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I have an iPhone 6 that’s about a year and a half old, and although I experience frequent & noticeable slowdowns while using it, and although my battery life has noticeably decreased since I started using it, the Geekbench score for the phone is higher than the average iPhone 6. It makes me wonder what’s going on.
There's an issue with earlier nexus phones and nand degradation. Lack of TRIM really killed them over time unfortunately. Running some write/read benchmark app and comparing the results against published numbers (like http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/20/anandtech-posts-side... ) could (dis-)prove that's the case.
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>One thing hindering that ideal is how police officers are trained to have a chickenshit mentality where no risk to an officer's safety is tolerated ever.

Absolutely. And in spite of this zero tolerance, "officer safety over everything" mentality, they continue to use the PR crutch of being in "constant danger" without ever acknowledging the extreme mitigation tactics they employ against that danger, regardless of if it's real or imagined.
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+1000. None of the Apple fanboys are willing to think in this direction. They are cozy and comfortable in their bubble. Apple did something here that is not trustworthy.
Yep. Search is terrible. I don't see how the app store search ranking is so irrelevant, especially after the "clean up". How can crap like this get in the store at all. I recently had to resubmit our legit app over and over for what seemed to be almost random nitpick rejections for things that aren't documented in the rules. And then struggle to get enough exposure for a handful of downloads per day. This is so discouraging.
As far as I’m concerned, they’re both equally liable. If this was a case of mistaken identity rather than a malicious call, we’d all be calling for the cop’s head even though it would have been the same error.
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A PRNG usually doesn’t have parameters once seeded. What’s i in your scheme?

If you’re asking if you can make a good PRNG out of cryptographic primitives, yes, that’s what happens in the bowels of OS CSPRNGs. But a bit more involved.
And yet, they just keep selling more and more of them, a year after year.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/03/record-sales-v...

https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/01/vinyl-sales-rose-26-i...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanpassman/2017/01/12/vinyl-...

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/10/04/vinyl-records-sa...

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/vinyl-sales-q3-2017/
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This is clearly a defect after 4 months.
Your problem is so unusual that I don’t see how it can be deliberate on Apple’s part.
Promotions, and the salary/opportunity increases that come with them, absolutely are a zero-sum game. I’m a little baffled that anyone could think otherwise, actually.
Check out https://github.com/indywidualny/FaceSlim - seems to be the sanest way to access Facebook from a mobile. Also available on F-Droid.
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It can also be gendered; a strong signal of male/female (or at least masculine / feminine) is in the gait. Men walk with their shoulders, women with their hips.
My four year old laptop (Mac) gives me a battery health warning.

I doubt the PM, UI, or otherwise responsible person made the decision to include this warning in MacOS as a way to dissuade me from purchasing a new laptop, just as I doubt that the responsible person intentionally omitted the feature from iOS (when the performance/battery feature was introduced in 10.2.1).

> Of course, we know why they didn't do this; it would cut into sales of new models.

We don't _know_. Many people have suspicions.

> I am certain there is too much certainty in the world
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That’s exactly the reason for the slowdown though. Phone shutting off = new battery under warranty. Phone silently slowed down = increase in new iPhone sales.
AFAIK JIT and execution of memory are not allowed on iOS.
Tactically, what would you do different?

You cant send people up to the door, as you have to assume the person is telling the truth and has the means to shoot through the door at them. When someone has a gun, distance and cover are your friend.

You then get everyone you can out of the house so you can clear it and assist the victims. That is what any police force in the civilized world would do if they had what they thought was credible information about a murder / hostage situation.

Obviously pulling the trigger in this case was a mistake, but what do you do differently? Everyone is criticizing training in this thread but no one seems to have any real solutions.
What do other manufacturers do? I remember with AntennaGate, other phone makers had similar problems.

Companies don’t typically tell you the bad news.

We should push companies for the right to repair:

https://ifixit.org/right
I certainly don’t miss the days where if I dropped my phone the battery door and battery would come out and shoot across the floor.
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I always wonder if slowing down the phone is a good solution. By slowing down the CPU the CPU needs less energy. But at the same time the user has to wait much longer in order to finish what he was trying to do. Thus the screen is on for a longer period of time. Isn't the screen one of the main energy consumers in an iPhone?

Launching apps on my iPhone 6 (which needs a new battery) takes for ages (even when compared to my older but less used iPhone 5S). I can't imagine that the extended "screen lit"-time does not have a big impact as well.

Also: I am one of the few users who would be totally fine with the iPhone shutting down at 20% or so (if I have the full performance as I used to) because my iPhone is rarely going near 20%. At work I can charge. At home I can charge. When I am on the go I usually am not using the phone that much... However playing hearthstone when I am in bed, loading the phone, everything takes much longer as well which makes playing games less fun...
It's an attitude based on experience. Far too much of the inbox of someone affiliated with a physics department is filled with: 1) cranks claiming to have debunked something, 2) journalists looking for a sound bite, 3) curious laymen who quickly become angry when you point out the prerequisites they need to understand before they can understand the answer to their question.

Is it healthy? No. Is it rational given the situation? Sadly, yes.
Unsolved and unverified are different.
Yeah, I'm sort of getting the same whiff of bullshit. My dev iPhone shows 611 cycles and 86% capacity, with the same GeekBench scores around 1500/2600.

I know that's just one data point, but I'm super-sceptical given all of the misinformation that's been floating around about this topic.
And it's also very important to consider the context: Apple is a company which earns the bulk of their revenue through new hardware sales. As opposed to their other issues (e.g. AntennaGate), concealing the performance degradation directly drove new sales and profits. It's significantly harder to give them the benefit of doubt when taking into consideration their hardware-sales focused business and the fact that they're actively fighting against right to repair legislation.
You’re describing retail jobs, where that might be true. But most white-collar workers never interact directly with customers. They have to demonstrate value to their boss, which does make it a zero-sum situation.
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I think the difference is that the user will notice their phone is hot and running slow, so there's some sort of feedback available.
A soldier is in direct danger of losing life/limb only upto 25 years old so. As you go up higher in rank, your exposure to danger goes down exponentially.

And that is usually when an active war is going on.

Even when an active war is on, those in charge have learned to limit the length of time a soldier spends in warzone to 1 year. Like US did in Vietnam war.

For cop in certain areas, they are exposed to loving life/limb any day. It may happen only once a year or just a few years. But still, I wouldn't say one can be a cop only if you are willing to lose own life.
Are you trying to compare a horse jumping to a horse galloping?
I was curious about that too and checked, but couldn't find anything. It goes by the X-Reply-To (IIRC) header and they matched.
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Email isn't free. It seems like it is but actually it takes significant resources to process all the spam. Using a bot to create more traffic is pointless and wasteful.

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A guy who runs the mail transfer agents for an email security provider and has to deal with this every day.
Yeah, this is definitely not a normal thing then. It's certainly not a standard Apple feature to start warning people that they're running out of disk space when there's so much free.
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When I used to get Apple Care, the fine print said that if the battery capacity fell to 50% or below, within the warranty period (2 yrs) they will replace the battery (swap phones).

This worked for me twice.

Ironically, I stopped getting it because the batteries seemed to get better and better every year.
At some level of the company, but we don't know that the _engineers_ didn't respond like that. If you query it and get a response like "The UI team is taking care of that", there's not a whole lot you can do.
Nigerian scams are often Nigerian in name only. In the present case only some members of the team are from Nigeria.

There is a reason Nigeria is the country of choice and e-mails are so poorly written. First, it makes it obvious to those who know the trick, so that they don't call back and waste scammers time. Second, it gives a feeling of superiority to the mark.
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Didn't say that selling vinyl was over. Every fad gets commercialized some time after it's peaked. In a year or two, no one will remember.
I built a purely local version using the Raven USB Zigbee modem, flask and D3.js. Crude, uses SQLite but might be of interest. The XML decoding is only hard part really.

https://github.com/phubbard/raven-peewee
Apple didn't hide it. It was in changelog of some iOS version. They just didn't make it a big deal. Honestly I don't think that this is a big deal. Today's iPhone is absurdly powerful. This speed is not needed for average user, so he won't notice this downgrade.
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I don't think those things are mutually exclusive though. My Lumia 950 has a user-replaceable battery, and I've dropped it multiple times. The back has never come off as a result.
Isabelle/HOL (the one sel4 was done in) appears in none of your two schools ...

This might be because it is the best combination of interactive theorem proving with automated methods that currently exists out there.
My 6s plus is almost 2 years old and the battery life app is showing 76%.

Have not benchmarked it but it was only slow for a week or two after upgrading to iOS 11 and seems fine now. Did not notice slowdowns when using iOS 10 (which was when throttling was introduced)
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What are thoughts on what one could potentially achieve with connectable devices?
I'm learning programming on my own. I don't have a formal CS education and cannot afford it. Do I need to pursue all this curriculum to become good at coding? It seems overwhelming, but I'm not against learning and am not in a rush. Currently I'm not a professional programmer. I started answering at Stack Overflow and Reddit a couple months ago and am doing really good. I like C and Python, but I regularly write in the latter. My GitHub repo has some programming exercises, has about 300 stars and 50 forks and it happened within a month's time and I'm releasing some more exercises soon. I had to discontinue my education after 10th grade, but my love for English and math has never faded. I had worked in health information for about 15 years, had a passion for it, excelled in it. My employers never asked about my formal education. They wouldn't believe me if I told them the truth. I quit my previous job for learning programming full time because I like this more than anything now. I want to spend the next 15 years programming and learning math. These two and I are inseparable. Born in a village in a third-world country, I learned English by listening to BBC Learning English and VOA Special English radio stations. As a kid, I loved grammar, syntax, punctuation, vocabulary. This is not my best writing :) I have another handle on HN and it took me about 250 days to reach a 14,000 karma here.
Cool. Stop the spam and I’ll quit spamming you back.
GPU and CPU being run separately perhaps?
Unfortunately, Mailgun is throttling the domain due to large rates of mail. All we can do is wait the ban out, I'm afraid.
I’ve been on the fence about this whole battery gate deal. After all, I own some AAPL shares. But what you just said kind of hits the point. Having dealt with Apple’s support over various times in the past, every single encounter I’m crossing my fingers they would continue their generous ways and cover the issue — which they should. But by engineering an intentionally vague symptom of a real underlying problem, it gives their support staff some leeway to interpret each case and whether the customer gets the coverage (eg. Do they buy a lot of Apple products or have AppleCare on a lot of existing products owned?)
Well they could increase the amount of public spending and increase the tax rates for the top brackets and it has been historically in periods where rates of income inequality have gone down.

But no, for some ridiculous reason those ideas seem to be unacceptable with the Overton Window defined by mass-media (conglomerate-owned, of course) and economists who propose small-state solutions.
> a culture change is needed to get everyone to care more about the customer

I think they care a great deal, but arrogance (as so often) leads them to lack judgement. Their ‘care’ has become a patrician “we know what’s best” (cf. not permitting MacBook Pro customers to have real keyboards because wanky Ikeabot Jony Ive finds them messy).
It's funny how nowadays (for a few iterations, actually) Apple's phones have bottom of the barrel battery life, even facing severe degradation in a few months, yet the reputation from 4S and earlier lives on. I know many people who still believe that Android phones suffer from faster discharges.
I walked barefoot until I was about 10 (New Zealand lol). Toe-walking helped me avoid various hazards on the ground like prickles and stones.
The issue is not specifically about battery life, but about the ability of the battery to provide a stable voltage under load. The voltage of the cells sags more under high current draw as the battery ages; reducing the current draw by throttling the maximum SoC frequency seems to be intended to avoid the problem where the voltage dips to a level that causes the SoC to shut down suddenly.
I use Home Assistant (https://home-assistant.io/). They have a "Cloud" option, however, you're definitely able to use it entirely locally depending on what kind of hardware and functionality you want to utilize.

Using Z-Wave hardware for your locks, lights, plugs, etc eliminate the need for internet / cloud based connectivity. I have some Z-Wave sensors and such, however, all my lights for the most part are LIFX which use Wifi and synchronize via the LIFX cloud.

If you're interested in checking out Home Assistant here's my public portion of my configuration files and such https://github.com/brianjking/homeassistant-config

Thanks and good luck!
> It's at least $25 for the most basic e-filing software

False. There are free options.

Having a piece of software do that calculations for me, and even enter most of my information, based on my already-electronic W-2, is worth a good bit of money to me anyhow. Even with software guiding me, I've got to have a couple of hours free to file my taxes.
Modern smartphones seem to be a step backwards across the board in this regard compared to laptops. Pretty much all laptops have been able to do this across all OSes for well over a decade, probably closer to two. Smartphones almost universally hide battery health information from the user, even though they presumably have some way to monitor it.
Re: splitting control and ownership, don't non-voting GOOG shares exhibit exactly this split as one example?
How about as a taxpayer who funds the police, I have a say in how they operate. No need to become a cop.
Spamnesty also has multiple scripts and you select the kind of spam to reply to. There's an MR open for doing this automatically, but it's pretty big and I've put off reviewing it for way too long.
I think this generally applies to self-help style books, where the majority of the book is fluff with very little useful content. Those books can definitely be condensed into short blogs posts. However blogs and random tutorials don't do technical topics justice. If I'm learning how to reverse engineer a piece of malware or how to create a blockchain application, textbooks are the best resource to guide me.
I think we'd do better to, at least at first, start solving some of the reasons why our jury demographics are so skewed. Stronger protections for workers that need time off (there should be no work hardship exemption and employers should be forced to give jurors full pay for the duration of the trial) would be a good start to not discriminate against poorer people who can't take off from work without struggling financially or getting fired. Also, criminal convictions shouldn't disqualify someone after they've served their sentences. The current system disqualifies a disproportionate number of minorities and that leaves predominantly-white juries to convict even more minorities...a self-reinforcing cycle. Also, the SCotUS needs to recommit to the Batson doctrine to prevent prosecutors from dismissing minority jurors based on race.
I think your code will work because 1234 can be converted to a string. I think the trouble starts once you pass around objects.
I agree. Too many people conflate a computer science degree with the ability to code. The real purpose of a computer science degree is to learn to model, analyze, and solve problems in a computational framework. Mathematics is the language used to do that, so math is a necessary part of such an education.

When it comes to sitting down and writing software, such a mathematical computer science education provides a clear benefit. The more math you know, the more problems you can formulate and solve with a computer. If the job is cranking out web pages, a mathematical background will increase efficiency because you'll recognize the problems at hand fit into familiar formalisms with familiar solutions. Moreover, if you run into a hard problem, a mathematical background will provide the necessary tools to work through it in a principled manner.
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As I understand it, the main issue is that the power output of the batter decreases as it degrades, not just its total capacity. Apple claims that the throttling is needed in order to prevent the processor from automatically shutting off because it can't draw as much power as it requires -- not just to prevent the battery from draining faster.
I utterly agree, as I think my other posts should say. But regardless of the should, for better or worse, we are in the "they likely -will- provoke...".
I bought a new iPhone every 2 or 3 years because of the slowdowns. I would have paid 29 euros for a new battery had I known that it would restore performance. Shit like this makes me hate the iPhone X I’m typing this on. I was thinking of getting an Apple watch but I will not buy it because I don’t trust them anymore. They better restore trust or it will cost them a lot of sales in the long run. Making phones with replacable batteries would be a good start.
At $29 is is unlikely that Apple is making a profit on battery replacements. The third-party kits cost close to that much, and the labor makes up the difference.
The failure to respond is because I set a limit, it stops after a few tens of messages to avoid endless loops with bots. The other messages are because it gets put into a list and just gets spammed, as far as I can tell.
Oh God, I have to do this now.
>You're looking at elephant-stomping-on-you levels of force, and you're trying to say it'll be mitigated somewhat because you have 5 pounds of steel on your chest rather than 2 pounds. You will be a person salsa even if you strapped a kitchen stove to yourself.

the momentum conservation means that the 5 pound of steel would be moving with the speed of 18m/s after full momentum transfer from the 45g bullet hitting it at 900m/s. 5lb at 18m/s - is like somebody would hit you with a frying pan. While painful and dangerous if say into the head, it is still much less so than getting the bullet directly. Even better result would be with a 25 lb steel plate - just 3.6m/s - like somebody would shove an office/kitchen table at you.

Elephant leg say weights 250kg - that would mean that if you have an elephant leg as an armor in front of you, after being hit by a 0.50 bullet with full momentum transfer the leg will be moving at the speed of 0.18m/s - you can just slowly step away from it.

>You don't seem to be understanding the magnitude of the forces involved.

please enlighten us and correct my calculations above.
How so?

If the battery was easily replaceable, then I doubt there would be much outrage about this issue. But with the iPhone, device and battery are fused together and are thus seen as a single unit.
Don't you know that SSDs slow down after they are 50% full? You look like you're getting close to half full there, Apple is just giving you a warning to make sure that your computer performs at peak performance! You should really thank them..

(Warning: Post not meant to be taken seriously!)
What restitution can there be in this case? Nothing can compensate this person for the loss of their life, or the two children who will grow up without a father. The guy who made the false report had done so previously with a bomb threat, and showed no remorse. How can this person ever be trusted to rejoin society? How can the victims be restored by the justice system? Neither is realistic. Short of a death penalty, the only outcome is to put the guy in jail for a long time.
Throttling was introduced in iOS 10.2.1.
While in the e.g., Army, you are likely away from your family and friends for the better part of 4 years, and if you perform much better than average, you’ll be an E4 late in your third year, earning $25k/yr.

Meanwhile, cops are paid north of $50k/yr; they get to go home to their families every night, and compared to IED-laden roads and AK-47s, their risks are very minor.

Also, saying the military pays for room and board is like saying prison pays for room and board; it’s not exactly the room and board you would choose, and you’re not allowed to just leave when you choose.
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Yes absolutely. I use the iOS app but I configured the whole thing on my laptop using the website.

switch to "legacy google voice" and then go to settings:
https://i.imgur.com/wbaV75e.png
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