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The problem with Apple is, and remains, the software, which I find utterly hostile and inflexible for my workflows, and getting worse by the year. Personally, I only consider getting one of these after it is able to a decent Linux distribution well.
This took place in real time on reddit, pretty much. If not this exact case - very close to it. You can search for it.
An alternative to Mendix and Outsystems is GeneXus. It's widely used in South America and parts of Asia.
Are you talking about just people in the CS program or all university programs? My first pass through college was in oceanography and I definitely didn't treat it as a bootcamp. I had no idea what my job prospects would be like after graduation. I just knew I liked the ocean.

In terms of CS, I'm sure most of them are going for a job. But the fact that those who aren't isn't 0%, it makes it difficult to compare.

Also, the reasons for people not graduating college and not graduating from a 3-6 month bootcamp will likely differ as well. 4 years is a long time. There are many reasons why someone might drop out. So again, comparing graduation rates and job placement rates between uni and bootcamp won't really tell you much useful data, especially if you're trying to compare which one prepares students better.

And just to be clear, I'm not saying Uni is better or defending it. I have my own with college [1]. But I see too many people trying to deflect criticism from bootcamps when those criticisms are very well justified.

[1] Is a Computer Science Degree Worth It?: https://betterprogramming.pub/is-a-computer-science-degree-w...
I've had two very close friends die of heroin and opiod overdose. Both were very popular people. The type of person you looked up to; wanted to be around. Very different from the person that mattlakman described. I had no idea they were abusing drugs to the point that their lives were endangered until it was too late.
Offline-first is a well-known term. You can search for it elsewhere. When writing, it's important to choose who you're speaking to exactly so that you can avoid sharing context, since that takes up time and bandwidth. The truth is, communication is much more efficient if you don't re-explain every single concept that you are talking about.
> That's not a problem.

It usually is for real people putting real resources in toward real efforts, which is why outside of exceptional things like campaign committees, people don't usually found orgs with purposes that are narrowly circumscribed and inflexible, and even when they do they don't narrowly and inflexibly prescribe the acceptable means of pursuing the purpose.
This is one of those areas where the government should step in and require MS and others an opt-in back door where you can turn off secure boot but still use windows uninhibited for hobby and experimental purposes. Similar to the way we need more laws for right-to-repair.
Fair point, and I'd forgotten about FT. I'll try adding that to my sources for a while.
It's a really complicated problem but one thing that just stands out to me is the role the doctors play: It's not normal to send people home with these massive prescriptions for opiates.

Here in Europe doctors are very, very conservative with that stuff (and meds in general) while it seems to me that in the US if your "medical experience" even entails the slightest bit of discomfort people get all up in arms over it. Doctors are highly educated people who can no longer play the "I didn't know it was addictive" card.

I have a friend in the US who told me they have an app on their phone where they can just tap a button and the next day they can refill their benzo prescription, and it's been like that for years without having seen a doctor again. That's just criminal behavior from the part of the medical establishment.
I just use Tesla's destination charger map and that usually works. And in many cases, at least in colder parts of the country the hotel might have access to engine block heater outlets. These are good enough to trickle charge overnight and save some time in the morning.
All good points, thank you. A further question:- if “cost of living” inflation is low, and yet asset inflation is high, who is helped by inflation tracking ignoring the asset inflation? To ask in another way :- shouldn’t CPI baskets include the required quantum of spend on portfolio assets, alongside the groceries etc?
In the US I gave you my tips. Talk to an immigrant Chinese or Indian person.
Pre-Release Intel Alder Lake Chip Beats Apple's M1 Max
“In the winter of 1650, I was going into the city of Chiaochuan from the Little Harbor, accompanied by a boy carrying a big load of books, tied with a cord and strengthened with a few pieces of board. It was toward sunset and the country was covered with haze. We were about a mile from the city. “Will we be in time to get into the city before the gates are closed?” I asked the ferryman. “You will if you go slowly. But if you run, you will miss it,” replied the ferryman, casting a look at the boy. But we walked as fast as possible. About halfway, the boy fell down. The cord broke and the books fell on the ground. The boy sat crying. By the time we had retied the package and reached the city gate, it was already closed. I thought of that ferryman. He had wisdom.” - Chou Yung (1619-1679)
> see my response elsewhere, but these aren't unrelated problems: Apple has higher IPC at a lower power-per-core. You can slide around where on the scale x86 falls - maybe you can match perf/watt but then you're getting wiped by a factor of 3 on performance, and you can match on performance but then you're getting wiped by a factor of 6 on perf-watt. You can't do both at once.

I'm not sure how you established that. IPC and picoseconds available per cycle are intrinsically linked. Talking about IPC in isolation is nonsense, particularly when comparing a core that makes less than half the cycle time.

> where in the world are you getting that this is <5% gap?

I just mean the rule of thumb for the "x86 tax", not any specific device. The full thread should have context here, I'm not saying Apple is or is not ahead in a particular instance, I'm asking about more general trends of device performance and ISA.
To me this entirely seems like a marketing stunt and a last ditch effort. Looking at recent major wholesale orders of Tesla cars, Las Vegas' Tesla loop comes to mind.

A fleet of Tesla cars in a glorified cave taking tourists from point A to point B which was marketed to be a Boring company project with that concept video that blew everyone's mind off. It may as well be an underwhelming private transport facility that resembles a lazy river [0] being marketed as revolutionary public transport system [1].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/elon-musks-las-vegas-loop-...

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/06/09/boring-companys-las-vegas-loo...
naturally make

Though some of those bomb searches could easily be made by anyone curious about past bombing incidents. I've certainly had some curiousity-based searches about how the Unibomber did his work.

How do we end up defining naturally? That's a question the court would ask, and want to be able to provide a litmus test for going forward. I'm not sure how we do that here... Statistical probability at some specific threshold? It's a difficult question.
Not necessarily true. I know several studios in Los Angeles that do 3D final renders on CPU, such as Disney Animation. GPU rendering works for realtime, but the memory constraints on GPU limit its use in the high end.

Everyone in the field is looking at GPU and some significant advances have been made, but it's definitely not true that "nobody" is doing rendering on CPUs.
I haven't used Typescript but I've generally heard very good things about it. I didn't know you can mix and match, that might give me a bit more of kick to include it in a project, thanks.

Whether or not it's an advantage of Javascript… I'm not sure. I mean, if someone wrote a transpiler for Java that overlayed stricter typing, would that really be an advantage of Java? Not sure, but of course, worth considering when choosing a language for a project.
M1Max outperforms the W6900X – a $6000, 300W desktop part in Affinity Photo
The slab and the permacomputer
Don't get me wrong, I like the notebook look, but I literally just Google math equations and such things all the time. It's embarrassing how much I rely on Google to just do fairly basic math or unit conversion.
I agree, but is that trend really pushed by consumers or a by-product of developers' and companies' wishes? I'd say it's more of the latter.
I could care less about efficiency, it's still 2x faster for 2/3x less expensive. Isn't the m1 max tdp between 60 and 90w?
Lambda isn't aligned with students though, their goal is to sell the ISA for maximum value while minimizing instructional costs.

There is some natural overlap there, but that isn't the same thing as alignment.
By the looks of it, 3 more generations before we get 4K 30fps of such realistic looking graphics for games.
(Disclaimer: I guess this is off-topic, as the server is running Pleroma, not Misskey, but I did find the reference in a Misskey screenshot.)

I think this is kinda messed up: http://shitmyself.com/image/dats_wack.png
I think you're getting a bit confused.

The 3990x is not designed for energy efficiency, on an older node, and on an older architecture... uses 3kWh vs Apples 2kWh (using a very flawed methodology).

An yet you're claiming Apple has a 3-6x power efficiency advantage.

I'm not sure how that makes any sense.
CPUs are designed to hit a certain clock rate. The target frequency influences the design of literally every circuit in the CPU. Downclocking a CPU is not the same as designing it for a lower frequency. An x86 CPU is designed to run at ~5GHz in its highest turbo mode. Simply reducing the frequency in the BIOS does not undo all the tradeoffs the architects made that deliberately sacrificed IPC for frequency.

You could make a very wide CPU indeed if you decided to run it at 100MHz. That would be obviously stupid, though, because it is the product of IPC and frequency that matters.

It certainly looks like Apple has made the better tradeoff. However, you can only tell that from the benchmarks. Either going wider or going faster are valid approaches.
I'm an american, and have never shared mine either. I only know a handful of other devs that share theirs, but for the most part I like to work for employers that don't care what I do in my free time as long as I deliver good code.
But I knew I was right.

I thought really hard about every single aspect, from the inevitability of the EV transition, to the fundamentals of the company, to the brilliant people that work at Tesla, to various macroeconomic trends, to virology, to value investors vs. innovators, to the 2019 yield curve inversion, to a snap prediction that the Fed would pump hard so as not to repeat what they thought of as mistakes from 2007-2008, etc.

And even then it took me some time to go all-in on the company. I made a good amount short-term on a couple of casino stocks, and gains on Apple, Amazon, etc. But I dumped them all, one by one, to buy more Tesla.
By the way, Apple said their graphic card in M1 MAX has the same performance as mobile 3080 using much less power. But this was a lie. M1 MAX has only ~10 TFLOPS and 3080 has ~19 TFLOPS, so M1 MAX is almost twice slower than mobile 3080. So the whole superiority of M1 MAX is greatly overstated by fake numbers. and also don't forget - 3080 is almost a year old GPU.
I lived through the dark days, they are definitely not as hostile as they used to be. However, that could change at any point with a change in leadership or a bad quarter.
It's way more energy efficient if you can learn to drive with regenerative braking. Otherwise you're just wasting energy as heat with your brake pads.
Little hyperbolic there. Pure fat is only about 50x as calorie dense as the subject tomatoes. It would take some very fatty meat to get to 20x.
Nice, but not required. I can share a joke fine over a phone call.
I'm not sure that putting the data into a metaphorical locked-box is sufficient. Someone with an interest in seeing the data will always have the keys. What you describe is not completely different from the purpose that FISA courts are supposed to serve, and I don't think those are a great success in protecting freedom and privacy according to the Constitution.
I’ve tried Tiktok on 3 separate occasions. No matter what interests I select when getting started, 95% of the posts it shows me are nearly naked women.

The whole platform seems to be just a means of getting kids hooked on porn. Not once did any post show up based on my interests.

Maybe I’m just too old to figure it out but I couldn’t find any way to get out of endless posts like that.
> binary space partitioning

instant put off

seriously why is this a thing? Who looks at their messy desktop and think to themselves: "man it would be nice to have all of this organized... with binary partitioning algorithm"?

I tried amethyst as well as i3 on linux, gave up on tilling. I prefer to do it myself according to the need at the time. Just need hot keys.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/25/colombia-dairo...

Also see el Chapo. Did either of those high profile busts make one iota of difference? Did the price of cocaine change (hint, it did not) and I all but guarantee the same can be said for meth, heroin and fentanyl. They all cheap to produce and extremely easy to obtain while still being pretty cheap when it hits the streets
"said their graphic card in M1 MAX has the same performance as mobile 3080 using much less power"

Apple never said it compared to a 3080 in Gaming Performance. People made conjectures that it could be roughly in that arena. In Productivity applications (work applications that use a GPU), there it's very close to a 3080.

Also, TFLOPS is a terrible number for performance because it depends on the level of precision and is highly variable on workload. Good luck loading, say, a 48GB 3D Model on a RTX 3090 - but a M1 Max would handle it fine. Similarly, the 10.8 TLOPs PlayStation 5 had better performance than the 12 TFLOPs Xbox Series X for months after launch.

Finally, as for many of the games that were compared - notice how many of them use MoltenVK, which is a Vulkan -> Metal translator that impacts performance. Then look at how many were x86, needing Rosetta translation on top of that. These weren't exactly the most native of game ports.
It’s slightly faster at considerably greater power usage — and, more importantly, it hasn’t shipped yet so we don’t know what the true availability or performance will be when it arrives next year. Apple soured on Intel in part due to repeated delays so while I hope that they ship on schedule at full volume, it certainly would not be unprecedented for them to be late or limited quantity.
The car will route you to a charging station if needed.
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Yes it does mix in google results if you want it to, but the search is still anonymous.
Maybe they are financing through Tesla. Seems reasonable.
> It's not even interesting that the M1 is "slightly" beaten by a Mac Pro's Xeon, because _nobody is doing raytracing on CPUs._

This is backwards -

Nearly all major raytracing workloads today are done primarily on CPUs: vfx, animated film and tv, etc.

There are several reasons for this, including memory limits and the lack of coherence in both path tracing algorithms and common acceleration structures. GPU-based tracing is currently a small subset of rendering tasks (primarily those with real-time requirements).

As GPU memory increases, GPUs will become more attractive in this space - likely in the next few years.
> Why would I go for just 1 arbitrary provider rather than the lowest latency choice out of 140?

Because a ISP that can compromise any one of those 140 different single points of failure can now make that one have the lowest latency and give you malicious DNS results just like you never secured anything.

This is the same problem as allowing 140 different CAs to issue certificates for subdomains of com, rather than forcing the fucking registry to do it when you get a domain name in the first place.
> Let's imagine that they have the Tesla with a very good discount: 30000$ a piece.

"To be clear, cars sold to Hertz have no discount. Same price as to consumers."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1452794619410927625?s=20
I've only used DDG and Brave search. I prefer Brave search probably because it mixes in Google results.
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PBS Space Time (on YouTube) makes a reasonable attempt at teaching non-physicists how GR actually works. I'm probably smarter than the average human, and I can't follow half of it.

Writing an accurate "popular" article about GR might be impossible, because the topic is so far beyond human experience that only a fraction of the population could ever hope to hold it in their heads.

You can teach people that the concept of "now" is observer-dependent, but as long as we're stuck on Earth, that information is pretty useless. Software engineers working on stuff like global databases and video game synchronization might benefit somewhat from that way of thinking, but they're about as uncommon as physicists.
> But to your point, I think the network effects are much, much, much stronger than anyone (including Theil, from which I first heard this concept) had ever anticipated.

> So maybe the question is how does one beat the network effects that are so prevalent?

You can't. And in fact, these doomed-to-be-shut-down sites are in fact exhibiting an extremely strong network effect. The founding group of malcontents has an existing network of relationships with both strong and weak ties, and the whole lot of them get pulled in en-mass.

That's what you have to overcome in these cases, not the network effect that the mainstream sites exhibit. FB, Reddit, and Twitter don't necessarily have to be beaten in order for a smaller site to succeed on it's own terms.

There are tactics that would make it likelier for such a site to endure, but the site would have to commit at the outset to a whole hearted strategy of weapons-grade muffling of the toxic sludge. Pretty much implement every undeployed UI trick and algorithmic tweak that can be found in the recent FB leaks. Implement shadowbans. Use rate limiting. Suppress the display of posts that have a higher ratio of angry emoji reactions. Brigade detection. Virality and repost limits.

Anyway, if you're willing and prepared to dial the soft-moderation and filter-bubbles up to 11, you MIGHT be able to run a free-speech-centric site that is capable of withstanding an influx of Nazis and Trolls without degenerating into a festering cesspool that repels anyone else. But you're going to have to have a crew with pretty strong stomachs looking at all the sludge just in order to continually maintain and adjust the knobs on those measures.

None of that will be cheap or easy, and in the end you'll have accomplished a rather dubious feat: a site that allows conspiracy theories and racist Nazi rants to be posted while limiting their spread as much as possible. So you can 'friend' your crazy uncle frank and comment on his fishing photos without having to deal with his anti-masking posts or Alex Jones fan-fiction.

Of course the folks you're muffling will complain loudly, but realistically speaking that won't prevent them from using the site.

I'm not sure you can build a viable business model around that value proposition, but from a technical and social standpoint it might work.
The vast majority of their cars sold in China use CATL batteries, Tesla batteries are limited to the high end models (for now).

CATL scaled much faster than Tesla - the company was founded in 2011, and they are now the leader in battery production with >30% of production. They are still increasing production. They managed to double their battery production from 10GWh/year to >20GWh between 2016 and 2018.

CATL is on track this year to produce around 140GWh of batteries, which will mean that their highest producing factory has to produce more than 35GWh. Tesla says they can produce 500k Model3/Y battery packs per year at Giga Nevada which at a generous 75kWh/pack means they may, in theory, match the smallest possible biggest factory from CATL. In reality what this means is that Giga Nevada is not the world's biggest battery plant - it's the world's biggest battery plant from plants which publish their precise production rates, but nonetheless at best #2.
Any information on how scalable are these databases compared to traditional SQL databases? Or specifically, when should you use this (in prototyping or production)
x86 is quite a bit older instruction set. It has a lot of cruft and the all chips are really backward compatible with older software and many operating systems. Its extremely flexible at a cost to performance. The new Apple chips while impressive, only run new ARM64 instruction set programs compiled for apple machines. Depending on your use case that might not matter, but its still something. And competition is good for a cpu market that was lacking the massive year to year improvements of 20 years ago..
If you are a contractor, you need to read, understand, and practice this. I am about to fire a contractor who is extremely productive because he is completely unable/unwilling to take the feedback that he needs to move slower and check his work now that the product is in production with many real users, and this is not the first (nor likely the last) I've fired for this reason. He's incredibly smart, fast, and gets a ton done, but the fact that he cannot figure out how to turn his speed dial further towards correctness means that he is literally useless to me at this point.

That goes the other way as well: I've had to cut FAANG hires from startup projects because they couldn't agree on any corners to cut in the name of getting an MVP out quickly. As a senior person you need to be able to make that tradeoff effectively, and figure out what level of quality/testing is appropriate to the business situation. It's a tricky skill to learn, and it's a big reason why a lot of engineers that thrive in startups can't survive the transition to "real business" and vice versa.
Its 60-90w including GPU.
You are talking about a very specific niche of video games though. Gambling based video games are addictive because of gambling, which you can do without the video game part of it.

Video game addiction still exists and can be bad but it's probably nowhere near as detrimental as gambling addiction.
vengeance

Unfortunately. But the criminal still can't commit crimes while in prison though. Vengeance just also means that solving the problem of any individual criminal is usually only temporary.
Well yes but ones a laptop chip with a 17 hour life and the other I’ve got under my desk heating my entire condo lol
I don't think it's a really complicated problem, other countries have tried different things that have worked.

It's complicated for some people to admit the 'war on drugs' has failed maybe, but that's a different issues all together.
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I’m not sure how more low bar state standardized testing really plays much of a role in our competitiveness. Students in Oregon already have to pass certain classes to graduate.
500 people going round-trip to any destination they want one time is a drop in the bucket. Pre-pandemic, do you have any idea how many business travelers would hop on planes every single day, sometimes to travel just a few hundred miles (i.e. SFO to LAX)?
I'm using it in the greek tragedy sense, not the sarcasm sense.
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I’m sure there will be a cutout for “critical infrastructure” that includes IT, so they can continue working network and server guys like rented mules.