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> Snapdragon X is fine but nothing special compared AMD/Intel chips.

The issue is that ARM is now fine for Windows. Until Snapdragon, ARM was actually pretty crap outside of Apple. This is a huge step. Qualcomm acquired a lot of the original Apple team for the M1 via Nuvia and I expect them to be able to execute at least decently going forward.

Apparently they are selling because they have better battery life than Intel/AMD laptops according to this: https://www.techpowerup.com/324301/battery-life-is-driving-s...

> Servers is kind of a mixed story as well.

Graviton is 30% cheap for the performance (e.g. performance adjusted price.) It is a no brainer for a lot of workflows, especially given so many developers are actually building on ARM machines in the first place. I want my servers to be 30% cheaper.

> There is nothing wrong with other companies trying to disrupt AMD/Intel duopoly and hopefully we'll get lower prices and more innovation because of that but calling x86 dead is a bit premature at this point..

Qualcomm is exploring acquiring Intel. A company who got its value from ARM is looking to take over the historic leader in x86 - doesn't that tell you something? https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/qualcomm-approached-in...

The writing is on the wall. x86 isn't dead and it won't be dead anytime soon, but it definitely in its twilight period.
I guess I don’t need to say that you need to define all those things and also the person who decides is you apparently. convenient
You have a whole screen (large windows) at the side of your seat with landscape and stuff to actually enjoy on a train.
Get used to slowing down, it’s inevitable and you shouldn’t hold yourself to an unreasonable standard. Biology’s first principles make this clear.
My godmother and I had an interesting discussion about this. I don't agree with her, but here is what she said:

"The only problem politics can solve is generally preventing competing tribes from killing themselves in physical war.

Politics itself is incapable of solving any other problem, but could be used as a tool to solve your or your tribe's local problems if interference with other tribes is an issue. Solution duration will typically be very linearly dependent upon its amount of energy, motivation, and resources."

I don't agree with the above view, it has a fatalistic view of humanity that I emotionally can't accept, according to my religion anyway (which currently helps me out with food). I think that politics can definitely solve issues, and it solves issues for actual people and not corporations every day. It's just a matter of being a good citizen and contributing when you can.
Quantum computing andphotonics discovery could shrink critical parts by 1k times
> Other than the nice flight attendants, which we still have, for some weird reason

They're trained to get everyone off the plane in under 90 seconds in case of emergency. The handing out of drinks and snacks is a pleasant side effect of their presence.
You might be able to just beg. I had a frustrating experience with the YMCA a few years back with their cancellation flow requiring you to physically show up with a signed form and I called telling them I was trying to cancel because a spine injury made it impossible to work out and rather difficult and painful to even move, let alone travel to the YMCA, and they got a manager on the phone who canceled me after saying it was acceptable to take a photo of the signed form and e-mail it.

There's at least some hope of decency and empathy in an individual person empowered to override process prescription even if there will never be any in the dark patterns dreamed up by the corporate-level customer retention team.
The First Color Kindle Is Here
Mandate customers paying for a warranty no thanks
An ARM supercomputer was already #1 in 2020 [0]. The Japanese Fugaku is also notable because it doesn't use GPUs to achieve high performance, but rather wide vector units on the CPU.

[0] https://top500.org/system/179807/
> Another shoe to drop would be a super-computer powered by ARM chips instead of x86. I don't think that has happened yet.

Fugaku?

https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/fujitsu-a64fx-arm
Do you have to deal with the TSA where you fly? I take psychological damage any time I have to deal with them.
Way back at the top I explained that ChatGPT can indeed create a multistage plan. I encourage you to try it for yourself.

Otherwise, I think we should go our separate ways. You take care now.
> Sometimes I’m at home and there aren’t any sirens or bells or people screaming and I just think about how out of touch we are with the environment.

at least in the suburbs you can engage with and experience the leaf blowers.
Windows is still bad at this, too, incredibly. Was initially issued a Lenovo Win10 machine at my current job, decided to give it a shot because I hadn’t used Windows for work in a long time, might have gotten better.

It was using 40% of its battery while “sleeping” over night, and even at full charge wouldn’t get me through a light work day on battery—not even close. Straight back to the battery-anxiety I hadn’t felt since back when I used Windows and Linux on laptops years and years ago. Plus the touchpad is still ass (sorry, never got any good at aiming with the track point, even though I used an IBM Thinkpad for years and years)

Luckily this place will issue a MacBook if you ask nicely. My god, that was a rough few weeks.
I'd rather use firecracker before I trust another one of those half-baked Google projects.
Is there any chance that Intel and AMD could merge to face the threats from ARM and Nvidia?
Digital River is based in the US.

Anyone outside wouldn’t be able to file a lawsuit in the US.
I only scrolled through this, and didn’t see an answer, but in this case more than one process can’t access the DB right? And presumably you’ve lost the ability to connect to the DB and poke around in the data?
ketamine is great for depression
How I Use Git
It seems like all this sketchiness actually hurts these companies. I do ten times more subscriptions when I can go through apple and know I can cancel in 5 seconds.
I genuinely can't tell if this comment is serious or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law .
> They didn't require someone to come out to get you signed up for service.

I am struggling a bit to understand how Comcast could not argue that it is required?

I don't fully remember but I don't think I started paying anything for my service until someone came out to install when self install wasn't an option. (I could possibly see them justifying removing self install in the name of retention later, since how many people really have a choice in their ISP and will just not deal with waiting for someone to come?).

If service was unable to start until someone came out, to me that could be argued as part of the sign up process.

I am not necessarily agreeing that it is part of the signup process. But we know that these companies love their shady practices and will have their lawyers finding any loophole they can find.
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I'm hoping JetBrains will get Amper right, but it does seem like overcoming the inertia of these tools as a major layer in the ecosystem's foundation is really tough.
Why are you moving the goalposts? Your question was specifically how to completely disable it, not how to lobby AMD/Intel into removing the feature from the silicon...
You live in a world where willful stupidity is far from rare. Yes, I know that we should assume incompetence before malevolence, but that was an earlier era. A mixture of the two is the new norm.
Of course it doesn't. The point is whether it's enough to sway any voters anyway. To keep them from helping the planet by preventing the biggest preventable catastrophe this century, in a couple of weeks.
I actually don't mind the flying bit too much but I absolutely hate airports...
You can select vine species that are fire-resistant (including grape and wisteria).

Paradoxically, this can make a building more fire-resistant than just having a bare wall. Plants contain water, after all.

https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/Fire...
Won't any llvm/gcc supported target get the new version of C automatically? You won't get it in the vendor-modified ancient gcc toolchain for some other arch though.
I seed a torrent of the SICP lectures that originally came from IA, I'll have to see if that's still up and if there's some way of getting the other torrents from the tracker.

If you're lucky there's other seeds around, and not just the IA web seeds which (I assume?) are down too.
The really sad thing is that we take raw sensor data and process it at all. People are so out of touch with things these days we use lenses to focus the picture etc. Why not just transmit the raw sensor data instead of processing everything so much? People could just use their minds (I know, ridiculous to ask people to do that in this era where everything is spoon fed to you) and actually interpret things for once.

What a society! Processed food, plastics in their blood, processed sensor data. Ugh, we have strayed so far from natural interactions.

Philosophically we have abandoned being mindful of where we are, and just being our natural forms instead of being slaves to what some computer is telling you that you should be seeing.
If at all possible, have a family lawyer. You just won't believe how helpful it is in some of these edge cases to have an officer of the court able to attest based on personal knowledge.
I bet renting has something to do with it too.
I can't just start attaching awnings to the outside of this place I don't own.
The landlord doesn't care if I'm hot in the summer and cold in the winter. He doesn't pay the AC bill.
Two comes to mind:

- Cloudflare had a "captcha" POC called "Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood" where you need to use a FIDO-approved token. It's reusing U2F just for the attestation part only. I don't think it ever go to production as most people don't have a token (but perhaps in the future hardware-locked passkey may serve as one...)

- Okta do have an option to enforce attestation. By default it is off, but in my Okta production I can limit the list to FIDO-approved vendor only, or to even a subset of them. They also have a beta feature flag for blocking Passkeys but allowing physical keys (which they do not guarantee success)
I love the tech, but don't want the isolation from reality, I like to look around, away from a screen while thinking when I work.

I don't mind using my laptop or iPad for movies and work on planes...

To each their own...
Even storage is a nightmare. That thing really wants to leak.
Graviton single thread performance is _not_ the same as the Intel or AMD offerings on AWS.
Versioning was never really an issue. It's worth pointing out that Richard Hipp committed to creating and maintaining a flag in SQLite that would force SQLite to use whatever subset of SQL the WebSQL people settled on for their API. That would have of course worked independently of the SQLite version. (He also offered to write the SQL part of the spec.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670808

I thought the reasons given for not moving forward with standardizing WebSQL and using a SQLite implementation were (and undoubtedly still are) very, very stupid so I'm not the right person to represent them here.
I think your perception of what is being played inside the earbuds may be why you're confused about this. Around here it's extremely common for people to keep their earbuds in for short conversations, but everyone will pause and activate surrounding sounds while they talk. There are obviously assholes who don't, but in general it's completely normal to assume someone wearing earbuds is listening to you.

Contradictory to your experience with it being young people who wouldn't listen to you it tends to be the 45ish business man who continues to talk on their phone in my experience.
I had hope for passkeys, with all the interop-promises.

It turned out that no (mainstream) passkey provider allows backups however, making them infinitely worse than just using passwords.

Maybe this will help, but fuck me, it’s all complicated, especially for a damn foundational security mechanism!

It could be so simple, just look at SSH keys, which I think largely use the same principle.
This is a really interesting perspective! When have you been forced to use FOSS? What OS do you use? Is big-company FOSS ok for you?
> (the video itself was blacked out when capturing the screenshot).

I already disliked DRM like this, where the user's device acts against them, but something about the form factor makes me extra uneasy about it. Maybe the fact that it's directly on your face, integrating tightly with your vision.

Hopefully by the time we move onto AR contact lenses or implants there'll be some good user-respecting alternatives, though I'm not too hopeful.
> If I want complicated, I would just pick C++ which I typically would never want

In my opinion, complexity doesn't scale linearly like this. Sometimes, in fact often times, having more complex tools means a simpler process and end result.

It's like building a house. A hammer and screwdriver are very simple. A crane is extremely complex. But which simplifies building a house? A crane. If I wanted to build a house with only a hammer and screwdriver, I would have to devise incredibly complex processes to get it done.

You see the same type of thing in programming languages. Making a generic container in C++ is trivial. It's very, very hard in C. You can make it kind of generic. You can use void * and do a bunch of manual casting. But it's cumbersome, error prone, and the code is more complex. It's counter-intuitive - how can C, a simpler language, produce code that is more complex than C++?

Or look at std::sort vs qsort. The power of templates and functors makes the implementation much simpler - and faster! We don't have to pass around void * and dereference them at runtime, instead we can build in comparison into the definition of the function itself. No redirection, no passing on the stack, and we can even go so far as to inline the comparison function.

There's really lots of examples of this kind of stuff. Point being, language complexity does not imply implementation complexity.
My understanding is that under the hood this does happen, but in the company's favor-some memberships will survive your credit card changing?
There was a patio11 article about it which I can't find at the moment. (edit: maybe not. maybe it was a tweet? in any case I remember it being a thing)
Give XFCE a chance.

> That was four or five years ago.

Linux moves way faster than commercial OS IMO.

Reconsider linux. Commercial OS isn't going to 'get better' for IT literate users. :/
If those uncertain people decide they want to distract themselves with VR, do you think they'll buy the $350 headset or the $3,500 one?

I just don't see the market Apple envisions materializing. I'd expect 20 people to be using a Quest in economy before you see 2 people using a Vision Pro in business.
Whenever I’ve converted books to mobi in Calibre it seems they fall back to a slightly worse experience - using “location” markers instead of real page numbers as official Kindle books display, cover art is tricky to get working on the lock screen, etc.

Is this a poor Calibre configuration or are there real limitations to reading books side-loaded on Kindles?
A Gravitational Wave Surprise
Then you shouldn't pay for internet access either because the web is brimming with misinformation and manipulating content. It's not a GPT-specific problem.
Yes and for some reason I would probably find it weird watching a moving with a weird landscape being shown around the "virtual screen" instead of...reality.
Arm has been in supercomputers for a while.

Astra at Sandia Labs was the first Arm peta-scale supercomputer, and the first on the Top500. It debuted in 2018.

Fugaku is the fastest Arm supercomputer, taking the #1 spot on the Top500 in 2020. It is currently #4.

All NVIDIA Grace-Hopper systems will be Arm. There is one in the top 10 already, Alps at the Swiss CSCS, at #6. There are four more in the top 100.
Correct title: Discord Disputes DMCA Subpoena, Rejects Role as ‘Anti-Piracy’ Partner
Blacklight Query – CLI to run Blacklight digital privacy inspection
The problem, is that not paying does not get you out of the legal obligation to pay. Most companies won't follow up because the cost isn't worth it, but there are definitely organizations that will go after you or sell your debts to collection agencies...

The marginal cost to a gym/ISP of the remaining duration of your contract is basically zero, especially if you're not going to use it, and they can get a few more dollars by being a jackass about it. In aggregate the incentives dominate.
That's not common in the US (yet). Things here are still predominantly stick built with 2x6 framing, either on a concrete slab or concrete foundation with a dug out crawlspace. Basements are decreasingly common, even in regions where they had been the norm (due to cost, mostly).
The problem with flying today is deregulation. It made flying cheap and for the masses. Completely killed the experience.
I'm hoping that Autonomi (formerly The Safe Network) is up for the job when (if) it makes it out into the real world one day https://forum.autonomi.community/t/the-internet-archive-a-pe...

[I know that some percentage between 95 and 100 of crypto projects are a scam. I personally believe this one isn't, after much diligent reading. Whether it gets released or does what it claims it will do is another question, but please do spare me the kneejerk anti-crypto reactions, if you can. Just because they're almost all money-making scams, doesn't mean they're all money-making scams.]
Oh nice extension, will check if cohesion works with it, the SSO buttons are broken there
> could they argue that they require someone to physically come out to turn off service?

In the case of in-person consent the rule requires that they also offer an online or telephone cancellation option.

> Could they make the signup and cancel process worse at the same time [...]

"must be at least as easy to use as the mechanism the consumer used
to consent to the Negative Option Feature.". I read that it must hold true for every specific consumer based on how hard it was for them to consent.

The rules also sets general restrictions to the online and phone options in addition to the "at least as easy" restriction. For Online the cancellation option must be "easy to find" and explicitly bars forced interaction with representatives or chatbots during cancellation unless they were part of the sign-up process. For Telephone the cancellation must be prompt, the number must be answered or accept voice messages, must be available during normal business hours, and must not be more costly than a call used to sign up.
> Some of the PC makers do seem to have caught on and you can get something comparably specced and competitively priced if you look hard and carefully. But it will still have some deficiencies compared to the MacBook that you can't shop your way around.

This has kept me on Mac laptops as well. There's always some compromise made elsewhere, even on high end laptops. Usually it's the trackpad, or poor thermals making it unusable as a laptop or just super loud (comparing to the Apple Silicon line here, my intel MBPs were furnaces). Plus, if you want anything other than a 1080p screen you are pushing close to MBP prices anyway.
The color model is expensive, indeed. My guess is that they will quietly offer discounts after the hype goes away.
I'm excited to enter an era of serious competing CPU architectures again!
Intel is worth roughly it’s assets.

An Intel-AMD merger would make sense, but it’s only extension of extinction if they don’t migrate from x86
I'm downvoting this comment chain because you're just throwing low effort critiques without addressing any of the big points. 1) why is tens of millions of people in a state enforcing the will of the majority on the others fine but hundreds of millions of people in the country enforcing the will of the majority on others "not caring about the consent of the governed" and "the reason democracies fail"? 2) why is it okay that people should have to vote on whether others can prey on them, exploit and abuse them? How is this one of the things you think is really important to speak out about?

In the context of this concrete discussion, allowing customers to cancel contracts they don't want - that's something which you object to because you want companies to be allowed to keep taking your money against your will, because consent matters to you? That is obviously self-inconsistent.
Thank you for the clarification. I wanted my explanation to be generic enough to apply to any jurisdiction. For example, I’m in Canada where the regulations are differently worded but have a similar effect.
Huh. I missed that. That is cool. I wonder if it was cheaper on a FLOP basis to go with ARM versus buying from Intel/AMD?

I guess a secondary factor is that it was made of custom/low volume CPUs, which would increase the unit price as compared to the higher volume providers.
There are masks with full N95 filtration that have a fan built in to pull the air through the filter. Makes it much more comfortable to wear for long periods.

(I switch to a mask with no metal in it for airport metal detectors, but I can switch back again immediately afterwards.)
At least as an AWS customer, switching from x86 to ARM looks quite appealing on the balance sheet! Same perf, many less $$$. Certainly there’s a large financial discount incentive for many workloads. A lot of stacks already have good support for ARM64 since a fair amount of developers run on macOS, so it’s pretty much just inertia keeping many on x86.
A number of credit card companies offer virtual card numbers that you can generate to avoid giving out your real number. I agree that it should be more normalized, widespread, and automatic, but it is already possible to start doing this today.
In my world, you generate a single purpose card number for each subscription, or block the company at the bank level. My world is all about personal responsibility.
is your IP on any blacklists?