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No way, in 2 years they will only stop shipping new Intel Macs but will continue supporting existing ones for a few years more.

Last PowerPC Macs were released in October 2005 and first Intel-only MacOS X was released in August 2009, almost 4 years later.
It will be just give it time.

At previous positions I've banned entire countries like China from our backend. The truth is some companies do zero business in Country X, so it makes sense to outright ban them to avoid the headache.

You should see the traffic I would get from people in china trying to hack in our backends. The funniest bits were seeing people trying to hit /phpmyadmin
The pro tools (like Pro Tools) are usually the tools that are being ported first. It was the same with all the other transitions.

If not, there will be Universal 2 binaries with both x64/Intel binaries for a while and an emulation mode for legacy binaries. Underoptimized at first? Maybe, but they work well enough and performance catches up eventually -- the transition is over 2 years. Same situation as before. Software that work will continue to work on existing and new hardware for a while. Nothing is going to stop working the moment the new processors come out.

We've seen all this happen before (m68k - PowerPC - Intel). And it's really not a problem.
Well even that is not an ethically straightforward issue. Nuclear proliferation reduces the frequency and typical intensity of violent conflicts, in exchange for risking an extremely high intensity conflict.
That responsibility includes helping the police (and others) do their jobs well. It's just as much about participation as it is non-participation.
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The US has done just fine by itself by welcoming immigrants. How many Fortune 500 companies were founded by them or their children?

You can't know ahead of time which ones will go on to be successful, or maybe have a kid who is.

The solution to people in the US going through tough times is to help them directly, not encourage companies to open offices in Canada and the EU.
Bummer. Streaming from the Xbox was easy and fun. You could stream a multiplayer game with your friends! Friction was reduced to stream and you didn't need to mess with stream keys or overlays. Sad.
You're arguing against a different point than what I was addressing.
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Facebook don't really embrace the idea of an alternate persona, in fact it's almost antithetical to them. Interesting to watch this play out.
Requirements: Mac Mini 2014 and later.

So, no upgrade for my Mac Mini late 2012.

F*ck you, Apple. Why on earth I need a less powerful machine to run your latest OS?
> Apple Maps doesn’t have a browser version

It can, however, be integrated via the JavaScript SDK. DuckDuckGo uses it, for example.
Is it really forcing? If the work contract says "we pay you $X/month (or hour) to come to the office and do this work" is this oppressive?

I work from home since mid 2007, I know the benefits and I know the price. I do go to the office from time to time without anyone forcing me to do it. Without physical presence there is a significant negative impact for employees, I think the best of the 2 worlds is 1-2 days per week (organized in any way, even 3 days every 2 weeks) when each team is in the office, while teams will be in and out on rotations, so you do save on office space and rent, have a significant portion of WFH but still have the teams meeting regularly. Even with video conference, it's not the same as passing by on the hallway, at the water cooler and having a 30 seconds chat with random people in your department.
Yeah, I remember the binary convert thing, but the WML itself wasn't so bad.
I wonder if any of the scientist or commenters in this thread have ever lived in a bad hood. The hoods require more and better policing, the worst offenders, who kill orders of magnitude more people are criminal gangs. You remove police - you'll get spike in homicides.
Well, when you're witnessing multiple instances of officers willingly and enthusiastically assaulting defenseless and innocent citizens/journalists on the street every day, you're past the point of "bias" correction.

These instances are not the result of some nebulous ingrained tendency to view others as less than themselves, they're the result of a coordinated and deliberate attempt to assert power.

Your assertion that removing police would create a "vacuum" assumes incorrectly that there is currently a sense of "order" established. This is not the case, as there is no set of behaviors black men in particular can adopt which will not result in their extrajudicial execution. Police are more accurately viewed as an occupying militia and I see no reason to believe it would just as soon be replaced by something similar.
Yes right now it's just assumed your value, your cost, their value, and their cost all balance out. But let's slap some numbers and everything and actually see if it does.

If we have the option to pay up front, or sell off my data and maybe end up in the red or black. It will all be very complex in the end, but that's just exposing the inherent complexity that already exists and is just papered over.
Correct, the debate over XHTML 2.0 was exactly why the WHATWG was formed. It's indeed how the W3C lost most of its teeth in browser standards. XHTML 2.0 had some good ideas, but it shows how hard it is to govern standards from ivory towers.
> I find it intriguing that generally speaking, people have issue with monopolies. Yet, as much as everyone claims there's a free market, MS has failed with both a mobile OS and a streaming service, and essentially gives it over to the giant.

When people take issue with monopolies, they are not asking for a company like MS to break that up. They are asking for smaller, independent players.
They are complaining about "racial bias" in predictive policing products. This "racial bias" is composed of data collected from crime statistics. If reality doesn't support the ideology, reality must be ignored. This is the sorry state of academia nowadays.
I stick with Apple for the privacy. There are features on Android I wish to use, but I can’t bring myself to use an Android phone or putting the effort of cleaning it from all of Google’s trackers.
> because many people won't call if they know the police are going to come for injuries.

That is not what occurred in practice and there is no data to suggest this would ever be a probable outcome. At any rate people don’t have a choice on who responds if the call is to 911.
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> then I see no reason why the default OS apps that come pre-installed shouldn't look and feel the same.

The same as each other, or the same as their mobile touchscreen counterparts?
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That's what point releases are for. If they're going to fix the things you're talking about, it'll be done as a point release to 10.15.
Does anybody know if it will still be possible to run Windows via BootCamp with the new apple processors?
I use a 16" MBP and am a heavy BootCamp user (Windows 10).
Your wish has been granted. Look for “Deus Ex Revision” on Steam, it's even free.

It's Windows only, but I managed to get it running inside Wineskin on my Mac :)
TSMC has fabs in mainland China as well. China is a friend of capitalism.
For Dropbox, you could quite trivially get by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
Ideally there would just be a button that could turn on the lights in the room (to the level I want). In olden times this button was mounted to the walls of said room, but in these modern times, it would be awesome if that button was a real button, on my phone, like the volume up/down buttons, and would just turn the lights on/off in the room the phone is in. That Apple's got this hacky solution thats suffciently functional shouldn't be taken as the end-state on what an ideal solution is.
Sometimes you take below-market pay in exchange for other benefits.
The information provided in this article is sparse; Yang discusses the vision of where this project was probably inspired by in his "Yang Speaks" podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmNCVHcZp5s episode w/ Jaron Lanier (re: data unions, brokers, etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-WuwG_fYJ4 pre-launch episode

Make sure to check out the FAQ and Privacy Policy of the project to get a better grasp of what legal framework and actions they are taking.
That until the old reddit is deprecated. They want people to go ahead use the new interface because it makes it much easier to insert ads, track and do who knows what kind of other shenanigans..
The thing is for us who've known a better and more usable internet, we have something to compare it to and simply say no. The newer generation of users accept it for what it is, they don't know better.

Something else irks me quite a bit as well, and that is when you can't copy a link from the page or when the history is messed up when going back. It seems utterly broken, and most of the time the design is as well (but that is somewhat subjective)
I don't imagine the benchmarking software is being run through the App store process, so does the OS really make that big of a difference in the results? I'd think that if anything, the restricted nature of iOS would lower the benchmarks.
I'd say that you should take a look at a comparison of the power efficiency of Apple's "little" core in the A13 to a stock ARM little core.

>In the face-off against a Cortex-A55 implementation such as on the Snapdragon 855, the new Thunder cores represent a 2.5-3x performance lead while at the same time using less than half the energy.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...

Apple has been hitting it out of the park lately.
Relatively few people are opposed to the idea of police. A much larger number of people are opposed to policing in its current form in the USA.
You might be underestimating the prejudice of the people calling things in to the police. Listening to police radio for just a few hours I was astounded at the things people report to the police: 1) A man and young girl walking down a country road... the man happened to be a minority, the girl was white. Police decided to check it out. 2) A man wearing camoflague and carrying a long rifle.. in a country area, during duck hunting season. Police decided to check it out.
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I don't know... my lock screen has a camera icon always visible. When you tap it, you get an isolated camera mode that only shows you photos taken in that session. That's the standard screen now, so I think Apple is doing okay on the discoverability front (for that specific use-case -- possibly the only case where something is discoverable in iOS).

But I still don't know how to take a picture on an Android phone. I have no idea what the Android virtual buttons mean or what they do at all. With similar logic, my wife still has an iPhone with a physical home button because she doesn't like my (now old) iPhone with the "swipe up" home motion. She doesn't really want to learn how to use a new (ish) gesture.

And while I'm on a roll... I also don't understand the buttons on Playstation controllers, preferring the direct lettering of the Xbox or Switch.

We are all ultimately creatures of habit.
This depends on how you define "effectiveness". E.g. one of the measures of effectiveness should include reducing the intrusiveness of polling, particularly on groups that tend to be subjected to overpolicing.
So I want to give a random third party complete access to my browsing history like most ad blockers do?
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Humans are wired for reinforcing social hierarchies by proximity and repetition - to confer "status" via all sorts of methods which may or may not be grounded in anything "tangible" to health, longevity or knowledge.

Media and Celebrity in general hack this system for profit.

The root cause of all pathological behavior is your brain.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430590/
It is true that the boot process on ARM is more entangled with the platform then on x86. In contrast to x86 where you have to do additional steps to lock it down on ARM additional work of the system integrator is required to keep it open/customizable. Not sure if we can expect Apple (or anyone else who is not interest in this business case) to invest into that (if they don't explicitly state that the will).

Edit: This touches a lot of areas, like auto-detection and configuration of hardware and sub-components (either connected or embedded into the SoC) or security specific areas like ARM TrustZone which has vendor specific implementations and secure boot procedures
It certainly might be nothing, but it's hard to imagine they would say "all of their developers" are using Xcode to describe the current and diverse IDE landscape. A lot of developers are currently using multi-platform game engines, open technologies like HTML, multi-platform frameworks etc.
Is it just I or the presentation was somewhat cringy?
The voice tone and body language reminded me of the low-quality and overly loud commercials I saw running in a loop in a store while trying to ignore them.
I am familiar too with the "No true Scotsman" fallacy, I don't necessarily see how it applies here.

Dare I ask what the point is?

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I am not talking about de-Googled Android. Turning off web/app activity in your Google profile is not equivalent with de-Googling your Android.

I am asking how does Android, Google's Android distribution not anything else, tracks users?
Would be interested in a specific technology that the USA is behind Asian countries in.
> An efficient browser engine needs to run with security privileges

The ability to dynamically generate code is not "security privileges"; security should be enforced by the platform sandbox and not by the ability to JIT code.
Apple isn’t being hostile to Hey! They are being hostile to Apple. Imagine building a large new Paid App that you expect Apple to host and distribute for free worldwide by gaming their payment system.
The new Catalyst slide said “full keyboard support”. They’d be crazy not to add it.
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> It’s intuitive and true that poor homes and neighborhoods are going to house more crime.

I challenge your assumption. To me it seems intuitive that crimes are committed at higher rates by the socioeconomically advantaged, because they can get away with it.

See for example that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than the general population.

https://www.cato.org/blog/illegal-immigrants-crime-assessing...
This is probably also true of ACTUAL postmortems....
I’ll give them $ for push notifications alone! Not 30% but it’s worth something if their servers suddenly now must process notifications from hundreds or thousands of new Web apps every year.
>It’s possible they will do both.

Unlikely, given their recent track record. They'll just ignore the bugs in this release until the next big release like they've been doing for the past few versions.
That's fine. If someone builds that, I'll sign up.

In the meantime, their need for revenue is not my problem. I do not feel bad about preventing their ads, trackers, and malware from consuming my battery and bandwidth.
This is getting close to imagining a perfectly spherical cow in a frictionless environment.

Why do you assume the cost of settling other stars would become negligible?

Our solar system is not a Dyson Sphere. What makes you think it will become one?

We don't have a population of thousands of trillions. Why do you think we'll get there in a manner in which all of them will be coordinated under one banner?

What makes you think that laser propulsion will be practical for such applications? Considering we haven't had a single laser propelled craft used in space exploration. Also, 0.2c is a clever way of not saying 20% the speed of light. Or 100 million miles per hour. How long do you think it will take to get a person to that speed? At 3g, it would take over a month of pure acceleration. The human body can withstand 3g for about an hour. You'd have to accelerate closer to 1g once you've broken Earth orbit. And now you're talking months. Months to accelerate, months to decelerate.

So yes, if we solve all of these other really, really, really, really hard problems, some of the other problems aren't that hard.
Seconded. 99% of the crap on websites is not the information I need and it's wasting my limited resources:

- battery
- monthly bandwidth cap
- RAM
- attention (pop ups, things that blink, things that scroll)
- patience for privacy breaches

Pure text is the "better experience" most people want.
A lot of datacenter running cost lays in power and cooling (which requires more power). Maybe Gravitons are not that space effective, but they are definitely power effective, so there is a possibility to get a better margin in the long run.
I don’t see how an integrated GPU can compete with the top of the line chips from nvidia and amd. The discreet GPUs(Radeon vega) in the Mac Pros have 13+ billion transistors and have 1 TB/s memory bandwidth with specialized memory.
You are engaging in circular reasoning.
> this will make a lot of IT jobs much harder to fill

Harder to fill with people who have no leverage and can be easily controlled and underpaid, yes.

> much higher paid

That's the point.
Um, your computer was designed EIGHT years ago. Upgrade if you care about getting all of the new toys.
I was wondering why did they mention the virtualization. Let's see what technology do they use. Whether it is going to be proprietary or something like Xen.
They valued explicit political correctness, but that's not so good when you're making a place designed for just chilling and hanging out... At least, not when you're trying to grow.

Another way to word it is that the online gaming community is extremely toxic and you have to accept a decent chunk of that toxicity to grow a community in the gaming space.
> widely documented disparities in how US law-enforcement agencies treat people of different races and ethnicities

Citation needed, particularly for Nature. As far as I can tell the supposed disparities are explained by the amount of violent crime the race and ethnicity commits (leading to more police interactions), but it's impolite to bring that up.
I work for one of the big US companies and I asked last week about this; the HR lady virtually showed me the finger, very polite, of course. Not a local policy in the local branch...
Written Chinese is an incredibly difficult language for handwriting recognition because there are literally hundreds of thousands of symbols, and they are not all amalgamations of smaller symbols as you might be tempted to think. Showing support for Chinese is impressive.

Additionally, the speaker may have actually been learning how to write Chinese (it's not exactly unheard of), so it could have been a case of "We need to showcase this technology that support handwriting in multiple languages. Since I'm learning Chinese, maybe I'll use that!"

Not everything is a nefarious corporate-state conspiracy.
A friend was driving and gave me her iPhone and asked me to answer to an SMS. It was 2011. I couldn't find a way to do it. She had to guide me as I do with my parents. I had a Galaxy S2 back then and a number of dumbphones and Symbian devices before it.
I don't think the loudness war is a myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

But it appears to have significantly abated, due to normalization by streaming services and changing opinions of sound engineers over the last decade.
I also thought this might be a 'dry run' for a risc-v strategy across their platforms, as risc-v was designed to be expanded for specific applications. Most of the IP is no doubt in the peripherals, which are largely CPU-instruction-set independent. We'll see. I say 5 years, tops, to first Apple risc-v device.
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I was thinking they would put ARM into an "i" line of laptop and desktop machines. iBook and iMac naming maybe.
A decentralized streaming network is technically infeasible with the current Internet. Keep in mind that every watcher adds upload bandwidth requirements to a node somewhere else in the network. Consumer network connections are too asymmetric for that.
Yeah probably 3-4x the TDP (35-54W) with double the threads, 1.8GHz faster per core clock speed and a relatively powerful on-board graphics unit.
When the NYPD did a work slowdown, rates of crime according to their own data went down.
eBay, honestly. Got an unopened Lenovo-branded one.
That's actually a "feature" that you can enable for your app…
I'd assume that they'll still have AMD/NVidia GPUs as options if they truly plan to bring these CPUs to the Mac Pro market. There's no way that e.g. Animation studios will accept anything less than absolutely top-end performance. And upgradability too. I think Apple must know this.
Are you suggesting that data cannot be biased? If so, might I suggest you try reading an elementary guide to statistics? Heck, even a blog post would do.
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The last 40 years of austerity politics in the US have starved the beast [0] so greatly that the only remaining public infrastructure that functions as it's intended to is policing. For example, in the city of LA, 53% of the city's unrestricted general fund budget went to the LAPD.

For everything else, there are parallel infrastructures for the haves - private education, private healthcare, privatized transit, etc. It's something I've thought about a lot in the last few weeks.

On top of that, there is some research that suggests communities rate smaller police forces better than larger ones [1].

> To test this, Ostrom worked with the Indianapolis government and her students to measure the quality of policing. Surprisingly, against common assumptions, they found that the smaller the police force, the more positively residents evaluated the police services they got.

> "Increasing the size of [the police force] consistently had a negative impact on the level of output generated as well as on efficiency of service provision… smaller police departments … consistently outperformed their better trained and better financed larger neighbors.”

> But why did this happen? To explain this, Elinor Ostrom argued that in small communities with small police forces, citizens are more active in community safety. Officers in smaller police forces also have more knowledge of the local area & more trust from people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

[1] https://twitter.com/a_vansi/status/1270406823158468614
Probably not, no mention at all of Bootcamp and this is a unique opportunity for Apple to lock everything down. Virtualisation will be the only option I bet.
You know nothing about my life.
I'd wager for a significant amount of shops it's less about cross-platform support and more for being able to throw existing generalist or web frontend developers into native development. If a business wants to ship a desktop app quickly, it's hard to argue against electron because your existing teams can become productive without too much training.
> The A12Z is passively cooled

While it's certainly possible the A12Z in the Developer Transition Kit is a true drop-in from the iPad, I would be surprised if it's not clocked significantly higher and actively cooled given the relaxed power and thermal restrictions.