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The article doesn't really answer the 'how', but just list various things that CAN affect readability. Practically speaking more importantly than can is how much. I suspect that this is a very difficult problem to solve in the general case with varying cultures, contexts, learning styles, etc.

Also.. another thing that improves readability - no ads :)

Actually, post-docs are the cheap labor. PhD students are given a stipend and many/most have their tuition waived. The overhead of running a research department in the US is fairly high and leaves little room for high salaries[1]. Anything can be improved, and its easy to criticize from the outside.

[1] In the main-stream case, not withstanding the egregious greed that sometimes occurs at the management level. But no industry is immune from human nature.

FYI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02351-1

For what its worth, I've always received a favorable response when I email the author to received a private copy of their paper.

However small the number, some people believe that the correct direction isn't copying others' path to success.

Its a mistake to think think scientific studies are about establishing facts. Science produces explanations that can be tested. If you never test them, science stops working.

People everywhere lack nuance, and pot has been linked to the political left and "freedom". Its going to get a free ride for quite a while.

Nothing personal against the author, I'm sure hes a great guy and all, but I got a chuckle out of someone working at a company deploying the largest world-wide spying apparatus complaining about Microsoft's practices.

I skimmed the actual legal filing [+]. The TLDR; is that the Tesla repeatedly portrays the technology as (1) better than it actually is (2) closer than it actually is to being fully ready.

The basis of relief is violation of implied warranties and false advertising.

I think its going to be interesting if this case actually proceeds forward.

[+] https://www.classaction.org/media/matsko-v-tesla-inc-et-al.p...

Maybe developer workstations should be less powerful than production machines ;)

The current liability framework isn't designed to handle such a question.

A self-driving car surfaces the problem in a visceral manner, but this applies to many many sectors and to any software that runs critical services/tools/infrastructure - Hospitals, Medical devices, thermostats, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/fashion/nest-thermostat-g...

https://medium.com/predict/a-simple-computer-bug-that-killed...

etc

Also, this covers physical harm, but what about economic harm? If an OS security bug was exploited by a hacker and caused you to loose all your life savings and end up homeless, can you put a linux/windows/ s/w dev in jail?

Okay, that is your view, it isn't mine. There isn't any reason to believe someone is going to be truthful or untruthful. For me, the best way is to develop your own detector. I don't have all the answers, so YMMV.

To the larger point, this isn't about absolute certainty - which is a red-herring and an unattainable ideal.

Its not that hard to write the same article in 5 different ways. The author wrote it this way simply because they wanted to. People respond to tone, words, style, slang, crudeness, emphasis in different ways, and writing is an art form. I believe that diversity in writing styles is good.

>Also, if you see "polite" writing how would you know it's fake?

You develop your own detector after being "trained" on the dataset of prior comments.

So what else is new? There's people on here second-guessing expert authors about every damn topic from science to the economy.

I'm jaded and cranky too, but thats why things don't bother me from a stylistic perspective. Relatively, fake politeness is more irritating to me.

The immune system is never dormant. It is constantly engaged. We don't live in a sterile environment, don't eat perfect sterile food, don't breathe perfect air, etc. There are multiple aspects to our immune system, and a lot of them are being stressed daily.

Local businesses who buy/grow local, hire local, pay local taxes etc benefit the community in ways that Amazon cannot. Local business also support local events/charities/etc. I think there is a lot of long-term economic benefit in decentralization of money and power, apart from social benefits like increasing trust between citizens. Just my view.

Has there been an evaluation on whether the SMART data is valid/accurate?

It would seem that the vendor is incentivized to not report the most accurate data so their drive doesn't come across as bad and/or to avoid warranty claims.

I don't necessarily dislike the move towards managed devices, we need more explicit choices. 'self managed' , 'OEM managed', 'work managed', 'MSP managed', etc. The group policy technology already exists, we need these options to be surfaced a lot better.

Here's how we know they're real threats - They changed their entire business strategy as a response to them. They're own executives are telling us that these are threats. If you still don't believe those were real and tangible long-term threats to their survival then there really isn't anything else I can say.

>And yet somehow Apple spent those billions of dollars on R&D and others didn't. And on hardware side they keep doing it while the rest of the industry sort of just watches, doing nothing.

False. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/which-companies-spend-the-mo...

>As an example: Samsung is entirely dependent on Google for software and on Qualcomm for chips. Unlike Apple, their entire product lines are literally under continuous existensial threat from multiple sides. Tell me, what exactly have they done to fix that?

https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/09/samsung-google-expand-wear...

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techn...

https://retailpartnerships.withgoogle.com/ads/success-storie...

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-announce...

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This is my last reply. I wish you good luck and godspeed. :)

The OP used a product and it didn't perform as expected. The expectations are set by the marketing material, and conversations and comments by other fans enthusing about "awesome performance".

I have no clue what you're talking about calling it a fake review and such. Your cookie was a bit moldy ;)

People review products for their own use case. I see the comment and I go okay - thats a one star review. You may give it a 4/5 star, so its all good then?

Well, I've failed at getting my point across so I'll just stop here. Bye!

>What exactly was the threat for Apple in ~2008 or earlier when they started developing their own CPUs?

They had no differentiator, Apple products were seen as beautifully machined luxury trinkets. IBM, and then Intel had them by the balls because Apple couldn't improve the performance of their products unless Intel innovated on their chips - which they had no reason to.

This is a direct response to a perceived threat:

"We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution" - Tim Cook

https://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/458.html

>Or 5-6 years earlier when they started developing iPhone?

https://www.history.com/news/iphone-original-size-invention-...

"Apple executives worried that the iPod would lose market share once cellphone manufacturers figured out how to put MP3 players on their phones. But not if Apple beat them to it."

I don't understand this. Does Apple market their M1 as "it depends" ? Or do they say "When you need the highest level of performance ever in a Mac notebook, there’s M1 Max.". I would be insisting Apple actually backup their claim rather than criticizing the OP.

No, the Ukrainians are not going to service radars, helicopters, drones, tanks that they have no idea about and were just given. Nothing is for free - and that is the point, it feeds the US war machine.

Yes, that structure is complex by-design. Its to do with inheritance taxes, and the family trying to maintain control via holding companies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62501514

Apple has a somewhat complicated (though common for large US corporations) structure too.

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-subsidiaries-are-named...

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/apple-rest-silicon-valley-avoi...

Apple laptops are not invisible or unknown to buyers, and customers overwhelmingly choose non-Apple laptops, as shown by the sales numbers. I don't get what we're disagreeing over. Or is it the case that secretly everyone wants to purchase Apple products but they just don't have the money?

Nobody spends billions in R&D when there is no threat and they can just earn the same money doing nothing, or very little. Sorry, I don't agree.

Money = Power. Why would Apple allow this breaking up? Its naive to think otherwise, see what is happening in South Korea with Samsung accounting for like 25% of the economy. They're untouchable in South Korea.

At the risk of stating the obvious - that is what the military industrial complex is. Once you "donate" weapons - who is going to service them? Who gets the contracts for maintenance, ammunition, training, etc, etc? For the US, war is big business. This "donation" isn't altruistic or an accident.