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Yea, I upgraded to an M1 Pro and it's truly amazing. I used to always look at benchmarks and always want to upgrade to the newest thing that was coming out. Now I have a laptop that feels like it just works. It doesn't get hot, I've never heard the fan, and just so many of the typical worries/concerns just aren't there for me anymore.

Yesterday, there was an article about Intel showing off a "35 watt" chip that was benchmarking better than last year's 125 watt chip. Except, you go into the comments and people note that it'll draw 107 watts for short periods of time - probably just long enough to get good benchmark scores.

The magic of the M-series processors is that they have really great sustainable performance and without needing to draw power and create heat like Intel's. The Razor Blade machines are amazing in how they deal with the amount of heat generated with their liquid cooling and everything (it's quite a design), but as you note it's still a jet-engine sounding machine that requires being tethered to power.

One of the big things that Apple showed off when introducing the M1 Pro/Max was the idea that you could be a creator doing your job and no longer feel like you were tied to a power outlet. Photoshop from a park or edit video wherever you are: you really don't need more power than you'll always have with you.

As I said, I bought the M1 Pro and specifically upgraded to the 8 performance core version of it. I'd always bought the high-watt Intel processors for my MacBook, not the paltry 15W Intel parts. I had a 2020 MacBook Pro with 2.3GHz Core i7 (28W, 10nm) and I'd regularly have it get really hot, the fan often wasn't too loud but it was always a constant drone, and things felt slow.

My next machine is going to be a MacBook Air. I feel like I'm using nothing on this machine. I have 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores, but it just feels like there's no point to having that much CPU. It's a really crazy feeling for me. Yes, more performance will be useful for some people, especially people who do video editing, graphics, etc. But damn does all my work never even come close to stressing this thing - something I'd regularly have a problem with on Intel's greatest drawing a lot more power and making a lot more heat just a year before. Intel has made some strides since then and I'm happy that their newer processors are doing well, but for the first time in my life it just feels like I don't care.

I might grab a 3nm laptop from Apple when those come out, but I'm not anxiously awaiting them. I might just wait for whatever comes after TSMC's 3nm process. I am kinda excited that I can go to a MacBook Air.
irb > def method
irb > 'yes'
irb > def method
irb > 'it is not'
irb > end
irb > end
irb > method
=> :method
irb > method
=> "it is not"
Looks like a bunch of grifters paying themselves big piles of money and delivering very little.

Edit: And there it is ... shocker

Britishvolt was founded by Lars Carlstrom, a Swedish automotive executive, and Orral Nadjari, a financier with connections in the Middle East. The former quit two years ago after revelations that he was a convicted tax fraudster. The latter quit this summer amid speculation that he was not up to the job of leading the business into commercialisation.
Same effects both on Chrome and Safari.

But that's also irrelevant. Whole day of battery, if you don't use heavy apps is very different from whole day of battery.
Our current "AI" systems are just fancy automatic copy & paste engines. All they do is remix the input data and spit it back out. This is why AI art engines are great a creating composite images, but hopeless when you ask it to produce something completely novel.

If conservatives want a fascist chatbot they can train their own off of 8chan, Stormfront, Parlor, etc...
This is incorrect, the M2 supports a single, M2 Pro supports up to 2 and the M2 Max up to 4 external displays.
I did just that and none of the search results on the first page include the word matrix anywhere.
> but 3rd party software that lags

Microsoft does distribute beta versions of Windows for third-parties to test against.

Does apple do the same? If Apple doesn't, then it's Apple's we have to blame it onto.
They didn’t stop antialiasing. They stopped sub-pixel antialiasing and snapping stems to the pixel grid, which is less relevant on retina displays, to avoid artifacts when text is translated and animated.
I mean, yeah, I agree with you, but think of it this way:

I don't have a citation on hand, but I remember reading a while ago that when it comes to general health outcomes, it was about 70% genetics and 30% personal choices (don't quote me on that, can make that number even 60/40 or 75/25, the point will still stand).

Which makes sense, a lot of people here probably know someone who did everything "right" in terms of their health choices and still got hit with something nasty (e.g., active lifestyle, eating healthy, etc., and still got cancer or covid or something else), as well as someone who did a lot of things wrong and still had a decent outcome (e.g., my grandfather who has been smoking a pack a day since middle school, been doing hard manual labor, and is still kicking in his 80s).

And sure, it seems daunting that your health choices can affect only that 30% (rather than 70%). In blackjack, however, the house edge against an average player is about 2%, and about 0.5% for perfect strategy pro players. People spend countless numbers of hours practicing memorizing (and executing) perfect strategies just to give themselves that extra 1.5%. While with just basics of taking care of your health, you can take charge of the 30%.

That's quite a massive effect that taking care of your health can have on your outcomes (and your life), even though your genetic health predisposition still has the edge.
The abstraction doesn't have to be perfect. Most apps don't even take advantage of native platform functionality.
So… have chatgpt to write your text and DeepL to clean it up
maybe a function factory is just an OO pattern for return closures, it's difficult to not perceive things from 'now', but i'll be frank i 1) never liked DP 2) couldn't spend more than 5 minutes reading about them as it seemed more verbose and redundant
And then a RingGPT: one GPT to rule them all. It would pass along the prompt to various different GPT variants and then compile its own response based on what is reported to it.
I recently decommissioned my iMac Pro and wiped its storage, which involved a High Sierra reinstall via Internet Recovery (http netboot).

It's amazing how snappy it is. I wish Apple would offer levers to turn off all the new (and laggy) features in their OSes for those of us who just want a computer to be simple and run apps.
>If becomes widely known that the government can de-cloak Tor users, that will change the behaviour of their targets and so hurt their surveillance, so it's fairly common that the government wants to hide this fact. (same with stingrays, for example).

As was discussed verbally at Defcon, a huge chunk of the exit nodes are either in the US or EU. Same for guards.

(The whole GCHQ vs several EU countries trying to do intel in parallel without a shared intelligence agency thing is perpetually amusing.)
A maxed-out Mini is pretty much half the price of a Studio Max. I wonder which one ends up being a better long-term purchase, in terms of obsolescence and OS support.
First time I've really been aware of an Apple product not just being like-for-like $->£ but actually a higher £ number: £649 vs. $599. For reference, $599 is £489.
I think the obvious solution to this is to require websites not ask the visitors age or name. Like, that stuff is private info, and they don't need it to provide whatever service they're providing.
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Apparently they couldn't imagine it either[1].

1: https://sorbet.org/
If I were a corporation looking for an LLM for some product feature, I would absolutely go for the one with more "woke" opinions, even if if resulted in a worse customer experience. If you didn't, you risk a lot of media and government backlash.

It's all about context.
> Here's how you solve it: demand open source models, or at least, open source access to network weights (I think it's kind of hard to open the training itself since it requires so much compute). Demand OpenAI to actually be open.

You can demand whatever you'd like, but if no mechanism for human coordination exists that can try to fulfill the aggregate desires of the population (assuming you could get consensus on your excellent idea), you might as well just skip the middle part and wish for Utopia right from the get go.

The forms of governance that exist on this planet (most of which we designed decades/centuries ago) are simply not up to the task. It is physically possible to design superior methodologies (the laws of physics do not prevent it), but it seems that it is not metaphysically possible (human minds will not allow it to happen).
So it should be allowed to implicitly trained to favor one political view over another?

There's no way to avoid the bias, whether it's because you chose a different training set, reinforced different pathways, or put blocks in place on certain topics.

I'd rather the authors be explicit in where they are putting their fingers on the scales rather than just relying on "Guess we got lucky".
I automated a single kind of commit message, which I call "wrench commits" where all I'm doing is running some other tool (package manager, scaffolder, formatter, linter, etc) and committing its changes. These commits I label with a wrench emoji followed by the command line string that was run.

I don't typically squash these commits, but if I do need to dig deeper that --first-parent in git blame or git bisect it is easy enough to build an ignorerevs file including all the "wrenchs". Sometimes that history has been specifically useful in frameworks that are very scaffolder/package management heavy with infrequent updates that touch a lot of scaffolding and package. It can be handy to glance at the last big update PR for a partial script list reminder.
OS X user since 10.3, and while I share the opinion that their software quality has gone downhill, they've always done bundled app and OS upgrades: they co-develop major updates to the OS and its SDKs with applications that make use of them. That isn't a major delta from prior releases which held themselves to higher standards.

While holding back app updates to stabilize the early upgrade experience might work, it's also somewhat contradictory to the idea that they upgraded the apps and their features and upgraded the OS as necessary to support the apps and features.
Grid electricity? A heat pump might buy you enough heat (at a better price than propane) during the shoulder seasons to get by on 1 fill.

If you’re off the grid, forget that :)
I think a large concern here is simply that people naively think that computers are objective and people are biased. A language model just learns from its source, and the source is really just other people in some form. The bias is inevitable, but it’s not clear how well this is understood by the broader population.
They are there, but, as posted by others here, mostly care about gun ownership and covid restrictions and their own speech, but not about people getting literally tread on by police or humane treatment of asylum seekers, etc.
> Can anyone provide insight why Apple didn't put more effort into cameras?

I assume because for users who need more than a basic webcam, Apple has Continuity Camera¹². And of course there are lots of people at the high-end using DSLRs as their webcam.

¹ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213244 ² https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209037
For $100, you can opt to have 10Gb ethernet as well, so it's not really slower LAN. Personally, I think choosing the higher end M2 Pro doesn't make the comparison more fair than the lower end M2 Pro, so you can get 10GbE and "save" $200 (compared to the Mac Studio) by choosing the base M2 Pro Mac mini for the comparison and including 10GbE.

But, I agree. I don't understand the purpose of the M2 Pro Mac mini very well.

Apple is charging way too much for the M2 Pro upgrade, which makes it a confusing option. Is the fully enabled M2 Pro chip really worth $600 more than the base M2 chip by itself? That's the cost of an entire base Mac mini! I don't understand why Apple is charging this much. I think $200 for the base M2 Pro chip and $400 for the fully enabled variant would have been a more sensible price structure. Still a bit expensive, but less confusing.
Did some time at LANL as an R&D engineer in the non-global security skunky areas, though wound up leaving for reasons not pertaining to the work. Participated in several projects involving Sandia and LLNL.

Pros:
- Pay was excellent, especially for the area
- Incredibly beautiful country
- Very interesting work
- Infinite well of taxpayer dollars for equipment and materials
- The best job security one can find
- Crippling bureaucracy enforced a remarkably safe work environment

Cons:
- Crippling bureaucracy made it difficult to move quickly and hit tight deadlines
- Internal politics (intra-lab and inter-lab) often adversely affected decision making and program success
- Living in a company town
- An inability to remove demonstrably problematic employees
- A Q clearance limits certain extracurricular activities

Personal experiences with LANL were all over the place and highly, highly dependent on which group one works with. I was very lucky to get in with a group of wonderful people and immediate management that firewalled most adverse developments from higher up the food chain. This is not a common experience but organizational mobility is relatively free, so you can move to work and groups that are attractive.

Worth noting for those coming from private industry: the national labs are institutions first and foremost, not businesses. Organizationally and operationally they exist in a very different mindset and within very different value systems than FAANG-like orgs. The adjustment can be a bit jarring.

My work at LANL will likely be the most interesting and most fulfilling work I'll have done: every day was an adventure into the unknown. The work/life balance was also excellent. If you're a naturally curious person and have an inclination for basic science I'd recommend taking a look at the labs. If you have specific questions feel free to drop them here!
Church was not exactly thrilled with this

Henry VIII got married: you won't believe what happened next.
Sure, defaults matter.

My point was that when talking about commercial security offerings, the security models generally end up relying on on "trust the company", which has never worked out well. So corporate offerings finally coming around to having full disk encryption is more catching up with something they lacked, rather than advancing the state of he art. (Contrast with Android's process sandboxing, which seems like a genuine advancement and could be worthwhile to port to desktop Linux)

In the context of talking about individual actions one can take to trust their personal machine, it's reasonable to assume this involves appropriately configuring your software environment. If this was instead a thread about what products would be good to recommend to your parents, then what was commercially available off the shelf would be relevant.
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The question was not about the general claim regarding childhood education and the multitude of ways that children can learn mathematics. A specific claim was made that matrix multiplication is racist. Children don't learn about matrices to begin with, so discussing childhood math education is irrelevant.

Can someone cite a source to such a claim?
I had the same problem with Lenovo here in India. I bought an Asus instead. got a Ryzen 9 6800 machine with 32gb ram and a 3050ti. amazingly good with Fedora.
it's not magical, but if Apple's 1080p camera is 'very low quality', I have plenty of experience on potato-cams to talk about, even in the previous generation.

I also suspect that the design was intended for Face ID, but that obviously hasn't happened yet. I'd keep touch ID, thank you very much.
File synchronization/backup is a thing. For those of us who travel full-time (hence, maxxed out powerful beast laptop) having dongly-things dangling off is a hazard.
At one time Apple had to be competitive with aftermarket upgrades.
I've just upgraded my two Macs, one Mackbook Air around 3 years old, and a more recent MBP M1. Both worked perfectly fine. What could be causing your issues if not the OS?
Yes, I understand what you are saying.

It is interesting: I clarify and point out the limits of your (own) control, which you agree with, but you still call me pedantic.

You didn't have to write "everything". You could have said "more".

It is so easy for open source proponents (which I am, but not to an unlimited degree) to fall into these illusions that are entangled with imprecise language.

Perhaps the answer is not to shoot the messenger? Perhaps the cause of the negativity is the realization that we don't have that much control. You knew this at some level, but your choice of language downplays it. The big manufacturers are in the drivers seat, like it or not. This reality is uncomfortable. Better not to mention it, then!
I have a Mac Mini from around 2010 that I saved from the recyclers recently. Dusted it off, put in 8GB of RAM and an SSD, and it booted up Windows 11 just fine. However, as far as I can tell there is no up to date MacOS available for it because Apple considers such a thing too obsolete to support.
The headline makes it sound like he got fired for asking. He didn't. He just got told no when he asked. He got fired when he then did it anyway.

And it's not like the company lets young workers WFH but requires old workers to be in the office, so how could this possibly be age discrimination?
Risk is measured by multiplying likelihood with impact. A single setter, low impact, a single bug in lombok, or misused feature, impacts a lot
What are you using that's strongly typed and as quick to get stuff done with as Ruby?
> - ordering the most boring coffee

The fatal flaw in the plan:

Barista talking to news after person is arrested by FBI: "As soon as they ordered the brewed coffee with no customizations after standing in line for 10 minutes, I knew something was suspicious. Who comes to Starbucks, stands in line for 10 minutes, and then orders boring coffee?"
The bug is about two related floating-point concepts: contraction and excess precision.

The C and C++ standards mandate that floating-point operations follow the IEEE-754 spec. For example, the result of any elementary operation (+, -, *, /) must be the floating-point number "closest" to the exact result of the operation, for some definition of "closest" (i.e., according to a user-modifiable rounding mode). If we denote this rounding operation by fp64(), then the C code

double x = a + b

results in

x := fp64(a + b)

Furthermore, the C code

double y = a + b * c

results in

y := fp64(a + fp64(b * c))

These restrictive definitions have the huge advantage of allowing portability and determinism of floating-point operations: regardless of the platform, architecture, or compiler, the values of x and y are mandated down to the bit representation. Also, this most often does not come at any performance cost, since most architectures have IEEE-754-compliant instructions.

But then, there are exceptions. For example, the old x87 FPU instructions would allow one to do:

y := fp64(a + fp80(b * c))

where fp80() uses the internal 80-bit x87 FPU registers. This is "excess precision" (80 instead of 64 bits), and this would generally be faster than the standard-compliant code. A more recent example, since Haswell, Intel CPUs have builtin fused multiply-add (FMA) instructions, allowing one to eschew the inner rounding altogether:

y := fp64(a + b * c)

This is a case of "contraction" in GCC parlance, and it is also generally slightly faster that the standard-compliant code.

Both "excess precision" and "contraction" seem like win-wins: more accuracy and more performance. However, since we cannot not control exactly when the compiler applies them and when it does not, it comes at the cost of portability / determinism / reproducibility. Even just a compiler version change could give you (slightly) different results.

By default (in "GNU" mode), GCC enables both excess precision and contraction. However, in C, it now exposes command-line options to disable them. Also, specifying a standard (e.g. -std=c99) disables them both. However, no such option existed in C++. From the man page:

-fexcess-precision=standard is not implemented for languages other than C.

The commit linked in the bug report adds the options for C++.*
Most udemy/MOOC courses are structured this way. I tend to just look for the highest rated ones on whatever language I'm interested in and make sure it says build projects or something similar.
No wood pellet stoves? Should be cheaper, but a bit more hands-on and needs electricity.
It's getting better to be sure.

It's definitely taken time for the libraries to catch up, but when 17 came out and put a kibosh on the work arounds folks relied upon when using libraries that were not properly modularized.

From a JakartaEE perspective, that's a different world. The containers were modular runtimes of their own sort anyway, many are built upon OSGI, etc. I don't think mainstream EE projects are using modular projects.

As a developer at the end of the line, building personal and in house projects, I don't personally get much value from the modular system. It's extra bookkeeping to manage, it's seems as much whack-a-mole of updating the module-info file as any deterministic plan. You mostly learn you have a problem when something won't load, making the whole thing rather reactive.

I don't really care about the JDK/JRE size, I don't distribute projects that way. They're just jars, or they're WARs for the container. If you have to send up the entire runtime, all the time, then sure there can be value. But as mentioned, you don't need a modular project to use jlink.

So, clearly, the JDK certainly benefits from this. But it's imposed from above on to everything, and I'm not that sure that everyone else gets real value from it.
I feel like we suffer from intentionally overbroad protections in this vein. Corporations being people and what not.
I had a bad experience. I have top tech companies on my resume and they made the role look cool and I was trying to slow down a little . They instead put me into support . The codebase wasn’t in source control ; it was just a few scripts in any case . They didn’t have a sane deploy. The people that they had me working under had been there for decades but were not good . They talked down to me and did not give me tasks that aligned to my experience. I thought I would ruin my career if I stayed so I left. Much happier with a principal role where I’m at now .
I was more taking issue with your misplaced confidence about using a public AP than your doing illegal things.
I use this script called "autocommit" and run it in the background in a tab.

It commits every 1 second. Echo to the file current-task to change the commit message from that point onwards. If you have no changes, the commit is a no-op.

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
sleep 1
(git status -z;
git add . && git commit -m "autocommit $(cat ../current-task)" ; git push);
done > autocommit.log 2>&1

I actually use it from host machine to push to a development virtual machine without vagrant.

I use a bare GitHub repo in the shared folder in virtual box with a git hook to trigger a build in the virtual machine.

See here

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/local-development
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