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you are right of course. if it works, it works, and most times it does. i am specifically talking about those that still use XP because it doesn't work. those cases are few, mostly badly written games i guess. i am curious what kind of programs you still run on those old machines.

linux may not satisfy your needs, but not everyone can afford to keep old machines around like you do. and those stories of dependency hell and terminal voodoo are corner cases on linux just as much as they are on windows. especially if someone is going to set up a linux machine specifically to run old windows programs in wine then they most certainly will not run into any such issues.

most cases of dependency hell on linux are likely caused by inexperienced users who follow bad advice to install software from the wrong version or a different distribution. don't do that if you don't know how to do it without causing problems.
> The $399 RTX 4060 Ti will ship on May 24th with just 8GB of VRAM, while a 16GB model is due in July priced at $499.

Is that accurate?
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I only worked there briefly (I never officially had an office there — Covid times and all that). I don't see it as any different than any of the other Apple campus buildings I worked in (like Infinite Loop) with regard to productivity.

(I've always compared it to some beautiful, modern art gallery — but without any art.)

But to the above degree, I have to say I enjoyed all large Apple work environments (even some of the more far flung ones I worked at like Results Way).

It's because I have enjoyed being able to walk down a hall, up a floor, and chat with The Guy That Works on IOKit Display-support. I am a "social engineer" (not one to socially engineer though if you know what I mean). I truly disliked working from home for extended periods.
Ok, but please then say C++/C++17, because C++17 is further away from the old C++ than C from C++ before 11.

And I never seen that you can mix Go/Java/... and C Syntax/standard lib in one file.

What a BS...
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Pair it with .sys for the perfect Windows combo.
You might want to make that a bit more clear then.

It seemed more like hyperbole, and I certainly didn't get that from what you said.
I cant tell if this is research about generative AI, or AI generated research.

The new internet sucks
That’s exactly why they should not be mixed. Well written C++ 20 is easy to work with and protects you from making mistakes, while C code not only happily gives you the rope to rang yourself with—it requires you to use it! What makes C++ seem difficult today is all the things that it allows for back compat, and that those things are still how C++ is taught… by teaching “C/C++”.
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In the long run, though, it will be hard to repair and the parts generally aren't swappable or upgradeable. When Apple was a participant in the PC ecosystem you had more options for repairs and upgrades. So 5 years down the road people's feelings on the M1 may change, even if they're amazing machines now.
Sometimes people are given a shirt as a gift, or they just think it looks cool. I never knew others took shirt-wearing to be such a serious activity.
It is often difficult to ascertain how much iceberg is beneath the water until you attempt to solve the problem.
Yeah. Apple enters when there’s clear product-market and out-executes everybody. For the watch, notice that fitness trackers (Fitbit) were already getting popular.
Didn't it ask you if you wanted to stay connected even without internet? Mine does. You can disable that in the wireless advanced settings.
London in special for different reasons, yes.

My main point though was that Vienna's population decreased greatly after its empire, and while increasing is still 10% smaller than a century ago.

London's population has different dynamics, and I can't pretend to have a good reason. I can observe that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London shows a clear decline correlating with its shift away from being an imperial power, from ~8 million in 1951 to ~6.6M 1981.
Well, a Mercedes he replaced every 6 months just so he didn’t have to suffer the indignity of a number plate.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/how-s...
Absolutely! On a related note, looking for C development jobs is a real pain for this reason.
If that's true, why did Apple release Boot Camp in the first place, and maintain it for so long? Why was it used so extensively?
Split the difference, call it C+

</irredeemable recalcitrant>
Based on their "Performance"graph on that link, Autodesk Arnold & Call of Duty are faster on the regular 4060 than the 4060Ti
It seems!
The construction of the Somerville bike path predates me, so I can't comment on it or whatever funding snafu it might have resulted from, but I can say that the result has been absolutely fantastic, and has turned that area into the thriving heart of Somerville. Every time that I ride along it during the day it is a delight, thick with people going for walks, rollerblading, children out playing, climbing in the trees along the path or enjoying the gardens and art projects that line it. If that's what a boondoggle looks like, then I'll take that over most publicly-funded boondoggles.
I don’t think that’s enough, cloud solutions are still cheaper and faster I believe
Kind of disingenuous to compare FFI in other languages with the fact that a lot of everyday C code can be compiled as C++ code without issue (even though C isn't strictly a proper subset of C++, in actual practice it very nearly is - no one actually writes K&R style code for example).

I do agree that they're very different, and should not be conflated (and I'm one of those programmers who will happily code C but despises coding in C++), but there is definitely a clear connection between the two, just as there is between C and Objective C.

Also, that maximumCount example in C++ is unreadable not because it's C++ code, but because the author has deliberately tried to be extra clever in writing it.
Yeah, no, they were still large glass aquarium-like enclosures for a couple dozen engineers the last time I was there.
They are being compared to two different cards. The TI is to the 3060 Ti, and the non Ti version to the non ti 3060.
There is legal C that is illegal C++

There is legal C that is legal C++ but has different observable behaviour

And if you're "writing C in C++" then you're not really using C++ as it was intended, might as well just write C and use a C compiler.
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MongoDB eventually switched away from doing that and now just generates random numbers for the pid and machineid fields of ObjectIDs. The timestamp is still there because people rely on being able to sort on that (which is a bad idea for various reasons), but it's at least 24 bytes of randomness now.
> If you’re referring to a C program or programmer just say “C”. If you’re referring to a C++ program or programmer just say “C++”. If you’re referring to both used separately say something like:

>

> C and C++

> C, C++

> C++ with C

> Etc.

>

> NOT C/C++

>

> Only if you’re using C together with C++ would it be acceptable to say C/C++.

oh ffs, stop it with the pedantry.

How long of a blog post because "c/c++" isn't "c and c++"? It's neurotic.
*60 TI always seems to be a nice mid-market pick.
This article seems incredibly detached from reality. No, C++ is not just C with classes, but C and C++ are the same kind of language, with the same roots, and when we're talking to people who don't know C or C++ the difference between them is literally irrelevant because these folks are (thankfully, finally) never going to use either. The people for whom it matters know the difference, and this article is irrelevant to them, the people to whom it is completely irrelevant don't know, don't care, and don't need to hear this.
impressive & terrifying
AMD seems to be providing good alternatives. Arguably the 6600XT or the 6700XT are better value than the 4060. And the 6800XT is a good alternative to the 16GB 4060Ti. And AMD's cards are actually purchaseable right now.
Indeed, I visited Amsterdam for the first time recently and was in awe at what they've done. My dream is to make Boston's infrastructure as close to Amsterdam as we can, even though it will take more than my lifetime to get there.
Well, they are closely related. Which is unfortunate for C++ because it can never free itself from all the C legacy basement.
One way to mitigate this is to get into a position where it's illegal for someone to look over your shoulder. Barring one two-year stretch a decade ago I've always had a private office.
And while we're at it, why not throw .reg, .dmg, and .bat into the pile!

If I had $200k to burn, I'd get .ccoomm, or perhaps .oom, .fat, .titty, .cellulite, or .butts.
How about .wickedwitch or .bitch? Next level oddity compared to the lameness that is .mov and zip.

Why are some people such tools? :P

Could at least make it fun instead of 100% dumb. Remember .ws and
.xxx? That one definitely didn't pan out. At all. All the major players are still .com.
This seems like offshoot tech from the Facebook messenger rewrite that claimed to lower as much as possible to the database for cross-platform sharing - https://engineering.fb.com/2020/03/02/data-infrastructure/me...

The proposed architecture seems cool, until you realize that instead of writing the languages your mobile devs know, instead you end up writing a lot of C (or generating a lot of C) to be cross platform, and the overlap of C developers and mobile / consumer-oriented developers in Silicon Valley is quite slim. I heard through the grapevine that the success of that rewrite was greatly overstated and it turned into a pain quite quickly.

All that said, I have a cross-platform app using SQLite… and I’m okay with C… maybe I can con the mobile team at my company into using this to ensure more job security?
I don't know what the mechanism is, but this [1] article describes the spectrum depending on both temperature and current

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250139383_Dependenc...
Most people compile C with the gcc/g++ compiler, and are unaware when the build system changes over...

After several years of production programming... you will see the languages are not mutually exclusive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
> This is nonsense. ... Apple Park: it kinda sucks to actually work at Apple Park. It’s a goldfish bowl. It’s impossible to focus. But, yes, it looks really nice. It’s very pretty, that is undeniable.

Sometimes what people think they want isn't what they actually want once they experience it. People unhappy and surrounded by drab office space might pine for a beautiful setting to work in, but I suspect most of them will find that it wasn't the lack of beauty making them unhappy and that a change of scenery doesn't do nearly enough to rectify the problem.
If they are actually just using eye dilation for funny faces, I would be shocked. It's one of those things that's pretty telling physically. Whichever congressman asked that question was NOT dumb.
That's a very good point.

As a hacker, I have a stubbornness and a strong sense of the justice of technical correctness, so I can't help but try keep the larger sense of the word alive. Even if only as part of a background chorus of hackers saying "well, actually..."

But I do try to remember that we're the weirdos here.
Only if you care about power consumption.

3070 is I think 220~250 watts, while the 4060 sits at 160~200 watts.
Just chiming in to say I started learning Rust because I wanted to try out Bevy and so far it's been a great experience. The Discord community is especially vibrant. The hardest parts have been learning ECS at the same time as a new language/framework and how quickly updates are released which invalidate old information (including asking ChatGPT questions and getting stale info)

Overall though I haven't regretted the experience at all. If anyone is on the fence about playing around with Bevy I'd encourage you to jump on in.
I disagree with a lot of the sentiment in the comments on this post.

The reason these things are pushed are often because they help people in some form. Of course things are taking to the nth degree to make a quick buck manipulating people's fear response. But the core idea of looking after yourself (drinking water and moisturizing) is that you have one body/life, and you should cherish that to some degree.

At the end of the day, whatever works best for you, as long as you're not stepping on others.
>Plumbing is easy, pressurized pipes and pumps can deal with that just fine.

The bigger problem is finding space for pipes. Many commercial buildings have specialized vertical tunnels for plumbing. The bathrooms in these buildings are usually adjacent to these tunnels, and there are no provisions for expanding plumbing to other areas of the floor in order to separate the floorspace into apartments with their own bathrooms.

The vertical tunnels are also designed to contain some number of main pipes with capacity based on N bathrooms per floor that you'd typically find in an office, with no room for expansion to handle N*10 bathroom capacity.
I'm impressed, but it's still wrong. Somehow they can both be true here. I think I was able to extract the information, but only after navigating a minefield. Without a strong understanding of the fundamentals I would know less were I just be thrown to the AI.

And really the responses MUST have come from a fool. It feels like I was talking to someone who knew absolutely nothing about music theory but had a good internet connection and was trying to wing an interview.

The breadth and depth of the AI's knowledge is profound to say the least. However its ability to comprehend the information is nothing short of abysmal. If you were trying to pass a Music Theory 101 class you would fail bad if you listened to the answers it comes up with. It's as if it was unable to apply what it was talking about at some fundamental level. Like it could tell you all about covalent bonds and air pressure ratio to boiling point but will tell you water boils at at 20,000 degrees C at sea level. Impressive, but terribly wrong.
Burn in for smartphone OLEDs has long ceased to be a problem. It certainly wasn't a problem anymore for the iPhone X, even if later models are even more durable.

Regarding of tablets: I have a 2017 Galaxy Tab S3, very heavily used. The screen is still basically flawless. Physical wear is only visible when the whole screen shows a very dark grey uniform image, which happens approximately never.

The brightness isn't an issue either, in my experience. LCD does use less power on average, particularly on websites (which are typically bright) or PDFs, but smartphones have rather small screens anyway and tablets have a quite large battery.
I have similar experience with expensive CNC machine that runs on Windows98... ONLY on Windows 98. That machine costs like $150k or similar and was purchased 99/00 as i remember.

Few years ago PC was destroyed. Don't ask - long story because fan stop working due dust. So company purchased 2 PCs with similar configuration just to be sure that they have backup plans. New CNC machine costs over $250k.
Actually yeah. We're sick of these monopolists you call artists and their all-overriding concerns surrounding their imaginary property. As if the entirety of society has to bend over backwards just to enable their centuries old business model centered on something so absurd it's logically reducible to the ownership of numbers. If the product of your labor is information, it's time to accept you're in the 21st century. Information can be trivially copied and modified with barely any restrictions.
Quoting wikipedia: "Positional goods are goods for which the satisfaction derives (at least in part) from higher pricing."
High price is just part of the appeal of Apple products for many.
The entire egalitarian fad we're living through is not longer interested in alleviating poverty, but abolishing any form of "inequality" [0]. As if inequality were a bad thing and equality a good thing.

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2015/09/poverty-no-inequali...
I do not think fast needs to be a goal? Great to have sure, but a slow, stable, compliant implementation is perfectly fit for purpose in the standard library.
Are you suggestin' that gases accumulate in runoff?

That's the thing about the uranium decay series. Just after radium, it has this gaseous stage called radon, which doesn't matter one whit when it's sealed into a rock; an atom of radon in the middle of a piece of granite just sits there for a few days and then goes right on into being lead.

But if it's near the surface of a grain of sand or something, that radium turns into radon and the radon escapes into the surrounding air. And it goes wherever the air goes for the next day or two, before turning into lead.

So if that radon is in the runoff, it just fizzes out like any other dissolved gas, and blows around in the air along with all the other gases that make up the air, exactly like any other radon that had an escape route when it was created. There's radon in the air everywhere, right now, a brief stop on the decay chain that is otherwise all solids. And those atoms of radon are undergoing alpha decay all the time, turning into atoms of lead, minuscule bits of dust popping into existence, everywhere.
Gaming class GPU's provide much better $/FLOPS (ie a 4090 is ~5x better value than a H100)

https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

Nvidia forces corporations to buy datacenter GPU's for CUDA licensing reasons, and adds a significant margin on top.
Just, Devil’s Advocate.

But the whole reason we’re even having the discussion is because of the evidence that more people are remote working. So I’m assuming we’re talking about people who might have to go to their office at max two or three days a week in the extreme cases? Not sure how that will create enough of a market drain to make NYC, Boston, or San Fran living affordable?

I think the suggestion to reclaim business districts is the only rational way forward with any kind of chance of lowering prices. There just don’t seem to be enough people willing to live outside the city to bring down prices. If anything, everything price-wise points to market demand increasing.
Is there a performance chart comparing last gen (30xx series) to current gen? Specifically current and last gen mid-tier cards ?
Not only is it doable, with the obesity & depression rates in most of the United States it could be massively beneficial from a number of fronts.
The cubicle was invented in the 60s as a way of liberating workers from the tyranny of the open plan. To give people their own space.

Ironic that it became its own oppression.
There really should be some mechanism to accidentally skip the contents between ads.

E.g., requiring to visit a link via QR tag using your phone for metrics verification (a "legitimate interest"!) in a timely manner, as soon as the QR tag shows up, otherwise, retry after the next 30 secs ad block… (Disclaimer: this comment demonstrates prior art to any similar patent applications.)
I would argue that the hackers haven't gone away as much as they've completely been outnumbered by the non hackers.
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I keep wondering what would happen if Apple were to license iOS. I know that's a sore spot (Jobs is dead though), but could they actually fuck over Android if they did?

A whitebox iOS could be downgraded enough that they could still service the snob market, but maybe undercut Google completely. I mean, how much does it even have to cost per unit when each sold drives traffic to their own app store?
> make the remaining 10% [of street parking] incredibly expensive and time limited to short durations which makes it so that spots are always available for someone that actually needs it for something like moving

I see you studied the work of Donald Shoup, the author of "The High Cost of Free Parking".
I believe apple phones home quite a bit. The good thing is that on macos, you can launch a terminal and run "ps" to see what is going on, or use "ls" to see what apps and files exist (unlike ios).

Note that back when macos first launched, if a program crashed wanted to send information to apple, you would get a popup, see what would be sent and decide whether to send it or not. Nowadays all kinds of things are just sent, like every time you create an account, even a local one or one for work, it phones home.
This is funny, they only did this because they don't like dealing with Samsung on the display side.
DLSS3 makes these better than any previous gen GPUs including 3080s for games with DLSS3 support.
AMD's 6800XT should be a pretty good competitor to it; 500 bucks, 16GB vram, and a 256 bit bus. And the 6800XT is already available
6750 XT was on sale a few weeks ago for $330 - $20 rebate and came with a copy of The Last of Us.

Guessing it'll be a while before we see similar deals on Nvidia cards since so many people are determined to buy Nvidia over AMD for reasons I don't understand.

Yes the raytracing performance is better, but not enough to justify what they're charging.
Audio doesn't require all that much bandwidth. 20Kb/Sec should be plenty for reasonable fi. "CD quality" would be 40Kb. Ultrasound maybe double. So... 20Kb would be 20 packets per second and that's being generous. That's without compression.
Unfortunately, here in the real world, people have to go to work. Hospitals, stores, schools, manufacturers, warehouses, truck drivers, and builders/maintaniers of all the infrastructure that your lifestyle depends on.. even your car salesman with necktie: these are all places that need workers and always will. The small proportion of workforce that are startup employees dont make the rules. You're crazy to think that everyone wants to work from home, I know I sure as hell dont.
> * It'd be easy for Apple and Google to prevent downloads of TikTok for most users, which would also include app updates, as they have a significant amount of knowledge of users' locations and could prevent most users in Montana -- even those using a VPN -- from downloading the app or updating it.

I find this statement odd. It's one thing to have the data and another thing to assert that it's either readily available or easy to insert into legacy systems. Do you know this to be true? Or is this just a guess on your end? Because it sounds like a guess. And with guessing becomes weakened trust in what people "report" or "analyze".
Is there a power difference?
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I actually use it through the API playground and not the chat interface. I like the explicit control it gives me over the context and system prompts.
this is not a 4090 and even then your article mentions experiments are better on a cloud solution. Where they only recommend getting a top of the line GPU if you are doing longer than a year work
I agree. The better solution is to do away with unforgivable debt.
> as long as availability doesn't become a problem

And you know it will, within minutes of release.
I just cannot imagine a future in which I ever want to strap a screen to my face.

I'm not speaking for anyone else here… But I simply cannot imagine an upside.
Games are cool I guess, but how well will they perform at llama.cpp and stable diffusion? That's really all I care about.
more likely they think 'rush hour is awful' or 'traffic is awful', i highly doubt they would prefer to experience the same density of bodies traveling on the bus or train.
The biggest difference is the mindset. C++ is a complex language whereas C is relatively simple. This greatly impacts the audiences and culture both languages attract.
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As much as your budget allows for.