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> I am just not sure they will start with the 16", as they would have to replace a dedicated GPU for that machine.

Why? The 2015 15" came with an integrated GPU option (and that was by far the most popular SKU, AFAIK).
Anyone know why this has been flagged?
FWIW after enabling non-phone 2FA, you can delete the phone number from your Google account - this doesn't remove 2FA.
That works out to about $123,000 after inflation, for anyone else wondering.
> It was a junk show and I quickly learned that the best approach was to continue writing software and pay pros to do the job.

I feel personally attacked. Really though, I wonder how many things are on my 'Someday Maybe' list, that really I should just make more money to accomplish and/or find a youtube subscription that satisfies the urge to tinker on a particular topic.
The land is a quarter acre, which isn't that much (that's 1,000 square metres), off-grid, in the middle of nowhere in Washington State.

I've Googled this and here (England, sure completely different country, but also quite crowded) 'poor livestock land' (which I think their land would qualify as) is worth on average £5,000 an acre, which is about $1,625 for a quarter acre. In Scotland it goes down to £2,000 per acre.

I can therefore imagine that $3,000 was not such an impossibly low offer, not least if the seller accepted immediately.
TikTok already admitted they filtered out "poor and ugly" people. It's not hard to for a laborer to like a video and pick a (suggested) response.
I've not worked on newer cars in a long time, but when I did you could purchase "adjustable shock absorbers" that use compressed air to lift the back of your truck when it was loaded down with a heavy trailer attached to the trailer hitch.
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I find this line from the article quite interesting: "It has no central leader and encourages its followers to do their own research."

Well, we do know that someone or a group is making those Q posts. That is factual, indisputable. Digital signatures on anonymous messaging boards work. So I'm confused as to why the article never mentions the Q posts.

They even misrepresent what it is: "QAnon can be confusing for the outside observer." Actually, it's quite clear: a person or group who identified as "Q" started posting that a bunch of stuff is going on behind the scenes.

Whether or not Q is truthful or not is not the problem. The Vice article doesn't represent the origin of the QAnon "movement" correctly.
>But the computer is cheap. What’s expensive is the humans who program the computer.

This is a nice half-truth we tell ourselves, but that's not the full story.

There exists plenty of optimizations where the programmer-time would be smaller than the additional hardware cost. And those losses compound. But they're a little too hard to track, and cause is a little too far divorced from effect.

I did our first ever perf pass on an embedded application as we started getting resource constrained. I knocked 25% off the top in a week. Even if I had spent man-months for a 10% savings, try and tell me that's more expensive than spinning new boards.

That's not to say we're opposed to hardware changes; we do them all the time. But the cost curve is weighted towards the front so it's more attractive to spend a non-zero amount of developer time right now to investigate if this other looming spend is avoidable. That's not the case when you're looking at controlling the acceleration of an AWS bill that spreads your spend out month to month through eternity.

Who wants to spend a big chunk of money up front to figure out if you can change that spend rate trend by a tiny percentage? Even if you do, and get a perf gain, but someone else on the team ships a perf loss? Then it doesn't feel real, and you can only see what you spent. Even if you have good data about the effect of both changes (which you don't), the fact the gain was offset means the sense of effect is diminished.

And rather than investigate perf, people can always lie to themselves that the cost is all about needing to "scale." That way they convince themselves not only was there nothing they could have done, the cost is a sign that their company is hot shit.

If you don't think that kind of perf difference is real, Look at Maciej's comparison of pinboard and anonymized-del.icio.us https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm (ctrl-f "ACME")

And if perf has any impact on sales, cause and effect are even further apart. You might be able to measure the effect perf has on your sales website directly, but if that feedback loop involves a user developing an opinion over days/weeks? Forget about knowing. Oh, sure they'll complain, but there are no metrics, so we get the rationalizations we see in this thread.
Antifa is a threat to national security, take your political bullsh*t to reddit.
I built a tiny house on wheels. My house totaled about $55K, due to my preference for premium materials and contracting out work that I did not feel comfortable doing myself (e.g. wiring a 50amp power box).

My house was built to be on grid and could be parked in any trailer park. I could connect to city power, water, natural gas, and sewage.

Off-grid homes are more expensive due to the need to install solar panels, drill wells, bury a giant propane tank, and purchase land.

$50K is honestly one of the cheapest builds I've seen for an off-grid cabin. Their house looks amazing.
Ok, changed from https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/phil-schiller-advance.... Thanks!

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That's the thing, though - it's pretty clear that the market for creative work has too much supply and too little demand for it to be well-funded for everybody who wants to participate. Any arrangement that you make to change that is going to be welfare in disguise; so why not just be honest with ourselves, and spell it out? Let people have UBI that's good enough to actually live on - and then they can do creative work that they want to do, without having to worry about how they'll sell it.
Agreed - Misbehaving is a really interesting history of the development of the field, and the characters introduced along the way. I was also doing Thaler a dis-service, I find his writing to be far more page-turny than Kahneman or Sunstein.
It's funny, I have the exact opposite opinion of Phil.

Back when I worked at Apple we'd watch every presentation because, hey, it's a good excuse to slack off at the office.

Phil was always the most boring guy because you always knew exactly what he was going to say and exactly what kind of non-answers he'd give to questions.

I mean yeah, it's great he hits the mark perfectly every time, but it's also so, so boring. He's the classic marketing shill. I wonder if his name is really even Fill Shiller, it's too perfect.
> This is why Apple can afford to go all-in on ARM while Microsoft has to tap-dance back and forth between the two platforms.

Microsoft has to tap-dance because it has a very long-tail of developers that do not accept change lightly.
It looks like they were fined for that.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/ftc-fines-facebo...

> Additionally, the FTC said Facebook violated the earlier order by "misrepresenting" consumers' ability to opt out of facial recognition by using phone numbers provided for two-factor authentication for advertising purposes without notifying users and by storing user passwords without encryption.
Kind of surprised that pollution is a problem with no roads and no industry.
probably an issue with windows document formats. had that last week. a form, where the exact alignment for every bit mattered had checkboxes totally misaligned.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23904590
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Agreed, I would actually consider buying an iMac in that case
You have a very unconventional meaning for the term "fake"
It's off-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
bleve is a FTS engine written fully in go. https://blevesearch.com/
They've been cutting low-end prices (and raising high-end price via introducing a Pro tier) on iOS devices for a while.
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I respectfully disagree. New technologies don't intrinsically expand the pie, lowering the price/performance ratio does. D2C and SAAS lower the cost of distribution which historically been a significant markup on goods. The consumer pays less and thus have more money to spend on other goods and services. Therefore the pie expands.

Examples of technologies failing to change price/performance:

1) Self driving cars: can you replace people working for less than minimum wage with the expensive hardware and liability related costs? Eventually yes but even airplanes are struggling and that is a far easier problem.

The counter example might be closer to Tesla's auto pilot.

2) DC electrical grid (as implemented by Edison): expensive to transmit over distance relative to AC.

3) Fuel cell cars: the platinum catalysts drove up the price. (There were other factors as well).

Examples of technologies succeeding to change price/performance:

1) Light bulb: factories could be productive even at night. Since most of the costs were fixed, getting more productivity was invaluable.

2) CPU's: Moore's law

3) Solar: Manufacturing costs were the real obstacle, and improved manufacturing and economies of scale led to an economically viable product.

I don't claim to be perfectly right about all these cases but I think they illustrate the gist of what I'm saying.
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Phill became 60 years old, this step is just him taking a smaller role while he can educate his replacement until he decides to retire (which is certainly financially possible for him to do after he becomes 65).
Apparently pedophiles are the new communist moles, who were the new witches. Who did the witches fill in for, apostates?
Many of the major tech companies have these exalted “fellow” ranks, both new and old (IBM, Google, Cisco, etc). From the internal docs I’ve read about the process to get there, you have to both make great contributions to the field as well as be important to the right people at the company.
My company assigned me a 16" MBP with gobs of memory and all that. I am sitting here right now with an extremely light set of applications running, CPU is 98% idle, I've got a 4K 27" monitor and the MacBook is in clamshell mode. Plugged in and fully charged. Ambient temperature is 25C and CPU temp is 60C.

Both fans are running loud enough to notice: 2600RPM, about 27%, and that's about average when it's not asleep. It's too loud to watch a quiet movie without headphones.

If I had full control of my kit, I would seriously consider ditching the 16" MBP in favor of a 27" iMac just in the hope that the cooling system isn't a complete disaster.

As for the ARM question, I am very much looking forward to buying an ARM Macbook Air (or whatever) for personal use.

But since I have no idea exactly when one will show up that does what I need; and since I expect the Intel Macs to be supported for many years to come; and since especially for a desktop it's also quite nice with other OS's; I wouldn't hesitate to buy an Intel Mac if I needed one.

Just not the damned 16" MacBook Ventilator.
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The one thing I keep missing on my 5k iMac is some form of video-in. Would be great if I could connect my MB Pro to it and use the iMac as a display. Perhaps even in a window and all mouse and keyboard events to the window get passed to the connected MacBook.
Same can be said about other exclusive brands.
Schools have historically liked buying Macs; I'm not sure how true that is anymore. Chromebooks have swept the schools, both because they're very cheap and because Google has, from what I've read, just terrific classroom management software compared to most competitors. More recently Apple has been pushing the iPad into education pretty hard -- competition from the Chromebook is arguably why the $329 iPad ($299 for education) exists. Macs are increasingly positioned as being for teachers and administrators, not students.
If they can decrypt the data if you lose the device, it by definition do not require an on-device only key. That is, Apple do have the key outside the device.
Here in Louisiana for sure.
This reminds me a lot of Freakonomics podcast episode (https://freakonomics.com/2010/02/06/the-dangers-of-safety-fu...) where they discuss different cases where increased safety measures just encouraged people to take more risk, resulting in the same or even increased numbers of accidents happening. A good example is that as football helmets have gotten more protective, players have started hitting harder and leading with their head more.

Devs have been given better baseline performance for free based on internet speeds, and adjust their thinking around writing software quickly vs. performantly accordingly, so we stay in one place from an overall performance standpoint.
Right, I should have clarified that I meant: create a child in such a way as to know the child's truthfulness and source-code. Of course, without that requirement, a monkey could blindly type up an AGI source-code on a typewrite by sheer dumb luck. As for an AGI simply self-replicating, that is possible but then the AGI would not know the child's truthfulness and source-code, since an AGI cannot know its own truthfulness and source-code.
I don't know about LP/VC but I think the growth of "Bootstrapped VC" funds like Earnest and TinySeed are really interesting.

Where they're really looking at companies in the sub $1mil ARR space that are poised for growth and then they're investing in tons of them. In general they're far more stable and long lived than the typical VC ratios of 9 failures to 10 investments (with the 1 paying off for all of them).
> I could connect to city power, water, natural gas, and sewage

How?
Yeah, I know. They even provide you with a standard approved cloth, which is hilarious.

Still, the results are amazing and anyone who dares to even get their filthy greasy fingers near my screen, let alone touch it, are in for some serious trouble anyway.

In the case of a nano-texture screen, I should probably require people to sign an insurance agreement to be in the same room as the device.
I really like that he points out the dragons.

Most books just explain the language/system design, and add value only by crafting good explanations. But Scott (and others) add an element of experience as well, which is extremely valuable.

I don't think you need to learn all the corner cases, but reading about them at least helps me a lot with understanding the underlying semantics. And when I do run into them, I might get a vague uncomfortable feeling that's enough to make me go back to the book for a reminder.
Always found it irritating that they never brought back target display mode. It was forgivable on the first retina iMac, as there was then no widespread connectivity for 5K screens (iirc that Mac internally used overclocked DP1.2 or something), but once Thunderbolt 3 was available there was really no excuse.

Though maybe I should be thanking them; I'd almost certainly have bought one if target display mode was available, so they've saved me money!
It's a quasi-retirement I think.

It strikes me as quite similar to what happened with Kaz Hirai at Sony.
Yeah it sounds like a nice romantic dream, but mother nature is cold and uncaring.

Maybe the article overstated their woes, but it sounds like they were very under prepared. And winging the technical parts. Like software the easy part is the build. The harder part is research and planning.

I have notions of retiring someday and run a wood shop. But I'm working on learning the basics and doing small projects.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16799551
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But that would require you to trust them to actually delete it, if you don't trust them to not abuse your number that's kinda a non starter I would say.
> You can have your car back if you fix the headlights.

Okay, so now we're talking about a completely different scenario that isn't confiscation.

Why am I getting downvoted for that? Jeez.
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You get assassinated by mercenary teams made up of former special operations soldiers & sailors.[0]

0: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-...
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Apple stopped shipping updates to PPC systems after the 2 year transition was over last time. So if you buy today, you’ll need a new system in less than 3 years
I'd bet fairly big $ that there are plenty of them.
Lightroom or Ableton are almost impossible to run on a CORE-M. It's painful specially after a 10/15 minute editing session when the fans kick in and not only you have to deal with a noisy laptop but also your CPU gets underclocked and switching between your full screen Lightroom or Ableton back to Chrome sometimes takes more than 30 seconds.

WoW and LoL are very lightweight compared to pro image or sound editing software, specially because they are doing a lot of the heavy stuff in your GPU.

Even the Mac Pro is also kinda bad with that software to be honest, specially if you spend more than half an hour using it, because of the thermal issues.
> Twitter estimates the "range of probable loss" it faces in the probe is between $150 million and $250 million

That's close to 10% of Twitter's annual revenue. How do the likes of Google and Facebook get away with fines <1% of annual revenue? This seems disproportionate. I am not taking a position on whether it should be higher or lower, just that it appears unbalanced.
According to the arstechnica article covering this, they have been fined in the past and this current infraction is a violation of their original settlement, which is why they are facing a fine of close to $250m.
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> In the West, if you are an upstart, you don't have the latter

In the East, or the North, or the South, if you acquired another company for 1B you’re certainly not an upstart. (Unless you still consider Dropbox, Airbnb, etc. upstarts.)
That account has 33k karma and is 8 years old.

I just can't imagine a set of circumstances where a shadowban of all things could be justified if they transgressed in some way.

It's probably a mistake?
Just going by "feel" without rigorously analyzing why it feels this way, my personal answer to your question is that the sqlite encryption extensions feel very much like LiveShare and not so much like Remote. Remote feels to me like a major part of the product that MS advocates without differentiation. LiveShare feels like a neat add-on that's a nifty alternative to several other similar things.

Similarly, the encryption extension has many alternatives and I've never heard Dr. Hipp advocate using it. This thread is the first I've heard of it, and I've heard of alternatives before. Where I knew coming in about Remote and LiveShare based on promotions from Microsoft.

That's just an explanation of how it "feels" to one reader, not any kind of careful analysis or sweeping statement.
I am completely unsurprised. This is why I will not provide my phone number for 2FA.
The rural American Midwest can also be quite inexpensive. Of course, you have to put up with harsh winters, hot and humid summers, poor secondary education, living 3 hours away from the nearest natural grocer (though maybe you can raise your own chickens and grow organic food) and conservative politics. I do find the bucolic landscapes and slower pace of life appealing at some level, however.
It isn't on all models unless you pay Apple to do so.
The audacity they had selling spinning drives for personal computing in 2020.
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I think it's simpler than all that: any FRU gets a 5x price hike.
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Reading the code means analog copy paste.
> The fact that it happened at all, however, seriously doesn't sit right with me.

It probably detected some of the techniques they used in the file as things used in exploits (since there's little difference in a jailbreak/security exploit from a technical perspective). The fact that it catches is in that case a good thing. That it doesn't catch it anymore might point towards them getting a report that it's a false positive of their automated binary matching, and making an exception to allow it. Apple not catching it could then indicate that either Apple already allowed it, or Apple's exploit detection is less sophisticated and wasn't able to see the problem.

I don't know if that situation is correct, but it seems just as plausible to me, and in that case, Defender is doing exactly what I would want, responded to a report exactly as I would want and expect, and has multiple mechanisms to bypass the initial problem (add folder that's not scanned, disable entirely, etc), and your experience with Apple points towards them either being a little quicker with the exception or just worse at doing what I would want.
Firstly, you have to consider that Apple has said the transition to ARM will take about two years. So it’s going to have to release a few more Intel Macs next year too.

For the less than five years bet, if you’re referring to macOS updates, I can personally bet my entire wealth (which is a decent figure) that you’ll lose. There’s no way the Intel Macs released this year are going to lose macOS support for another six years (into 2026), at the very least. The latest macOS (Big Sur) that’s now in beta supports models that are seven years old (or even older than that).

If you’re referring to hardware support and repairs, there are standard ages for each model that Apple uses for that purpose to define what’s obsolete, vintage, etc. I’m sure these will follow the same cycle.
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> I am disappointed no obvious changes to cooling have been made

Same.

I own a 2017 5K model with an i5 and the terrible cooling is my only gripe with it.

It's totally fine for bursty workloads, but once you get into a light sustained workload (eg: music production) temps go to +70ºC and the fans become quite annoying.
Funny how you assume it’s racism that the mob chooses to censor.
Just because something is to be taken seriously doesn't mean it's "real". For example, the US took the cult of Jim Jones seriously (and this was shown to be warranted when Congressman Ryan was assassinated). However, that's orthogonal to the accuracy of the cult's beliefs-- taking Jim Jones seriously doesn't actually mean he was a prophet or Messiah. What made him dangerous was that his adherents believed he was.

Just like how the Comet Pizza conspiracy theory should be taken seriously even though it's kinda silly- it becomes dangerous when people start shooting up restaurants looking for non-existent children in a non-existent dungeon
Well, the insight each person needs varies.
At least it wasn’t the final name of the computer.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Bicycle.txt
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Thanks, was wondering about that. (I think one should factor in the war effort and impact, if any, on construction material cost.)