even further to 60-70% considering the 300k H100 order from Meta.

mfiguiere··on Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D
As mentioned by several comments, while one can argue that Big Pharma should spend more on R&D, the title of the article is not so relevant.

From Apple financial statement for 2023 [1]:

- Spent on R&D: $29.9B

- Spent on stockholders (dividends + buybacks): $92.6B

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2023-q4/FY23_Q4_Consol...

mfiguiere··on AMD Zen 5 Compiler Support Posted for GCC – Confirms New AVX Features
> Over Zen 4, this confirms AMD Zen 5 as adding AVXVNNI, MOVDIRI, MOVDIR64B, AVX512VP2INTERSECT, and PREFETCHI.

AVX512-FP16 not listed, we'll have to wait for Zen 6.

mfiguiere··on JEP 455: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview)
Currently targeting JDK 23
mfiguiere··on Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training
Andrej Karpathy's comment: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1745921205020799433
mfiguiere··on $743B in Merchandise Returned in 2023
These numbers are much higher than I thought:

> for every $1 billion in sales, the average retailer incurs $145 million in merchandise returns. Online sales do see a higher return rate, with 17.6%.

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