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Senior platform engineer contractor with 10+ years experience working for large enterprises building and operating container-based internal platforms-as-a-service.

Location: London, UK

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Why not get rid of grades?
I recently got an M4 Mac Mini which is an amazing piece of hardware. (When it came in the mail I couldn't believe it could fit in the small box it was in!)

My wife was angry about the large volume of advertising, both on web sites and on the desktop, on the machine out of the box. Part of it was needing an adblocker, which meant switching to Firefox, because installing an adblocker on Safari requires an Apple account which my wife doesn't have and wouldn't want to make.

I was amused that, by default, I got numerous nags in the form of 1999 retreads of the confirm dialog from the 1984 original mac. I'd contrast that to Microsoft's nags which look like a modern HTML-inspired interface [1].

Apple's model of "local account but you get nagged into attaching an Apple account so you can use the store and other services" is inferior, in my mind, to Microsoft's model where you can use use your Microsoft account to log into the desktop and your XBOX and all the services that Microsoft has to offer. I know a lot of people don't like it, but since Microsoft introduced it I've had no trouble authenticating into SMB shares in home and SMB environments.

[1] I won't apologize for thinking that's an advance, particularly since HTML/CSS has been adding things like Flexbox and Grid which are exactly what the doctor ordered for application development.
I tried an iPhone for three months or so, ending a month ago, and I was really disappointed by the experience. I thought Apple was still a company that focused on UX, but it was eye-opening to see that they had lost their way.

There are four distinct ways to go back (swipe from the left/right side, press the X, press the left arrow, swipe down), whereas Android has one way that always goes back to the previous screen. The inability to set volumes separately, the fact that folders hold exactly 9 icons and leave the other 60% of the screen empty, the fact that a very commonly-used button (the back arrow) is at the hardest-to-reach part of the screen, all of that just made for a really frustrating experience.

Linus basically echoes all my gripes in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhew95wMmP8

After that, I bought a Nothing 2, and I love it. It's snappier than the iPhone, feels premium, and Android has stolen all of the good ideas iOS had and added more.
Is education AI's real killer app?
Don’t worry, the worst is still before you. ;)
https://archive.ph/KWZ7h
Which propaganda led the US to the Iraq War?
I will take the other side of that bet.
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Technologies: Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, pandas, Django, Flask, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Swift, SwiftUI, JavaScript, React, Terraform

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MK6O_lsRz_x3gD6NFBkWPiHY...

Email: gavinhackeling atgmaildotcom

I am a generalist software engineer and data scientist more than twelve years of experience at early-stage startups backed by Breakthrough Energy, Emerson Collective, Founders Fund, First Round Capital, GV, General Catalyst, and IA Ventures. I have built products and engineering teams from scratch and led them to seven-figure ARR at two SaaS companies. I am the author of the first and second editions of Mastering Machine Learning with scikit-learn, and the inventor of one patent.
NYC sees double-digit drops in overall crime, subway crime
It's not just an emotional reaction but rather that trust is a fundamental requirement for a functioning society.
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Does he mean that the software worked for three months after the hardware swap?
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> Maybe the US's stealth or long range cruise missiles would be enough to knock down and keep down the opponents anti air coverage but it's not guaranteed.

That's what those capabilities are designed to do ("SEAD"), but they're very expensive. And so strategic that the US wasn't willing to let the Ukranians have any.
Antidotal rage bait with zero supporting facts. Jump on the bandwagon!
Anecdotally, Apple Music has deteriorated exponentially for me. iTunes was such a stable, usable piece of software, but I can't get reliable use out of Apple Music for the life of me. It _feels_ like a shoddy Electron app. But that's not fair to the actual Electron (or similar) apps that actually work. For all its many design and product flaws, Spotify actually works.
I'm 42
"Good one, zombie. You don't even exist. Back into the abyss you go".

These kind of responses sound positively out of touch with reality. Receiving one, I wouldn't even laugh, I would be taken aback that I have been involved in someone else's psychosis.
This is basically Debian.
A step forward would be to show for all those solar/wind + battery proposals the expected uptime and distributions given historical weather and how climate change might affect that.

For example this solution would be sufficient and have no blackouts/brownouts per year in 99% of historical data....
I'm really hard on myself even for small things like missing a turn that takes me 5 minutes out of the way. Or making a minor mistake in my morning breakfast routine that I've been optimizing for 3 years. It's just how I'm wired.
They've done it before:
https://hothardware.com/news/apple-throttles-iphone-7-models...
Also, FP adders need prior normalisation.
Title should be something like “Apple Pencil Pro causes iPad to overheat and slow down”. This sounds really annoying, but the overly broad title is just clickbait.
Location: Royal Oak Mi
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C/C++, Python, JavaScript (React)
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasir-sharaf/
Email: nsrsharaf7[at]gmail.com
Website: https://nassharaf.github.io/ideasthete/

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what a great idea
Einstein-Cartan Theory
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Is this a real problem, or a perceived problem?

I know people like to complain about Apple's software quality - but is this actually an issue - or just the popular thing to say?
Comes closest to realizing the concept of a JIT that is better than AOT.
Excuses for what? I'm not the elected representative for JIT compiled languages, sworn to defend them. There are technical reasons they tend to be slower. I was sketching some of them.
Silicon and Neurons Together at Last
but will it run doom
TanStack Form V1 – Type-Safe, Agnostic, Headless Form Library
Nature of multilingual input to infants in multiple caregiver families
I would disagree with the conclusion. It sounds like a faulty line of hardware on the M2 Air then.

My partner is the IT manager at a school where they have over 1000 iPads (10th gen) deployed with iOS 18 and there are no reported issues like this. We ourselves have iPad Pro M2's without these issues which we both use all day every day. Our kids have 3x 10th gen iPads too. No issues.

YMMV but they just work for us and the software, which not perfect, is probably the least shit out there.

I mean the trash heap in my office is mostly Surface machines as a comparison...
SDL does this trick https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_EventType
I've been using fundamentally the same Linux setup for over ten years now. I think the biggest change it went through was migrating the audio system to Pipewire, which took about an hour to figure out and hasn't need attention since.

I have no solutions to offer for smartphones sadly.
To be fair to the NIMBYs, if San Francisco was completely replaced with midrise apartment buildings, or 5 over 1s or even rowhouses, it wouldn't be San Francisco anymore. It'd be something different in the same place, with the same name.
I don't think this has to do with Covid or WFH. It is more likely that Apple is focused on showing huge profit margins, at the expense of hiring qualified staff, due to a quarter by quarter focus, in a mature market. When one person leaves, they don't get backfilled. You can hide a lot of sins with the aggressive push from marketing and focusing on hardware performance. How do you measure software experience? How do you brag about it?
Nothing wrong with the "creating products that prioritize user experience over features" - or more accurately what Jobs said: create products that start with the user experience and the user’s needs first and then work your way to the tech (as far as I remember)

The opposite approach is starting with some tech and then trying to find a use for it, e.g. folding phones, second 1/2 screen on laptop, etc, instead of trying to actually create a usable, quality trackpad for instance.

The critique is still valid: Apple, for their software, seem to not have the same focus on quality as Jobs once insisted on. Their physical products are very much still top notch, and the products on the whole are still developed with this mindset as far as I’m concerned. It’s just the software quality that has taken a hit for some reason.
The full quote:

When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.

- Texas v. White, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 700

A state cannot itself just decide to leave. It has to be allowed to go or successfully fight its way out of it. The secessionists' revolution failed; thus they were never not a part of the US.

So, I guess they could unilaterally leave, assuming they win their revolutionary war. But otherwise no, they can't unilaterally leave without the rest of the union agreeing to it somehow. The governor can't just sign a piece of paper and say California is now its own country separate from the United States and have that take effect from the perspective of the federal government. California would still be legally considered a State in the United States.
A travelling-wave strategy for plant–fungal trade
Industries local citizens want in their area. If you don't have the votes, you don't get the industrial zoning, warehouses, data centers, etc. Go elsewhere.
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Ok hand emoji maybe?
I think that's completely silly framing; you can AOT compile any code better—or at least, just as well—if you already know how you want it to perform at runtime. Any efficiency gain would necessarily need to be in the context of total productivity.
Agreed, good point... better to channel their energies into something that benefits society, and i agree that we're not really doing that right now
This reads like a piece of defense propaganda. "Undoing the 1990s decision" - should we really return the US defense industry to cold-war levels? The world has changed, and the threat of outright war with the US is dramatically lower than 4 decades ago. Yes, China is an adversary, but to say that it's an existential threat to the US the same way the Soviet Union was is absurd.
That's true, it was a weak point. I'll have to think about why this unsettles me, thanks for the food for thought.
Gravity batteries have horribly low energy densities. There's usually a better option.
I am also a donor, and I'd been wondering the same thing. But then I decided that I am okay with it - people donate for different reasons, and it's the result that matters here.
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Technologies: Rust, compiler engineering (query languages, code generators, dev tools, programming languages, LLVM), Linux kernel (eBPF, io_uring, low-level networking, performance optimisation)

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I'm a systems engineer with 8+ years of experience in Rust. Solving problems in low-level programming, design and implementation of compilers and programming languages.
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)
I think as you get older (i'm 48) the consequences of bad decisions become more and more damaging. Just thinking about careers, a major change in career at 27 isn't as consequential as a career change at 50 because you have time to try again. Make a career change mistake at 50 and there isn't much time to right the ship and get back to at least where you were.

My wife and I were talking about making considerable life changes (career and living) in about 6 years as both my boys will be through HS then and out of the house. So these changes, whatever shape they take, will happen in my mid-50s. That's 10 years from my planned retirement (I'm in the US). Any mistake made in those decisions has dire consequences to the rest of my life (and my wife's life for that matter).

As for dealing with imperfections, I've told my therapist "i am who i'm going to be. If that's not good enough for you or society then you all are just going to have to deal with it."
I guess that the following statement would be true: if the process cannot load the whole file in memory and allocate memory for the model at the same time, then the it won't be able to run successfully. Strictly speaking, the sentence I quoted doesn't derive from that. This is just me quibbling though, because the intended meaning was most likely what you said.
The prevalence of such statements almost makes me want to believe there's a small cottage industry of sorts that wants to make people feel bad about themselves especially wrt aging. However, with self-reflection, people can always fix themselves, even when they're at an advanced age.

Most recently, a significant life event happened, that drew my attention to a pattern of mistakes I've been making for the past couple of years. I've made it a point to reflect upon each incident and take copious notes of what I could have done differently in those situations; and hopefully I'll do better for the next event. While I'm currently at an age where I'd neither be considered "young" nor "old", I don't think any of this can't be applied to someone who'd be 10 or 20 years older than me, for example.
Another example of how your parent isn't really being accurate, memory leaks are also possible in garbage collected languages, yet they have been considered memory safe since well before Rust even existed.

It's not as if Rust invented the term "memory safety" or gets to define it.
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You don't need an Apple account to install an adblocker. You just install it from here https://adguard.com/en/adguard-mac/overview.html

And you don't have to pay for it, just close the ask.
TanStack Form v1
Yes but... but... Did you update it to the latest version of Mac OS (Sequoia) with all the security patches via official Apple channels ?

No you did not.
> That's the kind of damage one could expect from the responsible of the school shooting itself

The economic focus of the civil justice system, and the fact that the dead can't claim damages for death, means that killing people who aren't the breadwinners that others depend on, and especially children who are themselves dependent economically, usually produces very limited damages, whereas defamation of the living with wide reach and high impact has very large damages. Criminal consequences, of course, scale differently.
This is really interesting! Are you guys hiring interns for the summer?
Not being self-critical does not mean things don't happen.
Suppose you love drinking, for example. At 20 it will be just a hangover, but at 40 it could even kill you. If at 40 you get drunk knowing you no longer process alcohol like you used to, that's a flaw of character. It doesn't have anything to do with DNA(supposing you're not an alcoholic).
Mistakes have much more weight the older one gets. It's a fact, not a way of seeing things.
Copy paste was added to like, iPhone OS 3.

It is technically incorrect to say that iOS could not copy paste at any point, as the copy paste feature was present in the first version of the software called "iOS".

To use a version of iPhone OS that can't copy or paste, you'd have to use the original iPhone or the 3G (not 3GS!)
It’s not worse than Microsoft.

But somehow, Microsoft and Apple are inferior to their previous selves.

New features and bug fixes, yes. But we seem to lose a lot. In terms of quality, performance and unfeatures.
There was another, recent incident in which some guy shot a few rounds to a healthcare exec's window in the night...
This is a super cool idea! I've sort of mused about an idea for general web search that's very similar to this concept, where you start with a set of trusted entities and then branch out from there, but choosing how you establish trust is really important. But this is a really clever application, well done!