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> They weren't even considering something as grand for desktop/laptops as Apple was with the M1 (i.e. a fully integrated SOC). Perhaps I misinterpret your argument, but it is my impression that Intel (and also AMD!) did huge s
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> That said, am I the only one getting annoyed with shallow comparisons of the M1 products? Or is SEO BS hiding the good stuff? Could "Many tech 'journalists' are Apple fanboys" be a reasonable explanation?
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> Intel has been sitting twiddling its thumbs for years, What evidence do you have for that? Intel really wanted to release (in my opinion) very interesting processors, but had serious problems over years with getting their 10 nm proce
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> Temperature can become infinitely high, and you can still add heat, at which point it becomes infinitely low. You can carry on adding heat, and the temperature will get back to absolute 0. Perhaps the correct measure is not temperature
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What you give as an example is a product with insanely high margins. Here, it indeed makes sense to produce it in your home country, because it won't make a huge difference. Most products on a market have slim margins and here such pro
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> Does anybody from Germany know where I can still buy leaded solder? I ordered on ebay, sold by a vendor from another EU country that cares less about the regulations.
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> 5. Loot boxes are often purchased through currency systems made to separate the buyers understanding of how much they are paying. This is why games often make you buy some currency and then use that currency to buy loot boxes, with so
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Division can (up to a multiplicative constant, which by definition does not matter for O(...)) be reduced to multiplication: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Division_algorith...
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In my experience, it is not really the money in the corporate job market that drives these people away from research: Not USA, but I know some really highly talented physicists who now work as rather badly paid software developers. Lesson:
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> Unless you are dealing with subjects that would actually use calculus, people in their day to day lives would do much better to understand probabilities, statistics and experiment design. Probability theory is applied analysis. For exa
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> My strong opinion as someone who majored in math is that, at least within the US, the standard calculus requirement should be replaced with statistics. So much more useful and so much more important as an adult. > The analytical typ
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> Engineers are difficult people to manage. My experience is different: engineers are quite comfortable to manage. What makes management hard is the whole (office) politics with respect to your management career and the managers above yo
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> Society is still grappling with this new world where being technical and good at it matters as much as, and in many cases, more than knowing people (business) or rules (law). Programming is also about knowing rules; just different kind
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> it's a one-time payment The claim was about open source being gratis: > I would really like to live in a world when open source doesn't necessarily mean gratis and not about being able to enforce recurring payments.
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> If the best example in support of your thesis is a "historic order form" That is why I gave a second example.
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> I would really like to live in a world when open source doesn't necessarily mean gratis or direct copy by a competitor Open source does not mean "gratis". See for example this historic order form of software offered by t
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> The Business Source License more or less achieves this. The Business Source License is not an open source license. Sources: > https://mariadb.com/bsl11/ > https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-
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I respect that they have reasons not to release Kreya as open source. Fine. But claiming "We love open source" is a blatant lie: the article makes it really clear that they only love the aspects of open source that are to their a
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> Linux is the new standard for this stuff. Linux is not a standard, because in opposite to, say, POSIX, it is not standardized, but is an everchanging implementation.
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> Also, OS/2 had a chicken-and-egg problem. Its best selling point was its compatibility with MS-DOS and Windows applications. However, this meant few developers took the time to write OS/2-native apps. So, why run OS/2 at
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> IME the GPL is extremely effective against commercial abuse of FOSS. There do exist people who consider the usage of open source software for cloud services without providing the derived source code also to be commercial abuse. To prev
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> There are no valid laws restricting [the scope of the 1st Amendment] Copyright laws do that.
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> “Human dignity is inviolable” is a platitude. What can be done with it? This is the first sentence of the "Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany): > https:/&#x
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> That argument has the same flaw as the National Rifle Association's "Guns don't kill people, people kill people". Guns don't kill people. I kill people. With guns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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... and don't forget that gyrovector spaces are the best mathematical framework for relativistic mechanics - much better than Lorentz transformations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrovector_space Just mentioning
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> Why is it at every tech conference you see a vast preponderance of Mac's? Are conf goers not representative? The prevalence of MacBooks at tech conferences is in my experience a very US-centric thing. I rather associate ThinkPads
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> By default software [...] has malfeatures which need turning off. The problem rather is that such software is not simply considered malware by the public.
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> "tech company" is an obsolete term now. all companies are tech companies Just have an ear what many employees talk about at the water cooler or coffee machine: * technology (in the engineering sense): tech company * software:
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This might be a cultural bias, but for me (being German) what the CEO said sounds much more honest and trustworthy than what you suggest.
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> (in an industry where successful solutions always get mimicked). This is in my opinion not the case. Just to give one example: WhatsApp managed to get to half a billion users with about 60 employees by using Erlang for their infrastruc

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