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You have to have the trademark approved, and they don't really care how big your company is, they will not approve a trademark for the word silicon. See: clothing brand Supreme's attempt to trademark their Supreme logo on a red background.

If apple combines the word with a unique logo or combines it with some other word, they can get the trademark, but you can't get it for the word silicon by itself.
I agree though. Maybe except the first or maybe second release, these were kinda rushed and really just reskinned Toshiba devices.

Microsoft is surprisingly good at designing hardware and devices, and surprisingly bad at marketing them. Just like with Windows Phone, they were late to the party but acted like they already own the market. (I guess you just can't help yourself if you dominate the desktop OS market that much.) Both times they added unnecessary restrictions to the devices and set the pricing relatively high. You can do this if you're Apple and created the whole market and are generally known as a premium brand, but MS just isn't.
Unless of course the developer uses yarn or whatever npm alternative is popular this week. The last time I tried building an electron app, it just spit pages of dependency errors at me and I gave up.
Mukesh does nothing if he can't be a monopoly.

He will allow thousands to succeed or fail under him, but nobody will participate without paying their tax.
When I see this I am really looking forward to just talking to my computer like to a real person :P

Keyboards are nice and in many cases a far superior input interface compared to a mouse/touchpad but in my opinion it is just a stepping stone towards "the real deal".

After voice interface there will be thought interfaces and then we can be productive if the hardware, apps and os-es are good enough.
Criminals are greet examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Scientists discover new class of semiconducting entropy-stabilized materials
why couldn't you? of course you can
How would make ARM chip DDR RAM cheaper? I expect Apple to finally fix cooling and power management, but that is all.
This is the same as the solution from the article, except that:

- Chris forgot to declare the variable as global;

- Chris used asyncio.create_task() instead of asyncio.ensure_future().
The ME262 is there so you technically can although your point is taken that it’s an era of flight you don’t find as compelling.
This is generally solved by unrolling the program into a single loop. Essentially having a function state(N) => state(N+1), shouldContinue.

This exposes the number of iterations needed to finish the computation. That could further be limited by underlying code rounding the iterations to mask the real count.

TLDR: either the run time is fixed or you leak some info via the run time.
Think of analogies as being like the windscreen wipers on a car. They help you see things more clearly.
Trump says he will ban TikTok
It's not a new thing, and it's not Erdogan, they've occupied parts of Cyprus for almost 50 years. It's pretty normal Turkish policy, and they know they can get away with it. Strong communities inside Europe (in exchange for aligning with NATO) and controlling the flow of migrants that Europe doesn't want but doesn't have the courage to say so are strong bargaining chips.
> f I'm reading this correctly, they're basically saying "very few people really use this as a 'smart' speaker, so we'll just turn it into a normal Bluetooth speaker and move on." I'm not sure whether that says more about Cortana or about the smart speaker market, but it seems like an...ok compromise? Certainly better than just bricking the thing.

I tend to agree: I think switching it to a simple Bluetooth speaker is a reasonable way forward under the circumstances.

As a related aside this, along with a raft of other support withdrawals recently (the most recent that comes to mind is those smart glasses), I do feel somewhat vindicated in my policy to keep things as dumb as possible: speakers are just speakers, lightbulbs are just lightbulbs, my kettle is just a kettle, and - if I do need any smarts - I attach a general purpose computing device to provide them. E.g, it's just incredibly easy to connect my laptop or phone to my hi-fi via a DAC or audio interface to stream music over Spotify.

The point of this is that it means most of my household devices and appliances remain brick-proof, and I shouldn't have to keep replacing them every 3 - 5 years just because manufacturers stop supporting them.
>Arbitrary computation is also, afaik, not well defined.

Yes it is, it's Turing-completeness.
Indeed, and physics engines in games often have to deal with capsules, convex hulls and per-poly collision as well, not just spheres, planes and boxes.

Not to discount the effort involved here though; it's pretty impressive, I know I couldn't write this without a lot of mental effort.
> Spotify also doesn’t allow in app purchases so Apple doesn’t get a cut.

This is how Spotify and Netflix are harmed. They have to pick between funding their competitor, or not providing simple signups and subscriptions on one of the worlds largest computing platforms.

This directly harms either their revenue stream or cost-of-acquisition. Both to the advantage of one of one of their largest competitors who has artificially introduced this barrier.
The OP was making a point. Not actually getting into what legal (not relating to ethics) mechanisms there are for insurance.
Every year the number of people saying Moore's Law is dead doubles!
Hopefully they can soon block non-SecureCode transactions soon, since there are almost no such stores now. I haven’t seen one for years.

Same that happened with pins 20 years ago, once all stores had them, you could no longer make a purchase with just card+signature.

What’s needed is a block for use in countries where this hasn’t happened. Not sure if that’s the case.
Tens of thousands killed, millions forced to flee their ancestral lands overnight, guess who I am talking about: Germans Post WW2. They too loved their lands which they too had lived in for millennia. How many Germans do you see blowing up cafes in Warsaw or Prague asking for their land back?

How about the 12 Million South Asians displaced in the partition of India & Pakistan? How many Hindus/Sikhs do you see asking for their lands back? the Indus Valley (modern day Pakistan) is the cradle of Indian civilization.

Mind you, both these events happened at the same time (1945-50) as the founding of Israel. Somehow they all seem to have moved on with their lives, and yet the Palestinians seem to be the only one fixated on "our lands" and indulging in self-flagellation.

IMHO the The Palestinians just need to get over it and move on with building a new life in some Arab countries. This idea of condemning generations to oppression and racism, and living in that hell hole of Gaza/West Bank, in the vain hope of winning it all back, is utter insanity.
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Haven't read but I'm betting that there's an analogy to disk defragging...
If Apple actually sells it at $800 this will be huge. I assume it will ship with some virtualization software and the real question for me is how well that will work. Even if that doesn't work, at $800 it's definitely going to be a better deal than chromebooks or surface laptops assuming it can do things other than surf the web and email.
what is stopping you from buying and reading books on cryptography, number theory, security protocols etc?
There is still one area of networking that isn't well solved, and that's captive wifi. A device that I can plug into the wall in a hotel or airport and magically have all my apple devices on the internet would be handy.

If they made an airport express that did that, I'd probably get it (once we can travel again).
Like hell I’d like to work for a company that would do that.
Apple’s HomeKit for routers integration isn’t being adopted very well so doing it themselves makes sense to me.
What’s the difference in fraud protection debit vs credit?

I’m not a fan of using credit cards as you’re constantly in debt and need to make sure you’re paying back your balance.
Apple has a trademark on the word Apple in the computer space.
Calling lighting some cars on fire
terrorism sounds more frightening than anything else. I feel terrorized just by that.
The golden ages of civilizations had the majority of their populations fighting for survival. The elite were free to pursue what they wanted.
Honestly, COVID-19 isn’t the one that’s nature’s way of intervention when compared to other diseases. There’re 4 times more people dying of cancer and another 4 times as much of heart disease.

COVID-19 is just a way of the Big Pharma to fill their pockets and for politicians to make a power grab (never waste a good crisis)
I think we will see custom acceleration hardware in the future to support stuff like video editing
10,15,20% all plausible figures, the point is just to ensure that it can't get so large that it gets in the way of living your life.

> 10k graduating with a degree in a field with only 100 jobs/year needing that degree

What I'd live very much to avoid is having a centralized body which makes such decisions. Under my scheme, lenders who identify such fields will be reluctant to grant loans, but how they decide what's in the field, and what exceptions to make, the can do however they like.
How much are you betting, and at what odds? Because I'll take them.
Yes because Apple with 10% market share in computers has so much power over the computer market. I’m sure the same congress where one of the Senators asked Zuckerberg about why Twitter put Don Jr in time out could design the perfect keyboard and mouse.

Basecamp also restricts who can integrate with their platform.
I have never understood why so many people think installing Ubuntu is a good idea. It's not like there is any shortage of absolutely outstanding distributions. Debian, Arch, Nix, Suse, Fedora, Gentoo -- something for everyone, none habitually weird.
It feels terrorizing to call lighting cars on fire terrorism.
It's banned in the relevant sense, that users of TikTok aren't getting any kind of network effect from the Chinese userbase.
There is significant military presence around and inside the base, regular patrols, watch towers, cameras and IR walls.
Not sure if they shoot on sight, because we managed to avoid being seen.
I imagine that it's less important strategically now than before, but it was definitely one of the more stressful infiltrations.
You are completely missing their point. "For newer hardware" means slower. I remember how Windows 7 was so well-designed that it actually ran faster on my all of my old XP machines than XP did. It was a step up in performance, not a step down.

In 2018 Microsoft disbanded the Windows team and moved engineering efforts to its cloud and AI teams. Windows 10 is on life support by engineers who aren't intimately familiar with its codebase. Performance and usability will only degrade in this situation and the specifications of newer hardware don't excuse constant deterioration in performance.
On k8s, for example running multiple parallel jobs that need to initialize only once, It used to work for me the redis redlock (it's around with multiple implementations). The first job takes the lock while initializing, the rest just waits the release, to start working on prepared items by the first.
On asyncio, caches, we used a lock to prevent dogpiling on cache initialization.. prevent multiple tasks cashing the same in parallel.
How about Numbers?
Did’nt Apple have a low sales rate of the Performa 4400 in Japan due to 4 having a bad meaning?

Four is an unlucky number in Japan because it sounds like shi (死 – death). This is why there are two readings for the number four, shi and yon. Whenever possible, people try to avoid using the deathy one.

https://www.lingualift.com/blog/lucky-unlucky-numbers-japan/
I forgot my PIN too on some cards but that’s because they didn’t have an app that allowed me to easily customize the PIN. But yeah contactless is so practical, paying in the US is such a slow experience in comparison.
Gionee to launch a 10,000mah battery smartphone in August
I guess the question is, how does this person "seem really good"? To determine this, they have to have a well written resume that highlights relevant experience. Most resumes seem to be "company xyz - frobulated the frobulation system"
Unless of course your company is interested in frobulation also.

The contrary: "this person has a bunch of experience on their resume that is possibly beneficial, but their cover letter doesn't give any indication they have thought about the role they are applying for. This other applicant shows insight into the requirements of the role via their cover letter, and has highlighted key areas of their experience, giving greater detail about how it will be useful in this role."

Who are you going to pick to interview?

Perhaps this is more important for niche industries, and smaller teams. In a large team you can get good coverage of skills through sheer number of people. In a small team its the alignment of skills is more important.

When hiring (small, niche org) I carefully read all the cover letters.
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Another issue I have is that any pre-written material is a very poor indicator, in particular when candidates are handled to us by a recruiting agent.

Their resume is sometimes doctored up to a point it half of it doesn’t make sense, or at least is inflating a lot their role and what they actually did.

Reading a cover letter in that light is only indicative of someone who can write cover letters. I never got to hire someone for that skill, so the value is through the floor to me.
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Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24016938
> our findings reveal that significant cardiac involvement occurs independently of the severity of original presentation and persists beyond the period of acute presentation, with no significant trend toward reduction of imaging or serological findings during the recovery period. Our findings may provide an indication of potentially considerable burden of inflammatory disease in large and growing parts of the population and urgently require confirmation in a larger cohort.

This is unexpected. A chronic inflammatory disease seems to persist well beyond recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Right because a representative who asked Zuckerberg about a Twitter policy is really smart.

The very first paragraph she used MS as an example of when the government intervened in tech. How did that work out? Microsoft is still one of the five largest companies in tech and still has the same dominance in PC operating systems and productivity apps.
The things you list have not really been true in the real world for a long time. Modern Xorg uses the same Linux exclusive APIs as Wayland, is not network transparent, relies heavily on window manager and compositor features, etc. Modern Xorg and Wayland are more or less conceptually identical. Wayland just replaces the X server with a UNIX socket and has a clean slate for APIs.
I believe the author is (partially) wrong. You can use 'snap revert' to revert to the working version of CLion. For example for the hugo snap.

sudo snap revert hugo

will revert the hugo snap to the last version.

He is right that you have (almost) no control over snap updates. The snap will be refreshed if a new version after the latest is published according to the docs.

https://snapcraft.io/docs/getting-started#heading--revert

I am a little disappointed in this. I expected to be able to pin a software version or at least be able to access a lot more than the very last version of a snap. A lot of software publishers (both proprietary and open source) like to break compatibility with plugins that would break your workflow. You may be waiting a while for your plugins to update (or you give up on your plugins once other plugins show up or the new version has matured enough for you to move over).

A quick search of Flatpak shows that you can revert an older version and have more options to choose from.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/552688/is-it-possib...

Also, Flatpak's 'mask' command may allow you to pin a version?

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3078

Perhaps someone familiar with Flatpak can chime on it. Last I used it Atom was still popular.
There's the town and new city, and the closed part. We were in the closed part.
Honestly, the beach view is fairly representative of what is inside (so unless you a highly motivated, the trip inside might not be worth the risk)
The sample cover letter in the article is quite generic & doesn't seem much tailored to a particular job description.
How big is that market?
That is just not true. And I am with parents I dont normally come and defend Nvidia.

If by working with everyone meant stepping back and relenting in every possible way then Nvidia would not be profitable. I am not sure why Microsoft felt they were entitled to Nvidia. And Nvidia just said no. It was that simple.

Nvidia wants to protect their business Interest, and that is what business is all about. And yet everyone on the internet seems to think company should do open source or throw resources into it etc.
Speaking of automatic cell names ‘A1’, the other thing I prefer about Numbers is that you can name columns and use the name in formulas. For example, you might have a table “Sales” with columns “Item”, “Number Sold”, “Item Price”, and “Total”. The formula for all cells in column “Total” is

=‘Item Price’ * ‘Num Sold’

Instead of =B1C1, =B2C2, etc. You’re doing something similar with the name cell, but with separate tables you can designate column headers and row headers, and use them to reference cells. For example, in another table you might say: =SUM(‘Sales :: Total’) to sum up column “Total” in table “Sales”.

(I might be getting the syntax wrong here, you don’t type this in, you “option-click” on the cell you want to reference and it inserts the reference.)

This is optional, you can still do A1, B4, etc and sometimes that’s what you get when you use the same name for two columns in order to disambiguate. But in general it makes it easier validate your spreadsheet, I think.

I believe the approach to naming goes back to Lotus
Improv: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv

I think Quantrix Modeler is also based on the ideas of Improv.

Come to think of it, there was Javelin in the 1980, that you might find interesting. It’s not a spreadsheet but it was used for financial modeling and time series: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software

But those are quite far departures and might not be where you want to go. I just wanted to point them out in case you hadn’t heard of them. (I’ve only heard of them but I have never used them, so I cannot say how good or bad they worked in daily life.)
Hmm. I can't think of any actual cross-platform GTK apps that is widely used like Telegram.

The only app that is close to "qualify" on this could be GIMP, but will it get over the issue of user responses like: "I only want Adobe® Photoshop®, Ableton® Live NOT this 'GIMP' or what is this thing called 'Ardour'".
So can we also regulate Spotify for taking a much larger cut from artists? Spotify has a much larger share in streaming music than Apple has in phones.

Also. I can’t sign up for a Netflix subscription on my Roku either.
Plus, I seem to recall them disbanding that particular team…
IMO a more practical approach would be to use ordinary encryption inside a CPU, so it wouldn't be possible to extract any data without extremely advanced methods.

Rough description: CPU have secure memory which contains a private key. Also CPU have certificate with corresponding public key. That certificate is signed by Intel.

Hosting provider publishes an API which allows remote user to communicate with that secure CPU, basically just transmitting encrypted stream to and from CPU.

When you're starting your communication, you establish an encrypted link between your machine and target CPU, located in a data center. You can check authenticity of that CPU by checking certificate signature. Then you're sending any code you would like to execute (encrypted by session key). CPU executes that code. It encrypts RAM in process, so it's not possible to read its contents. And sends back some information (again, encrypted) which you're interested in.

So you have computing resources which are protected from anyone except very few who could extract private key from secure chip. I think that this kind of protection should be enough for many uses. And it would not compromise on performance. The only real world issue would be side channel attacks.
Indeed comrade. The best way to remain an open society is by shielding ourselves from those evil authoritarians. With our firewall, of course.
If you’re applying by yourself, directly to the company, isn’t that your only way to push your resume ?

Or do you go out of your way to find recruiting team’s email/phone number to hit them out of the system ?
https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...

Apple already trademarked "Carbon", and some others like: Aqua, Bonjour, Cocoa, Instruments, Logic, Metal, New York
Could you elaborate on what you mean by this?
Someone said that Comcast charges more if you buy Netflix through them. Comcast does offer Netflix as an add on. You don’t have to buy Netflix as an add on through Comcast.
A "privacy-first company" wouldn't remove the VPN apps from the Chinese apple store, leaving their users with a device even Orwell didn't foresee.
One of the things that "scholars" Martin Jacques (China-friendly academic commentator) and Steve Bannon (crazy Trump guy) agree on is that 2008 was the pivotal event.

A wave of nationalism has swept the western world. From Trump in the US, to Brexit, to numerable populist nationalist parties turning mainstream in Europe (AFD, Front National, Sverigedemokraterna etc.) all stemming out of the frustration of lack of prospects for the common man.

Rather than going to the root cause populist nationalism blames the other; the Chinese, the immigrants, the scientist, the media. And let conflict drive the agenda.

Incredible that it is a widely held view in the west that it is changed Chinese politics (the rise of Xi) that has bought forward the change.

Unfortunately I don't think things will get better any time soon.

They might even accelerate further.
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This comment is blowing my mind. Please name some other books you’ve read. It would be astonishing if you’d somehow avoided the most common tense in literature your whole life!
I‘m betting more on prevention of overfitting.
I would think a better point of reference is the iPad pro. The 12" macbook was fairly anemic by comparison.
They already trademarked a fruit.
Huge. Everyone edits video now.
This is just a rumor posted from some random twitter account. Take it with a grain of salt.
Big enough that they already sell an fpga card for the Mac pro to do it.
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Pro-tip: put something actually interesting about you personally on the resume. Literally the first thing I look at after scanning background and making an immediate decision. I think it’s literally the only thing to jar people out of their auto decision (especially with zoom interviews).

The one exception is take homes exercises - sometimes I’m surprised but still that doesn’t usually flip the bit
A) the first device of any product line is not the one to watch for consumer reactions. It's for developers and early adopters. I would not expect this to be a commercial success.

B) the 12 inch macbook is probably my favorite device, though I really hope they keep the top line of keys. It's so thin, the battery lasts forever, and somehow it performs better than my xps 13 running linux (in interaction latency, not computational throughput).
Yes, but silicon is a common word in tech.