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I'm not saying all good food is cruelty free. I'm saying one can eat exclusively delicious food without involving cruelty.
Based on what Apple says. Is there an independent cross platform benchmark which is actually relevant and that says the same?
Not everyone's codebase is an over-bloated mess
I think coronavirus may have reduced the seasonal swell of new user posts/comments/questions--better when distributed throughout the year.
A locked bootloader is only part of the issue.

The other part is most ARM SoCs don't have an enumerable bus, and thus require customized kernels to run Linux. As a result, they almost always require explicit Linux support from the vendor.

There are millions of ARM devices out there that will never run Linux, or will only ever support an old and outdated fork of Linux, and will never have mainline support in the kernel.

Are we going to see that vendor support for Linux from Apple? Or will these Macs end up like iPhones and iPads where no one will be able to get Linux to support them?
Totally--was not diminishing <strike>A14Z</strike>M1 at all--just to moderate expectations from the quite astonishing video editing capability to "measly" ~2x. Even two year old iPad Pro A12X kicks ass on Clang benchmarks (see Geekbench), although I am not sure how sustained the performance is in that thermal envelope.
There are loads of rants out there that are easy to find, but personally it's mostly: you can't use it without looking at it to make sure the buttons are what you think they are (nearly always context-sensitive, often surprising when it decides it's a new context), and where you think they are (can't go by feel, so you need to visually re-calibrate constantly). Button size and positioning varies widely, and nearly all of them have a keyboard shortcut already that doesn't require hand movement or eyes (or at worst previously had an F-key that never moved).

The main exception being things like controlling a progress bar (mouse works fine for me, though it's a neat demo), or changing system brightness/volume with a flick or drag (which is the one thing I find truly better... but I'd happily trade it back for a fn toggle and F keys). But that's so rarely useful.
It's mocked, but the underlying observation is astute.

In the personal computing world, first parties can't build enough user software.

Furthermore, software availability and reliability lag third party developer and development ecosystem health. A bad experience doesn't hurt the platform today, it hurts the platform in 1+ years.

And perhaps even worse, steps to address it take effect over a 1+ year timeframe as well.

Apple's been able to leverage iOS market share into papering over the desktop reality, but they're going to find the emperor has no clothes real quickly if anything about that calculus shifts in a bad way.
They did the exact same thing with the A12X and the A12Z. 7-core vs 8-core GPU is the only real difference between them.
No haptic feedback, mainly. A lot better with a real escape key, but still.
What do you do with 300+ browser tabs?
Has anyone ever seen anyone use the F# keys in a Mac app?
Stuff that’s easier to keep as open tabs (in a tree format via TreeStyleTab) and eventually close those trees when they are no longer needed, as opposed to bookmarking everything and eventually accumulating a bajillion of irrelevant bookmarks. E.g., I’m doing house renovation so I might have a good few hundred tabs open just on that topic which will eventually get closed.
If the media should be giving equal status and weight to all the parties, what about the Libertarians and the Greens?
Can it? Last I used it (which was a long time ago) Twitter itself added noise to my feed.
What does this even mean? Because I like burgers? What?
You have a good point, blind trust is never good. Should not be downvoted imho.

Sadly, it seems that the majority of people who start researching things on their own often arrive to completely wrong conclusions. And that's dangerous, for them and for everyone else.

An economist, for example, would have years of information and training in the field. And that forms a knowledge base in their brain that's (mostly) accurate, so anything they research and learn will be more correct than what an electrician/programmer/politician by trade would find.

To put it simply, they have more information and experience.

Of course, there are exceptions, some people are smart and can run circles around experts, but as I said, the majority of people are likely to arrive at the wrong conclusions.

I don't know how this could be fixed, perhaps more oversight and checks over the experts (many cases where people are just winging it or are complete frauds). But going off on your own and not trusting experts at all is a bad idea.
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We have recently switched from SBT to Gradle and I'm finding Gradle a lot more painful than SBT.

For starters, SBT had a nice interactive shell, while Gradle takes quarter minute just to list the available tasks, after which it's another quarter minute to get anything else done...
That has been available for a while with the Intel chip version:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch-space...

If you need 32 GB with the new ARM chips, you’ll probably have to wait a generation or two.
I was hopeful they'd weigh less. An iPad Pro 12.9 inches weighs 1.4lbs. The 13.3 inch MacBook Air M1 is 2.8lbs. I'm sure there are reasons but there are companies, LG for instance, that make 2 lbs 13.3 inch notebooks and 3 lbs 16 inch notebooks. No I don't want an LG but I was hopeful for a 16" Arm Macbook Pro that weight 3 lbs. Now I'm pretty confident it will be the same as an Intel Macbook Pro 16" at 4.4lbs (heavy enough my messenger bag leaves marks on my shoulder and gives me muscle pains if I have to lug it around all day) Somehow, getting it down to under 3.lbs removes that pain. Maybe because it includes the power supply which is also bigger.

To put another way. They could have taken an iPad Pro, expanded the screen to 13.3 inches, added a keyboard and put MacOS on it instead of iOS and it would be probably 1.8lbs. I don't know what the tradeoffs would be but I was excited by that possibility. It didn't happen though.
how many network cards / ports should I have in the hardware device?
Do you really, REALLY think that the marketing pitch is measuring what "you care about" and not cherry picking conditions where the big colorful "X" number on screen is higher?
The study also found that people with a pre-existing mental illness were 65% more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those without.

This suggests it's more complicated than "Covid causes mental illness." It points to the idea that mental illness is associated with poor health generally.

I will also note that there is a global pandemic on and people are generally suffering from "cabin fever" from the lock down. So I, personally, wouldn't put too much stock in the idea that the disease per se causes mental illness.

More like: "Being very ill during lock down with something known to kill people causes some people anxiety, depression and insomnia."

Shock of shockers.

(They do note that in the article, tbf: “This is likely due to a combination of the psychological stressors associated with this particular pandemic and the physical effects of the illness,” said Michael Bloomfield, a consultant psychiatrist at University College London.)

Edit: I will further add this is a good time to reach out via internet to get some of your social needs met. I've noticed substantial growth in some Reddit communities this year, like r/UrbanPlanning (currently 105k, was like 80k not hugely long ago).

Please seek out things that are sanity-promoting and not freak-out promoting if you are really struggling with the psychological fallout from this whole thing.
Long term thinking.

I can't think of a better advertisement for these VC's. Calculated or not, it is a great move
> people who are more trusting...are also more likely to vote Democratic

I think this is built into the fabric of political views. If you're cautious about other people's motives, you'll want smaller government (less authority over you). The more you think folks are generally trustworthy, the less you'll fear having a larger government.
> [Async has] Huge disadvantages with absolutely zero performance gains for 95% of programmers.

One curious thing is that Java has elected to use lightweight threads instead of async methods: https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2019/12/project-loom.html

Their arguments are compelling:

- Works with existing debuggers and debugging techniques.

- Stack traces aren't polluted with irrelevant garbage.

- Doesn't create method apartheid, where async and non-async can't "mix".

- Doesn't force library authors to "buy into" the async model.
For a while, the fan was broken in my 2017 MacBook Pro 13". Didn't spin at all. The MacBook never complained (except when running the Apple hardware diagnostics). It didn't overheat or shut down unexpectedly. It just got a bit slower due to more thermal throttling.

I expect it would work the other way, too. Improve the cooling and performance under load would improve.
It would be crippled in several years. Software would always consume more — browser, messaging, calls, games.

I've bought One Plus 3 (6GB RAM) in 2016, still strong. Computing power has not changed much, limiting factor is RAM.
The abstract says it’s “reoccurrence” so the r implication is that these cases had been previusy cured. It’s technically correct to include this as incidence. Even so, the new cases are statistically significant.

EDIT I can only presume this is all stress related. From the people I know that got COVID they found it a fairly tough experience.
I understand money, inflation and finance very well. I understand that BTC has limited supply. In 10 years why would anyone want BTC though? Why would I want to buy it when I could buy BTC2 or whatever else? Its like yes there is a limited supply, but there is unlimited supply of cryptocurrencies, why is BTC more valuable than the others?
It’s pretty obvious from election maps and donor data that the democrats are now the party of coastal/urban elites, despite what they may advertise.
JetBrains is working hard to fix it: https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2020/02/24/update-running-...
And the Communist and Constitution Parties.
Only worse if your only goal is "have more RAM".

If the purpose of owning a computer is "get shit done", better memory management absolutely can be better than just throwing more RAM at the problem.
I'm thinking we might see a M1X which might add a couple cores to all the compute units in the SoC.
The gp is using “trick” not with the nefarious connotation, but more along the lines of “hack” or “clever idea”.
Amazon doesn't seem interested in that app being used by random consumers. There's very few accessible guides around it. It's technically good, but it's not even a competitor as such.
Voting between candidates that all support ongoing military actions is not meaningful. It's similar to the treasonous NSA - discussing it is simply outside of the mainstream Overton window, primary candidates who dare touch it are branded "unelectable" etc.

Speech gets swamped by mass propaganda. I don't see how it's possible to look at say the run up to the Iraq war and think that antiwar had a meaningful voice. When it comes down to it, the warmongers are just better funded, better connected, and take advantage of basic human nature.

Since it seems impossible to prevent the military from being used for elective wars, or even to simply downsize it, discouraging general support for the military makes sense (when voice fails, try exit). I'm not asking you to agree with my arguments above, but you don't get to make a unilateral call that this isn't a political viewpoint.
Only your own consciousness is fundamental, i.e. directly experienced. All others are deduced to exist, from clues. But your own consciousness's origin is not fundamental; that is also deduced from clues (i.e., "apparently stuff that exists once didn't").

But any model of our own consciousness that fails to encompass others' as similar is sterile. We are all found to have brains; and damage to brains, or even to the stuff that feeds brains, alters or snuffs out consciousness. Brains turn out to be made of nerve cells, that are like other cells but specialized for processing information. Stimulating an individual nerve cell can trigger a thought, memory or sensation, repeatably. QED, consciousness is a phenomenon of nerve cells processing information.

Anything else is woo.

How you would build a thing that is conscious is not known. But we have existence proof that it's possible, so the rest is a matter of engineering. Philosophers and deists can do whatever the hell they want, but will have nothing meaningful to contribute.
No, because it hasn't shipped yet.
Also have this one. It was my first macbook, and I think I got really lucky with getting in when I did. Been going strong for 5 years, and has no difficulty doing anything I need it to do. Only thing I wish I did was get more storage (only got the 128GB model).
Here's another explanation, pre-election, of the gap, the found that Trump voters are more likely to lie to pollsters: https://www.cloudresearch.com/resources/blog/election-2020-p...

These pollsters agreed with this phenomenon, arrived at from a totally different direction: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/29/2020-polls...
Samplr is an example of how cool it can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMlmzTBF_LE
It was a 25% raise across the board. Some of that was converting potential bonus into salary, but still that was a good day.
The literally benchmarked the slowest 10th Gen i7 CPU on the market.

And I got so excited about it...
Trafalgar group did a pretty good job this election. They were also lambasted by Democratic media and called wackos and nutjobs. Meanwhile WaPo put its name on a poll that had Biden +17 in WI.
I'm developing an entire desktop app in WASM(with electron). Once you build the right abstraction it's just Go...simple and fun! To me the main issue I have with Go is the incomplete reflect package(i.e StructOf )
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The pre-requisite is that there are at least two possible implementations of the same program- this seems to imply that for every possible input, program A and program B must have the exact same output. Then, it becomes impossible to tell whether the obfuscated code comes from program A or program B. Did I understand this correctly?

But this in general seems relevant only for algorithms- two algorithms can produce, provably, the same output for each of their inputs, one being better than the other in terms of performance. Fine. But then the performance of the encrypted version could actually point to the used source code, so unless it's obfuscated away it still can be used to determine the origin of the obfuscated code. But then if the performance is also obfuscated, what reasons are left to encrypt the code?
> There is no parallel work to be accomplished here.

Concurrency is not parallelism [1].

[1]: https://blog.golang.org/waza-talk
Yes, I’d love to use F#, but not a lot of opportunities out there.

And .NET, like you mentioned, is very C# focused which would become frustrating at times.
Funny how things go 'round.
You don't. But I'm afraid that is the reality. The only way to change that is by law and then vigorous enforcement of law. That isn't likely to happen.
Ah, when I say “current system” I mean paper ballots. I forget that the US sometimes uses machines :(
I place my faith in ARM and 5nm TSMC processing.
Why would you want to.
macOS use RAM aggressively, so it appear as your task requires more RAM than they actually do.
I think you have to upgrade your laptop often or you won't keep up with the increasing requirements of software. I have a similar flow as you do (tons of apps, tabs, Linux workspaces, code compiling, video running etc). I also get easily annoyed when I do some basic stuff and all of a sudden the computer lags behind, is stuck etc.

in the end I went with a desktop computer (if you have the space and you don't mind losing portability - I also have a Dell XPS in a pretty good shape for when I need it). It does waaay better when it comes to multitasking, never gets sluggish, much easier to upgrade, no throttiling/overheating problems, cheaper.
I understand why common sense wants you to make that last statement, but we would be hearing that in the news. So far, I haven't run across stories asserting spread in airports.
yeah I guess I should have said 'hack'
anecdotally, knowing some very rich people, they mostly voted for trump in 2016. Pretty much every single one voted for Biden or declined to vote this year.

I voted for myself and have been getting a lot of shit for it for some reason.
? A huge percent of ballots this year were mail-in, and all paper. And the polling error was worse in 2020 that 2016.
In addition, the original brandname was PowerBook.
> what does the general public get out of polling?

The laypeople, not much. But for politically active people, not to mention political parties, polls are the best tool to determine where to do what. If you are way ahead in one race but neck and neck in another, it makes sense for parties and activists to focus their efforts and donations to the competitive race. There is never enough resources to focus on every race equally and to the fullest extent. Decisions need to be made. Polls are the best tool to make informed decisions.
The main difference is that I need to look down at the keyboard to operate the touchbar. With the keys I can rely on muscle memory.

Also I think every device which makes sound should have a physical mute control. The worst is when I want to mute, and the touchbar freezes, and I have to go turn the volume down with the mouse.
Don't you see the irony of that? When the New York AG focused their lasers onto Tether not being back 1:1, it was because it became unbacked, which ironically squashes the assumptions people had for all those the years prior, because it was functioning as the company said it was the whole time, until it wasn't.
Could this also be remedied by Apple supporting Nvidia GPUs again? And then you plug in a beefy eGPU?
Those two systems are designed to work with Prometheus style metrics, which are very specific. You have metrics, labels, float values, and millisecond epochs.

I'm not totally sure how they index things, but I would guess that it's by time series with an inverted index style mapping for the metric and label data to underlying time series. This means they'll have the same problems with working with high cardinality data that I outlined in the blog post.

InfluxDB aims to hit a broader audience over just metrics. We think the table model is great, particularly for event time series, which we want to be best in class for. A columnar database is better suited for analytics queries, and given the right structure is every bit as good for metrics queries.
Hmm, I'll check this out today. Ironically I was downloading XCode last night and the fans sped up for an hour.
software people in stable states have had a hard time understanding why bitcoin could be valuable. consider that the dollar may not be desirable for such transactions in the future if its basis is unstable (not uncommon in many countries around the world). when you consider the instability of the US government of late, we must agree that there is a non-zero probability of confidence in the dollar diminishing significantly. multiply this probability times what you think the price of bitcoin would be in such a world. that's why people want bitcoin.
> People tell the truth, when you ask them who they’re voting for. They really do, on average.

That might have been true in the past.

From 2016-2020, Trump supporters have been loudly and repeatedly called racistNaziMisogynistHomophobe, or the polite version, "deplorable". That is not an environment that encourages honesty.
How is it weird that a computer which has the CPU and RAM separate has more options than a computer where everything is on a SoC?
I was laid off near the tail end of a very stressful, deadline driven project and it actually came as a huge relief. Luckily I had money saved and took my time (about 3 months) looking for the next job. Was also given 2 months severance, so I didn't even end up losing much income. By end of my time off I was getting bored and happy to be working on something new. Highly recommended.
Was initially my argument against bitcoin also. The flaw in this reasoning imo is the power law distribution of attention. Bitcoin and Ethereum get the vast majority of the attention (and hence trade volume). Everything else pales in comparison.
Campaigns and parties buy polling and use it to make decisions on what messages to use, what races to invest in, etc. Those private polls were just as wrong as the public ones. From the campaigns perspective that’s wasted money.
Because humans screw up all the time. They are the weakest link. You can have the best damn plane and it only takes one guy or gal to drive it into the ground.
FYI boot camp won't be supported, only virtualization for ARMs
That does seem weird. Probably Apple doesn't care about developers or rather expects them to wait for the 16 inch version?

Personally I brought a windows workstation laptop and I have pretty much regretted that most of the time - if you are going for that kind of performance, running VMs, etc you are probably better of with a desktop. I expect that if you build a system with the new Ryzen 3 you can smoke almost any of the new mac models for 50%-75% of the cost.

Screws you pretty hard if you actually need the computer to be a mac for some reason.
Many of them do come with sample code, but like the content of the sessions themselves, they age out very quickly.
You can get an external M2 USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) enclosure plus 1TB M2 SSD for $130 and a 2TB for $320. That makes the 16GB Mac Mini 256GB a decent buy at $970 imo.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MNFH1PX
What's wrong with the new keyboard (touch bar aside)? I haven't tried one yet, but I thought it was supposed to be more or less the same as the 2013 - 2015 MBP's.
Yeah, people can have it, travel, and spread it elsewhere, certainly. I mean that person to person contact. If you're being safe at each end, flying doesn't appear to be causing an impact.
You can get a screwdriver (allowing you to replace RAM and SSDs in most laptops, including older macs) for $5. There's really no excuse for them to do this all the while claiming to be environmentally friendly.
some interesting tips in that article. thanks for posting it!
I've found cheap Chinese replacement cartridges on Amazon for my Brother color laser that come with the chip. Not that it's hard to move the chip over, but the price was the same as ones without the chip. Hopefully firmware updates won't break these working.
light level down, light level up, mute, volume down, volume up.
Subscribed. Shameless FOSS promulgation: how about a video or two on making an LV2 plugin? Maybe check out DPF and #lad / #lv2 on freenode.

https://github.com/lv2/lv2/wiki
Same situation, my trusty 2012 rMBP finally gave up the ghost and I had to get a new one with this icky touch bar. It's useless to me and makes it harder to do everything. My main complaint is that I am constantly bumping it when I type, leading to unexpected changes in volume and brightness.
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People 2020 said that in 2016, yet the average income of Trump voters was higher than Clinton voters. It'll be interesting to see if that changes in 2020.

Although there is something to what you say; the income gap between Republican and Democratic voters did narrow substantially in 2016.
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