I’ve heard they received some kind of government healthcare grant early on, which requires them to keep providing services under the TikTok name for at least 15 years.
What does uncorrectable error mean in RAM? I’ve read somewhere that they use Hamming codes for ECC RAM. Isn’t it the case that too many errors (more than floor((d - 1) / 2)) simply result in an incorrect codeword? Or do they know the error locations a priori? (i.e. erasure coding)
Why does debouncing increase latency? Can’t they report the keypress immediately on the first signal spike, and then use the debounce timer to ensure that no additional presses are reported within the debounce interval?
Or are switches generating spurious signal spikes even when left untouched? That would explain why they need to delay the keypress…
Even if neural networks were fundamentally incompatible with conventional computation, I don't see why you couldn't augment a neural network with a conventional ALU to do the numerical computations. This is exactly what humans do with pencil and paper - it's just a bit too slow.
I stopped too, after they threw back some of my reports because they were missing some completely unrelated generic diagnostic info (like which MacBook generation was I using, even if the bug was 100% reproducible everywhere), even though I’ve provided them a minimal working example on GitHub, and even the method name of the problematic private API.
Step 1: *systematically kill the middle class over a generation*
Step 2: "noooooo, why are these workers not pushing themselves like they used to? are you not believing in our mission statement? but we've introduced Pride Month this year! what else do you want???"