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>>. am i REALLY that old? am i taking crazy pills?

What you are, is snarky.

The only times Apple ever did this in the past, the product flopped because it was too expensive.

Maybe other companies have been leading with expensive tech waiting for the market to catch up, but Apple hasn't - not since the Lisa anyway.

And yes I am on old fogey - ol enough to remember that the industry has been waiting for consumers to "catch up" to VR for many many years. It's not happening - VR is a niche. Ordinary people don't want to put a VR headset on - they just don't - there's no catching up because 99% of the people I know would never put on a headset except for one impressive demo and never again.

This thing will at best do "okay" - it's too expensive - there won't be a critical mass of software for it, and VR is a niche.
> I've been astounded by GPT-4 and have nearly 5x-ed my productivity with it (for coding and for parsing documents).

I wonder if StackOverflow, Quora, GitHub Issues and similar websites have noticed a decrease in new questions/issues raised? LLMs have a kind of network effect that it makes people ask less questions in public sites and more privately to their own LLM sessions, and maybe even give up if the LLM does not answer. That reduces critical mass at q&a forums, so, given enough time, less people will go there for answers. I'd say that's a great loss!

In a way, sarcastically speaking, it's one of AI's way of becoming our overlords.
And type on what exactly? On a keyboard in your desk/lap. I don’t see the posture that much more flexible.
Apple releasing segmentation/pose for humans and animals, embedding for 27 lang
Depends on the industry and the tech you choose.

Wordpress started in 2003 and if you chose it back then, it's still kickin'.

I just checked the website of the first job I had out of college, in 2004, for a niche tech company in the auto industry. The java-based central auth system I put in is still in use (I can tell by view-source). If it's lasted this long, another 10 years shouldn't be too hard.
Of course it's totally unsafe: it's in a war zone. It's on the current, active front line of a warzone. If this dam collapse doesn't cause a catastrophic spent fuel nuclear disaster in the next few hours, there's still imminent danger of that from any number of different causes – most visibly, military actions occurring right next to (or inside of!) the power plant. The IAEA messaging has been extremely shrill about this for like a continuous year, and no one listens.

e.g.

- "After nearly nine months of failed efforts to forge an agreement between Ukraine and Russia to establish a protection zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is now pushing for a new proposal to reduce the possibility of a catastrophic nuclear disaster."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/22/ukraine-zapo... (May 22)

and

- "Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been without external back-up power for three months now, leaving it extremely vulnerable in case the sole functioning main power line goes down again"

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-160-iae... (June 2)
Yes, but chef can also invent some dish or recipe that will be used for ages.
I am op
Rosetta works for drivers as well (as long as they use the user-mode DriverKit interface rather than kernel extensions)
So basically, your rebuttal is that it's not this crazy thing, it's this other very crazy thing.

Ok...
I feel the same way. Somewhat disappointed to find it is actually 3.3 lbs: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-13-and-15-m2/specs/
You said "Birth control is also rooted in eugenics." That is a tough argument to make.

Eugenics and birth control have been around for a very long time. Eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_birth_control and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#Origin_and_developmen... .

Galton, an early eugenicist, coined the term in 1883. I'll use ~1880 as the start date for that strain of eugenics.

The history of birth control page points out "The Malthusian League was established in 1877 and promoted the education of the public about the importance of family planning and advocated for the elimination of penalties against the promoters of birth control.[38] It was initially founded during the "Knowlton trial" of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh in July 1877"

It also points out how "In the United States, contraception had been legal throughout most of the 19th century, but in the 1870s the Comstock Act and various state Comstock laws outlawed the distribution of information about safe sex and contraception and the use of contraceptives".

Which means birth control, and family planning, predate Galton, so cannot be rooted in eugenics, in the way you likely mean "eugenics" to mean.

Modern statistics was invented by eugenicists and "race scientists", like Galton.
Really?

Tell those on maintaining or even writing new programs using fortran, cobol and 370 assembler.

It depends I think.
Burials, use of symbols by extinct species discovered in Cradle of Humankind
Who does that apply to?
I agree with the intention of this comment. However, "fog of war" usually refers to the situation the fighting soldiers and commanders are in, not to the situation the ordinary population. It refers to the fact, that the soldiers and commanders themselves need to fight. Where they need to base their decisions on an understanding of the situation high uncertainty.
Ha, that turned out to be a pretty good prediction. Wonder what else can be gleaned from features in standard products.
It is not their country and their places. Hence they can blow up not just dam.
I blog regularly, and given many other bloggers are commenting, let me ask: how do you do analytics? I am currently using Google Analytics, but they're changing it and a nagging me to change the configuration, but I wanted to move away from them for a long time for something more privacy-oriented (I just want to know how many people are reading my posts, maybe from which countries, and that's all - no ads). Would appreciate honest suggestions (no ads).
That's cool that website! https://updb.app UPDB is an open database of unexplained phenomena (UFO/UAP) reports. Wow didn't know about that.

I guess you know the "insider theory" as to why UFOs came after nukes: it's that nuclear weapons explosions send shockwaves through the "cosmic web" and interdimensionally, that fucks up aliens' realms/dimensions. So we think it's bad here, but somewhere else something else bad is going on. I wonder if that's a secret reason why countries shifted to underground tests, and then a ban. Too much ET pushback - ha ha ha! :)

But just now I'm thinking how is a nuclear explosion different to a star? Maybe because latter is gravitationally stabilized and "in equilibrium" with its environment? I don't know. That's why we need to science the shit out of it! Rather than having anything we may know and have locked in super secret programs, amenable to crazy disinfo and all this other bullshit! Ha ha ha! :)
Interesting question. How badly does someone have to behave before you feel you have a moral blank cheque in stopping them. I think starting a war counts.
4k monitor at 27 inches costs less than 400 dollars. Unless its 10 bit with 1ms response time for gaming. Who is spending $3500 on monitor setups besides gamers?
Edit: sorry, it is definitely not the same dam, as seen by comparing it to https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1665907533469581313

(NOT) Video of the actual explosion: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1665954209156460544/pu/...
Glad you're not in charge. Maybe you feel cool saying you'd ok an operation which would result in the deaths of more innocents, but that's an abhorrent position.
Russia will never give up crimea. In fact it 'always' practically belonged to Russia. Their most important naval base is there for decades.
Link is https://www.aisearch.vip/aisearch#

There are enough dead "short" links on forums already.
The fact that the victim is not credible to you is already appaling.
AI generated art as working QR code
> The new ATSC 3.0 standard (NextGen TV) in the U.S.

Don't worry. After 3 comes 4 and 5. /s
But my array of huge monitors has more resolution than 2160x2160 and multiple people can look at them at the same time without getting nauseous.
I do think that if kids returned to playing outdoors there would probably be an adjustment period where people had to learn to expect kids running around and into streets. To hear adult bike-riders talk about how poorly people watch out for them asking people to put their phones down while driving and watch for kids might be a big adjustment.
I'm not coding for 30 years (yet), but I have some code from 10 years ago that is still running and being used today.

The fun part: all code that had "fancy new technology" in it has been replaced over the years. The only code that has survived was written from scratch without any other dependencies. Most of it being vanilla Javascript (doing quite advanced calculations)!
Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM
Only because we use a lot of pine wood with low density (because cheap&fast). Not all wood is like that: Red cedar, douglas, larch, acacia and more... Where I live, chestnut is even used for roof tiling.
You have the political thing backwards. In fact, everybody, from the Soviets over IAEA to European governments did everything they could to down play the impact. Measures covered things like not following up the health of liquidators, nor asking for it. Excluding radiation related health issues from work sicknisses and injuries. Publicly drinking potentially contaminated water on live TV to shownit is save after the public raised concerns. Murking the waters around cancer rate research. The list is incredibly long.

The only party that did push against Nuclear were the Greens. And it took them over 20 years to finally get a nuclear exit through in Germany.

And as far as thresholds are concerned: we have those for everything, from lead to small dust. Being above it doesn't outright kill people, but it defenitely doesn't improve longterm health. And yes, Bavarian boar has a tendency, in some regions, to be above radiation thresholds. That can be dorectly traced back to Chernobyl. You are trying to deny that by attacking the validity of those thresholds, thresholds that are coming from a ruling party in Bavaria that is in power sonce the 50s, is as pro-nuclear power as they come. I call that a straw man argument if there ever was one.

What that means for the safety of the exclusive zone is a different stroy, isn't it?

And no, as pointed out above, the health impact of Chernobyl, on everyone from Minsk and Pripyat to the liquidators and half of Western Europe was never really studied.
Currently, I'm using the company blog and distributing content through other channels, but it's not working out. I wanted to explore how people are navigating the content world nowadays, especially for new companies that are just starting out.
The issue seems to be:

.. sound trademark registrations throughout the world for the Russian folk song that plays during Tetris

I would understand this to be for an actual recording, or at least a distinctive reproduction. Couldn't Setris just use a different tune?
Just TB and that is the whole month.

How about per day for bird photography using z9 …
Who will develop software for wealthy users willing to spend money on new experiences?
If anyone is interested, I posted details on my approach here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5455261.0
I witnessed how 20 years Cobol code repos were removed and the process was observed by their author in his 60s.
I'm not sure Ukraine ever planned a large-scale crossing of the Dnipro from Kherson. Certainly not for the main thrust of the counter offensive.
It will also make it easier for Ukraine to attack upstream when the reservoir is empty. In places where there are virtually no Russian defenses. So that's a win for Ukraine.
> What if a poor family who could not afford Christmas lights and decorations could now snap them into place in a second, for free?

Sure that would be neat, but wouldn't it be even more neat if "poor family who could not afford Christmas lights and decorations" didn't have to exist?
It's not like that's how it _has_ to be. It just _will_ be like that if we just continue building this deranged tech-dystopia where we sell the problem as the "solution" to itself.
Has an M2 in it, so full laptop replacement.
The funny thing here is I often use a paper notebook on my lap (on a clipboard), but rarely use a laptop on my lap.
> Did AlphaGo bring anything new to the table? Hell yeah.

It is incredible software and deserves the Turning Prize, no question. But what new patentable
tech did they invent?
This person is confusing R&D with production engineering.

They both need to happen and they are done by the same engineers in the early life of a company when predictability is less important than pmf and survival, and they don't have the luxury to specialize their engineers

Later on, as the company matures and requires more stability, even though production teams (should) continue to look for innovation opportunities, they are no longer executed within their "scrum" context. At least not the uncertain research phase. That should get routed to separate teams dedicated to working on innovation and they most likely don't follow scrum methodology.

(Fyi, horrendous site design, hard to read on mobile)
This can’t be more than marketing for their display division. Maybe you would take this into a clients office for a demo instead of a projector? Maybe you really liked back when you had that trolly with the projector and laptop bags stacked on top of each other? It was fun to lug that around, right?

I haven’t seen a boardroom without a huge screen and all kinds of input options for years. I also notice that people happily watch IMAX stuff on their phones.
Yes they do, XBox and Surface devices GPUs are done in collaboration with hardware supplieers.
Nah, far more legacy code than there are new code these days.
In the late 80's/early 90's, it was one of the few ways to run large videos (for the time) without stuttering bc hard drives were too slow.
I think decentralizing and p2p is the wrong approach to solving the issue with commercialized social networks. What we really need is a non-profit & transparent & independent governance setup. Financing should happen through donations, maybe grants but certainly not ads. A bit like Wikipedia mixed with Mozilla, but even more transparent.
How do startups currently plan events for their teams?
any suggestions welcome zoya@goafterwork.com
Oh, one or two more details pertainent to some of the comments above.

It has a builtin GUI around a certificate manager, so you can generate, import and use TLS inside your intranet between devices.

It doesn't use a domain specific language, rather just a simple web gui around a state machine. IMHO you can't pretty much do what you need with a state machine and anything that can't be done like this can be handled easily via the generic rest interface and if you need notifications it supports web socket based notifying of events. This make's it easy to add new rules on the fly from your phone if you want.

It make's it easy to add new pages of buttons to control the state from your phone and generates nice video alerts with multi-camera views of the trigger event.

And it's totally undiscovered. You can be the first early adopters! :)
it's not necessary to have the product last 30 years. E.g. in car industry, tons of code is carried over in new products. If it works and does the job, why change it?
"I have a genuine fear for Junior developers using ..."

I have been around long enough to have heard the same about

- writing code on the terminal as oposed to on paper (their coding will become just trail and error)

- using debuggers (repeat until it works, they will never understand why it failed to begin with)

- using IDE's (real programmers don't need crutches)

- using languages with extensive standard libraries (how can they ever understand their code if they didn't write their own dictionary)

- using domain frameworks (TF is for people incapable of grokking NN's)

- ...

It's most often not the tool that is producing bad programmers, it's bad programmers holding it wrong ;)
> And looking at the Framework laptop shop right now, I see a 16GB DDR4 DIMM for $60, and you can throw in a standard M.2 storage module

To be fair to Apple, theirs is LPDDR5 rather than DDR4, and it’s built into the SOC so it’s a different product.

You can currently only buy a system with 16gb of DDR5 from framework as part of a preorder bundle, not separately, and that’s a c£400 bump which makes the system much more expensive than the mac.

To be fair to framework, they are going to release a separate ddr5 module according to their store which will be cheaper than the Mac option, but if you are buying right now (which is what counts) then Mac is cheaper.
Someone invented zeros and ones in data transmission and the end is not near....
It could indeed be either side . You sound like the avarage raged redditor. Calm down and wait till we see real facts before making assumptions.
I still use System 7-like themes: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/04/12/2330
The Linux kernel will fix some peculiar argv usage in execve(2)
Likewise, a programmer can invent an algorithm that outlives the original code.

I don’t think we’re unique in being in an industry where the things we create have a limited lifespan.
Also the watch launched with a bunch of expensive ultra-luxury options that were mocked. Ive tried to lean heavily into fashion which was quickly dropped in later revisions.
> all sides use propaganda

All sides do use propaganda, but the idea that Western media is equal to Russian media in how much they lie in this war is definitely a ridiculous take.
As with most artifacts, survivorship bias will ultimately dominate.

Some code will prove itself to be unusually durable (parallel: the pyramids) or some will prove to be so useful that someone will maintain it (roads that have been used for 2,000 years).

Most does ultimately fade to time.

That said, I use code daily that folks wrote 20+ years ago. Not just continuous lineages like an OS kernel, but actual applications written decades ago and never updated since.

Likewise, while most web sites/applications I've built for clients probably only exist on a tape in a datacenter now, people still upload videos of games I created 15 years ago to Youtube.

Getting code to last is all a mix of innate durability, utility to others, and some luck. :)
I guess, complexity scares, so it is still alive :)
The current iPad Pro has an M1 and can be used as a monitor for an ordinary MacBook. I suspect the iPad Pro refresh due this year will have an M2.
I totally want to get this thing! This is awesome! Ha ha ha! :) I don't know if I'd like it, but I certainly want to try it. Looks fucking great! Ha ha ha :)
“Collapsed due to damage“. Looks pretty clearly like an explosion.

Russian state news agency. The fine folks that bring news reports like “local nerd found hitting himself by school bully”
> Want access to prod? Sure give me a ticket. I don’t trust any place that doesn’t want things written down.

And this is a great example of the difference between an operational role that runs on tickets and management responsibilities.

Management is all about trade-offs and compromises. By their very nature trade-offs can almost always be presented as a bad thing.
If you're trying to convince people than there's a moral case against Russia and for Ukraine, then sure. If you're trying to convince people of specific operations then you do have to get down into the details.
My grandmother -- a talented chef -- refused to eat fast food or frozen meals. Perhaps she overvalued her capabilities or didn't try hard enough.

I don't use "AI" to help me write code, it doesn't help me enough to offset the constant context switching, and then having to double-check what it spits out. For the same reason, I don't have a junior-level human assistant to pair with because that would slow me down.

Thanks for the heads-up, so those of us not getting enough value out of "AI" (about half according to the other comments) know not to apply. I have worked for plenty of managers and executives who can't write a memo or a spec as well as ChatGPT, I suspect those jobs will go to "AI" before my prospects dry up.
I have a 13" Macbook Air, try to travel as much as possible. At home I have a single 27" 4k screen. Both at home and remote I work with just one screen so I'm able to keep my workflow exactly the same. Honestly, I think my productivity on my 13" does drop somewhat, but nowhere near the 50%. I would say I lose 10% of my productivity. For me that 10% is totally worth it to be able to work remotely and travel more.
Agree, we are not :)
If anything the above quote points the "meddling" being done by russia and not the US/West. So they made it happen and when it went wrong they obv point to others. This is so classic. That some fools still fall for it is the amazing part.
I don't understand why there is no AR or VR killer app for this thing.

Their sales pitch was "it makes it amazing to read articles in safari"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYkq9Rgoj8E&t=5410s

$3500 to... look at a floating web browser? Surely they can come up with something. Give me UV/IR vision, let me see the pipes under the ground, show me how to assemble the furniture I'm looking at, give me a template to paint by numbers of a real canvas -- why is this basic concept of "a $3500 novelty device should enable me to do something _new_" so hard for a 3 trillion dollar company to grasp?

Are they just hoping someone comes up with all the above in the next 6 months? If they did, would anyone care? $3500 is relatively a lot of money if you're already giving them iPhone and Macbook money. The supermajority of the world doesn't make more then 60k a year, pre-tax. Actually, the supermajority makes vastly less than that.

I guess I'll wait and watch and see if they prove me wrong, but I suspect no matter how good it is, it'll flop.
Have you considered that the Ukrainian armed forces may have made a mistake? Accidentally shelling the damn setting of Russian explosives? Just because Ukraine is the victim doesn't mean they know more what happened there then we do. Again, fog of war is a real thing.

It will take several days until people outside the Ukrainian and Russian government can have any idea what really happened. But to paint me as a Russian sympathizer because I don't know for sure what happened in a warzone hours after reports started coming out is just incredibly stupid.
> Some of the best actual hackers (not just pentesters and ctf winners) are in india.

How do you know this?
I indeed see nothing good with genocide.
But you run it in your data center? Is it just some pre-configured apps you can run on a machine / vm / container wherever? I mean... that's not completely without merit. But isn't this just what we used to call "software" ??
I'm sorry if you're confused but we're discussing a specific thing which occurred in a war zone, not the war itself. It's certainly complicated.

Also, for what it's worth, calling people idiots will never help you. You should probably stop doing that.
One feature I'm looking forward to, oddly enough, is Journal. Finally, an end-to-end encrypted fully featured journalling application interface that has your privacy in the forefront. Included with your OS.
Pearl-clutching alone is not a valid justification to end a discussion.
Google did a sky dive live.

Talked about glasses the same way.

Do you see Google glasses?
i'm sad that when they make superintelligent ai i will never get to meet it, because it will be locked in a government lab