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I do some Photoshop and Lightroom work, but generally don't need an overly powerful laptop. I used to detest OS9 or whatever Apple had before OSX and stuck with Windows for some time. But after switching and when I last upgraded, price was no issue. There might've been a powerful, $500 Windows laptop, and I would ignore it. The MacBook Pro has simple, clean lines. It works well. The OS stays out of my way (I shrink and hide the Dock and don't use many of the other features - Expose, etc - can't even remember what they're called). I can't trust that to be the same for Windows-based laptops or other hardware.

If it costs $3-5k and I use it for hours and hours each day, years on end, it's peanuts as a professional tool. I'd rather pay and enjoy using it than take a discount but be frustrated each day.
I don't have much time for playing games anymore, but I can think of a few games where I would gladly start paying for subscriptions again if I was able to use bots. Even if it meant using special bot-only accounts. For some reason this is much more fun to me than just games specifically designed around programming bots.
Play Money by Julian Dibbell! It's on the dated side now but dives into MMO economies from a practioner's perspective — incredible read.
> The first reason is that many medications carry significant risks.

People regularly poison their livers with hypervitaminosis A, yet vitamin A supplements, liver meat, and other extremely dense sources of vitamin A are not labelled in any way which would indicate this danger. Beyond products, the sheer number of ways you could kill yourself in this world is staggering, why is it more wrong to be exposed to risk from pharmaceuticals than from something like traffic or supplements?
Genuinely can someone explain why this is downvoted? The answer says “the software” which people constantly discount - just look at the cycle predicting Nintendo’s death every few years.
Way more than 3 companies.

The reason I'd want to see a vision-only mappless demo is because Lidar and HD maps are a crutch, which make it easy to create a 90% functional demo, yet are insufficient to cover the long tail end, which is inherently a computer vision problem. There is not enough information density or semantics in Lidar data to make high level judgements, which makes it useless for many relevant corner cases. Meanwhile, vision has all the information but it's a hard yet necessary AI problem to extract it.

The goal is a working product indeed, but if it involves teleoperation, human annotation for maps, and over-relies on Lidar, it will be a slow and unreliable AI granny driver, which will penetrate at most 1% of the market. There is a whole lot of unscalable human effort being swept under the rug in most autonomous demos, so don't believe everything you read in the media.
That's a no. He literally does not say it did not disengage. Given the sloppiness of the story, there's no way to infer whether or not he saw zero disengagements or twenty. All I know is there reporter was impressed, but I don't know how knowledgable the reporter is.
I don't expect software I use to scan my hard drives and exfiltrate data ("send samples") to their developers. That's exactly what malware does.

Companies just say it's for "security reasons" as if that somehow justified everything. When I read an anti-cheat software's privacy policy, I discovered it could scan my RAM, my files, take screenshots... They're basically trojans. It's not just game companies either. Banks here trick users into installing "security modules" that are actually kernel mode network monitors. I refuse to accept that.

These shady anti-cheating practices makes cheaters look good in comparison; similar to how copy protection measures make a genuine product inferior to the cracked version. If a hacker figures out the game's network protocol and writes his own client, he won't have to install a bunch of malware on his machine just to play the game. In my opinion, these developers are the real heroes.
You can't really compare ARM and x86_64 chips. I'm going to use a crude example. Think of the ARM chip being one of those USPS Trucks (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Small_US...) while the x86_64 is a F150 pickup.

Both can drive around and transport things, but the USPS Truck is purpose build to deliver mail, stop and start frequently, and be reliable. It does a few things well. On the other hand the F150 is widely produced, can be customized in many different ways, and is general purpose vehical. Could it do the function of the USPS Truck? Sure, but it would be slower, cost more to run, and be less efficient. Could the USPS Truck haul a trailer? Maybe, but it wouldn't be very good at it. Both are a truck, but both are designed to different things and excel at different things.

That crude comparison is ARM vs x86_64. ARM is getting there, and for the specific ARM functions it's more performant than the equivalent x86_64 functions. But once you go outside of what the ARM chip has been specifically designed for, your performance takes a massive hit. Will ARM be able to take off in a Macbook? Maybe in a few years, but Apple would need to dump a massive amount of R&D into their designs before I would think they would consider it (but who knows?)
Come on. Stripe has ~1,000 employees. Stripe Press is probably run by 0.5 employees at most. Is this really a big distraction?

I would agree with you in general, but I don't think your critique fairly applies to Stripe Press, while other things - such as the amazing Stripe Atlas - are very much a great integration/complement of Stripe's core product.
> The video takes 20 minutes

It's a 13 minute video and at 2x, I watched and read it in less than 7 minutes. This was a comfortable reading pace for me and I'm not sure I could have read it any faster had it been an article with pictures or embedded video (probably slower, since I'd have to interrupt my reading to play the videos separately).

Even at 1x speed, I'm not sure where the other 7 minutes to make this a 20 minute video are coming from.

When I originally read your comment, I assumed the "irony" was that it was all audio about being deaf/HOH-friendly -- especially since you said "I'm not somewhere I can listen" -- but since it had subtitles, I just wanted to add that information to ensure that other people weren't similarly misled.
Comsol and sometime CAD user here, on a 2015 MacBook Pro, the latest of many Apple laptops for me.

My workflow runs faster on many laptops outside the walled garden. But I've gotten used to an exceptional build quality that's reliable under hard use, and OSX lets me think & work more like I want than other OSes. Also, my customer experience with Apple has been outstanding for decades.

For me, Apple has a mix of quality and aesthetics that I like better than what I've experienced from other manufacturers. It's been worth the price premium for me.

That said, I'm avoiding the butterfly keyboards until they really get them figured out.
Right. From a purely material standpoint, I agree that from the outside perspective, there are two identical MEs and any claims to legitimacy, originality, or specialness will be completely dubious.

But I think it's easy to demonstrate that it would not be like waking up and the "true original" would definitely die in that it would not experience the clone's consciousness
If you spending 400$ to upgrade from an i7 to an i9, you are expecting i9 performance. If the i9 throttles, you are not getting that performance.
Former military here - American service men and women haven't defended American freedom in over 75 years. Time to let that line go I would think.
Here's a review from a dev who works at NASA:

http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180712/

Maybe the key point is he isn't running Adobe Premiere.

The thermal issues in modern laptops certainly concern me, but they've been running hot for a long time now, and being thin doesn't actually change the surface area significantly.
Isn’t Amazon currently working on fixing this?

I recall seeing an article that Bezos was going to take on vertically integrated healthcare for his workers. And given Amazon’s history, the next step would be productizing that as a service for all comers with transparent a la carte pricing.
Title seems very clickbaity.

Also, I'd say Google likes to have applicants to be better prepped for interviews, so they probably like the concept.
The fact that it's a TRUE linux machine

To be pedantic, a GNU/Darwin/Mach/BSD machine.
Yeah but I don't think buying a race car and use it to race should be considered as "using it in a very specialized way".
> 3. Don't try to accomodate "non-technical" users performing intrinsically technical tasks. There's no point creating a "friendly" DSL over HTML and CSS if the people authoring in the DSL still require an in-depth knowledge of the box model, responsive web design etc. All you've done is kicked the can down the road and created a false sense of capability.

Should be #1 in the OP. So underrated.
Levinson, whose father, Arthur, ran Genentech Inc., chairs Apple Inc., and mentored Steve Jobs, comes from Silicon Valley royalty.

If the reports that Apple is building a similar product are true, there's a hell of a conflict of interest here.
Looks good on mobile which is nice. Clicked on a link for a Maserati which took me to a forum post from 2007, so seems like there’s some stale data...
For those curious what 0-5 is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Definitions

(edit: changed link to point to wikipedia instead of random site)
IMO the last good laptops Apple made were the pre-Touch Bar Retina MBPs. I've used three different ones, two for work and one that I purchased myself, and they were all solid performers with excellent screens, excellent keyboards, excellent performance, adequate ports, and adequate portability. The new MacBook, with its terrible everything-aside-from-thickness-and-weight, showed that Apple has lost interest in making a usable laptop in favor of any kind of differentiation they can get. Even if it's pointless or apparently even worse than nothing.
I find this comment odd. I spent many years in Oakland and saw plenty of Indians (a quick google search shows Oakland is 17% Asian). Not to mention there are at least three Indian restaurants within two blocks of 12th street/Oakland City Center BART.
The "retrofitted Windows linux" is more Linuxy than the Mac (and both suck compared to an actual Linux OS).
Obviously no robotaxi outfit has a viable business model if they can't undercut a human driven Uber.

Zoox's initial fleet will be hand built, and will likely cost several hundred thousand dollars a piece to manufacture, but hypothetically one could still turn a profit on a robotaxi worth $300k.

Bullish analysts have speculated that economy class robotaxis will someday be cost competitive with public transit, though I suspect it will take a while to get there.

Of all the robotaxi companies out there showing real progress, Zoox is the most differentiated, and is positioned well to avoid the race to the bottom by capturing the premium end of the market, much like Apple has done with smartphones.

Of course this is all contingent on Zoox's ability to execute. But even if they fail miserably at developing their bidirectional robotaxi with independently articulated steering and drivetrain for each wheel, their autonomous OS is still very good. If we compare Zoox to what other companies such as Apple, Intel, Baidu and Uber have spent to accomplish less, Zoox's autonomous OS alone is arguably worth the $3.2 billion that the company is being valued at. So it's not like they don't have a plan B.
The Backblaze blog post points to Amazon's CTO (Werner Vogel)'s blog post, in which he states that "...These techniques allow us to design our service for 99.999999999% durability."

(side note: Werner is a great person)

Unfortunately, there is a difference, a huge difference, between a system "designed" for 11 9s of durability, and a system "offering" 11 9s of durability.

I wish Backblaze, or Amazon, or anybody else, would clarify durability using very honest terms.

An example?

"This system offers X 9s of durability over a period of one year, on average. This is a technical paper that describes how we tested that durability", followed by measurements and test specifics.

Any other claim has much less value to me.
Aisle 5, right next to the condoms and lube bottles =) and Victoria Secret makes money hand over fist here.

This would be off-topic here, but I think most people outside of the region would be stunned about the state of sex-change operations over here. They happen VERY frequently, albeit with a heavy veil of privacy.
Unlikely. More likely there's simply not a very large Mac player base for the game, as compared to Windows
It might have been budgeted in or part of some other discretionary spending limit (employee perks, parties etc) and this is so small that it doesn't matter.

I have seen termsheets where the founders need board/investor approval for spend over $XXXK, so that it stops/limits misuse of capital.

This could have been board approved, if it needed to be or else investors/boards can always ask for it to be returned and mandate approval for future spends above $X in categories outside of regular business spending.
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...And the generic gelcap that is heavily marketed and merchandises better costs 7x more.
Absolutely.

But in a classic UNIX network, middleboxes aren't a part of the threat model.

Unprivileged UNIX user accounts binding on TCP ports were and are. So, ports below 1024 were reserved for the root account and that was a decent protection at the time against enterprising users trying to race system daemons in binding listening sockets.

See for example https://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Installation/PrivilegedPorts....

And even today, it still protects against an exploit kit running as "www-data" or "nobody" springboarded from a wordpress exploit.
I loved reading this just now. I'm CEO of a small young startup (3 co-founders, 3 employees, 1 more coming), and today I spent ~1 hour to think about compensation really, really deeply, before engaging in a conversation with a future hire.

I know we're small, but I absolutely agree that compensation is super important from the very beginning. Like company values.

It's like a seed. A big tree will come out of it, one day. How you plant the seed, and what seed it is, is super important.
What tactics do Uber, Lyft, Postmates use to attract drivers?
Handguns without safeties are really common - in fact most newly purchased police guns in the US today don't require anything beyond pulling the trigger.

The two most popular handgun lines in the US, the Glock[1] and the M&P[2], don't have what a laymen would consider a safety. The Sig P250[3], of CounterStrike fame, has no safety of any kind whatsoever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_M%26P
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_P250
Does anyone have experience getting clients through RFPs?
That... seems way too high? Are your vents clogged?
No need for slime panic: it’s not going to poison anyone
For most users, sacrificing some sustained performance for the sake of higher burst performance is absolutely the right choice if such a tradeoff is possible. People who keep the CPU at 100% with a multi-threaded workload for minutes on end have a workload that requires a desktop form factor. For the other 97% of users, the CPU will spend far more time idle than fully-loaded.
I don’t think that’s true. If a board member tries to change the rules after violating them, shareholders can use the courts to force a board takeover vote.

If the shareholders are ok with the retroactive change then it’s not really board power at play it’s owner power.

If your point is that the owners are ultimately in control then, not to be rude but, duh.
In the video they say that the drives were 100% autonomous, which means no disengagement’s.
You don’t think it’s unreasonable that a laptop should work in daylight?
"they also mentioned they intended to work with the wine people on a solution for that as well"

Be nicer if they'd just put the damn thing on Linux. They're already on Windows and Mac after all
There's no need to be rude.

Just as using a more computer-compatible language (assembly, at the extreme) more optimally utilizes the computer's available resources, using languages with cognition-compatible paradigms more optimally utilize the brain's available resources, reducing cognitive load and enabling anyone - intelligent engineer or layperson - to express and mentally parse greater and more complex concepts than they otherwise would have been able to.

The power of the Lisp syntax comes from the fact that everything looks the same, but this also makes it harder for a human to parse. For example, using different symbols to wrap function arguments than you do to wrap procedural blocks gives the brain something to latch on to, reducing the cognition necessary to differentiate between the two. This is also why code editors make the same types of tokens the same color.

Two big takeaways from the linked study were that event-based programming and set-based operations are intuitive. These aren't layperson schlock, these are real paradigms. Every notation, every language, is made-up. There's nothing fundamentally more true about one or the other; each offers different metaphors for expressing complex concepts. The question is what those metaphors should be, and in my experience many programmers don't think about general human cognition when deciding which to prefer.
I think the more important thing might be the consent part. Check out clickwrap or clickthrough consent. The technical bits of this can become extremely tricky and extremely important.
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That should work for revealing throttling -- you will see that it tops out at 1.1 GHz or something.
I don't see anything intractable. There is abundant investment funding available to pay employee compensation at start-ups with the potential to scale up with increasing profit margins. That just means founders will have to recalibrate their expectations on early stage valuation.

On the other hand, for businesses without the potential for high margins it never made sense to locate in high cost areas. There are plenty of other suitable areas. For example Cleveland would be an excellent location for a health IT business. The tech industry as a whole would be healthier with more geographic diversity.
And Bourdain spent what 2 weeks there?
The merge 'issue' was because the adjacent car paced them and then pulled ahead at the last second. They merged successfully even as they ran out of lane - just as almost every human would've done.

What was wrong with the turn? They had to wait until they could confirm that the second oncoming car would actually slow and complete their turn before it was safe to continue. That's how many humans would handle that situation too IMO.
> I could watch Netflix on my bare stomach with my Air

Don’t try that with a first gen Air. It had a very significant problem with thermal related issues. Several times a week it’d get so hot I could make pancakes off it, the rest of the time it was in a throttled state. Was a very common problem among folks I worked with (albeit mine was a personal, theirs was a work machine) too.
I think the better car analogy here would be buying an expensive luxury sports car and being disappointed that it couldn't keep pace with a real race car on the track.

No laptop can be an equal to a real workstation unless you don't actually need a workstation to begin with.
Doesn't he clearly say that they made the example trip and back each time autonomously? There was a "driver" with his hands near the wheel, which I assume is a requirement for them.
Java's shittiness is a problem, but for the mid 2000s, it wasn't extra shitty in comparison. That long stagnation after 1.6 really hurt.
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The key is that the thermal issues are so bad that it causes it to underperform against the last models i7.
Great for business, bad for people.

Welcome to the US of A.
What's the relevance of his hat?!
What? They're CPUs. They're designed to run instructions. Intel's chips spend more energy on the really fancy stuff like huge reorder buffers and extensive speculation. They get higher IPC at lower MIPS/watt. An i7 isn't going to run iOS more slowly than whatever Apple calls their latest ARM SoC. It _is_ going to blow its lid without a big ole heatsink brick on there and a fan too, which is why smartphones use ARM cores designed for efficiency.

P.S. if anything, ARM is the "general purpose vehicle" in your analogy. x64 is all about high throughput and high power on a chip you buy and plug in. ARM is the one where you can get an architecture license and customize the shit out of it.
Yeah, there are 1098 Flash related CVEs, but Google Chrome itself also has 1608 CVEs https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=google+chro...

Better stop using Chrome now.
But how many crops are like Vanilla --that is constrained to a limited geography-- but in the case of vanilla, also constrained by the intensive labor required. I mean, maybe Saffron?

I think that there are exceptions such as these is proof that they are unusual.
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Well the single-core test is unlikely to max out the thermal loading on the CPU. You can see how the scaling from 4-6 cores provides severely diminishing returns, perhaps due to throttling.
> But choosing which anti-hypertension drug to use, or which combination, is nontrivial.

Then why not consult a doctor? It is already an immense legal risk to recommend starting a course of drugs like this without seeking medical advice, I don't see why it would be any different if you could technically self-administer an anti-hypertension drug.
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Walmart physical stores “brick and mortar”, charges different price for the same product, taking into account different “factors” like local competition.
I think the number of people playing LoL in wine could be stored in a uint8_t.