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> I'm sure Apple would love to lock down Macbooks the same way they did for iDevices, but if they do that, they would end up killing the Macbook market overnight.

Maybe, but its better to think holistically.

iPad hardware sales still trail Macs. An argument could be made that iPad hardware sales + iPad-sourced App Store sales does exceed Mac hardware sales + Mac-sourced App Store sales, but it legitimately is not by much. 2022Q2 iPad hardware sales were ~$7B; Mac sales were ~$10B; total Apple Services revenue, including App Store, on iPhone+iPad+Mac, Music, TV+, etc, was ~$19B.

That context emphasizes your statement: Apple would (maybe) love a reality where the Mac were as locked down as iOS, but achieving that reality would torpedo their Mac sales. But, we need to go a step further: it would torpedo their Mac sales as it has their iPad sales.

To me, the most frustrating thing about being a long-time Apple user (and at times, a fan) is watching their spirit of "disrupting themselves" disappear. They systemically can't do it anymore.

A few days ago I was playing around with python on a windows machine; I say "python3 thing.py" in a terminal; it says its not installed; and immediately opens the Windows App Store to install it. I gotta say; that workflow was the most impressed I've been with a computer in four years (and it was immediately paid back by trying to search for "Spotify" in the windows start search and it returning a website as the first result, but I digress). That's self-disruption; the idea that doing the unobvious thing from one revenue-line perspective can lead to % upticks in other revenue lines that net higher total revenue. The Windows Store sucks for buying apps; but doubling it as a dev-focused package manager? And WSL is a cost-center for Microsoft, but jeeze... does a Surface Laptop make sense for me? Maybe.

Apple constantly says "we want it all, its our way or no way" then cracks start appearing in that peerless veneer and out those cracks surge billions in revenue. Other companies (sometimes) say "ok, we're not great at that, how can we work around that weakness to still drive revenue in what we're great at." Microsoft sucks at building a phone; so bring the services to the phone people already have. They suck at building an App Store; but how can we still make that App Store useful, if not profitable? Their consoles have always been in last place; so how can we deliver the main revenue driver, the games, to more people (cloud streaming)? The list goes on.

I'm not asserting that Microsoft is a better company, whatever that means, I'm just asserting that Apple needs to learn something from them, because at this point the two have switched places. Apple today is acting like Microsoft twenty years ago, and vice-versa, and someone at Apple has to be recognizing that iPhone rev growth is slowing, iPad rev is flat, M1 gave the Mac a little boost but it's been slow for 15 years, their most successful new product of the past, like, decade, were headphones. Momentum is great when its with you, but its apt to decay, and once it starts going the other way its a bitch to turn around.
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/CLHS/Body/f_docu...

documentation is also a good one to know. Common Lisp makes pretty much the entirety of the system available to you programmatically. Browsing the CL Hyper Spec is a good way to discover these things, too.
The Europeans didn't topple any empire in the Americas. They collapsed by themselves due to the sickness brought over by the Europeans before they made contact. It would have been logistically impossible to topple an empire overseas.
The transference of mathematical skill is only "unsettled" in the sense that it is unclear what would it would be transferred to. It is already an entire epistemological category. How much more transference is required?
I would expect passkeys to be a massive liability for Apple in case they get breached. Why would they even want access to them? Do you think they want access to your accounts?
My favorite thing about Clubhouse were the profile descriptions people chose to write about themselves. Somehow they were even worse than Twitter profile descriptions, and were both deeply unironic and hilariously serious.

Ever meet someone with a doctorate degree who insists on being addressed as "Doctor" So-and-so at all times? I've only met a handful of people like that, thankfully, but it was like Clubhouse was a shining light in the night to these self-obsessed moths.
So if I have a single device, a phone, and it gets stolen... what is the path to get my data back? And in the interum, if the theif swaps my SIM into another phone they now have my 2FA via SMS?

This all seems very messy when bad things happen.
>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).

I'd say go with the cloud and have a disaster recovery plan ready and tested.
I'm pretty sure Apple has the technical expertise to "turn off" internal display on clamshell mode and allow two external displays (that's my usual setup) but somehow they don't want to do that.
I had to rub a plastic bag of frozen peas on the bottom of my overheating x86 MBP to make an important zoom meeting one time. It made the peas inedible.
Can I run a multitasked app that Apple won't kill to save battery life even though I have the PRO iPad plugged in.

Just put MacOS on the damn thing already.
I've done a lot of work with running userland qemu for x86_64 in aarch64 vms on macOS 12. The experience is serviceable for simple things, but if I build anything really heavyweight, I find I need a native arch builder. I have little doubt that Rosetta will be an improvement.
People don't all live in one place, and the perfect is the enemy of the good.
>UBI is widely understood to be a program that would replace all existing benefits...

It could certainly be done that way. It also doesn't have to be.

>Otherwise, there is no point. The practical argument being then you save money administering means tested benefits.

Sure lumping all benefits into one could reduce costs in overhead, but that doesn't mean there is no point to having separate benefits, as UBI is not means tested, and lumping means tested benefits into it would then get rid of any means. Now, whether this should be done or not is a matter of opinion, and one of which I'm not particularly arguing about. I'm merely showing you what UBI is, that it can be afforded, and that it can help alleviate poverty. I'm not arguing that it will provide enough income to meet everyones needs, nor arguing that we should implement it.

>This is very easy to talk about without amounts which is why your vague and meaningless claims as to a source of the income are so useless.

I find this a non sequitur. A non-zero amount is still an amount. If you argue I need to provide a number to prove that taxes can yield non-zero income/amounts, then I find you're being ridiculous.

>Then i would suggest you are out of touch with UBI advocates goals and ideas

I would suggest not lumping all UBI advocates as sharing the same goals/opinions. We need less grouping and labelling in politics, and more critical thinking. (I'm not a UBI advocate BTW).
Ask HN: Are you tired of JavaScript libs publishing a release so often?
I'm looking at you eslint. Publishing a new release almost every 2 weeks.

And, following semantic versioning, it's always a new feature, not even bugfixes.

But eslint is not the only one, and when Dependabot gives you a storm of Pull Requests, this is exhausting to manage.
I'm all for cutting subsidies, but the problem is that if you want risky things then investors might decide it's better not to invest and the drugs never appear.

The government (which is really a government of and for the people, right?;) gets what it wants - a new drug - and jobs are created, trade happens, taxes are levied, health improves leading to (theoretical) money saved, more hours worked, more taxes… There's no need to punish the creator by not letting them make money off of their creation just because the government was involved, the government is getting plenty out of their investment.
Thanks! Look like the full version unlock is 20% off right now! Good timing!
I saw an article recently saying that dealerships and car makers want to keep inventories low because they like the post-covid margins they're experiencing. When I paid 5k over msrp a few months ago the salesperson claimed they wanted more inventory because salespeople were unable to hit the volume goals they have. Not sure who to believe but I'm sure the truth lies somewhere in between.
For what you're missing probably mostly just what is described in the "Escaping the Hamster Wheel of Backwards Incompatibility" section. Racket itself is a more reliable and stable language than many, maybe most, but common lisp is on another level with that shit. It has good and mature libraries for nearly everything, where racket has them only for most things.

Also if you know you ultimately need to deploy a native binary and only a native binary will work, common lisp historically produces alarmingly fast native binaries. I haven't needed to use this in racket much so I can't directly compare; it doesn't seem to prioritize perf but still seems to be much faster than other languages that don't prioritize perf.

I definitely prefer racket though. It's a bit clunky in places too but is overall much better planned and still has all the extensibility benefits.
I really despise the idea that we should let the manufacturer decide what's best for us with no out based on the premise of protecting people who don't know any better. As technology becomes an increasingly integral part of our lives, people need to be able to think for themselves and understand the consequences of how they interact with software.

Also as someone who's grandmother started her own software company and was a programmer since the days of punchcards, I find these "what about grandma" appeals very repetitive and kind of insulting.
I use OpenBSD as my home router, on a tiny pcengines APU4. Also have some virtual server instances at cloud providers for various tasks.

Been doing that for a long, long time, and never regretted it. OpenBSD is just such a clean and straightforward system.

20 years ago, I used to run OpenBSD as the main OS on my desktop. I don't remember why I stopped and went back to Linux, but it was most likely both for hardware support reasons and for running binary only software. I later switched to MacOS exclusively for desktop purposes.
$400 should buy 128gb, not 16gb.
This is the answer to many of Apple's design choices
Yep. We're now really close to the original iPhone launch promise of "Want a new app that isn't shipped with the phone by Apple? Just build it as a web app!"

(Although to be honest, apart from push notifications, which are still vapourware right now, we've been able to replace almost everything native apps do with web apps for a while now. I'll be super curious to see how stuff like Rust and WASM go using some of these newly announced features...)
> What gives merit to an argument is whether something has been researched and the accuracy of information behind it, not the occupation of the person presenting it.

That's not really the point. I'm not disputing the correctness, I'm saying your argument is flawed. Imagine I told you "the sky is blue, my cat told me so". Well sure, the sky is in fact blue, but that doesn't make my cat a good source of information. A comedian, even one playing as a social crusader, is not a source, much like my cat is not.

> If your research into the Subway franchise indicates otherwise, I'm all eager to hear the counterfactuals.

Do you mean counterarguments? Counterfactuals are things that didn't happen or are not true, not a response to an assertion.
A 12.9" iPad Pro starts at $1100, and can go up to $2400 for 2TB of storage + the cellular option.

If they limited the pro software to the Pro hardware, the iPad vs MacBook prices would be nearly identical.
Agreed. As much as I adore sega and what it brought to my childhood, this amounts to a gag gift at this point.
The Python 3 version uses Python 3.6 which is no longer supported by the Python team as of 5 months ago.
Passing a test that someone has laid out seems easily within reach. It's coming up with the test and defining success that's the impossible part. I still don't see human intelligence being threatened, just because we can define some goal and make an algorithm that's good at it.

Put another way, tacit knowledge, that you can't write down as a set of rules, is what's hard, so having ML that can solve what we can write down means very little.
Apps do that too though.

No Signal, I do _not_ want to enable push notification on this iPad. Still. Just like every other time you asked me.
Just about everything this person wrote can apply well to any large and old city, where things had to be jammed together to make it work. Manhattan jumps to mind.
My back of the envelope calculations show that 30 years of coal mining alone would dump that much CO2 into the atmosphere... so most of it is getting absorbed... which is good, or we'd be roasted by now.

Perhaps, in addition to burning less fossil fuels, it would be a good idea to see where the carbon sinks are, and help those work more effectively? I know that sustainable farming captures a lot of carbon in the soil, for example.
Climate change is harder on less educated
He is worried that he will be left with a stable full of horses and no one to give it to.
Volcanoes on Mars Could Be Active Possibility That Planet Was Recently Habitable
Didn’t Apple also implement togglable memory models for m1 (and I’m assuming m2)?
To be honest I don’t think the Mx platform in the 12 inch form factor will be good enough to be in an ultra lightweight class. I also own a 12 inch retina and while I really like that it is slient and very lightweight we probably need another generation to get that far to have good passive cooling and performance given that the form factor will have to put the battery and motherboard on top of each other. A bezel shrink with a notch would still work out though but it would need a high ppi and 500 nits brightness will further tax the battery.
> No, the government should set a reasonable price for the product they funded.

Do the investors at the company you work at set the prices for the products you produce? That would be strange.

> Instead, we have free money to bootstrap extractive capitalists, at cost and detriment to people who need care.

It's "free" money because the capital costs are high and it's risky. I don't think it's the only or the best way but it is a valid way, but it doesn't remove the right to make a profit.

As to it being "detriment[al]" to the people who need care, they're getting a drug that didn't exist before, right? And this also should (generally) make existing drugs cheaper, right?
Several characteristics of HTTP/3 provide an observer an opportunity
to correlate actions of a single client or server over time. These
include the value of settings, the timing of reactions to stimulus,
and the handling of any features that are controlled by settings.

As far as these create observable differences in behavior, they could
be used as a basis for fingerprinting a specific client.

HTTP/3's preference for using a single QUIC connection allows
correlation of a user's activity on a site. Reusing connections for
different origins allows for correlation of activity across those
origins.

Several features of QUIC solicit immediate responses and can be used
by an endpoint to measure latency to their peer; this might have
privacy implications in certain scenarios.

It feels like we've been moving backwards in terms of privacy since HTTP/2 even as those same privacy issues have been increasingly exploited by private companies and governments. It's sad to see the situation continuously worsened instead of being improved over time. It feels like a push for performance whatever the cost, or perhaps (more pessimistically) a push to degrade privacy and security while justifying it or distracting us from it with increased performance. It's strange to see security and privacy issues inherent to these specifications acknowledged, but not addressed.
That theory actually makes it a better movie for me
Principle CJ
Hey, https://doesipadhaveweatherappyet.com got updated!
I think math suffers from a motivation problem, especially past early arithmetic education.

Reading? Now I have access to all these stories! And it's plainly useful in every single other class, pretty much constantly (even math class—go figure, this math book has more words than numbers in it!). I can read subtitles (on anime, say—it's gone pretty mainstream now, for kids). I can read video games without voice acting, and follow them (Breath of the Wild requires lots of reading, for instance). It is constantly, obviously useful, and enables access to lots of things that most kids want to do.

History? Social studies? Largely an application of reading—and hey, look, more stories! Great! Oh and now I understand that movie I watched better, or that game I'm playing.

Science? Well look at that, a ton more reading, and when it's taught halfway right it's like working through a mystery story, even. Fun!

Math? It really seems like you're just doing it for its own sake, and... that's it. The actual facts or what's intended don't matter—that is what it feels like. It's occasionally useful in other classes, but not constantly like reading is, and often that math is pretty simple compared to the stuff you're learning in math class. Kids aren't dumb and recognize quickly that word problems are contrived, pandering, and ridiculous, and meanwhile have a hard time finding applications for any of this even if they go looking for it. Their parents? They probably see them rely on reading (even just signs or directions) 1000x more often than they see them apply math beyond what's taught by 6th grade. Reading? Useful daily. Math? Only occasionally, and it's mostly the simple stuff.

To a student, it feels like math is about as useful as learning some constructed language that everyone's telling them is super important but in their actual experience sure doesn't seem to be—I mean, no adults they know even read, write, or speak it, and they seem to be getting by just fine. It feels like you're being gaslit or having some kind of practical joke played on you. Of course it's hard to care about it, unless you're the sort who just loves mathematical puzzles, like the way some people are really into crossword puzzles, but most people aren't.

I don't have any kind of solution to this, but IMO it's the fundamental problem with math education.
That would fit the second part of my message.
I think the 13" Pro is just to is linger until the 14" can drop in price enough to fill it's spot.

The 13" Pro is now also the only Mac with a TouchBar, which is just strange.
If I am not wrong, this will allow much faster Docker with x86 base images?

Docker is “just” a binary with cgroups magic.
John Adams, second president of the United States, in a letter written to his wife in May 1780:

> I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

Somewhere along the line it seems we got stuck at what Adams wanted his sons to study, and never really moved on to what he hoped his grandchildren could study.
The average price of gas in Oregon is higher than in WA and ID, lower than CA.

Source: https://gasprices.aaa.com/
No, the alert you see is different from the "unlock the phone to enable accessories" notification. That goes away (and your phone starts charging) as soon as you unlock your phone. The "trust this computer" is an alert that only shows up after you unlock your phone, and it looks like this: https://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/i...
I will read comments that people write on this site and some others but I am not a consumer of news as such.

The only information source about the US is based on comments on social media?

No wonder your view of the US is so pessimistic.
You presume lack of aptitude. I presume the ineptitude of teachers in the vast majority of cases, through about the algebra level, after which case the levels of abstraction do start learning on genuine aptitude for abstract thinking.
> to one that replaces and existing, more expensive device.

iPads with a keyboard cost more than a Macbook Air
How does the Aharonov-Bohm effect avoid fixing the gauge? e.g. if I can find a potential at which the particles act like there’s no cylinder there at all, isn’t that equivalent to fixing the gauge of the potential, by finding a privileged 0?
I'm still 6-8 months out for a Toyota van
Do you know of a gentler introduction, for someone with less math background? Or does it only make sense after reaching a certain level of mathematical maturity?
I’ve changed half a dozen MacBook batteries with Anker over the years, and all worked flawlessly. One I thought was swollen and they promptly moved to send a replacement, but turned out it was my case that was warped.
We don't notice any easing in the embedded devices industry. In fact, things are as bad as they ever were right now.
Citation? Everyone I spoke with back in 2008? Sure anecdotal, but that's what my comment is basing it on.

Regardless, I think you just proved my point. Supply/demand determines prices not OPEC.

If OPEC controlled prices they wouldn’t have dropped 80% post-2008. Prices were so low that capacity was taken offline and some countries has serious financial difficulties.

That doesn't sounds like a monopolistic market.
Marshall Fogel turned $121K into $25M with a baseball card investment
A push is potentially a better experience. You could long press the push notification and the app could increase its bid by 10%. You can't do things like that through email.

To your point, maybe we should innovate on email and add these capabilities to email, instead of building apple/android specific push solutions. I'd love to see that, but we don't live in that world.
Charge per token like OpenAI does. If the article is going nowhere, bail.
Similar to https://fs.blog/mental-models/
The price of gas in Oregon is more expensive than in neighboring states, except California, due to increase taxes on fuel in that state. In general, taxes probably explain much more of the difference in gas costs than insurance does. I'm not an expert, but it's not clear to me why insurance would cost more for a self-service station than for a full service station, so if you have a source that explains this, I'd appreciate reading it.
I'm sure they will all return to the way they did things prior to covid. All it will take is GM or Ford to start stacking new vehicles on car lots, and all of them will have to follow along.
So if someone has a weapon, it's ok to shoot them?

I would hope that police could talk a situation down to the point the nobody (else) gets shot.
Sure. Just reverse the polarity.
No, you do not need batteries. Batteries are the most expensive form of energy storage, and societies usually choose the lower-cost of alternatives where presented them.

Furthermore, batteries do not require rare-earths. (A formerly-popular chemistry needed cobalt, which is not one.) Finally, "rare-earths" is just a name; the ones used industrially, including in some wind turbines, are not rare, and are anyway recycled.

So, no, no, and no.

We will need energy storage, eventually, after we have built out enough renewable generating capacity to charge it from. Fortunately, storage cost is falling very fast.
I just want to be able to use Slack and other services without installing the app and giving them even more permissions.

I'd rather go to the website, enable notifications, and never install any app.
If there's no growth, how will the people who are currently poorer become richer?