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I would disagree.

Whenever I see statements with absolute statements like anything, nothing, always, never, I question them.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. So what we do is impressive for when we do it. What those in the past do is impressive for when they did it.
I am not sure about aerospace, but for mechanical engineering, SolidWorks is a must, and it is only available on Windows. Many other important pieces of software, for example ANSYS, ABAQUS, and Fluent are not available for Mac. In fact, the only mechanical engineering software I know is available for Mac is AutoCAD.
Who and/or how many engineers are making $500k a year!?
There is, but it's changing. Disclaimer, I'm on the audio side of things and my knowledge of video post is much more limited. Dedicated processors are bigger for us than cloud solutions.

Audio post/recording shops use Protools HDX systems [1] which are rackmount units holding a handful of DSPs connected to the PC with proprietary PCIe cards. The industry is moving towards ASPs as a whole, through products like Waves Soundgrid [2] and Universal Audio's UAD [3]. Of these, PT HDX has an API for developing 3rd party code to run on their hardware (it's proprietary however) and the SOUL [4] project is aimed at these kinds of solutions.

Dedicated audio processing units are about where GPUs were 25-30 years ago. Almost all proprietary, no shader languages, but CPU time is coming at a premium so we'll have to figure something out.

[1] https://www.avid.com/products/pro-tools-hdx
[2] https://www.waves.com/soundgrid-systems
[3] https://www.uaudio.com/uad-accelerators.html
[4] https://github.com/soul-lang/SOUL

Now that's not to say that having a fast machine isn't important, it certainly is since a large chunk of DSP is not running on dedicated hardware (and that hardware is freaking pricy). But in most situations your audio processing is dominated by single threaded performance, which is why some people are irritated by the iMac Pro advertised as a pro workstation when it will thermal throttle on you under moderate load, and this new Mac Pro that hopefully has better cooling and a better processor will be a huge relief for users and developers who want more CPU cycles for our code.

With respect to cloud, some applications just simply can't use workstations. VFX stuff is mostly on distributed Linux systems these days because you can't put the power you need into a single box, or at least it's more effective to have people edit over 10Gbit connections through a terminal.

The rest of the cloud stuff is more about workflow than power, at least in the stuff I've seen most cloud applications are about synchronizing projects in the highly parallelized production pipelines used in Hollywood studios. NAB is littered with cloud workflow solutions every year.
Google didn't follow all of Safari's decisions, and eventually they forked WebKit. Why shouldn't Microsoft do something similar when they have different goals?

They'd likely remain mostly compatible because all browser vendors do try to follow web standards nowadays. But maybe not more than Safari and Chrome are compatible. And it helps maintain Microsoft's veto on web standards (like Firefox has vetoed previous Chrome proposals).
Sorry how can I get iMessage on my Android phone?

Sensible people do not deliberately handcuff themselves to trillion dollar megacorps and then throw away the key.
> Personally, if they allowed me to work from home, I would get a heck of a lot more done.

I pretty much felt the way you did, until I had kids. Now the problem if I work at home is a toddler who constantly visits the home office with the goal in mind of sitting on dad's lap and watching Peppa Pig on his computer.

I know also a lot of people also psychologically feel more motivated and disciplined having a separate place for work outside the home. (Just look at how many college kids go to the library to study.)

So, I think even in the fully remote world, you'd still have to have an office like solution for a not insignificant percentage of workers.
> - Apple finally made the RAM on the new Mac Mini upgradeable, but it is not user-serviceable; you have to get the RAM installed by an Apple-authorized repair center in order for the warranty to stay valid on the Mac Mini. The same holds true for the iMac Pro.

I'm pretty confident this isn't legal in the US. Under a law from the 70's the FTC released a letter reiterating this fact last year. Apple and other companies have made this purposefully vague as well as fighting right to repair laws.

> There are no user-serviceable, expandable Macs that cost under...

This has been a gripe against Apple for at least 20 years.
Better product for sure. But that doesn't mean it's not a monopoly.

>That means Microsoft has a better product, that doesn't mean it's a monopoly.

Actually that's the text book definition of monopoly.

Monopolies are thus characterized by

* a lack of economic competition to produce the good or service - nobody else is making commercial spreadsheet tools

* a lack of viable substitute goods - all the other stuff (google sheets, openoffice) isn't workable in practice

* high monopoly price well above the seller's marginal cost - a MS office download costs MS near nothing...selling price is still sky-high.

There are crazy network effects at play which create near insurmountable barriers to entry. Another sure sign of a monopoly vulnerable to monopoly pricing/profits.
What about Sony's infinite contrast? I wonder why they didn't mention it...at best this is an overpriced monitor with different trade-offs(i.e lower resolution than dell, hdr, higher price etc) but has little to do with Sony pro displays. They compare a consumer led display with a pro oled to justify the ridiculous price.
To hear Nvidia tell it, it's Apple fault. Weird how everybody who works with Nvidia has issues, though.
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Is there a prevalent vendor/stack, e.g. Netapp, QNAP, FreeNAS, Unraid?
I don’t think those questions matter at all. Regardless of how the current situation arose, it enables strong lock-in to Chrome vs. Chromium.
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I personally joined the company for two reasons. First, I knew the founder to be a solid software engineer and caring/honest person. Second, I've seen first hand how soul crushing long commutes can be for people who don't live near public transportation and/or work strange hours (and how this problem overwhelmingly impacts the poor).

We're looking for junior backend and frontend developers. Frontend is in React (and some parts in Angular). Backend is in Go, but we're starting to move most stuff to Elixir. Prior experience in these specific technologies isn't a requirement. Questions / resumes can be sent to karl@swatmobile.io

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We are also one of the most robust/knowledgeable resources for new parents to make informed product decisions. Every month over a million new parents/parents-to-be read our product guides/watch our videos in order to make informed purchasing decisions.

Our users are incredibly passionate about our products, and we have a lot of interesting engineering challenges to work on:

- Using machine learning to build product recommendation/discovery experiences that are highly personalized.

- Scaling our direct to consumer e-commerce sales to > $20M in sales this year.

- Building a rich realtime database of all baby related products, where they are available for sale, and for how much.

- Building new apps and experiences that make an impact on the lives of our users as they navigate a time of uncertainty and new adventure.

Babylist is profitable and growing quickly. We're hiring for a number of roles across the engineering and design teams including:

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Since a while. I'm definitively not a right-winger, but I increasingly have to align myself with folks whose speech I hate in order to defend free speech against folks I agree with on issues. Too many on the left are gleeful at the thought of deplatforming any and all of their detractors.
It does, in a good way. I really liked Flutter's UI approach.
Usually the barrier opens up when you can make turns. So when cycling you look. if the road is clear you can make the turn easy otherwise you have to stand there for a while.
They're close to parity with a giant exception that it's not available to the overwhelming majority of Facebook users.
> it really just seems like playing catch up

At the surface level, it does. However, at the implementation level, I think Apple is slowly reimagining all of these things for a new paradigm — and the new paradigm has needed time to evolve slowly, for Apple to see what directions its users and developers wanted to go in, and to take the time to decide how to do things.

For example: the sidebar on Vista was next to useless because (A) its widgets didn't tap into any data people wanted, (B) the widgets weren't the right size to show any useful information, and (C) didn't fare any better on Windows 7 because they were buried under windows. iOS widgets, on the other hand, directly tap into applications, can come in variable sizes, have a somewhat uniform presentation style, and one visits the Home screen many more times than one clicks the Show Desktop button on Windows.

Windows Vista gadgets and OS X Dashboard widgets seemed to be little toys, the styling to look like a little desktop accessory being more important than their actual utility. The way that iPadOS integrates Today Widgets with the home screen is more like putting useful information directly at users' disposal. Pair this with widgets like Shortcuts, Launch Center Pro, or Pythonista, and you also have a means for quickly starting workflows.

iPad's multiple windows isn't really window snapping in the same sense as on Windows. That's just an implementation detail. The actual concept, at least as of iPadOS (as opposed to iOS 11 and 12), is more like macOS' Spaces or Mission Control.

All in all, to appreciate something, you have to appreciate all the little details. To me, Today Widgets on the Home screen have the potential to offer productivity improvements similar to Alfred. I'm sure there'll be apps with widgets specifically crafted to take advantage of this.
How can I access iMessage from my Linux laptop?
Anecdotally, this page takes a very long time to load in Chrome, whereas it loads immediately in Safari. I wonder if they're artificially slowing the response for non-Safari clients? Seems a bit hard to explain otherwise.
Right. But the tough part is most of the workers have internalized that low level of cadence and focus. For that archetypical person, if you cut their work week from 40 hours to 20 hours, their actual output would probably fall to the equivalent of 10 hours.
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Please include a bit about your background and what situations you would like to confidently be able to handle.
Could AI think like a human given infinite resources?
Not surprising, this already exists in cabs and Uber's whole plan is "like cabs but worse for the drivers".
Those alternatives don’t run macOS.
The built-in screen sharing for MacOS (just called "Screen Sharing" and distinct from the "Remote Desktop Connection" program) is pretty good. I think it's just VNC though, so if you've not found that acceptable then yeah, probably not gonna work for you. An X client on iOS would be pretty cool and someone might go to the trouble of making it if mouse support were added. Let me stick a BSD in a closet somewhere and client in from my iPad Pro with native-feeling X.
What's the difference between a class and a function with local state?

(Semantics aside, either way this behavior is implemented in React via useState or setState, MobX has nothing to do with it)
The sad truth is they really weren't that much faster. Sun workstations were using the same 68k processors that Macs were using. There is a reason the Unix Workstation market didn't survive.

That said, this Mac is not as overpriced as it appears on the surface. A server class motherboard with ECC RAM support and an 8 core Xeon aren't cheap components. I'm guessing they aren't using the bottom of the barrel SSDs either. 32GB of ECC memory aren't exactly free either. I wouldn't be surprised if the BoM on this was over $3k.
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> tech platforms push left-wing biases

That's half of it. The other half is suppression of right-slanted content. The issue is monopoly status + pushing one side + suppressing the other side.
I could create on my 486, but since it didn't have a math co-processor I could only create a Doom level, I couldn't build them. I spent hours blindly building and checking it over and hoping that when I put it on a floppy and took it to my friend's house that all the doors would work, the elevations were correct, etc. Good times.
I thought they made a pretty good case why there is nothing else in its class, the only thing close being the $30k sony reference monitor.
Presumably from store.apple.com?
> When driving in Germany, you need to drive like a German – at least like the good German drivers.

Or you can get a Dutch car (with a yellow licence plate, compared to the German which is white) and German drives will immediately recognise you as a danger on the road and give 'friendly' reminders with blinking lights to stay on the right side of the autobahn. Disclaimer, I'm Dutch.
I have a CodeClub teaching 10 and 11 year olds, once a week.

Two weeks ago we built a robot buggy that can be remote controlled from an Android phone. They loved it, and were really involved in the build and programming. In Python, it's a dozen lines of code.

Here's the link to the build -https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/build-a-buggy

And this for the remote control - https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/remote-control-...

With the cost of the RPi included you're looking at a £50 robot, max.

Checkout other projects on projects.raspberrypi.org for more inspiration. It's what we do for a living.

Disclaimer, in case it was not obvious, I work for the Raspberry Pi Fou dation.
I did a demo to a younger classroom that was a big hit. I took a simple platforming example video game, had them draw characters and enemies and stuff on a whiteboard, then took a picture with my phone and dropped them into the game. The most-time consuming part was "magic wanding" the background away. They weren't animated or even cut out very cleanly but the kids just loved being able to control something that they drew themselves a few minutes earlier.
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They can accomplish all that, just without the tasteless design.

The stainless steel frame contrasts with the shell, and not in a good way. The ventilation holes are really weirdly proportioned and still manage to look cramped with that inner baffle. And finally, that apple logo on the side stands out a bit too much, on the old cheesegrater it was a darker gray and a bit smaller.

The old G5 chassis was an understated and refined look, each of its elements seamlessly blended into each other well. This thing is just sharp to look at, my eyes do not know where to rest on it.
Hm, I think some people may have missed this bit:

The trade conflict between China and the United States escalated last month when Trump raised tariffs on some Chinese imports to 25% from 10% and threatened levies on all Chinese goods.

If that were to happen, and China were to retaliate, “we could end up in a (global) recession in three quarters”, said Chetan Ahya, global head of economics at Morgan Stanley.

It strikes me as quite a precise predication. Though of course, that does not mean it is correct.
I believe the 60 minutes is the 'max' time to respond, not the 'min' time.
Would be second interface be for a storage network?
This is quite normal in a late stage bull market. There are often a series of dips and vacillations before it turns bear.

Most of the indicators have been flashing red for some time though, so I think the coming recession is no surprise.
I'm an American that has driven in Germany over the past 20 years and I can sympathize with my German friend up top.

It's changed, and I'm sure if OP was less polite he'd mention the influx of beat-to-shit vehicles from the east that can now drive through western Europe and don't follow the rules as well.

And the trucks from Poland. So, so many trucks from Poland.
"long-press on the reload button"

Wow. I've somehow missed this little gem. I usually requested the desktop site via the share sheet option but this is far nicer. Ditto for a quick way to disable content blockers. Thanks!
Apple is only thinking of video editing for this box.
To enable experimentation like that, I'd like to see mobile browsers include developer tools as well. More and more people grow up using a smart phone as their main computing device, and I think they should be given the opportunity to tinker with that as well.

I realize that developer tools are information dense and fitting them on a smartphone screen would require a significant effort to redesign the layout (especially when you want to see the website, the code you're editing and the on-screen keyboard at the same time), so browsers might not want to spend effort to include a niche feature like that. Maybe it would be possible to connect to the remote debugger with an on-device client? Then it could be developed as a separate project.
Do they have to be special sauce drives? The picture makes it look like standard M.2 drives. It doesn't seem like you should need anything special if the T2 chip is just acting as a bog standard drive controller that happens to send only encrypted data to the drive.
Is this 2016?
Yeah, but without a server ecosystem I don't see Metal getting that big in ML and similar applications.
Well, I thought I knew what a space frame was before. You know, those triangle based skeleton frame things.

By any definition, explanation, or example I can find the new mac pro is NOT a space frame.
Download and install the app "Blind" to be shamefully informed of how many there are. Seemingly there is either a very large amount, or there are lots of SWEs who like to lie. Lots of it seem like stock options from FAANG and Uber.
Twenty years ago. Please try again. I hope you're constantly held accountable for things you did decades ago.
What do you mean "most"? What kinds of mental illnesses are you referring to here?
Yeah, I guess that I'm spoiled on that front. Should I even mention that they sell almost all sorts of cables and mice for $1 each? They have large boxes overflowing with the things. There are exceptions -- I once had to pay $5 for a 20' long HDMI cable that was still new in the packaging. No, I better not, that would be mean.

The odd thing about when I buy machines from them is that I end up wiping the installed OS anyway -- they install Ubuntu, and Ubuntu and I don't get along very well.
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And the down votes prove your point... Incredible.
This is very cool.

It's the work of @masegoslin on Twitter. He posted it on May 22.
That's what I always thought, but apparently it does now.
I was pretty interested in why someone would create such a rich and detailed resource without any clear monetary incentive (yes, capitalism makes me cynical), so I checked out the "Grog Story" section, and wow, I highly recommend it: https://www.animatedknots.com/grog-story

The site is the years-long passion project of an anesthesiologist from South Carolina who happens to love making websites, along with his two sons. He's also an avid sailor, holds patents on medical devices, and creator of a bunch of other similarly niche sites devoted to subjects like stereo art, napkin folding, and magic squares. What a guy!
They've been purposefully avoiding the mini-tower market for decades. For whatever reason (prestige, cannibalizing other product lines, etc) they're not interested.
I'm glad we're finally taking anti-trust seriously, but this timing is incredibly suspicious. Right after we put sanctions on Chinese tech, we start taking steps to limit our own?

A good, plausibly deniable soft power attack would be to make an antitrust case, present it to the feds with the work already done, and let them do their thing now that they basically have to take action or look foolish.

No malicious actors involved, except for the people who choose to trigger the audit at the opportune moment.
> I don't think your statement is helping change the perception that women aren't real cyclists

If that’s what you read in my statement I apologize. It’s not what I intended to say. Let me try and rephrase that somewhat more coherent:

The current level of infrastructure fails certain demographics more than others, chiefly among them young, elderly and women. It’s not a fault of those demographics, it’s a failure to build inclusive infrastructure. They’re all reals cyclists.

Women especially also have to suffer from substantial amounts of (verbal) abuse in the streets, especially when cycling and when cycling in what’s regarded as a dominant cycling style (in the middle of the road, preventing close passes etc.)

The push for roads as shared space is very (sporty) male dominated and even though I’m part of that group, I’d prefer if we’d give up that push and strive for infrastructure that serves more people better. (Like the Dutch do)
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Not to mention the article is full of grammar and spelling errors. Not a great look if you are trying to promote your product.
right, it could be simple multicollinearity, or more complex relationships. Because RF is such a good first-try model, I often want to use it on feature sets I haven't carefully pruned, which can be dangerous if you're measuring the same underlying thing in multiple ways.