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My workloads include running VMs and compiling something like Linux kernel so I do benefit from more cores. But I don't want to run a server for such tasks. Desktop CPUs like modern Ryzens work pretty well for it.

Also, single core performance benefits gaming, especially when you run things in Wine where there is more overhead.

Hardware accelerated video encoding is already handled by discreet GPUs, so the benefit of putting that also in a CPU/APU is moot in the desktop use case.

What so far is missing are cards that support AV1 encoding in hardware. I doubt Apple will be much of help here too.
Wow that was a terrible explanation. As far as I can figure out, it is only 1D SAR - that is the X axis is spatial, but the Y axis is actually time. If you fire radio waves at the ground at an angle, and the ground is flat, then you can easily map time to position. But buildings and hills mess up that mapping. I always assumed SAR used 2D arrays.

Again, really terrible explanation. It feels like they really didn't want to explain it at all.
Well then give me a real reason why it should not be possible. (Basically what they only say is why the appearance of penetrating building cannot be interpreted so easily)
Nvidia makes arm processors, GPUs and SoCs, so this integration will be good for them if the arm sale is approved.
I've been using Nextcloud for a few years now, starting with my mail-in-a-box instance. Before that, I played around with owncloud a bit over the years.

I'm now at the point where I'm trying to find a different solution. I don't even use all the web UI stuff, but desktop sync is unusable to me now. It all started a few months ago when the new desktop client version came out, and would always crash when opening that new view. When it was updated on the server side, I started getting signed out every time I shut down one of the computers I'm using, which gets especially frustrating on the computer where I'm using two nextcloud accounts, because I have to log in, wait 30s because apparently there are bad logins from my IP (??), grant access, log out, log in with the other account, grant access again, and then do the same dance again on the next computer I start. And ever since I've been using it, I kept getting "undefined states" and weird database errors.

It just seems like they don't do a lot of testing and focus more on features than stability. Any suggestions for a very stable open source service hosted in linux that does good desktop sync with a windows client?
The person to whom you are responding spoke of necessities, you speak of scarcity as the fact of demand exceeding supply. Clearly the crux of your disagreement is what is involved in a good life and society. The argument against your view is that human desire is not fixed, but expands with the development of every new frontier of consumption. The more we can produce, the more we want. Should we let that process run indefinitely?

The costs are multiple. We organise society around the productivist maximisation of output, requiring us all to work at a dizzying pace despite the dramatic increase of productivity per hour of labour over time. We compensate for the modest time we have to ourselves, 'leisure', through a lifestyle of extreme consumption. One of the underlying reasons that we want to consume more, is as a marker that we are the kinds of people capable of high consumption. Having a nice house, clothes and car, going on nice holidays, validates our social status and esteem, or worse, feeds our pride and envy. We organise the whole of human life and society around production to satisfy our ape-brain psychology, to feed our bottomless status-seeking. It's a huge collective action problem, and we would all be better off if we jointly committed to working less, and shifted away from private consumption to public goods that can be shared in common.

There are also important questions about where spiralling levels of consumption run-up against natural resource and ecological limits, and the fact current rates of western consumption depend on cheap labour in the global south that won't last indefinitely - and in the case of China relies on a historically unprecedented reallocation of national income away from its citizens, and towards gargantuan capital investment at home and abroad.
I'd say admin has had issues with users hard resetting the PC's and corrupting data, albeit slowly, and so runs chkdsk before it gets real bad.
I'm not sure if it's a good gamble if you're at a point where you're not sending out console review codes just to prevent people from seeing what the game looks like.
Very nice, I'll certainly try it out for courses with clients. What's the latency like?
> what were the unnecessary interfaces in the Intel chip used by Apple?

Everything Management Engine related, for one.
This don't use x advice is not practical.

People use WhatsApp because other people do. Not because it's the best thing out there.
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> CDPR had 3 games to perfect the formula

That's a very good point. The first Witcher game has interesting ideas but not all that great just decent and innovative. The second was very much a refinement of the concepts from the first game, expanding the game world but keeping it within a workable scope. Then Witcher 3 basically took everything they'd learned from the first two, refined the gameplay even more, created a truly excellent story (not sure how much the story was planned as a trilogy) and on top of it all expanded it into an incredible open world. But by the time they built the world for W3 they'd had two games to refine everything and had a formula that worked.

Compare that to Cyberpunk and it makes sense that it's not as polished. You can make the same irritative argument for Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Spiderman etc. I'm super excited based on that to play the New Horizon game.
Serverless comes with its own problems though - a less seamless dev experience and cold starts plus you have to host your data on their choice of data store etc.
Of course a fixed-length ISA has an inherent advantage for parallel decoding efficiency. The question is whether that is a decisive advantage in M1's impressive performance. After Intel refined their decoder and uop cache, you virtually never see that part of the frontend as a bottleneck when doing microarchitectural profiling. That's been true since Sandy Bridge but even more so since Skylake.

All the legacy junk in x86 is obviously a pain for Intel to support. Any blank-slate ISA is going to have an advantage there.
I'm sure you will be able to setup proper pipelines on new projects within a 24h time frame and be brilliant at finding root causes by reading the stack trace and associated sources in the blink of an eye when you will be a senior hacker, I'm not worried about that!

Anyway, I think your comment proves that once we decide to invest in something, our brain does everything it can to justify that choice, Human nature really :)
Related rant:

I really gave StackOverflow a try, and I have no intention of writing an answer ever again. I took 30 minutes to write a very detailed answer to a question, only to find out that the question has been deleted days later.

Looking at similar questions, there are 40k+ unanswered questions, mostly very low quality and from users with almost no "karma".

Why bother answering, when answers must be accepted by the poster and poster does not even know they should accept an answer in the end?

StackOverflow needs overhaul, but at its current size, we're better off starting something new.
I don't know the story here because of the paywall but there's another take on this.
An friend of mine who's an archeologist and is specialised in boat anchors was telling me that what makes the job hard is the looting. Treasure hunters would often damage a shipwrecks to get things out and take things that are needed by archeologist to a point where identifying the boat can't be possible anymore. This unfortunately happens quite often.
Many IRC channels have a culture of generosity, strangers assisting each other in real time. More generally, I wonder if this and working on open source projects would be equivalent to helping strangers/volunteering in real life.
When you start talking about introverts and extroverts you would first have to state to which ideas behind those concepts you subscribe to. If Jungian then you can be both introvert and extrovert in the same time.

If by wikipedia then you think they are exclusive and might even think that introverts are people who just want to sit at home.

Not wanting too much company can also be associated with highly sensitive people and not necessarily introverts. About 30% of highly sensitive people are in fact extroverted.

And there is no single trait or concept that makes someone a good leader but rather a mix of lot different psychological and biological setups.
It's amazing how often you see this response. It shows how socially disconnected some people are.
It's not the size. It's tangibility. Album art on Spotify is metadata. It's incidental. I don't notice it. On a CD it's part of the presentation.
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I’ll admit I was three sheets to the wind when I originally commented on this. Definitely could have left the ignorant low blows out.

That being said, I think what gets me most about this is it seems to overlook the fact that serverless exists to remove the effort and time and cost spent on maintaining servers and aims to allow developers to focus purely on providing value. There’s no doubt you pay more to have it managed by someone else, but at the same time costs are optimized as best as possible by only charging on a per use basis rather than having servers running all or most of the time to host services.

Massive monoliths are very difficult to maintain and often lack resiliency based on the often coupled nature of them. Microservices aim to solve this and also provide more ownership for teams. They also allow for flexibility in hosting as well.
>"You talk like using a physical server somehow prevents building a highly available system or from using automation. Why would the hardware be any more of a pet than any random VM in the cloud?"

It is pure scaremongering and making not very nice assumptions about people's abilities without any real substance. If this is the idea of attracting customers or advocating the approach it seems like a very poor job.
Isn't that the whole point of RISC-V's ISA extensions system though, so you can use a minimal base of standardised instructions for generic stuff with established developer tooling, but still have custom application specific instructions tuned to your design?
I always find this percentages puzzling. I reckon people busy thinking are too busy, or simply never get requested to fill in surveys about how they spend their idle CPU brain time.

Thinking is the last remaining freedom, as long as you don't say all the things you think of out loud. :)
But there is a cap on how much an individual consume. The same amount distributed among thousands would reallocate the money more efficiently.
True story: last "AWS Solutions Architect" I met told me "AWS is a sect and I am part of it", I'm still not convinced it was meant as a joke!
It also reduces the amount of space taken up by the connectors and such, and have a better testing suite without manual assembly, that can give false positives.
> I hear this a lot in interviews and it's a clear signal that you haven't worked on anything big enough yet.

Quite a bold wager, and totally incorrect. I hope you're not presumptive and rude to all of your candidates.

FWIW, I'm a senior engineer at a large tech company where I started pre-IPO and have had pretty great career growth. I've been on a variety of teams dealing with most of the levels of our stack: eventually consistent data models that are active-active, k8s, frontend, tearing down monoliths, etc.

I'm fine with microservices for medium to large orgs, and I love Kubernetes.

Lambdas and cloud are expensive lock-in, and holding this view doesn't mean you hate distributed systems or complexity. You can staff your own platform teams and manage your own capabilities. Imaging machines, upgrading, failing over - it's all automatable.

The excuse I hear is that companies don't want to build things that aren't related to their core competency. But I'd argue your software stack fundamentally relies on the environment it lives within and that ceding control poses a non-zero risk.

I'm incredibly fearful of the future where all software runs within AWS or Azure. We'll all be paying taxes to these companies and we won't be able to run or replicate similar environments on our own. It'll be difficult for new engineers to learn as our field will effectively become a "trade".

Can you imagine the world where it's expected that everything is composed of SQS and Lambda and other bullshit?
I'm a huge AMD fan. Been waiting all year for my dream Ryzen laptop but just given in to a MacBook Air M1.

I have no regrets, but this gives me hope that a true Ryzen ultrabook might exist next year, now that the industry have to take AMD seriously. I will sell my MacBook in a heartbeat if that happens.
The grandparent of your comment suggested that unemployed people are shamed because they don’t contribute meaningfully to society, in that they don’t produce anything or provide any services. Similarly, a hedge fund employee contributes nothing of tangible value to society. Sure, they use pension money to make money for themselves, but pensions don’t depend on that.
I am guilty of this as well. I had deleted one of my question, although there's no answer in it yet, only one comment.
some of the larger open source projects have IRC channels and email forums which are active and a reliable source of good advice, I would also look at Discord for communities focusing on a particular technology
Perfect :) I was searching for tutorials on how to set up my own OBS streaming proxy just 2 days ago. And Go is so very nice because I can compile all I need into one big monolithic binary.

Thank you :)
Everytime I read about D I think it fits the definition of the oft-quoted "boring technology" perfectly. One has to wonder why it did never take of like say Go. This has to be one of the greatest historical accidents in the evolution of programming languages.
Sitting in silence allows your brain to change, such that back outside you are more resourceful.

If you accept that premise, the a journey begins how to guide the time in silence such that your life quality "in noise" actually benefits well from investing into silence.

Notice that this has absolutely nothing to do with finance, material wealth, neither as precondition nor as outcome.
More than likely something is going on from the changes to the active neural circuitry. Usually the "Default Mode Network" is active. When this is quieted down, which is similar to what happens when you're on LSD, it's possible that very unusual states of mind and body (the "currents" mentioned, which I've experienced as well) can arise.
I'm in the same boat and debating waiting another year or going for the M1. I really don't like Apple's other policies though.
So taxation is voluntary? You'll upset a lot of libertarians with that attitude!
So it is mostly chats these days?

Would you happen to have a few suggestions for Android?
>IceWM used to be the fallback window manager in some OpenSUSE installations

Yes, Tumbleweed still installs it by default.
Because Hacker News is not Reddit. AMA exists on Reddit and Reddit is well served for that purpose, so why pollute the Hacker News feed with it?

People are free to post anything they want on Hacker News, it's then up to the community, via upvotes and downvotes to decide if they want to see it. If you don't see AMA on Hacker News it's because people who read Hacker News, in aggregate, don't want to see AMA on Hacker News.

Simple.
I do not think there is any real need. To me it is doing just fine. It does not have to beat every other language into submission.
How does it get the cash? How do you get the data?

Some services get away by being small enough that persecuting them costs too much but overall, laws work.
I need lots of harddrives and pcie slots for my type of work. No matter how fast the M1 is, I'd rather use i3-10100 instead.
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ARM has been eating away at Intel for a while now, the same way Intel ate away at the mainframe and minicomputer market in the 1980s and the MIPS/Sparc/HPPA/Alpha workstation market in the 1990s. While the mainframes and minis ate the low-cost PCs for lunch in the 1980s, and the $20,000 workstations of the 1990s had far better performance than a 386 (or even 486 did), PCs were cheaper and more widely available.

It was the economies of scale and the standardization on x86_64 that made the PC the performance king in the first 2000s decade. Intel (and, of course, AMD) x86 did not have the best ISA but they, because of economies of scale, had the best fabs which let them outperform anything else.

While Intel was dominating with raw performance in the first 2000s decade, embedded chipsets slowly coalesced around the ARM ISA, a process which was accelerated by Apple choosing ARM for the iPhone (Nokia also used ARM in a lot of their phones).

Moore’s Law finally stopped working for Intel and they stopped being able to outfab everyone else in the mid-to-late 2010s; a 2012 x86 chip has about the same performance as, say, a 2017 x86 chip.

Intel saw the writing on the wall with people using non-Intel ISAs for phones, and tried to make an Atom chip which would work in a phone; it was a flop. Nobody wanted the x86 ISA unless they needed it in systems which ran legacy applications.

With the Raspberry Pi moving up from only suitable for specialized embedded applications to having near-desktop level performance, and with Apple finally making an ARM chip which is competitive (and in some cases superior) to Intel’s desktop chips, and with legacy x86 Windows applications being in many cases replaced with webpage and smart phone applications, it looks the industry as a whole is finally moving past x86 and its bloated instruction set.

This is a much needed breath of fresh air for the computer industry. I like the M1 because I like that we now have mainstream non-x86 desktop/laptop computers again.

I think RISC-V has a lot of potential, and I am interested in what comes of it in the 2020s, whether it blooms like the ARM did, or if it goes the way of the HPPA, Alpha, or Sparc.
Gen. Chuck Yeager had 20/10 vision, was a mechanic, and was lucky enough to survive being a test pilot in the X-plane program (about half didn't make it.)

Those are qualities beyond "leadership and followership."
When your infra is in AWS, you need an "AWS Certified DevOps"[0] instead of a "typical DevOps", I mean, the typical OSS hacker - which is kind of sad really, and makes me wonder: is this how we're going to build an Idiocracy[1] ? Anyway, things like backups, monitoring, alerting, debugging, is going to be a requirement anyway, and for me it's harder when locked in proprietary stuff such as AWS, I'd rather have OSS I have freedom to hack ;)

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-devops-engine...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy#Plot
It's a shame people put so much effort into communicating this advice over Discord etc but it's basically lost to the void. I have trouble catching up with a single day's messages let alone years of in-depth conversation. Certainly you can ask for direct advice but sometimes people will shame you for not reading the logs. It's hard to believe we don't have some kind of combined irc + wiki solution yet.
Or worse, ask pointless questions just to prove they understand the content.
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Nearly everything has moved to Slack and Discord communities in my experience :(

Awful searching experience, gated, so many problems. But that's where the people are. I only hope Matrix can improve their UX and encourage at least some people to migrate there instead
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Engineering/Development on the internet most certainly suffers from information overload. On Medium alone you'll find multiple articles on one topic with completely opposing thoughts.

I don't necessarily see this as a negative thing, however. It's bad in the sense that sometimes I can't find a quick answer when I just want to copy paste a solution. On the other hand, I found that it has forced me to read multiple different solutions/opinions (often including source code), which deepens my knowledge on the topic and puts me in a better position to make an educated decision.

Sure, it'd be nice to have the perfect answer just slapped in your face. But nothing beats the feeling of finally getting something to work, but also understanding why exactly it works in the first place.
> The RISC-V has a terrible Instruction-per-Clock

How so? For one it's an instruction set, not a core design, but more importantly how is RISC-V harder to parallelize than Arm?
Early Google used commodity hardware to the point of being comical. Somewhere there is a "historical" display of commodity motherboards spread out on cork trays in a rack. Maximizing density/minimizing cost.

The ability to scale in this way with commodity hardware was new and important.
"Thinking is the last remaining freedom, as long as you don't say all the things you think of out loud."

Absolutely, right on both accounts. (Occasionally swearing under my breath sometimes gives the game away.)
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> clearly upvote/downvote system didn't happen by an accident, it's there for a reason

It encourages and prominently displays good quality comments, and discourages and buries poor quality comments. It's not a perfect system as a lot of people vote based on whether they happen to agree rather than based on a comment's quality, but it's much better than nothing.
The comparison with USSR is naive. The question is not capitalism vs communism. Is the kind of capitalism we have.

We have one where when the banks and people make bad decisions and get bankrupted with valueless contracts, the government save the banks, and the corporations and let common people go bankrupt.
The thing is M1 performance isn't really the point in itself though. This is the lowest performance core architecture Apple will ever produce for MacOS, aimed at their lowest end cheapest hardware. It's only one data point towards what we can expect when they take the gloves off and go after the performance end of the market for real.
that description should be on their front page; it communicates the concept more clearly than "A language made for WebAssembly" IMO
> yet the prices of houses continues to rise

Or, the value of the money continues to decline.

If you measure house prices in bitcoin over the past 10 years, then house prices have been in decline relative to bitcoin. This trend is likely to continue for some time.

Under disinflationary money, houses will become a consumable rather than an attempt to store wealth. The cost of housing will decrease over time (although wages will also decrease over time). Having a home sat there not collecting rent will cause you to lose money.

The desire to redistribute wealth will hit a hurdle when the wealth owners can store it in their heads and have it be completely unseizable, plausibly deniable and undetectable anyway.
This is something that annoys me, exhausts or worse. The amount of time wasted on bikeshedding and chapel wars is draining. I appreciate craft a little more because tooling and practices are more stable. You focus on work and not how to work.