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> justify the MacBook Pro's ludicrous pricetag that has some shiny numbers on the tech specs sheet

If you think people buy MacBook Pros because of their tech specs, you are missing the point. MacBooks are by far the best general purpose, well-rounded laptops on the market from a build quality perspective. Everything from the screen to the touchpad to sleep/hibernate (and, until recently, the keyboard) is finely tuned to the point that you can't find another laptop on the market that just feels anywhere as nice as a whole. The tight integration between the hardware and the software doesn't hurt, either.

If all you need is a powerful laptop, or if you don't care about any of those details, you are probably better off getting a more cost effective machine, but you will always sacrifice some combination of things for it. (For me personally, the biggest one is the touchpad.)

I say this as someone who doesn't own any other Apple products, but I will likely never buy a laptop other than a MacBook Pro.
Facebook's campaign against fake news seemed at first to focus on sites and pages that were created with the express purpose of spreading obvious falsehoods. Things like "Hillary Clinton is really a man", etc. News created and spread by people who intentionally crafted and disseminated falsehoods.

But now people (like the author of this BBC article) seem to want this campaign against "fake news" to spread to sites like Infowars that engage in aggressive conspiratorial thinking but often skate on the very edge of truth, or germinate from an initial seed of truth. Watch InfoWars as an academic exercise, you'll see that Alex Jones tends to take real events and news and extrapolate out with what most people would consider very conspiratorial thinking. Regardless of what you think about him, I think it's clear he honestly believes what he says. Yes he speculates wildly but he is just a man spreading his opinions, not conspiring to sow dissent with falsehoods.

But who is able to determine the difference between "fake news" and "harmless" speculation? It is an impossible task. Is the idea that Putin has compromising info on the President "fake news"? Should anyone engaging in such conjecture be banned from publishing on Facebook? Is the idea that Hillary and the CIA were working together to rig the election speculation, or "fake news"? Should such thought be censored? I believe the answer to these sorts of questions often lie in the inner politics of the answerer, and therein lies the danger.

We live in a free society. We embrace the marketplace of ideas because we have faith that the best way to fairly distill truth from noise is by giving people unobstructed access to that noise. The moment we stray from that belief system, we wander into the maw of tyranny.

The reason why some people want to ban Alex Jones is because some people clearly don't like what he says. But if it's truly ridiculous, the crowd will recognize it as being so. Why does a private entity get to decide what billions of people of people potentially have access to?

We must preserve freedom of thought. We must have faith in humanity. Once we lose that faith, nothing stands between us and tyranny.
I can't help but wonder if it's worked out very well for the non-Han.
Yep Its just a million little details that make it such quality.
The awesome UI of the OS.
The trackpad is the best trackpad I've ever used. Every other trackpad feels clumsy after using one.
The fact that it's a TRUE linux machine not just retrofitted Windows linux.
The fact that everything just works.
The chance of getting a virus is incredibly small.
The time saved in troubleshooting is worth the price.
Operating system upgrades are like 30 bucks vs the 1-200 dollars of every new windows release.
Also, the build quality is the best.
I have a macbook that has lasted 10 years and still works great.
Never had a windows machine do that.
So the quality, UI, attention to detail, upgrades, and more make it more than worth the upfront price tag in hassle saved down the line.
Is the Intel upgrade treadmill is starting to show its age?

How much longer can we keep making the chips "faster" when the tradeoff is increasingly just more thermal issues?

Can't wait for a decent A-series chip MacBook.
In the source video, it shows that the chip is downclocking to 2.2GHz under sustained load. There is nothing any software can do about that as that's hardware doing it.

The OS can govern how the fans spin up, but all CPUs will throttle down when they hit a predetermined temperature.
I believe being dispassionate requires being reasonable and genuine.
Why do you think they have the right to know whether I'm doing something shady? Are they some kind of police? Did they get a warrant?
Under sustained load. That's the key part here.
All three 15-inch Mid 2018 MBP configurations benchmarked are at the top of Geekbench for multi-core, only behind iMac Pro and Mac Pro models [1].

Here they are in isolation compared to the 2017 and 2016 15-inch models sorted by score descending overall:

| Model | Configuration | Score |
|---------------------------------|------------------------------------------|-------|
| MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) | Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.9 GHz (6 cores) | 22547 |
| MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) | Intel Core i7-8850H @ 2.6 GHz (6 cores) | 21266 |
| MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) | Intel Core i7-8750H @ 2.2 GHz (6 cores) | 21096 |
| MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) | Intel Core i7-7920HQ @ 3.1 GHz (4 cores) | 15550 |
| MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) | Intel Core i7-7820HQ @ 2.9 GHz (4 cores) | 15251 |
| MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) | Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 2.8 GHz (4 cores) | 14374 |
| MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) | Intel Core i7-6920HQ @ 2.9 GHz (4 cores) | 14134 |
| MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) | Intel Core i7-6820HQ @ 2.7 GHz (4 cores) | 13706 |
| MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) | Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 2.6 GHz (4 cores) | 13008 |

[1]: https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks
> The irony (hoping I’m not doing an Alanis here) of he being an audio only video is excruciating.

The video has accurate subtitles. The content is also fairly well matched to the narration; it shows lots of great examples of what to do and what not to do.
By your logic, rapists will get their genetics in the next generation. They're losers IMHO.
Yeah but that's like buying a race car and being upset that it's throttled at 300 mph.

99.9999% of people will never go 300mph..unless you're using it in a very specialized way.
All major game engines use a custom allocator.
> But is it really fair to say it's not "Pro" just because it can't meet the needs of 100% of all working professionals?

Apparently it cannot even meet the needs of its own spec sheet. It gets throttle back below its base clock speed according to the video. That's the real issue.

Apple claims this is "More Pro" but it turns out to be just more of the same from Apple lately. One issue after another.
In Waymo’s most recently reported month, November 2017, they reported over 30,000 miles driven with only a single disengagement. It’s hard to dispute that they’re years ahead of the competition at this point.
> At the OS level (windows 10) there is a telemetry

Nitpick: "Telemetry" means "measurement far away". Does this get sent to microsoft ("tele") or is it just a measurement ("metric")?
I work every single day to try to build a world where we get socialism voluntarily. I’m an author and I write about how we can build a world where helping people is so easy we choose to support it without government intervention. I’m a libertarian socialist, which is a term I encourage you to look up. My specific angle is robotics, and I not only work a full time day job making robots in Silicon Valley, but I also bust my ass at home to make better open source robotics platforms to enable this world I claim we can create.

Are you so sure I won’t pay or work to create the world I advocate for?
I use smcfancontrol on my imac to force the fans to do their thing. The problem seems to be that osx prefers throttling over turning the machine into a vacuum cleaner. For me this is the only way to play games. Without smccontrol throttling kicks in and the fans never go on fully.
The Macbook Pro has a great 100m sprint, but it can't complete a 1km race without crawling across the finish line.

Geekbench takes a few minutes to run. If you ran it back to back to back without letting the laptop cool down, you'd see different numbers.
> Operating system upgrades are like 30 bucks vs the 1-200 dollars of every new windows release.

When was the last time you upgraded macOS? It's been free for several years. :)

Also, to be fair to Microsoft, Windows 10 is supposed to be the last version of Windows, so you should only have to buy it once and never upgrade again.
OSX, as sibling pointed out, but let me be much more specific:

- iMessage

- excellent integration between Contacts, Maps, iMessage, Mail, and Spotlight

- Mail.app, the best desktop mail client (IMO)

- Siri > Cortana > Whatever tarball you are expected to run autoconf inside of to get your linux box to act like a mac from the 90s

- excellent HiDPI support (neither Windows nor Linux have figured this out yet)

- plug and play external display support

- configuration-free lid switch sanity

- configuration-free trackpad sanity

- Lack of vendor adware (Windows obvs, did Ubuntu ever remove those Amazon search things?)

- painless FDE (extremely important)

- good fonts

- iOS development possible

- the most common modifier key is where my thumb can reach it and is not overloaded with the unix modifier key (is ctrl-c copy or SIGINT?)

- copy and paste work between apps using consistent keystrokes (windows figured this one out, linux not so much)

- less malware than windows

- an order of magnitude better a11y than anyone else in the history of OSes (it’s literally not even a race anymore, Apple is so far ahead here)

Finally, in not-OSX:

- build quality, even with keyboard and thermal issues, is still simply a head and shoulders higher than everyone else

The only people who could reasonably challenge Apple’s level of fit and finish from an OS perspective are Google, which is why I carry an rMBP and the 16gb Pixelbook. ChromeOS these days is a fucking marvel, up there on quality par with google search before answer cards, google assistant, and google maps. It’s a major achievement and is the first actually workable/usable Linux desktop.
>"So, on average, only one cell division happened before measurement, unless you want to claim GFP stimulates T-cells to hyperproliferate. My intuition is that cells with the transgene will actually be slower than their competitors, since they have to waste energy to make GFP."

No, the claim is that double stranded breaks lead to cell death and senescence amongst the non-mutated cells thus selecting for the cells that lack the target sequence (because they were just "edited" or otherwise). We don't know how many cells survived the treatment, or how fast the different populations were dividing, or the rate at which these cells were dying. From extended fig 1a just see that 2 days after treatment there were ~500k total cells from an original ~1 million and ~100k of those expressing GFP. Then four days after treatment there were ~1 million total cells with ~ 300k of them expressing GFP.

Are T-cells capable of dividing quick enough so a single cell can generate 100k in 2 days and 300k in 4 days? The literature says yes. Maybe there was an initial thousand edited cells that divided on average ~3 times each day for two days and then once the last two days as the surviving non-GFP+ cells recovered. Is that what happened? I don't know. They didnt report the details of what happened immediately after the treatment.

>"The PLoS One paper you've linked is about in-vivo hyperproliferation of T-cells in response to an ongoing infection, not about in-vitro primary culture in minimal media."

Yes, it only demonstrates how fast they could be dividing, setting an upper bound. We don't know under the conditions in this paper.
Reading the reports is a bit disconcerting. Waymo appears to be about 60x better at these measurements than their competition.

The Tesla report says "these are not autonomous vehicles nor have they been driven in autonomous mode". This might surprise some Autopilot users.
>There are some very abstract common threads in how the mind conceptualizes the world.

Of course, this means nothing pertaining to a preferred language, formal or natural, for encoding it such notions.

>a fascinating study that investigated the ways people intuitively try to articulate algorithms

Try to articulate algorithms. And generally fail, because they don't have any experience expressing complex systems in their shoddy, careless notation.

Naturally, when the physicist sits down to express her algorithm using Lie theory and tensor calculus, she's really a moron because one should obviously grab an inexperience lay person and have them dictate your notation for you. The natural consequence of this is that you'll see things you couldn't have seen before and discover many novel and interesting structures in the language, through a process of lay magic.
> And we all use them just to rant at each other about political things that we in reality are totally misinformed about ... and otherwise just waste our lives.

You're certainly free to find the relevant response to that intellectually boring. But it's quite a leap from OP's totalizing statement of despair to implicitly fill in that ellipsis with "allusion to human well being."

I'd like to be generous in my reading, but I don't see any room in there for a discussion of "heavy" vs healthy device use.
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Huh. I guess I never realized that flagging was the downvote.
Global warming. Too late.
Yes, I know they pseudo randomize the allocations. That is irrelevant to my core point, that each AZ is not just separate networks in the same building or even adjacent buildings, but rather they are truly isolated by a non-insignificant distance of somewhere around 50mi on average.
Were the benchmarks run on a cooled room? Some years ago, as a student, I paid $$$ for a Toshiba with 4 cores and hyperthreading, and I could only run them well on the winter or in a very cool room. In the summer it would reach 100C and constantly throttle, so I do think that temperature is a key issue, sp. now with slimmmer laptops
In general, unless you are running a long computation (in CAD, that could be a stress analysis; in graphic design that could be rendering a frame) you won’t notice any difference in snappiness of workflow.

I run Autodesk Inventor 2018 on a bootcamped mid-2017 Mackbook 12”, it has a built in Intel video card (650 I believe). The only time I wish I had more processing power is when doing huge FEA analysis, my 15W processor goes into a down-clocked limp mode, and computations take 4X longer than on a latest gen desktop).
Doesn't fastmail offer the same feature? I remember at least a dozen aliases when I used them a decade ago.
Amusingly, I've yet to hit as much frustration as I have when using a few ruby packages at work. Holy hell is it confusing to figure out where things came from, sometimes.

I don't necessarily care for the data as code, most of the time; but I do like that most everything has a sensible way to serialize to a file. Even better, unless I am wanting to get optimized, the round trip can take care of itself.

Curious what the syntax is for a basic list of key value pairs? Well, it is the same as any list of pairs. Which is the same as any list, unless you are trying to get fancy.

This freedom really is liberating, at times. Yes, some folks have made macros so that they have a syntax to have a different literal for different styles of maps/tables/etc. By and large, life is easier if you don't use those and just stick to the minimal syntax necessary to do this.

Which really helps with your concern. When I can see what the transformation is, I can literally substitute into my mental model what the macro is doing, so that I don't have to juggle a bunch of crap around.

And all of this, oddly enough, lands you into not caring if you are calling to a function or a macro. I have more trust in calling things in most lisps I've worked with, because I can understand both ways in terms of themselves easily enough. With ruby, I'm often wary of using a new method in a source file, because I really can't trust all of the interactions that are assumed for it to work out.
I can't imagine safely prescribing anti-hyperlipidemia and anti-hypertension drugs without medical advice. Sure, we can all measure our own blood pressure. But choosing which anti-hypertension drug to use, or which combination, is nontrivial.
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Do you have a way to monitor or measure the CPU throttling on macOS?

I've found Intel Power Gadget [1] which looks like it might help, however, I'm not really sure what these graphs should look like when throttling vs not.

[1]: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget...
Mine runs at >6k RPM after 50-something Celsius.
Anybody knows if Apple's ARM chips (iPhone) have better thermal efficiency (watts/GFLOPs) than the chips in this latest gen?

If this is the case, I think it's just a matter of time for Apple replacing Intel with their own custom ARM chips.
Haha neat. That was probably caused by the physics engine running slower than needed. If you do a rough friction calculation based on the frame rate you will end up with more friction at 20 fps vs 40 or 60.
And the overreach goes in cycles until the latest one loses the mandate from heaven and revolution of one kind or another ensues.
This madness is something Apple can only blame themselves for.

It's Steve Jobs' ploy to kill the laptop market. He didn't need the laptop market, he had the iPhone, he knew of the iPad when he demo'd the Macbook Air. Today the entire Mac revenue https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re... is below 10%.

See, he have started the thin craze and everyone copied.
But noone needs a thin laptop. There's no advantage to it whatsoever. People do need lightweight laptops and well before the Macbook Air we had shockingly lightweight ones, my Panasonic CF-Y5 was 1.5kg including a DVD ROM more than ten years ago. It had a protrusion on the lid to create a cushion which made a review to call "the exterior design of the machine's casing is reminiscent of a Sherman tank cross-bred with a 1970s sports saloon". It made it 45mm thick at the thickest point. Still, it was 1.5kg and undestructible.

So, instead of focusing on materials science and building lightweight laptops in whatever thickness a good cooling system would require everyone is falling over themselves to produce a thin laptop. Which, of course, can't be properly cooled. It's just physics. In this case, the Macbook "Pro" is 0.61" high where the Lenovo P52 (which is Pro for real) is 0.96”. This thinness craze killed off the convenient bottom dock ports from the business laptops creating these awkward side docks.

Fantastic trick, Mr Jobs, well played.
> Angular 2/4 is a completely over-engineered trainwreck.

I can appreciate that the author loves Vue.js but I don't think its very constructive have such a binary view of something they clearly haven't spent much time with. Angular is not "over-engineered". Its complete. Its got everything you need and an established, well documented pattern to do it. Its far from perfect but then what is? I've used it, React, Angular 1.x etc and all of them have their strengths and weaknesses. It depends on your team and what you are trying to do.

Its important to remember all these frameworks are built by people just like us who try very hard to make them the best they can be. It would be nice if we spent more time celebrating all the wonderful FREE tools they build for us rather than tearing down the ones that we didn't pick.
The video takes 13 minutes, so the subtitles also take 13 minutes (that’s why I explicitly mentioned time).

So even if I did read it at the extraordinarily slow rate of spoken word, it would not contain information that could have been conveyed in an article that took 13 minutes to read.

As for “lots of great examples”: I have literally no problem with videos in an article, that’s one of the big advantages articles on the web have over printed pages. I suspect that with a textual summary on each clip and the detailed body article the actual value of the example would be much better.

I think a good way of assessing the time/value of a video like this would be to copy out the transcript, and then put the appropriate clip at each point in the article. If you do that you’ll find there is way less information than warrants a 13 minute video.

[edit: it’s 13 minutes, not 20. Who knows how my brain got there, but that will teach me for not verifying numbers before posting them :)]
> FB & such were founded with a solid ethic.

Then you are likely unaware of FB history. Read the first hundred or so results of https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dumb%20fucks
There are tradeoffs. My guess is that very few people will bother to abuse the drugs that can't get you high, relative to the benefits of increased accessibility.
I am hearing what you are saying its just not true. Its me knowing what the original is thats valuable, the second you replicate it you diminshes the value to me.

I.e. the one shipped from earth is more valuable than the one replicated no matter the level of fidelity because I know the difference.
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This approach sounds incredibly smart. Hope you can share more details about it, or even a fun story or two.
Well, we could go back to having laptops that are thicker than a Bic pen and have actual cooling systems in them. I have physical spiral bound paper notebooks that are thicker and heavier than my work notebook.
Piggybacking off of top comment to send some UX feedback.

The content blocks that scroll left to right lack signifiers and weren't intuitive for me to scroll them left to right.

I would say having some low opacity arrows (or something similar) would help.
I do wish they would bring back the Air’s keyboard on higher end models.
But it's supposedly _slower_ than its predecessor in sustained situations like this. What's the point of having a "more powerful" 2018 machine over the 2017 if, when trying to use that power, you end up worse off?
Thanks you're right, except you can just pay a small fee (typically a coffee per month) and be fully autonomous and have no growth but just enjoying your small community. (I meant gals not pals in the preceding comment)
That doesn't strike me as particularly noteworthy/unexpected.
Uh..stop using Google..?
Seconding the touchpad. If I'm spending eight or so hours a day using a computer you can bet I'm going to get the one that feels best. CPU performance matters, but I'm not running at 100% CPU all day. I am clicking and typing all day, though.
Not sure on an individual basis but the Geekbench numbers are aggregate across all users of the machine.

I reached out to the video author to see if he'd be willing to run Geekbench on it in a freezer vs not.

https://twitter.com/kicksopenminds/status/101942058846774067...
> Another non-verbose DSL example is Java date and time format string:

> "YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"

Oh that crazy Java formatting date times using ISO 8601!

Although the author didn’t really mention any good DSLs I do appreciate the tips in the second half.