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> why does everybody talk in that weird way;"Wow. What an exciting day." It feels so weird and artificial

This gets me every time. It's so artificial that I'm pulling my hair. I honestly don't know, why everyone is always so so "excited". Every time I hear someone say "this is exciting", I think BS. We had a colleague and his go-to phrase was "This is super exciting". "SUPER EXCITING!"
You are missing an "of" in the first sentence.

"We have 21 the most popular"
I don't even really use any other Apple products, and have never really been particularly comfortable with smart assistants, but I have to say that the steps that they've taken here with E2E, non-AppleID-tied identifiers, on-device computation, and of course the really good price point have got me seriously considering a purchase from them for the first time in a long time.

For my family members that already have Apple products for their tablet, phone, etc., but have either Amazon Echo or Google Home smart assistants, I'm definitely looking that these as an option for holiday presents.
If you have made it to the stage of talking to a recruiter, haven't you already passed that hurdle? My experience is the recruiter talks to you to tell you more about the company, the job, and to explain the hiring process, not to evaluate you.
The grandparent comment that we're talking in the context of said that they registered a domain through Google's blogger service. I assume they paid for that domain.

And I've used paid Google services, support really isn't any better.
10,000 IU per capsule [0].

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I once worked on an application where we (in one common situation) had to sort an array that was always <= 5 elements and in 90+% of cases was already completely (or mostly) sorted. I got a lot of heat from co-workers when I used bubble sort for that task, since "bubble sort is terribly inefficient" (and it is for large random datasets). But, given the actual data in question, no-one could actually make any other sort perform faster.

Know your data.
Totally boring for me who don't care cameras. But iPhone 12 mini is impressible because it's only 135g with 5G mmwave support. I wish it had Touch ID.
Anecdotally, I tend to drop my phones from chair-level monthly, with no case, without issue. I dropped my Pixel 2 two stories onto concrete and only damaged the back glass cosmetically and the phone microphone slightly. Used it for another 4 months until the Pixel 4a finally came out. I've always assumed cases were overrated but haven never looked for any statistics.
Well for one, the US's own National Toxicology Program (NTP) found that "high exposure to radio frequency radiation to be associated with cancer in male rats". These results were released in 2018 and this was the world’s largest study on the topic at $25MM.

The EUROPA EM-EMF Guideline 2016 states that ”there is strong evidence that long-term exposure to certain EMFs is a risk factor for diseases such as certain cancers, Alzheimer’s disease, and male infertility: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27454111

There are more links to studies here: http://www.5gappeal.eu/the-5g-appeal/

Please share your considerable amount of information pointing to the contrary, I'd love to read it and see who funded it.
My guess is that they will say "no", but in reality, probably yes. My AirPods Pro case will demagnetize hotel keys fairly easily, especially ones that have been rewritten to multiple times.
> On one project I got a 2x improvement in overall performance by fixing issues that weren't visible in the perf output, and would have been invisible on a flame graph (this was before flame graphs).

I assume you mean that these improvements would not be visible on a flame chart because they were not in perf output? (assuming one was built from the other?)

Flame graph by definition shows where the time is spent and is just a (great, imho) visualization of this data. Some people seem to have a beef with it, but their issues are invariably tied to the way the original data is gathered.
Has Google ever abandoned consumer hardware, or their obligations to Nest customers?
That's definitely the cause of it, but it doesn't make sense to me. Once you're on S&P 500, how much growth can you realistically do? I don't see why investors don't make Google & Apple pay dividends.
Thanks for this! This is something I've been practicing of late. I realized that have a lot of problem in arguing the correctness of greedy algorithms. Do you have any recommendation for a collection of proof techniques useful for greedy algorithms?
We worked on a Lean Process system within a larger Waterfall organization, and for the first year we constantly got called out for announcing that some milestone was going to be two weeks late. See? You're doing it wrong, you're doing it wrong.

After a while we noticed a pattern. Whoever 'blinked' first got a bunch of theatrics, including claiming a week for week slip every time (even if the problem was only one feature they barely used). Eventually half the teams would also claim a week slip. Anyone who missed that second deadline, the same process would repeat. Some teams who weren't 'the bottleneck' were still writing code week three.

Eventually we figured out that when we said a week, we meant 5-6 business days. When everyone else said a week, they meant 8-15 business days, and we suspected corner cutting even in those numbers. Over time we started 'helping out' people at the interfaces, slowly taking over ownership of more and more surface area. And yet these other teams still struggled to ship on time.

By the end I realized that this was the organizational principle the company was built on. Take a 2d plane of responsibilities, distribute people randomly on the plane, and where one fails to thrive, its neighbors grow to fill the space. You ship when most of the map is covered, and the gaps represent emergencies and/or lawsuits.
Isn't the FED at the very least creating money by buying treasuries above the market value?

If the FED weren't buying, banks would have to bid the market to sell, lowering the price.

Kinda makes the banks whole and also makes the Treasury market higher, lowering rates for the ever increasing US deficit.
Related, but if you want a non spying speaker (i.e a network connected speaker with no mic) - Sonos make a mic free version of their entry level speaker: One SL. It supports Apple Airplay 2 and two One SLs can be paired for studio sound.

However, it is more expensive than the HomePod mini, not wireless (needs to be plugged in), & although it integrates tightly with iOS it can’t be as smooth as HomePod probably is (I haven’t tried the HomePod myself).
Who's "we", and do "we"? What can be done besides sanctions, like the US imposed upon Russia for the election meddling scandal?
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> I also thought that a price of $79 would’ve been quite attractive compared to the $99

How did you arrive at that? Is $20 really the deciding factor for you?
No Spotify support. Spotify’s market share is probably so large that Apple will sell fever of this speakers because of that.
> you run out of 64 GB quite easily

You might; I am still trying to figure out how to use my 32 GB…
The missing something in CPI is the volatility or perception of volatility of income, which makes everything more expensive if you have to act more conservatively than people did in decades past.

You feel certain regions of the country are far outpacing others in economic growth and high paying jobs, you feel healthcare costs can and will cause issues for you in the future, you feel automation could come after you. So you bid up housing in areas you feel have higher probabilities of economic growth so you have access to more jobs, in case you get laid off, and you save more since if you get laid off, you have to spend a lot more for healthcare.

You delay having kids because maybe before it felt like things would fall into place, but now you have access to data and decide it's wiser to wait to gather more resources before trying for relationships/kids, so it feels more "expensive" to start a family than in decades past.

But it's probably impossible to reflect all of that in a number.
> If you want to take the amazing sound experience of HomePod mini even further, you can create a stereo pair. Two HomePod mini speakers paired in the same room create left and right channels for an immersive soundstage.

Fwiw, it does look like they are advertising stereo pairing as an out-of-the-box feature
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Everything must happen in-person on paper, typed by computers, offline. I've already gotten in the habit of having friends leave their phones in the house and go on a walk when talking about sensitive information (tech IP)

For propaganda/astroturfing, stop using websites that don't require verification. There should be a real person behind every comment. Anonymous websites still will exist, but that's less trustworthy than someone putting their reputation on the line.

Edit-added emphasis on having anonymous websites since it wasn't being read.
> Human societies can’t delegate to biology the job of defining sex as a social institution. The biological definition of sex wasn’t designed to ensure fair sporting competition, or to settle disputes about access to healthcare. Theorists who want to use the biological definition of sex in those ways need to show that it will do a good job at the Olympics or in Medicare. The fact that it’s needed in biology isn’t good enough. On the other hand, whatever its shortcomings as an institutional definition, the concept of biological sex remains essential to understand the diversity of life. It shouldn’t be discarded or distorted because of arguments about its use in law, sport or medicine. That would be a tragic mistake.

Try and parse that into something intelligible. I dare you.
Cool! Nim is related here, where instead of text manipulation you're doing AST manipulation with quasi-quoting (like in many lisps), eg. https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut3.html#introduction-building-yo....
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When I saw Dell Streak initially, I astonished how it big, but now it's just small.
They finally updated the Chassis as well from the Iphone X in 2017
"Speaker" market share is irrelevant when 30-50% of iPhone owners have speakers in their ear or on their wrist.
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Apple doesn't disclose RAM in their devices; sometimes they show up in Xcode builds though. There's a new beta out today so this might come out soon.
There's also genimage [1] which uses mtools for FAT, but it can also do ext2 and more.

[1] https://github.com/pengutronix/genimage
My own guess is that you could just setup your own custom payment pages and direct people towards that. But tbh, I'm not sure what the best way to do this is.
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so like like your appliances will be dumping usage data 24x365.
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Now that you mention it, I got 3 years with my SE today with one battery replacement. It is not holding much charge though.
Gis'a butchers.
That article is over a year old and Apple does not allow this anymore. Of course Google and Amazon still do.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/28/20836760/apple-apology-si...
Investing in crypto is always nuts, but especially if you are trying to reduce risk. Don't listen to your friends. Buy index funds, with more into bonds if you really want less risk. You won't ever beat the market on average as a retail trader.
If they can hoard goods and sell them all at higher prices, then does that imply that the goods are priced too low to begin with? What's keeping the sellers from recognizing this and raising the prices themselves?
They're glad because Apple hasn't sold a small iPhone for a while.
Relative to what other phone on the market?
LA has cool, attractive people. Which, especially for a straight guy, SF really does not.

Plus if you are in Santa Monica or Venice the traffic to get to other cool places is not that bad.
A lot of countries do not have data caps in europe. For example i’m paying ~$25 a month for unlilimited 100mbps 4g connection and unlimited 1gbps 5g is available for around $40/month.
I just looked through my iPhone's emoji keyboard and it doesn't have the Taiwan flag: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/apple-pul...

If I used it with any regularity, I could probably work around it with a keyboard shortcut.
iPhone SE.
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> The search engines these days cannot even function without a JS interpreter

I wonder if at some point while building a JS interpreter in the early days of Google for search reasons, they realized that the interpreter they spent all the time on could be packaged into a new browser to compete with Internet Exploder.
Maybe instead it was all a conscious decision at the beginning.
For one, English seems to suffer from having the same word mean two different things (gender, and an activity), that makes it already harder to parse.
A kilogram of iron currently costs ~40 cents. That's because iron makes up 6% of the earth's crust.

A kilogram of nickel costs ~13$. And nickel makes up a mere 0.0009% of the earth's crust.

It's completely pointless to mine them, with the hope of returning them to Earth. It's also completely pointless to mine them, with the hope of using them in space, for many, many reasons.

1. A spacecraft factory employs thousands of people, and requires hundreds of millions of cubic feet of space.

2. The supply chains that feed a spacecraft factory employ hundreds of thousands of people, and require billions of cubic feet of space.

3. They also require a long tail end of chemical inputs that are not iron and nickel.

The difference between 'We have a space factory that is fed by an asteroid miner and builds more spacecraft/space factories' and 'We have a proof of concept where we spent a billion dollars to mine and refine 20 grams of iron, which we fed to a 3d-metal printer (Never mind all the other consumable inputs into it), to print a little figurine of a rocket' is rather large... And only the latter is achievable in my lifetime.
I just bought an SE about a month ago too. Damn.
Are there "unofficial" weightings available so that inflation could be analyzed under a different set of assumptions?
> Certainly not the EU

Norway isn't in EU
Yes, but any C++ programmer who expects to be hired will have a good understanding of vtables and vtable pointers. They are a lot less tricky to reason about than, say, thunks in Haskell.
low light autofocusing was discussed in the live event. 6x faster focus using true depth sensor.
It matters to me. I want as close to 0 bezel as physically possible.
Apple might be better at detecting if it's your palm or an intentional tap. MacBook trackpads are great at detecting palm vs finger, so I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone does well with that too.
There are many people who feel differently. Which is enough to change the market significantly since real estate prices are highly demand-elastic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus probably because I was thinking of this guy, Marcus Aurelius just said he didn't want to be emporer but did it as a duty to the state, got them mixed up. I think nestle not having a vision is the reason it won't ever have a moral ceo, though, there's no reason for anyone to push a moral person to the top when morality will probably produce less results. Even if you find such people it's hard to promote them without a sense of ethics at the top I think.
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Like normal text on a page? No. For one very specific thing that it's useful for? Of course. If it wasn't useful for something it wouldn't exist, the issue is using it for things that it has no reason to be used for.
I think personally this is one of the biggest details that is being entirely overlooked. In past keynotes Apple has mentioned they are actively working with other companies on the new Project Connected Home Over IP working group[1], which according to the limited marketing material available, seems to indicate will at least partially operate over Thread.

[1]: https://www.connectedhomeip.com/
"Biological sex is important to consider in biology but that doesn't mean it's important elsewhere."
Exactly. These thin phones are just too thin for my taste anyway.
MagSafe on Car looks really makes sense. I don't need it for home but I'd like to use it on car.
Which region are you in and which region is your system set to? I always thought things like this were determined by which region you select when you set up the phone (or something similar like detected via GPS/network instead of being bound to the hardware itself).
They are a direct competitor with Spotify Connect.
I'm still rocking a first-gen iPhone SE as well— I actually picked it up a few months ago for next to nothing, second hand with a smashed screen, and swapped the screen from my former 5S to it. Happened to get double the storage along the way, as well as iOS 13 compatibility for my country's Covid exposure app. As a device, I love that it's small, and it having cost me very little means that I'm not nearly as paranoid about losing or breaking it.

And the screen swap/upgrade experience was great too— so much so that I expect my next device (in a year or two) will be the iPhone 8, with the explicit intention of doing a similar upgrade down the line to the 2nd gen SE.
I think you're sort of trying to have it both ways here. The Fed has been printing money for 12 years in hopes of increasing CPI. But real people, who buy the stuff in the CPI basket, don't have M2, so no CPI bump. It took a long time for central banks to realize this. And even astute minds like John Paulson got tripped up on this one. Starting in 2009, he bought as much gold as he could because he feared rampant CPI inflation (which never came).
Hope so, I still miss my skeuomorphism so much.
This really isn't a rational thing to do as an individual. You aren't going to beat more sophisticated players.
I never got the adapter to actually work, it's like there would always be bad contact even though the port is clean. Extremely unreliable.

I've just stopped listening to music on my phone.
I fully agree. It's insane that Apple makes screens too big to use with one hand AND puts important controls like the back button at the top of the screen. Like you were saying, it's really frustrating that the reachability gesture triggers things in apps--e.g., Twitter's navigation menu completely overlaps with the reachability gesture area, so you can virtually never hit the "back" button because the reachability gesture will reliably send you to Twitter's "search" page.
Good question, it would be hidden. You'd ask a guy wtf "Lady Godiva" meant and he'd say "Fivah". The animals for numbers, I don't remember. Possibly some connection ages ago that you similarly needed to have the story for.
A demonstration that always stuck with me is from when Grace Hopper was on David Letterman. She had a piece of wire about 30cm long to show how far light travels in a nanosecond. Then she pulled out a little packet of pepper to show how far light travels in a picosecond.
I think it depends on where you go. At AH in our neighborhood, over 50% of people have a mask on. I went to Jumbo in another neighborhood today and no one had a mask on.
Bah! Based on other comments on this thread, I was strongly tempted to switch from Spotify to Tidal (mostly because Tidal apparently pays the artist more fairly and they’re not trying to appropriate podcasts). I had also just verified that Tidal support Last.FM scrobbling and that I can use my Squeezebox devices to stream music from Tidal. I was just about to investigate how I might export my Spotify list of artists and albums.

However, as a supporter of open, non-proprietary standards, promoting MQA would really put me off. I don’t have time for “audiophile” nonsense and hadn’t heard of MQA until now but it seems like another attempt at building a walled-garden for rent-seeking opportunities [1]. MQA is not something I want to support and while I don’t know if it’s a complete deal-breaker with respect to Tidal, I won’t be switching today.

Thanks for the info.

1. https://www.linn.co.uk/blog/mqa-is-bad-for-music
This is so me-too. The only newish feature is a better privacy argument.

This is a full 5 years after the Amazon Echo was introduced.

This just adds to my creeping feeling that innovation is dead at Apple.
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When you say proven, what do you mean? There is strong evidence that points to the fact that it is in fact harmful.

Edit: links to studies in my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24769003
Totally valid. I do like a vanilla vim though. It took some getting used to but I do find myself editing things in vim over ssh quite frequently and it is much easier for doing things like search/replace, etc.

Nano probably works too but I'm not nearly as proficient in it, so... vim!
Made sense to me. It's basically saying a context-sensitive definition of "sex" does a disservice to either science or to society. There are people arguing literally that human sex is "assigned" at birth instead of just observed. This is all part of the gender identity and/or expression holy war currently being waged in the West and likely flamed by bad actors on social media, Twitter in particular.
For strategic and trade purposes, isn't Norway tightly aligned to the EU despite non-membership? I interpret this as corralling both internal and EU support.
This is the new definition, in old dictionaries inflation was defined as increase in money supply.

Using products to measure inflation, is a terrible mistake in my estimation, because cost has been falling, so stable prices don't mean no inflation.

It just means the governments got wise to just take what they can get without being noticed.