QuixoticQuibit

I’m not too familiar with AMD/XSX architecture, but why wouldn’t ROP scale with number of GPU cores? Why would MS design something with lower ROP/core? Also, where did you get these details from?

Napoleon wasn’t short for his time. That was propaganda spread by his enemies.

The RT hardware takes up a small fraction of die area based on some articles I read a year ago. Furthermore, RT isn’t a gimmick: it’s literally the holy grail of graphics. Ask yourself why AMD, Intel, and consoles are all moving to it this year.

Whereabouts were you living, if I can ask?

This comment from the recent thread reflecting on HNers’ predictions from 2010 made me realize how little can change in a decade:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21942143

IMO, OP’s predictions may be safe, but that says more about reality than OP’s lack of imagination.

That seems like a very one-sided take considering Apple’s history.

Moreover, the reason is almost certainly related to Apple not wanting to proliferate Nvidia’s tools and instead force developers to use their Metal API. AFAIK Apple’s even abandoned OpenCL on macOS.

I have not completely understood why Uber is at all a reasonable investment nor why it ever received so much VC funding.

There is no business model. Uber doesn’t have anything unique, least of all self-driving tech. There won’t be any sort of sticky network effect since consumers can simply switch to a different ride hailing app with the lowest price. When (if?) AVs become reality, the car manufacturers themselves can become their own Ubers or AV-subscription service with no need for a middle man.

Who’s this German provider and how do they compare in terms of pricing/features/UX to Fastmail?

Any ideas what Dallas office will be doing?

And what does it mean to build an entire skyscraper for themselves? I thought these things were leased out by floor to multiple companies.

Tested on iOS 13: I can scroll through thumbnail previews of images but tapping to view full size opens the App Store to Yelp. As for reviews, it shows 3 of them as shortened previews, so I can’t even view a single full review (unless it’s trivially short). Tapping on them again opens the App Store to the Yelp app. Around the review previews are links to “Open Yelp” and “Find out more on Yelp”, all leading to the same thing: App Store.

This is such an un-Apple-like UX. Idk if they signed a long-running contract with Yelp out of desperation when Apple Maps launched forcing it to be this way, but if not, then their insistence on this experience is truly dumbfounding.

Edit: I see you’ve tested it yourself.

Using Yelp as a POI provider prevents me from completely dropping Google Maps. Even ignoring Yelp’s shitty practices, needing the Yelp app to view reviews and images is a showstopper. Apple needs to dump Yelp and go full Google here their own reviews and POI DB.

Why would their head of WW Marketing go down for this? This would be the fault of whoever was in charge of the keyboard design and its multiple failing iterations. So presumably the head of Mac HW.

I don’t suppose you have that comment saved, do you?

Not having the read the book, what is #4 about? Are deadlines not a necessary thing? Don’t most SW teams use sprints to push out features on a regular basis?

How would looking up help, though? Unless I’m misunderstanding, the sound would still be coming up straight towards your face/ears.

Doesn’t Uber also lease cars to drivers? I was surprised to see in the Bay Area that so many drivers had fairly new cars. I asked one about it and he said that Uber leased it out. Presumably a portion of the driver’s income goes directly towards the car.

People who have vested interests in keeping it that way: NIMBYers. People who currently own homes and want to see their habitable “retirement plans” grow indefinitely. And god forbid we build apartment complexes greater than 5 stories all over the Bay Area. We wouldn’t want anyone’s glorious viewshed of the surrounding yellow hills to be blocked.

Of course, increasing housing density highlights other problems: terrible traffic and poor public transportation. We’d need to make large investments in both housing and transportation infrastructure if we’re ever going to make headway in the CoL problem.

Readwise seems very useful to me since I already use Instapaper. Since you're here, I was hoping to ask some questions:

1. Have you considered some way to add Instapaper-like parsing and highlighting into your service? It isn't cheap paying for two subscriptions with Instapaper reverting back to a $30/year subscription for my internet highlighting/notes plus your subscription.

2. From the website, it seems like you already have spaced repetition. What are you hoping to add?

3. What spacing repetition algorithm are you using? SM?