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I think they could carve out a niche by being the chip maker that produces a trustworthy computing environment that supports blob-free computing without the equivalent of Intel Management Engine.

That plus your point about TCO could be a nice way of competing with Intel.
Looks similar to this book, which I bought after a recommendation here: https://www.amazon.com/Infinitesimal-Calculus-Dover-Books-Ma...
> but baptists strongly disagree

Many of them don't believe Catholics are either. Don't even let them know about the Copts or Nestorians. Utter blasphemes they are. The ignorance among protestant Christendom about their own faith is jaw dropping.
"I think that makes it even more secure."

That reminds me of how for a long time people were saying that encryption influenced and blessed by the NSA must be secure because government agencies were using it and the NSA wouldn't weaken their encryption.

Turns out they did.
I'm a musician - I use many different grip-strength trainers on a regular basis at the desk. One of my favorites is power putty, but the traditional one-per-finger squeeze tool is good too.
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But as the last part of the article explains, Heisenberg could probably count on his peers not looking too closely at whatever calculation he made, so long as it discouraged the project. And his peers, in this matter, at that time, were not many.
Deadlifts seem to be doing wonders for my grip strength. For a while my grip was the limiting factor on my dead lift. Actually most pulling exercises are going to work your grip strength. By the end of my pull days I struggle to hold on to light dumbbells for a whole set.
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"A company's goal should be profit."

One of a companies goals may be profit, but it may not be it's only goal.

When companies engage intelligently, they an create 'win win' scenarios. When they don't they can create zero-sum - or worse - can profit by actually destroying net value.
> Why not go for some truly earth-shattering battery life on one of these laptops?

Interesting to note that there are reports that there was a failed battery design that would have given these latest models even more battery[0]. However, I think your suggestion is more reasonable. If there's less space being used for components, fill it with more battery. Then they could possibly have offered the 32GB of ram they couldn't offer due to battery concerns[1].

[0]https://www.macrumors.com/2016/12/20/larger-battery-gold-col...

[1]https://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/21/phil-schiller-32gb-ram-...
That's the opposite of what he wants. He wants a compiler that produces a translation which derefrences the null and follows the true branch.

He wants null to equal a valid addressable address, which is completely nonstandard and not portable to everywhere C is used, to be standard that portable compilers emit code for.

He wants to imagine that null and zero are the same thing.
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When I bring my 2016 MBP into the office, it runs out of battery near the end of the day, and I have to plug it in for those final 2 or 3 hours. Very satisfied.

My colleague with a new Surface Book has been shaking his fist at me, wishing he hadn't listened to the FUD and left the Applesphere. Apparently he gets frustratingly bad battery life on his SB. (To be fair, though, the SB's display ejection hardware is just plain cool...)

We're programmers, BTW, writing server-side software mainly using Go, running several ancillary services locally on our dev machines using Docker to ease the development process. I'm thoroughly pleased with my 2016 MBP's battery life considering these workloads.
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Differ t workloads will be if it in different ways from the trade offs. I do t imagine many applications will miss AVX 512.
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I'm super impressed by the size of their test suite. I wish I had a test suite like that!
Every time there is a post about Magic Leap, someone inevitably asks the question if there has ever been a case of a hyped-up tech actually living up to its claims.

I've thought about this and I'll be damned if I can't think of a single example. The closest I can come is some of the old steam engine tech, where they would have a huge public competition and one demo engine would be crazy fast, but the hype was never at these levels.

Basically, as a student of business history of sorts, just considering the base rates for these situations, I'd be willing to give generous odds that Magic Leap absolutely fails to deliver anything worthwhile. It just doesn't seem to happen. The true breakthroughs are built by those quietly plugging away, scared to death that if they take a breath to talk about it their competitors lurking in the shadows will pull ahead.

It really makes me wonder who these investors are that piled on. The first $100M or so I understand; they thought they were getting in on something new and great. But the next $1B? Did they never read a business history book during their MBA program?
I ordered the 2016 MBP w/touchbar and had it completely die within 2 weeks. Just came back from lunch and it wouldn't power on. I don't think this has been as widespread of an issue as low battery performance. It was a bummer because I have been using macs for quite a while and really like to develop on them but now I am having doubts on getting another one. Would probably prefer a MacPro if they ever updated them.
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That's not a big enough niche to pay for fabs.
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I think the play reverses the facts and their meaning. Bohr's response to the meeting included communications that jeopardized Heisenberg's life. It seems clear that Heisenberg was trolling for any excuse he could give to his German team to drag their feet, such as word from Bohr (true or false) that scientists on the other side would likely refuse to work on atomic weapons, or would do so if they knew the Germans would. Bohr refused to give that word, making a German bomb more likely, not less. This new article reinforces such a view.
>It probably didn’t help that I was (am) incredibly stressed about the state of our world

I am not trying to diminish this person's personal experience nor fail to have empathy. However, "incredibly stressed about the state of the world" is itself a sign of poor mental state, and I think that it paradoxically is harmful to make this sort of statement so casually in an an article ostensibly supposed to bring awareness and understanding of states of mind.

If "stress about the state of the world" harms your quality of life, then that, in and of itself, likely means you have a mental disorder, or at least an inability to cope with your own emotions.

Note that I am not talking about being upset about "the state of the world", I am talking about identifying being so upset about "the state of the world" that it harms your daily life.

We normalize extreme emotional reactions too much. It prevents many from understanding that they have an inability to cope with daily life, for whatever reason that may be.
Agreed. I think heat dissipation is often overlooked while making a buying decision.

Regarding overall portability, I think the 13 inch MacBook air is a good compromise. The new 13 inch MacBook pro is about the same weight, but obviously a lot more powerful, and is smaller in dimensions. It's a breeze to work on planes with this machine.

I'd rather see the next iteration of MacBook Pros with better heat dissipation and longer battery life than with 1 mm improvement in thickness.
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I liked the part about Chime calling you at the scheduled start of meeting. So simple yet I had never thought of this since my org uses WebEx.

With a smart phone that would pretty well via a push notification or an actual call, but not sure how that would work when you want a join a meeting from a physical meeting room with its own AV system. I'm sure there is a way to get that set up.
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Not sure if more impressed with the product or use of a TLD of .aws
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"Meetings call you" is a good idea, as is the reconnecting stuff. Who knows if anyone will use this, but even with all the supply in this market, there is still space for something that actually works well. As someone who works remotely I can't wait until this gets figured out.
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There are people submitting a ton of models that are all very similar, basically overfitting the public board.
I think you're misinterpreting me- it was a problem for the Georgians, not the Russians. Saakashvili thought he could get away with a short, victorious war. A bunch of people died, and then a bunch more because Russia is big on punctuation.

It's also worth noting that Russia has been playing the long game here- the South Ossetians and Abkhazians aren't ethnically Russian, and no one is claiming they are- but Russia has issued more than 90% of them passports.

I sort of think people are mostly too eager for good guys and bad guys. I really don't think that what happened in Georgia is a straight line towards Russian World Domination.
> I would be delighted to be presented with thoughtful replies that show /why/ the above view can not possibly be true.

"The one who asserts must prove."

"The burden of proof lies with the accuser."

Maybe you are starting the wrong way round.
A new player in the area! Is this the first Amazon enterprise service not for developers?
Does this feature end-to-end encryption?
Taleb has said that he knows more about the risks of climate change and GMOs than the scientists who study them. If he just stuck to bashing economists I wouldn't really object--it's called the dismal science for a reason. But he hasn't, so he's a pseudo-expert: someone who once had a good idea and now tries to expand it to cover areas where he's woefully out of his depth.
Here's a $2600 G-Master lens that finishes last in comparison to its Nikon and Canon peers.

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I hadn't come across that post that I can remember; a very nice explanation by Moxie. Thanks.
My only hope is that they saw something amazing. Really though, 1bn before shipping is insane.
Not meant as a dismissal at all. I just noted that the phenomenon in which big complex C programs evolve into using features of higher level languages (like garbage collection instead of the regular malloc+free approach) is well known. Games are famous for using frame-bound arenas.

GCC wanted to run on anything that had enough RAM, so it's written in C (and now I think C++). I think a language with garbage collection and ML style pattern matching would be nicer for writing a compiler, and I don't think porting the GC runtime to every platform is that much work, but Microsoft didn't rewrite their compilers in F# and Oracle didn't rewrite the Java compilers in Scala, so maybe I'm missing something.
On the contrary. People outside of France get to see her through the mainstream media, which makes it look like only xenophobes could be voting for her. From Francophone friends I hear she's actually smart, witty, an excellent debater, and if she weren't held back by her name and the reputation of her father, she could have more mainstream appeal.
No screenshots of the product?
The secret with building good models is and will always be about getting good data. There is a ton of good data for trading. Unfortunately, the SEC frowns on it being used for profit.
Amazon's horizontal expansion is pretty fascinating. From an online stores and cloud service provider to consumer products and now b2b apps.
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I dunno what's going on over there but they need some PR people or better PR people than the ones they have now.
Yes, that's correct. Not sure what your point is.
This is a good point, it reminds me of the F-35. Anything over hyped and given too much time and money will always be underwhelming.

Great technologies grow organically out of need and real life demands. Greatness isn't created purely out of conference rooms and imagination.

Magic Leap should have set the bar lower to get something out of the door sooner and depended less on hype of possibilities but excitement for what they actually created. Then they don't have to hit it out of the park the first time or nothing. Which is basically what they've set up expectations for.
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Speaking of.. can Slack hurry up and buy Zoom? Aren't they pretty flush with cash? It seems crazy that they are letting this huge market (where they have a foothold) slip away to new competitors.
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> At what point am I allowed to criticize the culture as a whole?

At the point where you've made sufficient study of the culture as a whole to have a reasonably justified belief that the criticism is valid for the group covered by the label, or, alternatively, to correctly identify the subgroup to which it does apply and direct the criticism appropriately.
The point of the article is that I was also "pretty sure" about exactly that, and advances in hardware performance meant I was wrong...

2GB/s is pretty damn fast, 0.5 nanoseconds per byte.
I like that attitude and have found it to be true in my experience.

Sports are good for this, you interact with people from many different occupations and age groups.

It's cool to see people from different walks of life solving the problems presented by the challenges of the sport in their own ways according to their own attributes.
> Provided that it didn't cost a lot

Seems to be the kicker with using these trains for commuter purposes. Everywhere you look - Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Eurostar - the prices seem to be at either high double digits or low triple digits one way.

The way it was sold to voters in California is that it would become a revenue generator, so some additional padding is needed for profit margins.
The Internet. It just took 10-15 years longer than everyone thought it would.

Mobile phones & PDAs as well - they were super-hyped right around 1992, it just took 15 years after that before someone produced a device that was actually exciting.

Actually, it's generally been a pretty good business strategy to take whatever was hyped up 10-15 years ago but was then written off as unworkable, and then reimagine it with modern technology. Think of Javascript apps (DHTML 1997 -> Angular 2012), streaming video (RealAudio 1996 -> YouTube 2006), e-commerce (everybody 1995 -> everybody 2012), webmail (HotMail 1997 -> GMail 2004), GUI interface builders (NeXTStep 1992 -> XCode 2007), mobile phones (Newton & General Magic 1992 -> iPhone & Android 2007/09), lithium-ion batteries (first prototypes late-80s -> widespread cellphone/laptop use mid-00s), etc.

It doesn't do much good for the investors of those early waves of companies, though.
Yes, I think I got carried away too in responding to a rather blunt post. I was mainly commenting about the name "Arabic" numerals, when the Arabs did everything to kill & destroy civilizations. It would have been one thing to attribute and credit an invention to someone incorrectly, but it is a completely different & seriously offensive thing to credit something to a class of people who actually almost destroyed the very things that they did not have the intelligence or perseverance to invent.
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You're probably right, I'm thinking more of China historically, when it was much more authoritarian. The Soviet Union would have been a better example, with their tendency to delay reporting or cover up famines and nuclear accidents.
"Stores email-password pairs, gives out Google Play Store tokens"

I couldn't tell if it was encrypting the password but even if it was... yuck!
It's really rare to go quickly from bleeding-edge research paper to consumer product.

Google Search was one. Lytro another.

Magic Leap's demos were ridiculous because they required monumental leaps in various areas - computer vision, holographic imaging, CPU/GPU energy efficiency (computationally).

I don't see how this is related to business history. Having some sort of basic understanding of scientific and technological progress, sure. But an MBA?

They had a good, fake demo for vaporware. That's all.
I wonder how Chime callback will work with back-back meetings.

ie, I'm in someone's Chime/webex, and I need to join a different one. Also does it seamlessly join multiple connections - one benefit of Webex is that I can start my meeting on the iPhone while leaving a meeting room so that others can hop on, and then have my laptop join later so I can share my screen when I hit my desk.
"With Amazon Chime, you can feel confident you’re communicating securely."

This wording has always struck me as being awful. People felt confident investing with Bernie Madoff as well. I'd rather have confidence from proven security instead of just feeling confident.
Yes, agreed. Unfortunately, there was push back against the Flash of Unstyled Content, so now many websites delay loading any content at all(!) until the correct fonts are loaded. smh
Isn't this essentially the direction they're going? They've been very friendly to open source lately and there new processors and graphics cards are hitting the 75% TCO.
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Same for me with Firefox on Linux.
Sorry if my earlier comment came off as rude. I was just trying to say that the walled gardens aren't really that much better than plain old PGP, and in practice they tend to lull people into a false sense of security.

I think too many people are way too trusting of shiny new apps with a pretty UI. If you don't do the extra work of verifying the key, you're effectively letting the service provider act as your one and only CA.

If you can verify a Signal key fingerprint, you can verify a PGP public key fingerprint.
But if they can't get any of those users to pay and its the difference between not providing the service or displaying ads (with fair warning!) what is the lesser of two evils? Disqus continues to exist and thats only a good thing. I don't think "not displaying ads and letting me get it for free" is a fair option.
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>The true breakthroughs are built by those quietly plugging away, scared to death that if they take a breath to talk about it their competitors lurking in the shadows will pull ahead.

With the exception of Apple, I don't think this is really true. ARPAnet, Transistors, Cellular networks etc... were all discussed and probed and iterated on in the defense/research community then in industry.

> The first $100M or so I understand; they thought they were getting in on something new and great.

Abovitz is a serial entrepreneur with a previous $1B exit. That alone counts for a shitload, if not everything. If you can show someone even a rudimentary display that gives accommodation and can build a competent team then that gets the hype cycle started. All due credit where deserved, Abovitz knows how to raise money.
Now that the MacBook Pro has USB-C is there any reason Apple couldn't implement some type of fast-charging technology like you find in smartphones? The OnePlus 3/3T in particular are amazingly fast. [1][2]

Since getting my Pixel XL I have a noticed I rely on external battery packs less as I often have access to a power socket for at least an hour or two when I travel.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbELsT1hfnA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0SU0Me4Fds
In my opinion it's not worth the effort (and certainly not $50). It makes marginally +X harder to exploit yet marginally +X inconvenient to use = typical security through obscurity.
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They tout security but I don't think it's open source and it looks like everything is stored on Amazon servers.

Minimally it is centralized, and you can't verify that there's no backdoor. In this day and age, that means we're both trusting their core intentions, and also trusting that some government won't step in and silently force their hand. I don't personally feel that is good enough to be considered secure anymore.
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Wouldn't be too surprised if Magic Leap becomes the next Theranos.
Quick plug for a log analyser: https://goaccess.io which I installed after realising it did all the things I actually wanted from GA (I don't actually need detailed user tracking)
I second your recommendation. For various reasons I haven't been doing it the last few years, but it was really good for me and I'd like to get back into it.
I heard it phrased as, "Only boring people get bored".
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I'm really curious how this all-in-one concept will compare to the Slack approach of chat as the central functionality augmented by a bunch of integrations with external services.
Enterprise conferencing software is so bad and so expensive I'm astonished it took this long for a decent competitor to come in. I'm really surprised Google didn't go all in with making Hangouts a decent competitor. I have a feeling this will make a lot of money.
Why? If you can't get significance with 237 people your effect size is likely so negligible that it's not worth studying anyway.