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I recently bought the M4 iPad Pro with the nano texture glass, etc. My goal in buying an iPad was to have a device that helps me focus more when doing certain kinds of work. I have ADHD and so my life is a constant struggle against distraction. A fully functional, fully customizable computer with overlapping windows and instant access to anything is totally counterproductive much of the time.

I am probably using the iPad about 25% of the time for work now. During this focused time, I am far better at responding to emails and reading long documents than when I am back on my chaos machine - an M2 MacBook Pro with the Studio Display. Yes, I got the keyboard and the pencil; without a keyboard, I couldn’t be productive on the device.

I’m not much of an artist, but I am gradually growing to love having the pencil. I’ve started using GoodNotes with the pencil to make diagrams like mind maps and to do brainstorms. My handwriting is awful so forget about handwriting with the pencil. It’s more useful for drawing pictures.

If you are an attention-starved person like me, maybe give it a shot? You could do worse.
Also https://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/

You can customize the interface in the fragment shader tab (e.g. increase the iteration slider as GPUs in 2024 are a lot more powerful than 2011 :)).
They're the man at the end, actually. No extortion necessary.
The key here is when you state "when triggered", it's already of poor quality when listening, why would I apply that low quality to an open mic situation? I don't want Siri available spending the few milliamps listening for something I'm trying to avoid.

I also don't want side button only, this triggers most of the times I drop my phone onto the wireless charger in the car.
Edit: Clearly I should have bought iphone SE, at least home button avoids that?

It doesn't make sense that I should enable it just to avoid it and still get accidental triggers.

Carplay does not need any voice assistance to offer the basics like maps and audio. Lock the whole thing for all I care without Siri enabled, but to be useless if I choose to run my phone without Siri? Seems stupid to me. The trade off here is worse compared to set and forget with just Bluetooth connected for maps and audio at this point.

For a real trade off I'd consider;
How about something easy like a shortcut which enables Siri when Carplay is triggered and disables Siri when Carplay disconnects?
I thought the copy was fun and don't mind a good soapbox every once in a while, but yeah, wouldn't hurt to slip in a few words about what exactly the product does earlier on.

I'll definitely be trying this out on my decks before my next set :)
I would love to see a reverse engineering approach of the original mcu firmware.
So far everything I found seems to cover the IR protocol only. The MCU seems to be unlabeled (https://github.com/sueppchen/PixMob_waveband/wiki/MCU )
And a watch! Watches could be potentially very interesting, and they could make phones largely redundant for those who don't like using apps all the time.

Personally, I hate phones, and I prefer computation at two extremes: Desktop and watch. Sadly, Apple Watch can't be owned without one of their phones.
On the flip side, I could confidently bet any amount of money that I do proportionally more MacOS maintainance than I do on Linux. And I'm even using Nvidia drivers, it's probably lower still if you've got an AMD card with built-in kernel level support.
> We can only fly every other day because it takes a day between flights to offload the data via fiber onto storage servers

What’s preventing you from buying a second set of SSD drives and swapping them into planes end of day?

The planes would then be able to fly every day while the previous day’s data is being offloaded on the ground, condensing the two weeks into one. Swaps could even be quite easy if you replace full enclosures rather than each drive individually.

I'm probably missing something, though!
> Humans cost money. Predictably, people are infuriated when obstacles are between them and what they need done.

Another way to frame this: it's a fight over whose time might be wasted.
White dwarfs can also explode, if they are in a binary system. It's a different kind of explosion (more akin to a thermonuclear bomb) but it also produces iron.
China is not providing Russia with weapons like China is not providing the USA with illicit fentanyl. Which is to say, they definitely are, but have officially said they aren't.
Droidify is so vastly superior it’s not even close. Fdroid still has the privileged extension whereas droidify and Neodroid can use Shizuku and other options.

I do think that droidify is an unfortunate naming choice though.
Since dosage seems to not have been addressed, my sleeve work shall continue unabated.
Quite the contrary. The only thing that really matters when it comes to probabilistic forecasting is that we do the maths right.

The numbers will always be made up estimations, so the only thing that sort of makes sure we converge on similar solutions is getting the maths right.

A person is free to make any outlandish estimation of any individual probability, but when they are faced with the task of trying to make it mathematically cohere with other estimations is when they realise how outlandish the initial estimation was.

I have tried to write about this before: https://two-wrongs.com/what-is-probability.html
This is not true. Apple is all about cannibalizing its products.

> But doesn't Apple run the risk of cannibalizing its own products? "It's not a danger," Schiller said in response to Rose. "It's almost by design."

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-on-cannibalization-201...
Egregious is a much better word that doesn't intentionally sound alarming.

The only new information here is that his signature was on these documents. This article took 18 paragraphs to say that.

Real journalism that wasn't influenced by SEO or ad views should probably be one sentence with the new information and a link to a previous article filling in the missing context, for those who happen not to have it.
This Is Just Like 1984
For one job I also crossed some stuff out, founder was cool with it because he mostly got it from a template. Having actual paper is great for that. At a later job, they insisted on Docusign, which was basically I get an immutable image in a browser to 'electronically sign' with no modifications. It had a section that amounted to a non-compete agreement that I didn't like, but their lawyers didn't really answer me on whether such a thing could be enforced or not given that the company was headquartered in California even though I'd be working out of Washington. I took that as a sign that they probably wouldn't go Amazon on me, at least.
You can start a new thread about anything you want. It's not guaranteed to be popular or lead to thoughtful discussion, though.
My biggest issue is that so many chatbots are utter trash, that when I come across one that is actually good and can solve my problem quicker than a human that I've already lost patience and don't want to engage with it.

If chatbots really were good, and could solve my CS problems 90%+ of the time then I'd love them. But that doesn't happen, so I want to speak to a human please.
I believe orcas can live as long as humans. So there's a bunch of middle-aged orcas out there who sometimes go:

"Remember when we all wore fish hats after Jeannie got one? Man, that was crazy... Do you think a dead salmon would look good on me still?"
I have to say I also feel a whole lot more secure on the iPad. MacOS security is really good, but the infinite flexibility to install whatever software you want exposes you to making bad decisions. On an iPad, if you’re going to be exploited, it is nation state level hacking by comparison.
I recently needed to reset a rachio device because it was tied to a previous owner and you can't do that yourself.

Rachio has replaced their customer service with an LLM that can only link you help pages. 100% useless. If I hadn't been able to find their real phone number from Google I wouldn't have been able to use their device.

Really made me question buying anything from them
I couldn’t find in the text what exactly serotonin does. I assume it adds motivation?
>Yes, the same sort of anesthesia.

Well, this is reassuring. I'll need to bring the subject up again as I was told they weren't and that I was being silly and wasteful wanting it.
Which metrics would be more meaningful?
Isn't Chrome closer to IE considering it nearly has unilateral control over web standards?

The last hope for web standards is WebKit on iOS. Or, it was. Now that, for better or worse, Apple is being forced to allow other engines on iOS I expect that'll change quickly.
Outside of software development, the real problem with iPadOS isn't just that it's not as capable as macOS (though that is a problem). It's that it's badly implemented. All of the features they added to justify the "iPadOS" rebrand[0] have significant bugs or UI issues that Apple hasn't really stopped to fix.

Things like:

* The file picker arbitrarily[1] locking you out of picking whole folders on third-party file providers (e.g. Dropbox)

* Mouse support occasionally bugging out and just not working, or snapping to widgets nowhere near your mouse cursor, or not letting you click the maximize widget on PiP videos

* SMB shares on the Files app occasionally taking down the daemon responsible for managing them and, in turn, freezing every app that tries to open a file picker until you restart your iPad

Missing features, software lockouts, and stereotypical Apple fussiness over not giving you things you want but won't enjoy using are one thing. I'd totally love to see touch-friendly versions of all the other things Macs can do. But that's a lower priority than just making iPadOS a functioning piece of software again.

The iPad feels like an Apple vanity project that just so happened to get pushed into production... because it is. Jobs had some engineers make him a tablet specifically so he could spite a friend of his at Microsoft that was bullish on Windows XP tablets. All of Apple's idiosyncracies regarding mouse and touch input, and them refusing to replace iPadOS with an operating system that actually works is downstream of Jobs' insistence that iPad software not require a stylus to operate. The problem is that iPad doesn't actually pay the bills at Apple, so none of the bugs in iPadOS actually get fixed, and it mostly gets hand-me-down features from iOS.

[0] Yes, I meant rebrand. iOS and iPadOS are the same thing internally - hell the SDKs still call it iPhoneOS. If you jailbreak an iPhone you can enable Stage Manager and it Just Works.

[1] Ok, this might not be 100% Apple's fault, since I have seen file providers that do let you pick folders, but the whole point of this being locked down is so that Apple can put a gun to developers heads' and force them to do things The Apple Way.
I think Legacy AT&T made the wrong choices in divesture - they should have held on to WECo (and the labs) and the local BOC's - and spun off Long Lines - I dont know how they would have worked culturally though (or if it would have passed DOJ muster) because Long Lines was part of the core identity of AT&T.
China does have strict media regulations which can be expensive for foreign companies to implement, but there are still a TON of Western brands that operate very successfully in China.
"Trickle-down economics" is not any kind of formal economic or political philosophy, it's a pejorative term designed to trivialise free market/laissez-faire economic policies.

It's fair enough to criticise free market/laissez-faire economic policies; they have their limitations and trade-offs, just like every other economic philosophy. But this article doesn't contain any serious economic commentary or insight, it’s a largely empty rant.
There is a video showing the RF box with DMX input (and USB), and they talk about how they can control it from a standard lighting board.

https://i.imgur.com/Di09aD2.jpeg

It sounds like each band can be a part of (at least) 2 "groups", with the example showing groups 1-18 assigned to each stadium section, and 1-9 going all the way around from the first row to the highest/back row.

It's not hard to imagine that they've mapped each of those groups to a DMX channel, with the value indicating the color, and/or flash pattern, etc. Even if you're limited to 512 distinct groups (a single DMX universe), that's a lot of granularity. With that, any lighting designer/operator can use their console of choice to do scene and sequence programming -- no special training needed.
I've been toying around (in my head) with the idea of using a diff algorithm to align things like this.
Have you read, ‘A Psalm For The Wild Built’ by Becky Chambers? The protagonist is a monk that cycles around on a bicycle-camper making tea for people, and ends up making friends with wild robots. Touching...I've thought of serving coffee and tea at the nearby parks via bicycle often. A physical location such as yours would be nice too.
You're fundamentally misunderstanding the use case. Using an iPad Pro with a small keyboard is a small form factor, often doesn't add to the load in a student's backpack (most of them have iPads for note taking anyway), etc
First, I think you correctly put the word in sarcasm quotes. OpenAI now has a "Safety" team.

But second, there definitely can be risk of blood and treasure in LLM use. Can the LLM reach out and stab the user... No. Can the LLM "hallucinate" and generate advice that when acted on has harmful results. Obviously yes. Now the moment you say "So you shouldn't just act on the advice of the LLM" I have to ask, then what's the point of having one?

I'm using loose phrasing here, so let's be more concrete. When Google's Gemini recommended that a user open the door on the back of the camera to tug the film loose if it wouldn't advance, this was a recommendation that would cause the loss of all photos on the roll of film. Small loss of value. But when a user gets similar "advice" on questions about how to clean something where the advice leads to adverse chemical reactions in the material, or worse, medical advice that leads to injury there is some responsibility on Google's part, or on OpenAI's part for having provided a faulty product.

Part of the issue here is we're attempting to replace search engines with answer engines, but answer engines require understanding and these LLMs just aren't there yet. They're fine for entertainment, but most users out in the world don't think of these systems that way.
That seems to be an odd formulation of a call for crash-only software.

https://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/crashonly.pdf
And in Charles Stross's Iron Sunrise.
Why wouldn’t the older ones do that, and only the males?
What is the right term for "the ratio scales as a power, rather than linearly"?
What is the connection between the Irish housing crisis and NAMA?
No. Next question?

I love my iPad Pro. It’s a fantastic device that I carried around the house for constant use. I later gave it to my kid in college who uses it for note taking, writing papers, and all the normal college stuff. It’s brilliant for that.

But it’s good if and only if you never, ever want to do anything that’s not built in or readily available in the App Store. You’re buying and using the device as-is. Forget building your own tooling unless it’s something you can script up in Shortcuts. That doesn’t seem like the end of the world, yet it made me realize exactly how much of my environment I tend to customize with my own tools. It’s all the little stuff, like making macros in Keyboard Maestro that call out to shell scripts or Python to do a thing. (I implemented an Emacs-style push/pop-point feature in BBEdit, which doesn’t support that natively.) Or writing the forementioned shell scripts and Python. Or running from jobs to do things periodically. None of those are critical for most people, but they’re important to me. And if I can’t do that on an iPad — and I can’t — then I don’t want it. All the butting of heads against the garden walls made me resentful of this perfectly fine little device.

Apple sells a gazillion of them so I can’t say they’re wrong about what users want. They sure are wrong about what I want though.
Expecting Microsoft to create an alternative to big tech. Did I miss the /s ?
Unsong by Scott Alexander
"Kabbalah is true, all patterns are meaningful, and the world runs on a combination of strained analogy and wordplay. Big Silicon Valley corporations copyright the Names of God and make a killing. International diplomats transform the ancient conflict between Heaven and Hell into a US-Soviet proxy war. An autistic archangel and his eight-year old apprentice laboriously debug the laws of physics. A group of billionaires hire a magical ship to go find God and tell Him what He’s doing wrong. Cells of militant Unitarians harbor dangerous placebo terrorists. And amateur kabbalist Aaron Smith-Teller, distant relative of nuclear physicist Edward Teller (“Not ushering in the apocalypse is not really a family strong point”) discovers a legendary Name of God and hatches a plan to usher in the Messianic age from his home computer, which goes exactly as well as you would expect."
Would have been my immediate assumption as well. Wonder if they asked that question at all
It seems like you're treating law and ethics as more or less interchangeable, which I think is a mistake. International law is more about politics than ethics.

For example, parts of international law come from UN security council resolutions, which are passed based on 9/15 security council votes, and no vetoes from the 5 permanent members. The permanent members include Russia and China, and non-permanent members often include other authoritarian states, like UAE until recently. Trump may soon have authority over US votes. Do you trust these political entities as bastions of morality?
most people can't be bothered to visit more than their default 6 or 7 apps

I don't think it's fair to blame network effects on the user. If you're a popular YouTuber it's very difficult to convince your audience to move to another platform just to see your videos there. What's in it for them? It's much easier for an audience to switch to another video creator than it is for a creator to find a new audience.

In other words, YouTube makes it a viewer's market by commoditizing content producers. This is the exact opposite of the old TV model where networks were king and viewers had to put up with whatever shows they decided to run. Unfortunately, this means it's very hard for content producers to do anything to unseat YouTube's stranglehold on the market.

Google wants YouTube to be a place for cat videos and shitty listicals

I think you're being unfair with this remark though. YouTube has tons and tons of educational and hobby-related content which makes it an incredibly valuable resource for anyone who wants to learn pretty much anything!
MetaWriter Software Vending Machine: 1983's Answer to Software Distribution
Are you basing this off of the assumption that every single person reading this has the same relationship to specific words as you?

Egregious and draconian create the same “idea” in my head. There is literally no way to write that takes into account each persons relationship with words.
Yeah I think everyone tells this guy that, and it'd probably be a good start to try and get himself back in the good graces of Pine Bluff's political types, but for whatever reason it doesn't look like an option and he posts on twitter that he's still getting bulgarized on something like a weekly basis... From my experience I know there's nothing more frustrating than these useless government bureaucrats that can't be bothered to do their jobs until something or someone explodes.
One of the many things contributing to pricing, is that not enough road corridors are being built or widened.

It's harder live further out, when traffic slowdowns extend commute time 10x. And governments love the idea that expensive roads can be waved away using environmentalism as an reason.

Yet these same governments don't build fast transit either, and without fast amd efficient transit, trips take far far longer than a car.

At this stage we should be building both, as we're that far behind.
Based on Apple saying that they would certainly never gimp their products just to keep selling another one?

The more they make the iPad Pro a laptop, the less convinced I am that we couldn't have a touchscreen laptop with Apple Pencil support.
Will Rogers said it best in 1932:

>They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands. They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue.
Knowing California, there will probably be yet another carve-out for people in the lowest income category. But it will require them to fill out more paperwork and increase the workload for an already large state bureaucracy, and be poorly advertised so that even more resources are spent to get the message out. For what is probably not a lot of money compared to the spiraling cost of housing. Activists will pat themselves on the back for a job well done, ignoring the larger problem.

The rich will figure out a way to make these taxes not apply to them, just like how many take advantage of expensive new EV subsidies, solar generation subsidies, or property taxes.

And people wonder why the middle class keeps on getting smaller.
Related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40349347
I admire the iPad from a hardware perspective; it's a beautiful piece of equipment. And I have also been pulled into think, "Hey, maybe I need one of these things" but invariably I come to the conclusion that I would have virtually no use case for it so I can't justify spending the money on it and having it sit collecting dust on my desk, particularly when it costs more than the Macbook Air I rely on most of the time. Between my MacBook Air and iPhone I don't see where the iPad fits into my life and work.
> that's necessary if you don't want it to allocate.

Wait, what does one have to do with the other?
"Food deserts" (areas with no access to fresh food) are a huge problem, yeah.

Also, economically struggling people often can't prepare their own food, even if given groceries for free: they may be physically disabled, they may be unhoused, they may be unable to afford utilities or appliances, etc.

However, I think that altering the offerings of fast-food restaurants is not even remotely a suitable way to address that.
Must the the Spanish influence :)

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1052356,-106.6298892,1177m
Updated my comment for clarification, agreed the extra copy is fun.

Also hi joe :^)
How do you think that would happen though? Boot two operating systems in parallel and switch between them upon connecting periphery? How would you keep app states in sync between tablet and "docked" then? How do you handle open windows once you disconnect periphery? What if you just worked on Terminal.app and then disconnect keyboard & trackpad? Does it just disappear? Do you suddenly have a potential root shell on your iPad?

I think there's a good reason this kind of desktop mobile hybrid hasn't really gained any traction yet.

DeX is a decent hack but nothing more. ChromeOS is still struggling with running Linux/Android/web apps in parallel without it feeling awkward.
Yes, and there should be a governance structure that makes sure the CEO is held accountable to the principles of... Oh... Oops. They've already burned that whole structure to the ground.
> only one redeeming factor is dna traces.

Is it? DNA can end up in all sorts of places for entirely innocent reasons.