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> Interestingly, my AirPods seem to be defective and this is something that mine won't do ;)

Ah! Of course! Sadly there is no warranty replacement for your problem. ;(

Kidding aside, Siri required some work to understand and shape into a useful tool, but it was worth it to me to make sure I never pulled out my phone without the intention of doing the specific task I pulled it out to do, and only those tasks that require me to look at the screen. Phone calls, playing podcasts, audiobooks and music, and setting alarms, timers and reminders basically work. Haven’t found a way to do Calendar appointments in the level of detail and granularity I prefer though, so I just continued doing that mostly on my laptop.

Not for everyone, but once I figured out how to make Siri useful after years of not using it at all, it was the killer app for AirPods. Still won’t tick nearly all the boxes on anyone’s Butler-in-a-Box wishlist though.

> Every Apple device is a tradeoff. It just so happens that the removal of the headphone jack was a trade off that a larger-than-usual number seem to have taken issue with, though it's not clear that this is a perspective shared by the majority of iPhone users.

I’m not at all disagreeing that every Apple device is a tradeoff. I don’t think I even implied that it wasn’t, what I’m getting at is that on top of the other trade offs they have already made, that this additional trade off, for the reasons they did it, may not have actually been a good one, and I don’t think it has to affect a majority of users to still be a bad tradeoff.

If, and I’m pulling this number from my ass, but if 20% of your existing install base is unhappy with a decision you made on a model they would otherwise have no problem purchasing, but 80% are at worse indifferent, then you’ve still pissed off 20% of your customers.

It might be 15%, or 10%, or 5% or something even lower, but with a customer base as large as Apple’s, that is still a lot of people that may not be buying iPhones the next time they do, or might but will be dissatisfied, and express this dissatisfaction to their social groups. It still tarnishes the brand. If this were the only thing that tarnished Apple’s brand in recent years it might be fine, but it’s not and the removal of the headphone jack didn’t happen in a vacuum.
I just downgraded from a flagship android phone to a refurb iPhone SE from eBay. New battery, no visible signs of wear; $120 for everything on your list. If I have to do it every year, I'll still be ahead after 5 years.
Oh! nice touch with the ElectroBOOM reference - love that channel.
Does the OnePlus have the same tech as iPhone? Are you comparing it fairly? The Galaxy Note 9 is $1000 in the US. The 6T gets crushed by the A12 chip in the XR. The XR is about $150 more than the 6T, comparing it with the Max is disingenuous. The XR also has one hour longer battery life. The XR also has FaceID. So the 6T has a worse camera, dramatically slower processor, and lower-life battery. You are free to make a comparison, but it’s comparing a Hyundai with an Audi. The XR costs more because you are getting more. Whether or not you want that “more” is a personal choice, but let’s not pretend that the XR is overpriced. Apple could make a shittier phone and end up priced like the 6T. OnePlus is also operating at barely any profit. So if you took out Apple’s average 38% margin, that puts the XR at $464; so Apple is making a much better phone at a lower price than OnePlus — which makes OnePlus’s tech all the more disappointing: they spend more than Apple and ship a worse phone.

The 2018 MacBook Air isn’t 2x the price of a 2017 Air in the United States. First of all, the 2017 MacBook Air was actually a 2015 MacBook Air with a tiny bump in clock speed. Retail price in 2017 was $999. Retail price in 2018? $1199. The 2018 has Touch ID and retina which the 2017 version didn’t. That’s not even close to “2x the price.)” The tariffs pre-2018 were 15% on computers, now they are over 17%. Then there is an 18% sales tax on top of that! So 35% of the MacBook Air cost in India is just taxes. That means the government of India makes as much “profit” on a laptop as Apple does for making the damned things. Perhaps have a chat with your government about those high tariffs? Apple didn’t double the price, your taxes went up.
Predict this will be the biggest gig yet from Samsung. Can see only benefits : large screen, more space for memory thus more apps. Disadvantage: bulkier design, weight. Android laptop in your pocket. My opinion. africasiaeuro
Snap tried this. It did not go very well
As a percentage of GDP the so-called "digital economy" isn't much less in the EU than in the U.S. See, e.g., https://www.imf.org/~/media/Files/Publications/PP/2018/02281...

Excluding the U.K. and Ireland (tax haven) the difference between the EU and U.S. is greater, but (eyeballing) only on the order of 30-50%--e.g. ~4% vs ~6%.

What's more surprising is how small the share of GDP is the digital economy in the U.S.

That said, "digital economy" may be a poor proxy for understanding the impact of privacy regulations. It's a superset of tech industries, including much more than those parts which broker private information and to that extent would overestimate the impact. OTOH, I presume "digital economy" excludes large parts of non-tech industries (i.e. traditional sales and marketing companies, TV and newspaper ads, etc) and thus underestimates the potential impact.
amazon.in lists 2017 as 66000 and 2018 as 110000 so nearly 2x.
Modanifil, most developer friends are taking.

Aderall is too much, possibly causes neurotoxicity.

Some are also taking DRIs, SSRIs
Not quite.

https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/

The free tier is the functionality you get for private repos. Public (not internal) repos get Gold capabilities.

Runner limits can be eliminated if you host your own runner to hook in to.

The above is specifically for GitLab.com hosting. Self-hosted is a different story with features.
It’s fairly comparable at around 200k USD (converted to equivalent CAD). Total tax in SF isn’t all that much lower in the US.
Plenty of math is done outside of ZFC, a lot of modern set theory for example, but that doesn't make it philosophy.

Even Grothendieck's EGA has a couple of arguments that cannot be carried out in ZFC in the generality he presents them in, but I wouldn't call EGA a philosophy treatise nor an algebraic geometer a philosopher
The two primary metrics that Berkshire Hathaway considers before making an investment is management satisfaction and employee compensation. The higher these things are the healthier the company appears internally and there are all manners of second and third order consequences that come from this.

In the case of the gig economy there is no company. The people doing the work are underpaid consultants. So, where does the money go, the money that would have been paid to employees in an healthy company? It remains at the gig company. There are all kinds of economic problems with this, particularly if the company is itself not profitable and not on track to become profitable. For example how can these people invest back into the company to further stimulate the company and thus their long term earning potential?
Hooray!

Now we'll have to have a 5-star rating to get a temp job, one that probably won't pay well.

Ah an it will be all be tied to your identity. Forever. That's awesome !

And who will rate us ? Our temporary boss. Hooray for the power dynamics !

Great!
I'd say it wasn't, because AWS didn't exist to be undervalued as a business factor.
> Look, Jobs called Goolge's Vic to tell him that the CSS color of Google's second 'o' in the logo was wrong and hence looked bad on the iPhone.

I’d argue that Apple’s focus on thinness, lightness, the look and feel at the expense of shipping usable products has been its undoing in recent years. No one would argue the iPad Pro is bad to look at, its problem is that it’s fundamentally unsuited to the use case of its target audience.
Buha.js – Browser Based Strictly Ordered Task Queue for Sync/Async JavaScript
The "trick" is occurring when the impossible burger is indistinguishable to your senses from a real burger.

You are not changing anything about the nutritional value, but your body will release leptin, insulin, salivia, etc as if it did have the nutritional value of a burger. This is bound to lead to some kind of problem, the only question is how big.

Take it to the extreme of something that is totally undigestible cardboard with zero nutritional value, but is impossible to distinguish via any senses from a beef patty. Do you not think consuming this will cause issues for people?
is this where apple is now? passing the buck?
Oh I've heard plenty over the years about Siembieda's business chops. Glad to hear they are still around, I should probably check on these things :P
The GDPR doesn't apply to "roaming European users."
UI lit by the lights in your room
>The result is that we have over 50 operators competing on services and add-ons while having approximately the same base network quality.

what kind of services or add ons would you possibly want with a cellphone? most of the "features" they offer around here are things I'd pay money to not get. I mean, I guess tethering, but I personally am a little bit offended I have to pay extra for that rather than just paying for the data (I do pay extra for tethering, because if you want the good network, that's another fee you have to pay if you are being honest and don't want to spend a bunch of extra time sysadmining your phone)
In the 90s these were the #2 and #3 RPGs after D&D and they're both still around and have new books released. If Rifts had evolved in the same way D&D had and Siembieda wasn't so controlling maybe it would be as big or bigger than D&D now. See comments below about why Rifts/Palladium aren't as popular as D&D.
It’s not attention to detail, it’s vision. There’s no purpose to these devices. Sometimes it seems like there’s too much attention to arbitrary details. For example, the thinness and speed of the iPad, but to what end?

The original iPhone was rather underpowered even at the time for what it tried to do, but it was so crazy focused and the vision of what it would allow you to do so exciting, that you were willing to look past it. It didn’t matter that it didn’t have 3G or the best camera. Now we’re in literally the opposite scenario, devices ridiculously overpowered that we wish we could figure out something to do with. Best chip, best camera, best number to write on the back of the box. Boring.

As an aside, I am increasingly certain that the sad truth of the iPad today is that a majority of sales are probably the cheaper models used as Envoy terminals, POS devices, and conference room check-ins. If I count iPad’s I see day to day, it’s incredibly lopsided to these uses. What a waste.

With Steve, you could draw a straight line from the original Mac to the iPad. You could see one relentless mission to tame unusable hardware into a friendly machine through software. You could imagine Steve wanting something like an iPad even with the original Mac.

What’s the narrative of the hodge-podge of devices we have now? Vague speeches about “health” and “AR”, always troublingly highly reliant on the hope others will make use of these technologies. Apple used to lead by example, the first party software set the bar for what others should do. Nowadays there’s just the hope that Adobe bringing Photoshop to the iPad will breathe new life into it. Meanwhile, Apple has not released a new flagship app for the iPad since its original release with iWork and Garageband. It’s been 8 years! Apple can’t figure out a single new app that can take our breath away? If they’ve run out of ideas of how this thing can be used, it doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.
It was likely fair use since there was discussion and criticism of the trailer, but I agree that the full trailer shouldn't have been played.
HyperCard > VB-Clasic > Delphi... Then that's it. Somehow we stopped there. Our Computing Speed might have grown 1000x but We somehow manage to put in additional 1000x complexity to cancel out.

Not only have Software development not gotten any easier, most software are slo lots more resources intensive.
>> Does it really matter if Apple's market share is declining as long as they keep capturing >80% of all profits from said market?

Steady decline would mean that might cease to be the case soon.
doesn't feel or look different enough to matter - and that's what matters to most consumers. apple used to have a monopoly on looks and speed. now android flagships have gotten 90percent of the way there for 50 percent of the price
x0x0 on: Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16495504

> Humans are very good at holding lots of exceptions in our heads and, in the absence of clear rules, doing reasonable things. Computers are shit at both of the above.
Seems similar to Soylent, minus the mission statement.
Yup, I turn that on. It doesn't seem to help much at all, which seems weird; I mean, most network-level mitigations only help if the error is on the immediate link, so it's unsurprising that it doesn't help when my home router is down but my home wifi is still strong... but I get a similar problem at work; the wifi at work is setup to be strong in the building and to cut off almost immediately when you get outside (no, I'm not sure how it's implemented, but they did a good job) and the transition from wifi to cellular is just not very smooth; I'm out of contact for a good 30 seconds, a lot of the time. Not what I expect from a cellphone and plan of this expense in this age.
> The silver lining with Apple is the that they have a growing services business. Too bad Netflix is kicking their ass in video content wars. Siri is also mostly mediocre.

As a counter-point I’ve completely quit Netflix because 1. The selection is trash and we never find the movie we’re looking for and 2. I can’t get any movies my kids would want to see dubbed to my (and my kids’) native language.

As a result I buy all the films for my kids on iTunes, because 1. It has better selection, and most importantly 2. it has an audio-track my kids will actually understand.

Of all the online video streaming-services/stores, I’ve only found iTunes which is good enough on these 2 points.
The Prime, YouTube and iPlayer apps work just as well on the TV as the Chromecast (the TV just appears in the cast to list) and overall does a very good job.

I just dislike the ads from Samsung. They weren't there for the first six months after I bought the TV and were released in a firmware 'upgrade' without warning.

Shitty behaviour at best. I'm no longer going to buy anything Samsung and ever time a Samsung TV related post is made here or on Reddit, I'll post my link.
> Then you'd have to give up being able to afford bail

California did this last year. People still get released pending trial, they just aren't required to pay a private party for the privilege.
Linux is a highly focussed project trying to accomplish a single thing well and with rigorous standards.

If you have 100 developers working average US work schedules and making 5-10 commits per workday (debatable number, depends on culture, but i'm averaging between the "big" commit and lots of small commits), you're going to end up with 100k commits _per year_. And many large startups have a multiplier of that number of developers and they're much, much messier than kernel devs.

Referencing the ideal case as counter-example is a bit silly.
Having the users write their own queries reminds me of the old Infocom database.

Yes, that Infocom, if Zork fame.

After doing interactive fiction, it tried to use its parser to drive a database. Instead of “SELECT * FROM...” a user could write, “Show me all the people in London who own cats.”
I don’t use it. I use AirPods or Beats. I’m not doing studio mixing or mastering on my iPhone, so being able to use $1000 wired reference headphones isn’t a use case I care about. Even on my laptop, I use an Apogee interface when I need perfect wired audio. I realize that some people do care about the headphone jack, but that’s quixkly going the way of the floppy drive for most users.
Unfortunately no. According to the BBC [0] the Civil Aviation Authority considers a drone interference accident as an extraordinary circumstance. Therefore, the EU rules for compensation do not apply.

However, it makes me wonder if and when third party insurance companies will start offering this as a service.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46632302
If humans were forced to start eating "dystopian future soymeat" and stop eating meat, I'm sure it would become far cheaper as it becomes more readily available. As it stands currently, most humans do eat meat so it is cheaper than a heavily researched niche alternative which has taken years to become remotely comparable to real meat.
Note 3 was like a century ago in 'smartphone years'. A lot has changed since then (Samsung handled the precise duplicate apps problem you're talking about on the most part). Also, even then Google had its own phones (e.g. Nexus) and the only fair comparison to iOS would be stock Android. Now, the new line of Samsung flagships are really smooth, hugely less clutter than before - however, it remains the case that the only fair comparison to iPhones would be with the Google Pixel line.
Did you click the link thinking its kafka software? I should get some sleep.
1. dismiss issues from actual users

2. rationalize decision

3. ask for examples when ex-users bring up stories of being dismissed. rarely get said examples coz ex-users have moved onto another project with actual support. this supports your decision to dismiss support issues and send them to the magically huge forum community.

4. why is no one using our project?why do we get badmouthed on STEM oriented social media?

There's a reason people goto github instead of forums, they're looking for technical help not a chat
> Why can't they just keep making new phones in the size of the iPhone8?

As an SE-owner, I suspect you misspelled iPhone 5s there.
Ah, got your point.

I'd even argue that as a CEO, he probably doesn't even interact with a laptop all that much at work as I imagine he relies heavily on a team of personal assistants.

In that context, he might be an avid user of the iPad. As the result, the iPad might be the perfect device for all sorts of high ranking tech executives.
Turns out you and I are just not the target market :)
Everyone focuses on driving which in the long run is probably going to go away as self-driving cars come onto the scene.

The best example I've seen of the gig economy is jobs that were already contract based but where it was hard to find and connect contractors with customers.

Walking dogs, small home renovation, etc. I've seen these apps make a massive positive change in the market where people are able to find more work than they code before (at roughly the same rate) and customers can find contractors willing to do the work and they are rated by past customers rather than just word of mouth.
http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~wbarthur/

W. Brian Arthur is an economist I like. Complexity theory is also very exciting for me. I do not have any experience in those, but they and other things inspired how I perceive the world.

I probably did not deliver what I think clearly. The link above might be helpful to deliver what I mean.
An FM tuner? Who the hell still listens to FM by choice? AM at least has news and traffic, but FM? I guess we could complain that iPhone doesn’t have a TV tuner either like circa 2002 Samsung phones.
Here is a write-up of the decision from EU’s highest court on this topic: https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...

It’s easy to see why quote I gave says what it says with this context.

Also, if you’re worries, talk to your lawyer.
Although, they probably wanted it to end so they could make more money on another fare.
There's also an Israeli company that sells a drone defense device. It's like a portable gun and it grounds the drone safely. I'm not sure how safe it is to use it near an ATC tower though.

Another Israeli company has an anti drone technology called Drone Dome that was supposedly deployed by the army at Gatwick during the incident.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_Dome
Particularly these "unelected officials" are a necessary part of every burocracy.

Unless a voter spends a ridiculous amount of time studying and keeping current in politics, he can only meaningfully participate in a limited number of elections and issues. "Down the ballot", even for things like AGs or Judges, much less regulatory officials, people lose interest and competency.
The trade war might me a bit for something but I have been in china for nearly 7 years and I have seen habit changing quite a lot within the last 2 year.

Back in 2012-2015 when I was in the subway or with chinese friends, I was one of the few people who got an android smartphone. I even had few colleagues who were willing to spend 2 months salary into brand new Apple product.

Since 2 years ago, I have noticed a kind of Apple "fatigue" from chinese consumers who are expecting breakthrough from tech companies quite often. Why would they spend money on a new phone that nearly look like the same as the previous version? Sure there is this new "face unlock" but the finger print unlock works well.

No need to mention that the new measures pushed by the chinese government make the people more nationalist so if they want a brand new phone, they will look for local brands like Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi, etc... and they have really good phones for half the price of an IPhone.
Yep, what also adds in my point of view to its popularity is that due to highly successful DND inspired PC games and cosplay DND is generally not considered some weird thing. Also people tend to be ok with the fantasy part of DND.

When I started playing DND in the early 90th you were considered a creep with too much fantasy. :D
As an Austrian I can tell you that these are things that most Austrians agree to without much controversy. Austria is such a small nation that feeling any benefit from destroying parts of its environment or population for profit doesn’t really feel like a good goal to most.
Best bed I ever had was a 10 inch futon mattress placed on top of a decent air mattress, using an old quilt to protect the air mattress from anything poking it.
> Slightly. You can feel and see the difference in size, but only if you hold them both side by side

Slightly larger for every iteration over years and years makes it much, much larger in the end.

I refuse to go for anything noticeably larger than the SE.
Ah, afraid Google is wrong. 07086 is strictly Weehawken NJ... check https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?citybyzipcode
Cornerstone! The downfall of Infocom as we knew it... :/
Not being selected isn’t a punishment. We are not entitled to having everyone find us attractive. We are not even entitled to having a mate. There really may not be someone for everyone.

If you have very unattractive qualities and because of that people are not selecting you, they are not punishing you. If someone doesn’t want to be with you because you admit you’ve cheated in the past but don’t plan to anymore, that is fair. If you carry genes that make you more likely to seek out other partners and they don’t want that, that is also fair.