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Don't need no M1
AMD and Nvidia have sold more GPUs than Apple laptops by a large margin
Now if we look at what people are buying and ask ourselves 'are these the people who care about TDP?' the answer is simply 'no'
The majority of laptops sold are sub 700, as the previous post said, low budget, low power and in education, markets that Apple has never even considered (except education, but it's mainly college students in USA)
Not saying M1 aren't good, but that they won't shake the market as NVidia buying ARM could
P.s. M1 is a Zen 3 competitor, threadripper has been mentioned for the exact opposite reason: because that's the state of the art for people looking at performances in personal computing (while in HPC ARM is prominent)
People buying a threadripper today don't care about it.
What matters to them it's the performance, my gf is a 3d artist, she doesn't care if some cpu consumes more or less power than another (when I say she doesn't care I mean she doesn't even know that CPU have very different power requirements), she needs the fastest gear she can buy on her budget.
Apple M1s are not it.
There are many other that do not care because the hardware stays at the office, where someone else pays the bills and they too don't care because the electricity bill is the last of their problems, fixing it buying more efficient computing devices would mean spending a lot of money in advance to replace at least half of the stock.
How many more months of electricity could that money pay?
A lot.
People buying Apple for its M1 low power consumption are a niche inside a niche.
So I think the reasoning stands: Apple M1s are not a real threat for its competitors because the market that really cares about its strengths is smaller than the one that doesn't and Apple will keep to largely miss the second one.
I would be very happy to be part of something that dates back hundreds of years.
There was a discussion few days ago about fossil fuels bootstrapping the industrial revolution(s), one of the theories is that without them we wouldn't be talking about renewable energy at all (except in very basic ways like running a watermill)
Green threads can share memory while Erlang processes cannot, they are strictly forbidden to do it.
Also Erlang scheduler is highly optimized to work as a soft real-time platform, so they never run for infinite amount of time, they never block and never (at least that's the goal) bring down the entire application, the worst thing that can happen is that everything slows down but it's still functional and responsive.
I don't know about Tokio.
They also make hardware that to take advantage of the new software features need to become obsolete
Linux extends the life of any hardware it runs on
It's probably an US thing, where Apple has an higher market penetration.
With a global 8% is highly improbable that most wealthy and influential people use Macs.
Also, for 4 billion people in the world (China, India and most of Africa) the most used operating system is Android.
I have never seen a Mac in a Bank, an Insurance or a financial institution
That's a well understood protocol too.
I feel the same, I sold my car 8 years ago and never bought a new one since, I'm planning to get a new one (hopefully kids, old parents, I'm gonna need it sooner or later) but I am struggling too.
I usually use the Renault Zoe as an example, the EV model costs 40% more (~26,000 euros VS ~37,000 euros) for no - obvious - added benefit, it's the same exact car.
I've been researching and thanks to state bonuses I could buy a Renault Twingo EV for ~17,000 euros, it's a very good deal but it's a smaller car, not that it's a problem now, I still mainly drive inside the city, but it makes me think of the economy of the operation: I need it for a future larger family, I should settle down on a smaller car.
I'm probably getting it anyway and I am also excited about it, but really it shouldn't be about excitement, it should be about being a better deal overall.
One of the places we went more often is called Campo Felice, which is famous for its extreme weather conditions. Sudden snowfalls are pretty common and they can be very heavy.
But the main danger are temperature drops, sometimes temperature can go as low as -33 C, forming thick layers of ice on the roads.
We got stuck there a few times because either the car doors were completely frozen and would not open or it was too cold and the engine refused to start, not mentioning the suboptimal traction of our 2WD cars.
To solve the problem we put some money together and bought a used Fiat Panda 4x4 (https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b4/d6/dd/b4d6dd1544d24d3c8d73dadda...), it's an affordable 4WD with many features that rival with much more expensive cars (excluding of course the luxury stuff).
We never had a problem after.
The new model costs only ~16 thousand euros and it improves a lot over the old one which was admitedly quite spartan, but for me it was a feature not a bug.
Stephen Cole Kleene was a brilliant mathematician and when he invented regexs in the 50s of the past century, he anticipated a lot of concepts that became popular in computer science, such as recursion (which he also founded as a branch of mathematics and computer science together with Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing)
Java on the other hand has some deficiencies here and there and it's not really a modern language free from old cruft
We had a few chickens who layed eggs and we ate the rest of them
My grandparents bought male chicks from said businesses because the ones hatching from the eggs were not enough to sustain a quite large family
You had to go there to buy them, so I don't think it was very costly
The logistics of killing the males and shipping the meat to companies making animal food is not more convenient (IMO) unless animal food is more profitable than human food, I don't know about it, but I hope it's not the case and it's not the main motivation behind it.
The point of not killing the male chicks I imagine is to show kindness towards animals, selling them (or selling the male eggs) to someone who could make food out of it, I think should be considered equally good, if not more.
Yes, of course!
(Facepalm)
> by the way, 30g of chicken at hatching are not 30g of meat)
And of course again, it's just to prove how much actual good food it's wasted by simply not considering the alternatives
30gr of chicken at hatching become 1.5 kg of poultry in 3 months
not killing them as soon as they hatch it's good, selling them to someone who's gonna eat them is even better
180,000,000 kg / 10 (average meat consumption in North and Central Africa) = 18,000,000 people that could eat for a year.
Because, as I wrote a couple posts before "an average (meta consumption) in North and Central Africa of 10kg/person/year which is optimistic for some of the countries there"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_cons...
- Congo - 100 million people - 5.3kg/person/year
- Eritrea - 110 million people - 7.7kg/person/year
- Mozambique - 30 million people - 7.8kg/person/year
- etc. etc.
In Africa many countries don't have enough to feed their children and it's worst on average then in the rest of the World.
I don't think that chicken is waste (it is in fact the main type of meat they eat in Africa), I think feeding pythons in some western home with chicken is a waste.
They could feed them with mice they breed in their garages.
At least that's what my friend who own reptiles do
Which would still feed 18,000,000 million people in Africa for a year.
Assuming they weight around 30 grams it's ~1,800,000 tons of meat
That's a lot of meat, I didn't know people kept so many reptiles in their homes.
p.s. 1,800,000 tons of meat could feed 180,000,000 people in Africa for a year (assuming an average in North and Central Africa of 10kg/person/year which is optimistic for some of the countries there).
It's astonishing how much food we waste for silly reasons.
Given that in US (for example) there are 160 million pets and a cat eats around 200-300 grams of meat everyday, which is more than half of the global World population have at their disposal.
freedom is not the opportunity of doing whatever you want without any limit, if they leave me in the desert and tell me "you are free now, do whatever you like" I would not be free at all.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vigdis_Vandvik/publicat...
"Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case"
Coincidence?
Probably not
https://morganhilltimes.com/apples-head-of-security-indicted...
The risk of them getting a serious disease caused by the smoke of my cigarette is non existent, if I am far enough the smell also is not strong enough to be of real disturbance, but I see their faces and I don't blame them, since I am the one doing something that is notoriously annoying and it costs me nothing, I don't smoke if there are non smokers around and I can't avoid them or am the only one smoking.
On the other hand I can't stand loud people and when I meet one, I ask them to lower their voices.
Wearing a mask it's the same thing: it costs nothing and wearing one prevents misunderstandings, while also adding a [nobody knows exactly how effective] additional layer of protection that does not hurt.
And they can still be bad
I could be fooled by your words when I was kid, unfortunately for me I'm too old to be fooled by rhetoric and propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Philip_Morris
> Their individual decisions might be better or worse for certain groups of people
And those can be criminal decisions.
More often than not, multi trillion companies act like villains, they lie, deceit, bribe, threaten, they use all the tricks in the book.
And people working there have no decisional power whatsoever, they are just clogs in the machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
Not rarely, their actions lead to innocent people dying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
> but Apple as a whole isn't really an entity that you can make a value judgement about.
Then how can you make a judgment about China or USSR or Cuba or Iraq?
There's a billion and a half people in China...
By your logic it's impossible to make a judgment, right?
Care to explain?
Because my answer was to
> They're just jealous and need to write 'apple bad' blog to validate to themselves why they are years behind
which doesn't even qualify as "bad irony"
I consider myself a pragmatic and I think that the only way to actually be sure there is no poison in your food is to literally produce it yourself.
Someone who's not even telling me the recipe is not a trusted source of premium food.
There is also no poison waiting outside of Apple ecosystem.
There is no offloading decision to someone else involved, you simply have the option or you don't, it doesn't mean you have to go full in one way or the other
You don't have to deep dive every app either, it's a straw man IMO
The argument is the same for picking mushrooms in the woods: you don't pick all of them, put them in the same basket, and then test them for venom one by one, you only pick those that you already know as safe, and you're absolutely sure about it.
Nobody in their right mind would do otherwise.
I'm ok with people trusting Apple more than their parents, what I find disturbing is the idea that if I trust my parents to use the same 3 apps that everybody else in the World uses (WhatsApp, FB and Google Maps) and are certified good, I'm putting them in danger.
It is not true.
It's a false premise.
Also the idea that people will go and install every app they see it's false.
They see a warning, they usually stop right there.
My father used to turn off the phone when he saw the red alert of a missing call, thinking of a malfunction.
There's no risk he's gonna install something by chance.
Also, if iOS is on 25% of the devices in Europe, while Android is on 3/4 of them does it mean that 75% of the 700 million European citizens are not pragmatic?
I believe they very much know what their users want and are giving it to them
That's why they are so successful.
And what their users want is a device to support their paternalism.
I've never witnessed so many judgments against elderly or people that are a bit of techno illiterate (a bit is enough) as I have in discussions about Apple.
The baseline is always of two types:
- they are easy to operate, so even my [insert moms, dads, granpas etc here] can use them
- I would never let my [insert moms, dads, granpas etc here] use an open device where they can get viruses that then I have to fix (like fixing something for your family is some kind of punishment, they did it for me repeateadly when I was younger!)
And i think it's a bit naive to think that people supporting the idea that Apple knows better are in good faith and are not doing it because they like the control too and to be "influencers" (with many quotes) in their inner circles.
I would never think that my parents who raised me and made me what I am are incapable of understanding basic safety rules on the Internet once explained to them (safety rules that anyway protect them from something that don't kill people, it simply kills the battery of the device)
> Meanwhile you can be sure forums like HN are monitored for sentiment.
I'm sure they do.
One interesting other thing that we can be sure and I didn't think possible is that there are people monitoring this forums as well with enough karma to downvote, that not only downvote your posts in a discussion, but go back to yout history and downvote older posts as well.
It just happened to me, I had posts from yesterday and two days ago downvoted right now by the same people that downvoted me in this thread.
I don't know if HN can do something about it or not, but for starter disallowing voting on older submissions that users have not shown interest on could help (it should be easy to check which submissions users have opened, when, how many times and for how long to establish if they are genuinely interested in the topic)