john_minsk

I like it;-) DIY or nothing.

It is not that simple. The minute China does it - they stand alone. The whole premise of outsourcing manufacturing to China will die. No one will trust them to do it. In my opinion they won’t do it

Not to start a holy war, but what is the difference at the end of the day? Isn't one just faster?

Since your comment became a list of AI links, here is one from me. I'm not an expert in this area, but it looked like a very interesting project in the space of artificial worlds creation: https://www.prometheanai.com/

Why would you be opposed to that?

Careful. They might want to develop one more dashboard - showing you structure of the fees and their changes. Brace yourself for another 0.5% fee to pay for it

That's interesting take on it. I guess with 5G around the corner we will see MacBooks with 5G integrated and Remote Desktop won't be a pain in the ass. May be that's another reason Apple made this move.

The question is which professional software for video editing is available for this new platform? Probably not much at the moment. So these machines will be perfect for those who do their work with browser, email and not much more.

I'm using Tableau Desktop in my daily work and until it is available on this new platform - these Macs are not an option for me even if they are 10x more performant. I guess there are a lot of professionals that are constrained in a similar manner. So we will see if M1 is adopted in such scenarios at all.

I doubt it. When they talk about performance - they always said it in terms of compute/watt. In absolute numbers these CPUs and GPUs will still be less performant - just my guess.

On top of it for a foreseeable future I think a lot of professional software will stay on x86 architecture simply because most of it must be also available on Windows.

PopcornTime is just a tool. A tool can be used for both legal and illegal purposes. If a tool user does something illegal with a tool, the user should be prosecuted and not the tool. (The same logic applies to guns.)

True. MagSafe is what got me. Apple is genius in how they keep pushing accessories part of the ecosystem.

Noone was killed. They are safe. We have peaceful protests. Noone even using something like a bat and we don't have weapons in the arms of regular people

When looking at Apple's ads and knowing that it is a US company, I kind of expect that in my oppressive post-soviet country I can get a glimpse of power of US constitution and that they won't bend under demands of third world dictators...

What about people who ARE killed as a result of police thinking they are anonymous and they won't be prosecuted no matter what?

I'm from Belarus. Honestly, I'm surprised Apple gives a shit. Now I'm worried that Apple can cooperate with local police in case they make inquiry. Am I safe?

Here is the link to one group that uses ML to de-anonymize people: https://youtu.be/FAJIrnphTFg

Thanks to such practices Apple Pay subscriptions services are so competitive. Unfortunately, Spotify got burnt by it and many other honest actors. Just like AdBlockers all over again

Don't allow the user type "all", but another guy (admin) to verify such commands.

It means “Comms” i think it can belong to different agencies but most likely military ones

For many countries like mine this will be a window towards freedom. As long as US stands behind its constitution

This. To all the people who call this job post "silly", imagine how silly it is if a simple mistake of missing "-" like in "1-2 years" is overblown out of proportions and half the internet is discussing it. I've stumbled upon this "news" a few times during past 2 days. What a waste...

Not sure how FaceID actually works, but in my understanding it can effectively distinguish between your face vs everyone else's face. It can't uniquely identify and search your face across 7 billion fingerprints.

Otherwise I don't understand why iPhone doesn't support "guest" profile via FaceID. Or iPad doesn't allow multiple users(family) on the same device by simply "looking at it"

If no one else can fix it - we should criticise with a remark that BTW this is not fixable at the moment

Otherwise: Earth's gravity is too strong. Planes use too much fuel. Let's criticise Earth...

If you start writing this software now, you would probably release 3rd competitor to this duo faster then some corporation decides to buy airtable if they heard about it now. Quick is very relative term

If they want to be private someone will take them to court for advertising drugs or something like that. They should have stayed neutral.

Don't allow soldiers to have mobile on restricted ground...

>> NASA wanted to find an "ordinary person," a gifted teacher who could communicate with students while in orbit.

So i guess maybe some programs like this will appear in the future...

I kind of agree, but on the other side - if 20-30% is too much there will be competitors which offer 2-3% and theoretically all restaurants will move there as well as customers to pay 20-30% less.

And tbh this should happen. UBER had to spend billions on marketing and getting their model "right". But now it is clear that such platform is essential for modern city. At some point UBER will have to get this money back with ride fees. Next competitor that can replicate UX of UBER, but raises less capital will be very well positioned to offer competitive pricing. And switching between these platforms is much easier compared to something like Facebook/Apple.

That's the most interesting part to me which will play the major role in how WFH situation will evolve. I 100% understand the logic in such situations, but:

1) If company like Twitter is saying: "From tomorrow our default is work from home, but you all get 20% salary cut". This will be essentially a salary cut, nothing more. If let's say Facebook says WFH=on-site developers from Twitter will be flowing to Facebook because of 20% salary cut

2) In order for everyone in FAANG to say simultaneously that we have to cut salaries 20% simply because it is WFH now - there should be a strong evidence that productivity in remote workers is 20% less and they will need to hire 20% more engineers to have the same amount of work done. If it is not correct then companies have incentive to drive this number down to 10% or 0%

3) FAANG and overall Valley residents must also consider the long term effect on their community. I doubt that Silicon Valley will survive going 100% virtual and concentration of innovation can be lost if people go 100% remote. So they might impose 10-20% cut on a premise that they want to create a community on-site. Not sure how C-suits evaluate such factor.

Overall I suppose if companies go WFH by default they will need to reevaluate their incentives structures to be competitive.

It is interesting how Apple's accessibility menu is growing to control so many aspects of UI. I still have this notion that "accessibility" are mostly settings for people with special needs, not with different UI preferences

Skynet from the movie? It was military AI. Not sure how these are related.