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Expensive? I have astigmatism, top notch lenses with blue light filter and a slight varifocus (Eyezen, highly recommended for screen work) and a designer frame. This was a rather expensive purchase (around 350 euros) for me, but since I'm behind a screen a lot it's worth it.

Also, I bought these glasses at my local glasses store. I get headaches whenever my glasses aren't exactly centered or straight, so in a typical year I come in around 10-15 times to adjust them. They give me great service all the time, always cleaning the glasses and replacing screws/nose pieces for free. When I got theses glasses the lenses were replaced two times (I had transitions, didn't like them, and I got headaches from the second pair because my brain couldn't get used to the new astigmatic values), also without additional costs.

Buying glasses online is fine, but since I rely on my glasses every waking hour and require a lot of service, I'll keep buying them from my local shop. Probably not the most economical way, but 350 euros every couple of years isn't that shocking, either.
> I don't see how building automotive AI is core to a computer/mobile hardware computer

I don't see why Apple needs to stay within the bounds what what you think their "core" products are.
SV has always worked with the DoD, and the internet was a DARPA project. More tangibly, Lockheed Martin was founded in Palo Alto, and Raytheon is still in the area.

But I'm guessing your question is asking whether or not these products have resulted in "national security". Does having more fighter jets or satellites make us safer? Traditionally, yes. However in the 21st century, I think we need to focus more on robust systems of communication while building bridges with the rest of the world.
You actually need a prescription to buy glasses in the US? 0o
As far as I understand it's a customized version of Ubuntu with some special drivers for the hardware. I was kind of expecting a system upgrade like Android or iPhone does, totally managed by the hardware provider.
Weight-wise I've been interested in the Asus Zenbook S range recently.

Similar specs to the XPS13 and weighing in at around 1KG.

But for some reason Asus don't sell the 16GB models in the UK :/

The MBA is a weird machine, to me, as it's almost as heavy and almost as expensive as the Pro, with far worse specs.
It just strikes me as an odd thing to put on a luxury tier like that. Reiterates that quality and testing is often an afterthought rather than something everyone should include. If MS wanted the revenue they would put something the most senior higher paid developers wanted rather than the testing team.
A dedicated server of decent size at the right hoster starts at 25€ a month. That is not that much and I bet most of the volunteer servers are already above this price range.
“can’t make” - that is a very general statement. I am quite happy with my MBP
super relevant: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Basically, many of their healthy fat oils are actually highly processed (which are not recommended), while the non-processed unsaturated fats (such as olive oil) are not suitable for (high-temperature) cooking.
This reads like an Onion headline
It only takes about 5 minutes, so it's not too onerous.
Yes, but I also saw the domain and context-switched to electronic music.
> When is the insufferably arrogant techno mage trope going to die?

Probably at the same time as insufferably bad software engineering dies
Not only IBM, but I've also heard that Google, Facebook, and Apple are also moving in this direction.
If you've got a CCD in your eye then ya, I'd be concerned about that.
They don't give a ... You are just a number. Even if the hiring manager really wants you, s/he is not given the budget, so they are powerless.
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They don't, but as a public company they do have obligations to their shareholders which at least suggest they shouldn't be neglecting their core business.
> Much like the idea that slower drivers cause more accidents

Slower vehicles are more likely to end up in an accident. Speed - accident rate curve is IIRC called Solomon curve. I haven't heard this theory disproved.

> this is based on other drivers experiencing discomfort and having to be more careful to avoid the slower car

I have heard experts saying that observations indicate that slower drivers cause accidents indirectly. They are usually slow enough to irritate other drivers, but fast enough to make it hard for an average car to overtake them safely, which pushes some faster drivers into dangerous situations, sometimes resulting in accidents from which the slower drivers escape unscratched.
Kodak was worth 31 billion USD in 1997.

When adjusted for inflation, the entire digital camera market in 2017 [0] was worth about 1/3 of that.

Even if Kodak was the biggest player in the digital camera market like they were with film, they would be worth less than half of what they were before.

Fujifilm managed to survive the end of film, but their stock price still hasn't recovered fully. Their imaging business made up 15% of their revenue in FY2017 [1]

[0] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180528005328/en/Dig...

[1]
https://www.fujifilmholdings.com/en/pdf/investors/other/ff_p...
Apple dropped the ball on the Macbook, IMHO, by making the one port not a TB3 port.
It will still take up senior management and board time. THis is something recognised accross corporate governnce - see recently GSK spinning off it's over consumer health and the counter portfolio of drugs, to focus on what it's core business is; novel pharmaceuticals.

Yes you don't want to be a total one trick pony, but if you do everything, you do nothing well.
TypeScript compiler on top of TypeScript as front end and LLVM as back end
Luck can be a big part of it. Most people aren’t aware queueing theory exists. I even meet a lot of people who train Kanban software project management who are excited to learn about the math that is the basis of that method.
I agree, like I said... even if it was less than 1000 they know something we don't (so I don't think it's a vanity project).
A strong idea sets the stage for the entrepreneur to create the business. However, efficient implementation is essential to sustain it. Here I Find an article will be glad to hear your thoughts on this. https://cabstartup.com/the-reasons-of-success-of-cloud-based...
I love my 9360 UHD I just upgraded to latest Elementary OS (Ubuntu 18.04). I have used it as my main machine for 2 years.

It runs really well, there's a minor issue with the touchpad but it does still work well enough that I haven't done anything about it.

Dell continue to push out firmware updates. I bought a USB-C monitor (that acts as a USB-A hub) and I power it via that.

Screen is beautiful, of course in certain light conditions the gloss is a negative, but it looks beautiful often and has great brightness.

My next laptop will either be a System76 or another XPS Developer Edition. I really appreciate what they have done.
I agree with you somewhat, but for something like the military, or healthcare, it would be pretty hard to organize as an individual, not to mention time consuming. The alternative has less friction.
Uh... 2 gens? iMacs are on Kaby Lake which is last gen. Anyway, the iMac doesn't have Coffee Lake CPUs because they're barely any different than Kaby Lake, or even Skylake for that matter. Intel is basically rebadging CPUs at this point while they sort out their 10nm process. The main driver of a refresh would be upgrading the GPU and some connectivity options at this point.
I must be pretty lucky. I've been using Apple products since the original iMac and the only problem I've ever had was when I dropped my phone on a rock and cracked the screen. Apple was great about replacing it for me too.

Regarding CPUs, I'm personally much more interested in being able to run macOS on my computer, iOS on my phone, and tvOS on my TV and have them all work together in ways that make me happy. If Apple could add a car to that, I'd be thrilled. I'm always willing to try other options, but I've just never found a setup that worked quite as well for me.

For example, I have a computer I built from parts from NewEgg and Nvidia about a year ago. It has a Threadripper 1950X processor, 128GB of RAM, and an Nvidia Titan V card in it. I used it for about a week and then went back to my MacBook Pro. The custom-built computer is gathering dust in the corner of my office. My point is that different things are important to different people.
IMHO, the prices vary extremely but if you want to get just a basic pair of glasses, you can get away with a very cheap. I don't wear glasses myself, but last August I accompanied someone to get a pair of new glasses from Fielmann (Wikipedia: 'Fielmann is market leader in Germany and Europe's largest optician').

In the end, one glasses cost 18€ (special deal) and the other one about 57€ (sunglasses, special frame). Given the 2+ hours, we stayed at that shop (sales talk + eye testing + frame adjustments) it was probably a net loss for the company on that day. I know other people who got their glasses for about 700€ from the same shop (more expensive frame + more features (e.g. thinner lenses)).

So it might be that the market situation is kinda bad and is getting abused. Nevertheless, I have the anecdotal evidence that if you are just after a vision correction (and not some fashion accessory), you don't have to pay a fortune (in Germany). This might be helpful to keep in mind when you are after your next glasses.
They stopped making routers and monitors not because they are non “core” products, they stopped making them because there is not much money in it. You buy routers ones every 10 years probably, and margin is limited, but supporting them throughout this period is quite expensive. As for monitors, there is so many competitors right now, that it’s hard to make it worth building your own monitor, Especially if you want to win the market share you need to distinguish yourself from competition, and there is very little you can do to make your monitor distinguishable from your competitors.

Automotive AI meanwhile is a future and they have to think about future with all the money they have now.
Attacking the CPU is dumb - mobile cpus have not increased significantly in performance, so why pay a premium of more than x% for <x% performance increase to have the latest gen?

Seriously, the GPU is the only thing you're likely to get a big win from at the consumer level, and you're restricted to intel's shitty IGP until you get to the top end MacBook Pro. Again: you are exceedingly unlikely to get a real day-to-day performance increase from the high end intel mobile cpus on a core-for-core basis, and adding a tonne of cores just eats your battery life (hell, ram alone is a significant power drain for laptops, hence the last gens 16gig limit)
They quote something like 8 grand-a-node. It is a bit off the the 'popular' zone.
Even the luxottica brands have some cheap options. They are expensive because there is a market for people to spend $200+ on eyewear.
The risk to children in Alaska is of abuse from their family, not the wildlife.
No, they shouldn't threaten to leave the company.

Instead they should get a competing offer, that pays way more, and actually leave the company.

Visas are easily transferred between companies.
In what is being billed internally as a restructuring effort, Apple this week released more than 200 employees from its "Project Titan" group, a secretive branch of the company focused on developing self-driving car technologies.
As a subscription, it's more per month than Visual Studio Professional. As part of VS Test Professional it's almost twice as much for the first year. And you can't really do any test plans without it so its a huge part of DevOps that is just unused for us, unfortunately.
Money is a lagging indicator for product quality. When a company's built up a strong brand, it can take years (or sometimes decades - witness Sears and Applebees) of bad experiences or outdated products before it starts to show up in sales numbers. But when it does, it usually ends up cascading rapidly, oftentimes faster than the company can react.

Apple started its slide the first time around 1989 - that was when Mac models started proliferating, when System 6 came out, and when its first sales decline happened. Jobs didn't return until 1998. That's almost a decade in between.

It's similar for other dominant companies - the writing was on the wall for IBM when Compaq & Dell started selling PC clones in 1983/1984, but they didn't need a turnaround until 1993. Sun Microsystems hit its zenith at the top of the dot-com boom in 2000, but its stock price didn't start sliding until 2007 and it wasn't purchased until 2010.
Figma's engineering values
I just had an eye test and both of my eyes had changed enough after two years to make a very noticable difference to my prescription.
Don't your glasses shops make sure to adjust the arms to your size? Mine does, they have a special device that heats up the arms so they can bend it carefully, and pliers to adjust the nose thingies.
I think the shareholders are the main reason why Apple actually stopped making routers and monitors. There isn’t much money in those products, and shareholders wants to see revenues, they don’t care what products you build as long as they make them money
> The kids I knew growing up that were pushed hard by their parents are doing much better (and happier) than those that were not.

For all the nostalgia, parents often make decisions based on their own observations about their own generation and themselves. It is interesting that none of these articles ever consider that some parent may go to the other extreme, because not everything was sunny and awesome all the time in the past.
I think the value of a human life is always the same, in my opinion.

If Ernest died, and savior was a gardener until die at age 98, It would be as good, for me.

The fact that I wouldn't be Marveled and had crazy dreams of adventure and never forget that book and always think about it's meaning, when I was a kid(The Old Man and the Sea)...

Is for sure not more important then the life of the good gardener, so I don't care if Hemingway had died or not...

...But the savior chose to save him, was his decision, and this is like in the Master Takeshi Kitano's[1] movies, there is the Brotherhood and Honor, that are the mindset of the hero , and this is admirable.

And I thank the savior for all the books, and giving us these books was exactly one of the things that the savior did for the world,...

..but not more important then the other things he did in his life, And that(giving us the books) was not ultimately important, as nothing that someone does is, when we value the value of a human life.

..but maybe he would be the Prophet(finally, or welcome back), or the new Albert Einstein...who knows...life is too surprising to guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kitano
Since you mentioned it, I just added the Apple / Blackmagic eGPU to my 2018 Macbook Air and holy smoke it is a major change for docked 4k workstation with a mac laptop. This eGPU is underrated bigtime.
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This is a completely different time than the 90s, when Apple's market strategy was failing, they were fast running out of cash, and had too many SKUs. The scale back then is orders of magnitude different than now, and the health of the company is a complete reversal. All this perpetual doom and gloom around Apple is silly.
VB 1 - 4 used VBX controls implemented in C, only with VB 4 came the support for COM (aka ActiveX, aka subset from OLE 2.0).
Do you mean a Kenmore? Because a Kenwood would be an audio mixer like this article is talking about :D
> After a long day sitting on a computer, the last thing I want is to feel like going to stand next to another computer.

Utterly tangential, but this is why some of us still love shooting 35mm film.
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The platforms sections needs an embedded choice
i mostly avoid "smart" tvs as i don't want to have to replace them after 3 years when the firmware/software is no longer updated. Chromecast helps me stay free of that paid obsolescence cycle and upgrade according to a planned budget

My parent's "smart" tv from 2014 is still going strong because of this. i got them an(at the time) expensive 1920x1080 HD model and for that reason it's still going strong. The "smart" features are mostly kaput now or so glitchy they don't work. Only netflix still works but netflix is shit now so they switched to prime. Since the tv has 2 hdmi in i just got them a chromecast(for regular internet video casting) and a fire stick(stupid amazon incompatibility with chromecast) instead
> How do publishers have a say over what can and cannot be posted to these repositories?

Publishers can and do add restrictions on submitted papers, such as "can not have been made public before". Indeed, this does not applies to papers that would never have been published, but it does apply to papers that will later be submitted to a journal.

ArXiv never had this problem, because it became widespread before the publishers gained much of their influence. It's been a major hurdle for preprint servers in other disciplines, however.

It is a lot better nowadays, where many publishers explicitly allow posting preprints. That said, they do still impose some restrictions, and I can imagine having to post works to preprint servers specific to that discipline being one of them. A server like biorXiv wouldn't want to miss out on those preprints, so they'd have to accommodate that - and biorXiv in particular is very apprehensive about not ruffling any publisher feathers. (Likely a factor in its success.)
I agree that many are uninformed, and money will get wasted. It seems like it will always be “wasted” depending on which side you are looking at it from. E.g. One might consider war a complete waste, and another considers it the best use of money.

I don’t agree that elected officials do a great job moving money to where voters want it. I think a viable solution is to have referendums(voting directly on an issue, rather than for a person to represent you) about public issues.
Nowadays startup ideas that revolve around users problem are the most popular ones.

Take Uber, for example, they had a simple idea, but since it solved people’s problem, it became famous. Also, you don’t necessarily have to launch a global business start small to try to come up with a solution that will help the local and then you can make it big if you want

for ideas I have to say now launching a business is easier then ever there are so many options now you can start a salon and allow people to book your services from apps, you can also start a logistics business or taxi service, etc.

you can also get ideas for your business through this website here are some Profitable Business Ideas at Low Cost:https://cabstartup.com/10-most-profitable-transportation-bus...
Financial performance during the biggest market bull run in history (which lasted almost 10 years) isn't that indicative of the future of company.

On the other hand, the declining quality, sloppier design, increased prices on already highly priced products, multiple conflicting product lines - all of those decisions will eventually have consequences.

Apple used to be about doing a handful of things really well and having a loyal customer base that would happily pay a premium for the quality/brand/premium-feel/coolness of their products - all of that has been slowly going away over the past 5-7 years.
Macs aren't their core business. You may think they should be, but they aren't.
Core business in terms of both units sold and income is iPhones, not computers. Apple hasn’t been Apple Computer for over a decade.
Excuse. It was Dell obviously that I contacted. :)

(okay I had to contact HP several times as well, but that was a server unit, and after some calls/ceremony it got adequately serviced)
If you have sold your soul to uncouth government agents violating law and then lying about it, you pretty much will end up being very unhappy about the rest of the world.

Now, the central idea of united states was to have small micro communities that will mind their own business, will chose their own values and give zero fks about "greater society". "Greater Society" is the euphemism for handful few who pretend to be the representatives of the "greater society" or "greater good". In fact when a person talks about "greater good" always be aware he is trying to sell you something that is clearly not good for you.

Google or any other company should not be compelled to work on anything that it is not willing to work. That is an important value USA has learned the hard way and we better keep it. After all Karp and his company are there to help DoD or Pentagon or FBI.
It really depends on how the developers work; if they know the software will have to run for 10+ years, mostly unmaintained / unmonitored, they can opt to vendor all the dependencies so that a future developer can dive into the source of said dependencies.

Also, the Go community tends to frown at adding superfluous dependencies - this is a statement I got while looking for web API frameworks. Said frameworks are often very compact as well, a thin wrapper around Go's own APIs.

I've also worked on a project which had to be future-proofed solidly; all documentation for all dependencies had to be included with the source code.

TL;DR it's down to the developer's approach.
I'm a big fan of kitchen sink frameworks for this reason. Whenever I want to do something in JS the answer is to install a package for it. When I want to do something in rails the answer is its built in. I have installed far far fewer packages for my back end than the frontend and the back end is vastly more complex
If governements tells you what to eat please be skeptical. They have got it wrong in past and they might be wrong today. The best diet advice always comes from grandma.
Actually Delphi VCL is older than WinForms and is still around as well, and much better because Delphi always compiled to native code, which was a disappointment for me that .NET didnßt follow the same model and only had NGEN a kind of approximation, given Anders being the main architect on .NET.
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"How we cut payroll expenses 15% using this one weird trick"
Some people dont value FICO scores and so theirs are likely to be lower. This would fall outside of the only two models that you proposed. It requires cultural difference which some people value highly.

If you cannot accept the FICO as non-racist, then I do not know if you could create a system that others would not find racist. I cannot think of a way that your system would not end up with some form of explicit race-based corrections. I think that concept is less palatable in America due to the focus on freedom/individuality. Each person should stand on their own, not colored by the groups that you could fit them in.

Just curious if you have an opinion: how do you propose correcting for the past?

Lastly, you can look up the determinants of a FICO score for yourself as you can use sources that you trust.
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