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At a previous company AWS was a customer, and I can tell you from the corporate training resources I've seen, they have huge populations of support engineers in countries like India, who are contractors.
Wishlist:

* controllable PWA install prompt

* Keep GPS working after screen lock or app change and then return

* Wake lock
Now that we have validation that Apple is sticking with a numeric naming convention, I wonder how they will handle the upcoming naming clash with the M7 through M12 motion coprocessors used in the A-series chips.
This has not been my experience with rk3399 SBCs. The boot process is not only documented, but entirely blob free (from uboot to tf-a to the kernel).

Recently I even got suspend to ram working on my rk3399 powered pinebook pro, which was one of the few items I had not been able to get working with a mainline stack.

Hardware video decoding does require a recent kernel and gstreamer, but again it is fairly well documented and entirely mainline.

Don't the RPI boards require blobs to boot the GPU, which boots the rest of the board? And hardware video decoding requires paying extra and using a proprietary blob?

That said, this device (and the RPi 400) seem really wacky to me and I doubt I would ever buy one. I would not want to tell my grandparents "sorry printer does not work because arm" and the keyboard is way too sucky for me. Also no track point? That would be great for this form factor.
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Basic question: Why is this faster than running Intel Linux apps in an emulated Intel Linux VM? Because Rosetta is faster than QEMU, and you only need to emulate one application rather than the entire kernel?
> Not to be rude but this is an inaccurate and poor understanding of computers

Not to be rude, but a poor understanding of computers would be to think that speed is all that matters. Software has only been getting more and more complex and bloated over the last 10 years. What good is 16GB of super fast RAM if the machine is swapping out to disk regularly?
This is just a startup that happens to be able to skirt investment laws. This is a failing of regulations rather than necessarily outright scams. If people could invest in regular startups a lot of people would lose money too.

Elizabeth Holmes didn't have faulty tests. She literally lied and defrauded investors about having the thing she was working on. That's actually a bad example to compare to the UST situation because that thing was out in the open, including how it worked. A scam requires some deliberate deception or lying. A bad idea is not necessarily a scam, and dumb people knowingly pouring money into a bad idea is also not a scam. If it was a scam in any way, it was a failing of governments of wherever you lived letting you invest in this.
The relevant WebAuthn standard actually supports keys regardless of whether they can be duplicated. Even "virtual", software-only keys are supported. It's up to each individual service whether they allow the user to enroll such keys.
I have to think that FB, and much of the rest of the internet advertising industry, would not like the precedent of having to back up your claims as to how many real people are seeing the ads you're charging for.
Keeping Mobile Safari releases in step with OS releases is helpful for developers who use webviews in their apps—which is lots of them.
I still listen to the soundtrack on repeat when I'm doing work that requires intense concentration, like coding.
I am most excited by better support for external monitors. I think my Mosh client app is the only thing now that lets me really use an external monitor.

I like my M1 MacBook Pro for programming but I other wise usually use my small or large iPad Pros. I like Linux for dev, using a few application specific VPSs so eventually dropping use of laptops will happen for me. Mosh/tmux/EMacs is usually my best setup.
For those who don't want to wait another year for 'further versatility', there's a decent number of tablet PCs that can run Linux and Gnome (along with Wayland, libadwaita, etc. which are improving the tablet experience along with gesture support). Some include:

- Lenovo X12 tablet

- Asus ROG flow Z13

- HP Elite X2 (G4 or G8) (what I use)

- Microsoft surface pro (touch support is finally coming for the 7+ and 8)

Will you get good battery life or a fault-free experience? No, it isn't for everyone. Tablet support might break with new releases. But it's been reasonable enough to use as a my only computer for a year after being a died in the wool Mac user, and inspired exploring more ergonomic forms of mobile computing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/s6k1qr...
Honestly it makes no sense to show it as a full-dash replacement. That means the car has to ship with an iOS device or the owner is required to always have one plugged in?

I see this more as "here's some early Apple Car UI that you all can play with and tell us what works and what doesn't, and maybe one of you developers in the audience will make something interesting we can eventually steal".

The concept images are compelling but you won't see this in any new car any time soon.
Yes the only thing they dont accomplish is the lack of privacy / not being able to self host. Besides that youre probably right
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If a web standard only works if Google "penalizes" people, it's a bad web standard. I hate having to express this weekly, but Google is not the web.

I really don't think any mail client needs corner of screen popups to be useful: I respond to most emails within 5-10 minutes, have used web email since 2005, and I've never wanted or allowed push notifications on my desktop.

It is, at best, a solution looking for a problem, and at worst, an adtech popup spec maliciously impressed upon the web with a casual justification for building it.
it is usually RGBX8888 or XRGB8888, 4 bytes per pixel makes a lot of math easier
No new colours for the MBP? Lame.. I'm holding out for some greens, reds, blues even. Midnight is cool, but it's basically just darker grey and not on the MBP. Pretty sick of silver and grey tbh
Ah, someone who watches Lock Picking Lawyer videos.
> However I’m wondering if this is considered a bad practice

It depends who you ask.

I do the same at home and it works like a charm, but I have no users beside myself and my SO.

If you have paying users and SLAs you'd better get that $100/month cloud machine or have a disaster recovery plan ready (and tested).

> What security measures and other considerations would I need to keep in mind if I go this route?

the usuals... disable password authentication, configure the firewall, do not share /var/run/docker.sock with containers, don't shut down SELinux, run periodic backups and test recovery procedures periodically etc.. Normal sysadmin stuff.
"they support their devices longer than others" - true. its just after that time apple keeps the key to the device so they become insecure electronic ... paperweights? I mean, whats the use of an old phone / ipad / ... that you can infect with a single message, yet you can't run an alternate os on it. This is the point of the critcism: Unrepairable Hardware + Lockdown = Paperweights over time = less ecological than a modular, repairable and unlocked laptop, computer or phone.
Nothing wrong with that, and I have no point other than I’m facinated by your approach to computing. I customize my iTerm2 theme, tweak Vim a bit, increase the cursor size and I’m done. What I want is to be able to get a new laptop, login to my password manager and be working within 15 minutes.
It seemed like this person was talking about an intrusive linked list with an arena allocator of some sort, which isn't ideal but still fairly cache friendly.
How is the Linux on Arm situation currently? I mean specifically for desktop Linux?
M1 Ultra = Every display known to man.
That's awesome, thought they were doing a 180 and forcing magsafe charging only.
I hope we see a refresh with the M2 based SoCs in other systems as well this year. I intend to upgrade my old MBP and also probably acquire a Mac Mini or Mac Studio as a workstation later this year, and while the M1 Max/Ultra is pretty great, I'd love to see these incremental improvements up front.
Because Elden Ring took 4 years to develop, 5 years if you include the DLC release time. You would need to amortize its very front-loaded revenue over those 5 years, because a live-service game like Diablo Immortal would be generating somewhat consistent revenue throughout that entire time.

Let's say ER reaches 20M + 8Mx2 for it's two upcoming DLCs @ $40 each. That's $1.8B lifetime. Pretty amazing! DI would need to make $360M per year to be an equivalent business. So 800k in the first 24 hours is not too far off track to being equivalent.
The best use of this feature is 'Chrome apps' or "Edge apps" where a web version of an app (like facebook messenger or whatsapp) can live inside the process of the browser instead of their own whole separate process, drastically reducing memory usage and energy consumption. Though it's kind of a workaround for the electron app anti-pattern.
I’m sure Apple has data. Ultimately user xp is better when device doesn’t fail instead of easy repair when it does.
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Why? Windows seems like a terrible option for minimal hardware?
You are assuming it is actually possible for human life to move to other solar systems.

It's much more likely that we could send bacteria or extremophiles to another planet and have them become self sustaining there than it is for a colony of humans, given everything we know today about the limits of space travel (time scale VS resource requirements).
Sure, but flash reliability is not great. SD cards can get hot or jostle, and eMMC can wear out and basically turn the board to ewaste (because replacement of the eMMC later in life of the device is difficult and often not worth it). Beyond that, speeds are much slower than pcie storage.
CarPlay doesn’t control anything directly. It sends commands to whatever onboard system the car uses.

Your car isn’t going to crash because Apple Music is flaky.
I also invested in a Surface Pro X (I have macbooks but don't like to use them vs Windows), bought at a deep discount on Amazon. I persevered with the ARM-related issues and now love it. You really need to run the insiders' builds at present in order to get decent compatibility (e.g. Android apps and 64-bit Intel emulation). I have Docker and the complete stack of dev tools for my projects (Scala, Kotlin, Haskell, Rust, TS) running in WSL2 with VSCode IDE.
AMD stated >15%, not ~15%, and this was the worst-case, conservative number, as they have clarified.

The increased core frequency alone brings in around that number already.

https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd_calls_its_zen...
Bullshit Jobs exist because we've set up society so that people need to work in order to "earn" their life. If everyone's needs were suddenly met, and work was optional, these jobs would vanish overnight.

The world has far, far, FAR more productive capacity than actual problems needing to be solved, but since everyone has to do something to make money, we dig holes for someone to fill them in, create checkboxes so someone can check them.

"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." -- Buckminster Fuller
> TPUs accelerate any linear algebra

Do they actually? Or do they just accelerate matrix multiplications of a very specific size?

I am not really a domain expert for scientific computing, but for example in finite element analysis, the tetrahedral stiffness matrix is 12x12. Presumably the matrices in fluid flow simulations, climate modeling, etc are also modestly sized, and the challenge has more to do with just how many total multiplications there are.

It is not at all clear to me that an accelerated 128x128 multiplication is helpful in these contexts.
I don’t mean to discredit Framework in the slightest but they are still leagues away from Apple when it comes to build quality.

The entire industry struggles to match Apple’s fit and finish, it will be an uphill battle for a hardware based startup. I do hope they succeed.
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Zoom kills the battery on my (non Mac) laptop as well, why the heck does a simple video conference app have this kind of power draw?
https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

Works surprisingly well. You can find videos on youtube.
It was hard to imagine Intel catching up to AMD pre C2D.
Wait: what about these higher certification? Is there going to be some kind of "master key", controlled by the FIDO alliance (?), that would somehow sign the keys produced by "complying" company X or Y? Making it impossible to come with a software implementation allowing to users to backup their keys? Or are you saying that a software implementation would be totally doable but just wouldn't be officially certified?
Three semi-broad examples, Elden Ring (Japanese dev), Horizon: Zero Dawn (Dutch dev, PS4 port), and Inscryption (indie dev) do not show MacOS support. I have not tried installing Windows-only games on a Mac. Can they be installed regardless if they don't show support? Does Valve have Mac-specific APIs to get them runnable like they do for Linux?
I made a mistake of purchasing a 8GB M1 MacBook Pro. It was painful to work with. For casual stuff it worked just fine, but as soon as I ran a Docker image (with 2GB memory limit), had Slack and few other light apps open, some tabs in Safari it started to become slow. Painfully slow. The spinning beach ball was a very frequent sight to me. My RAM usage was often in the red zone and I had to kill applications constantly. When I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a M1 Pro with 32 GB of RAM all of these issues went away.
As long as your account is tied to your email address, there should be something similar to a password reset.
> The younger generation seems to be dealing with the rampant consumption and materialism, and the emptiness that results, by embracing the cute.

This resonates. Didn't realize it until now though.
I agree that it's a great feature. It's just actively terrible for 99.9999% of websites.

There is a user-gesture restriction. So now there's an HTML pop-up on dozens of pages.

Imo the user-gesture + permission-modal design is fundamentally bad. We penalize sites by making them have to maim their cover with grotesque user-gesture cutouts, then, once the user clicks (makes a user gesture) they have to click again. Sites should just request push notifications, without user gestures. Something should show up in the awesome-bar, and users can enable it at their leasure. Rather than an active "pull" flow for permissions, we need a "push" flow where users can passively enable/disable some permissions freely, in a more chill way. Conversion rates would plummet, but the whole web would be a much more pleasant place & actually operate for-the-user, which is what the internet is for[1].

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890
As someone who lives in Tokyo and cooks regularly I for one don’t mind this at all and in fact prefer it to my life in the USA where all the produce tastes like nothing and all the food is packed with preservatives to last long beyond their natural expiry dates to accommodate said lifestyle.
What compiler do you use?
Whenever you see the words "AI" and "ushering" in a headline, you can be sure it's mostly BS. All you have to do to write one of these articles is wildly extrapolate from very modest current systems to completely unfounded speculative miracles in the future. Could Alpha Fold eventually lead to some drugs that help real patients live longer or better lives? Sure...maybe...or maybe not. Maybe literally nothing will come from this technology, except some great headlines for companies claiming to have created a "wholly-AI-designed drug", whatever the hell that actually means.
Fair enough! I'll admit, there are a number of somewhat unwieldy idioms in philosophy, but I think in a lot of cases they do serve to pick out a distinct notion.

For what it's worth, in the expression "to think that p", "p" is meant to designate any arbitrary proposition; e.g., if p is the proposition "it is raining", then "to think that p" expands to "to think that it is raining". (Likewise q is some other arbitrary proposition.) "There's something it's like to X" is a conventional way of saying that (under normal circumstances) X causes or corresponds with a conscious experience. In the quoted sentence "consciously" is a little superfluous, but the paper is dealing with phenomenology (the study of first person conscious experience), so I'm assuming the author added it for emphasis.

It's a pretty technical paper and there's a lot of terminology and assumptions of background knowledge. I definitely find myself reading sentences over and over, but I tend to assume that those issues are more the result of my lack of understanding than of clarity of writing.
Yes.

NextCloud is your data on your hardware.

Encrypt it, back it up to the cloud (someone else's computer) as offsite storage, but don't give read/write access to your calendar, contacts and emails.
Corporate firewalls will be blocking QUIC until the end of time. Anyone implementing streaming over QUIC will have to have to implement an HTTP/2 fallback, probably WebRTC, but maybe we will get something new.
A VGA port? Really?
It's really not, they just get a pass on disposal because it's not scary enough. Used windmill blades are going to be an actual problem in the near future, but no renewable company has to buy land to hold 100 years of turbine blades or solar panels.

Nuclear waste only exists as a problem to kill investment. We'd just dump it deep in the ocean, but it's too valuable for future use (unlike renewable waste).
Ya but neither have really mattered in terms of speed for years for most people. I'm still stick at 256gb over here and I have to be pretty picky about what stays on.
From an econometrics perspective, gdp essentially is a function of labor force size X worker productivity. Either this baseline assumption of economics is drastically wrong, this policy increases worker productivity by like 25% (which seems hyperbolic), or this policy is incompatible with continued economic growth.

I'm not making any moral judgement on whether any of this is good or bad in any direction.
I think tis is a non-issue. In 6 years nobody will remember those coprocessors any more.
> Edit: neighbouring vertices can't be collapsed to a 1-dim string such that each bit x in the string abuts bit y if x is a neighbouring vertex of y (neighbouring = 1 edge away). Works for 1 and 2 dim cubes (line and square) fails for 3. Maybe am missing something.

It sounds like you're missing something. A 3-dimensional cube has 2^3 = 8 vertices:

x y z
0 0 0
0 0 1
0 1 0
0 1 1
1 0 0
1 0 1
1 1 0
1 1 1

Since there are three dimensions, each vertex has three neighbors. If you imagine the vertex at (0, 1, 1), you can travel across the x-dimension to the neighbor at (1, 1, 1), or across the y-dimension to the neighbor at (0, 0, 1), or across the z-dimension to the neighbor at (0, 1, 0). Obviously, you represent this by flipping the x-, y-, or z-bit in the corresponding bitstring representation. The bitstring representation itself is blindingly straightforward: the vertex at (0, 1, 1) has the representation 011, etc.

It's not really clear to me where you're becoming confused?

> What does 'embedded' even mean, mathematically.

In this case, it means that a complex structure (the cube) includes a simpler structure (the collection of discrete bitstrings). You can analyze the bitstrings by themselves if you want to, or you can imagine them as being the vertices of a cube that may or may not have properties other than its vertices, but however you describe the cube, it will include the bitstrings.
The native CodeSandbox app[0] is pretty good if you’re a Web/JavaScript dev.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/codesandbox/id1423330822
My anecdata seems to confirm this as well. We ordered ~30 Macbook Airs at work over the last 18 months or so (startup, so no actual IT department), and I didn't even know they only supported one monitor until a month ago when a new employee asked why their second screen didn't work.

This was the 27th MBA we deployed, so 26 people only used one external monitor (and I went back and asked if anyone needed an upgrade for dual-monitor use in case they just ignored it). All non engineering roles though.
I liked the idea that other users can edit it or that the markdown is rendered within the browser. CodiMD and Hedgedoc support that. They even support Co-Editing notes which is over the top for my needs. I just like the idea that i can rightclick a note in my notebook and publish it. They lack privacy and protection features though like password input or generating a new URL or proper user accounts. It would be nice if i could just send a special link and for the duration of X or until i revoke it friends can look at the rendered markdown with their browser. See https://demo.hedgedoc.org/features?both

Also Data Control is something i desire so i prefer self hosted.
What if the probability of life forming on any given planet was so infinitesimally tiny that it happening on earth is already a fluke?
I was expecting something more than full machine emulation I guess. But there's no way apple would publish instruction on replacing macOS with Linux.
8/10 cores, 16GB, 512GB comes out to $1700. That's quite a bit pricey IMO compared to the base 14" MBP ($2k) which has better port selection, and beefier CPU/GPU.
> store it somewhere safe

That's what I meant. How exactly would one safely store this secret? How would you prevent an adversary from extracting the secret from the storage?
I agree. The Air used to be the laptop for everyone. Now it has entered into MBP territory in terms of pricing and performance.

What will happen with the M3? Will the base Air start at $1500?

Will the M2 Air drop its price to $999 when the M3 is released?

I'm not saying the M2 Air is not worth its price compared to x86 laptops, but it's ridiculous that the cheapest Apple laptop is way overkill for its intended audience. Even the M1 is already overkill for users that typically spend the majority of their time in a browser or using Office.
Sure it can
Yup, ATSC 3 is really unfortunately problematic in the amount of garbage that's been put into it. The fact it requires an internet connection is atrocious.

Hell, the fact that ATSC supports PAID OTA transmissions is likewise garbage. It'll just encourage a race to the bottom with OTA bandwidth that will (likely) end up killing it off all together. Who is going to pay for 4 channels from a broadcaster vs streaming? Yet there will be enough incentive that you can almost bet the market for free OTA broadcasts will go away.
The author was laid off in 1984 -- presumably around the time this email was written: https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-atari-s-future-38.

[Shameless plug: I made Atari Email Archive and it's fun to peruse if you are interested in primary source material from this era. The emails all come from Jed Margolin (jmargolin.com), with his permission.]