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> Does `systemctl cat` also work for creating/editing units?

No, for that you would use `systemctl edit UNIT...` to create or edit a drop-in file, e.g. to add local overrides for an existing service, or `systemctl edit --full UNIT...` to open a copy of the existing unit file for editing which will replace the packaged version. Add `--force` to create a new unit file for a service which doesn't already exist.
This was done with a physical device rather than a calculated HRTF, and always impressed me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA
Hidden in your comment is the intent, Apple was selling the MBP with iPhone marketing intentions. You can put more of a $$ premium on storage if the micro SD card slot does not exist, much like an iPhone.
Outrage is an emotion. By itself it does not lend credibility to your cause. There is an excess of outrage in society, thanks BigSocialMedia. Hoping for a collective calm down.
It's not circular, it's simply causational. If a corporation does well, the owners of that corporation have demonstrated their merit. The goal is not to reward work, the goal is to reward risk. Owning a company is risky. Simply working at a company is not risky.

Successfully taking on risk and navigating from that risk to a successful and sustained outcome is what defines merit.

It is perfectly acceptable that the workers who do not take on risk through ownership at Amazon and Walmart do not get to have a say in what Amazon and Walmart do. It's also true that both Amazon and Walmart pay many of their employees with shares of their company, for this exact reason. Employees who become (small percentage) owners of a company demonstrate merit proportional to their risk, and generally proportional to their individual contribution.

It's not perfect, but if your goal is perfection, you will live the rest of your life dissatisfied and frustrated by inequity.
Apple very much against games, they've even broken OpenGL just because. Don't expect any type of gaming ecosystem around Apple anytime soon.
Do you think there will actually be a redesigned 13" MacBook Pro? My assumption was that it was being replaced with the 14", but maybe I'm mistaken!
This is interesting:

> However, Apple is unique in putting emphasis in keeping hardware interfaces compatible across SoC generations – the UART hardware in the M1 dates back to the original iPhone! This means we are in a unique position to be able to try writing drivers that will not only work for the M1, but may work –unchanged– on future chips as well. This is a very exciting opportunity in the ARM64 world. We won’t know until Apple releases the M1X/M2, but if we succeed in making enough drivers forwards-compatible to boot Linux on newer chips, that will make things like booting older distro installers possible on newer hardware. That is something people take for granted on x86, but it’s usually impossible in the embedded world – and we hope we can change that on these machines.
As someone who always hides the menu bar, though, having a notch is going to kill being able to switch tabs in Chrome, search in Outlook, or broadly, use any controls at the top of a window in maximized mode. I’m guessing the hidden menu bar is going away on this machine because it would break usability of all other apps.
I appreciate the concern, but the waste generated by a pair of AirPods for 1-2 years of use seems like nothing compared to all the plastic bottles the average American goes through in a week.
There appears to be a sea change in RAM (on a Macbook) and its affect on the price. I remember I bought a Mac Book pro back in 2009, and while the upgrade to 4gb was $200, the upgrade to 8gb was $1000 IIRC! Whereas the upgrade from 32GB to 64GB was only $400 here.

Back then, more memory required higher density chips, and these were just vastly more expensive. It looks like the M1 Max simply adds more memory controllers, so that the 64GB doesn't need rarer, higher priced, higher density chips, it just has twice as many of the normal ones.

This is something that very high and laptops do: have four slots for memory rather than two. It's great that Apple is doing this too. And while they aren't user replaceable (no 128Gb upgrade for me), they are not just more memory on the same channel either: the Max has 400GB/s compared to the Pro 200Gb/s.
Never checked? They're statically checked.

Also, tooling like https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/ can do runtime checking for important parts of your app or you can use this https://github.com/agronholm/typeguard to enforce all types at runtime (although I haven't measured the performance impact, probably something to do in a separate environment than production?).
I don't want to turn this into a self-promo fest, but if you look up "parrot falls off counter", that may, or perhaps may not be the video I cited at the top. lol.
Because banks are heavily regulated, professionally managed and back-stopped by the most powerful entities in the world (the governments of the countries of their operations).

Tether by contrast is a pretty much an obvious ponzi scheme that everyone is just playing along with because they're making money and hoping they get out with profits before it implodes.
See at a glance how games will play on Steam Deck
Taxes on the rich went down during that time https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/incom...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/10/04/us/tax-trump-weal...
It's negative for crypto.

You could argue it's positive for consumers.
I liked the concept when I first saw it but honestly it's more trouble than it's worth. On my old work laptop, it would sometimes bug out and stop registering touch. That's a problem when you are in the middle of a call and you need to adjust volume because one of the speakers is too loud or too quiet.

I also don't like how it's harder to operate than physical buttons. Too many times I hit the wrong spot on the bar and for example ended up putting my laptop to sleep instead of adjusting brightness. I've also tried to configure Ableton Live to do something useful with it (maybe mute/unmute tracks or control their volumes); but with little success.

Long story short: I'm happy to see it's gone.
you can always run an emulator such as QEMU if you really need x86 once in a while

working with it would be a pain, however, if you absolutely need x86 better get an Intel mac (possibly used) or a PC
Ok, I've changed the title—submitted title was "Apple new airpods with Spatial Audio". I don't know that that was so bad, since it's the feature Apple is emphasizing, but it's not a big deal.
Facebook says new leak to come any time soon
You can bring them back to an Apple Store or ship them back to Apple for recycling [1]. I dropped off a few old devices and batteries at my local Apple Store - it's very easy, especially now that they often have an employee standing outside of the store, just hand it to them and go about your day.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/30/how-to-sell-recycle-airpods/
Not sure which ones you used but pillow handled it flawlessly, and as I said, i zoomed fully in with a comparison program and there was barely any difference even at 80 percent quality while using up to 80 percent less space
I think every React component should be a docker vm.
CamNote
so you at least try with no bang first and find ddg search results unsatisfactory? if you default to !sp maybe it would be better to use use startpage as a search engine, is it worse in some way than duckduckgo (excluding obvious diff of bangs)
I don't use adblockers because I need to see the web as the 'users' see it. When I do use a blocker I always forget to turn it off to do troubleshooting. Eventually I left it off... I'll proxy or incognito or whatever when it need to.
Won't that make the chip bigger and/or slower? I think the compactness where the main components are so close together and finely tuned that makes the difference. Making it composable probably means also making it bigger (hence won't fit in as small spaces) and probably slower than what it is. Just my two cents though am not a chip designer.
I sort of think there are two mindsets behind this debate: people that miss the guard rails of a static type system and people that enjoy the experience of iterating quickly in a dynamically typed language. I don't really want to say everyone should pick one side or the other, just that my experience doesn't bear out the claim that "statically typed languages produce more maintainable code". And, the little bit of empirical evidence for this proposition is largely inconclusive: https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
That isn’t the only competition though. I have a lot of headphones and my favorite pair hasn’t fallen apart in 10 years.
Apple Marketing sometimes can be incredulous:

>"First with our contour design that delivers sound directly to your ears"

What does that even mean?!? These are in-ear headphones, how else are they supposed to deliver sound?

Feels silly to have such a comment to make a two point slide.
This was a recording with a head-shaped microphone, for spatial audio you have to implement the HRTF:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function
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All the processor options are really confusing.
"Right now 30+ journalists are finishing up a coordinated series of articles based on thousands of pages of leaked documents.
We hear that to get the docs, outlets had to agree to the conditions and a schedule laid down by the PR team that worked on earlier leaked docs."

- John Pinette, VP Communications at FB
Preferences vary; I don't like form fitting ear tips, I prefer old school earbuds, like air pods or ear pods.

I didn't want to miss out on spatial audio, so I'm excited by this update.
2012 MacBook Air here. Yep, I ordered a new 16" machine minutes ago.

It's funny how people on the internet were crying, "16GB is completely unusable!" Ummm... I have 4GB, and it works fine for everything. I'm even running Catalina.

Maybe it's not good for games? I don't play computer games. Maybe that's where all the teeth-gnashing and kiddie posturing comes from.
This only makes sense if you presume people throw away their laptops when they replace them after "a few years". Given the incredibly high second hand value of macbooks, I think most people sell them or hand them down.
More fun ...

Q: Who is Yann LeCun?
A: Chinese-born American

Q: Who is Geoffrey Hinton?
A: a British historian

Q: Who is Ian Goodfellow?
A: Ian Goodfellow is a British entrepreneur

Q: Who is Yoshua Bengio?
A: a French neuroscientist

Q: Who is Peter Norvig?
A: Peter Norvig

Q: Who is Andrej Karpathy?
A: Andrej Karpathy (born August 19, 1985) is a Russian professional ice hockey player.

Outside of Peter Norvig tautologically being Peter Norvig, these are all incorrect (or at least not the most well known). Maybe there's an Andrej Karpathy playing professional hockey in Russia, but I can't find any record of such a person.
> You make it sound like they're doing something illegal or punishable.

You make it sound like New York General Business Law §352 doesn't exist.
Since the links doesn't indicates, its license is GPLV3: https://github.com/Irev-Dev/cadhub
Yet another "because Facebook censorship is terrible, we need more censorship". Nobody ever looks at this sort of thing and says "maybe this means Facebook shouldn't be censoring anything".
Or Google could go to some effort to identify the individuals who are making a large number of false takedown claims, and block them from making claims?
How much waste is in an AirPod compared to literally anything else plastic?
Yep, I think this is called 'subpixel visual acuity' and there is a marginal benefit
So true. Maybe the refreshed Air in a few months will have more ports and be an even better value (relatively speaking).
> With the notch design you can't do that either without blocking parts of the UI!

I thought I was following until this part. Why couldn't you just put a post-it or whatever over the camera itself? There are no pixels where the camera is (although I would be surprised if this is not something under active research).
Taking what used to be free (replacing batteries in your remote/phone/device) and turning it into a service. Now that's innovation!
$4,298.65 in WA after tax, free shipping.
Well, the data is already public. Anyone can technically scrape if they want.
In addition, the MBA's minimum power draw is much lower than with the new MBPs. The M1 chip has four high efficiency cores where the M1X have only two.

However, mind that the screen brightness is much lower at 400 nits vs. 1000 nits on the new MBPs. Hence, using the laptop in the sun might be less convenient in comparison.
So many of the 'features' are merely the return of a few features kept hostage for too long.

Ports, a half decent webcam, scissor switches & mag-safe are exactly the 'features' that took zero effort from Apple's side to implement.

I like that this seems like the first real 'pro' device Apple has produced since the 2015 Mac, but the reason it took as long has entirely to do with Hubris rather than technical constraints.

The M1 series of processors are IMO the only new standout innovation in these current-gen devices. That being said, it is seriously impressive innovation and the other laptop manufacturers appear to be even more complacent. (Looking at Dell and Lenovo making the same device for 10 years with only the smallest of changes each time)

I like what Microsoft is trying to do with their devices, but they don't seem to be too keen on competing against their 3rd party customers directly. So you get laptops with weird form factors or ones that try to go for value-for-money instead of top class performance.
you get +8 GB of RAM, +256 GB SSD, a much faster CPU, and a 120 hz display for the extra $1000
Apart from the CPUs, once again; it is a no deal from me and another year of waiting.
For content consumption yes, creation maybe not.
If only the Software compatibility was there. I'd love to be able to skip buying expensive desktop machines exclusively for gaming.
No but they did move it back to the left side, which matches the location of the wire in most wired headphones. No more need to wrap the wire around the back of the machine...
That content is very well done, visually stimulating, and possibly could be edited into a documentary-style full-length video, or the content could be leveraged into something entirely different...

Wow, really great shots in there and on the web site. I recommend updating the youtube channel description with more info about the company.

Possibilities are limitless with OC these days, the main question is whether or not how it's leveraged will be interesting enough to others and/or successful within each possible format.

Think about how Anthony Bourdain turned the normally "boring" world of being a chef into a captivating documentary series that created "foodie" culture and ultimately CNN picked up... for starters... ;)
I fully expect Docker M1 support will match Intel shortly after this new macbook starts shipping
Nah, it'll be the same M1 Max. Just wait a few months like with the 24" iMac.
Does anyone know why would it need 140w power adapter? I thought the M1 chips are supposed to be more power efficient than the Intel ones, and they never needed >100w power adapter in the Intel days.

The new USB-C spec to support >100w power delivery was just out, I really hope they are following that spec in their new 140w USB-C power adapter.
You echo my sentiments exactly, I don't understand the allure but I can't deny its impact.
Absolutely, but desperate people are desperate and will find even more unscrupulous people who would do more than charge them interest if the loan is not repaid.

Understanding why they exist in the first place may be more important than banning them outright.
It’s a vm
For over a hundred years people have described the tendency of a capitalist enterprise to concentrate wealth and power. There is no fine distinction between small diverse competitive capitalism and oligopoly, they are different stages of the life cycle.

This is because small diverse enterprises proliferate at first in the growth stage and then winners start to emerge. When a crisis hits, the larger players snap up the bankrupt smaller players at bargain prices and get their best employees too. Over a series of crises, the market consolidates into oligopoly. Once the national market is nearly consumed, the remaining players look abroad to expand markets. There is nothing controversial about this, it is taught in business school.

https://hbr.org/2002/12/the-consolidation-curve

This of course assumes a life cycle that starts domestically. Many ventures instead start abroad witnessing an opportunity to exploit cheap labor, lax regulations, or a unique natural resource. The western governments then assist the western companies in securing the opportunity, usually through gangster tactics. The resources are then extracted from the country, processed by the company into higher value goods, and resold to the originating country.
Apple put the SD card slot back in, we can stop pretending now.
> I have huge respect for the PA Semi team, but they're basically wasting that talent if Apple only intends to silo their products into an increasingly smaller market.

They design the SoCs in all iPhones and soon all Macs. They have the backing of a huge company with an unhealthy amount of money, and are free from a lot of constraints that come with having to sell a general-purpose CPUs to OEMs. They can work directly with the OS developers so that whatever fancy thing they put in their chips is used and has a real impact on release or shortly thereafter, and will be used by millions of users. Sounds much more exciting than working on the n-th Core generation at Intel. Look at how long it is taking for mainstream software to take advantage of vector extensions. I can’t see how that is wasting talent.

> The government really needs to look into splitting Apple up to benefit shareholders and the general public.

So that their chip guys become just another boring SoC designer?
Talk about killing the golden goose. Also, fuck the shareholders. The people who should matter are the users, and they seem quite happy with the products. Apple certainly has some unfair practices, but it’s difficult to argue that their CPUs are problematic.
Americans don't seem to have a problem with war crimes, as long as it's their military who commits them. Even Russia seems more modest in this regard - when they down a passenger airliner, at least they don't pretend it was the right thing to do and don't proudly decorate the perpetrators.
It's good to have multiple options. I lug my laptop around and (rarely) need to connect multiple devices to it and sometimes I run out of ports. At home, I use a dock and the ports are useless, but that doesn't mean that I don't like the option to have more ports on the machine.
Fully agree with you!

I only mentioned the retron because it's in a similar category. But it's seriously terrible, having used one.

The only good portable emulators imo have really been other devices but repurposed. Like a tablet/phone + bluetooth controller, or something like an NVidia Shield.

Every other piece of plastic junk... well yeah, they work, but their emulators are generally jank with emulation glitches. And you generally can't update them like internet connected devices.

So if you ignore the marketing (and the lack of 6 face buttons for genesis games ;) ) this would be really nice device for that.

And I agree with the carts. Maybe it's nostalgia, or a yearning for a physical medium, but there's nothing like a shelf of media imo.

I used to be very into cassettes, splicing together mixtapes from other tapes, radio, computer, etc. in 2017. It's very pleasant putting a tape in the deck for work music.

If they can get their marketing straightened out, and the FPGA method gets a lot of mileage, I can see this being a really nice device.
$3899.
Cryptocurrency transactions are reversible through the legal system. If you violate a contract or commit fraud then I can sue you in civil court and get a judgment, which you'll have to satisfy by repaying the cryptocurrency (or fiat equivalent). Of course enforcing that judgment against a defendant in another country might be difficult.
Now you get the same amount of window space without losing the menu bar.
Wouldn't music producers use a dedicated DAC though?
If for many apps the top part of the screen is just going to be opaque black with no content, then that might push me towards a kind of full screen where the top menu bar is always available.
They are statically checked, if you run a type checker. Which many don't.
> There are literally still so many comments just like that and plenty of people who simply won't buy a phone that has a notch. The comments never stopped.

… and yet, sales have continued to be extremely high, which suggests that is a self-selected group of extremely vocal opponents rather than a real market trend.
Who was carrying around a bag of dongles? Any sane person would just get a tiny hub that fits in your pocket and has USB-A, HDMI, DP, SD, and whatever else you need.

Which is honestly a much better solution than adding SD and HDMI back to the Macbook. I know it's a controversial opinion around these parts, but I never understood the dongle-gate fiasco. A $30 portable hub will add those parts back to anyone that needs them. I sure as hell don't.
Don't know much about the graphics on an M1. Does it not render to a framebuffer? Is that framebuffer spread over all 4 memory banks? Can't wait to read all about it.
But without games to play on it. Instead, you could just get an Xbox Series X for half that price.
It's laughable incompetence and hubris, honestly. If you read any material from the original UXers of Apple they would have said the same. "Fingers on glass" can never beat the tactility of having actual keys. The versatility it affords mobile devices in terms of gestures and such is inappropriate for professional devices where we need speed and accuracy.
Hey, I can agree with this and who knows if they aren't planning on doing it.
You're probably right. Maybe they have inventory to work through!
> These laptops are focused on people who want to be able to do "everything" on a portable computer

Like 3D rendering? Or deep learning training?
A desktop RTX 3070 is 50-60% faster than a mobile RTX 3070. Which ofcourse is understandable.
Size can be deceiving when you don't factor in the materials used. Electronics are full of silicon and rare earths which have a far greater impact than even a bunch of bottles.
It doesn't take profanity to alienate readers who don't already share your views.

I don't know why you're commenting, since you're not the original commenter, and your very comment shows how you already recognize the generic accusation-of-privilege to be the problem (and how the word privilege is heavily coded with political affiliations and a whole pile of antagonistic/moralizing dogma at this point). You already knew how and why it would be inflammatory.

You recognized the problem, and opted to try to reframe it in more favorable terms to deny the possibility for improvement.

If the original commenter wants to reach across that Red Tribe / Blue Tribe divider and have an actual discussion (or even convince a neutral 3rd party of their views), their first sentence (and general tone) is quite counter-productive, and you know this.
You get a nice, perfect rectangle. It goes nicely with all the other rectangles in the product (case, keyboard, trackpad). Two lines of symmetry everywhere. Now the main rectangle has a big chunk out of it marring it and removing the horizontal symmetry. The larger bezel keeps everything looking nice. It's not like an extra 1/2 inch on the top is going to let me put my laptop anywhere easier. (Except on a plane while the person in front of me is reclining. Which happens a couple times a year, I can live with that, compared to staring at the gash every day.)