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> Well, for a start, they can't say 'we quit for the week at 5 on a Friday' in your global timezone scheme - they have to say 'at 04:00 on a Friday'.

Just for clarification, when I said "5 on a Friday", I wasn't making the error of thinking that New Zealanders could say that they leave work at 5 p.m. on Friday, I was (perhaps naively) hoping that along with getting rid of time zones, we would also be moving to 24 hour time, so "5 on Friday" means "5 A.M. UTC" in our current time spec.

> If you get rid of timezones and assume that the only 24-hour periods worthy of naming are ones that run from 00:00 - 23:59 UTC, you've condemned most of the world to not being able to use dates to unambiguously identify a given sunup-sundown period.

That's correct. To my mind this is the only downside of getting rid of timezones. As the OP of this subthread said, I'm quite happy to end up with the worst possible 24-hour-period to daylight mapping out of all of them in exchange for getting rid of timezones. I simply think the upsides to the proposal are so extreme as to completely outweigh this one downside, even for a person "stuck" with the worst outcome.

In response to your other points, my view is that we really should bite the bullet and always use UTC for everything (or whatever, it doesn't really matter; if making Beijing our universal time is the only way to get China on board, I say we do it). In other words, we do not compromise to keep local day names consistent. We always and only use "Sunday" to refer to 0-24 hrs UTC. My view is that people would adapt to this rather quickly, much as they would adapt to our switching to the metric system, despite the enormous number of complaints you hear about that. (My understanding is that those in the US military already do this as "Zulu" time, which makes communication much easier.)

My only point vis-à-vis cross-continent business hours is that this strict UTC adoption proposal does not make anything more difficult than it already is, and in some cases may make things easier. Right now, you have to think about what time and what day it is for someone on another continent. In my imagined future, you have to worry about whether the person is normally working right now. It's effectively the same problem, but communicating about the problem has suddenly become easier, because you share a language in which to discuss your available hours.
Thank you for the valuable feedback I will do this
and in the 00 it will be mass immigration of people who are according local standard tests regarded as retarded.
> iPhone games are an entire different beast however, and likely not what people “want”.

Most of those mobile games you're thinking of are made with Unity, Unreal, or one of a few other general purpose game engines. Those same engines are used for a significant chunk of PC games as well. The AAA developers who have in-house engines like to reuse them as well. It doesn't matter if a given game does or does not support mobile if it uses an engine that does.
While Tesla Insurance has potential, I'd don't recommend it at this time.
Not when the viewpoint is a transparent, blame-shifting hit piece.
If only 10% of homes are designed by architects then it's probably 1% who have an interior designer involved.

We are in the middle of a remodel and involving an interior designer as early in the process as the architect resulted in a much different layout and floor plan than if we only worked with an architect.

The architect helped us make sure the house was structurally sound and the interior designer helped us make sure suited our needs.
And this is the biden administration. Why did we vote Democrat again?
> once we've finished networking everything that could reasonably be networked

I highly doubt we'll come to terms on this one.
This could backfire on Tesla. If Tesla have better data than every other insurance company, then they'll be cheaper for low-risk drivers. But now other insurance companies know the only drivers that will not use Tesla insurance are high risk, so Teslas become harder to insure with all other insurance companies for a large fraction of drivers (and you don't know in advance if that's you), which in turn makes them less desirable to buy in the first place.
M1 only allows one external monitor (you can run 2 with some docks if you turn off the laptop screen). This isn't such a problem for me as I have an ultra-wide, but lots of people with dual/triple monitor setups haven't been super thrilled.
People are bad with passwords, so while I understand that a single key to the kingdom is a nasty idea, it's better to have most people trust password managers. Better 1 bad password in 1 service than 1 bad password in 20 services, lower attack surface, though the gains are much greater.
Don't get me wrong: It's impressive and I have huge respect for it. I also bought one.

However, it would be surprising if Apple's new 5nm chip didn't beat AMD's older 7nm chip at this point. Apple specifically bought out all of TSMC's 5nm capacity for themselves while AMD was stuck on 7nm (for now).

It will be interesting to see how AMD's new 6000 series mobile chips perform. According to rumors they might be launched in the next few months.
Quality of interior is so overlooked in these sorts of threads. Yes - from orbit it might look trashy.

From the pov where people actually exist, it's got 13' ceilings, plantation shutters, induction cooktop, tesla power wall, gigabit symmetric connection to the goddammit internet, dedicated home office with bookshelves and brick facade, and a monstrous 5 ton air conditioner to keep it all comfy. Oh and the sprinkler system is on an automatic timer so you don't have to even think about how shitty a typical American lawn is. You pay guys to do that for you.

Living in American suburbia is an unmitigated paradise if you can get over the principled outrage of how bland it all is in aggregate. The uniform nature of the developments is the reason why we can have nice things like fiber to homes. It makes economics of infrastructure way more acceptable and predictable.
I went from a 2016 top-of-the-line MacBook Pro to an M1 Mac mini, and I can't believe how much faster things are–including Docker with Rails, PostgreSQL, etc. Out of curiosity, are you running native (arm64) containers? Aside from an issue now and then with my secondary HDMI display, my machine has continued to blow me away. My development environment is almost on par with our production environment, which is a nice change.
Figure out your income/hour, how many hours/day you plan to use the device, and realize saving pennies per hour on a machine that is your lifeblood isn't necessary.

You don't need to spring for extra storage, stick a 1TB SD card in the slot.
Ugh, this just came to me and I hate to put this deviltry in the air:

But right now, kinda feels like Microsoft buys Steam or dies.

(Maybe not dies, but "becomes IBM.")
Hey no worries! I should have said native speaker in the US. :)
Some of the other attempts are a little subtle, this one is a pretty blatant attempt to rile up the folks that are already angry about rust for whatever reason. Please stop.
> Intelligence is certainly a major factor but external factors such as having a stable home with quiet times that are conducive to studying, good nutrition, good role models, and good teachers play a major role as well.

Tests like Raven's Progressive Matrices [1] should make all of these things irrelevant except nutrition, since the tasks involved are things nobody really studies for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
I previewed an early version of this book, and it's a great resource for any person or team that is thinking about how to effectively run remote or hybrid teams.

NikB
I don't think they are all that competitive when it comes to insuring electric cars.
Adding to all the usecases listed by other commenters.

Having a higher performance per watt numbers also implies less heat from M1's perspective. This means that even if someone isn't doing CPU/GPU heavy tasks, they are still getting better battery life since power isn't being wasted on cooling by spinning up the fans.

For some perspective, My current 2019, 16inch i7 MBP gets warm even if I leave it idling for 20 - 30 mins and I can barely get ~4hrs of battery life. My wife's M1 macbook air stays cool despite being fanless, and lasts the whole day with similar usage.

The point is performance per watt matters a lot in a portable device, regardless of its capabilities.
I apologize for going out on a tangent, but I jus have to draw some attention to this quote from the article:

> McFadden, 44, said she was previously healthy and needed two emergency surgeries to remove massive clots in her lungs, heart and left leg. She spent nine days in the hospital, racking up $489,153 in medical bills, she said.

Seriously, US of A. What the hell is this? How is this even possible?
When I've been sick in the past I've often thought that it would be nice to have recourse against the people who infected me.

This is life though. It's not practical, moral, or enforceable.

The best thing one can do is put effort into the factors they can control—diet, exercise, avoiding unnecessary conflict to keep stress low, etc.
Google would never have wanted to put the Play Store on Windows because they actually compete with Windows. Access to the Play Store is a selling point of ChromeOS.
Even so it seems the administration pretends they don't exist [1] or even wants to take their marketshare [2]. The established automakers have a cozier relationship with the established politicians I guess.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-05/biden-snu...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/tesla-toyota-and-honda-criti...
I'm really surprised someone technically minded thought it's a good idea to not allow non ASCII alphanumerics in a username.

Unicode has been a thing since 1988. Names have included non a-z characters since forever.
> The sophons were so annoying. So they build these god-in-a-box fundamental particles that would be perfect for scouting out all nearby solar systems for habitable planets, and they instead use them only to give the human race a wedgie.

Just a note on this - "Trisolaris" is that species' name for themselves and their star system in the books, but the actual location is Alpha Centuari, which is the closest star system to Earth, just 4 light years (400yrs at .01c).

The Trisolarans actually did exactly what you say, used the Sophons to find nearby habitable planets. It's just that the nearest one was already inhabited, so they chose to invade and colonize it instead of finding another further away.

Not terribly implausible, especially since the 400yr journey to Earth was already high-risk to the survival of their species, and a longer journey to a further planet would be even moreso.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/alpha-cent...
No, Facebook/WhatsApp is a choice various countries and cultures made, and that choice can be unmade. You can't un-make the choice to adopt electricity, you can make the choice to support Signal or Telegram or MMS or whatever.

Again, your complaint is about people. You don't like a choice they made, but it was a choice those people made and continue to make.
Well, the MAX has double the memory bandwidth of a PRO, but I cannot see workloads other than the ones you mentioned where it would make a significant improvement.

Perhaps ML but that’s all proprietarized on CUDA so it’s unlikely.

Perhaps Apple could revive OpenCL from the ashes?
Am I misreading? It looks like they ported the DirectX runtime to Linux under GPL 2.

>> "This is the real and full D3D12 API, no imitations, pretender or reimplementation here… this is the real deal. libd3d12.so is compiled from the same source code as d3d12.dll on Windows but for a Linux target. It offers the same level of functionality and performance (minus virtualization overhead). The only exception is Present(). There is currently no presentation integration with WSL as WSL is a console only experience today. The D3D12 API can be used for offscreen rendering and compute, but there is no swapchain support to copy pixels directly to the screen (yet )."

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel/tree/e445d061...

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel/blob/e445d061...

>> "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0"

They're also working on supporting all the standard Linux equivalents according to your link. I don't see the third E here.
The non-PNG Apple touch icons might be CgBI files? It's an undocumented proprietary Apple extension to PNG which most PNG tools won't accept, but which Xcode uses for iOS apps.
The hype was probably mostly from "Crazy" Ken Kutaragi, who had a knack for dialing the Playstation hype beyond 11. The PS2 was already supposed to replace your home PC and revolutionize ecommerce and online gaming and plug yourself into the Matrix [1]. In the past he was compared to Steve Jobs by some, but in hindsight he seems more like Sony's Baghdad Bob.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/here-comes-playstation-2-156589
Umm...IQ scores tend to be stable throughout life, and ability early in life is predictive of ability later in school. Kids who are slow in kindergarten, with few exceptions, do not go on to be whizzes in the 5th grade. Also, it's not like gifted programs are only limited to kindergartners.
I dunno. East Berlin is pretty soul-crushing, with its block upon block upon block of blocky blocks. Warehouses for humans.
One Billion Tons: CO2 Reductions and a Faster Coal Exit in Germany
Tesla Fans, Musk Lash Out at NHTSA Safety Adviser as Biased
Don't hold your breath. Safari is the new IE6.
Have you considered bird watching or needlepoint?
M1 Pro has the same CPU cores as the M1 Max, just half the GPU cores (and video coding cores). So you can get the same CPU performance in the 14" for as little as $2499.
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Wrote with typescript across a number of different serverless services...long story haha. Wanted to use it as a learning opportunity as well on some new technologies.

- DB is Fauna which is pretty awesome and has a native GraphQL API - definitely worth checking out.

- The scheduler to kick off the process is hosted on a CloudFlare worker. Was very easy to set a cron to kick off a process. Surprised I hadn't run across similar functionality at other cloud providers before.

- The majority of the business logic is run with Deno on Deno deploy. While the package ecosystem isn't there yet, the sensible defaults for TS, built in linter and formatter and deployment product were great. Seems like it has a nice foundation for the future.

Overall I'm game for any product that lets me not maintain or think about servers and is not AWS...
I remember speculation at the time that the PS3 would be able to borrow from other cell powered appliances in your house when it was running, i.e. your toaster, to enhance its power.

Actually, I just did a quick Google on this and it was "Sony" themselves that appeared to mention this! [1]

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cell-broadband-engine-ps3-...
What? This point made sense until the tangental snark after 'because'. Should've stopped there.
I'm curios on the difference between the 8 cores and 10 cores for the M1 Pro. I'm definitely not going to get the Max, I'm just not the user that needs the GPU's
With natural immunity showing a better robustness response than the vaccines, I wonder if they had exemptions for that.
the interesting thing is, racial IQ gaps are wider or persist more so for culture-fair tests than purportedly biased questions.
It feels like it almost did. There was a pretty frustrating couple of years there where it wasn't clear if 2.x or 3.x was going to be the winning version and the Python community seemed to have a lot of disagreement on that subject. My team invested heavily in alternatives like Node.js at the time to hedge against Python dying.

However, Python 3 did at least eventually have a reasonable backwards compatibility story which Perl 6 never really seemed to have. It's a bit harder to do now since Python 3 has marched on while Python 2 is formally unsupported now, but for a while in the 2.7/3.3 days, it was relatively straightforward--if a bit icky at times--to have a single code base that would support either version of Python, and many library and app developers took advantage of that to allow as-seamless-as-possible transitions, rather than the whole community having to immediately spend a ton of effort porting their entire code bases to an incompatible language. Mechanical code rewriting tools which were introduced during that period like 2to3 also helped ease the transition for many use cases and code bases, too.

The downside of all that is related: Since source compatibility was possible, the package distribution method remained the same, and at the same time for all the usual reasons, some useful packages never got updated with Python 3 compatibility changes. Today, there are still libraries in PyPI which can be pip installed with Python 3, but you can't actually use them because they never got the attention needed to be compatible with it. If the package is a pure Python code base, you might not even find out until you try to import the library or call a function, class, or method. Then you get to spend time in your favorite search engine trying to hunt down an alternative. Very annoying.
Porsche is doing good, they plan to sell over 40,000 BEVs this year and 60-80,000 cars next year. Their growth rate looks good but that is still a far cry from what Tesla already sells and plans to sell next year.
> but I wonder if the difference in Finland versus the US is that the concept of what a “good education” looks like is largely shared in Finland while there are very divergent and often times conflicting views of what “good education” looks like in different US communities.

Oh 100%, there are cultural differences here that are significant. And America is a far more diverse country than, essentially anywhere else in the world.

With that being said, I think a lot of our problems stem from the extreme segregation that is still with us today.

In reality, segregation legally ended, but we really didn't take efforts to "undo" the damages done by segregation and have kinda...let it become a compounding failure.

Our economic system, has an amazing marketing team. Low regulations, government steps out and only comes in to protect your property & your rights. But in reality it ignores that:

1. Society health depends on *everyone in society*. Society health is important. People suffering in your country is not something that anyone likes.

2. Okay, so people are suffering. We have a system where they can... well, try to better their lives. But is that actually the case?

3. Okay, fine, it's not actually the case. What *is* fundamentally broken then? What CAN we do to actually live up to the American dream?

These questions have really lead me down into the path of "I...don't think Capitalism is optimized for social health, but focused on individual health. And I think that's bad"
I think having scripted demos that hide error messages is sketchy, if you're representing the demo as "being your product". You're saying "this is my product" and you're showing something that "isn't your product".

Doesn't mean I'm against demos - but normally you can come up with a slice (or two if you're lucky) through it that genuinely works and shows for a representative scenario (and if your arm's twisted you just say that with more money, you can support more scenarios).
Fun fact: Jimmy Hoffa remained president of the union even after being convicted and imprisoned. He only resigned as part of his commutation agreement with Nixon.
Wait, so you're telling me all I have to do to get at that juicy $1B blue team is hire the $1M red team? Where's the catch!? /s
I have a three-year old hand-built 16-core ThreadRipper 1950X machine here with 64GB 4-channel RAM. I have a 14" MBP M1 Max on order. I just checked the Geekbench scores between these two machines:

M1 Max: 1783 single-core | 12693 multi-core
1950X: 901 single-core | 7409 multi-core

That's a big difference that I'm looking forward to.

Also, just checked memory bandwidth. I have 80GB/s memory bandwidth [1] on my 1950X. The MBP has 400GB/s memory bandwidth. 5x(!)

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_threadripper/1950x

*EDIT adding memory bandwidth.
Many of the ugliest buildings (trashy Brutalist stuff, say) were built before relativism (however defined) became dominant. This doesn't fit your pet theory.

Further, many people have had and have objective theories of aesthetics, while not being religious.

Finally, many beautiful buildings from the Renaissance era were inspired by classic Rome and Greece. The ultimate cause of that gain in objective beauty was a rejection of Christianity and an embrace of pagan learning and ideals - that's a trollish way of putting it, but at any rate the delineation between religious and secular aesthetics is not so clear as a partisan might hope.

Many of the most intellectually interesting people I know have revived their interest in religion, especially Christianity. There is no excuse for approaching the matter simplistically.
We didn't vote Democrat, we voted "lesser of two evils."
I don't want to get into a whole thing over this Simpsons episode, which I think everyone agrees is moot, but he fails in the new class because he cheated and used someone else's score, not because the scores (absent cheating) aren't predictive of success.
Well, given I have a pixel, I'm pretty good on patches.

I wish google patched their devices for longer, I'd happilly only update every 5-6 years these days, but security doesn't allow for it.
But to have a claim, you need to show that you were discriminated against because of your protected class. Vaccination Status is not one of those
What am I missing here? The marketing presentations spoke about 200GB/sec and 400GB/sec parts. Existing CPU's generally have 10s of GB/sec. But I see these parts beating out existing parts by small margins - 100% at best.

Where is all that bandwidth going? Are none of these synthetic benchmarks stressing memory IO that much? Surely compression should benefit from 400GB/sec bandwidth?

This also raises the question how are those multiple memory channels laid out? Sequentually? Stripped? Bitwise, byte wise or word stripped?
Panasonic batteries made to Tesla's specs not the general market.
The key point is had the outburst not happened, the author would not have received the insight that "the best ideas address problems with high pain thresholds."

By revealing his pain, he learned the lesson which has apparently since served him well. The rest, including the mood, is just background.

In other words, if you're weighing two opportunities, one which addresses a minor annoyance or vague concern ("oh no, millenials are withdrawn") and another which fills an agonizing void ("why can't I connect with my niece?"), go with the second one.
They were telling investors the tests were actually running on machines though which is factually untrue and were lying in materials sent to investors about the testing done on devices and the validation of those tests. This is far more than just having a narrow slice demo and saying "this is a demo of what X will be like." What they were doing was directly lying about what the machines were doing and what they were capable of doing, beyond just lying to investors they pushed it out to the public using shoddy validation techniques which gave people incorrect test results.
> Does it have a name?

The word "jealousy" comes to my mind

Maybe sometimes feelings, not logic underlies the arguments? And any logics was made up afterwards
Is it though? Tesla had a vision for EVs from the very beginning and most of the industry really didn't believe Tesla would see the light at the end of the tunnel, so they put off becoming competitors. Now Tesla is hitting an incredible stride and the rest of the car manufacturers are scrambling to put something together.