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My brother has an iPad with the Lightning port on it, and has to get new cables every few years because they start fraying and breaking around the bottom of the connector.

And he isn't really rough or abusive with these cables either.

Where as I still have MicroUSB cables from 10 or 12yrs ago that still look and work like new.
Can someone clarify the concept of "infectious dose"?

My layman's understanding is that even one virion can potentially infect someone. It's just that the odds of infection generally increase with the number of virions. (Modulo many other factors like where the virions reside, immune response, etc.)

But the concept of "an infectious dose" sounds much more binary to me.

EDIT:s/viron/virion/g
1 mm smaller, rather
> Apple created so much e-waste by refusing to play ball with USB-IF despite starting to use usb-c 8 years ago

How much e-waste was actually created?

All my several Lightning cables from various Apple device purchases are sitting in my excess cable pile [1], along with a bazillion USB cables from all my non-Apple device purchases, because usually the only times I need a new cable when I get a new device is when every prior device I've purchased that uses the same cable is still in use.

If my Apple devices had used USB I'd still have the same number of cables in my excess cable pile.

From an e-waste perspective what we need to do is stop including cables with everything.

[1] My phone gets charged wirelessly. My iPad does get charged by cable, but I use an Anker 3-in-1 cable that has a USB micro-B end with a couple captive adaptors for USB C and Lightning. I use another of the Anker cables for charging my wireless mouse and keyboard.
their terms also not about game profits. Let's say in case if $300k spent on Ads to get 200k+ installs and as result you made only $200k back as in-apps payments Revenue from game (so your profit is loss of $100k+fees+taxes) then Unity will demand you to pay them $40k+ just to cover installs amount and you almost won't have control to stop new charges because even if you will shutdown a game then some installs continue to happen from various pirate sources or some small app stores.

It looks completely insane terms for lot of mobile games where monetization is huge challenge and difference between profitable game and company bankruptcy measured in cents per user.
The problem is two-fold:

1. p=0.05 means that one result in 20 is going to be the result of chance.

2. It's generally pretty easy (especially in psychology) to do 20 experiments, cherry-pick -- and publish! -- the p=0.05 result, and throw away the others.

The result is that published p=0.05 results are much more likely than 1 in 20 to be the result of chance.
I'm using it for my startup :)
> But I think the freemium market can co-exist with a premium game market

Not so when all the big gaming mobile companies are assigning their top talent to building stuff like Clash of Kings. And why wouldn't they, when they can make so much more money doing so than working on a quality prestige game that no one will pay for.

> the premium game market still exists and still is going strong, no reason it couldn't live on mobile devices also.

It's actually the opposite. Mobile-style microtransactions are slowly taking over the premium PC/console gaming market.
> That's pretty much the only thing that matters. there is a huge difference whether they make $0.5, $1 or $2 etc

My point is those numbers can vary GREATLY from games to games, and not only the revenue per user but the cost of user acquisition as well. There isn't one truth, the numbers I gave up could very well fit a real project.

Of course you would be pretty stupid to not subscribe to Pro once you notice your game going to 200k. And let's be real, at 1M$ threshold, if the Unity tax is what kill your game, maybe there wasn't a market fit. But it just feel such a bad and unfair way to generate revenue on free to play games.

> So I understand why Unity chose to do this instead.

Other engines does it just fine, tracking installs (without any false positive) seems a much bigger hassle especially legal wise
Kernel free Tensor Streaming Processor for scaling up LLM Inference capabilities
The iphone 14 non pro addressed that problem, presumably the 15 non pro will as well. It is cheap to replace, they have a DIY kit
I guess it depends then.

Looking at their per install pricing if you have large number of users but very low revenue per user it would certainly make sense to upgrade to Pro where you would only pay ~$2k for each seat as long as you make less than 1 million per year. Which doesen't seem that unreasonable.
Thanks for answering! I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean by previews.

what would you want this front site over amazon to do in the preview?
Little bug -- Legend says Green is renting, blue is sharing, but the map and the popups on the map are the other way around.
Yes, only it takes a while to figure out the right level of abstraction for your organization. It's difficult to start right out of the box with the right type of modularization.
Almost everything beside the iPhone.
I liked my 11 Pro before the mini, but if I'm going to go back to a non-mini phone I'll have to toss some of my jeans, whose pockets are too small for non-mini phones. I do find typing on the 11 Pro to be easier than on the mini, since the keyboard is wider. But I love to swipe-type on the mini.
Apple is a big player in logistics, their leadership will move the needle in shipping and transportation in general. Syncreon and other Apple partners will have to have a real plan for 2030 goal. It will make it easier for other companies to go carbon neutral, when the bulk of the leg work is done.
I think you're right—Pro Max has 5x, Pro has 3x.
Someone was watching "The Horror Of Margins In CSS" on YT...
Because I hear this less and less, your comment does stand out - what really piques my curiosity. Could you share your primary motivation for wanting an analogue audio jack? Like you do you have some great old headphones, or is there some other compelling reasons that I don't know about? No reason is silly, it's just something I'm really curious about because I come from the other side where I moved to wireless long before the jack was removed.
Apple is bad at marketing is an interesting new take
Siri in its current form is constantly "hallucinating" all sorts of stuff as it is. "Hey Siri, turn off the lights in the kitchen." -- "Sure, now playing a continuous stream of U2 on all of your speakers!"
>GPT and other LLMs don't allow you to use their output to train competing models

ToS is unenforceable and irrelevant to anyone that's in this space
If you are running an exit node, yes. However, if the general public takes up this advice, connections will time out before the whistleblower has finished uploading the 15GiB .zip to the dead drop.
The charging cable was obviously not the leading factor when the purchase decision was made. It doesn't matter much that a different platform that runs different software and has different capabilities had models available with USB-C. Different phones for different folks and that's ok.

In any case, I welcome USB-C to the iPhone world.
What do you mean? Wouldn't you still need a charger between the phone and the airpods case?
Why not a burner prepaid dumbphone? Battery lasts forever, cheap, and while there is still some modicum of tracking, it's nothing like the firehoses that are smartphones..
Thanks! but configuring macOS to behave like I want it to is so painful I only “update to the new macOS” when I get a new machine!

To my knowledge, macOS has no config or dotfile that can be dropped to restore the many customizations one acquires over time. I tend to first look for FOSS remedies.
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A picture of Cid Kagenou from The Eminence in Shadow
There are a few major missteps Apple made over the years that make me hesitant to buy any games on iPhone or iPad.

With my Steam catalog I can download something I bought in 2004 and still be confident I can play it. I spent $20 on Monster Hunter for iPhone and one day iOS updated and it just didn’t work anymore.

My Switch games will assumably work until the console dies.

Another reason I completely stopped buying games on iOS was when The Binding of Isaac was suddenly delisted from the App Store. I never got a refund or anything, and because of this new versions of Binding of Isaac aren’t compatible with Macs either. I have hundreds of hours played in that game and it’s ridiculous that Apple censored it as “depicting child abuse”.
Yeah, very good for your eyesight.
That sounds like more of a software feature that we'd see in a WWDC. I'd expect we'll need to wait till June 2024 to see SiriGPT.
my devices are mostly micro-usb, the apple devices are lightning and I'm getting more usb-c devices sort of randomly.

I've started buying multi-standard cables - they usually terminate with micro-usb, and have tiny attached adapters for usb-c and lightning.

higher quality example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071WNQYV6
but there are lots of cheaper variants.
If, and only if the developers include controller support. Which they largely don't, even when controllers are supported on every other platform.

Two egregious examples: The Final Fantasy Pixel Remastered series, and Monster Hunter Stories. The first has controller support on both the PC and consoles, but not on phones (which came out first). The second launched on a console (the 3DS), and has no controller support on the phone.

That caveat alone makes it so frustrating to play games on the phone IME.
Deterrence is many magnitudes cheaper than having to fight. The US should up defense spending to 10% of GDP, it will be cheaper in the long run than fighting a war (let alone the cost of losing).
I would love to use short UUIDs, but every part of my stack can get a long one with a single, trusted import.

I agree. If there was a shorter standard, I would use that for most cases.
Back of the napkin: hundred million iPhones recharging their 13 Wh battery once a day every day from zero to full for a year is about 60 % the electric energy that this power plant [1] makes in a year.

Not huge amount of energy, but not negligible either.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agua_Caliente_Solar_Project

edit: I see someone else did the math as well.
I feel like Qi is really the universal charging standard, but USBC is good too
"You do this by training an existing model on example input/output pairs that demonstrate the task you want your fine-tuned model to learn."

Are fine-tuning datasets required to be input/output pairs? Or instead, can the fine-tuning be autoregressive (predict the next token throughout this corpus of unlabeled documents)?
A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle
How do I assess market demand volume to start API Web3 service for businesses?
So recently, I decided to put my Web3 idea on the market, and I wanted to know the best way to assess market demand. Do I have to email these startups and businesses to know about their interests or anything else? What is the best and most efficient way to do this?

I definitely want to find a statistical way that will give me an overall insight into the market. I appreciate any advice.
For him, the reward of those activities possibly justifies the risk in his mind.

I sometimes also mask in public, because it bothers me approximately zero.
That's accurate dad behavior. Having cellphone cameras was a temporary decrease compared to holding a camcorder or viewfinder camera.
I have recently been led to believe that people eat so much beef that so a ton of potential cow hide goes to waste instead of being turned into leather because there isn't enough demand for leather (compared to beef).

Is this true or false?

If it's true - then how is leather bad for the environment?

I don't eat beef - but it's interesting to me how many people eat hamburgers and then look at someone with a leather bag like they're the devil.

As with a lot of things environmental - this seems purely idealist and not realist.
What you just demonstrated is called Survivor Bias or Survivorship Bias:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

what about all the people who challenged what was "considered normal socially" and actually were proven wrong? One never hears about those.
As the US struggles with its homelessness problem, there may be lessons learned here.

I also wonder about apartment density. I see only large apartment development projects (Seattle), not ones where there may be 6-apartments in a smaller building. I understand the larger apartments is where mass-profitability is for the developers.

>> Two full-time workers earning Tokyo’s minimum wage can comfortably afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in six of the city’s 23 wards. By contrast, two people working minimum-wage jobs cannot afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in any of the 23 counties in the New York metropolitan area.
> Claiming a device a new design when it actually has a few different design elements does not seem like too much of a stretch, for an advertisement

I don't personally see the new design. This is Apple, king of "design" and the designers/creatives go to company (for good reason) but this is not a new design. This is a, moderate at best, alteration. I'm also not saying it has been a bad design, it's just not new, even for them.

Maybe it's the advertising world that is tilting me more and more in my later years.
> The promise of gaming on iPhone (and mobile gaming in general) has been taken over and destroyed by freemium games whose only goal is to push microtransactions.

Wasn't that a reaction to users who refused to pay for games and just sideloaded them instead?

I can remember there being five dollar games in the early days of iOS that sold well. I can also remember developers trying games that had ads until you paid to remove them.
To be clear, in my view, working to fight against those things you mention is important. I'm not personally trying to say anything else.

I'm just trying to say it's (NPR) is not entertainment, or wholesome for me personally in the way it once was.
Would the price of meat go up without the sale of leather? If so, I think it's more fair to call it a coproduct rather than a byproduct.
Charging is rarely an issue. At worse you will charge at 5V/1A=5W as it’s the common minimum that any USB cable with basically just 2 wires connected will provide.

So any crappy USB cable will ´work’ for charging, and it’s transparent enough that you won’t really notice in most case.
Then buy a used iphone, which will not be made obsolete a year later due to lack of software updates, but continue to get new ones for 8 years and actually has the hardware capabilities to drive it for that long.
Is there a reason that would-be hackers are not preempted by requiring a specific device, pins, etc with no kill-switch or social engineering available (like, you lose your credentials, there's nothing we can do, its gone)? It sometimes feels like the system is deliberately designed so certain "legitimate" actors have a backdoor into any given system...
Zero innovation, miss the Steve Job's days when people were shocked by Apple products. I believe their M chips their most innovative thing in a long time.
It was always about forcing a consensus about what's normal, same with so much other human antagonization of outgroups.
The S10 line is long past its feature-updates timeline and may have just received its last security update, so I fear yours and my S10e are soon to be retired.

I will greatly miss the SD slot and headphone jack...
Actually, this is up to Nintendo and Sony, not Apple...
You'll want to look at the KrakenSDR. It's basically a circuit board integrating 5 RTL-SDR chips driven from a single clock source and calibrated for phase coherency, for the express purpose of doing radio interferometry amongst other things. They're in stock at Mouser.
Yes, the Magsafe charger's cord is 3 feet long. Even if it was longer it would be incredibly clumsy and awkward to hold.
Please relax, you seem really defensive. We can have a friendly discussion. Your question is reasonable to ask, I’m just asking you (like the other commenter did) to consider the scale of your question, and to do some napkin-arithmetic estimates of the maximum possible magnitude of effect that turbines might have on the earth’s air, in order to answer the question you asked. There might be some effect. I’ll be surprised if it’s large, but it wouldn’t be the first time I was surprised. I’m also asking you to make some comparisons and put it in context. It doesn’t make sense to ask about wind turbine air turbulence causing climate change without asking the same question about cities and all the existing power plants and all man-made and plant structures that obstruct air.

It’s not possible to answer your question about turbines and climate without talking about CO2, so if you refuse to discuss CO2, then... CO2 is the known cause of current climate change. I didn’t ask if wind is better than coal (answer:yes). The pre-supposed answer to your question by many people is that use of turbines will cause positive changes to the climate due to their ability to reduce CO2. Will that be offset by warming caused by turbulence? Personally I doubt it, but maybe.

Deforestation is, as I understand it, contributing to warming, among other environmental negatives. It also removes turbulence causing obstacles from the boundary layer of air at the same time that turbines are adding some. Why wouldn’t you worry about tree turbulence, if you’re going to worry about wind turbine turbulence?
The M3 chip is rumored to also use the 3nm process, so that's expected.
Do yourself a favour and just buy a magnetic adapter + cable such as Baseus magnetic zinc [1]

You will:

- save money to buy new phone (cable costs just ~10$)

- it's magnetic so even more convenient to use

- magnetic adapter protects connector from dust getting inside or getting broken

- you use the same cable with adapters for usb-c, lightning and micro-usb to charge different gadgets (even older airpods pro)

- at least baseus cable supports both fast charging (20W) and data transfer (usb 2.0)

If cable brakes (at it did brake for me after ~1 year of use) you just buy new one for 10$ instead of new phone for 1000$. Keeping old phone is the most environmentally friendly option.

non-pro iphone 15 usb-c is still just 2.0 speed and most likely doesn't support usb-otg

[1] https://www.amazon.in/Baseus-Magnetic-Multipurpose-Retractab...
sure, but in a java project, how likely you are to have a commit with no changes to src/? or for a go project, how likely is it that you want to duplicate you entire dependency tree in a clunky, non-parallel dependency description language, vs just doing "COPY * .; RUN go build" and letting golang figure it all out and build in parallel using all the cores?

Don't get me wrong, there is definitely value in caching dependencies, and I can see Earthly approach help if you have, say, a Python app, with 10 minutes of dependency install time, 0 build time, and 10 seconds of tests - you'll see huge improvement. But you'll also see almost the same improvement if you use Dockerfile on a persistent host instead, and as a bonus you won't have to learn new system.

One place Earthly might shine are monorepos with multiple independent projects that even use multiple build systems... but I am not sure how many of those exist _and_ don't have some other caching solution already.
you're right, this is greenwashing. I sell into the market sometimes and the hides are basically wasted unless you try hard to line up buyers. plus, if your beef is grass fed for its whole life like ours, it's carbon neutral, as all the carbon that goes into the animal came from the atmosphere. It's true that factory-raised beef is bad for the environment though, as they eat grains that are fertilized from oil via Haber–Bosch. It's also true that tanning uses lots of nasty stuff, but there is vegetable tanning which works well and sourced from nuts and stuff.
I despise Apple products and I despise Google products, for very different reasons. Can't we get an alternative? Bring back the Windows phone! Or a Blackberry!
Siri, now powered by Speech Synthesis Engine™.
Not as hard as you think. just a few assets ported will be enough.
- 3d player controller
- dialogue system
- vr kits
- animation system in the style of mechanim

Those are what the vast majority of indies buy beyond 3d assets where they can get elsewhere.
By far the biggest intrusion window these days is your browser. Latest firefox with ublock origin is simply the safest of them all, saving bandwidth, blocking youtube ads, saving battery, your eyes and so on.

Plus, currently plenty of androids have 5-6 years of guaranteed security updates. To be honest I wouldnt ever want to use much older phones even if patched up to date, too clunky, making bad photos (I have kids so this is top priority), not up to most network standards and so on
But why?

It seems the only progress is the camera and the CPU, but for what more CPU speed? The camera?
We have thousands of developers on it. I’m not saying it’s a silver bullet, but it works and it works well. Also, the service writing on it is only one (monolith).
Web Sustainability Guidelines
I like the flat side as the phone doesn’t slip out of my hand so easily, but definitely agree that the slight curving will make it feel better!
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As others are pointing out, once you've grown big enough that you can't trust everyone with the keys go the kingdom: enterprise pricing is for you.

SSO Tax is a fun meme, but it misses the point: Whether it's 5 people or even 3, you've scaled your business enough to hire people who aren't in the inner circle.

That's a fair place to consider you an enterprise.
Why illegal?

Cui Bono
Wow, I don’t think that’s true at all. Most people can’t afford a new phone that frequently. I know amongst my techno elite friends your estimate holds, but for almost everyone else I know they rarely upgrade and it’s more about when it physically falls apart than any desire to participate in an upgrade cycle.
I may be an odd on out here, but I'm not a fan of the move to USB-C. I don't care about data speeds or charging speeds. I don't even care about durability of the cable as they can be replaced. I care about durability of the charging port on the device and every USB-C device I've ever owned has become "loose" over time. This includes my iPad Mini, so I don't believe Apples has found a solution to this.

Meanwhile, I may have had to replace cables for my older iPhone, but those cables are still solidly in place when I insert them.
> Beginning September 18, iCloud+ will offer two new plans: 6TB for $29.99 (U.S.) per month and 12TB for $59.99 (U.S.) per month.

Finally. I mean, 2TB is enough for me for now, but I know people with 5 people in their Apple Family with the 2TB tier absolutely maxed out.
Absolutely!

> "You told me this is reality and now it changed, why I should believe in it again?"

Because that's not what "belief" ought to mean. When you were told that scientific thing in the past, you should have been told that it was believed to be that way using this flawed collection of evidence, analyzed and synthesized by imperfect intelligences, which should have lead to that postulate about reality holding an asterisk with whatever degree of confidence it deserved.

If that uncertainty is something you can't accept, maybe science (and reality) is not for you. Try mathematics instead.
Bike lights, shaver, Laptop, flash drive, YubiKey, power bank, ANC-earbuds, custom built HW, a few Dev boards, ...
For a blog I prefer static site generators to be honest. Fast, cheap, secure and better for the environment.

Django and Wordpress are still valid use case for a blog.
I imagine it will be a better experience, but it's a bit deceptive to talk about it like it's a new feature, when it's really just an improvement of an existing feature. And I wonder if the new OS update will improve the performance of this feature on older AWs.
For the vast majority of consumers, the usb-c ecosystem is fine. Buy name brand cables and chargers, they're fine.