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by egsmi 6y ago
Every snowflake is unique [1]. That doesn't mean you study every snowflake that means you study the system that makes snowflakes. [1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atm...
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by egsmi 6y ago
In theory that’s what bitcode protects against. Today, that doesn’t save binaries not distributed through the store or ones you compiled yourself via other compiler chains. It is possible to change that. One could even imagine it as part o
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by egsmi 6y ago
> Monocultures reinforce bad habits. Very true but it is interesting that Apple is often used as an example to follow on avoiding a monoculture. In the business press anyway. https://www.torbenrick.eu/blog/strategy&
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by egsmi 6y ago
Apple is a huge company so certainly experiences will vary but all the anecdotes, podcasts, and books written by former employees mention the highly collaborative environment, even within very secrete siloed projects [1]. Honestly, the real
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by egsmi 6y ago
They expire. People legally write whole books about their time at Apple. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37638098-creative-select...
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by egsmi 6y ago
> On the other hand you cannot talk about anything you do at all ... to people outside of Apple. Apple has 137,000 employees in 25 countries. I’m sure you’ll find someone to discuss your work with.
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by egsmi 6y ago
It’s an interesting thought exercise but there are reasons a product may not work that are not necessarily under your control.
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by egsmi 6y ago
I understand your point and, as I am sure you know, life can definitely be unfair. Do you think it's so unfair that 90% of students would feel the same way? It's not impossible but personally, I would be surprised by that. Which
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by egsmi 6y ago
> To prevent fraud Honest question, I am not trying to be obtuse, but in this context can you more specifically define fraud? Is it just "ad fraud" as defined here: https://www.clickcease.com/blog/what-is-
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by egsmi 6y ago
"Ninety percent of students think they are more intelligent than the average student." Does anyone know which study this came from? I was trying to figure out exactly how the survey question was worded because this statistic seems
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by egsmi 6y ago
Why can't one stick with the old UI with a web application? That's an implementation choice Google makes.
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by egsmi 6y ago
I didn't say anything about minimizing blow back. I agreed that there will be blow back. But life moves on.
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by egsmi 6y ago
> you can't just revamp the UX for a product used by billions of users without some pretty serious blowback... but it is often difficult to justify the benefits of an improved UX versus the productivity hit to all of the existing us
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by egsmi 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
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by egsmi 6y ago
> familiar with the version terminology That's probably because I was using the wrong word. I should've said "variant".
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by egsmi 6y ago
Interesting. The AX is out but the AX1 ($15) is in stock. https://www.crowdsupply.com/tinyfpga/tinyfpga-ax-bx I suppose the price is a bit misleading because the AX also requires the $12 programmer so with shipping+ta
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by egsmi 6y ago
I'll bet EM travels more than the typical CEO, who already travels a lot. Especially if the company is international. https://hbr.org/2018/07/how-ceos-manage-time "About half (47%) of a CEO’s work was d
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by egsmi 6y ago
I really do love visiting Austin but... Ouch. https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/austin-tied-for-the-thi... "As of Thursday, Austin has officially had its 19th day of triple-digit temperatures. This means w
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by egsmi 6y ago
Technically that was an "electric car" subsidy, not a Tesla subsidy. But I am pretty sure the lion share of those 200,000 cars were Teslas judging by whose driving in the carpool lane with single occupancy, so it's probably
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by egsmi 6y ago
The Fremont factory and Palo Alto headquarters will still be in California... for now. I imagine they will open up some Texas sites, which everyone is doing, but I think Tesla will have a CA presence for some time. It's difficult to
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by egsmi 6y ago
Some FPGAs are commodities. Here’s one with a PCB for $13. Can be used with an open tool chain too. I could probably find an even cheaper one if I looked harder. https://store.tinyfpga.com/products/tinyfpga-a1 Just
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by egsmi 6y ago
> established professional audio companies offering better sound Didn’t these just come out? How do you know the other offering have better sound?
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by egsmi 6y ago
Do you really need all those tools or just a subset? Of those that you need and don’t work yet, have you considered reaching out to the developers for an ETA or priority of the port? People can reply however they want but if the developer
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by egsmi 6y ago
What an interesting year 2020 is. MacBook Air lost its fan and Raspberry Pi found it. Strange times.
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by egsmi 6y ago
We've basically got one foot though that door already. > We'll have some niche manufacturer building something more open for the small segment of enthusiasts. I would argue that's exactly what Raspberry Pi and Arduino is.
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by egsmi 6y ago
> You can't do what you do on a desktop on a laptop, not even a good one Ummm... ok. But my comment was not all RAM is equivalent.
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by egsmi 6y ago
This is reasonable enough but I’m not sure how it relates to the parent comment which brings up the possibility of laws of physics being repealed. A more complete paraphrase of the first paragraph is, people believed fast computers should
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by egsmi 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25050625 showed https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1-1804 which determined the M1's memory is LPDDR4X-4266 or LPDDR5-5500. If those memories are not hig
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by egsmi 6y ago
Can you be a bit more specific about what section of the article you're referring to? The claim I read is that it runs fast and cool, as perceived by touching the outside case. I didn't find any claim that no heat was generated
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by egsmi 6y ago
> 64GB of ram cost < 300 euros Not all RAM is equivalent. If one wants 64GB of the kind of RAM M1 uses, which is very high performance, it will cost more than 300 euros.

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