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This is a shallow argument that is repeated over and over again. - For those who invested a lot in hardware, software and know-how on Apple platforms, cost of change is holding them back from quickly jumping to other platforms. For them, Apple is a quasi monopole. For me personally, it would take quite some time changing platforms, and I am already planning on doing this, but it will take time.

More importantly, Apple is a huge player that shapes the structure of the industry towards a vision that lacks any kind of freedom for its users. An end game where its users are just consumers, void of any freedom to do what they want with their hardware. This is not a bright future Apple is painting: Some sort of Utopia that we can take part of by giving up freedom, by accepting Apple's rules 100% or leaving their territory.

I can understand that what Apple does appeals to many users. I still recommend Apple devices to my retired parents and to friends who do not want to fiddle with their hardware. But that folks here on HN are defending Apple's practices is way beyond me.
a confused, self-contradictory argument
It's getting harder and harder to use these platforms without having politics and news being shoved down your eyeballs.

E.g. Reddit "recommends" popular subreddits, and regularly injects top posts from them into your feed. /r/politics is one of them. Also, a lot of the big subs that you'd think are benign (like /r/science) are filled with blatantly partisan posts that are guaranteed to have hateful comments in them. E.g. There have been dozens of "science" posts there about studies that effectively equate conservatives to religious, science-denying idiots using much more "sciency" words. Even if that's not the intention, the comments inevitably go there, and you're stuck reading very non-science related comments.
I have a completely ludicrous amount of IOT devices, some with flashed open source firmware, on their own VLAN (UniFi setup) so I at least have a false sense of some security. I’m talking my washer, dryer, vacuum, thermostat, lights, home NAS, door locks, alarm system, garage door openers, AV system, Ring doorbell, Google Homes, smart outlets, contact sensors on every door and window, RPi Zeros in three rooms for presence detection, motion sensors in every room, among others. I even bought a Geiger counter to eventually hook up.

I’ve always had a dream of living like the Jetsons and Home Assistant is an awesome way of building it out. However.... it seems destined to be an always-beta something-isn’t-working-right project. Right now, my lights turn off when I open my windows instead of flash briefly. Google Home doesn’t connect to several devices, and it lets me know every time I ask it to do something.

The reality is I don’t have time for this, but I’d be lying if I said it isn’t a whole lot of fun to solder some Alitove addressable LED strips to my NodeMCU and have them turn on with Christmas animations along with Christmas music, but only when it’s below 50 degrees outside and both me and my fiancé are home. Just kidding, that’s not setup yet - still trying to figure out why my bedroom lights turn off 10 seconds after the living room lights, when only the living room light Lutron dimmer switch was pressed.
AMD has not beat Intel until the very latest release, so it makes sense to speak of them beating the market leader.

The M1 also tops the latest Ryazan CPU which came out a week ago, especially considering TDP, so what would it add to the report?
This seems to be very linked with Apple, I am in the Android team :)
The whole purpose of the vaccine is to increase the immune response to COVID-19.
Well Biontech wasnt big until beginning of this year.
It does require a warrant to use the video as grounds to enter their neighbor's home, if the previous Supreme Court ruling holds up.

More likely, they'd figure out some kind of parallel construction.
This comment is just full of misunderstandings. Why do they bother? They're supporting a standard the same way they support SMS. So far extra charges are not common and any provider I can find includes RCS in data plan. RCS is not a Google service either so they can't really kill it. I'm not sure why you're so biased against the idea, but posting fud about it is not great.
I was so tempted once I bought a house to set up everything to be smart, but in the UK I've found it hard to find smart switches that fit in our wall easily (most are 35-45mm and most older houses in the UK are brick walls).

I've considered smart bulbs but someone will always turn off the light switch and then nothing is smart.

I guess since then I've realised that I kind of like simple electric switches and regular LED bulbs.
There is another home automation software, which is not as popular as Home Assistant, openHAB (https://www.openhab.org/). openHAB, just like HA, has many integrations, you can have a look on the website. The Github is https://github.com/openhab.

In the company I was working for we were trying to create a building automation software and we were between HA and openHAB. We finally chose openHAB because it is written in Java and we could find easier help from Java developers in-house rather than Python where HA is written.
Yes, there were warnings, but what can I as a user do about it? I am impacted by 32 bit going away and I cannot do anything about it. That is why I am running Mojava instead of Catalina. On the bright side, whenever I am going to buy a new Mac, the ARM processor effectively doesn't cause any additional troubles on the compatibility side, and that was probably the reason for Apple to kill 32 bit with Catalina.
Is there precedent for the Oxford vaccine? I didn’t realise that.
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The expected new generation of Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors based on 5nm in January 2021 at CES :-)

Both, Apple and AMD use TSMC as manufacture and next gen Ryzen is planned to be a 5nm chip too. When you compare the performance gains of the past generations of Ryzen you would definitely bet that AMD could for sure have a very potent CPU next year.

The M1 is very incredible for sure, but AMD is very much on track with their plannings and delivered 3 years in row.
Why can't you just replicate these features in C? Surely await/promise libraries exist?
isnt the performance tightly coupled to macos?
If the M1 can do at 10W what others can do at 45 to 100W, then yes, ARM seems to be the only way.

Sadly there is no news of competition. Nothing from Intel/AMD or even Qualcomm. Microsoft's ARM attempts to take on Chromebook seem so feeble now.
It broadens people's mind. Especially software designers and low-level programmers.

There's a lot of software (esp. low level libraries, scientific applications, etc.) which is optimized (sometimes hand-optimized) for a specific architecture. Not every software is released with "compile -> test -> release" cycle.

Some resources on a CPU is extremely limited (e.g. dividers) and using them is expensive. Alternative architectures changing these balances or being more efficient in some workloads is game-changing. This is what GPUs did for AI, ML, Simulation and Maths domains.

e.g.: Eigen's speed increases 300% when compiled with optimizations enabled. Especially its solvers show this performance shift.

So, if ARM can change these balances and be more efficient under some workloads, it can carve a space for itself besides x86 and GPUs. This is why Apple's efforts and M1 is so important.

When there's only one architecture (x86, CUDA, etc.), innovation stagnates, people's imagination shrinks.
One aspect of their hiring seems to be just hiring housewives who want to have a side job, which allows the company to keep paying low & also to brag about the same whilst undermining actual experience or knowledge about the courses. Which was exposed by parents & the reviewer by the quality of classes, not to mention laughable tweets of the children putting up some random app on the app stores.
ya, although i think democrats should get more credit for waste cutting. There is a tendency to equivocate when in fact republicans have gone uber extreme, where as democrats are merely competent.

Money going directly to people is good.
> consistent and repeated bias against Trump to the point of attempting to undermine his legitimacy by the media

most of what I've seen pointed to as bias is basically reporting on what he said/did, and he didn't like it. In the first month(?) Sebastian Gorka said ... "There is a monumental desire on behalf of the majority of the media ... to attack a duly elected President in the second week of his term... and until the media understands how wrong that attitude is, and how it hurts their credibility, we are going to continue to say, 'fake news.'"

The term from day one was meant to point out reporting/news that the administration didn't like, regardless of the truth of the news/facts/reporting.

There's a possibility that people are 'biased' against stuff you say because they have a 'bias' for truth, and you're lying on a regular basis. You may be correct in saying people are 'biased' against you, but that doesn't make their statements wrong, or what you say truth.
Yeah, I typed the answer on mobile. It’s a typo :).
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Instead of calling their parents now? That seems a priority inversion to me.
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What can this be used for?
This entire article seems to work on the premise that Arm chips and Apple silicon are the same thing. This is demonstrably not the case though. Apple silicon seemingly trounces other phone silicon. It's not like Arm chips are going to come to PC and perform like the M1, they're going to come to the PC and perform like Samsung's smart phones.

As a weird sidenote to this: Whilst I was looking up the benchmarks of the iPhone I found out that basically every single tech mag is owned by the exact same company - you can tell because they all have the same adblocker nagware.
Likely never given Apple's reluctance to sell or license any of their technologies to other vendors [except in limited cases where it benefits the Apple ecosystem directly].
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It is in extremely bad taste—not to mention ludicrously inaccurate—to compare your premium laptop ecosystem options with chattel slavery.
There are some non-trivial apps used by real users that are 32-bit only, in particular the pre-subscription versions of Adobe Creative Suite.
Yea, just like I'm sure Trump was never popular, he just appeared that way because of... fake news and misinformation! Yea, no thanks. The way history is rewritten around touchy subjects is very clear to anyone paying attention, and it's always the same thing. In the future a book written about our time will use fake news instead "suppression of opposition" as the reason for why Trump was never actually popular. I would tell you to go read actual sources of information at the time: newspapers, books written from German citizens during those years, that kind of thing. You'll get a much more accurate view of history that way.
Biontech didnt do vaccine. They pivoted because they saw a big opportunity using their approach might lead to a vaccine for Covid. So to justifies this pivot (and get the investments into the company) there need to be a possibility of big profit at the horizon.
> The M1 also tops the latest Ryazan CPU which came out a week ago, especially considering TDP, so what would it add to the report?

Only in single-core performance and performance/watt, and the advantage the M1 has in both of these metrics is pretty much exactly the difference expected between a 7nm and a 5nm process (they’re both being produced by the same fab, after all).

It’s likely we’ll see Apple and AMD compete on pretty much equal terms in the CPU market in the future.
Yeah the HSM idea is good, and it likely helps preventing malicious insiders from hacking user's backups, but I wouldn't trust it as it's not verifiable from the outside.
I don't think this will increase market share at all. Most people don't want to pay that much money for a computer. That includes individuals, small businesses and corporates.
Does Digikey sell this new Apple Silicon chip yet? Where can I find the datasheet? I want to incorporate it in a test project.
"French people at a concert queue" works too ><
Probably not, they dropped the Xserve devices a long time ago.
Isn't that more of a metaphor? I mean how long does it take to call parents? 5 to 10 minutes? You can do it in the lunch break if you have to.
We don't have evidence that is possible. There have been vaccines in the past that protected without stopping spread. We think that the reasons that happened don't apply, but we don't know that.
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The biontech vaccine is not from big pharma.
A quick look at previous transitions shows...

Classic Mac OS support (both 68k and PPC): OS X 10.0 was released March 2001, dropped with 10.5 released October 2007. So about 6 years, 8 months.

PowerPC Mac OS X app support: First Intel Mac January 2006, support dropped with 10.7 in July 2011, so 5 years 5 months.

32 bit iOS app support: iPhone 5S with 64 bit CPU released October 2013, 32 bit app support removed in iOS 11, September 2017, so 3 years 11 months.

32 bit Intel app support (and Carbon framework): Mac OS 10.5 was first to allow 64 bit GUI apps[1], in October 2007, 32 bit support dropped in 10.15, released October 2019, so 12 years.

I'd probably count this nearer to the first three than the kinda drawn out 32 bit to 64 bit Intel transition, so perhaps about 4 years?

[1] There was limited 64 bit support before in 10.4.
Chicken and egg, though - as someone who has never owned a car, i wouldn't know which model to look at!

Is there scope for a levels.fyi for cars?
"Pharma start-up" is a broad definition which might not only be drug development and there might already be work done on their product before they look for funding

A company that is spun out from a PhD project in a research group, that has done a lot of the groundwork on grants will need less funding

Same goes for a start-up that for instance make non-invasive assays for diagnosis, since the documentation requirements are lower for such products

Producing something that has to be injected into humans is an entirely different league, since the amount of documentation required for such products is staggering

The cost for marketing will vary significantly depending on your definition of the word, and I suspect that it might be misconstrued as only being "commercials and paid holidays for doctors"
But it only uses musl for cross compilation, no?

I don't think it uses glibc to compile Linux binaries on macOS or macOS libc to compile macOS binaries on Linux.
I.e., tax payer funded either directly or via debt servicing.
Apple Silicon Macs aren't any more locked down than x86 ones.

Hopefully, the GPU and such will be reverse engineered, that's a lot of one-time effort that might take a year or more the first time but will be easier for future gens.
I have been doing remote software development, with commercial software, since around 2000, and back in the 90's if you could afford modem calls tarifs, with stuff like Novel Netware over WAN.
Any island that doesn't have air transport doesn't really need the vaccine (if transit take weeks, infections on ships burn out before they get there).

Realistically, every major population can be reached in 24 hours by modern transport, and the Pfizer 5000-dose transport package keeps the temperature for 5 days.
> Users had about ten years of warning before 32-bit went away.

Citation needed. I remember 32 bit being deprecated just 12 months before its support removal and there were no signs earlier. I just had to recompile my apps to x64, but some 3rd party tools I use never got an update and my 2013 Macbook will stay on Mojave forever.
I now wonder what a Palestinian queue would look like
Yeah and don't be duped by the cost savings and reliability of SpaceX, they just want control.

Product development is about control in some form.

If Apple have genuinely just make a decades leap in performance then you just look at the trade offs.

I'm not sure why I'm still typing, the article is such child-like faux insightfulness.
Too bad Turkey decided to convert it back from a museum to a mosque [1]. Guess I won't be visiting Istanbul, then...

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53366307
Would they be virus based vaccines or phage based ones as phage's are a form of virus as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
Yeah it's nice when it's an apt install away.

Not so nice on Windows or macOS.

While Go supports it all out of the box.
Nonstick pans are a crazy invention. Heat it up too much and toxic vapors are emitted, vapors strong enough that its not uncommon for parakeets and other small birds to die in such a presence.
Same, especially if you're planning to use it for normal consumer uses as well. Photos and videos take up a lot of space — even moreso if you have an iPhone and use iCloud Photo Library and the Mac Photos app.

I bought the base model Pro to try, but 512GB looks like a must for me going forward.
Sorry your business didn't flourish like you had hoped but I enjoyed your blog post. I always wondered how my experiences in software development and marketing would work in a more traditional business and if it would make things way easier/better/worse. Sounds like it would help but there are lots more variables to try and contend with. All the best with your future endeavours!
Give it a few months, since the Cortex X1 should be competitive in laptops.
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There's a oft-repeated (and possibly true) story that Isaac Asimov, L. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein made a bar bet in the late 30's about who could make a book that could better form the basis of religion.

L. Ron Hubbard used his offing to create the Church of Scientology.

Asimov's Foundation (the omnipotent and all knowing moon) was eventually the inspiration for Musk's SpaceX and Tesla, which (no matter what you think of him or his companies) has definitely moved the bar on electric cars etc, self driving, space development, satellite deployment etc. - no knowing where the influence of that will end.

Heinlein, with "Stranger in a strange land" was more reserved, and included tracings of the actual work of Hubbard. It becoming famous when it was quoted in some court case as the blueprint for using religion to milk the system - don't recall the details now.

Point is, sometimes the darndest of things will change the world. Make every minute count.
Do tests test for the RNA or the live virus?
Is this the same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10679519 [2015]? It is interesting moz://a could not come up with a different revenue stream idea in 5 years.
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>Don’t be duped by performance, Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control

Yes. That's the biggest benefit, and another reason I'm buying it (on top of great performance for my NLE apps). I want the Mac to be it's own platform, and be under Apple's control and vision. If it's also made foul-proof and air-tight, so much the better.

I don't want another lowest common denominator OS converging on the same point.

If I didn't want platform control I'd buy some OEM device...

That doesn't mean I approve of any and every restriction. But I'm ok with a "walled garden" -- better than an open garden full of junkies and garbage. Some of the best Japanese gardens and so on I've seen had walls around them...

Of course an open garden that's beautifully maintained, respected by those in it, etc, would be even better, but that's hardly the case in real life, so that's where curation and walls come in.

To me this brings me to the Amiga and Atari and Acorn and other alternative platforms of my youth. I don't want everything to be amd64 and Windows or the nth Linux distro.

In any case, Apple doesn't force anyone's hand, if anything they make it more difficult to buy their stuff (more expensive, targeting the expensive end of the market, only 10% market share at best, different OS and now different CPU than the rest of the market, etc).
The Republicans and Democrats have always supported the intelligence agencies, it's basically political suicide to strongly oppose them.
The delivery technique relies on LNP (lipid nano particles) which is fairly refined and existing therapeutics use today. There are potential patent violations though (both Phizer and Moderna possibly violating Arbutus patent) but it’s unclear to me how this affects distribution.
For what exactly? Threadripper has been a beast for a while :).
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Can this be interpreted as most people who test positive for COVID-19 are not infectious anymore?
You dont need a magic tax cattle funded big phama ' vaccine"

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So, people who disagree with you, can never calmly explain their position?

Not never, but it often seems very difficult for certain people. I get emotionally charged reactions, both online and IRL.

You also expect this state of affairs to never change.

What do you mean? I think these things can change. The brainwashing is usually kept in by evoking a traumatic response. If the trauma is healed, the brainwashing doesn't stick around.
AMD have license for ARM cpus. Even had an ARM cpu design frozen some years ago (K12).
Republican and Democrat left/right leaning used to be swapped though https://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-part...
I know that you are referring to the big cloud providers but there's already https://blog.macstadium.com/blog/m1-mac-minis-coming-to-macs... that racks the Minis.
PCR tests for RNA fragments. After 9 days it's likely you are surveying the battle field remains not actual live virus.
True, that's a good thing, but that's also where you get a lot of the cruft that slows things down.

For example Apple no longer has to support OpenGL and it can just cut out relevant hardware on the SoC level, leaving more room for other things.

On the smartphone front, Qualcomm can't do that, since it sells its chips to a broad base that have variable requirements.

I guess it's a tradeoff.
I think the point being made here, is that it is difficult to gain recognition for counterfactuals.
Its not Mass Murder, Race Hate or Subverting when the Jews do it
I read the opposite - producing mRNA fragments at scale is supposedly cheaper than producing the inactivated vector viruses with the correct payload.
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Haha. MacOS is kind of an antique. The new Apple systems perform well despite macOS, not because of it.
It works fairly well in the EU and non "IT" areas, where introduction of an ISO standard is required to gain wider market access and consumer approval.
It could be sufficient to point out that there are X organizations that created accepted standards, any device needs to implement a standard from at least 2 orgs.
A standard would specify transport (HTTPS), schema and meaning for all messages, authentication and authorization protocol. Most importantly, there should be a standardized way to poll devices for data.
But there is something you can do about it. You're already doing it. You can run Mojave.

You want the platform to be weighed down with cruft forever because of a 0.01% use case? Do you want 8-bit support in there too, for the 68000?