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iPhone 15 Teardown Reveals Software Lockdown
Avoiding the "rhetoric" doesn't make the current class war any less real. The numbers paint an extremely bleak picture.
You could source a new part yourself and get it installed there. It will set you back much less than $200
From watching them ... here are a few things I have observed:

- I never have to go hunting for my cursor (it's always on the same screen)

- all necessary (mute everything unnecessary) notifications and associated responses happen in one place (not notifications here and responses there)

- I split activity via "smarter" use of application windows and/or tabs (keep all of X type thing in one browser, for example, with Y type stuff in another browser)

- I use colors in Terminal to show what windows (with associated tabs) are doing what

All of my coworkers split these different categories of tasks onto separate monitors - making context switching much slower (first command-/alt-tab to the right application, then figure out which screen it's on, then figure out which window/tab in that application, then go refind whatever app they were in previously to get data needed for a new request/task/etc (which repeats the find-the-app-find-the-screen-find-the-cursor-find-the-tab/window process))

My process has worked quite well on both Windows and Mac machines - or Windows-on-macOS-via-VDI (which allows another level of task subdivision/separation)
This is hyperbole to the point of self-parody.
Movies and TV shows before 2008 weren't commercially available in resolution above DVD quality, unless special efforts were made to upscale and re-release them.
Cloudflare R2 has been blocked by the South Korean government
The sub-organization of the South Korea Ministry of Science and ICT, the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA)[1], has blocked Cloudflare R2.
I think that's true and Google cloud as such is unlikely to completely vanish (it may or may not morph significantly and any given service or price isn't necessarily safe)

Still, for proper context, google reader may be small but google stadia was big by any scale, with significant datacentre investment, dedicated consumer hardware, exclusive publishing deals, marketing campaigns, etc. And 10 years isn't as long as it used to be in the IT world :)
You mean https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ ?
Doesn't matter why. Whether it's through policy or by accident affordable housing keeps homelessness low.
The middle class has shrunk:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-a...

See section 2. The trend is pretty clear: The upper class is transferring wealth from the middle class. So, demanding that firms cut wages on middle class workers has been standard practice for decades. They're running out of money to extract from there, so they're going after the bottom half of the uppe class next.

I suggest joining a startup; investors that are willing to put cash into companies in times like this end up getting outsized returns on investment (since anyone that can leave the big companies does, the big company's R&D projects get cancelled during downturns, and general morale issues prevent minor product improvements from shipping).

(Also, median of middle class is $90K, and median of upper is $219K. Lower class is $29K. If they broke upper class into 2-4 separate tiers, there'd also be a clear skew in wage growth toward the top of the upper class.)
What kills Sanderson for me is the dialog. Real people don't talk like a Mormon sunday school teacher. No warrior on a field of battle is going to yell "oh butterfingers!" in the middle of a battle.
I'm flattered that you think there are no SWEs who are capable of creating 3x as much value per year as I am. I think you're incorrect, but I'm flattered.
Are there smartphones with 3x3 or 4x4 mimo wifi?
Those instructions strongly imply "do anything". As for "I won't react", that's obvious from the first moment someone does something to her (like moving her arms) and she just goes along with it. From then on, it becomes obbvious that it's a game, a kind of endurance test for the artist, with the audience trying increasingly extreme things to see if she really will keep going along with it.

(And of course, at any moment she could just say "OK that's enough, I'm stopping this early, please stop" and it would be over - it's not like everyone would say "Nah, we are going to keep abusing you until 2am as originally agreed".)
I'm not saying that they are guilty.

But the judge shouldn't be completely oblivious of Alphabet's past history and its role as a "key market player" and just taking the claims at face value.

The argumentation doesn't sound very balanced tbh. More like: that's way above my league and I don't want to be the one jeopardizing national security, so I have to trust you on that.

In a sense, this is an admission that Alphabet is way too "big" already to be treated as an "ordinary company" which makes a due process a more complicated matter, euphemistically speaking. And I get that but as the substack article points out: atm right from the start it plays out way too far on Alphabet's terms.

That's the way I read it, I might be wrong.
AI is evolving for its own benefit, not ours
BEVs are a dead end technology because they are far more expensive than the cars they are replacing. There is no way this market is going to survive once the subsidies and government support ends. People with brains are finally realizing that it is time to move on and towards some other technology.
>> It's a class war.

> Class warfare against those making $400k/year...

IIRC, if your income comes from wages or salary, you're part of the working class. It doesn't matter how much you make. Wall Street wants to kick your ass to the curb and replace you with a robot just the same as a dude working in a factory.

However, when people make salaries that high, they often confuse themselves for capitalists.
It's not the rent prices that are constraining the housing market, but the restrictions on building new houses. And in many parts of the US, the prohibition on building anything other than single-family detached homes.
The tragedy here is that if you don't see this coming 20 years out, or at 45, it's really too late. I have a few relatives who are in their mid / early 60s, and there is not much they can directly do outside of a huge amount of luck and "hustling" like they are 25.
I have been curious about that. It has a strong anchoring effect I would think. Oh I got the top of the stated band!
I never learned how to do the "one bunny ear" effectively (I could never remember some detail and they'd always fall apart) and did the "two bunny ear" method until 2010 or so when the Numberphile video on the faster way came out. Still two ears, but they pass through each other instead of wrapping around.

Alas, I now wear mostly Crocs day-to-day and boot laces end up being laced more tightly in the base anyways (twice around instead of one before any loops) where they are tight even if the thicker laces get worked loose over many miles.
KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the game stops working
This has not been my experience at all. Delegating compute-intensive tasks to rayon inside a tokio runtime is not particularly hard (assuming you can pipeline things to separate IO and compute effectively).

A pattern that has worked quite well for me is to use

```
struct ComputeTask {
some_state: SomeState,
completion: Sender<Output>,
}

impl ComputeTask {
fn run(self) {
.. do you compute-intensive stuff

self.sender.send(output);
}

}

async fn do_stuff() -> Result<Output> {

let (tx,rx) = tokio::sync::oneshot::channel();
let task = ComputeTask { .., tx }

rayon::spawn(move || task.run());

rx.await

}

```
I used to have BT Broadband FTTP in a previous house, which had a bidirectional fibre into a box of some sort, which was battery powered, and went into another box which emerged as a telephone jack, and an RJ45.

This was 2016. The battery box was there to provide power and service for a landline in a power cut.

My router plugged into that RJ45 with a pppoe client, username "bthomehub@btbroadband.com" and looks like any old password ("BTSux" for example)
IMO the US and many other developed countries are now carrying a large structural imbalance between the upper and middle/lower wealth brackets.

This will either be corrected by new growth, or zero-sum rebalancing via inflation. Currently most growth is captured via capital holders, and this is unlikely to change. Leaving the zero-sum options as the most likely outcome.

The current structure doesn’t appear sustainable. As a millennial parent, I’m starting to observe the majority of the people I know skip having children or stick to one. The common reason is that the costs of children and pressure of career are too much. Eventually, you get too old to have children.
That's the other thing I don't like about Sanderson. Shades of grey is so much more interesting than black and white.
> It has become a dominant view in the philosophy of time that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity showed that the passage of time is an illusion, and that in fact the past, present, and future all coexist.

The first paragraph is already troubling for me, the "fact the past, present, and future all coexist" is a gross misinterpretation of general relativity, a borderline esoteric atrology-type view, and I can't believe that such mistaken view grew to be the "dominant view in the philosophy".
If she didn't say she takes responsibility - nothing would have happened.

After you punish the bully the first time - usually he leaves you alone.

Impunity is the important factor, not "suggestion of violence".
Work at a business that knows it's value is in producing stuff people want to buy.

Microsoft and Google haven't produced anything new in a long time, so engineering is a money pit.
Older companies with stable products, they don't see innovation as useful, engineers are just the factory workers. The cheaper to stamp out a widget, the better.
Recycling plastic doesn;t work. The best we can do is "downcycle"

Recycling is very convenient for the plastic industry to shift the responsibility to the consumer.
The 2.4Gbps phy rate is nowhere close to usable bandwidth. With wide channels, good reception, not too much interference, and no really old hardware interfering with your connection, you can get over 1gbps on it, but the theoretical maximum is irrelevant to most use cases.

In practice, most people don't have their routers set up for 160MHz bands (because older devices don't support it and will fall back to the much slower 2.4GHz otherwise) and in some areas near radars you can't even use those bands in the first place. However, with modern equipment, you can definitely get plenty of bandwidth over WiFi 6.

The 50Gbps number stated also assumes very wide channels and even more recent devices, if WiFi 6 isn't doing it for you today, WiFi 7 won't be that much better.
related to oberall discussion:https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-meta-big-tech-com...
Mine was as simple as it gets: a list in Reminders, recurring reminders every 2 weeks/1 month/3 month depending on how close we are/how frequently they have interesting things to say.

If I see the reminder I try to call/text that person when I have some down time. I tick the box when done, or if I think I've seen talked to them organically recently enough.

I'd be cool if it could somehow tell from my call/whatsapp log/calendar how long it's actually been, but it being a fuzzy is a feature too.

And as you say, definitely worth it.
I'm not sure I would call losing 30-60% of your US + Europe ad revenue year-over-year [1] the same as "to no real consequence". Not that I'm a fan of ad-supported social media platforms, mind you, but that sort of drop would be an existential threat to many companies.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sal...
I recently met someone who completely reinvented his career in his 40s, going from one very skilled artistic field (professional classical musician in NYC) to a specialized technical/construction trade in which he had absolutely no background when he started.

He said he didn't like the uncertainty of being a musician, which required constant auditions, as well as the ephemeral nature of the performances.

He started taking masonry classes, worked up to a certain grade in the specialized subfield, and pretty quickly started getting jobs. He now has more offers of work than he can take on, and is a qualified instructor.

He's 70, and he loves what he does.
I plan on using my current handset (iPhone SE 2022) until it stops receiving security updates. I very much hope that when the time comes Apple still offers a handset in the same form factor.
> […] far from the closest village... And I had fiber to the home (2 Gbps down // 600 Mbps up).

You were probably not surprised that the dwelling you were in had electricity. I think at some point having fibre should also be as unsurprising.
To be fair it's a lot less cumbersome to do yourself than a full on electrical installation.

Most diy shops will sell baseboards with precut pockets for cable routing.

For any reasonably hands on technical person it's a 1 or 2 day job ripping baseboards and installing new ones with CAT6 cabling behind.

Of course it's definitely the sort of thing you can only get away with if you own the house.
"Smartphones are just for when you're literally unable to use a real computer."

When I am lying on a couch or in bed, I could use a laptop or tablet, but for just surfing a bit, a mobile phone is just more handy. But sure, smartphones or tablets are not really useful for anything productive.
I'm claiming that the balance of supply and demand affects housing prices.

If you increase the supply by enough, that will tip the balance to where the market clearing price will go down.
Well, there is not much to do really. Im happy with it. Its stable, fast, nice looking. If I had a source code and could compile part of kernels I would try to do some more hacks maybe. Like one thing in CM annoys me that there is no knob to limit how much RAM can be used as Filesystem Cache. Once all RAM is eaten by cache, system ca be a bit erratic under load. With should NOT really happen because Win2003 implements LRU cache, so it should discard least used pages on fly and make them to use either by apps or cache. But, this not happens often really, so not big issue :)
It’s exasperating how many people will fight this. I believe it has been supported by research as well. Anecdotal, but I experienced it firsthand:

Several years ago I was living in a lovely, historic, but no-frills apartment in a desirable area (Cobble Hill, Brooklyn) when several new “luxury” apartment buildings opened nearby, all around the same time. They were only a bit more expensive but offered lots of amenities (doorman, elevator, gym etc) that my building didn’t have.

The impact was remarkable: when other apartments in my building went on the market they sat unrented for weeks, when they’d previously rented in hours. The landlord actually lowered the rent on them! In NYC! Our lease was up soon after, and we managed to negotiate that they gut renovate our kitchen in exchange for extending our lease.
Oh well it quite changes my view of events that she herself provided the loaded gun. I did not read the wiki article that way.
yeah just cloudflare things. I just fixed it!

Edit: oh, if you mean other errors. Well, Firefox is very strict on these data URLs, especially mobile version...
Equity is a red-herring. People just want a place to live. Developers want equity.
Does "safety" just mean that the LLM output is heavily censored?
"Comparatively, immigrants don’t have the purchasing power to compete, so saying they’re the problem is a weird conclusion to draw."

Does more demand drive up price or does it not? Large swaths of farmland are being bulldozed in my state to build townhouses that are largely populated by 1st generation immigrants. I'm sure this is not the only place.
Miniflux is great. I've been self-hosting it for about two years now. It's rock solid. The OP uses an android app, but I've been getting a lot of use out of just having the website on my phone as a webapp. The software has fever and greader api support, so RSS apps like Reeder (mac and ios) and FeedMe (android) work as well.

I really love that you can target scraping rules (using css) and block/allow rules (using regex). It's a wonderful software.
When I built my house in 2014, they told us we got 2 phone jacks that were cat5e that we could convert to ethernet if we wanted. That was the default they provided, we upgraded to 24 ports throughout the house, but I can't imagine this is common.

Two years ago when we were thinking about buying a new house, we toured a bunch of homes that were built in the past decade, probably over a hundred houses. Less than 10 had more than 1 or 2 ethernet ports. Only 2 had ethernet in most rooms.
It won't hallucinate almost anything if you give it the entire documentation for the libraries you want to use. It can ingest many hundreds of pages of documentation without problem. Used like this it is far more powerful than GPT-4 or any existing model.
The absolute floor is nothing, far less than the cost of tent cities which use a lot of horizontal space compared to high rises of prefab micro apartments.

The trouble is that local government is coerced to eliminate people who don't directly or indirectly pay a lot of property tax, especially if they are minors and require school.

The federal government should be required to pay general costs per head to local government from it's excessive collection of income tax to put an end to this nonsense of states and towns trying to evict the poor and steal the rich from each other.
The reference point you are using is a CEO of an Australian physical space developer -- not someone who has any meaningful opinion that would be equivalent in the tech world.

As well - as his business is development (like physical spaces) he is probably in a world of hurt with the interest rates absolutely killing the business model. Look at how much the real estate world and big developers have been crippled (I'm not saying you should feel bad for them - they took on that risk when they over levered themselves and reap what they sow). However I imagine because they are taking on losses their staff are going to feel the pain as are the investors (my speculation).

My point is your reference is a bad one for the topic of the thread.
This is just class infighting, though. If you don't own the capital, you're labour. Yes, some labour is paid better, sometimes much better! But if you can be fired, you're labour, and fighting with other labour is counter-productive.

Instead of scrapping with someone who makes twice your wage for half your work, we should all be scrapping with those who own the capital, who are profiting from our labour, who even allow for such crappy jobs in the first place. We should ALL be paid well and have respectful work accommodations.
Depends what you mean by that. In my opinion their game development is pretty "shittified":

- They completely abandoned beloved series like Portal, Left4Dead and Half-Life. Half-Life 2 Episode 3 is legendary for the fact that it never got made. It has been 16 years since Episode 2 and the wait was so long that even the lead writer decided to leak the story. Almost no one played the VR game since only 2% of Steam users have a VR headset.

- Team Fortress 2 has been terrorized by a small group of unhinged trolls for years. These people use bots to invade games en-masse and cause havoc, preventing the game from being played as intended. Valve ignored the problem for years until the TF2 community finally railed up the social media, which finally caused Valve to finally fix the problem, except the fix was very short lived and the game is back to the terrible state it was in previously.

- CS:GO had plenty of controversies, for example cheating in high-level tournaments (spectator/coach bug) and the marketplace being a vessel for gambling that involved minors.

- Every single multiplayer game suffers from either hacking or "smurfing" (highly-skilled players making new accounts to dominate the lower ranks). Every single attempt to fix the situation is temporary and never lasts long enough to make any difference.

- The only new games released in the past few years (Artifact, Dota Underlords) were attempts to capitalize on existing trends rather than original new games and both failed miserably as a result.

Everything they seem to do in terms of game development is subpar. It's like it just needs to be
good enough to sell virtual items, which makes them no different than any other AAA developer
in recent years. As a fan of what the company used to be it's heartbreaking to see it in such a state.
It's another riff on 'software is eating the world'.

Lots of companies would like custom software to help run their business, but are not, in fact, tech companies. If AI makes writing this software cheaper, and there is higher elastic demand at this lower price, then you'll see more devs working for old fashioned non tech companies.

Tech companies, meanwhile, can accomplish their goals with fewer employees, so the number of people working directly for FAANG companies will shrink.

That's my take on his comment, anyway.
Imo, time zone, culture, language, data and privacy regulations are also moats, although being physically present helps a ton.

I don't think there was anything stopping companies from outsourcing all engineering work pre-pandemic, but that model has been failing pretty consistently over the last couple decades.
> Pillars of the Earth is an amazing book, and he didn't turn it into a 6-book series or something

Just in case you or anyone else is unaware, he did write two others in the same 'universe' and their construction is very similar. That is not a complaint however, I thoroughly enjoyed all of them!
I agree with you that we shouldn't wait to upgrade until after we are facing constraints, but the current state of home networking is so robust that we're absolutely nowhere close to the pipe being full. I am in no way opposed to the development and deployment of Wi-Fi 7, but I do have a problem with it being marketed as a major upgrade for consumers, when the average consumer is more likely to be adversely affected by worsening radio coverage than benefit from the increased maximum speed.
How has this worked out for you? When I graduated college, I had an offer for a software engineering position and a sales engineer position. I went with the software engineering position as it paid better and I felt like it would be a safer career path, but I’ve always wondered what it was like for people in that line of work.
I think ten minutes of 4K video probably uses more bandwidth than a multi-hour gaming session: game coders are probably very efficient about what they send over the wire.
Excellent. I hope to see more games following suit away from the bloated messes of fandom/fextralife. At times they feel unusable on mobile. And I don't think a single user has wanted to see the embedded twitch streams when they're just trying to get some information quickly.
>If those 4.5B lived like Americans, yeah, that'd be the cause of all of our problems

Good luck convincing everyone on earth to downgrade their lifestyles. The amount of people who are committed to living a ascetic lifestyle to save the planet is negligible.

>The Earth's resources could comfortably sustain the current population

Without lifestyle downgrades? Given how much environmental problems we're running into already I find this to be unlikely.

>But we can't do all of that AND run the Global North's economy the way we do AND afford a billionaire class. Alas that seems to be what we are currently doing.

How much is the "billionaire class"'s contribution to global warming?