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Although I agree it's a terrible decision for Apple only to have Apple-specific graphics APIs, please note that:

* Being deprecated does not mean that things will suddenly stop working. It will take a few more releases of macOS before this can be removed.

* Next to MoltenVK there is MoltenGL, which is an implementation of OpenGL ES 2.0 that runs on (edit) Metal [1]. That indicates it's at least feasible to wrap OpenGL applications in the future if necessary.

Furthermore, Apple wil drop support for all Macs that don't support Vulkan in this release of macOS [2]. Ouch, what a waste.

[1]: https://moltengl.com/moltengl/

[2]: https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/04/macos-10-14-mojave-supported-... (anything from before 2012 does not support Vulkan)
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Microsoft has been embracing and extending Git for a while, and now they have bought captive users who are going to use whatever Microsoft tells them to use just to keep their code on Github and avoid a difficult migration.

They clearly have greater ambitions than increasing Visual Studio sales. For example, what about forced integration of LinkedIn with personal Github repositories?
Also those docked bikes weigh somewhere on the order of five tonnes and even strong riders move slow up hills on them. I'm stuck behind them far more often than electric scooters.
Ahh ok. Too late to edit but I'll keep that in mind.
> Long before the acquisition, we've been hosting important stuff in private GitHub repositories. Including having strategic discussions in those private repositories.

Wow! I am very surprised by that. Is that an officially allowed policy? Or is it something that is "don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness"?
In what way is Apple not profiting off excess screen time? Did they turn off in-app purchases on pay to play games, which account for growing billions in revenue [1]? Congrats to both companies for taking a long view against their immediate incentives, and disagreed about this stretched comparison.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/04/13/u-s-i...
> People should get to know who Microsoft Cloud + AI Group Executive Vice President [Scott Guthrie] is. GitHub will be under his watch and all these years he has done nothing but wonders for the developers and the brand.

People should get to know who Corporate VP + Chief IP Counsel [Erich Andersen] is. GitHub will be under his watch and all these years he has done nothing but wonders for the developers and the brand. "During this time when customers are rapidly adopting #AI solutions across industries to solve important problems, Microsoft is helping to protect those investments by offering #AI patents as part of #AzureIPAdvantage" [1]

#AI #AzureIPAdvantage! Isn't it wonderful that Microsoft is protecting developers from the patent troll ecosystem? From the likes of Intellectual Ventures and Conversant/MOSAID, Myhrvold and Gates? Why look at what Microsoft has done over decades past? We should look at what Microsoft is doing now. People should get to know just how reformed-from-evil Microsoft is.

[1] https://twitter.com/erichandIPG/status/961651306459901952
They may also want to make sure you're over 18.
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I sure hate it when Microsoft does it, but at least they have market share. Who wants to support Metal just to target the Mac? And last I checked I have the choice of OpenGL and Vulkan on Windows because these days MS doesn't control the hardware stack from top to bottom on their software platform.
This comes from personal experience. If you want something more solid, PlugShare will show you. Go look at how they’re distributed, how many chargers are installed at each location, and what kind of speeds people report.
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"But by no means to they have the clout to coerce developers into their own bespoke graphics API that doesn't work anywhere else"

To be fair, the overwhelming majority of game shops develop on engines, and leave the engines to deal with the platforms. Unreal Engine, Unity, etc, support Metal, among others.
I suspect I'll get downvoted for this by people who believe our media, but I think with some critical thinking it's possible to at least realize the possibility that the UN JIT/OPCW may be influenced to the point of bias by the US and its allies.

Many smart people around me have asked, what would have been Assad's motivation to bring down the wrath of the US on himself at a point when he's winning the war? What is the US doing in Syria without an invitation by the Syrian government, supposedly "fighting terrorists" but against the government? Why does the US have the right to constantly invade other governments it doesn't like because "they're not legitimate"?

Assuming the US was the size of Connecticut and had no nuclear weapons, it would be easy for a power like China to take the domestic unrest after the Bush, Trump, or any of several other elections to claim that the US has become a dictatorship and they need to occupy large parts of our territory to ensure freedom. Then assume that somehow that tiny US manages to start winning against the China-supported "insurgents". Then suddenly, out of nowhere, with the war turning in favor of the US, the US uses some chemical weapons on civilians and brings down international condemnation on itself. Who wouldn't be skeptical?

But our government has done a great job of making every other country in the world and its government seem suspicious, so it's easy for many of us to think it's perfectly reasonable that Assad is a crazy person who doesn't want to live past next week, and so is perfectly happy to use unnecessary chemical weapons in a war he's already winning, with a major global power backing him.

Some of the people who were even in the video showing the "chemical attack" have said that they were not attacked with chemical weapons. Those witnesses have been dismissed as "Russian propaganda". See for yourself, the "Russian propaganda" and a US-friendly media source denouncing the Russian propaganda.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-27/russia-presents-allege...

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/428514-douma-civilians-chemical-hoa...

By the way, there are plenty of people in the US who have criticized this overall US strategy for a long time.

https://www.amazon.com/New-Military-Humanism-Lessons-Kosovo/...

But I suppose people on both sides of this debate will think that the other side is just believing the "obviously wrong" propaganda of the other side.
OpenGL is "learnable" by someone in the process of learning. Vulkan and Metal are much less approachable. This will put a huge damper on low-level graphics programming as a hobby.
Apple didn't go their own way one this - they teamed up with the people who know this better than anyone, from Pixar to Epic.
Apple’s Create ML is a nice feature with an unclear purpose
> But it's not ok to fork a GPL software make internal changes and sell it like you wrote it.

Not only is that not ok, it's illegal...

Who is doing that?
did you also complain when they adopted USB-C
Anyone with 100k+ in assets that they can give out with a check is deep into wealthy. If you know people like that you are in wealthy circles.
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TenFourFox is one of the more impressive pieces of software I've seen. It has its own JIT and accelerated codecs and recently, a toolbox of handy features beyond what Firefox ESR provides as well. It's able to run modern JavaScript applications, very slowly, on my original 300Mhz iBook G3, a computer that's nineteen (!) years old. I hope it sticks around a bit longer yet.
That’s a really worrying point, yes. Mac users can say goodbye to the majority of our steam library.
Fortunately you can still use Vulkan on iOS and Mac OS through MoltenVK[1], a Vulkan implemention in Metal.

[1] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
Isn’t an s corp a passthrough? Why all the complexity with w2 (if he is alone)...
Concur. He completely disregards the enormous human freedom and prosperity that comes from open source. It's amazing to be able to launch flask in a container and have a web app running in 10 minutes, and it wouldn't be possible without the present mixture of free software, open source and a healthy dose of commercial self-interest all mixed together. I mean, look at github. Yes, of course, it wouldn't be possible without open source. But by the same token, git alone isn't sufficient to produce the social coding phenomenon of github. And social coding is good for the world.
Fair enough w/r/t the company size...but...how is it I dont have these types of authentication issues in the Google universe, or Facebook Universe? It isn't like I need a separate login for Youtube vs Google Sheets vs Google Drive vs Duo vs GChat. It suggests that it can work if the organization tries to do it correctly.
Hmmm I get the feeling whoever wrote this doesn't really understand C, Unix, or how computers work in general.
That chart is interesting. Realistically how likely is it that digital spend is going to double in the next five years? Is the consumer economy big enough to justify that without taking share from other media (presumably there are other advertising media)? If (when?) it does stop that's going to have a pretty big impact on google/facebook's valuations and growth rates.
Do you mean because Tesla isn't yet building the base models?
It's not that he's wrong, it's that he has radically different priorities than you to.
The big tech companies keep trying this (commoditizing ML models exposed via APIs), but I am extremely skeptical that they will succeed with this approach.

The reason is simple. All of the work lies with validating that a model solves your particular problem well enough to be cost-effective for your customers or stakeholders to be satisfied. Machine learning is not a commodity the same way cloud infrastructure is, because the model development and validation aspects are inherently tailored to your extremely specific, one-off data generating processes and performance characteristic requirements.

Even if you outsource the model itself, this still requires developing some notion of acceptance testing for the model's performance in your use case, on the distribution of data that matter to you. And such acceptance testing still requires high literacy in statistics and model evaluation (e.g., you can't skip on hiring that expensive machine learning engineer even if you outsource because then who, internally, is going to be able to tell you if the outsource solution is a bunch of junk, and why, and what to do about it.)

Short of turning the big tech ML offerings into flat out consulting arrangements, where you trade-off having your own in-house and application-specific and data-specific machine learning staff in order to rent time from experts at the big co's, this model couldn't work.

Don't get me wrong, just as IBM somehow still finds ways to leach from enterprise clients after all these years of not actually helping them, I am sure these lines of business will generate enterprise consulting money.

I just think lots of people will be disappointed that it doesn't somehow mean you're getting Google ML engineer caliber attention or results spent on your company's bespoke needs, and that performance of generic and naive transfer learning from big cookie cutter models often ends up being way worse than you thought.

I feel bad for people who end up suffering the amplified version of vendor lock-in this could create.
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Are you aware of a way to buy Boring Company stock, for instance on a second market anywhere? I'm assuming accredited investor status would be required regardless, but would this currently be possible for _any_ private, relatively wealthy (e.g. 1-2 million net worth) individual?
Too late: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-looks-to-expand-advertisi...
1. Web site is just a blank white page on mobile Safari.

2. LR parsing is elegant in the mathematical sense of the word, but use in production leads to regret. The problem with bottom-up parsers of any flavor, LR included, is that when you encounter a syntax error there is no context information, or context is difficult to infer, which makes creating a sensible error message less fun than poking yourself in the eye repeatedly with a sharp stick. I contend that giving good error messages is the most important factor in user-friendliness of any parser.

Look up "precedence climbing" -- a recursive descent parser with expressions handled by precedence climbing is going be an easier path to a production parser with good diagnostics, IMHO.
If you actually read through the discussion on the mailing list, what Zed did (as I recall it from when this was news years ago) was screw up an operation, run into a bug, panic and start hammering on the repo to try to undo the problem that arose, and basically destroy the repo's ability to roll back what he did.
OpenGL is still an option on Windows, it's not deprecated.
Absolutely, as people who try to leave Facebook discover. It's easy to download your data from Facebook. Not so easy to keep in touch with people who have moved "keeping in touch" to Facebook groups and messenger.
It's still not going to be able to pull anything more than about 1700W from a 120V 15A circuit. Maybe slightly more efficient but the bottleneck is the amperage capacity of the circuit. Think of 120V charging as exactly like a hair dryer.
>My code is in C++, and I refuse to use proprietary, vendor-locked, Objective-C-only Metal. If people want GPU support, they'll just have to use Linux, which doesn't artificially constrain you with corporate frameworks.

Well, some people refuse to use non-platform-native lowest-common-denominator libs, so there's that too...
We've merged this into the one previously marked [dupe] and un-duped it.
Then you need to radiate heat somewhere. If you heat up the blood the body will spend less energy keeping warm leading to no benefit.

If you generate a lot of heat... it goes really bad.
Yeah, I agree with that, and I doubt we'd even be talking about electric cars today if Tesla hadn't been created. But I don't see any Tesla technology that can't easily be replicated by any other car manufacturer. Plus the other car manufacturer's don't need to learn to run an assembly line.
Years.

EDIT: As a follower of https://mesamatrix.net/ I don't think it would be unreasonable to say about 3 years to get something that kind of works, five for something semi reasonable, and 8 for something at modern open gl level.
I'm not comfortable giving you a specific solution because I'm just telling you what I personally feel, and it's up to you to receive the feedback from me and the others offering it and decide how you want to address it. It's feedback, not advice.

Truly, I don't know what exactly I'd prefer from you because I don't know you or your product in any intimate way, so while I might tell you what I would have liked to see it doesn't mean I know that it's overall better than what you have.
What does this mean for WebGL support on Mac?
The code snippets use JS in a very non idiomatic way — which makes this post interesting IMHumbleO

There are few mutations that could be removed to have a clearer/purer functional approach, BTW
Not long time ago we got Swift for Tensorflow as first class citizen: https://medium.com/tensorflow/introducing-swift-for-tensorfl...
Appreciate you sharing this, and glad to see it's for a good reason.

For anyone considering forming an LLC S-Corp for their consulting/freelance business, don't let this scare or deter you.

I've been running mine for over five years (I'm a consultant) and it's been mostly painless. I use Freshbooks for accounting and Gusto for payroll, so there's actually very little overhead day-to-day.

The key thing for me was to find a great accountant. I went through two accountants before finding someone who's right for me. That has made a huge difference in how much I worry (or don't) about that part of the business.
Agreed -- as a Deaf person who uses visual languages to communicate, it's allowed me to actually begin to express myself using a set of pseudo-language visual elements. Some of them roughly map over to ASL expressions; I am looking forward to when they add ASL-specific emoji, or ASL language support, or even hands in the new animoji.
Aw, crap. MacOS is deprecated!? How could you!?
Didnt Apple steal all the code from one FOSS BSDs, closed sourced it and call it a day?
Even if as a child, neither of your parents are actively engaged with you throughout the day - if they have created a healthy and controlled, calm and constructive environment with positive influences in the parts of the home accessible to you, and leave you to explore that environment, they are performing an important parental duty.

What your article focuses on is time actively spent engaged with the child. I would argue that there is a pressure for today's working parents to concentrate their parental influence in what little window of time their conscious children are actually in their vicinity. This results in what ostensibly appears to be more time spent parenting, viewed through the lens of the article.

Active engagement with children is a small fraction of the role a parent plays. If you focus on measuring this as some kind of metric representing quantity of parenting, you're missing the majority of what actually matters.

What I often see is parents these days trying to be pals with their kids. That's not parenting, and frequently they are at a total loss of how to actually discipline their children when things go awry because they've positioned themselves so poorly as some kind of peer.

When your kids spend most of their time in environments outside of your control, then the little time you all share together is spent with a strong bias towards being fun and happy together like buddies because the window of opportunity to actively maintain that relationship is so abbreviated, you're not doing much parenting.
Don't remember where I read this quote, but it sums up the situation pretty perfectly:

> Emacs is a Lisp refugee in Unixland. It doesn't follow the Unix philosophy, it follows the Lisp philosophy. But it integrates...
> is missing strong pragmatic realist leaders and organizations

As far as I'm concerned, that is by design. Even though he is fairly well known, rms is not the pope of Free Software as some seem to think. He's just a guy. You can email him if you want to, if you have questions.

He has some very specific ideas about software. He writes essays about that and tries to explain the thought process behind his ideas. You can read those and agree or disagree with these thoughts or not.

I think "strong pragmatic realist leaders and organizations" would be harmful to Free Software, because people swayed by such things can ultimately be swayed in the opposite direction once even stronger leaders and organisations with even better marketing pop up.

So no, there is no "crazy train helmed by rms" as you, and a lot of others, like to believe. rms is not the one standing in the way of the global victory of "open source." What does stand in the way is dilution and corruption from within. And I think, in that regard, rms could be considered a "leader", and the Free Software movement, and even Open Source by proxy, is lucky to have him.
Is Apple Maps still far behind Google Maps?
The same applies to the Norwegian numbers, 20.9% battery electric, 18.4% plugin hybrid, 12.9% other hybrid
AFAIK for EV charging it is ~1400W for a 15A outlet and ~1900W for a 20A outlet (because the load is continuous), and the difference between the two for the Model 3 is probably around two miles per hour or so.
While Microsoft has a lot of nice marketing and really good PR, they are still a corporation that makes money off selling SQL server licenses and office suite and increasingly by harvesting your user data.

Microsoft is addicted to your data. They siphon it off whenever they get the chance, often times by default and without your knowledge or consent. Even their cli Linux tools have """analytics""".

This will never change, no matter what slick marketing materials they produce, what PR fluff they have, or shills that shill for them.

The simple fact is I cannot trust Microsoft, especially to not touch code in my private repositories. I am sure they just want some "metrics" and to do some "analytics" on all the private data held in GitHub.

To use GitHub now, is to trust the same company who works hand in hand with the government and the NSA to make sure you stay insecure and known to agencies who just want to run some "metrics" and do some "analytics" on you.

No thanks.
Rider Rider Evolution, courtesy of David Dolphin:

https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms

Richard Stallman's rider has been a cause of amusement, bemusement and
confusion for many conference and lecture organisers who have hosted him.
It has even drawn the attention of the press[0].

But what is the story behind this complex beast? When were certain clauses
added, and why? We hope that with enough data regarding when modifications
were made, we may be able to shed some light on the why's.

If you have a copy of RMS's rider we would love to include it in this archive.
You can mail me a copy personally if you do not want your identity attached to
this project. I can be e-mailed at: David.Dolphin at skynet.ie
I can do nothing but commend pg for his commitment to stop what I personally think is close to shooting fish in a barrel. Except it's people and the barrel is mostly dry.
>The implants are powered by radio frequency waves, which can safely pass through human tissues. In tests in animals

why animals? couldn't the researchers just swallow that "prototype about the size of a grain of rice" themselves and/or get several paid volunteers?
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How would you know if that was happening?
I think Microsoft can really help GitHub in the Enterprise space. Imagine GitHub being able to offer GitHub Enterprise for free for the first 10 users. Imagine being able to discount GitHub Enterprise heavily.
> I suspect I'll get downvoted for this [...]

Why do you start your post with an appeal to pity?
It certainly doesn't seem so for Android. The last Android tablet I bought was the Nexus 7 in 2013. Still use it from time-to-time.