My physical ios device test harness has no pin numbers/touch id activated for any of the connected phones. I noticed early on in testing that it would require physical access to reinput the pin code even when the device was already unlocked when I would restart an XCUI test.
If you're able to have fully unlocked devices at your test setup I'd suggest giving that a shot to see if it fixes your issue around device restart.
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Pretty sure any updates to the software count as additional R&D. Just running software you've already created doesn't count though. Something interesting we were asked was how much of our cloud costs involved developing software vs running existing software to determine if those costs must also be amortized over 5 years.
For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure.
We've heard a mix of advice from various tax professionals on what should be classified as R&D or not. The messaging gets expecially mixed since the R&D tax credit is often handled by a 3rd party that specializes in it. The company specializing in the tax credit may be incentivized to classify as much of your activity as R&D as they can, since they are usually paid a percentage of the total credits they are able to claim for your company.
It certainly complicates running a software company. My cofounder and I need to look at the amortization schedule before making any engineering hire as we basically need to consider their salary nearly 100% R&D. I imagine it's even more complicated for founders with overseas teams.
It would certainly be easier for us to do business if Section 174 was revised :)
Not who you responded to, but I worked in college radio for a while. Depending on what CDs they were listening to, generally the label will highlight which tracks are standouts and that you should listen to. Usually it would be 3 or 4 tracks max (generally track 1, 3 and 4 though there are exceptions).
Most tracks are 3 minutes long.. so given an average of lets say 3 songs a cd at 3 minutes each... 100 x 3 x 3 / 60 == 15 hours of listening (hand wavey no time to change cd and stuff...). So yeah probably pushing the limits of reasonable but not quite as crazy as you might think.
Also, although it was unfair to the artist, I would usually make up my mind on pop songs by the end of the first chorus. If I'm not hooked within 1 minute it's probably not going to play on my show. It was brain numbing work, and frankly made me view music as a chore for a few years afterwards... but you can listen to quite a few tracks this way and try and find the few gems amongst the chaff so to speak.
The tech geek in me really wants to get a studio with an M2 ultra just for the cool factor, but yeah I think cost effectiveness wise it makes more sense to rent something in the cloud for now.
Things are moving so quickly with local llms too it's hard to say what the ideal hardware setup will be 6 months from now, so locking into a platform might not be the best idea.
Interesting! There are anecdotal reports here and there on local llama about real world performance, but yeah I'm just reporting what Apple advertises for those devices on their spec sheet
I've been considering buying a Mac specifically for LLMs, and I've come across a lot of info/misinfo on the topic of bandwidth. I see you are talking about M2 bandwidth issues that you read about on linkedin, so I wanted to expand upon that in case there is any confusion on your part or someone else who is following this comment chain.
M2 Ultra at 800 GB/s is for the mac studio only. So it's not quite apples to apples when comparing against the M3 which is currently only offered for macbooks.
M2 Max has bandwidth at 400 GB/s. This is a better comparison to the current M3 macbook line. I believe it tops out at 96GB of memory.
M3 Max has a bandwidth of either 300 GB/s or 400 GB/s depending on the cpu/gpu you choose. There is a lower line cpu/gpu w/ a max memory size of 96GB, this has a bandwidth of 300 GB/s. There is a top of the line cpu/gpu with a max memory size of 128GB, this has the same bandwidth as the previous M2 chip at 400 GB/s.
The different bandwidths depending on the M3 max configuration chosen has led to a lot of confusion on this topic, and some criticism for the complexity of trade offs for the most recent generation of macbook (number of efficiency/performance cores being another source of criticism).
Sorry if this was already clear to you, just thought it might be helpful to you or others reading the thread who have had similar questions :)
If you're able to have fully unlocked devices at your test setup I'd suggest giving that a shot to see if it fixes your issue around device restart.