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I think Apple is behaving reasonably here, at least, I don't think they're deliberately breaking older devices w/ updates, so I wouldn't apply the phrase "planned obsolescence," exactly. But I'll conceded that normal programmer laziness (i.e., optimize just enough to make it run acceptably on latest hardware) ends up having the same effect.

Software patents & much of copyright seem to me to be to be hurting more than they are helping.

I'd love to experiment w/ ditching those.

While we're at it, we should legally mandate that devices are open to 3rd party app stores and be "jailbroken" by anyone that cares to do so.

(It's pretty crazy that the dominant artist medium of our time is controlled by a single, outrageously censorious entity. Thank god we've got the web, at least. (For now.))
I guess that depends on the school offering the curriculum. I went to school as a Computer Science Engineering major. It wasn't EE, but it was way more than how not to write an infinite loop. It was billed as "you could design/build your own computer, and then write the software for it" type of path.
"Really, they serve totally different functions."

Technically yes, but thousands of programs were written in them. I can only say that I wasn't the only one who didn't like it (and I had every reason to love it as even at home I had a fully equipped GodBout/CompuPro dual proc 8085/86 S100 system running CP/M and CP/M86 which was pretty much the king of CP/M systems. (Incidentally, I used to edit the HMXBIOS assembler code for that in WordStar in non document mode. For me it was a dream to used compared with. ED.

Even my resident assembler guru who considered any high level language you'd name too wasteful of CPU cycles, would send a file from a serial port on the CP/M machine to his Intel development system and edit it there then send it back again rather than using ED.

I've seen this dichotomy many times amongst programmers and I've come to the conclusion that it has to do with the ergonomics of the way people think and work.
Ask HN: If Mr. Carl Sagan were alive today what would his website look like?
How do you narrow the corpus of his teachings, books, thoughts, etc. into one website? Is there a prototype of delivering information out there for future Astrophysicists/Philosophers? What would an online presence look like for someone of his ilk now?
Apple does not want to offer to the hackintosh/enthusiast market because they are the most price conscious segment. Targeting that segment means putting out extremely performant, low-margin commodity machines. Doing so then cannibalizes the market for their ultra-high-end stuff.

Not only that, though. Enthusiasts are also extremely fickle and quick to jump ship to a cheaper hardware offering. If you look at all of Apple’s other markets, you’ll see loads of brand loyalty. Fickle enthusiasts don’t fit the mould.
Officevibe is not anonymous in certain circumstances. It shows which city (And maybe IP?) the questions were answered from.

If you're working remotely this could easily identify you.
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Hopefully whatever alternative proposed wherein that doesn't happen.
Does that mean you are against the death penalty, prisons, taxation, and/or something else entirely?
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> What are the organizations doing this today? Is the scrappy startup of this nature still a thing, or is technology in general stabilizing into a dominant Ford/GM/Chrysler structure with FAANG and other major players dominating the industry?

Well, is your concept of 'tech' limited to computer-related stuff, or are you looking further afield?
> In the interest of not wasting that much paper, we burnt a complete list of the deleted files in super-tiny font on a couple pages.

Pretty cool.

Did anyone beat the printer to death with a baseball bat?
How about just holding the power button on the Mac down for several seconds if shutting down from menu options is not working? The user doesn’t seem to mind losing data on the phone by interrupting a sync operation in some unknown state or doesn’t seem to mind losing any data on the Mac by a forced shutdown either.
Indian govt bans 43 more Chinese apps including AliExpress, CamCard, Taobao Live
The government said that the apps in question were “engaging in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India.”
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It's bad for business if anyone knows the truth.
Moved to Seattle earlier this year, was sad my internet went up $20/month. Currently paying $80/month for 1G/1G. I do agree though, having fiber to your place with single digit MS ping is quite lovely for all things internet.
I think the key here is the analogy is just a warm up for the actual full detailed explanation. Where I find analogies always fail is in journalistic tech books that just use analogies to explain concepts but never get down to low level details and leave the reader with a vague feeling of understanding something, but if you asked them about any of the implications of the model explained they can't state anything.
How does this differ from Google's Cloud Composer, which is also managed Airflow?

https://cloud.google.com/composer/
Whoops! Yes, you’re right. I had misremembered its colour depth, but I recall it was bigger than the 256 colors of the VGA displays of the time.

Unfortunately I can’t go back and edit the original post to fix. Thanks for correcting me!
Did you run an app like this? If so, which one?

I very nearly launched an event analytics app at the beginning of this year but ended up just rolling one for my own internal use.
What was so fun about it?
If you don’t like Jordan Peterson, don’t buy his books. Besides clickbait, what does Vice have to gain by running with anonymous junior employees as sources? Especially ones crying at work meetings. How influential could they/should they be?
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Well, large businesses at least get Windows 10 Enterprise, which doesn't come with all of that nonsense. The real shame is that you can't get Windows 10 Enterprise without a volume license.
Yeah, when you put it that way...
Yep. Highest recommendation for https://betterexplained.com which is at the other pole.
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I got your (Office Space) reference, but I’m thinking that beating older keyboards, mice and monitors to death may be more appropriate in this instance. Those monsters facilitated the creation of the code. They should die with the code.
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In Seoul I watched Avatar at 3 am, and the theatre was almost full. When I came out the morning crowds were already on the the move. Another night, at 1am, I wandered by an eyeglass store and they whipped me up a new pair of glasses for me in 15 minutes. Truly incredible.
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Linus Torvalds was and is probably still right that unless developers have the same breed of processor (not just AArch64 but the actual chipset, for example) on the bench it'll probably never be particularly prevalent server-side.

That and Apple presumably dream of not letting developers touch anything without going through their stack, so no touching the hardware for you. For example, I believe Apple expose Performance counters through Instruments in Xcode - but without a Mac to test it on I should say - it doesn't seem to be close to perf. The wider point being that Apple will probably never let you run Linux on their hardware, and your server will probably not be running MacOS either.
Reminds me of a famous prisoner-puzzle. Perhaps the solution will be clearer if you have the concepts of the article fresh when looking at it.

----

The prison warden brings a hundred prisoners to an empty room and hands each of them one of a hundred cards labeled from 1 to 100, and says:

"In the next room there are 100 drawers. Into each drawer has been placed one of a hundred cards labeled from 1 to 100."

"One by one we will let you into the next room. Each of you will be given fifty chances to look inside one of those drawers, and then you will continue into the final waiting room."

"If every single one of you is able to find the card in the drawers that matches the one you have been given, you will all be released from prison today."

"One more rule - if any of you, after entering the room with the drawers, communicates any information to the remaining participants, you all fail."

The prisoners talk among themselves, discussing strategies for opening the drawers that might let them all find their number, and be released today.

They know that the chance for one prisoner to find their card, choosing randomly, is 50/100, or 1/2. The problem is that they all need to find their card, and if they all choose randomly then the chance they all succeed is (1/2)^100 - or (7.9 * 10^-29)%

One of the prisoners, having just read about how rainbow tables work, realised there was a strategy that would give them a greater than 30% chance to all succeed.

What was their strategy?

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It's trivial to find the solution to this problem if you've never seen it before, search for the 100 prisoners problem. I don't actually know if reading about ranbow tables makes it easier to reason the solution, but there seemed a strong similarity so hopefully someone can figure it out!
Show me a version with the Apple block
The extra capacity was already there - speeds were artificially (right word?) suppressed because customers were on a cheaper plan.
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It could be that the average amount of time for intelligent life to evolve would be much longer, like 1000x a regular planet's lifespan. Then you would only very rarely have intelligent life actually evolve, and that intelligent life would generally notice that it came into existence near the end of their planet's lifespan, and that simple life happened to get started very near the beginning of their planet's lifespan (or else intelligent life probably wouldn't have had enough time to evolve).
Well it’s time consuming before you can even legally do it and it’s very fucking expensive.
> wonder if that is going to put a crimp on their potential client list

Solid state electronics and fuel. With respect to the former, nothing that requires stable orientation. I don't know of a propulsion system that can survive those forces.
Then they'd be a medium blog post about it, so not so secret.
> Thin sheets of metal, either welded or riveted together, would have been much easier to build and install. It could even have been filled with some other material (e.g. sand) before the top was put on.

Yes, it was a prism shaped object with 3 pieces of stainless steel panels riveted together, the bottom has concret and silicone:)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CH_212pAKpr/
yes, this is what happens when you shutdown economies and lock people indoors... The build back better alliance will be pushing for national lock-in days, because the climate is changing
Do you have resources on the data collection these apps do? I'm interested in digging deeper.
> Every since The Crown S4, I've lots of references flying around. I must say that she was superbly played by Gillian Anderson.

Whut? That seems a complete non sequitur, am I missing something, or are you replying to the wrong thread?
If one of those goth girls Bob is into ends up matching with him, he can still go out with her even if several of the other 95 women match with him.

If some of the low quality companies respond to you, you can always turn them down in favor of the companies you're most interested in if they respond.

I'm not sure what I'm failing to explain. It's strictly better to do a broader search. Save for the time it takes to apply. But in the case of both online dating and applying to jobs it's not that much work to apply even with a customized cover letter. You're selecting from the subset of people who respond to your initial application - or swipe. The more applications you send the bigger this subset will be.
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A huge part of narrative building is story selection. If there are groups A, B, C all of which do good and bad stuff to each other, media will create a narrative by highlighting again and again bad things that A does to B, leaving out the good things, leaving out what B does, and leaving out C entirely.
Then help me understand. You have a shooting on the Apple campus, your ideal response is...? From your previous comment it sounds like you expected Apple employees who have their CCW and are carrying to handle it, was I mistaken?
> but I have seen a bunch of reviews claiming that 8GB is perfectly fine.

Has anyone actually used one of these long enough to fairly compare with an x year old laptop in regular use?
tcpdump them, or read the data/privacy disclosure link at the bottom of the first launch pane of any of them.

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM if you need an easy way to fire up a fresh install.
I think the real answer is to improve yourself for your own sake, and with luck those improvements will take you somewhere out of your company or even industry. This is similar to the concept of Scott Adams's Talent Stacking (see https://talentstacking.com/about/).
I fully believe Austin can thank Google Fiber for its speed increase. Not necessarily because that many people actually have Google Fiber - it's rollout has been patchy, delayed, and with Fiber rollouts in other cities halted, I'm not holding my breath to get Fiber in my neighborhood.

But Fiber definitely spurned the absolutely shitty incumbents (Time Warner/Spectrum and AT&T) to up their game. Funny how competition works like that. Good article on the topic: https://www.statesman.com/business/20200103/high-speed-high-...
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> This is just a check that the developer's certificate hasn't been revoked or expired. I wouldn't call it telemetry.

It's an unencrypted network transmission of a unique identifier, at the time of an app launch, that maps to a single app for 99% of cases (due to the fact that almost all developers publish only a single app). That's objectively telemetry no matter what you call it, irrespective of the intent of the designers.

Approximately 0% of all users of macOS will change this setting, so Apple adding a preference toggle (that defaults to "send my local app launches to Apple via the network") is irrelevant from a privacy perspective.
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8.2 MB initial page load and slow as hell (1-2sec) when trying to navigate between pages. It was so slow I thought the site wasn't doing anything.

It looks like rendering a new page is blocked until API requests to both "categories" and "products" endpoints are completed, which is terrible. They should be background requests that aren't render-blocking. Also, these requests fire _every time_ you click a link.

Right now, the user experience is 0/10. Would not recommend.
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Not sure if this counts, but a buddy and I found a secret extension to his shed when we were teens.

It was a sliding wooden door behind a woodworking shelf (the door blended perfectly with the handtool holder wall). The room was about 3m by 2m.

When we found it, it was empty and had hooks on the ceiling with two power outlets.

We didn't tell his parents and thought it was a "cool" after school hangout spot.

A few months later, we went back and a new shelf with weed plant cuttings was in the room. My buddy asked his dad and it turns out he had been growing a few weed plants hydroponically for the prior few years.
FWIW, I never run docker on my local machine (I develop on a remote machine), benefits: remote machine os + setup is very close to production and GBit bandwidth up and down at my hoster is so much nicer when working with Docker images.
A moment when a tech giant can build a computer from bottom to top.
Putting aside starship, from the very limited information I've seen it's not clear that the operating costs of this system will be comparable to Falcon 9 for the booster phase of flight.

It seems like this launch system will be more expensive per kg, and have far greater loads on the payload than Falcon 9.

I hope it works out, and they find ways to make it commercially viable, but Falcon 9 really has set the bar for success quite high.
Looks like they removed "Permissive Security" mode from the support document in an update. You can still find it in https://web.archive.org/web/20201117164532/https://support.a.... Hope they don't remove this option in the firmware.
> They can't add fake liquidity because then the individual who attempts to lift the ghost order will realize.

...Unless there's magically someone filling it just before they do (i.e. frontrun by an internal bot) every time they try. I have observed exchanges doing this. I don't believe that Coinbase is one of them, though, as others have pointed out with their positioning they are better of not to.
I’m reasonably good looking, but I’m really into weightlifting so I guess that’s why women will approach me first sometimes. There are genetic limits to strength but fitness and being in shape are psychologically attractive to women. A lot of guys would be attractive if they would at least do the minimum requirements for maintaining their health. But I digress.

Guys who complain about women ignoring them are usually themselves ignoring lots of women around them who would be suitable for them but they aren’t good enough for whatever reason. I’ve seen it SOOOOO many times when average looking guys complain about how shallow girls are or how good looking guys have it easy (this second point isn’t exactly completely untrue mind you) yet they still focus on the most classically attractive women they know or at the bar wherever who are out of their league.

If average looking guys were to spend more time on themselves- grooming, having a hobby outside of work/tv/games, fitness, reading a book once in a while- they would be surprised to see how the world around them will change.

Also there are lots of good girls who may not be supermodels looking to date regular guys. At least give them the green light once in a while.
Considering speeds are still pretty awful, I'm not sure it is something to really celebrate... it is maybe a good start, but it is pretty late.
> I'd be carefully watching to see if I could call the police on him.
The Oregon Governor is a woman.
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Really nice! You've figured out a way to do bitwise operations on the Wang LOCI-2, which had only had floating point operations (via log tables) as part of its 30-strong instruction set... Or, well, you would if the LOCI-2 used IEEE 754.

https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/wangloci.html
Find good examples that are easy to understand and absurd enough to stick in your head. For example (ha) the fallacy of composition Wikipedia page has a good one[0]:

> "This tire is made of rubber, therefore the vehicle of which it is a part is also made of rubber."

The fallacy of division page[1] also has a good one:

> 1. The second grade in Jefferson elementary eats a lot of ice cream

> 2. Carlos is a second-grader in Jefferson elementary

> 3. Therefore, Carlos eats a lot of ice cream

You can also categorise large numbers of common fallacies, for instance fallacies of relevance, and then - which is the larger point about fallacies - you don't need to know which exact fallacy someone has committed (they don't care, for one) but you know it's fallacious because what their argument relies upon is irrelevant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division

Edit: formatting
As a maybe slightly above average Australian male, I found it interesting travelling around Europe. I do ok-ish on dating apps at home, it's not fun but I could get a date or two a month if I made a consistent effort to message people. Maybe a short relationship or a handful of hook-ups a year if I'm lucky.

In northern Italy, Spain, south of France, I got virtually no matches at all. However in the week or so I spent in Scandinavia, almost every woman I swiped right on matched back, many of them messaged as well. I would consider men and women in Scandinavia somewhat more attractive on average than people elsewhere and of course vastly more attractive than I am. Unfortunately I don't speak any Danish!
> throwing straw men down slippery slopes.

I don't know if you just invented that phrase, but I love it, and it gives me the perfect visual for the general state of online discourse these days.
One would assume that such a skill should be a requirement to be a part of the profession of journalism. Presupposing, of course, that the goal of journalism is to inform. Don't hire people who aren't qualified.
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It's the same what Apple did with wireless bluetooth audio. There were already companies making them but they didn't try their best. When Apple made Airpods, it defined them as a new category and every company started pushing their own take on it. Now we plenty of good options to choose from.

ARM was typically making very conservative reference designs keeping PPA in mind but now that they have customers asking for a higher TDP chips on the PC side. And they are already making bigger chips like Apple's with cortex X1 - https://www.anandtech.com/show/15813/arm-cortex-a78-cortex-x...
oh I misunderstood, that's obscene
RAM bandwidth limitations (latency and throughput) are generally hidden by the multiple layers of cache in between the ram and CPU prefetching more data than is generally needed. Having memory on chip could make the latency less, but as ATI has shown with HBM memory on a previous generation of its GPUs its not a silver bullet solution.

I am going to speculate now, but maybe, just maybe, if some of the silicon that apple has used on the M1 is used for compression/decompression they could be transparently compressing all ram in hardware. Since this offloaded from the CPUs and allows a compressed stream of data from memory, they achieve greater ram bandwidth, less latency and less usage for a given amount of memory. If this is the case I hope that the memory has ECC and/or the compression has parity checking....
I'm stunned by the fact they have a graph comparing two stock tickers by share price. Do they not realize that comparison is essentially meaningless (without market cap, etc)? If you look at YTD performance Copart is actually doing worse than the competitor they're comparing against...
It's hard to predict what effect "sender pays" would have had on email if it were introduced from day one. For a start, it would mean that sending email would only have been possible between organisations that are capable of sending/receiving financial (micro?) transactions between themselves. Such layer 8/9 considerations might have made the spam problem moot by making email itself moot.

If you accept the premise of introducing some degree of financial friction into the email system, though, then I will mention a modest proposal of requiring new email-sending domains to put up good-behaviour bonds in a cryptocurrency that can be spent/burnt if the domain sends too much spam. (All existing domains would be grandfathered in, providing an incentive for them to agree to this system). The only controversial part would be deciding which entities had the power to judge whether a domain sent too much spam, but the obvious answer would be a consortium of the biggest email providers, since they already have the power to effectively render an email server unusable.