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> traditional $200 apple price

That might've been for when it was only an 8GB increase in RAM.
Don’t care because it actually does what I want. I turn off Bluetooth or wifi usually because something isn’t working or I just want a quick way to disconnect from Bluetooth audio. I like that it turns it back on for me when I forget.
Wait till someone shows you a Skydio 2 drone (look around, there's probably a drone pilot that uses one).
The set of Rust developers who are C++ experts is significantly larger than you think.
Some say the P in PDF stands for Problem.
Mirrorless isn't always a good thing. 5d can probably take 3x as many pictures on a battery since it doesn't have to power a live view feed for you to compose pictures.
I’d compare this “exploit” to playing a coin pusher type gaming kiosk with an especially large bankroll and statistical analysis to determine optimal play strategy.

If someone chose to play such a game intending to win and with appropriate planning to ensure wins through optimal play, I wouldn’t call that an exploit at all. It’s beating the game, and the owner may ban you from playing it, but no laws were broken by you playing it in such a manner with larger than average capital. But your winnings are yours, fair and square.
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3a. Organization name:Yer Mama Net Productions"

Ahh the good early days of technology.
In reality, the #1 thing that helps to verify correctness, if that if what you are after, is memory safety, something Rust has and Zig does not. In fact, in one common PL sense, a language that is not memory safe cannot be "verified correct", because what people usually mean by "verified correct" is type safety proofs, and obviously you can't prove a language type-safe if it isn't type-safe.
There are three selections for fonts! The monospace one is quite nice and readable.
The most effective predators of humans are other humans. And in places where such predation happens regularly, e.g. countries with long lasting wars, there is indeed a lot less trouble with chronic medical issues, but there is no evidence that the species is improved. By all reasonable measures it is in fact a massive detriment to improvement of any kind.
Do you sincerely believe that humans can re-engineer ecosystems to improve upon hundreds of millions of years of evolution?

We don't even understand any single organism or any ecosystem completely.
> Say what you want about MacOS/Gnome/Windows at least they are easy on the eyes

Windows 8/10? De gustibus... IMO they're hideous.
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For what it's worth, I'm not seeing any lag on an iPad mini 6.
https://www.rev.ai/ beats Google's speech-to-text models quite impressively.
I have an M1 Max. If anyone wants me to benchmark any workflows, I'd be glad to help!
I think I'm missing out as mine drops by a very pedestrian 10% an hour. WindowServer keeps using a cool 4% of the CPU at all times, even when nothing is running.
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How do you reject an image that has metadata without doing basically exactly the same process as removing the data?
Steve Yegge had a series of essays where he discussed two flavours of programmers. "liberal", which e.g. likes lower-friction dynamic languages, prefers magic to boilerplate; and "conservative", which e.g. would prefer to have bugs known at compile time, prefers boilerplate to magic. https://gist.github.com/mrnugget/49ad3ee4043c746e42187e2820d...

Autoloading sounds like a feature which reduces the friction while iterating on the program (when the mental model of the program is fresh), but adds a lot of friction if you need to maintain the program and are unfamiliar with the codebase.

It feels like the points cited in the article in favour of autoloading are "liberal" ("nicer DX to just have all the classes available everywhere"), and the counterpoints are all "conservative" ("code should be readable/maintainable").
"Best HD upgrades" is just because the default is upscaled, older consoles like the Dreamcast had amazing HD PC upgrades too (probably since the default resolution was 640 x 480, the emulated BoTW on the Wii U was 720p). Very interesting DLC, is it just the WiiU verison or switch version?
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Only in programs that invoke it on hacker controlled data.
Disclaimer, I am not an economist and don't know what I am talking about.

But, the birds eye view formula from my macro classes is MV = PY, where M is the money supply, v the velocity of money, P prices, Y real GDP.

GDP is usually going up, we have more people (and we hope they are each more productive). So that means that either the money supply or velocity must go up, or prices go down (deflation). Velocity is fickle and probably interrelated with consumer expectations around P (if you think things are going deflate for one thing, you might wait longer to make a purchase hoping to pay less in nominal terms, and this has the effect of shrinking MV even more relative to PY).

Since V is hard to control directly, in practice M has to increase regularly to prevent deflation. What we saw with the pandemic was large decreases in V and unexpectedly small decreases in Y. The fed increased M and it absorbed this differential. My understanding though is that the inflation doomers think the drop in V was transitory and now we'll see a sudden spike in all that money being unlocked and circulating
It's insane how quickly things are moving now. The last year has felt like a decade. So many building blocks are in place now that I don't think we'll see another "crypto winter" quite like the last one.
10 machines is not large by any stretch if imagination and hasn’t been for a long time. Try hundreds or thousands
not most consumers, “apple wants”.
>a rebirth of the G4 Cube as a “Mac Mini Pro”

That will be one of those shut up and take my money moment. Given how they have been going retro or paying tribute to past design in their recent new product lineup I am hoping a G4 Cube revival is actually within a possibility.
> With that said, there is a huge M1 hype on HN.

The main thing driving this is that people are comparing a new M1 to their Intel Mac laptops with processors from ~2016 and then naturally it's a marked improvement because it's being compared to a five year old machine.

You compare them to a modern Intel or AMD system and they're competitive. They win some and lose others. Much was made about the M1 Max taking the single thread performance crown; for less than a month. Golden Cove from Intel just took it back. It's plausible that it will be AMD's again in a couple months when we get Zen 3 with 3D V-Cache.

They're all within single digit percentages of each other and the winner is whoever released their top end processor most recently.
I don't understand.

I personally try to walk, because that's just what I prefer, but I can see why people don't. You end up far away from everything, without a tribe or much to show for your trouble.

Often times the truth is not what matters.
Maybe you could try this one?
https://github.com/ashfurrow/xcode-hardware-performance
I’m but a mere mortal but as an outside observer of rust and from my playing around with it, doesn’t the borrow checker currently handle this for you? Ie part of fearless concurrency?
Only 23 mins? That is not terribly useful at least for any serious matters like, say, search and rescue operations.
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The main issue is the lack of sideloading, and stemming from it is how Apple tries very hard to convince everyone that it owns all the relationships between app developers and their users.

As macOS shows, when the use of the app store is optional, most developers would rather pretend it doesn't exist.
It is a Debian setup with my custom configuration
> which is probably what happened to them inside facebook anyways

I think initially they only expanded to ~50 engineers until 900M users. Even today they are estimated to have only ~500 employees (no idea what percentage of that are engineers).
Do you have one of the M1 Pros? Mine very much does gets hot and I can definitely hear the fans when I'm building a project, but both fronts are certainly improved vs the Intel Macs. Honestly, it gets about as hot and as loud as the Intel version, just far less frequently.
I'd say just dive straight into the documentation: https://aws.amazon.com/eks/features/ and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/what-is-eks... for example have a lot of information, and you'll need to do your own research on associated services and terms to get a full understanding of how it all works.
Read about CloudFormation and or CDK too - only use the console for playing around, not for actually setting things up or deploying anything. Also read about IAM as it underpins all of AWS's permissions.
I've been using AWS in my day job for more than two years and I still have a lot to learn about networking and security etc - luckily my company pays for Cloud Conformity which tells me if I'm doing anything stupid or dangerous (security-wise) though I have no idea what it costs.
Starting bit by bit is a good idea because there is a lot to AWS - too much to fully understand if you're just getting into it.
I'm glad that this post led to the group of you all that took the opportunity to donate! Didn't think it would get that much traction, so it's especially nice to see some good come from it.
yeah it's the same argument. In fact I used the EFF Independence of Cyberspace idea.
The lifetimes and borrow check make sure that, no matter what order your threads execute in, nothing bad (memory-unsafe) will ever happen. But it doesn't say anything about what that order is. That's what a memory model is for.

(This is handwavy and imprecise, but it's the easiest way I can explain it.)
“Smaller tends to be quieter”

Not true in this case. Smaller tends to have higher pitched prop noise which is much more noticeable and annoying to the people around.

The larger mavics have larger props that produce a lower pitch noise which blends in much more easily.
Sure, but that's more of an alternative to vi(. No that it matters too much in practice, which is what I was trying to say.
Saying "absolutely zero heat" is not effective in refuting claims of fanboyism. By quick google these chips have 90W maximum TDP. That is not zero.
Very cool, what about publishing a pricing page? Or is it free?
Right, but you won't get a _good_ global error bound without doing the same amount of work. Do you have atomic clocks lying around?
At the same time YouTube was founded we also had widespread peer to peer audio and video distribution, despite asymmetric Internet connections. Probably the largest peer to peer networks? It worked fine. It was on the verge of being real time for video, when it was replaced by centralised, commercial technology.
Maybe. But the point is, ad absurdum, you can do business with zero employees and all contractors, or with zero contractors and all employees. It's not possible to measure efficiency with a simple "revenue over employee count" metric.
I appreciate that clarification, and yea, with the link I didn't link that I had to choose 100% confident because I would much prefer what you said at 99% or 99.9% confident. I also like what you said about how it brings a surprise because it may be so rare. Thanks for this!
Ok thanks for pointing out.

A high amount of money was printed in that exact timeframe though.

What’s a good graph to show that?
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Same with the Mavic Air 2. I figured they didn’t want it to have SDK support to push professionals doing mapping to buy the Mavic Pro tier
I probably fall into the minority category where I really wish custom fonts would go away in the browser. I've never seen a website where a custom font added any value over what ships with the OS.
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If you want a world where nations aren’t scrambling to acquire nuclear weapons, then maybe we ought to reign in a hegemonic superpower which has been invading and bombing countries since the end of WW2.
Try Next.js, all pages are SSR by default.
100 watts? That implies that with serious use you could burn the battery to zero in an hour. Apple's graphs don't show more than 60 watts at peak, and no one is reporting heavy fan output even when running extended benchmarks.
I never bothered to learn HJKL navigation since I nearly simultaneously started using Dvorak, Vim and DreymaR's incredible Extend layer. The Extend layer is a software XKB mapping where holding Caps Lock lets me use arrow keys, Home/End, Backspace/Delete, PgUp/PgDown etc. Directly from my home row position. It is responsible for tripling my editing efficiency as it lets me make instant corrections and jumps anywhere.
NFTs over 10k, you go to jail
Nah, that’s pretty standard. I too would also like to know about how much more precise their “positioning system” is which works in combination of GPS + downward facing cameras to correct for GPS drift.
What a load of shit lol. The XPS 15 9570 has similar throttling issues, down to the same fixes as a MBP 16 (undervolting, disabling HT, putting pads on the VRMs, redoing the paste)
Not entirely true. Two things to consider:
1. Public sentiment. When Goldman Sachs open sourced their collections library on GitHub, it gained marginal traction (opinion: seemed more about PR to attract tech talent). When it was adopted by the Eclipse Foundation, usage rose by a non-trivial amount (based on usage stats from mvnrepository that aren’t other eclipse projects).
2. There was a massive hiring frenzy, and their due diligence regarding IP was non-existent. Garden leave doesn’t compensate for ‘strategic’ systems. Apart from “competitive advantage”, when you have someone as tenured as he who shall not be named, you mitigate the risk of being sued by not making it obvious you’re cloning a system developed for another firm.

Bulge brackets are more risk avoidant than smaller firms, like hedge funds. Today, we have LMAX disruptor and Real Logic’s Aeron (basis for Akka Remote) due to their liberal policy towards open source.
I know that inflation exists.

It was a rhetorical question. Somehow I have the feeling that 20 years ago CPU had a better value for money.

By that I mean you could achieve more from 2000s computing tasks with a mid tier CPU than you can achieve now.
Whether some parts are custom or standard start to lose their meaning in Apple's scale. Probably you're right in the SoC case, reserving that sweet 5nm capacity from TSMC likely costs a lot. But the rest of your list is similar to any Apple device, so it shouldn't factor in the markup difference between these machines and their other products. Even the SoC investment is benefiting the whole product portfolio, even though this version is specific to laptops for now.
> The problem is simple: if you can have mutable aliasing today in Zig, which you can, then the ecosystem has surely come to depend on it. ... The borrow checker is not some magic dust that you sprinkle on a language to make it memory safe; the entire language must be designed around it.

That's a good description of the issue. It's a bit frustrating to see this notion that Zig is "safe" or comparable to Rust in regards to memory safety at all. I don't prefer to use Rust as it's verbose, but at least I realize that if you don't do the lifetime analysis dance in the language you essentially need a GC to manage memory.
Many services, many teams. Coupled with health-checks, monitoring and tracing it’s an important piece of the puzzle if you want to move quick in a distributed setting - which most large organisations are.
> prove that folks just don’t want to work on those problems for free

Well, some people do want to work on such problems for free, even if not everyone does.

> Maybe even abandoning software altogether and making things mechanical again?

There are some advantages to such a thing, since computers are overused for many things. However, a computer is still useful for many things; mechanical isn't better for everything.

> Not that computing is perfectly green, but how would that work out for the environment?

That I don't know, but should probably be considered too. However, often companies put too much extra stuff in computer programs that is used even if you do not want it, which also wastes energy.

> Personally I’d love to see a world where intellectual property just wasn’t a thing…

I agree to abolish copyright/patents (although trademarks can be useful, but still there are things that should not be sued for trademark infringement, so it still needs to be fixed due to this). But, there are also ways to go part way toward abolishing copyrights and patents; Question Copyright had some ideas. Another idea would be limiting their scope so that if it has freedom then it can be ignored, or to be ignored for practical works, to limit durations, other changes, etc. Another idea would be that if you declare yourself exempt then you can neither claim copyright or patents on anything but neither can be sued or arrested for it, either. However, I think it would be much better to abolish copyright and patent laws entirely.
>Corporates, Business Rivals, Nation-States, and Criminal Organizations alike want to influence their target crowd in one way or another to achieve a diverse set of strategic objectives. And they absolutely do not hesitate to employ the means of Disinformation.

>Be it the denigration of Covid vaccines or promotion of a particular election candidate, we have seen the usage of Disinformation time and time again...

Pretty ironic. Wouldn't business and government want to encourage people to get vaccines? It gives them an enormous amount of leverage over the herd. They'll use disinformation to make vaccines seem safer and more effective than they really are, in order to secure universal compliance from the masses. If you control people's immune systems, you win.
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Ya, but has anyone tested it's capability of running the Instagram website or Reddit!?
Note that firejail had a serious RCE in the way it parses URLs for at least emails. Personally, having read the codebase, I wouldn't put too much faith in its security, given how long it took that the meta character parsing problems were discovered.

A user input facing software should always use fuzzing to uncover such bugs.
If your country has banned designs with no windows you're talking to a badly skewed sample of people experts. Obviously nobody would be able to figure out if the idea work well, since it is banned.

Months can go by without me raising the blind in my bedroom. While I certainly want a window there, I don't think it is essential.
The only problem is that it limits the talent pool and to whom you can offer your services. You don't have to interact with the military-industrial complex, only the US State Department.
The hardcore free software position is that proprietary software is unethical, and while permissively licensed free software (or public domain) per se is fine, they allow such software to be co-opted to produce proprietary software. And thus copyleft licenses are better as they remove that temptation.
Okay, I'll bite. I have known for a long time that eval is evil. Then, last year I actually needed to evaluate a string (from a file). As the case was safe enough (input 100% controlled by me), I did not worry too much and just used eval. But what would be a safe way to evaluate things if you needed to do that in unsafe environment? Say, you would like to make a safe website that allows user type a python code snippet and that would be evaluated/executed server side? Is that even possible?
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I'd say the questionnaire cheats a bit though since it picks some known common 0.1% cases where most people has to wrong idea. So making statements about a persons confidence and how it relates to the real world based on such questions isn't good science, rather it seems like the purpose was to make the effect seem greater than it is. So maybe me getting reasonable scores was just that I read a lot of forums and have seen data related to common mistakes people do and therefore didn't get tricked by those questions.
Does it say so in the guidelines?
Perhaps you have some rogue process that is causing windows server to run at 4%?
There isn't that much honest to goodness dollars disappearing though. Mainly pumping with unbacked stablecoins to create an ever increasing price to attract real dollars so the small group of criminals (Tether and their buddies) and miners could cash out. Most normal people sucked in will never cash out any significant % of the paper millions.

As to NFTs. It's wild West with wash trading and artificial (as in created by hired workers) hype again going to woe suckers with real cash.

It's all sad. No one is in for the tech as the tech has already proven itself to be useless, inefficient and dirty. It's just not very interesting either. It's rejected by about anyone competent in either tech or finance. It's just the number going up making them reconsider or more often just keep their mouth shout as there isn't much to win going against cult like crypto evangelists.

The whole thing has just one use case: going around financial regulations. That's it. For everything else centralized ledger would be much more efficient, faster, user friendly and better in all other aspects. It would also be a subject to regulations though and that's one thing the space can't afford to have.

Amazingly though one thing the regulators acted against is much better idea of a stablecoin backed by a big player. It wouldn't be deflationary by design. It would be fast and cheap to use. It wouldn't have a group of criminals printing billions of tokens and giving them to sister corporations, the headquarters would be under US jurisdiction and users would actually benefit from real competition to dinosaur banks and credit card companies. Needles to say there wouldn't be dirty mining either. This time though the regulators acted in advance issuing stern warnings and causing many members to drop out. Let's have million dollar links to jpegs in a database maintained by dirty energy in a dirty jurisdiction pumped up by dirty individuals instead.
The know how is hardly a secret. Most countries can build a nuclear weapon provided they want to, they are let to do it and they have the raw materials.

But you are right, innovation is not a monopoly of the West.

During the Soviet times USSR had many technological advances, their population was quite literate in sciences, schools were very good and USSR had many teams winning math and physics Olympics.

Having great schools resulted in a large number of scientists and researchers.

The situation repeats with China. They invested a lot in scientific education and it is starting to pay off. Meanwhile, in the West, higher education means discussing politics and being woke.
Your forgetting one more input… the sunlight. The intermediate step is the phytoplankton. The whale poop (the iron specifically) is a limiting factor that limits how much phytoplankton can photosynthesize.

It’s like fertilizing soil with the dead… it could in theory support ever growing populations.
1. Yes, about 100 watts.

From Anandtech[0]:

> Finally, stressing out both CPU and GPU at the same time, the SoC goes up to 92W package power and 120W wall active power.

2. Yes, you can burn the battery quickly under heavy use. I've killed it easily in about 2 hours during heavy Unity work.

3. When I was doing that, I did experience heavy fan output, about as loud and as hot as my 2018 15" MacBook Pro. After the heavy utilization stopped, it cooled down much more quickly than the older Intel machine.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...