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Ooh yes. Thanks for the correction.
"We need to integrate generative AI into our search results."

"But that will make the product objectively worse."

"But it's what customers want."

"Is it?"

"It's what clueless investors want the customer to want."

"Fair enough."
Yet you do not propose an alternative theory that makes sense.

Our point: Apple is laser-focused on comparing with laptops that are 4-5 year old. That's usually when Mac users start thinking about upgrading. They're building their marketing for them. It causes issues when directly trying to compare with the last generation.

Your point: Apple shouldn't be glamorous and a good showman when marketing their products because they know the only true marketing is comparing directly with your very last chip. Any other type of marketing is bullshit.
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Could you explicitly train a set of embeddings that performed that step in the process? For example which computing the loss, you compare the difference against the normalized text rather than the original. Or alternatively do this as a fine-tuning. Then you would have embedding that optimized for the characteristics you care about.
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The other half of this equation is Sketch. Pixelmator is great for photos, Sketch is great for vectors and UI design. Both committed to being first-class macOS applications. But Sketch has steadily been losing ground to Figma. I wonder if an acquisition is on the cards there as well?
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> This is the shape of today's capitalism. It is merely resource extraction.

See also: almost every private equity acquisition we've seen in the last ten or twenty years.
Do any of those lighter laptops match the battery life and performance of the MacBook Air, while also being completely silent? I suppose I should have been more specific and stated I don't believe there are any laptops that can match the MacBook in all categories while being lighter.
So in these digital worlds you'd be able to simulate physics perfectly? Like, you'd design a factory in great detail in this world and press "go" and have it run?

I wonder how many factories / processes need this much simulation before they are build.
I don't fully understand the scenario you mentioned. Could you perhaps explain in a bit more detail?
Four people in a public space interacting with the rest of the community is fundamentally different to four people in an isolated silo.
Where would OP's implied correlation with software quality emerge, exactly?
Just mentioning that Drupal is way more complicated than any of the other offerings as well.
One explanation I've read is that fluoridation of drinking water plus improved dental hygiene in general has decreased the average number of cavities in the population, driving dentists to pursue other income sources, such as cosmetic procedures (my last dentists was always trying to push Invisilign on me).
Most certainly not. Software rewrites usually are well-intentioned and might have benefits. Dental replacements like these are certainly not well-intentioned and only the dentist benefits from them.
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> flip_case(flip_case(x)) == x

Falsehoods programmers believe about strings...
You are just describing what would happen if knob is turned up.

The whole point is whether or not to turn it up, not what the process is once its turned up. Not everyone can afford to waste time planning so much.
Makes sense. I'm a pretty casual user of Pixelmator Pro but it really does feel like a first party Apple app.
Also in Firefox Dev Edition settings (in the Firefox Labs section) you can turn on their AI chatbot feature which gives you the option to send the selected text to Claude or other chatbots and opens their response in a sidebar.

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/06/24/experimenting-wi...
This stems from the earlier Turkish 8-bit character sets like IBM code page 857, which Unicode was designed to be roundtrip-compatible with.

Aside from that, it‘s unlikely that authors writing both Turkish and non-Turkish words would properly switch their input method or language setting between both, so they would get mixed up in practice anyway.

There is no escape from knowing (or best-guessing) which language you are performing transformations on, or else just leave the text as-is.
Because a lot of the "cheap hacks" aren't even cheap. Famously, using real-time SSR to simulate ray-traced reflections can end up slower than ray tracing them from the jump, the same goes for high-res shadowmaps. Ambient occlusion is a lighting pass you can skip entirely if you render shadows the right way with RT from the start. If you keep stacking these hacks until you have every feature that a RT scene does, you're probably taking longer to render each frame than a globally illuminated scene would.

Accelerating ray tracing in-hardware is a literal no-brainer unless you deliberately want to ostracize game developers and animators on Mac. I understand the reactionary "But I don't care about dynamic shadows!" opinion, but there's practically no opportunity cost here. If you want to use traditional lighting techniques, you can still render it on an RT-enabled GPU. You just also have the option of not wanting to pull out your fingernails when rendering a preview in Blender.
Advertising and data? Really? So people can’t pay for anything, but companies somehow see value in trying to sell things to them?
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They're already testing moving manufacturing to India and profits to Ireland, so why not keep it up?
Wow, that sounds traumatic
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> parking minimums are a red herring

Care to explain more? I hard disagree, and I think the research is on my side.
Doesn't run on M3 or M4 yet.
apple's pro apps have been in a weird space for a while. aperture dying was a bummer, and final cut and logic feel simultaneously actively developed and abandoned to me, there's just not much buzz around them.

it would be very neat if apple started to build the necessary portfolio of software to provide a viable, ideally not-subscription-based competitor to adobe's suite of products. they certainly have had the chops to be competitive in the creative space for a long time, so it feels like something they'd be well-positioned to seriously take on if they invested heavily in it.

i haven't been as in touch with the video editing space as i was 2 decades ago when i worked in TV, but it feels like FCP is not the juggernaut it once was from the outside. my read may be wrong. similarly, logic doesn't feel as prominent in the music world anymore - i really rarely see musicians using it these days, though again that may just be my bias in the kinds of folks i pay attention to. would be cool to see the apple pro suite really regain its mojo and shake things up.
Apple owns the second largest gaming platform by users and games, and first by profit: iPhone.

In terms of gaming that's only on PC and consoles, I didn't understand Apple's blazé attitude until I discovered this eye-opening fact: there are around 300 million people who are PC and console gamers, and that number is NOT growing. It's stagnant.

Turns out Apple is uninterested by a stagnant market, and dedicates all its gaming effort where growth is: mobile.
A good all hands meeting is about much more than just outlining company strategy.

It’s about uniting everyone emotionally as well as academically.

The emotional component is an absolutely a critical part.

And this is one of the tells for a company that cares about staff moral verses those that don’t. One that care make their all hands about the employees too.
> This might sound stupid but I refuse to go to dentists that have "too nice" of an office.

Same thing with if they have a fancy website - like a Squarespace site that looks like a Brooklyn restaurant and uber professional headshots.
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Apple Is Acquiring Pixelmator
This is in no way a criticism of the news, but if Pixelmator isn't for you, consider trying Acorn, developed by the reputable indie developer Gus Mueller:

https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

It aligns better with my concept of an image editor, based on my experience with Photoshop 4.x-6.x and The Gimp.
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Well done team Lithuania! Remember hearing Pixelmator founders giving a speech ~12 years ago. They were very vocal and repeated this many times: "Our marketing strategy is to just focus on the product". Not sure I agree with that statement, but they sure seem to followed it thoroughly. Congrats on the acquisition!
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Whoa, nice. I’ve purchased Photomator while it was just a couple of euros.
that is actually a take on the infinite monkey theorem[3], maths at its best, pseudoscience only if you entirely miss the point

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
I have a M1 MacBook Air that I use for Docker, VSCode, etc. And it still runs very smoothly. Interestingly, the only times it slows down is when opening Microsoft Excel.
I love Pixelmator Pro, especially because of no subscription fee. If you own Pro for more than 4 months you're spending less money than you would on Photoshop!
This is absolutely, absolutely great advice. A couple decades ago I went to a "dental spa", and they definitely over treated. They did this thing where they shined a laser at my teeth and said I had "pre-cavities", so I needed treatment (I think it was some sort of sealant).

I went to another dentist who basically said this was all bullshit. He said the whole concept of "pre-cavities" wasn't really a useful diagnostic category for treatment in the first place. That is, I went to the dentist every six months, and if they saw, for example, any thinning of the enamel, they would just watch it (because proper care can often prevent it from getting worse), and if it did develop into a cavity, they would fill it. But there was absolutely no need to pre-treat if a cavity wasn't there, and since I saw the dentist every six months they would catch anything before it became severe.

I'm so happy I've found a conservative but highly competent dentist. But it took a lot of looking. Dentists can essentially "create their own demand" if they need to, so I think one of the biggest risks in finding a dentist is that so many of them have a strong incentive to overtreat.
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A response to Dario Amodei's "Machines of Loving Grace"
What kind of "study" would this even be? I thought the point of the infinite monkey thing was to talk about regular distributions and eventualities of every possible string showing up. I don't think anyone claimed that any relatively-long string would show up in any reasonable amount of time necessarily, but it's kind of a bizarre assertion to make.

It's sort of like stating the runtime efficiency of a Bogosort; the runtime efficiency is unbounded. Theoretically any list could be sorted on the first run, but it could also just keep sorting in an unbounded fashion for forever, though given enough time (which could be tens of trillions of years or longer), it will eventually be sorted if we assume regular distribution of random numbers.

ETA:

Ok, I read through the actual paper, and it's clearly meant more as a joke, which I don't think was made clear in this article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277318632...
If you can't enumerate risks with the work you're about to do either you don't have any, or you haven't thought enough about it and you're yolo'ing.

If you have a list of risks and you don't know how to mitigate them, you're just yolo'ing.

"We don't have time to plan" is the biggest source of nonsense in this industry. The process I just described takes about 15 minutes to go through for a month's worth of work. Nobody is so busy they can't spare 15 minutes to think about things that might cause major problems that soak up far, far, far more time.
Sort of. The 3x3x3 and 5x5x5 both have fixed, immovable centers. Red is always opposite orange, blue is always opposite green, and yellow is always opposite white. The 4x4x4 doesn't have fixed centers. When you build the central 2x2 squares on each side (the first step of the reduction method), you have to be careful to have the colors arranged in the correct locations relative to each other. In a certain sense, this is trivial, but it forces you to remember exactly where all colors are on a solved cube in order to solve a 4x4x4 (or other even sized cubes). Odd sized cubes don't have this problem.

Another annoying thing about 4x4x4 compared to 5x5x5 is that you have two possible types of parity issues on the 4x4x4. On the 5x5x5, only one of these can occur.

Nevertheless, if you know how to solve a 3x3x3 and no bigger cube, a 4x4x4 is certainly the easiest next step.
I don't think anyone can disagree. If you ask someone to give you an interpretation of the works of, say, Allen Ginsberg, or of the theory of relativity, and they come back with a pile of documents ordered in some fashion, you won't be satisfied because that's not what you asked for.
>That’s not reducing complexity at all though, just hiding it…

It's a representation. The actual thing will still have the whole complexity.

What is reduced is how much complexity we take in when looking at what the thing does. When someone wants to get an idea of what the thing does, as opposed to getting into the minutiae of every subcase, such a high level view is a better fit.
Are you referring to monoclonal antibodies? For which a Nobel Prize was awarded in 2018, and research has continued since the 80s?