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Employee at Fortune 200 company here. This article reflects our experience as well. We have our own video production unit and those guys have been using Macs for years. More recently we've gotten into iOS app development which has necessitated Macs in IT. That's when things started taking off - lots of our IT teams not doing iOS app development started getting Macs.

We've had the same experience as mentioned in the article - those teams using Macs are more productive and require less support. The only guys not running Macs are those doing legacy .NET support or those who simply don't want to - we're not forcing anyone to use a Mac.

This new generation of Macs could really be a game-changer because the Apple Tax has largely evaporated - especially for large enterprises. That drives the TCO even lower and if these machines perform that much better than your standard-issue enterprise HP or Dell laptop then that may help the Mac break out of our IT organization.

Does that mean my organization will become a Mac shop? No. But neither is IBM. We'll still have engineers needing a beefy CAD workstation. We'll still have people needing to run Windows-based proprietary software. Still, I could see 60%-70% switching to a Mac and our company saving a lot of money by their doing so. That's nothing to sneeze at.
Ads on YouTube have become annoying enough to make me hesitate before following a link to the site.

I really wonder how much further they can push this without either driving users to using ad blockers or creators to upload to other platforms.

Unfortunately, I suspect the answer is "pretty long"...
As a YouTube Premium subscriber - I still think this move is janky as hell. If my views weren’t worth more to the channels I care about (last I heard, a “red” subscriber is worth an order of magnitude or more than ad view), I’d be out of there out of a sheer distaste for Google’s actions.
I'm only watching the trailer but I think RTX Quake looks pretty good with the glaring exception of big polygonal visual effects. The explosions in particular don't work.

Certainly ray traced lighting isn't going to be good if the logic of what makes, blocks, and transparently passes light doesn't look good.
So far, I can’t buy any other ARM laptop (I can build a PiTop, but that’s a toy, not a modern computer suitable for work). So yes, high performance ARM laptop in the general availability _is_ a big deal.
It's interesting you say "not convinced", curious what you are skeptical of? I'm not upgrading because I just bought a 16" Mbpro 2 months ago, but I'm more than convinced this new architecture is the real deal. Unfortunately for me my 6 year old MacBook just died and I have to have something for work.
Just curious if you've looked at cost for Threadripper for the extra PCIe lanes. There's definitely a premium over mainstream processors, but they're also cheaper than server SKUs.
Yep. You don't own Youtube, and you don't really have much control over content you wish to upload, or content you wish the view. And, this content can be removed or modified (by inserting ads) at any time.

I think services are generally bad for consumers. (they can be quite good for businesses, though) If a consumer relies on a service, then they are beholden to any change made in that service. In other words, it's fine to enjoy Youtube, but just know that your enjoyment could be temporary, videos could be lost, and you could be shut out from the service.
For a long time I wanted to give Google more money! I tried multiple times to get together a Google Music Family Plan, because I'd bought music and uploaded music and the radio feature was so good.

They refused to allow me to pay them more, and refused to allow me to transfer my purchases to another account I verifiably own so I could then pay them more.

I know legacy GAFYD accounts don't matter to Google, and I don't expect them to, but it'd be nice to be able to transfer my stuff out. I know we like to point out who Google's real customers are, but after a decade-and-a-half I've actually paid them real money for things, and shockingly would like to continue doing so.
The state is not-for-profit because it is a monopoly. Like Apple.
I hope they let creators decide where the ads go. Because otherwise, this is going to destroy ASMR videos. I can see it now. Person with insomnia listening to someone softly picking a mic with a q-tip about to drift off when all of a sudden HI LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CAR INSURANCE.

From looking casually into the community, those channels have a lot of videos with millions and sometimes tens of millions of views. All of that is going to potentially migrate to somewhere else.
For lack of better word, "Evil is Good", Evil wins market, kills competition and make you rich.
Can't it be because MacBook lids are absurdly thin? How thick are the lids of comparable machines (the XPS etc.)?
Why not just bold that part and leave the rest?
If somebody goes through what the moderators have to see and apparently isn't affected by it, that is it's own even bigger red flag.
If you don't do any tzdata updates in a century then I can guarantee you that the application will be showing wrong local times anyways. Timezone changes happen. That is a already occurring thing.

And it's not like there is even hard deadline to do the changes, nor would it come unpredictably. If any schedule we set would seem problematic, the change can be deferred by another decade or two to get systems fixed if really needed.
Was this taken at Elafonissi beach?
The Making of the French Hydrogen Bomb (2008)
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How to spend 1,000x more money on self-driving and still lose
Pico8 is a fantasy 8 bit gaming console. The captcha on their signup page is an actual game written in the console that when played to completion (collect all the coins) produces a unique code which serves as a token to allow you to submit the form.
“You Know What, Evil Is Actually Profitable” — Google, 2020.
You can argue the custom code is enough, but you're still missing out on a lot of metrics, most importantly when the decision was made (in which part of which video).
Great to hear that! I got myself the last Intel based mbp 16" fully jacked with R5600 HMB2 memory, as this is the last one that will run Windows, which I need often. I also need larger screen, so I'm waiting for M2 or M3 generation, that will inevitably come with 16" screen factor - looking forward to that amazing machine in a few years!
having to do work to protect myself against bad things still makes me mad, because of the hating to do work thing.
> Pedantic nitpick on floats: floats are exact.

I think you're meaning 'exact' as in they're deterministic. I don't know anyone who knows what they're talking about that argues against this, so I think you're not disagreeing with anyone.

Other people mean 'not exact' as in they can't represent all real numbers. Which is true.
You're right, thats why i switched to an older version of Firefox' Fennec fork on F-Droid. Mozilla should really fix this
Yes... Yes... Join the Dark Side...

Honestly, it too too long. Should have been sooner, before other YouTube competitors slided into irrelevance.

"Dumping", anyone?
Just because the killing of van Gogh predates today more known 2005 event (1) the first publishing of the caricatures which Samuel Paty discussed in his class, and also significantly predates the mere existence of ISIS, while still being very similar to the 2020 murder.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_carto...
I will be honest, I also don't think it is good. It is a company issued one so I won't bother too much with it. I remember when the i9 came out, Apple had some issues with it, so maybe the battery usage is still a problem?

But even so, 2 hours of my usage, in pretty much every mbp I owned (and I had a few) always depleted minimum 25% of battery. (maybe the websites I use are more draining that simple static ones?) And we are talking about 4% now with this one. No matter how you dice it, it is still a big difference.

quick edit: it has been 2.5 hours right now since I unplugged it. Browsing Reddit and Hacker News, Whatsapp and Slack applications. 5% of the battery has been used!
Nice little app (does one thing...) that can become part of one's everyday workflow. Usually I avoid such apps exactly because they can become part of my workflow, and when I change machines, or ssh into servers, or exec into containers the absence of them will disrupt my work. :)

Disclaimer: I work with the author
> in a coup backed by the US and Western European powers

Seriously? I'm sure the fact that Ukrainians could see contrast with next-door Poland had nothing to do with Maidan... no, it was CIA, definitely.
Sure you can! iOS, Android, and GNOME/NetworkManager just open up a webview to handle the portal.

I’m sure others do too I just can’t say for certain.
People are (fairly) annoyed because that was the deal Google offered when they were uploading videos.

And if the change shouldn't shock users, then it certainly shouldn't be shocking to Google... In which case maybe they shouldn't have presented it as an option in the first place if they knew they would have to renege on the deal.
I wonder if YouTube could at least give creators the option to insert markers where they feel an ad would be least intrusive?

So at least, since they are forced to show ads, the ads can be at the right place?
It's not their job, but it's certainly in their interest (since it gives their users a better experience), and it's not illegal, so it's understandable that they do.
His dad was kind of a jerk, though.
I don't think that's a very useful definition of exactness. The article is quoting the Ruby float documentation itself, for one thing.

Perhaps it would be clearer to say that floats and floating point operations are deterministic, so you don't have to convince someone that 0.30000000000000004 is the exact answer to 0.1 + 0.2
Nasdaq to acquire Verafin for US$2.75B in cash
If we’re talking about hardware ergonomics the lack of a del key and placement of the fn key alone make me never buy a macbook again. I also hate the difference in cmd, alt and ctrl keys from other keyboards.
Or they could use the opportunity to do activism which necessarily repulses advertisers.

* “Hey kids, here’s how the oil lobby caused climate change and screwed over your generation.” - Bam! No SUV ads.
Hahaha no I have several sites running with that Let's Encrypt cert. I'm working on separating them out, but until I get my DNS Let's Encrypt process automated, I'm just extending the cert via certbot.sh :/
It's a 8TB ZFS-formated Drive in a Data-center which you can access over ssh...is everything written.

But if you like Marketing-Sites..please read that:

https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul

And now explain to me what it is please...
This is a very interesting topic to me lately. Atheism has a disadvantage of no community. However, you also have the formation of echo chambers. Echo chambers aren't just political. Xbox vs playstation? Nikon vs Canon vs Mirrorless? Wallstreetbets vs Buffet?

The reasons for this comes from moderation. 1 place, say reddit, might push 1 way as best and being able to downvote or moderate the content of opposing viewpoints pushes people away. They find a new home and decide to defend their space. Afterall, how do you join a community that hides your comments. You go find a new place asap. Hence why the Digg exodus that made Reddit popular was because of censorship. Also why reddit's censorship has pushed people abroad. Hence why censored groups are leaving twitter for parler.

It's increasingly more difficult to find community because these communities form themselves into echo chambers.

The article explains this concisely "Without adequate moderation or stringent enough rules, it's all too evident that bad actors poison the well, sow division and spread misinformation."

What's the cure to 'wrong speech'? Better speech. Not banning their misinformation. The poisoned well and sowing of division is all the same thing as misinformation. 1 or both groups do not have the same set of information and see each other as intentionally trying to deceive.

Worse yet, communities see it happening. /r/canada for example has shown up several times in studies where the goal was to study echo chambers. There's no question at all that /r/canada moderators ban anyone who is critical of the liberal party. Every so often the moderators will sticky a post saying they'll improve and in less than a month it'll get worse.

It's quite clear what the trend is, it's quite clear what the problem is, and it's going to get worse.
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>> a singer or actor publicly supporting a cause?

> Those are even worse.

What? Music and acting are and have always been involved with politics and society at large. As a modern example, see One by Metallica.

Is that not political?
OSes do at least some captive portal detection and prompting already too, but true, that might need additional work, I'm not familiar enough with the details.
QAnon is irrelevant aside from the attention they are getting from their supposed political enemies. You seem to need an image of an enemy. Same with flat earthers. They existed 20 years ago and they were completely irrelevant. Antivax had a lot of people joining because they had partly reasonable objections or trust issues towards official sources and some hobby Don Quijotes with a slight inferiority complex needed to prove themselves by demonizing these groups as if they were the devil. As expected, these groups didn't shrink.
If this is the case, I'm really unclear why they're not revenue sharing with users who create the videos. That seems like the real dick move, here
Copy-pasted the comment I left at another forum:

The the M1 is Zen3 5600X performance in an ultra-portable form factor. Whether that's revolutionary or not particularly noteworthy depends on the individual use case. If you're don't care that much about power/heat/fan-noise, it's neat but not (yet) world shattering. Bit if you live your life on a small laptop, it may well be.

According to rumors, we'll see Apple's 8 Firestorm + 4 Icestorm CPU within a quarter or two in the 16-inch MacBook (current M1 is 4 Firestorm + 4 Icestorm, where Firestorm is the high-performance core). That will perform somewhere between a 5800X and 5900X (or some recent 16-core Xeon that nobody remembers the name/number of). Again, revolutionary or meh depends on use case.

Linux native is not in the cards but it won't matter, it will work fine virtualized with hardly any performance penalty (for ARM64 linux). If for some reason you insist on native linux, it's time to recognize that Apple hardware is not for you.

Personally I run my server workload on servers far away and let other people deal with infra (particularly, power, networking and physical security). But it's probably great for heavy media creators on the go.
Dear moderators, could it be possible to revert to the original title of the post ? I think the title is the topic, not a minor release of Notepad++.
> Installing a package is enough. For example, if you install the emacs package, Emacs.app would be available in ~/.nix-profile/Applications/Emacs.app.

Right. I'm using home-manager on darwin and various apps like Emacs, Alacritty, Kitty are supported. However, many GUI apps are not, such as Firefox, so that's why I'm still using Homebrew's cask.
This was super helpful for me, thanks for it!
Sure I also still hate AMP but it doesnt constantly trigger the daily anger like it used to anymore
I wouldn't be surprised depending on usage. My Intel MBA 2020 is 4 months old (should have waited ;_;) but CoconutBattery already reports it <90% of design capacity.
Were they?

It seems that Google's Pagespeed Insights, which is the basis for Core Web Vitals, by default considers content paint performance to be (a very arbitrary) 4x slower on mobile than on desktop.

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/spee...

That to me seems like a pretty naked attempt to get everyone to "just use AMP for mobile."
This is why people like Neil Degrasse Tyson and Carl Sagan are such a treasure. Our education system rewards memorization so that's what teachers focus on, but guys like them make you actually realize how crazy our universe is. This is also why we should legalize and regulate psychedelics for safe consumption.
How is it not a security risk?
Can't you still go through the song and dance of disabling SIP and authenticated root and then editing the root snapshot? It's incredibly annoying but should still work, right?
a huge chunk of Indian internet users have got access to internet only in the last 5 years or so, and almost all of them are digitally illiterate. Internet basically means, Facebook, Whatsapp, Tiktok, and Google.
I know abundance of users who made a gmail account, just to get started with their android phone and do not understand what email even is.
Google is fundamentally an advertising company and I genuinely don't understand why people trust their email and web browser software to what is essentially a fancy version of DoubleClick.
I've stopped watching songs over 8/10 minutes as a result of this. I'd be glad to watch a reasonable ad up front, but when I see a midroll, I bail.
Using TAI exclusively is simpler, but that's not the parent advocates (and neither do you, I believe).

Using TAI primarily and UTC in display has two main benefits that I consider marginal. The first is that the addition and subtraction is associative and transitive, but their use towards non-zoned wall clock timestamps like time_t is limited anyway; they normally operate on zoned date & time (e.g. "tomorrow" typically refers to the local time) or on monotonic and steady timestamps with no particular epoch. The second is that the timestamp doesn't repeat but this can also happen with TAI, just that it can only happen with (a large amount of) clock synchronization; you should be prepared of wall clock timestamps repeating no matter it's UTC or TAI.

For those reasons I consider that using TAI primarily and UTC in display is not much superior to using UTC primarily. Not that I don't wish TAI to be universal, but given the current circumstances the switch doesn't justify its cost.
Wow, that view is even grimmer than just jobs being automated away...
>I think developers know how to make fun games, but I don't think most players want fun games because they've been conditioned to want addiction simulators with meaningless rewards.

I have spent the last two or three years trying to find a fun android and/or console game (outside of some switch games), and I've never been able to put my finger on why the games in the app store, and many, many PC games are just not fun. But this is it.

They're not fun, they're a targeted level up system designed to be just hard enough to keep you from breezing through (until you die two or three times and can watch an ad to get a bigger gun), with level progression just slow enough to make you want to pay for experience.

They're not fun. Commander Keen and Leisure Suit Larry and Doom and Deathtrack and Hexen and The Lost Vikings and System Shock 2 and those kind of games were fun. I thought it might just be because I'm 35-45 years old and am being very 'get off my lawn' about it.

But that's not it. Those games were designed to sell because they were fun. New games, especially mobile games, are designed to be free and addicting enough to get you to spend real money.
The site controls all parts of the URL. Your example would much more likely show "paypal-accounts.info" or similar.
Anyway there is also a num pad here, seems like for two minutes you press "2", "0", "0", "Start". If it would be a three column num pad instead of a five column one, most people would already have a muscle memory for it.
Kids gaming platform Roblox faces hurdles ahead of public listing: rough words
I worked here for 6 years (didn't get in on any of this stock unfortunately). Still awesome to see a local Newfoundland/Canadian company do so well and be recognized like this. This is going to have a huge impact on our local economy and the software sector as a whole in Newfoundland. Exciting times!

Other news articles:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/verafin...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/nasdaq-to-buy-financial-frau...
Defining a main function and then calling it from the bottom of your script is a mainstay of many people who program in scripting languages. It's certainly how I did things in Tcl. Really, it depends on the type of thing you're writing in the language, moreso than the language itself.
Here's what I've been saying to my partner recently, "I hardly know what's going on up North of England, or even the other side of London (we live in London), but somehow what we hear about the other side of the world must be true". I find people who hold views whatever they hear in the media to be the absolute truth and that they are well informed because they read a lot of news to be extremely naive. This Mark Twain quote completely represents how I feel:

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
In what that timeframe do you see that as having been the norm?
I’m curious why it’s not a feature of YT Premium to just auto-skip over the parts videos marked as being sponsored content (which the video creator has always needed to annotate the video with for legal reasons — it’s currently shown as a yellow-shaded area on the video timeline bar.)

Heck, I’m surprised and confused that YT hasn’t just required these embedded ads to be separated out into their own video streams, which YT then would embed back into the video seamlessly in the regular case, but would be able to drop out in the YT Premium case. (And could also swap out for other ads at a certain frequency — 30%, say?)
Just tired of companies baiting users with free stuff to build market dominance and then dialing up profit extraction once they've killed off all possible competition. That's also your answer to why it wasn't done sooner.

This is not surprising at all, but not much you can do about it even if you see it coming, because other people don't see it coming or don't care. What are you gonna do about it as a user - all the creators are on YouTube. And as a creator - all the users are on YouTube. By design.
> However, for civil time keeping and for some technical purposes, UTC as currently defined is exactly what we need. Don't fuck with it.

You are asserting that without any justification. I see no benefits and lots of downsides in having leap seconds in civil time specifically.
Honestly, because it's good enough for most people. I mean, yes, they could and absolutely should upgrade the webcam, I just don't see it as a major selling point, the existing is "fine".
Wow, today I learned. I really did think it was real, but looks like it's not:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2006/09/the-b...