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This felt like really let down release. I am usually the first one to upgrade iPhone no matter what but this year I felt no attachment to any of these "new" things. Just didn't cared at all.

The things I would have cared:

- Dual screen

- AR/3D photo/video features in phone

- Much better battery life

- Full satellite communication

- OS-wide AI features, massively upgraded Siri, AI-first mobile browser, auto-complete, spell+grammer check, rewrites

- Even more AI features: Better reader-mode, PDF mode, maps infused with AI, super-res videos with structure from motion, flower/bird/food/tree/everything ID, so on and on.

What's going on with Apple?

The 2020s were "Internet in your pocket" and 2030s should be "Super smart AI in your pocket". Apple product managers feel so completely out of touch.
MacBook Pro, wireless mouse, an audio mixer I think, a couple other things. I still use a lot more USB-A/B but it's creeping up there. I probably won't upgrade this generation but the switch is in the category of utterly inevitable and mostly will mean I have to buy some adapters and maybe a couple cables by the time it happens.
Yes, I realize that trying clothes on me is difficult, I don't want to do it.

I want to solve the problem of "I bought sneakers, came home and realized that they don't match my pants and shirts at all".

Maybe you've seen something like that?
This reminds me of a (maybe bad taste) joke about how UI & UX was perfected a few years back but designers had to keep creating huge Medium articles on their font and logo creations that curved a few pixels from the original.
They also said that with a straight face when they removed the headphone jack.
12.7Wh per battery for the iPhone 14, times a billion iphones. Assume a worst case scenario of full battery usage per day per phone, which gives us 5 billion watts or 5 gigawatts.

Doubling that power use if everyone switched to low quality wireless charging (50%) would require another 5 gigawatts, or a few thousand more wind turbines.

Bigger than I thought in a worst case scenario, but still not too bad.

Especially if wireless charging prevents premature replacement by reducing port failure, as the embodied energy is estimated to to be the majority of the energy involved in the lifecycle of a smartphone.
Can already do that. I have an adapter tethered to the cable.
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While the EU is a factor, the EU's mandatory ruling came too late to affect this product. In term's of iPhone release schedules only the iPhone 17 would fall into needing mandatory USB-C.

The USB-3 controller is in the A17 chip and not a separate component, considering the lead time for chip design and production it seems Apple had the transition in mind for quite a bit longer than the recent legislation changes in EU parliament.

As a timeline: the EU Parliament only proposed making USB-C mandatory in September 2021, and then only formally approved it in October 2022, prior to that it was just the EU's serving suggestion. Enforcement only begins on new product introductions from the latest October 2024, Apple release their Phones in September, meaning both the iPhone 15 and 16 could realistically still use lightning without infringement.

However now that Apple has introduced USB-C EU member states can safely fast track the law without affecting their economies (despite certain HN fantasies, forcing a major phone supplier out of the market for lolz is not good for a country.)
Can you elaborate on your plans for OpenPipe? Sounds like a very interesting project
According to this https://www.cultofmac.com/790897/today-in-apple-history-ligh... it was supposed to be USB 3.0 but there was only one device that utilized USB3.0 speeds:

"Apple’s connector supported USB 3.0 host, but the only accessory that fully supported this feature was the camera adapter that includes a USB-A port. Most Lightning cables to this day support only USB 2.0, with a maximum data transfer speed of 60MBps."

I seem to recall when lightning was announced, someone (probably Steve) said it was faster than the 30 pin. Then again Steve was known to blow smoke of products (remember, FaceTime was open source according to Steve when announced).
I was born in the same 12 month period as the Integrated Circuit, the launch of Sputnik and the publication of Jack Kerouac's On The Road. These have influenced my life immensely.
I'd wait until the iPhone 20 if I'd purchased a new phone two months ago.
One of the issues is that the tanning process requires the use of toxic chemicals, that are afterward often released to the environment.
My laptop is USB-C.

Everything else I have is micro USB: my phone, my ereader (PocketBook), my reMarkable tablet, my bluetooth headset, my bike GPS, the lights of my bike, my portable batteries.

I fear the day I will have to replace all of those with USB-C because, currently, I can travel with only one small charger (as long as I don’t take my laptop).
First rule of Excel development: Don't use sheet formulas, stick to VBA and apply normal dev practices
Sure teams in large organizations allow other teams to randomly create folders? Also I've rarely seen an internal code base that is easy to grasp. You can create your own microservice and set up an API in 1/5th of the time it takes to understand a foreign code base and make a small adjustment.
I don't understand this. When traveling internationally I've never had a problem locating a Lightning cable.

Though I have to mention, you shouldn't really shop for cables when you're traveling and need a new one. First stop by the front desk, they usually have a huge pile of charging cables people have left behind.
Goalposts: moved.

This is a really insane thread.
Much. Most of the USB-C port is full rather than empty making it hard to get anything other than a very thin sewing needle in there.

A toothpick is way too thick to fit which seems like an oversight.
Well that's very ironic comong from the NYT, lol.
> $0.20 per install is absurd

Yeah, it almost seems to me that the $0.20 is there to force to encourage plus subscribers to Pro.

Which probably was a poor choice marketing wise since most people will just see a single number and not pay much attention at anything else.

Also it's only $0.2 fore a specific list of countries (US, CAN, AU, NZ, JP, SK and some richer EU countries). Everywhere else it's $0.02

I don't personally like this whole business model that much, but financially it seems to be pretty reasonable (I guess as long as you can somewhat predict your expected install count in advance which might not be that easy in some cases).
> certain type of person in a natural disaster that just loses their head and starts making shit up on social media

They're the "everything happens for a reason" types. Their belief system doesn't properly integrate chance events, so when confronted with one, they create a bogeyman. Because somebody being in control, even a bad somebody, is more comprehensible than nobody being at the wheel.
I'm sure there will be a dongle for that.
We ran 5K randomly selected recipes through GPT-4 and extrapolated based on the average cost per query.
The lifespan of those phones remains for the people that buy them used/refurbished. There is a strong secondary market for iPhones.
I absolutely expect that lots of games are using achievements for telemetry.

It would surprise me a little, though, if someone retroactively adding an achievement to an old console game is doing it for telemetry purposes.

My original comment was based on reports from some indie game authors talking about their development experiences, and going "ugh, I have to add achievements, fine".
I stick with a solid colour -- usually a blue green (#088F8F) or a sky blue (#87CEEB).

I don't bother with using images as the background/wallpaper on my desktop any longer if only because I rarely, if ever, see it because application windows cover the desktop.
Android phones need replaced much more often than iPhones, due to how slow they get and lack of updates. There is a reason the resale value of iPhones is 2-5x any Android phone.
The wagtail CMS would be a good example of more complex systems built on top of Django. https://wagtail.org/

One of the many more complex sites we've used it to build is https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/ which tracks over 10k companies, 100k+ articles in 15 or so languages. We've also built internal dashboards, live updating forums, donations platforms and so on. Another interesting one might be https://www.achurchnearyou.com/ which is used by the church of England to provide "mini sites" for all their congregations around England, so several thousand church administrators use that every week.
iPhones are useless for AAA games unless they open the platform up more.

One of the reasons stadia failed is that gamers that spend the most do not want to keep rebuying games. Apple seems to expect people to also keep rebuying games. Just. No.
He’s a former government official who openly changes his messaging based on polling data, not scientific evidence. It’s not unreasonable to discount his public statements.

> “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Fauci said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...
Right about what? That there is risk in taking off the mask? Of course he's right about that. Right about taking off the mask being suicidal, like playing russian roulette? He obviously isn't right about that.
EDIT - disregard this, it's charging with cables only using the iPhone as a battery

iPhone 15 will charge your watch and airpods from the back of the phone, so you don't even need to travel with the watch charging cable anymore.

Samsung did this already (branded as "PowerShare") so it's the year of iPhone catching up on charging features.
Interesting that they allow shortcuts with the new Action button. People will hook it up to ChatGPT and replace Siri for general purpose Q&A.
> But I think the freemium market can co-exist with a premium game market

I agree... but there isn't one. And I don't think it's because of an underpowered GPU.
Not sure about 8 years, but I know at least 3 people who use iPhone 8s still and have no intention of stopping, so that's 6 years. I know at least one person who had an iPhone 5 until it broke earlier this year.
The DICE compiler is not mentioned, but I fell in love with it!

I wish current OSes had some of the features Amiga had. Hot patching of all syscalls was powerful, if although dangerous by today's standards. Thanks to ARexx every application could easily be made scriptable. DataTypes was the answer to the data interchange problem.

And, beyond the SO itself, Aminet predated the packaging systems that are the fortune of Linux distros. The one tool I contributed can still be downloaded today!
I agree, but we also shouldn't discount the thousands of little influences that affect us everyday, either. It's a bit like deflecting an asteroid: a big push early on will have the greatest effect, but thousands of little pushes later on will also deflect it. The key quality is the coherence of the impact - if they push in all directions, it may NOT have an impact. Arguably advertising is coherent in that it all seeks to increase your appetite for consumer behavior. And I would argue our parents do that to us, too, with gifts of toys and other trifles.
If you have more than 5 employees, I’m sending you a sales rep to sell SSO to you.
Steve Jobs died. He had a way of making the mundane, exciting, and the exciting, world-changing.
My gf did exactly that for work.

It was a fairly complex desktop app that did a number of interesting things in the domain of graphics too.

It was a simple C++ and QT app, with the necessary domain-specific libraries.

If you need to develop a non-trivial gui app in windows then C++ and QT is a great combo.
> the usb-c ecosystem seems like a nightmare to me from what I have seen.

Compared to lighting it only has advantages, faster charging, more universal.

It's only a nightmare because you can carry almost anything over USB C incl. DisplayPort etc. which is not always clear if it's supported or not
Actually, Apple released a security update for iPhone 5s (2013) earlier this year.
So you like the smaller bezels then?
Yep, I see pretty much zero reason to go with the 15 Pro, other than to avoid the terrible colors of the 15. The Pro Max gets the better camera, but the smaller Pro seems like a lousy deal — especially if the smaller bezels result in more accidental touches.
Do we have a ball-park of how much is spent on each iPhone iteration? A billion USD?
Apple is listening to its customers – by way of sales data rather than a few comments on a niche techy forum.
The only big limitation of the Lightning connection for me was video output (limited resolution and compressed signal).
I hope the USB-C on the 15 Pro gets rid of this limitation.
I got exactly the same impression. They announced things like improved low light performance (but same aperture).
Having had both Android and iPhone, I just used a toothpick on my iPhone and it never took more than a couple seconds. I find myself picking my Pixel 6 with a very fine sewing needle for like 15 minutes before my cable will seat properly.
That's not really what I'm talking about at all. Private methods are often useful for handling internal details. But often when you have a lot of private methods, you're bundling too much functionality into one object. I have found that it is very common that I get significant improvements in readability, testability, and comprehensibility when I decompose a large structure with a lot of private methods into a few smaller structures that operate on each others' public API.
Flat colors, no pictures.

Black for daily driver(s). Red for encrypted and sandboxed tunnel networks using fascist firewalls. Purple for heavy logging isolated dirty net for monitoring new malware. Green for new installation being prepped as a PXE/iPXE network install image.
I think the need for a special presentation for yearly iterative updates to a phone and watch is pretty minimal these days. Just put out a press release
I don't see anything exciting about the iphone 15.
To be rigorous battery life is a function of depth of discharge, the discharge rate, and temperature.

The sort of shallow charge and discharge cycles you see with EV's aren't the same as spec 80% high rate discharges.

You could grossly estimate battery life by multiplying the spec battery life in cycles times the EV's max range.
I haven't had much trouble with GPT 3.5 or 4 function calls returning in an undesirable format recently. I did get a few bad syntax responses when OpenAI first rolled it out, but not for the past few months.

Llama 2 can also pick the function call format up, given sufficient training data that contains function call responses, though you'll then have to parse the returned object out of the text-based response.
MSSQL Server had an operating mode where it would use a single thread per CPU with multiple "fibers" per thread.

It was usually a performance loss over the standard threaded mode SQL normally operates in.
Why can't they sanction China for obstructing this effort? They've got a real nice economy, it would be a shame if we piled on sanctions to help compound their current economic woes if they refus to allow this work to be done. That they were already read to go in blocking that cave suggests they already knew and are being obstructive.
That seems unlikely. I mean why would they list Unity Plus per install pricing in their table if they were doing that?
I think that the "specific blue color" you see is explained with the composition of the atmosphere (nitrogen and oxygen mostly). The origin of such phenomenon won't change the colors (as long as it doesn't contribute with another elements).
> For the first time in a smartphone, color is infused throughout the back glass, creating five beautiful colors

Which will stay in a protective cover/case for it's life forbid you need to repair a crack.
I regularly use my bluetooth mechanical keyboard (nuphy air 75) with both ipad and iphone. Works fine. Much better than the keyboards sold by apple. What are you missing?
>One likely possibility is that power lines are shorting because they've become "guitar strings" and are touching each other while vibrating from the quake.

From the article, emphasis mine:

>The intriguing bursts of light were captured on CCTV at a home in Agadir approximately three minutes before the disaster.
Also. I think it's rational for myself to wear a mask because getting COVID was one of the worst experiences of my life. It's like if I burned my hand on a stove and someone tried to convince me burning your hand on the stove is normal so no need to take precautions.
This is just plain false. The entire country of Finland (and Sweden, and Norway) installs pretty much only air source heat pumps, air-water heat pumps, or ground source heat pumps in all renovations or new built buildings.

In the north of the country you end up heating your house for some days with resistive heating, but it is still cheaper than any alternative source.
> mom and pop landlords

If one was looking for such a landlord, what should they be looking for on the listing? Is there a common place where you might choose to list a rental that's not as frequently used by big players?
I got the same exact conclusion.
I know several people who continue to wear masks for completely non-health related reasons. Perhaps he is trying to avoid interacting with you specifically.
I completely agree it's a real thing. But couldn't we say the same thing about homo sapiens? Isn't the amount of domestic cats basically tied to the number of humans across history?

"The ecological dangers are so critical that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists humans as one of the world’s worst non-native invasive species."

Pretty believable! My take is it's always better to put one's house in order before trying to influence the behavior of others.
Thanks for sharing them :-)

> most people don't have a server or even a friend who has a server,

That's wrong from my point of view. In the past, in the dialup era that's normal, but we are in the fiber optic broadband era, at least in vast part of the world who are essentially the parts where IT is developed and used, so it's wrong not to have an IPv6 static global per device, it's wrong not having a domain name per human being, at least per Netizen.

Correcting this is anyway needed because even with modern connections distributed solutions have too much overhead, too little performances to be generally used. Having a homeserver, a direct connection with own devices, from cars to "smart" water heater should be normal for those who want it, normal without intermediaries but still with server, we need to know our infra.

Building giant tools to circumvent actual state of things is technically fascinating, give end user a friendly UI is remarkable but it does not really solve the background problem: giants services will be much more performant. On contrary no giant can offer something more effective than a direct connected services for any user, from a single device with data and logic and UI on it, to LAN to generic P2P connection without extra overhead. As a small example no VoIP services can be faster in my LAN than my local softphones/deskphones talking each others. No GMail alike service can search faster than my local notmuch-emacs on local maildirs. No file sharing services to exchange a file can be faster than a direct connection between someone else and me, at the maximum extreme they can be nearly equivalent.

At least, that's my vision: no chance to win competing with big & powerful on such tech, some chances pushing a local first, wide open connection between peers for the rest because users are needed, but nerd, people who know what they use is even more needed to start, just understanding IPFS from it's code and "docs" is challenging, understanding IRC is far simpler.
It’s a fun idea, but I’m going to quibble with the title. This isn’t simulation, it’s speculative storytelling, of the alternate history variety. “Simulation” makes it sound like more than it is.

I blame that Waluigi article for popularizing a pseudo-scientific way of explaining something that’s better understood as an imaginative literary approach. There are lots of great alternate history novels and games.
One of the first proponents for hand washing and hygiene during medical practice wound up dying in a mental asylum.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7240806

What's considered normal socially is not always what's supported by the evidence at hand, and sometimes what that supports is well outside of the acceptable range of discussion or behavior at the time.

Are you truly concerned that this person has made an error in judgment based on evidence or do they just make you uncomfortable for breaking norms? Are you motivated to post about this because you've considered their reasons and think they've made a harmful, critical error in judgment or are you just seeking approval of your normalcy bias? Do you know enough about their health situation or their family's to be sure that their risk calculation is unreasonable?

The best course of action if you're absolutely sure that there's no threat to you is to ignore them and move on with your life.
The Rust bindings (crates gdnative for 3.0 and gdext for 4.0) also are pretty great. I've only used them a bit so far but once I got the hang of it it works well. They don't seem to teeth badly with Rust's ownership semantics like some attempts at wrapping GTK struggled with.
Sharding is part of how we do it.
Just gonna throw this out there... for me, one of the main reasons I don't play games on my phone, is because it will absolutely tank the battery life.

A dedicated device has the benefit of having a sole purpose: gaming. If I kill the battery, I just can't play anymore games. I can still take calls, browse the web, and text my partner.
I think they're mixing two different things. Yes, you can go to a lot of museums in NY. No, living in NY doesn't provide an easier and more serendipitous social environment for families than the average US city.
Google search is now worse than it was 6 years ago.
The market for employers to match with employees.

The freedom for such associations to be mutually accepted.
It also has a built-in AV1 Decoder! This is the first time Apple has indicated they're going to start using AV1!
I get the sterile feeling part but how did you make the jump to "political correctness"?
I’ve got a number of USB storage devices that work on my intel macs but none of my silicon macs. One was a brand associated with mac.

That could be because the devices themselves are not spec and the intel macs are more tolerant, but as a customer the result is the same: shit don’t work on m1.
I wonder if you'll be able to connect a harddrive to the phone via USB-C and send all your photos to your harddrive. (even if the process took a Mac to help facilitate) That'd be the best feature as people have all so many photos and at this point they have to live on the cloud. But whether they admit it or not, the cloud can be buggy and it's very common to lose photos or videos if that's the only place they live.
Merino wool socks, get rid of cotton and synthetic materials
If there is a USB-*, the EU can just update the policy for new devices with a grace period of X years. Problem solved.