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This is simply astounding!
At this point, Apple has to be the most successful company (i.e. brand) in the world (and history)?
I am simply amazed. I cannot stand the company, their fans, or their products, but you got to give credit where credit is due.

They have managed to turn a tech company in to a luxury fashion company. That is every entrepreneur's wet dream.
You keep getting away with customers like a bandit and people will still happily buy it.
Just look at the people commenting in this thread where people are honestly admitting to paying a $200 markup just because it is Apple and they "trust" them, for a product they don't even know if they need.

Amazing, to be able to achieve something like this is really wow...
> And explaining to people in restaurants that you can't eat mammals because you'll swell up and die six hours later gets you a lot of weird looks.

It's worth spreading awareness that there are way, way more things that cause allergic reactions than is commonly known. As a kid I grew up thinking that only peanut butter could cause allergic reactions. Now I know someone who has fatal reactions to dairy products, another with fatal reactions to eggs, and others with less severe reactions to mint, coconut, mango, latex, spermicide (imagine the circumstances where you discover that one)...

The bottom line is, if someone tells you they have an allergy to something weird, just take their word for it.
"Our server logs show that you were actively engaged with racist/sexist/transphobic video when you were 19. It would be a real shame if that got out. We could make it all disappear, if you helped us in the next round of trade talks..."
Can't you do something analogous to editing your hosts file (but for name servers) and then re-centralize all of your apps using a single name server, which you can then control however you like?
wikipedia entry here seems to be a potential place to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streaming_media_system...
Because you have kids (or a spouse) sleeping in the adjacent room.
Depending on how motivated you are, pickups are the most popular vehicle on the road and we already know that gig drivers will happily take up the slack for a few bucks.
I'm talking about setting up the infrastructure before you get to either of those points. I don't want CI running on my laptop - especially for an open project where anyone can submit a merge request - and I don't have a server to use for it, let alone a private Gitlab instance ready to import projects to.
True, a good point!

Still, I think it makes sense that Qt 6 requires Windows 10. New development and legacy support are always at odds.

If customers want new software, then they must accept that it has modern requirements. Same situation for continued development and evolution of existing software.

In situations where support for legacy systems is more important than new development, then existing applications can just continue to use Qt 5. I don't see how it would make sense to migrate to Qt 6 in this situation.
Happy for you, however my mileage is completely different. Watching Youtube on the iPad having my iPhone lying next to it, pausing the video by taking one Airpod off. Then put it back and iPhone immediately steals AirPods Pro and I have to either connect them back to the iPad in Settings or play/pause/play/pause/... and wait about 20s seconds and they may reconnect. iPhone is lying face down all the time, no music or any sound activity in progress for hours.

I was initially impressed, but the quirks got more and more frequent and I actually hate the broken switching now.
Beats are mostly cheaply made crap that aren't competitive on price.
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USPS is legally required to charge rates that don't result in a marginal loss.
The USPS cannot "jack up the rates". The USPS cannot change prices to increase revenue. The USPS prices are set by legislation, and cannot be changed. The USPS is not intended to make a profit, and is intended to provide a public good. Implying that the prices can/should be changed is spreading misinformation.
I paid some $350 for the latest and great Sony wireless headphones earlier in the year, that I returned a week later. Why? Because they were not polished. For example, pairing to both my laptop and my phone at the same time was a nightmare. I could not listen to music on my laptop and instantly receive phone audio if someone called me. I also could not listen to music on my laptop, then close the laptop and resume music on my phone with instant playback.

I also found the Sony privacy policy on the headphones to be lackluster. If the Apple headphones are more privacy conscious and also make this experience across devices as seamless as they're promising, I'll pay for them.
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China's is still full communist, but some tightly government-controlled capitalism has been allowed.
As a preface, I am about to describe something I personally view as absolutely horrific. Please, dear reader, in no way interpret these comments as approving.

Privacy is a luxury. It's something rich people buy and poor people can't afford to concern themselves with. Apple sells a luxury product, and has no particular stake in invading customer privacy at the moment (iAd was never successful enough to change that). So they add a feature to their status symbol to address the concerns of their customer base and work with a partner company that can actually deploy it.
Have you tried these headphones? How do you know others are providing better sound at a cheaper price?
Ah, yeah, I'm with you. I think the distinction between taste-driven preference vs technical superiority is important (maybe a more interesting discussion would surround the juxtaposition of audio gear and organic/non-gmo food marketing).

But, I do think the same kind of "objectively irrelevant" upsell _does_ occur with the other non-taste-driven markets (electronic peripherals, sporting gear, etc).

I'm not trying to come across as combative - I'm just trying to figure out why the consumer side of the "audiophile" market gets such a bad wrap. As I commented elsewhere, I think a majority of people who are "into" sound gear don't buy into the snake-oil of special ethernet cables... just as I don't think most consumers opt for gold-plated display cables. However, there are distinctions between different monitors and TVs; people seem to agree that they are perceptible, and they don't bat an eye at someone spending a bit of their time figuring out the optimal display for their situation and price point. I think I'm just trying to understand why, when someone compares headphones to other headphones based on pricepoint, they are assumed to be ceramic-cable-buying elitists.
I am extremely skeptical of this claim, but I thought I might look at the book. It is published in Hebrew. I do not know if it will be translated into other languages...
With most BT devices the problem would be if someone else tried to use your Peloton, it'd steal audio from your PC or phone

But Peloton remembers your previously paired audio devices per user; so if someone else uses the bike and has never explicitly paired that set of headphones, they'll show up as an option, but won't automatically pair
This is not a dichotomous choice.
I am only guessing that Sony outsources software development to developers who don't even use Sony. Apple developers love Apple product, look around the third party software on Mac, their developers love the operating system, and use it every day. It makes a huge difference. Elon Musk drives a Tesla, so he knows what it feels like to be a customer. I doubt Sony executives use Sony headphones in everyday life.
Although the degree of difficulty w.r.t a question may differ, I think being proficient in these concepts can get you a job. It’s just that most of us struggle with solving problems(in an interview). I think these concepts cover pretty much everything a SRE would need to know.
Better question is why use OpenSSL over the platform's native TLS library? It's incredibly annoying dealing with OpenSSL when MITMing the connection or just working internal services that I don't want to see the insecure connection warnings on.
I guess the expensive headphones price is not that bad if compared to the valve or vacuum tube amplifier :-)
Missile bases are just sitting ducks that are waiting to be destroyed before the real attack...
Look at the Karabach, The nice S300 anti-airplane system was obliterated at the start of the war with cheap drones. (even the anti-drones systems were destroyed by drones)
GTK is actually used quite a bit more on mobile these days thanks to all the distros and software targeting Pine Phone and Librem.
the commonality between the phenomenons of audio and wine etc. is that they start on a foundation of objectivity and end in subjectivity and cognitive bias. Hearing and taste are two things that are literally unique (almost impossibly equivalent, probability wise) for every single person.

As you go towards the top end of these things, the delusion creeps in, which is that the objectivity extends from the foundation to the roof, so to speak. The fact of the matter is that it was gone somewhere in the middle, e.g. why "trained listeners" cannot distinguish between a coat hanger and $1,000 cable, and while "wine experts" will often pick a $15 grocery store bottle over a $300 bottle in a blind taste test. And they will reverse their answers if told the price ahead of time.

These same concepts exist in other product categories, but I don't know of any better examples than audio and wine.
> established professional audio companies offering better sound

Didn’t these just come out? How do you know the other offering have better sound?
It's a network effect. If you are always around EL machines, you're going to know, want to work with, and recommend EL machines.
"This license allows developers with a current active
Mapbox account to use and modify the Mapbox Web SDK."

"This license terminates automatically if a user no longer has an active Mapbox account."

- https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
For anyone having doubts about the design and maybe attributing it to Apple tendency to predate or establish trends, just look at the case that these come with. It looks absolutely hideous and just... tacky. TACKY. This isn't Ive's product, that's for sure.
Yea you are absolutely right. While microservices do alleviate the aforementioned problems, sensible software design will as well.
One person's funny is another person's cringy, when dealing with large groups of people.

So yes, at a certain scale it is a dichotomous choice. Ergo stock images and press-release speak.

* * *

I'll give you an example, right now:

Why "dichotomous"? You could have used "binary" and sounded much less pompous, without any special effort on your part.

See how "funny/interesting" vs "cringy" works on the internet? :-))
You don't have to agree with their values. But why labeling them as evil for not following your values? Western values don't work well in China. Chinese values don't work in the west. To each their own. Why do they have to be an enemy for which evil is always assumed, regardless of evidence?

FYI, I'm Chinese.
>Einstein was, by all accounts I've seen, a pretty nice fellow.

Except to his wife.
Apple has been making speakers for nearly two decades...
>If you find yourself doing in-code joins across microservices, you need to stop and think:

This is a place where far too few people stop to think about what you're doing. I've seen too many cases where an operation requires coordinating requests across multiple service methods THAT ARE ONLY USED IN THAT PARTICULAR OPERATION! The devs spend all of their time a) coordinating things and b) trying to make it performant and c) realizing none of the gains of having microservices to begin with.
The USPS is profitable on the delivery side. If they were allowed to operate as a normal business they would have more revenue than Fedex and UPS. Their free flow cash margins have been positive since 2013. They would be VERY profitable except for legislative meddling.

However, they have a number of legislative mandates that suck up their profits.

The biggest is that they have to have cash on hand to pay out employee pensions for the next 75 years.

Everything that they make goes into a giant pot of money for the retirement fund of workers that haven't been born yet. The holdings must be in cash, so they can't even invest this giant pot of money. This was a law pushed through by conservatives with the seeming intent to ensure that the USPS is never profitable. It is a mandate that literally no other organization is saddled with.

Other legislative blocks to profitability:
They ae required to deliver lettermail to every address in the US for the same rate. They don't get to set the rates for lettermail.

They are prohibited from offering additional services through their branches such as copy and print services.

They are prohibited by law from participating in banking and money services except for legacy paper money orders. Online service is strictly prohibited.

Besides all that, there is no reason that a service considered vital to the economy has to be profitable. The postal service is one of the few essential government services that is expected to make money for some reason. We don't expect the fire department to be revenue positive even though they are allowed to charge basically anything they want for ambulance service.

As an anecdata aside: I've lived in a few countries where postal service is less than reliable (don't know when the mail will come, deliverability rates are pretty bad.). It is not a desirable state of affairs. I remember my mom having to plan half a day to pay bills. She would have to go to the office, or an approved payment processor for the company and wait in line to make a payment for each bill. Contrast that with dropping a check in the mail. The internet has changed a lot of things since then, but I still see a mail service as required.
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Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist
I can hear the difference between $200 and $500, but I'm not sure I would say that the $500 sounds better -- or just different. I suspect I'm not alone. But its up to each person to find the right price point for their ears.
That's because Apple had the courage to remove the headphone jack from the 'iOS experience' though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(ornithologist) , which agrees with what I read in the ornithologist's obituary, argues against that.
I thought the combination of Zimmer's score and Nolan's editing in Dunkirk basically turned it into an enormous minimalist composition - I mean that in the best possible way.
> Anyway, the issue for me is that these are supposed to be audiophile/professional grade headphones - something you buy explicitly because you want the best audio quality.

No, they are not.

It's unlikely professionals are buying any wireless headphones and professionals definitely don't want/ need ANC.

These are headphones for people who want good quality sound and value the other features these offer. If you don't find the other features these offer appealing, they aren't worth the money.

Almost every criticism of these pits them against top end wired audiophile headphones... that's not what these are primarily competing against.
I have been using openSUSE. It's been pretty stable on the laptop. On laptop, I use the Tumbleweed (rolling release) and 15.1 or 15.2 on servers. Give it a try.
Be careful extrapolating to the individual from studies such as these, as the study environments control for context while the real world does not.

For example, I worked with an developer who I’d consider low on agreeableness. She functioned extremely well in a seed stage startup as 1 of 2 engineers. She was willing to fight for the right decision no matter what and didn’t care how people felt about that.

As the startup scaled, however, her disregard for the feelings of others hampered her effectiveness. Her engineering team became one of the lower performing in the organization.

Did her personality help or hinder the organization? Did it contribute or detract from her individual goals and overall happiness?

Yes.
A Defense of Offensive Jokes
Fair enough, was just confirming. It didn't occur to me that flatpaks would probably assist in bridging the gap between a "Workstation" OS and a conventional end-user OS where yum repos and EPEL might be lacking.

> Easy remote management.

Just out of curiousity, are you SSHing in directly, or installing the Teamviewer RPM on all of them?
A recent article [0] on the difficulty of controlling culture (mostly in the context of people trying to keep their brands from being associated with the alt-right) speaks to the challenges involved in this approach.

The article decribes Matt Furie, the artist behind the Pepe the frog cartoon, and his struggles to control its usage.

> At one point, Furie purchased $45,000 worth of Pepe T-shirts to sell, but he can’t even give them away to thrift stores because he is horrified at the prospect of white supremacists proudly wearing them. Unable to rehabilitate Pepe’s image, Furie killed the frog off in a comic—but by that point, he’d effectively lost control of Pepe’s image. Furie would go on to sue InfoWars’ Alex Jones, who had been using a Pepe image to sell posters. (Jones used the lawsuit to increase the price of the posters—eventually, InfoWars settled with Furie.)

> Furie’s attorneys estimate they have issued between 75 and 100 successful legal challenges halting the unauthorized use of Pepe. But the damage remains: Despite his best efforts, Furie will forever be associated with a toxic symbol of white supremacy.

It's hard to judge from a distance, but it sounds to me like there is a lot of time, effort, and money being spent trying to enforce rights, and yet it's a game of whack-a-mole where the alt-right never gets the message.

[0]: https://thedispatch.com/p/alt-right-culture-rittenhouse-blac...
> client encrypts to proxy, which decrypts & removes client info

This is incorrect; the proxy doesn't decrypt. It just proxies. From https://blog.cloudflare.com/oblivious-dns/ :

> The target decrypts queries encrypted by the client, via a proxy. Similarly, the target encrypts responses and returns them to the proxy. [...] The proxy does as a proxy is supposed to do, in that it forwards messages between client and target.
"Just Google it" doesn't scream curious conversation exactly.

Your argument was "Accessibility is specifically about making things accessible to those with disabilities" which by no definition of the word, is true. Look it up.

Not sure why I'd have to read the various specifications again when I've already done that. I'm still of the same impression (like most others) that accessibility is much bigger than just making things work for those with disabilities.
> I always find the audiophile market to be borderline fraud

There's nothing borderline about it. That test proved nobody could hear the difference between super expensive monster cables or twisted coat hangers.

https://gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-vs-...
Reminds me of the 'bass boost' feature on a lot of consumer audio stuff going back to the 90s (or earlier)-- most of the time, it obfuscates & distorts the original mix and sounds muddier as a result, but people adapt to it and it sounds normal to them.

There's also the confounding effects of different volume levels producing wildly different mixes, of people's ears/brains responding to frequency ranges differently, and of different music types revealing shortcomings more than others (as anyone who's flinched at pixelated cymbals can attest). All of which make it seem like a more subjective thing because of the complexity of interacting variables.

Regardless, true audio fidelity is something that can be measured to a fairly detailed extent. The fact is, most speakers at most volume levels aren't great at it, just 'good enough'. It mostly boils down to: how much can you tell the difference? Just like with finding that optimal mp3 encoding rate to avoid those damn pixelated cymbals.
Yeah, this is crazy that Apple is only using AAC for their codec and not anything like aptX that can get down to 50ms range. I would expect Apple to do better here and even have different low latency codec specifically for voice calls.
This cuts both way though. You can see it in this thread and any other thread with Apple in the title - people bashing the product without ever even trying it out. They do so without an ounce of thought. It's religious conviction and our primate brain wanting to signal status.
Do you have a citation for only 10% of internet traffic using CDNs? Even things like cloud load-balances and ephemeral IPs make those associations hard and we’re in third decade of major web properties using CDNs.
China has demonstrated a willingness to extend it's pressures on individuals outside China , pressure on Uighurs in Australia.

I see no reason that they would resist the opportunity to build a social credit score of sorts for outsiders as well, and put pressure on other companies to enforce it quietly.

We've seen Zoom bans enforced globally at the behest of China because some folks got together on meetings about Tiananmen, and all Zoom had to say was "sorry had to do it".

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

-MLK Jr.
> I am struck by how cleaner and simpler Debian's naming scheme is

It's just a simple common-sense scheme, it's not the result of deep thought. What you're struck by is how marketing-oriented the RedHat repository naming scheme seems to be...
Just the fact that this exists is great for bringing awareness to model bias. Hopefully people think about this more now that it is easier to see.
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Yeah, those are pretty crazy. However, that whole product line is clearly not intended for normal consumers. It’s for video editing, where most products are insanely expensive and that $1000 monitor stand is lost in the noise of all the other production costs.
With all due respect, why do I need to care?
This post is about AirPods.

I have Sennheisers. Should I write about their up- and down-sides too? What about Bowers and Wilkinsons owners? What about Bose owners?
I think we all know that Apple comes nowhere new the quality of these brands. Could we please focus on the actual topic of the post here?