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Setting aside the relative investment risk issues, perhaps customers are happy that they are getting a reliable source of power that is carbon free? Is zero cost the right threshold when looking at the larger benefits, nuclear or solar? That being said, I personally think we are headed to a combination of some always on nuclear combined with a lot of solar. Look to Texas for recent lessons on lack of robustness in power generation capability.

Hmm. Not seeing your argument. The company has an API key. Employees query the local service which passes it up to the pay service. What does user executed vs. github commit triggered have to do with anything? What am I missing?

First, Apple does open source the core OS as Darwin. I appreciate your perspective, but I am curious why anyone would think that open sourcing the rest of it is even a remote possibility?

As far as closed source being safe, I don't think open source is safe either. We have seen some horrendous exploitable bugs which lived in open source code for years. Just because something can be thoroughly audited, doesn't mean it is.

I've personally been around a lot of years, and I'm just no longer convinced that a handful of sincere and enthusiastic volunteers can be better at security than a highly motivated, well paid, staff of competent engineers. These systems are just too complex nowadays. I get the concept of open source and having the ability to review the code, etc., but in practice stuff happens anyway in either case. Sorry for the rambling, but I guess I'm just not so convinced any more about the absolutist arguments concerning the relative merits. Maybe I'm just getting too cynical...

Or when the controller has a divide but it is painfully slow.

>To be clear, you don't get all three.

Actually you do. The branding is called FinFlex, but the upshot is that you can use different FETs for different parts of a circuit. So some critical timing bottleneck blocks could be built with performance optimized FETs and other blocks can optimize for low power.

The numbers from TSMC for N3E are +18% speed improvement at same power, -34% power reduction at same speed, and 1.7x density improvement.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-outlines-3nm-roadmap

>Also, are these Apple's numbers?

Ha ha. That's funny. Does Apple ever release any numbers prerelease?

Not true. Depending upon the processor choice, M1, M1 pro, or M1 max, you get 1, 2, or 4 external monitors. Up to 64 GB ram. Do you really need more than 64 GB? The number of users who actually need more are a very small part of the market.

I've had a licensed copy of Win11 Arm running in Parallels for months. I just installed the dev version as mentioned in the AT article. At first it wouldn't let me buy a license, but at some point a few months ago it allowed me to buy a license and that has been fine ever since. Runs great. Good that the support has become official now.

I guess a $30,000 car that will leave you with nearly nothing after several years also has no value? How about a $5000 vacation with your family? How about a great bottle of wine? Many, many things we choose to value enough to invest in are temporary. That is not a useful criteria.

Yes, Apple wants their piece and I for one would like to see it at least reduced. I would also love to see an option to opt-in to at least sideloading personally built apps.

That being said, what customer are you referring to when you talk about "destroying the customer experience." Hundreds of millions of users express very high customer satisfaction with the experience. The vast number of users have no interest in sideloading and they love the simplicity of the app store. Apple is bringing in about 85% of the smartphone market profits and they have huge repeat purchase numbers. That is not because those billion users are unsatisfied or feel the experience has been "destroyed." The numbers are just too overwhelming.

Many HN readers are not the target market if openness is of paramount importance to them. It is hard to avoid, but we need to try and avoiding generalizing our preferences to the broader definition of "customer."

SPICE, the integrated circuit simulation software, used to "compile" at run time an optimal chunk of machine code specific to the matrix to be solved. This was only for CDC machines. There was actually a parameter called LVLCOD that the user could use to specify that custom machine code was generated at runtime or not.

Well, if media is our standard for what are appropriate conclusions, we've got a real problem.

>I can never remember who to be mad at.

Well, maybe don't be mad at anyone. Aside from a small number of true a-holes, the vast majority of people are all stumbling along doing the best they can and trying to make the best decisions they can. Yep, sometimes we humans don't make the best decisions. Sometimes we do dumb things. But at the end of the day, I personally believe most of us are trying to do the right thing. If that wasn't true, our society would rapidly descend into chaos.

As for me, I'm trying not to be mad at anyone. You do you I guess.

That sounds like a software config issue. Any chance you have "Wake for network access" set to "Always" instead of "Only on Power Adapter?"

Even if it shows as set to "Only on Power Adapter" change it to something else and then change it back. I once had a case where the UI state for a setting was inconsistent with the underlying system state.

Started a few years ago as a neuroimmune disorder with periodic and horrific OCD, depression, muscular failures, inability to concentrate, ... Much of that has passed, but it has morphed into ME/CFS. That still still seems triggered and/or related to an underlying neuroimmune issue. When the immune system kicks up, an autoimmune condition also ramps up and causes inflammation in the brain (among other things), which in turn leads to all sorts of symptoms. She used to run half marathons but now a flight of stairs are a big challenge.

None of it is well understood and there aren't good treatments. Some treatments help some people, but it is kind of hit or miss and most of the potential treatments aren't cheap.

It is actually similar in many ways to some forms of long covid, so bizarrely, covid and subsequent research may lead to better therapies that could help her as well. At least that's the hope...

Yeah, sorry I didn't read that more carefully. Kind of hard to look at something so broken and not be completely discouraged. Sounds like yet another good argument for basic income policies.

That is so stressful. A close relative has a similar situation. It is cyclical and is a condition that for some people does improve long term, so when she is on the upswing there is always the thought/hope that it might continue to improve. Then after a few months it goes the other way. Absolutely crushing. At this point, she has something akin to PTSD from battling through these cycles over the years. Hope you can find a sustainable groove.

The fundamental problem is that the government is using earnings as the metric for evaluating disability. That might work ok with manual labor, but not so great with non-manual labor jobs.

As others have pointed out, there needs to at least be tapered thresholds with a significant deadband (in dollars and time) so someone can get some career inertia before being cast out of the system. Beyond that, we should be able to provide some help even after someone starts earning. Living and working with a disability is damned expensive, not to mention the horrendous stress of worrying about whether one can meet expectations at work.

If the 5k is better than the "normal" month with benefit, it is still better to earn the 5k that month, assuming the benefit is immediately restored on the subsequent months with low income.

All I know for sure is that with an Apple Silicon ARM based laptop, I never think about charging anymore. When I'm around a charger I charge it a bit. I use it for hours at a time and don't even think about charging. Windows users would get used to this lack of battery anxiety really quick.

I had x86 laptops and they were great. But when running on battery, there is always those glances up at the battery indicator every few minutes and thinking about when I am going to have to get to a charger again. Until you have left that behind, with a super lightweight laptop, you just can't understand what a game changer it is.

I think Microsoft is eager to get to that experience for their users. I hope they will keep making the investment to get there.

> Solar panels make great sense on ICE vehicles. Trickle charge from small solar panel may preserve internal battery much better.

Hmm. I just bought a new 36 month battery for $110. Never in the last three years did I have any issues with the battery not being "preserved." $2000 of solar for no measurable impact on the usability of my ICE? This doesn't make sense. $2000 buys me 50 years worth of 36 month batteries. The only time you would need trickle charge is if the car is parked for long periods of time with no plug-in available for trickle charging. That's a niche need. Plug-in trickle charge for the life of the car would cost a lot less than $2000.

RV? When parked with no plug-in power available, sure it would be nice to have some electricity without having to run the motor. Other than that, the tiny bit of solar you could put on the roof is completely insignificant with respect to the power needed to move the extremely heavy RV.

I am already using Windows on ARM. Works great.

> competitors are getting squeezed by fabs playing supply side economic games.

Curious, what games are you referring to? The fab business is fairly direct and open. One of the truer supply and demand situations.

There is a perfect solution available. Don't buy the product. No need to get angry about it. It just isn't for you.

Apple entered the smartphone market in 2007. At that time Apple had no way to preference itself unfairly. They went from zero to capturing 75% of smartphone profits in 2021 and dramatically increased the size of the overall market. I think Apple is quite capable of competing without preference. Are they more successful now due to eco-system lock-in? Sure, but to conclude that that is the only reason they have are competitive is just not considering all of the facts.

[0] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-handset-market-o...

> I still recommend it to others but you guys need to produce a stable version soon.

This must drive developers nuts. It is in Beta. That means it has bugs and is not yet in wide release. A user should have no expectation of it being their daily driver for anything critical. Providing constructive feedback is great, but the closing complaint is just not appropriate at this stage of the product.

You just made the argument you are arguing against. A full reset process is provided by the system software that takes care of the issue.

Sure, but the incentive is still reduced. That is a good thing.

>you can remove the lock remotely [1], which means they can remove the lock remotely

Not the same thing, depending upon how the authentication is handled.

For many of us, it is the scripting language of choice...

I was in a jet taxiing and headed for a runway crossing. I could see out the window a plane on coming in to land on the runway we were about to taxi across. It was clear from our speed that the pilots had no intention of stopping before crossing the runway. I could see it all unfolding and was actually considering taking off my seat belt and running to the cockpit. At that moment the pilot suddenly applied massive braking and we came to a stop just before crossing the runway as the landing plane sped down the runway right in front of us. Frightening.