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Buying iPhone makes sense if you're already invested in the whole ecosystem(owning MacBook, iWatch, AirPods, etc.). If you're not part of the Apple ecosystem the experience is less polished when you need one apple device to play well with the rest of your non apple devices.
Now, this is direct path to Kessler Syndrome. $1M is in a range I can imagine many people and companies will want to drop something just for bragging rights and it is very likely to go down in price in future.

I think it should be recognized that safe space around Earth is a limited resource as every item added increases the chance of everything being effectively wiped in a short time.
I wanted to be clear that i didn't come up with the ideas I related, and I have gotten in trouble with HN moderation for linking the blog in the past.
I was taking the whole Apple MBP keyboard thing with a pinch of salt, but the keyboard on mine has been degrading significantly over the last few weeks & I'm going to have to take it in for repair. Grr.
I saw this app previously featured on ProductHunt! If I call someone with this, will it show my own caller ID or no? I want people to recognize me when I call them using this.
I moved from 2014 15" (i7) to 16" (i9).

It is an upgrade, but not by much...

The touch bar gets in the way, but I use external keyboardS 90% of the time, so it isn't that big of problem. I would have gladly payed extra for F-keys.

The larger track-pad also gets in my way often.

Fan noise is significant compared to the old model.

USB-C-only is quite annoying. I never missed a port on the 15", whereas now ... well...

I bought it to get a performance boost (compiling/ML-training/etc.). The performance upgrade isn't really that significant.

I recommend waiting a little while longer...
Yeah, it only makes sense if we also require hardware vendors to support installations of other OSs. Which maybe we should do too, though it gets to be a more complicated proposal at that point.
Decompression isn't the problem, compression is. Compression is just a mov. Now we need additional shifts.
I don't miss it as well, though that's because I refuse to buy anything that doesn't expose analog out. The 3.5 jack is certainly not the best engineered piece of hardware and is prone to failure, but that should be rather a motivation to produce a better one than an excuse to remove it.
For what it's worth, this only occurs when connected to an external monitor -- which causes the discrete GPU to overheat, even with no apps running.
Using the built-in display (with the discrete GPU on) is fine.
Also we'll probably lose some cache benefits from compression due to larger alignment.
When did the "music industry" start formally steering commercial audio PHY standards?

Characteristic impedance alone is all over the map, Apple apparently couldn't align its 3.5mm jack pinout with the rest of de facto industry, and form factor is just one of many inherent market differentiators.
"I have my own orchestrator to..."
Herein lies the problem.. does your own orchestrator have good examples, documentations or examples on StackOverFlow ? Not trying to be di*k !
You can do almost the same thing inside the US. The US is massive and the cost of living differs massively across the country. A house in SV costs something like 10x one in rural-ish Pennsylvania.
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> only the Bluetooth MAC address of the target devices has to be known

Android has a feature of "Bluetooth scanning" to improve device location (similar to Wifi scanning). I'm not sure, but even if Bluetooth is disabled in the menu, this might still activate Bluetooth occasionally and perhaps reveal the Bluetooth MAC to the (nearby) world?
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A decent lawyer will make the case that it either is or Tesla should be in the hook to renegotiate every upgrade, every time the vehicle resells.
I just installed and set up Ubuntu after a long time. IMO both Windows and Linux have totally caught up to OSX and while their hardware is still marginally better, that gap is on a downward trend as well.

With mobile, I think Android is close on software and far superior on hardware.

I wonder what happens to Apple stock if they don't get a new product line that takes off - cars, TVs etc. Will ApplePay eating PayPal and Stripe offset this downward trend enough?
Alternative /additional explanation: Google realise that their business model of selling ads based on
'spying' on users privacy will eventually come to an end because:

- users being increasingly aware of the problem,

- legislation like GDPR everywhere on the horizon,

- Other companies (e.g. Apple) competing on providing better privacy.

So Google is trying to transition to services with defined income
(Cloud, game streaming, Youtube) while it's still easy.
CallerID is not supported yet but it will come soon.
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I don't want a "you could..." in my framework... I want a "this is the way" in my framework. Thus me the dev before me... the dev after me can get on with things. It will not be the perfect solution but it will be a consistent solution... This is of course true for any framework.
I got the non sport ones due to the great reviews and they suck. I would recommend AirPods, even for android.
I think Tesla might have turned it on to recertify the vehicle before auction, and forgot to turn it off.

And a system's audit revealed the discrepancy, and rather than just eating the loss, they decided to turn off the feature.

Or maybe it wasn't malicious, and the OTA update system had it listed as non-FSD and sent it an update which bricked the FSD.
Cook is a complete businessman, best at cutting costs, increasing profits and attracting customers to buy more. Don't forget that memory began to weld on the motherboard because this can only be replaced and not upgraded. He was a businessman, not an engineer or a designer, and that was the beginning of apple's decline.
With revolutionary noise-cancelling earphones*

*sold separately
Especially the tests should prove it. In almost none of the comments I see thorough testing is taken into consideration. No IDE can replace good tests today AFAIK.
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> But major infrastructure projects often suffer from messy political and public relations approaches that play up the project's impressiveness and prestige in isolation, while neglecting to emphasize or champion synergistic improvements to other parts of the network.

Is this studied or monitored ? something that could give directions to avoid waste or corruption~ for politicians ?
I went from late 2013 13 inch to the 2016 16 inch (maxed everything but the graphics). I also hate the touchbar. Things like volume control that used to be a tap away are now hidden in sub screens. You can switch it to only function keys but they are missing the icons for volume etc and you can't touch feel where the buttons are so I have left it in full touchbar mode. Some functions of it are actually quite cool but it should exist as well as the function keys not instead of. I haven't had any of the issues described anywhere. Mine works flawlessly. Very very happy with the machine overall. A huge improvement on the 2013 mbp i came from which i agree was an excellent machine.
Do all Georgia Tech students have access to the Safari? (coming from a fellow GT student)
That acceleration graph starts at 1G and goes up to 4.5 Freefall is 0G. The G force we feel is the difference between gravitational acceleration and our motion towards the center of gravity, so most of our lives we experience 1G. The complication is that gravitational acceleration doesn't feel like acceleration so remaining stationary in gravity does.
Same. I used to like it when their site header had a line about "No bullshit web hosting" but they removed that sometime in the last year or two.
I've got a new MBP (from work) and an x1 yoga personally. The X1's running Linux and frankly works beautifully. The mac's "quirks" aren't counterbalanaced anymore by being the only reasonable unix laptop solution. They're just an annoying PITA.
If I had to guess they know what they're doing engineering wise, but they're taking a calculated (and poorly thought out, in my opinion) risk that a small percent of people will regularly peg the cpu at 100% usage, and they're further relying upon clock rate throttling and the cpu die thermal sensor to keep things from melting down. Or the management/product design group has overridden the input of the people who actually know how to design thermal solutions, because the laptop CANNOT be 2mm thicker.

Whenever I see a laptop with a >15W TDP CPU in a super slim package with a tiny heatsink/fan unit, no matter if it's from Apple or another vendor, I'm very suspicious. At least the 12 inch Macbook from a few years ago which was truly fanless uses an appropriately low powered CPU.

disclaimer: used to do systems engineering for a server manufacturer a long time ago, after you've gone through a dozen iterations of ways to mount skived copper heatsinks on dual socket motherboards in 1U cases, with various fan solutions, you realize that everything that is not acoustically terrible is some sort of compromise. People are trying to put CPU+GPU+RAM packages that are anywhere from 25W to 45W TDP in laptops that are physically too small for them.
VaaS (Vehicle as a service) coming to all vehicle and tractor manufacturer's near you!
Interstate rail in Europe is still very far from optimal, and long-distance rail service has been declining due to cheap state-subsidized air travel. Overnight service, a natural mode of longer-distance transport, has been scaled back in recent decades, but is now making a comeback due to climate concerns.
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I do play (fast) games and don't perceive any latency. However, the number of devices I can connect to my dongle is two; when I add a third, the audio starts to crack.
He's Gates Ballmer.
I have the same issue with a 2016 15" model. When I plug an external monitor, the place you put your wrists on gets super hot. I had to buy an external keyboard/trackpad long before my keyboard started to fail.
> No one writes a ranting screed for not receiving feedback.

The hell they don't. The root post of this very thread could easily have been a "ranting screed" on Glassdoor if the poster was of a different mindset.
this, hardware has become a the ugly ducklin to software.
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Hi there, I take it you own/work for runalyze? I'm not saying it's only for running, just that it's aimed primarily at running. I can take some time to give some more detailed feedback if you're interested? Overall I do think Runalyze is really interesting and offers some great analysis
Have the same-ish, and it's pretty interesting. I think the BT communication is from phone to the right earbud, then something else (likely on 2.4GHz too) from right to left earbud.

When I switch on the office lights, enter the lift, open the fridge door (light again) and similar things, the left drops out briefly (on the order of 100ms).
Browsers don't need the codecs anyway. They just need Wasm and a decoder. Clients can do the work[1] until the hardware supports the goods.

[1] https://git.habd.as/comfusion/fractal-forest/src/branch/mast...
Money has worked just fine for millennia. Why do we need google as a middleman all of a sudden?
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Jon Sneyers, the creator of FLIF speaking about Jpeg XL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqi5U6dxeZU
Why? For DRM?
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I just did a bunch of this over Christmas, and it was a ton of fun to set up.

The way I see it...people work in these offices that cost hundreds of thousands, so I will benefit from looking somewhat professional on my calls from home.

One frustrating note: we use RingCentral/Zoom at work, and they only work with the Elgato CamLink once. After one call with proper video, I have to reset my PRAM.
This appears to be a software bug in macOS or AMD's drivers. Plugging in an external monitor at certain resolutions (1440p@60Hz in my case) will cause the AMD GPU to draw 18-20W constantly, no matter what it's doing. This causes the total system draw to increase from ~10W to ~30W. All that heat has to go somewhere. If I change the resolution of my external monitor to 1080p the AMD GPU drops to ~4W and the fans are quiet again. A lot more information available in this long MacRumors thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noisy-with-an...
So, the specific person may not exist, but likely someone very, very similar in appearance does.

I've come across people in life that I would have sworn were twins. I'm curious how combinatorically low the number of facial features need to be before people resemble one another.
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What are “FAANG” and “Big N” companies all about?
I have my $20 wired Sony buds drop out about once every never.
Unacceptable license for commercial use when there are near-equivalent better-licensed alternatives around.
>I have noticed that Chrome is a problem

I use Firefox and my machine is silent. Typing on it now. 20+ tabs open and about 20 others apps open. I can't hear my machine without putting my ear against it.
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They don't remove charging. They remove the ability to charge your car for free. I completely understand that.

Think about it. Somebody could buy a Tesla charger circuit, install it to another car, and get free charging for life.
The same happened with 3G enabled Kindles.
Better: thiswaifudoesnotexist.net
Even before harware discovery and plug-and-play you could do this by simply specifying what hardware you had or by 'probing' the hardware for presence of certain characteristics (this wasn't always fool proof). The hardest parts were when interrupts were still selected with jumpers rather than automatically enumerated.
Nobody ever got fired for doing exactly what the process said they should.

Someone in the chain that handled this ticket probably just didn't realize this was a case of broken process that would lead to a newsworthy bad outcome so they didn't escalate it and instead did what the process told them to. Maybe there was a perceived bigger fire to fight that day or something. It's really hard to build a support system that is highly averse to any perceived risk or monetary loss to the company without having things like these slip through the inevitable cracks in your processes.
A popular standard cross process safe api to use mmap() for IPC, kv cache, locking, etc, might help as well. I understand it's already possible, but it's either reinvented every time, or eschewed for cross-host...often when not needed.
My 2014 13” i5 broke last year after a drop so I bought a 2019 6 core 15”. I was pretty surprised that the performance of the new device isn’t really that much better. And the hardware feels worse. I think they should go back to the 2015 form factor, maybe replace some USB-A with C but otherwise leave it.
That may very well be because the datasets are not large enough to densely cover the underlying data distribution - which is what these current deep learning models need. Francois Chollet talked about it on Twitter and in some of his papers.

An exciting possibility that is opened by these generative models is synthetic data. Train (well) a generative model on private data, then share the generated syntetic data without privacy violation concerns.

Of course, this opens the way to data laundering - profiting from ilegally obtained data that you're not supposed to have. Possibly by laundering through several jurisdictions, where each local step is legal. What will be the Dutch sandwich of data laundering ? The cyber dystopian novels of the 90s have nothing on this.
Little bit of a contradiction there. You say collaboratively, yet you share your ideas one on one, instead of with the entire team. It's either one or the other.

Next, assuming the challenges you speak of are technical, the manager is no use talking to because they're not an engineer. The manager of course should know of technical difficulties to understand risks of delays, but that works through inviting them to engineer meetings where the team presents its consensus on the matter.
What’s better?
I don't think people particularly mind those things. At least at the kava bar I go to, I've never heard any of my friends be too hesitant to drink it after seeing its appearance or after taking their first sip. After a large quantity, the flavor does start to make me want to vomit though lol
But they are free to refuse that treaty if they feel that it does not (in aggregate) benefit their nation.
I love these meetings. When I am in one of these, we are both at the same level for me. We (or at least I) talk as if I'm talking to a friend about the good stuff and bad stuff in my experience of the last 2 weeks. Mostly related to work, but even stuff outside. I used to have these at my previous company, and when I moved to another one I asked to do this again, because it was something they were not doing already. I will ask in every company I work with if this is not already something that is done.

I'll just paste here my notes for the meetings I've had with my manager/CTO for the last few months. It's a running note so start from the bottom.
Some items are more clear than others but it's my own notes. You will see some items like asking for access to something, asking their/company's opinion about things, suggesting ideas for better workflows, complaining with no solution yet, asking to clear up genuine confusion, comments about certain recent events, etc.

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Involved in Machine learning, with employee Y

What raise will I get?

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how Can we use our product as a client

Dubai 3 weeks remote

holidays minus. not paid or next year

standing desk for sharing

working less hours or days

okrs

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https://twitter.com/notbrent/status/1159935844888637440?s=21

Bandung.
progress as user story lead

yeh cheez

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external therapists for devs

how do you handle time and requests and work

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talk RN EU

still under a lot of work with travis

Friday off for a month?

month open source

Friday morning open source

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sentry access

demo?

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I Became gql head somehow?

proud of purge

react native pr for crashes

review cool

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slack repo, we can archive it
for slack questions, check the numbers doc.

budget for react Amsterdam?

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Prs for small things lead to small things not being changed. Maybe I need a better way to work. Maybe we all need one. I find things to fix while working. I can’t create an issue, wait, create a pr, wait, then keep going.

Too many slack channels, everyone talks privately. Delete old.

Too many branches. Delete old.

strange. what does employee X do? not complaint, just curious.
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> relying upon clock rate throttling and the cpu die thermal sensor to keep things from melting down

Seems like that wasn't working fully, since they report having GPU issues after stress testing the computer (external GPU worked fine). And that is worrying. Is the thermal stress shutdown from OS, or onboard the GPU/CPU?
That's why I buy gaming laptops for my work needs even though I don't play games. Their heatsinks are generously sized resulting in good thermals and acoustics.
Systems that render low res can download the prefix of the file and show an image, and stop there. Many modern image formats support this for precisely this reason. If you then want higher quality for some particular image, you can download more, not having to start over with a separate image file.
And the teeth! It was common for the teeth to be uneven.

They are still a little bit weird but I remember it being much worse
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Part of me would like to see .NET Native available on all levels of the stack, but with WinDev vs DevTools politics, that is unfortunately just wishful thinking.
TL;DR (1000 * 100) == (100 * 1000)
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We do a lot of this, but it's not for everybody. Some people work well with that much freedom, others not so much and they really need the structure and close contact with colleagues to shine. We try to find a middle ground by having an office but no mandatory presence there, on some days the office is quite full, on others deserted. I personally don't care as long as the work gets done. We're all over Europe so a good percentage of our colleagues is too far away anyway so for us and our kind of work this is a very good fit.
Without types you need more tests to have confidence though.
What metric are you using to point to Apple's decline since Tim Cook came into the company?
Product lines, revenue, customers, market cap, employees, daily client interactions, brand value, customer satisfaction?
Create something that helps solve an inconvenience to you!

Example being, for me whenever I go to Wegmans I can't find what I need. Therefore, I went on their website and found out I can scrape the location / price of food per each of their stores. So I'm working on a little personal application that helps create a shopping list with the location in store and price of food that I want to buy, but I'm making it in a way so that it works for all of their stores just in case I decide to deploy it.

Simple things like that are awesome ideas. Don't go for ideas like creating a new social media app that will compete with Facebook or Instagram...I mean those are still good portfolio builders since it gives you an opportunity to fullstack, but don't really bring anything new and out there to the table.

You can also go to nearby businesses and ask if they need a website, or better yet don't even ask them and just create the website. Then when you get something nice looking you can walk in and let them know about it and see if they're interested in buying it or using it.
Don't buy a headphone jackless phone. I haven't and won't ever. I will stop using a phone before I use a jackless one.
I was surprised to find out that this 'flex' workspaces thing is not just a 'hip company' thing, but pretty common for government workers too.

Not a fan, personally, but still.
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LOL i know a media rendering farm, a big one, that uses pirated Adobe software of all kinds. Asked how do they deal with licensing they just say "but well we are a Russian company, we are not concerned with this, licensing is a Western concept".

The notion of "registering an app" ("зарегистрировать приложение") in Russian means "finding a crack".
Superglue is used in medicine, including heart surgery, to bind tissues.
It's an 8-bit counter... just allocate a fixed 256 entries and be done with it. That reads like code written by people without any embedded/low-level experience.

Keeping code simple and without unnecessary abstraction is a far more valuable skill than $safe-language-trend-of-the-day.
> Apple says "we are listening now, and here is a new cooling design,"

They also keep at "oh, look how thin it is" even though the vast majority of people stopped caring 5-7 years ago. Make it thicker, but with better cooling, better storage, better GPUs etc.

Worse still, they do it across the line. "We painted ourselves into a thermal corner with MacPro" says Apple and keeps releasing iMacs (and iMacs Pro) with sealed aluminum enclosures, and making them thinner and thinner.