Fun reminder of how many times Meta/Facebook has tried and failed to build hardware products. Considering all the Metaverse layoffs, Quest is probably next.
At least now, you can use their old hardware to run code generated by a competitor (Anthropic)!
For enterprise, there seems to be so much money in doing it, that I don't think people are going to start turning it down just because it's troublesome.
I believe GP's intent was to point out that a company can get into an agreement with a government (make an offer they can't refuse), but a company cannot get a "region" to sign an agreement/contract with them.
That whole thread is absurd, but if I would have to answer I would say Great Britain is the name of the region/group of islands? Open to be wrong, I know little about the UK
I wouldn’t know whether that’s true, but this is partly hardware. That tends to make things more expensive, as, at some point, design bugs get really expensive both in time and in dollars, and chances are there were design bugs late in the process (e.g. because somebody published a new way of attacking a system that the latest design didn’t anticipate)
Also, Apple claims it was an effort spanning half a decade (https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement...), so depending on what you consider part of this (for example, do you include time spent on their secure memory allocator, on designing/implementing the ARM Memory Tagging Extension or Extended Memory Tagging Extension in the costs of this feature?),
Also, can the author tell us how much this would have cost on GH actions?
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