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> that they deliberately slow older devices down to prematurely make them appear obsolete so that users will discard them sooner

Not an Apple apologist but I think you're leaving out a detail. Apples reasoning was due to older batteries[0]. You can see from the linked tweet the phones speed went back up when the battery was replaced. It may very well still be nefarious on their part.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-might-be-slowing-down-y...
I doubt it, considering the demographic problems and the end of globalization, we’re likely to see about two billion people starve in most of our lifetimes, mostly in East Asia. It’s going to be a rough ride.
My favourite one, Menu Meters, stopped working with 10.11 El Cap.

RIP my first favourite mac software.

https://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
>Speaking of twitter, it's weird Musk hasn't commented yet on the protests in China.

Tales about what people haven't done are pure propaganda. I first noticed this under trump. News outlets constantly decried him for things he didn't do. That isn't news. News is fundamentally what did happen. Everything else is propaganda. It's a particularly insidious way to malign someone that seems rational, but with absolutely no substance behind it.
Anecdotally, seems like there has been an increase to me. I just no longer visit those sites, if they don't want me for free then so be it. There is a lot more internet to be had out there.
I agree that this seems to have increased.

Pushiness is advantageous to companies unless it disgusts so many people into leaving that it makes up for the added conversions (in the broadest sense: a conversion can be a sign-up, sign-in, consent for targeted ads, etc.)

People seem to be too willing to put up with them. Long term brand damage is likely not much of a concern nowadays, given that it has been normalized.

Everyone is now trying to become a unicorn and exit by selling the company for $$$$, and public-facing tech companies are mostly valued based on the number of users.

When people start publicly complaining about it, ending contracts and providing the popups as a reason etc., this will change. Until then, it will just become worse.

Edit: Rule-by-metric likely also contributes. "Signups go up" is easy to measure, "users hate it" and "the popup has put the user off so they will never trust us or sign up, ever" isn't.
> Slap an age restriction

If parents are okay with their 13-year-old kids being on Twitter, Apple shouldn't get to say no.
In actual practice corporations are only loyal to the board of directors and the officers. Shareholders are just the suckers used to jack up the share price.
Why is it being rolled out in China first?
> LinkedIn

yeah, I basically just stopped using the site. I used it for a while when job hunting, but now I maybe login once a week or something. otherwise, since the site blocks anonymous use, I simply don't use it.

> Instagram

I have an account, but I don't post or comment, so I am not going to log in just to view shit. So I basically don't use the site anymore. If someone links to a post I will check it out, but usually you get login prompt after viewing like 5 posts, so at that point I am just done with Instagram for the day.

> Twitter

Twitter gives you like 10 comments before login prompt, so I just leave the site for the day after that.

> Medium

Medium is horrible, so nothing lost.
I don't think mine was ever quite that high. Around 35-37mpg when I got it and probably around 30 now. Its a MT though and I think they get slightly worse mpg than AT.
Scandinavians are very friendly and pleasant people on the surface, but it's hard to penetrate that surface into deeper friendship. To really get into someone's inner circle of close friends you pretty much have to have grown up with them or known them for years.
I've recently come across a perfect example of just that: [1]. Just try to slowly move the mouse over any of the round red year marks at the center of the page.

[1]: https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/ai-robotics/
It’s gross but we use heat to make it safe to eat. The contamination does not migrate into the meat for the most part just the outsides. With lab grown you could potentially contaminate an inner surface or induce some other contamination that’s not exposed to heat from a grill.
Anyway after a decade or so we will probably know what the risks are and of contamination of that nature is likely or possible in the process. Seems like lab grown hot dogs might be a good place to start for example.
Hiring decisions are generally not made by only one person. The interviewee might be performing poorly on one interview, but the interviewer doesn't know how it went on the others. Shutting off the interviewee 10 minutes into a one-hour interview session would backfire pretty badly unless the interviewer is sure that those 10 minutes was enough to determine the candidate definitely isn't hire-worthy (which is different from voting to pass on the candidate). The (Bayesian) priors of that happening should be pretty low if the screening process was working as intended.

Making the wrong call would entail the interviewee potentially feeling offended, which could be an issue if the ultimate decision was to make an offer to them -- they might reject the offer due to this experience alone. Not to mention it would be pretty awkward to work with a new colleague where you walked out on him as an interviewer. (In general you really don't want colleagues to know that you voted to pass on them)

In general if a candidate thinks they're getting nowhere they can suggest to stop the interview. Nobody can stop you from cutting it short and leave if those 50 minutes are important to you.

(Also, FWIW I don't think saving a hypothetical 50 minutes of interview time is what the GP was specifically referring to...)
A large chunk of the 3400 employees are not eng or the like. Most of these people are customer support or customer support adjacent (eg compliance). In this way, Kraken is a little bit different from most other tech companies.
That’s what they did. They just didn’t told anybody why they were doing it.
Looks just like TN/SC/NC to me. I think we need more goats.
> Can't GPUs just use system memory at performance penalty ?

CPUs can access DDR4/DDR5 RAM at 50-nanoseconds. GPUs will access DDR4/DDR5 RAM at 5000-nanoseconds, 100x slower than the CPU. There's no hope for the GPU to keep up, especially since raytracing is _very_ heavy on RAM-latency. Each ray "bounce" is basically a bunch of memory-RAM checks (traversing a BVH tree).

Its just better to use a CPU if you end up using DDR4/DDR5 RAM to hold the data. There are algorithms that break up a scene into oct-trees that only hold say 8GBs worth of data, then the GPU can calculate all the light bounces within a box (and then write out the "bounces" that leave the box), etc. etc. But this is very advanced and under heavy research.

For now, its easier to just use a CPU that can access all 100GB+ and just render the scene without splitting it up. Maybe eventually these GPU oct-tree split / process within a GPU / etc. etc. subproblem / splitting will become better researched and better implemented, and GPUs will traverse System ram a bit better.

GPUs will be better eventually. But CPUs are still better at the task today.
What happened to Svelte project on NPM?
The hysteria about Foxconn suicides was complete clickbait garbage. Even during their worst year of suicides that was reported by Wired, the suicide rate at FoxConn was 1/10th of that of the US and 1/20th of that of China overall.

>It's a tough pill to swallow to learn all our tech stuff we all enjoy is built on the backs of poor people on the other side of the planet.

This is actually overwhelmingly a good thing. Life expectancy and living standards have exploded in Asia. They just haven't reached the point of developed Western nations yet. It's impossible to transition from very shitty conditions to good conditions hitting a midpoint of moderately shitty conditions. For example, the abundance of relatively high paying manufacturing jobs incentives teenagers to drop out of school and work instead. Of course, we are right to call out Apple for relying on child labor, but the goal should be to have a better control of their supply chain rather than move manufacturing back to the US.
BlockFi Bankruptcy Hijacks More Customer Cash
> I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics.

Counterpoint:

They could have just rolled out the feature change globally. Instead Apple makes it clear with singling out China, that this change was demanded by the CCP.
We ran a thread here an year ago on what would a reinvented bug tracker mean? A lot of devs here talked about their hate for Jira and focused on simplicity and speed. We built 20% of the feedback provided from here and launched in Product Hunt to become #1 Product of the Day and #2 Product of the week.

Here's what we have been able to get:

1. Public tracker for community and open source developers
2. With Solr - we have driven the speed up
3. Update tickets with magic words in code comments
4. Auto assign issues back to people when you fix a bug
5. Simple - to the point interface
6. Visual bug reporter for QA and Designers

Thank you folks. We have 80% more to do. Gratitute and we are working on it. We should do a command line and offline as well in the coming months. That said, we want to reinvent the way people spend time on a bug tracker.

Goal : Make the devs spend very little time on a bug tracker and more time with their code.
> What criteria are being used to determine this is what we want?

The fact that it's what people choose. This isn't difficult.
Yes, exactly. I disagree that it's a distraction. It is to point out that there are a plethora of issues with crypto but pointing out issues with faith-based currency doesn't separate crypto from fiat. As a fan of crypto I see these issues as very glaring:

- one of the main advantages of crypto is lack of centralized regulation, which is also why no one stopped FTX from having back doors to loot the vault

- if one can print their own coins at will (like FTT), its value is at the whim of the printer

- inflation is not necessarily a bad thing. It can be used responsibly.

- a credit card has almost no risk and can crank out transactions as much as necessary

- fiat is accepted all over the place whereas crypto as a transactional currency is more similar to trading gold and cowhides

We have seen how many bad actors control USA fiat and are deemed "too big to fail". That is a failed system and we have seen its ugly face plenty of times. Much of crypto challenges that. How successful it is so far is up for debate.
> but later on trading 30 minutes (UIKit) for 3 hours (SwiftUI) when it comes to anything significantly complex

if something is faster/better implemented in UIKit, then do it! And then shove that in a `UIViewRepresentable` and plug it in to your SwiftUI code. :)

The best part of SwiftUI is being able to fall back on UIKit or AppKit.
Borsodis Law
I too remember in some 00s that calls would disconnect at exactly 1 hour mark.
Straight from the PuckerButt Pepper Company! They're the ones who bred the Reaper and offer seeds, mashes, and sauces alike.
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That assumes quite a bit, noticing a cow died is dead simple. Building, validating, using, and monitoring a system to detect harmful byproducts has a rather high threshold by comparison.
I haven't used it in a while but I've got to admit that I've missed a lot of extremely obviously placed buttons in the Microsoft office suite.

They've designed it in a way that makes my brain go into advert-mode, which basically filters half of the interface until I'm really paying attention and go through it several times.
1. & 3. is here https://animationcpu.com

But I made a new programming language ACPUL, which is essentially not much different from Lisp
Sure, I didn't mean this in the "this is old news" sense, but in the "this has been verified by Apple themselves, not just a random Twitter account".
This is an incredibly disingenuous argument.

Apple decided to underclock CPUs when the battery had aged to the point where consistent voltage couldn't be applied at maximum power. They did this so users wouldn't complain about their phone randomly crashing. Really, they were damned if they did and damned if they didn't.

What you can criticize is that they did it without informing users or allowing an option — the lawsuit and backlash reversed that course and they now have a setting for it. You can argue they should have had that all along. You can argue they were doing it purposely for planned obsolescence, but the evidence isn't really there to support it.

Apple provides major software upgrades for years longer than most Android devices do. There are some exceptions for Android, but the rule is that you're lucky to get more than two years of software updates for your phone. Apple, on the other hand, supports for 4-6 years. That should earn them kudos compared to most Android manufacturers.
I interviewed at some of the startups that constantly post on Who's Hiring. Long process and no hire. I check on Linkedin their growth from time to time and it's basically flat.
The general thinking seems to be that UB can do anything so you can't complain, whatever that anything is.

That would logically include reformatting your hard drive.

I definitely disagree with that pov, if you don't accept that UB can result in anything then the line needs to be drawn somewhere.

I would contend that UB stems from the hardware. C won't take responsibility for what the hardware does. Neither will it step in to change what the hardware does. That in turn means that UB means the compiler shouldn't optimise because the behaviour is undefined.
I mostly agree with you but am optimistic about the future of smartphones. We currently have some alternative operating systems like postmarketOS and Ubuntu Touch that can be used on select devices today. In 10 years I think the ecosystem will be much larger and more mature. Currently we just have iOS and Linux, but in a decade there may be OpenBSD as well, and possibly an order of magnitude more Linux distros for phones.

My dream is to have an OpenBSD phone that can be used as both a phone and normal computer. To use it as a "real computer" with an actual keyboard, mouse and screen, you could just plug those peripherals into the phone. Then take it with you and plug in someone else's mouse etc. if necessary when traveling.
What I love about the “movement” (just like in CAlifornian Politics!) is that everyone is terrible if they try to actually do anything useful, but everyone is great if they do random stuff that wastes time and effort without accomplishing it’s stated goals - as long as it seems futurist and green.

It’s basically the now is unacceptable, and the future is impossible.
> Soybeans are crushed ... The oil is sold to consumers as soybean oil in most of the world, and marketed as vegetable oil in the US.

That's the 40% I referred to. Crushers, while generally less profitable, are a better fit for my poorer ground. I lumped this in as animal food to keep things simple, but you're right that there is also human uses. You could write books about the subject if you want to capture all the details and nuance.

The 60% are food grade (IP) soybeans, which generally end up as things like tofu, soy milk, along with other foods where the soybean seeds are eaten whole (more common in Asian countries). I was growing 100% IP soybeans for a while, but as mentioned before wasn't having much luck on my poor ground so had to introduce some less resource intensive crushers into the mix to keep things sustainable.
Regardless of where it's rolled out first, this is a good example of reducing the attack surface from remote exploits (which China is known to have and use at contests like Tianfu Cup). Seems in line with changes they made with "Lockdown Mode" that users can opt into.
Generative AI is not limited to image generation. For instance, GitHub CoPilot is generative AI.
> I can not understand how some people do not come across using things like Rosemary, Basil, or Cumin in their cooking.

I'll explain it to you :)

I think a lot of people cook how their parents cook. I taught my mom how to better season her cooking, to great success, but I don't blame her for not ever really learning. She learned from my grandma who spent her life on a tiny farm in the prairies, I'd be surprised if they came across cumin very often.

So, you grow up eating beef and vegetables seasoned with salt and pepper and homemade butter and eventually your palate doesn't really require the same stimulation and variety that people with access to more varied ingredients do. It's not that plain-eating-folks aren't aware there's more variety out there, but if they've spent their whole life _without_ those other options, it's just not something their body naturally want. As someone who appreciates music, it'd be easy for me to look down upon those with less developed palates, but to what end? People enjoy what they enjoy, I don't think there's any superiority to be had in liking basil just like there's no superiority to be had in liking djent.
Alternately, a protocol for getting a fair "d3" from a coin with any number of sides - flip three times. If all three results are the same or if all three are different, restart. If two are the same and one is different, the position of the odd one out gives your ultimate result.

For example it works for simulating a d3 using a two-sided coin: THH or HTT -> 1, HTH or THT -> 2, HHT or TTH -> 3, HHH or TTT -> reroll.

This can be combined with your protocol, but it takes some thought to interpret because in your protocol the result is what actually shows up on the coin, but in mine it's the position.
> However you'll be worse off, because your share of the total wealth is now smaller

So you're worse off because your share of the wealth is smaller... if only we had a way to describe that. Perhaps you could say that you're less wealthy and by burning your money, you've destroyed your capital?

Look, I get what you're trying to say. The value of each currency unit is roughly the total amount of economic value divided by the number of units of currency. So the sum of the value of all the currency units doesn't change as you add to or subtract from the money supply. The piece you're missing, though, is that the VCs didn't create the money they invested in BlockFi. The money came from investors and partners. So in a very real sense the capital of those investors and partners was destroyed.
Because everyone will use Chrome and websites will not support Safari. It happened with IE.
How come there is no smoke data on https://fire.airnow.gov/?
Elon Musk Claims Apple Is Threatening to Remove Twitter from App Store
Why we’re saying bye to the Livepage (and hello to Channels)
Code Obfuscation
> tech people who learned to program because their 8088 was completely open and free to let you actually create things and learn about computing, so many of you will defend this terrible situation.

There is nothing terrible about Apple making devices my 80+ year old mother can safely and easily use.

I have a Mac, and I also have Linux machines. Nothing is stopping people learning about computers.

Why would anyone spend $1000 on a computer from Apple if it’s not what they want?
It's true, and it won't stop me from buying iPhones. I just wish Apple could recognize this and drop the ridiculous self-righteous moral facade. Same with pretty much all companies.
I have to repeat myself - your "YuGiOh virtual cards" are in no way related to the NFTs. Sure you can require buyer of a card to also buy NFT, you can even pretend that was a single transaction. But really NFT has zero function in this example, it provides zero value, and if you remove it from the system altogether - NOTHING will change.

It's like saying that clapping with your hands at the gas station is somehow equivalent to the purchasing fuel. Sure, BP for example, can demand all fuel buyers to clap their hands once and claim that hand clap = fuel. But really it's just a dumb addition to the real transaction which does nothing.

NFTs are such hand clap when buying digital (or real) objects. The only difference is that they are served with metric ton of technical and pseudo-technical jargon, to the point when even some people in IT are starting to have doubts. But then you think about NFTs again and the mist of bullshit dissipates leaving only bare facts.
Even if Mastodon doesn't want to implement or play with "algorithms" (ignoring as is correctly pointed out that everything is/has an algorithm), all Mastodon content is ActivityPub content, right? So someone can put together a Mastodon alternative that supports pluggable algorithms, no? No need to convince the Mastodon devs who don't want this sort of thing.
That's not true at all.

What was happening is that the CPU was, at peak, pulling more power than an older battery was capable of delivering and it was causing a brownout.

Their solution was to restrict CPU performance as battery condition deteriorated to ensure that your phone was always giving you the maximum level of performance available to you.

Batteries are consumables and their performance degrades over time.

The whole thing was spun into "Apple is reducing performance of my old phone to make me buy a new one" - when the narrative could have just as easily been "Apple gets the most possible out a battery at all times." Note that competitors might have just used the lower performance level the whole time.

After the furor they gave you a 'set my performance to 100% at all times and let my phone take a dirt nap if it can't handle it' toggle switch in settings.
Steam Deck’s Greatness Makes It Hard to Go Back to the Switch
Highlighting some parts of my previous comment you may have missed:

> When the light changes, or you're in the right turning lane, sure you need to go over the crosswalk, but that's not what I'm talking about.

I routinely are drivers going straight or left pull into the crosswalk. It may be more visible/memorable to me because I do a lot of walking, so they're often in my way. I don't know your situation, but if you're mostly driving, it may not be visible to you (because you're not at the front of the queue) or memorable (because it doesn't cause you to change your route).

I see people do crazy things all the time just out of impatience. People even fully enter the intersection sometimes (when they're going straight and have a red, and people turning currently have a green arrow), it's nuts. And then people will pull up behind them, locking them in. So if someone ran a light, there would be no way to avoid a collision. (Obviously you shouldn't run lights either, but people do.)

My philosophy is that any complex system can suffer at most 2 faults without a failure (as a rule of thumb). So when people push the boundaries like this, they're expending the buffer we need to avoid collisions caused by honest mistakes. If someone pulls into the intersection, someone pulls behind them, and virtually anything else goes wrong, there will be a collision.
It's an interesting argument even though I don't fully agree with it. The Tank Man analogy is that even though the Chinese person has not actively pursued this topic, they experience the effects of censorship because this topic has been basically erased from their cultural space. So of course they do not pursue it - they can't ("they don't have a word for it" in Orwell's terms).

However, we are not discussing censorship as a state-level concern. An app censored on iOS can still exist as a web app or as an Android app. Apple's AppStore does not encompass the entirety of our cultural narrative. On the contrary, an app banned from AppStore often generates a lot of press.

(again, anecdotal) I can't remember a single app that I have discovered on the AppStore. The process always starts with hearing about an app from someone else, or reading about it.