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Pulcinellaon Apple Buys DarwinAI Ahead of Major Generative AI Updates Coming in iOS 18

Nah Apple maps still sucks where I live. Lots of small streets and alleys that are on Google maps are absent on Apple's. Locations are slow to be updated. Driving directions that are illogical to locals. Maybe it's better in Cupertino/New York, but not where I live.

Pulcinellaon Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (2013)

We went all the way to magnitude –2,” Weatherley says — an earthquake so small, he adds, that it involves a slip of only about 130 micrometres along a mere 90 centimetres of the fault zone. “You still get a pressure drop of 50%,” he notes.

Interesting. Is there a rough rule of thumb that translates magnitude into slip size and length?

Pulcinellaon Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

Sorry but I don't want random apps spaming me with junk. If they want to send me notifications, then yes they should request my (the user's) permission.

Pulcinellaon Beeper Mini is back

Apple doesn't degrade the experience, that's a carrier limitation when sending SMS and MMS messages to anyone even other iPhone users.

E.g. MMS messages generally have to fit within 300-600KB so they are horribly, horribly compressed. https://m.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=mms

Pulcinellaon Beeper Mini is back

Someone "hacking"[0] into my bank account shines a light on the fact that my bank wasn't so locked down to begin with, but I still don't want people doing it.

Keep in mind, iMessage also relies on a server component. It's not some peer-to-peer protocol. Apple has to pay for the costs of sending messages, high resolution videos and photos, audio recordings, and supporting iMessage apps[1]. You can argue that this is included in the price of the iPhone/iPad/Mac but obviously is not for random android devices. Personally it doesn't bother me if Apple has to just eat the costs, but it is a cost, and probably a not insubstantial one.

[0] Social Engineering.

[1] Ok how many people actually use these? Still, they are part of iMessage.

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

That's cellphone carriers. MMS messages generally have to fit within 300-600KB[0] so they are horribly, horribly compressed.

https://m.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=mms

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

My understanding is that unlimited SMS text messages have basically been included free with cellphone plans in the US for a very long time while that's generally still not the case in Europe. So there hasn't been a need to find a cheaper way to send messages.

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

Received messages are always grey. It's sent messgaes that change colors. So a message from an Android, iPhone, windows phone, feature phone, etc. will always appear with a grey bubble. A sent imessage message to an iPhone user will be blue. A sent SMS text message to a iphone, android phone, feature phone, etc. will be in a green bubble.

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

I have literally never, ever, ever in my entire life heard people say "I was spit upon" as a figure of speech. Ever. Please don't accuse me of being absurd just because I have not had the same life experience as you.

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

No. "Spit on" is a serious accusation with real life historical analogs. I have literally never, ever, ever in my entire life heard people say "I was spit upon" as a figure of speech. Ever. It's not a figure of speech I would personally ever use because of the implications.

Please don't accuse people of arguing in bad faith just because they haven't had the same life experiences you have had. You are spitting in me when you do so.

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

Fo someone who doesn't like being metaphorically spit upon, you sure do like swearing at me and calling me names.

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

People literally spit on you for having an Android phone? Like they literally hacked up a glob of saliva and spat on you as if you were doing a lunch counter sit in during the civil rights movement?

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

No one in that article mentions spitting. By your and the OP's definition, everyone downvoting me is literally[0] spitting on me and the WSJ locking the article behind a paywall is also literally[0] spitting on me.

This is of, of course, silly. The OP could have just said they didn't like being excluded and doesn't like what Apple is doing. That's fine. But spitting? That isn't something that is happening. The language of "spitting" is far to strong a description for what is effectively console war, consumer electronic purchase fandom BS. Some of use face actual prejudice you know!

[0]metaphorically

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

Holy shit you really are this obtuse. The last time you were in a meeting and someone said "well my hands are tied..." did you boggle and demand of the room to explain the invisible rope?

No. I would calmly listen to what they were telling me. What I did not do was swear and declare they were being really obtuse. And I would certainly not claim they were literally spitting on me just because I got an answer I didn't like or that was inconvenient to me.

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

That's very unfortunate and all, but, again, it's not spitting. I don't think it's correct or good to say you were spat on by iphone users for having an android phone as if you were being persecuted for your religious beliefs or race, especially if it literally never happened. You can just factually describe events. The OP doesn't need to lie or grossly exaggerate.

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

Chat app friction is not being spat on which is what the OP literally said. Perceived inconvenience is not persecution.

Pulcinellaon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

Good grief! No one is spitting on people with Android phones. If you really feel this way you need to put your screen down and spend time talking to people in real life. No one is persecuting you.

Pulcinellaon Google's DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win

"Finds" is far too generous. There was no experimental research done. It was structure prediction using AI.

Pulcinellaon YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, not the browser

But it is a moral issue! Ignoring and blocking advertisements is not morally neutral, it's morally good, correct, and should be encouraged!

Pulcinellaon Cities: Skylines 2's troubled launch, and why simulation games are freaking hard

Did you ever encounter performance issues when converting between ECS and GameObjects?

Pulcinellaon Doctors complete first successful face and whole-eye transplant

I would assume that is what happens with babies. Unless human development is that deterministic down to the cellular location level, I would imagine that rod/cone neurons are wired somewhat randomly and the brain spends months sorting out that neuron pathway #16384948 corresponds to the cone(x: 1340, y: 960, .leftEye) while pathway #16380021 corresponds to rod(x: 1280, y:720, .rightEye). But I have no clue so maybe I am completely wrong.

Pulcinellaon The Humane AI Pin Launches Its Campaign to Replace Phones

$700 + $24/month for an uglier plastic name badge + police body camera. No thanks

Also:

To put on the Ai Pin involves placing a magnetic battery pack on the inside of a shirt or other piece of clothing, and letting a magnet on the Pin itself hold the system in place. It’s altogether about 55 grams, or 2 ounces, nearly the weight of a tennis ball. People with pacemakers should consult their doctors about potential magnetic interference, Chaudhri says.

It's pretty heavy and the backside of the clip is a magnetic battery pack.

Pulcinellaon Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024

Yep. Hence the somewhat confusing name of the software. It's not Visual Studio™ for macOS. It's Visual Studio for Mac™.

How well does VSCode work with the Unity engine? My understanding was that for game C# programming on macOS Unity recommended(required?) Visual Studio for Mac™.

Pulcinellaon Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17

SwiftUI shouldn't be counted as it's own language. It's a UI framework written in Swift.

Pulcinellaon Disclosing the BLOODALCHEMY backdoor

Much of what is written on the page is over my head. Do they explain why they gave it an edgy name?

Pulcinellaon John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

Direct link to the Unity press release: https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2023/Unity-Ann...

Pulcinellaon Man ‘forced to drive electric car into police van’ in Scotland after brakes fail

Time to make a phone call doesn't necessarily mean anything. This poor family[0] had time to call 911 and still crashed.

https://www.twincities.com/2010/02/23/a-lexus-barreling-out-...

Pulcinellaon Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff

Yeah at a certain point it seems like the bean counters really take over and the easiest way to grow profits is to cut costs... except a certain point there is only so much you can logically cut or optimize. After that you are just cutting the product/service/business to the bone. You can remove the suspension in a race car to save weight, but it's a bad idea.

I am reminded of a Steve Jobs quote: ""It turns out the same thing can happen in technology companies that get monopolies, like IBM or Xerox. If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful. So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product. They have no conception of the craftsmanship that's required to take a good idea and turn it into a good product. And they really have no feeling in their hearts, usually, about wanting to really help the customers."

Pulcinellaon Poland may seek extradition of Ukrainian Nazi WW2 veteran Hunka from Canada

"While technically he was a literal Nazi in the literal SS..."

Buddy, think about what you are writing. You don't need to defend these people. What they did, what they were a part of, is in fact bad and they should feel bad.

Pulcinellaon Unity's Self-Combustion Engine

This part of the article needs a citation. Unity has been setting money on fire, but it hasn't been buying a market advantage. It's been burning money on highly, highly, highly questionable (at best) acquisitions like buying Weta and Iron Source as well an insane hiring spree and then paying those people for years for work and churn that Unity never actually manages to ship in the engine.