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The dev box system they are selling looks like it might be the best non-x86 workstation in a while, where you really get $700 of computer for $700 as opposed to the bad old days with PA-RISC, Sun, etc.

Also I can see something close to that being a competitor to the XSX and PS5. NVIDIA made the Shield and that led to a design win with the Nintendo switch -- wouldn't it be nice to play Nintendo games in VR?
Indeed. And the words that Apple puts to explain about their products is going really numb.

They should change their ambiguous tone and show the real progress in these mac.

I can absolutely get a better laptop at a reasonable price than these products and the features that offers and be more productive.
Someone that concerned with security is either fanatical, or they've been burned by it before.

I also will not sign off on security concerns unless they are correct. I'm happy to let management override me, but I won't back down and say things are finished when they aren't.

IMO, your tech lead wasn't the problem here. Their boss was. Their boss decided that the security was more important than the delivery date, or they decided that they didn't care enough to get involved, which amounts to the same thing.
Or go with a friend who is an expert hunter, and learn from him/her.
This isn't that much better than the fully decked out quad core 2020 Air. The biggest difference is the ability to have 32GB of RAM. Both are 10nm Ice Lake processors, which offer much better battery life (can attest to this as I have a 2020 Air) and have hardware mitigations for at least some of the security bugs that have plagued Intel. The latter gives you some of your syscall performance back, which can be noticeable on I/O heavy apps.

I personally prefer the 2020 Air as it also has physical function keys (but still has Touch ID). If I wanted to go Pro I'd probably go for the 16 inch with eight cores.
Disappointed they didn't expand the screen to 14".

That will allow them to reduce the screen bezel that looks very last gen now and also match the work the done on the 16" line.
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It's even worse when you notice that two of the four "new" models come with an 8th gen Intel CPU, and DDR3 memory, it's like they replaced the keyboard from the previous model and they're calling it "new".

Between selling cpu's 2 generations behind, the keyboard issues, and thermal problems in the Macbook Airs, it really seems like Apple is trying its best to alienate buyers from their laptop line. Just recommended a coworker a Macbook Air for her son, an i7, 16Gb of RAM and 512Gb SSD. From off to account creation, the fan was already running. By the time the laptop was showing the desktop it was burning to touch. Some more testing and I found out the CPU was at 94-98ºC after 4 minutes. Turns out it is by design (just take a look at the photos of the cpu cooler, separated from the fan https://www.ifixit.com/News/36480/theres-something-new-in-th...). She just returned the laptop and is exploring options from Dell and Lenovo.

Even if you like MacOS, you now have to wait before buying anything Apple until you can see a teardown just to see if it's going to survive even casual use.
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Agreed, it is a terrible thoughtless cliche. It purports to see into the mind and heart of the person doing it and smearing the act as disingenuous and therefore void of moral value. Obviously, we all KNOW deep down that they're doing it for bullshit reasons, it's obvious, we can all tell, can't we?

Made worse by the fact that some famous and powerful people are phonies who in fact do things for bullshit reasons, which you can be convinced of by their past behavior. On top of that, doing stuff on the internet for attention is pretty common. People then make the leap to "doing X thing I don't like is virtue signaling". It's not that I think it never happens, people aren't always sincere and I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, but the accusation itself is just a baseless smear if it's not accompanied by something corroborating.

We should be skeptical, not oafishly dismissive.
A little disappointed it’s not the rumoured 14” model as I’ve been looking to replace both my 15” and 13” MacBooks.

Also, regarding other comments on “just” the 4 core CPU - it’s probably all they could squeeze in without having to redesign the chassis/thermal design. I’m going to hold off for a tear down to see if they have improved the cooling system like they did (Or claimed to) with the 16” version.
One of the big changes I've noticed with games is that it's harder to have a conversation during them.

What do I mean? I used to play a lot of Team Fortress 2, twelve people to a team, all talk on, a conversation happening while the game is being played.

Now compare that to what's been popular the last few years.

Overwatch, 6 people a team no all talk

League of Legends, no voice (at least when I played)

PUBG, all talk but sure as hell not for public conversation

Valorant, 5 player teams no all talk

The small team size means that match making works, but it also means there's a lot less wiggle room for casual conversation.
Just out of curiosity, which neo-fascist dictatorship paying you lots of money did you walk away from? Which has offered you a job? An interview?
Seems so, but it also shows he's particularly concerned with such issues and might have let emotions and peer pressure overwhelm him.
I don’t know man, I’ve written a lot of C and C++ and other languages and the sheer effort to get your average C project to compile is much greater than others. The dependencies aren’t listed anywhere, they are rarely compatible with the versions available via your package manager (so now you’re building more things from source), ./configure regularly runs into problems (“couldn’t guess which platform you were on”, “your version of grep is incompatible”, etc). It’s just a big mess of yak shaving. If you think I’m making too big a deal, I invite you to spend some time in the Go or Rust ecosystems where you just “cargo build” or “go build” and you’re done. You don’t need to understand anything about the project, there are no shitty DSLs to grok (looking at you, CMake). Things just work.
As part of my engineering degree, it wasn't all books and lectures. We had to learn the machine-shop, operate the lathe construct a robot, mix chemicals in organic chemistry lab, experiment with lasers in different mediums, wire hard drives... etc...

A lot of that is hands on work. No Zoom session is going to make up for that.
Thinkpad keyboard is completely unlike Apple keyboards, however the technology is called. Just the key travel on Thinkpad is probably more than entire thickness of Apple keyboard.
My social life has not changed but improved since the quarantine started. Voice chat servers have never been this full. The whole extended squad is on line 10 hours a day. We can finally have 5v5 custom games all day long. We all consider ourselves introverts. Now, when you are tired of socialising you just say be right back and come back tomorrow. When outside you have to spend possibly hours more than you would like before it's socially acceptable to leave.
I've generally found SqlServer's query optimizer to be a hellish nightmare of broken dreams, so if Postgres' is even worse I'm giving up and going back to flat files.
Sorry for not contributing to the discussion, just want to note that this is a very nicely worded reply. I usually stare in disbelief and am rude when confronted with this exact situation, so hats off to you.
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I think this is a good thing. I've had regular problems with Ruby and Python versioning on macOS.
I just checked his Wikipedia entry. He will have to try a bit harder to become "radio-active" for potential employers...
I don't think anybody is proposing to replace the entire existing food supply chain with nothing but hunted deer.

There is no reason however, to think that hunting can't supplement a family's food stocks if other sources start to become thin. And there's a lot more to hunt than deer.

There's also more in play than hunting. A family might feed themselves through a combination of any or all of: hunting, trapping, fishing, foraging for wild edibles, home gardening, AND buying from whatever is available on the market.

One interesting thing about this is that those living close to the coasts may be in better shape in one or two regards. Most notably, seafood is one area where "direct to the consumer" sales is a real thing, and there isn't a lot of processing involved. At least where I grew up on the NC coast. It's common for seafood houses to sell oysters, clams, shrimp, etc. directly to consumers.
What about common mode induction - when the inducted current flows in the same direction in all strands of wire (regardless of twisting) with earth return path? This is what AFAIK causes the problems with power transformers and can happen on long metal pipes too.
You are confusing bitrates here, the fax emits an analog signal and doesn't interface the digital line directly- it's not a digital packet switch protocol.

Those 2400bps are not using 2400bps from the line, but are modulated to an analog signal that uses the lines full bitrate. From Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem we know that a 56bps line can transfer something like half of it in analog form, so 33.6 is marginal.

T.38 is sensitive since it needs to end the analog side, practically receiving the fax.

Fax in general is sensitive since the standards have left too much freedom for implementers, especially like you said in the timing parts, causing incompatibilities between machines.

(Source: I have built fax relay over VoIP products in the late 90's)
So not only are you unnecessarily adding to your tools, but also unnecessarily adding to your build steps, which costs time every time you make any sort of visual change.

Workflow under Tachyons: change html, reload page to see change, change html, reload, change html, reload, ....

Workflow under Sass/Less/etc.: change css, build css, (maybe) change html, reload, change css, build css, (maybe) change html, reload, ...
I'm in France, and use email mostly to keep up with newsletters, personal comms, and non-important professional comms. If your threat model includes the Australian Government as a threat, then yes, using another provider would make sense. Then again, if you have government agencies in your threat model, you might want to move to E2E communications anyways.
Seriously are you missing optical?
Unless you are using your laptop as a server or using a boatload of electron apps, 4 high performance x86 cores are more that enough in a 13-inch laptop.
the askhistorians mods adressed this - the problem is the bullshit asymmetry principle:

'Bullshit Asymmetry Principle' states the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it. Bullshit can be propagated quickly, but can be more difficult to disprove.

see https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre...
The ram difference is most likely because the lower-end models use 8th gen CPU, whereas the top tier uses 10th gen.
I'm a little disappointed tbh. It's good that they fixed the keyboard and brought back the escape key, but the screen hasn't been improved and I was really hoping they'd make it slightly larger, close to 14" with the bezel trimmed, which was what had been rumored.
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Unlikely, the lack of physical Escape button is what most users were unhappy about.
This is actually my experience with Oracle; I had a DBA to take the management pain from us, and we had the budget for the correct licenses and hardware. The query performance was phenomenal considering the absolutely crazy amount of data we threw at that thing.

That being said, I would not recommend Oracle without all of the above factors already in place. For most use cases, Oracle is more pain than it’s worth.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the X series ThinkPads are the main competitor to the MacBook Pro series. IE, thin and targeted at professionals.

It's been years since an X-series has had a removable battery and the option for two of them. Decent-quality screens are a significant upcharge and even then barely match the Apple screen. And going over to their website, an X1 carbon 7th gen with a 10th gen Intel processor still uses LPDDR3, just like the Apple.

If you do a real comparison - beyond just "processor cores/speed, ram and disk quantity", you'll find that there really isn't a huge difference in price for specs and that you can comfortably buy the one you prefer and not feel ripped off.
So common with open source - flags that once worked are now tangled up with subsequent code/flags and won't even compile if not part of some common configuration. Because its not fun to exhaustively test all combinations, it doesn't get done.
> the new inverted-"T" arrangement for the arrow keys makes them easier to find, whether users are navigating through spreadsheets or playing games. Magic Keyboard also features a physical Escape key

Step 1: Remove features and call it an innovative new design.

Step 2: Add those same features back in and act like it is an innovative new design.
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On MBP2015 and i love magsafe.
Catch 22 - I thought it's a crime to not-know SQL?
"Up to 32GB of memory for running multiple pro apps."

What is a "Pro" app?
I have never worked for a software company. Most of my career was in travel: Travelocity/Sabre, Southwest, Orbitz, Expedia and now I work for a bank. Developers are a cost center even for software companies. It isn’t developers at Microsoft that are selling Microsoft products.

A software company is one that generates revenue directly from the software they write. In that regard I do not consider Facebook to be a software company, their revenue is from advertising and media. They are a software company the way CNN is. I consider Google to be a software company because their revenue is from micro-auctions to their search engine.
I agree - but competitors like the XPS 13 have a 6-core CPU.
You make good point, but it can be extraordinarily difficult to change a company's toxic management culture from the inside. You speak out, you lead by example, you ask tough questions...

Then you start getting bad reviews. Colleagues speak of you as being "difficult." You are passed over for involvement in important initiatives.

You quit in disgust, but now they leak that you are a poor performer who is no longer relevant, and your speaking out about worker conditions is just a poor performer trying to distract everyone from their inability to get things done.

It is very, very difficult to win some battles from the inside. Toxic cultures are ruthless when defending themselves from change.

Ask any woman about challenging inappropriate sexual behaviour. I believe we'll hear the same thing.
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Note that performance could be an issue with the Air, as it will throttle the CPU to prevent too much head. The MBP has much more thermal leg room.

That said, the Air indeed is a great machine and I too prefer the function keys to Touch ID.
I disagree that its an awful idea. If anything its a pretty great idea with a lackluster execution. There are alot of problems it can solve but it needs to have a killer app first to drive adoption. "Contextually sensitive" actions are decent but not the killer app.
I haven't done nand2tetris (despite buying the companion book which has been gathering dust for some time on my bookshelf...), but I understand it's roughly equivalent to the first few chapters.
>The MOOC rush is over. We know the organic retention rates are abysmal.

As a counter point to this, roughly 1/2 of med students attend class in person never or rarely. They use online resources because they think it's more efficient. They still pay the 50k a year for med school because they need the credential and it's the gateway for the clinical instruction in years 3/4 that has to be done in person.

The problem with the MOOC model is that it doesn't serve as a credential that people trust
VPs don’t normally quit companies over personnel decisions on line employees outside of their reporting chain. Especially Fortune 500 companies. Let’s give some credit where credit is due.
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> but the thing you showed up to achieve will be achieved

That's going to be the sticking point, I guess. You could say that giving me beef instead of pork achieves the aim of feeding me just as well. I might disagree (in this analogy, imagine I'm a Hindu).
It also takes significant resources for Apple to support it, and there is a cost to the component as well. If it is not used by developers or customers it will be phased out.

Personally I've loved the fingerprint id in the latest Macbook Pro, and found no real use for the touch bar. I regret buying my last Macbook Pro because of the terrible quality of the keyboard (replaced keys 3 times).
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There is a policy at a very well renowned company I worked with which stated that team members should not have affair/marry within same team. If they do, then one of them have to leave the team or company. This was to avoid situation where there is either favoritism or animosity if things don't work out. I was told that this was from the past experiences.
> More than 400,000 people are killed by malaria each year, most of them children under the age of five.

This is one of those sentences that is just too easy to read over. But losing a young child to a disease must be unbearably painful. Multiply that grief by 400,000.

My greatest comfort in these times is that COVID19 appears to have little effect on young children. I wish these researchers the best, and I hope they get all the support they need.
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Can anyone explain what happened to this submission? There was no interest when it was first posted, then at 20 hours old its submission time was reset and it was suddenly on the front page.

Then, at 24 hours old, it has suddenly dropped to page 6?
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>> I want to go back to the 2010 MBP when it was the best designed, highest perf device available.

Not the 13". It was still packing a Core 2 Duo and the screen was 1280x800, when the Air was running 1440x900. The battery life was amazing, though!
> he's 64

That definitely puts things in a different perspective. It can't really damage his career much when his career is 20+ years old. At this point, if he doesn't have his own side gig, lots of companies, big and small, would still want him.
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Yup, that's pretty much the only thing I was hoping for. Guess I'll keep my 2018 version!
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You can say that about Apple users too, but the zealotry has somewhat declined as Apple products has become more mainstream.

Historically Linux users where people that actively choose to use Linux based on a combination of technical & philosophical reasons, thus they are more passionate about it.

Most common Windows users get Windows preinstalled from the store where they bought the computer. It is not really an active choice based on reason, therefore no reason to have a holy war.

The more Linux becomes mainstream, the holy wars will become more & more fringe. Systemd is pushing Linux more into the mainstream.
For what it's worth I've been pretty happy with Freescale. Not sure how they are now after NXP bought them, but the documentation of that hardware was the best I had seen. This translated into an easier time for me as a software guy, because it was easy to look things up.

Additionally it seemed like there's a decent ecosystem around it of board suppliers, which then translates into pretty good software support.

But again, not sure if that's still the case. I chose them for a project in 2015 and have not regretted it since - but have been able to use the exact same IC since then for other projects so I'm not sure if the experience would be different if starting from scratch today.
I was hoping for an ARM processor. Too soon I suppose.
To me this pricing sits too closely with the iPad Pro plus magic keyboard, which Apple has been trying to sell as good enough to be your next Computer. What’s also puzzling is that the new iPad Pro and magic keyboard combo is so heavy it’s basically a laptop.
I really hope they make the magic bar an option not the baseline. I just updated to the new air and would not buy another Mac if it doesn’t have a fully physical keyboard
There is another kind of thought that is equally important, though separating out categories of reason, creating new forms and structures from shape is my favourite.

The thought that goes into balancing quantities and ideas, bringing them together into something greater than the sum of their parts and highlighting an inherent property in that mess, is something different and just as valuable as creating a new form.
My comment was on the topic of YouTube's content policies.
Any particular reasons?
Can you downgrade to Mojave? 32 bit apps will not run on Catalina.
>the new inverted-“T” arrangement for the arrow keys makes them easier to find

I checked my (now sadly defunct) 2010 13" MBP and they are arranged the same way. Is this just a sentence they left in for >=10 years?
On the other hand if you follow the NHS guidelines (70g/day) 20-30kg of meat from a deer would last a family of four ~80-120 days. Not that bad
But if you’re after performance you’d go with the 16”.

With no dedicated GPU and still quad core, the 13” MBP is a bit in no mans land in terms of Air vs 16” Performance.
I think both individual employees and companies are guilty of one thing: greed. I've seen it personally happen on all levels of many companies.

The scale of the employee's greed make it's actions seem tame at a small scale (punching false times...). They justify it by saying they are getting their dues and for once they are the ones screwing and not getting screwed.

The scale and visibility of a company's greed make it much more apparent that it's incentives and moral compass are way off (mistreating, exploiting...). They justify this behavior as helping the bottom line and making the numbers look good to investors.

Until ALL the actors, both companies and individuals start adjusting their 'morality' and integrity this will continue happening.
Common mode induction is an issue in any twisted pair system.

As long as the DC impedance to ground anywhere is <500 ohms, I wouldn't imagine enough voltage to build up to break down even a tiny signal transformer. In power systems, the connection between neutral and earth does that.

Long ethernet cables might be a concern, since the common mode DC impedance at the termination is normally infinite... Analogue audio equipment also frequently has infinite common mode impedance to prevent ground loops.