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I've never had a good experience with QR codes

Stand directltly in front and align your phone just so. Opens browser, downloads a huge JavaScript framework with ads up the wazoo, final page doesn't render good on the phone, have to scroll around to see everything, tiny text have to zoom into to read correctly.

I have nothing against QR codes, but no one uses them well. Obviously would have been nice though. I was excited about QR codes too.
That was the original idea for Netflix, but the problem is that all the copyright holders decided that they wanted the profits that Netflix was pulling in and created their own streaming services.

Pretty soon some ISP is going to sell a bulk subscription to these streaming services alongside their internet package and we'll have truly come full circle.
Interesting that instead of making the iPad more like macOS, Apple instead makes macOS more like iPadOS. I wonder if this is the beginning of the end for freedom on macOS, with vertical integration and tight control of apps installed outside the Mac App Store.
It sounds like your workplace has jumped the shark. I hope you're able to find another soon.
A solution is creating more niche subs, As an example the main Star Trek sub is very relax, so you get a variety of posts there and the comments vary in quality from very informed ones to just memes , hare and entitlement. So there are sister sub-reddits , I like r/DaystromInstitute because if has a narrow scope and the moderation is strong no lazy comments allowed. There are subreddits for each Star Trek series(even the old one get hate and low effort meme comments) so you can discuss your favorite show and keep out the hate and meme comments. IMO this is the best thing, I seen it in gaming too, because fans will not agree which version of the game is good and which one is trash so they make smaller sub-reddits to talk in peace. Though you need someone to kickstart things and force moderation, then the community grows a bit and it can self moderate.
Agreed.

Patagonia also has an Ironclad Guarantee [1] - "If you are not satisfied with one of our products at the time you receive it, or if one of our products does not perform to your satisfaction, return it to the store you bought it from or to Patagonia for a repair, replacement or refund."

They stand by their products. You can even return more than a year later and get credit. Some buy stuff on resale and get it repaired or exchanged for new for cheap.

[1] https://help.patagonia.com/s/article/Ironclad-Guarantee
This is the kind of bullshit solution that results in class action lawsuits paying millions of people $5 each (only the lawyers win)

A better idea would be to give each user equity in the company. An even better idea would be give that equity voting rights.

Side benefit: platforms would have to KYC human beings and we'd kill off a lot of bots and other generated horseshit.
They are not touching because they don't want to risk passing a virus between high level people at the company.
how many women do you think there are in the world?
>They need to show what personal sacrifice they are making or this is purely a marketing move.

Like giving away $10 million dollars?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/11/28/patagonia-mo...

You realize that actions can have marketing benefits while still being unequivocally positive right?
https://about.d.tube/, https://joinpeertube.org/, https://lbry.com/, https://verasity.io/, https://livepeer.org/.

Everybody's doing it. Not clear if anybody cares.
I mean, this IS an ad.
> Think through the mechanics of how this oversight would work.

There are many ways this can work, and it's not necessarily simple. I don't have a specific proposal.

> Now let years, maybe even decades go by. Now let's say some site you like gets essentially taken out - since massive sites aren't going to be able to do manual moderation of everything - by a regulator who leans to the opposite side of the political spectrum you do.

1) Manual moderation of massive sites is already going away for the most part.

2) Sites like reddit have swarms of moderators, the ability to report, and send legal notices to take down specific content and also be made.

3) We have laws about 'illegal content' these websites are already complying on a massive scale.

4) My suggestion was an oversight of excessive moderation and manipulation of opinion, not what your example suggests, which is the opposite. You literally don't have to moderate anything to not be charged with 'excessive censorship' or whatever.

> Now you don't have much resource, since you aren't free to go off and try again - the regulator would just get that site too.

We have a justice system for a reason.

> I have a hard time seeing how this is better.

We can all come with with 100 different imaginary scenarios where some very generic suggestion may fail. I don't see the point. Do you think there should be no laws about content? No libel laws? No copyright enforcement? Where do you draw the line?

> And this is a weird stance for conservatives to be preaching, since the previous similar thing, the fairness doctrine, was no favourite thing of theirs.

I'm not a conservative, but what I find more jarring is the people who want sites like facebook forced to be censored and moderated politically, while reddit can do whatever it pleases as long is it aligns with their political ideology.

> This is one of those things where you can't say "only the government can solve this problem" unless the only speech you want to see protected is fairly-mainstream government-endorsed speech.

Again, I did not suggest that there should be laws about what content is allowed. I actually think we already have too many such laws - I would personally do away with DMCA and other such bullshit. What we should have is a check on mass-scale censorship and manipulation of opinion by corporations.
I am on Twitter all the time and couldn’t care less about American politics, but the vocal minority of right wingers always think there’s some sort of complot against them.

You’re no exception.
It’s just that this is WWDC. Why is this conference about “what customers value”? Why can’t this one be the one where they go trough the serious features and talk to those folks.

It seems to me they just ignore devs nowadays and focus on pushing the product to consumers.
Agreed, and that should be illegal. Having companies pay for data of non-users as part of Yang's proposal doesn't change anything.
Not sure why there are complaints about something that looks fine. Or should it look like a Zoom session where he sits in their home to satisfy this complaint?
I agree, although I doubt it will have anything to do with Apple. The automakers will just build in a "lawful access" feature and the hundreds of law-enforcement adjacent agencies will have remote access to that feature w/o any meaningful oversight.
They've kept skeu in some launch icons, but the actual toolbar buttons are flatter. That Mail screen had no button borders and the icons were all flatter than flat.
It seems Tim took some speech lessons
Now only if they allow competing browser engine...
A citation is still preferred because the nature of social media is that everyone experiences their own bubble of interactions. As a counter-anecdote, my experience has been that frivolous reporting is far more common coming from far-right political ideologists. Without citation, no one knows who's right/wrong or even how pervasive of a problem it is. It just results in zero discussion and turns into a flame war.
All of the other responses are accurate -- combining the two will augment and possibly lengthen the experience -- but if you're familiar with both substances enough to feel confident in combining them, I've always found that 70mg dose of MDMA and a big glass of water will pull me right out of a trip that's heading south, and pretty quickly, into more glorious places.

But again, disclaimer: this is really only for folks experienced enough to know how to navigate each separate space well, and for those that have confirmed, tested, pure, high quality MDMA.
A system that allows you to be the broker of your data really seems like the right way to go.

Similar to app permissions, users could choose which aspects of their data/profile to share with each company. The data could then be accessed via a federated API. With this in place, you could make it illegal for companies to store any PII themselves.

Of course whoever controls that central user repo would have great power.
Curious -- with that being the case, why havent non-Intel system taken more market share on these use cases?
Aaaand there's the ARM release.
Apple don't 'catch up', they 'invent', 'craft' and 'hone'.

They let others prove a market and then they move in and throw vast resources at doing a better version, honestly it's a smart move if you have the cash.

I find it some what ironic though given how friendly they pretend to be to developers.
I feel exactly the opposite of you. Facebook is a right-wing echo chamber, and I've left along with all of my family (moving outwards to more extended family).
You are wrong. Google backup is end-to-end encrypted. https://www.androidcentral.com/apple-may-have-ditched-encryp...
Out of curiosity, are you an "inner monologue" type of person?
But, but AI!
If you can't figure this out via search, perhaps lay off of ordering for now.
>One only needs to look at Italy, Spain, NYC to spot the main problem(s) with the statement

Many are asymptotic, many have mild symptom, yes there is deaths but low in number. Is it not the same case as in Italy, Spain, NYC ?

>Not the least problem is that it implicitly assumes that others will take steps to reduce the worst effects, so that you don't need to bother

I don't assumes others will take steps to reduce the worst effects. Even in in the worst case situation where everyone eventually will get infected (including me), it didn't bother me.
I think the core of a lot of these issues is the distinction between universal findings which almost always are in favour of "progressive" worldviews and anecdotes which aren't necessarily. The example of trans people detransitioning is a good one here - the general truth that transgender people are very happy with their decision to do so (regardless of what that may mean for them) conflicts with individuals and their anecdotes regarding their (or people they know's) transition.

Whilst there isn't inherently incorrect or morally wrong about detransitioning in itself, often when brought up it can lead a person to an idea which is incorrect - essentially applying the anecdotal evidence of a Reddit thread to all situations.

Thus, moderators of subreddits (and administrators, although I think that whilst it is bad when they do so, it isn't as common as many would believe) feel conflicted on the matter. Should they allow the discussion to continue, almost guaranteeing that somebody is going to form misconceptions from the thread? Or should they shut it down, stifling free speech but at the same time reducing the level of overall animosity towards minorities in the community, and preventing people from forming misconceptions?

Ultimately, I think that it should always really come down on the side of free speech, as long as they aren't being blatantly hostile. However, in my opinion, if we really want to have a positive "marketplace of ideas", as some describe it, we really need to educate people from a young age on logical reasoning, cognitive biases and argumentative fallacies the same way we would teach history, geography or the arts. Whilst I think that's unlikely to happen in our current political climate, given that keeping people uneducated is a very effective way to make them vote for those who make the most compelling surface-level arguments, it seems to be the only good solution for the conflict laid out above.
Confirmed ... they are going ARM !!!!
Why Google Dominates Advertising Markets
Most countries have much different penalties for piracy and selling pirated goods.

For example, in Canada, the penalty for non-commercial infringement is generally about 100$, and it can go up to 5000$ maximum (repeat offenders and so on). For commercial infringement, the penalty is of 20 000$.

Furthermore, in Canada, seeding downloaded files via P2P service is of ambiguous legality, with some interpretations saying that as long as you don't advertise or try to share it with as much people as possible (positive action) required to make it illegal. Receiving payment for this would torpedo that defense, which means even higher liability. All in all, it's not a good idea.
App clips looks like yet another popup nightmare on websites. After the cookies notice and the notifications request I can be asked to switch to app clips.
It has just been confirmed. Macs are moving to Apple's ARM chips.

Edit 1: They are pushing the performance/Watt angle, as well as all their SoC features already known on other devices. They also say they will bring a "family of SoCs" to Mac.

Edit 2: All Apple apps will ship with native code at launch, including Final Cut and Logic Pro. MS and Adobe apps will also get native versions. There are going to be new "Universal (2)" binaries shipping with both x64 and ARM code.

Edit 3: Office, Lightroom, and Photoshop were shown working as expected.

Edit 4: It sounded like they just said "A12Z" in a Mac. I'm not entirely sure I got that right.

Edit 5: Rosetta 2 is announced. It's a translation layer from x64 to ARM. Apparently it does AOT translation, as well as JITting.

Edit 6: Working virtualization confirmed, in particular Docker.

Edit 7: They are showing Maya running in Rosetta. It seems smooth. Some Tomb Raider game is also running fine translated.

Edit 8: iOS apps are coming to Mac.

Edit 9: A "Developer Transition Kit" is coming, which will ship new hardware (Mac mini with an A12Z) this week. You have to apply.

Edit 10: They expect the transition to take two years. They also said there's still new Intel-based Macs in the pipeline.

Edit 11: That's all she wrote. I'm personally sad and slightly surprised that they weren't giving us any hard performance numbers. Be it raw power or battery life improvements or anything really. If they're shipping hardware now we're bound to find out very soon, though.
By convincing them to buy shit they don't need. Very progressive.
I was specifically concerned that people would take unproductive risks. Worse business investments, having children outside of an unstable family situation more often, etc. But your point is a good one; my concern could be unfounded and maybe people would be more productive? I genuinely don't know. One question I would have about your model is how it stacks up against countries with strong social safety nets? Do they tend to be more entrepreneurial as your model predicts? If not, why not?

Note that while by certain measures, those countries tend to be less productive than the US, I don't necessarily think that comes down to welfare, and in either case I don't think it's an awful thing to be somewhat less productive. I would personally like to work less.
> overlooked how many of those old family owned businesses would be wiped out by one though

Taleb’s point has consistently been that one must focus on the impact rather than the event (the nonlinearity of that map is often the source of fat tails).

It doesn’t matter if a lot of small family-owned businesses fail. In the short term (months-years) it will be painful, but can be weathered easily with some government support and start thriving on the 2-3 year time scale. Small entities are naturally nimble.

The failure of numerous large and highly-leveraged businesses has a very different kind of impact because of the ripple effects that might cause serious systemic damage.
Imagine if Oracle buys it, and it becomes another SUN-type outcome?
Sorry for my hazy morning scribbles. I meant real as in how this property often is employed to mold our reality or behavior. Indeed the information has more copies - or links (as a better analogy for brain structure). I should have made it more clear that I don't use repetition to "program myself" or change habits, but to affirm thought. I am familiar with the concept since it's actively in use everywhere from religious mantras to marketing.

Generally life can be seen as a copy mechanism for DNA. The logic of it is (drumroll) to make more copies. I'm not sure about artificiality, but mentioning that reminds me that we are already capable of simulating neural nets that very much correspond to some (simple) real organisms.

In any case, I agree that our brain is structured over time and old "animal" areas of the brain appear sometime to have a firm hold over the cortex . Deeply ingrained habits have indeed 'deep pathways', and of course they're not only localized single neurons that can be flip-flopped.

Neuroplasticity refers to the ability of the brain structurally change, or rather to correspond to thought. The software/hardware analogy is useful but I want to add thar the human brain is really not just a programmable computer, but much more.
Apparently every product/middle manager at Apple is a woman. Have they made a strong push on this recently?
So now Apple should operate the App Store as a loss leader? The console makers also benefit from games because it makes their consoles more valuable. Roku benefits from apps being available. Are any of those free?
I’ve read many books in my time and I liked 1984 both for its entertainment value and as a warning about government power and limiting free speech. What is wrong with 1984? Is there a similar but better book I should read?
This was mainly stuff like the pan/tilt head, the power supply, and some headers and 40-pin sockets
I used to like Taleb (maybe due to my disillusionment after 2008), but it's becoming more and more clear to me that he doesn't really contribute that much to the intellectual landscape; he's very much in the same vein as someone like Jordan Peterson. His Twitter machismo and pseudo-trolling is also pretty telling -- if I were a millionaire, I'd probably be fishing off the coast of Malta, not picking internet fights on Twitter.

I read his entire Incerto, and it was an absolute slog. Endless chapters just about how he's smarter than other Wall Street guys. Antifragile is probably the best book in the series, but the concept itself could be relegated to an essay -- not a whole book. As far as the article itself is concerned, it's typical doomerism. His entire post-Wall Street career revolves around doom and gloom (his main claim to fame being "black swan" events), so of course it makes sense that, from a Talebian perspective, the world will end by 2035.
Apple Silicon... the piece we've all been waiting for.

Well that plus adding cycling support to Maps.
Dude, I honestly don't think you understand what 'trolling' means. You already agreed that trolling is not illegal, why do you keep trying to use examples of illegal content to demonstrate why 'trolling' should be banned?

And what does child pornography have to do with swearing?

> Do you honestly believe that a discussion forum site that wanted a family friendly policy shouldn't be able to have any liability protections?

Again, I never said that.
A solution to this is having user-chosen programmes with an allotted study budget. This is the model in UK post-grad medical education.

I know around London there are a couple of schemes running that teach practical skills using outdated non-sexy software that nevertheless works because of its strong educational underpinnings and excellent practical execution.
Giving examples of the type of content that's permitted from the left, but not the right, could be helpful to your argument. As someone who leans left, it's hard to see the bias. One other piece of contextual relevance is tweets from POTUS stay up due to their newsworthiness. If a Democratic president tweeted identical statements to Trump, I would expect identical treatment: no removal, but tagged with phrases like "Get the facts" (e.g., on coronavirus) or tweets hidden for glorying violence.
YES. I think Safari is great but for several reasons I use Firefox. Thank you, Tim Apple!
Increasingly, I'm bothered by corporate activism. Now, it's not merely a transactional exchange of value, but one of ideological posturing. I prefer business to be transactional, because it's honest and straightforward. Everything else is a facade. This company doesn't care about me. Google, for example, doesn't care about "not being evil". They just want dominance and money. They were supposed to be the anti-Microsoft and now, like the pigs in Animal Farm, I can't tell the difference between them and the humans. Same goes for all the other tech monopolies.
Welcome to 1998

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Remote work is such a fascinating leadership challenge given how dogmatic both sides have become. The tone of the debate is verging on a religious argument (on both sides), but it's all centered on work-related topics which typically don't engender such extreme responses.
Will others browsers be allowed to use their browser engines?
Yep, all of the property owners want their rent seeking platforms.

The fun thing about this service is that the copyright holders don't get a choice. Their content will be on the platform regardless of what they want so they have an incentive to join the profit sharing in order to better control their metadata on the service and provide better support for their users. Or they can sit and complain and lose out on any of the profits.
Title needs a (2018)
Apple’s roadmap for moving the first Macs away from Intel
> Pretty soon some ISP is going to sell a bulk subscription to these streaming services alongside their internet package and we'll have truly come full circle.

The real question is why there isn't a Aereo-like service where users time-share a pool of streaming subscriptions on different streaming services.
Hopefully, but I think there's a very plausible world where a lack of familiarity shifts people from "I kinda think he's wrong on these issues" to "I can't possibly work for a company that'd employ this jerk".
Studies do indicate a statistically significant difference in response rates from VCs in favor of women. But only ~10% difference, not something decisive: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/01/10/do-ventu.... But claiming that just because there are more male founders than female founders there's bias against women is a very simplistic approach. As other commenters point out, there's already a disparity in representation among the applicants.

And you go too far in your last sentence. Saying that there is an existence of bias is not saying that people's achievements are the product of their identity rather than their ability. Just that their identity played a factor in having that opportunity. E.g. one of my past employers gave women and URM 2 chances to pass the phone screen and move to the onsite instead of one. This is definitely a bias. But the people that got hired still had to demonstrate the same level of ability in the onsite interviews. Bias just let more of them have that chance. It didn't result in unqualified candidates getting hired, it reduced the false negative rate for a certain segment of candidates.
Move to ARM just confirmed
Do you have any thoughts about multi GPU training? I haven't seen many options for Flux previously, but didn't dig very much.
Gitlab 13.1
HomeKit devices can cost < 50$
A web browser? Aside for a few apps that provide significant advantages over the web version (or those that force you to use the app even in "requst desktop version" mode), I use a browser for everything. Hell, even though the YouTube app was preinstalled on my phone, I still used the mobile site because I just found the experience better.
FYI, most trading floors are very quiet as well, for mostly the same reasons.