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Going from the M1 to any Intel-based system feels like downgrading from an SSD to an HDD. I really don't care what the benchmarks say, the user experience of the M1 feels a generation ahead of whatever the hell Intel is doing. I've yet to see any perceptible drop in the performance of the M1, even when doing the most demanding tasks in my workflow .

Every time I've gone back to one of my Intel-based systems, I've been shocked at how sluggish they feel. I catch myself debating whether these Intel PCs were really this slow two weeks ago, or if the M1 Air just completely upended my expectations of PC performance (hint: it's the latter).

And then there's the fact that no matter what I do, this notebook remains completely cool to the touch. Doesn't matter if I'm using Xcode, VScode, emulators, VMs, this machine always remains cool to the touch. I've yet to see this computer get above room temperature. It's remarkable. Meanwhile I cannot depend on my two generation old Intel MacBook Pro to stream a simple YouTube video without the fans revving up.

And the battery life is so good that I actually get disappointed when it lasts "only" 12 hours on a charge.

Then there's the little niceties. Such as how my windows instantly rearrange when docking my M1 Air to an external USB-C display. Or how animations are consistently 60 fps no matter what I'm doing. Or how the system instantly wakes from sleep.

The M1 MacBook Air is without doubt the best computer I have ever used. I never thought using a computer could ever be so pleasant. This thing feels magical.
Software support for the hardware encoding/deciding is very not good. Webcam streams mpeg to electron, electron probably decodes in software, reencodes in sofware, then decodes incoming stream(s) in software. If there's any client side encryption or filtering, that probably also happens in software. It's probably all JS software too. It's like the worst possible case for how to architect an app for performance. At least it's JITed these days.
Crypto Ban, RBI's Digital Currency and India's New Lithium-Ion Battery Factory
Not a good look. It's like trash talking opponent after they beat the shit out of you. Is there anyone at Intel who can actually make computer chips rather than slides and talking points?
We shouldn't forbid unhealthy foods, just restrict them to being occasional treats, as they should be. That can avoid much of the resentment.
That’s amusing but at the same time I’m glad I don’t have to interact with any software doing anything like this.
OK, so my knee jerk reaction was that the wavelength that starlink use simply won't allow it.
Practically the antenna needs to be at least 1/4 the size of your target wavelength [1]
It seems though space ex are using vanilla Ka, Ku and E band frequency, which have wavelengths in the centi to millimeter range.
It must be that we don't have enough devices yet to allow for seamless handover between sats, without ground based tracking antennas
[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/315915/why-do-we...
Yep this is indeed me. This article would clearly have its place on PRNewsWire rather than Bloomberg.
> occasionally I multiply my Mt Gox holdings by the current price of Bitcoin and imagine how life could be.

While this obviously doesn't justify what happened with Mt Gox, there was plenty of time afterward to reinvest at significantly lower prices than today, so I don't think it's fair to attribute all those losses to him.
Or maybe suing for libel brings a lot of attention so unless it's very bad most companies will opt not to sue, especially if the target is a major news organization.
Yup, and this is a few times worse than we're used to with widely used vaccines.

For a rare disease, this would be pushing the rate of side effects and risk that is acceptable. But you've got a huge risk of catching COVID, and COVID is many orders of magnitude more dangerous than the vaccine. At least for now: if COVID vaccination is required in the long term, vaccines may have to get better.

An issue here is that no one could risk the vaccine failing, with the limited time we had and the massive trial. In a normal process, it's likely that smaller doses would have been selected. But here it looks like both Pfizer and Moderna "rounded up" a bit from what phase 2 trials pointed to as doses. If I were in charge, I'd have funded a non-inferiority trial in December for 1/3rd dose, which would put us in a position in February-March to massively stretch supplies and reduce side effects.
It's also exciting to see a little fire kindled under Intel's ass.
The impure peptides is the part that scares me. What could be in there ? Could you end up moredead? The nasal pathway is quite direct I gather.

Stay safe !
Cheers
Mainframe programs used to be loaded from paper tape into memory and then run, so I've read. Maybe same for minicomputers.
It feels like it's been a long time since Intel gave a shit, especially on mobile. Look at their latest mobile cpus and they don't get any more performance per dollar than give year old processors. There's been absolutely zero excitement factor from Intel in, jeez, five or six years? When's the last time you saw a link to new Intel benchmarks and thought "oh hell yeah"?

Its sad, because I used to be hungry for it. I remember reading page after page about Sandy Bridge. I remember being wowed by Bay Trail with its cool, silent operation and its thirty dollar msrp.
Thanks very much. I have a lot of questions, but I can't remember all of them now.

What is big data?

Is "big" there has anything to do with bigquery?
Just realizing that I spent too much time yesterday taping off edge cases around overflow where a BigInt would be much more appropriate.
It's pretty obvious that he made an excellent, profitable investment and that his trading activity wasn't the factor that moved the market. It's embarrassing for our financial system that regulators focus attention on him.
How long do the posts last can we keep track of them...???
As a counterpoint, I would like to thank you Mark for what you built, and the movement you started. You did change my life and the lives of many others, enabling us to build the future. Lessons were learned by many. NYKNYC.

We cannot change the past, and we must build for the future. I think when the dust settles, you will be remembered as a pioneer and economy builder.
This was more of Windows over Mac rather than Intel Vs M1.
All the slides about gaming, creation, plugging in XBOX controller ?
Looking at the slides - Intel is desperate.
Does it even need to be banned? If the fear is that it will become a mainstream alternative to government issued currency, pushing it back to fringe would accomplish the same thing, would it not? Simply associating cryptocurrencies with unsavory activities should be enough to make it radioactive to the average person. It probably wouldn't even take that much effort. A few high profile arrests of producers of child pornography and some human traffickers should do it. Have the media highlight the stories day and night for a couple of weeks. Once the association between cryptocurrency and pedophilia is made, the only people still willing to be involved with it will be those who are already deep in the shadows.
Use this link: https://brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BIA_...
The WizSecurity comments are shown as a thread, those are the most relevant imo
I agree, however I threw out any rock candy given out to our kid and mostly kept sugary drinks away. These two categories are the absolute worst.

Another thing I didn't expect is arguing with the spouse about it, who will also undermine the effort.
Can we please stop discriminating ex-cons? Stop asking them this on job applications and hosting contacts
On the flip side is this not an example of technological deceleration that we aren't seeing mass deployment and adaptation? Maybe it's not a good thing either.
Could be because 42 is not a semiprime.
Good. Let them work their way back.
MtGOX was one of a few situations which would have led me to having a million in the bank if not for seemingly small changes. Alas, it didn’t happen, and honestly there were many other ways that it would have otherwise not happened. Sure its fun to multiply tens of bitcoins I once owned by the all time high, but this is about as effective as thinking about picking different lottery numbers. It would be nice if I got every coin back from mtgox, my balance would sell for something between a nice car and a nice house these days, but this is reality, reality has risks, and I made risky choices and got the results which I did.
Our country had multiple car ride company launch a few years back and you could choose between Uber, Grab, Gojek, etc to get someone to drive you.
The UI for Uber was the cleanest and most easy to use. I remember having to just do 2 steps to get a ride, as opposed to about 6 steps on the other offering the same service (e.g. Grab: choose "Ride", input Pin, input current location, input where to go, tap book, tap confirm)

Uber got out of the market way back, and the other ones are now getting up to speed to how advanced its user flow was. Grab now ask you to input where you want to go to first for example (like Uber back in the days).
I only have ~1.5TB stuff that is really important which fits on a single LTO5 tape. (I said LTO6 before, I was mistaken) I archive every ~3 months, generally before I make bigger changes. I always do a full tar archive, it typically takes the whole day, definitely an event my family is aware of. I use a desktop HP Ultrium LTO5 drive. I fit on a single tape, but even if I didn't, changing tape twice a day would not be an big ask.

Months of researching, ~$900 total on 2 used drives (first one was broken) + enclosure + SAS controller + 5 tapes.

You need the enclosure with forced air cooling, you can't put the bare drive in a PC tower, it will overheat.

I cannot imagine archiving 20TB with my cheapo setup, but I also cannot imagine spending ~3K for a newer drive, this is a sweet spot for me. After buying a broken drive first, I am now always nervous that this drive will quit on me. It is definitely a passion project at this point.
Maybe we can also compare Visual studio and Xcode on compiling XNU and mark VS as infinite time, since VS cannot compile XNU?
Miami mayor says Elon Musk will tunnel under the city for just $30M
I just don't see how any network can even compete with https://na.chargepoint.com/charge_point

Are we saturated yet? Demand forecast?
https://www.plugshare.com/

There seems to be a rather large number of charging stations in America already...
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One where people visit his site, I suppose.
So you are commenting on the veracity of the article, then?
They do, they just stopped calling it surge pricing (or anything else). They just show you the higher price with a microscopic grey text underneath that says 'there's a lot of demand, prices are higher now'. If you don't take that route often and know the average price, like when you're travelling or in a city that you're unfamiliar with, you'd be excused to think that's the normal price and just go for it instead of waiting a few more minutes or checking Lyft instead.
What about secure DNS?
As a few folks have mentioned it often manifests itself as hyperactivity, depression, and inability to focus. Basically a blood sugar rollercoaster.

Young bodies can tolerate even crappy diets. It's a different matter when older however. If it isn't turned around by their fifties say, they'll be in for a world of hurt. That's why it habits must start young.
How do you format your external drive in 2021 to use with both: Linux and macOS?
If you really want big external drive capable of being used safely(!) at least by both Linux and macOS :

What is the best and safest format to use for
big files/backups/disk images etc?

Is it possible at all? I heard many bad things about ExFat, that is not safe and invitation for failures? But what is the alternative then? Do we have one in 2021?

Is it practical to use zfs for instance?

In general, what is the safest format to use for storage
that will be readable in some observable future by different OSes?
I think it's more productive to think about what you'd do in the typical case.
This is actually the main reason I left California. Legalized lawlessness. Law enforcement fought like crazy to convince people that this was terrible legislation. Unfortunately, it passed and I packed up my stuff a few months later. Most folks in other states don't realize how bad the situation is in the Bay area.
Zoom doesn’t use Electron, and AFAIK it’s all native code.
Well there's a reason there are safeguards agreements and inspections. The idea is a slow mutual drawdown and then eventually a rapid final disarmament once a critical low threshold is reached.

You can maintain the safeguards and inspections indefinitely via the IAEA.

https://www.ctbto.org/verification-regime/
Inhaling peptides is not a vaccine unless they are using an adjuvant. You need something to kick off the immune response and recognize the peptides as associated with a pathogen, otherwise you’d be getting immune responses to everything you inhale in the environment (like when you cook).

And if they are using adjuvants, well then as others have posted.. autoimmune issues can be real.

It’s not that it’s not possible... just something you might want to try on a mouse before up your nose. Why oh why experiments on yourself or suggest this to others without lots of warnings?
Personally, I've become convinced that AI is just an elaborate jobs program scheme thought up by washed out PhD students to bilk gullable venture capitalists out of endless amounts of money.
I heard this is done in some parts of Texas actually (?).

Property taxes go up in a more sane way, and if you can't afford it, you get it tacked on to the sale of your home at the end...
This is still an under researched field (with a lot of alternative medicine types surrounding it), but there have been some studies that even relatively minor antibiotic usage in childhood may have long-term impacts. And there are more (and better) studies that gut flora isn't back to normal 6 months after a course of antibiotics. It's something of an open question currently. It seems like there may be a few stable microbiomes that can develop in humans; some are better than others for health.
Agreed; my M1 macbook air is the best and fastest computer I have ever owned and it isn't even close. Instantly being on from sleep has made my work intel macbook pro feel old. Teams meetings turn the intel fan into a jet engine. My M1 macbook joins zoom meetings in utter silence for many, many hours without plugging in. I have yet to see a stutter or dropped frame in the M1 UI. My work intel mac pauses when swiping between workspaces on a regular basis.

Intel should be panicking; the M1 is incredible.
Thank you for posting this. I was aware of the bankruptcy press conference, though honestly (but perhaps incorrectly) perceived most of it as "My lawyer made me say this". I feel your message here which you posted even after all these years does convey true regret.

I agree with you on the idea of a new exchange. While it is a hopeful idea, ultimately I don't think that it would be very fruitful. In my opinion, it is about as far fetched as the idea of working with the US Government to get the feds seized from BTC-e to repay the creditors (because apparently the BTC-e folks were the ones who executed the Gox attack?). I assume you agree getting coins from the US Gov't is far fetched.

Thank you for highlighting CoinLab's (Peter's) actions. I am so very ready for the bankruptcy to be over, I can only imagine how ready you are to move on from it.

I appreciate the thoughtfulness you've given to your words. Please don't stay silent.
Thank you! I only opened the software once and didn't check settings. Enabled high DPI and it worked. Wondering why they doesn't enable it by default.
Arguably drunk people are the core user group of Uber. Aside from consultants and high powered executives, most people (pre-pandemic) went to bars far more often than they go to airports or other places where taking a personal car is inconvenient or otherwise illegal.
Order peptides they say? Won't scale in a pandemic. And in regular times we can get vaccines no problem.
,,In battery life, Intel switched to an Intel Core i7-1165G7 notebook, the Acer Swift 5, rather than sticking with the Core i7-1185G7 in the whitebook it used for performance testing''

Wny not just test the Intel laptop in sleep mode? That way it has a chance to compete with a running MacBook.
And soon they will be owned by oil companies. That’s the point. These large oil companies have so much money they just will buy the companies that run the networks. Throw a dart at any station on chargepoint.com and it could be owned by big oil.
Compared to the number of gas stations, this is still rather low. Since you actually have a lot less throughput at a charge point versus a gasoline vendor, we'll actually need more charging stations than gas pumps.
Have you made a successful vaccine to a major virus before in your basement?
How much were you thinking of spending on this thunder-cougar-falcon-bird?
I learned a lot about ice cream by watching this expert talk through the pros and cons of different ice creams: https://youtu.be/lma9TNjj_O8

She is the founder of Jeni’s, which is probably the highest-end ice cream I’ve come across.
Does that matter? My objection to big oil, such as it is, is the carbon emission/fossil fuel stuff. I don't have a problem with the corporate structures inherently.
Try running 15k containers, dnsmasq and powerdns fall over pretty fast. I have to run a BIND cluster of 3 machines to support the days when I am running at-scale testing of software (low load, but high instance count is a better fit for my work these days). I use 4th gen i7 machines as DNS resolver/caching servers, and using dnsmasq on the same machines I start to have issues around 400 clients, massive latency, broken responses, tons of crazy stuff. One BIND instance and I can get to about 7500 clients before it starts to get squeezed.

The difference is huge in other ways, though. Configuration, operations, and maintenance of the BIND cluster is 20 fold more involved, and when things break, they can break in really confusing ways. Such is the world of computing though, the better something performs, the more places it has where you can mess it up.
Good luck buying up Tesla.
Er, Supermicro servers being surreptitiously implanted and installed in customer networks are existentially-threatening allegations against their business. I struggle to imagine what “very bad” would be in your view if that doesn’t rise to the bar.
Saw this coming.

I see the end goal as making EVs as expensive to drive as ICE powered vehicles.

I can't see electricity prices coming down ever, and as EV penetration increases there will be plenty of ostensible, or actual, reason to charge (ha!) a premium for EV charging, especially if you're not fortunate enough to own a home and require either on-street or a benevolent landlord who will likely charge (ha!) a premium for charger installation / continued access.
Because it'd make everything look huge in non-high DPI displays. It's a trade off, but most people still use them.
Kind of like self driving cars, so many edge cases, so many unknowns in deployment. Got to test the shit out of it.
Would you happen to know if Spyder renders interactive Plotly plots in console or inline? I know that I can open plots in a browser window, but it is not as convenient.
> I honestly haven't thought deeply about the ethics

"but here's my half-baked opinion anyway"
I'd guess actually we'll need significantly less charging stations than gas stations at full electric conversion being that you can fill up at home and its most desirable to do so time and cost wise. I have an electric car and use a charging station about once every 3 months when on a long trip.
It’s still pretty impressive that they pulled off a basically seamless architecture transition. M1 + Rosetta 2 just works so well it’s hard to even tell the difference much of the time.
With DNS there are a few problems:

* Your name, address, and other details are exposed in Whois DB linking all your details to a real name / address.

* You are subject to regulations on domain name use. For example if you have an .eu domain and you live in the UK, you had to either have a new address in the EU after brexit or abandon it.
There are regularly same chain gas stations on the same corner because people don't search for a station, they use one that doesn't require an extra left turn. I don't ever see an EV station and live in a large city. I think that map gives a false impression of density.
Except most people charge at home, and most driving is local.

You only need charging stations when traveling long distance.
when could you buy music on Google Music (itunes style)? I was only aware they stored user music in the cloud and then later started a subscription streaming service.
Apple is now offering $500 credit instead of $200 after returning the DTK
The credit’s expiry has also been extended to the end of the year.

I’m sure that they have realised that they didn’t handle it well.
I would call it that, but Youtube Music is not just a rebranded service.

* Instead of a library of songs to listen to, you're listening youtube videos without the video. I make playlists with them and songs disappear randomly.

* The player is buggy. The music will skip, or randomly restart. Randomly a song won't play because it says the format isn't supported (which doesn't make any sense), and then the playlist stops altogether.

* In Google Play Music, you Liked songs and they would be in a Liked songs playlist. In Youtube you like videos and they are in a Liked Videos list. In Youtube music, after you've merged it, you now have a Liked list that is both your music from GPM, and every Youtube video you've ever liked that's also a song.

Youtube music is a drastic step backwards from GPM. I would've left for spotify already. but I appreciate also having Youtube without ads, and I don't want to pay for both services. I would've been happy with GPM sticking around forever with next to no updates, but Google always has to change something so managers can get their raises and promotions.
Apple increases DTK credit from $200 to $500
Wow. Intel's slides /reek/ of desperation.

Intel can't beat Apple on performance per watt (other than price, that is the only metric that really matters), so they claim their competitive advantage is that there are more Steam games on Windows?
Unless the artificially keep prices high so as to keep gasoline as a cheaper fuel.
> bio hacking your own vaccine. Seems like an interesting trend to follow

There's only one of you, no second chances if you mess up.
My field, medical device software, has very long product cycles. It's not that my teammates are taking a long time to learn, it just takes time for a project to reach maturity.

Additionally, we've all been learning to collaborate in a new mode, with immense distractions. Prior to our reorg, we'd never actually worked together before. And we all had our own deadlines we were trying to meet. The last 11 months have been pretty awful, ya know?
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I really don't get how someone can casually screw someone out of such vast sums of money and not live in fear watching their back the rest of their life. They must really be confident the individual would remain mentally stable. Not everyone will just walk away quietly and meditate, some people will definitely try to find the best way to put a bullet in your head.

If you're going to screw someone, you should at least come up with some cover story that shifts the blame away from you, and even then you better hope the truth isn't discovered.
uhhh... anyone who actually uses the app is presented with the transfer button. You'd have to not have used the service for a very long time to not see the button