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by tgma 2y ago
If you think it is the same, then you are free not to purchase the cable from Apple. Either way to claim that such cable constitutes "significant" revenue to Apple Inc. is just hyperbolic/preposterous. https://www
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by tgma 2y ago
Are you referring to Apple Thunderbolt cables? They are active cables with circuits in them. Otherwise, I am not sure which cable you are referring to that sells for that much. I understand as a consumer you get emotional and pissed, but ev
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by tgma 2y ago
> profited significantly from licensing their proprietary Lightning port. How significant? Doubtful it moves the needle for Apple. People often forget Lightning is much superior to microUSB which was the alternative at the time (also mec
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by tgma 2y ago
I think the impact of ISA is way overblown. The instruction decode pipeline is worse but doesn’t consume that many transistors in the end relative to the total size of the system. I think it has much more to do with the attitude of Intel de
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by tgma 2y ago
Intel $475B error: not building a decent GPU
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by tgma 2y ago
Plus, [de]serialization often needs to be done under GIL (although under non-shared GIL per process, it interferes with any other async thing that may be done in each process). It also screws up C extensions that don't support fork and
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by tgma 2y ago
Which "small Android" is the size of iPhone mini? The ones I have encountered were basically feature phones running Android that I can't remember a single model name. Android went big a lot earlier than iPhone did (iPhone 6&#
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by tgma 2y ago
> Google is by far the most hypocritical Blame it on Kennedy Gmail rollout which started the waste-the-space movement. Android is also quite a space waster compared to iOS. It's much less comfortable to use a small Android than a sm
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by tgma 2y ago
[citation needed]. ARPANET was not the only network in existence, even then. Networks existed in various forms. Later, BBSes existed. My guess is sooner or later there would have been something (probably more than one, even) our current i
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by tgma 2y ago
Oh, I didn't mean to imply something will change. I am simply concurring with the parent while observing that limitation turned into a strength by established a certain ecosystem early on that fits the modern architectural developments
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by tgma 2y ago
Pretty much the entire Data Science/Machine Learning landscape from numpy, etc. to tensorflow and alike are thin wrappers over C code and if you want performance, you better batch structure your operation beforehand and minimize back a
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by tgma 2y ago
In a strange way, Python being so bad at interpreting bytecodes and limited by GIL, plus being good at interfacing with C cheaply (unlike Go and Java,) induced a programming style that is extremely suited for data-parallel computing which i
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by tgma 2y ago
Started working on a no-gil gRPC Python implementation but super low priority. Has anyone started deploying nogil at scale in prod?
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by tgma 2y ago
Yup, the dual would be saying Martingale can't fail with infinite money.
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by tgma 2y ago
> Defense margins aren’t going to beat social media margins Really? It's the first time I am hearing US is procuring defense for cheap! If there is a margin issue, that's an efficiency problem, i.e. the company is being an idio
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by tgma 2y ago
Also the default speed is useful for Gen X or older. Gotta max out pointer speed and keyboard repeat rate when you buy a new Mac.
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by tgma 2y ago
Ironic that you use it as an example, since Internet blew up exponentially the moment commercial activity was allowed.
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by tgma 2y ago
I mean sure you could argue that, as communists and others perhaps do, for instance, but we are chiefly talking about the US, where individual profit is decided, IMHO correctly, as the primary metric. Sure, you may want to choose to minim
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by tgma 2y ago
> Yes, because obviously we as a country should prioritize creepy VR avatars over understanding climate change. As a country we have decided to let the market decide what to prioritize. Who are we to judge "creepy VR avatars"
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by tgma 2y ago
You are actually proving my point. If there are 4.8 million developers who are not commanding Meta salaries, and they "pay well" it should be fairly straightforward to get labor. It's simple: the more picky you are the more y
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by tgma 2y ago
> We cannot find qualified applicants > No, we don’t pay as much as Meta. So, essentially, you are seeking special treatment from US citizens. I’m not saying this is always unreasonable, but you’re in the territory of a centrally plan
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by tgma 2y ago
We have come full circle. Kids these days forget that the official application framework for iPhone OS in 2007 was a bunch of HTML/CSS/images that mimicked iPhone OS UI as a web application (basically poor man's PWA). The jai
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by tgma 2y ago
Russell’s teapot is not a logical proposition as to what’s true and what is not. It is philosophizing about burden of proof in a low information context in a debate. It is a persuasion tactic, an exercise in philosophy, not at all a logical
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by tgma 2y ago
Nice diversion from the history of Great Firewall and very specific question about what happened on its first day—what was banned specifically, and what the stated basis for the ban was.
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by tgma 2y ago
> If it is speculation, then it can be dismissed since it has no basis in reality. This line has no basis in logic actually.
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by tgma 2y ago
Larry grew up in Michigan... a communist country? (As I heard it, the legend is mostly attributed to Sergey pushing for it, and every time I've heard Eric talk about it it felt there was some disdain there, so I would agree with you th
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by tgma 2y ago
The US Congress is not supposed to represent the will of the majority. It is supposed to represent "the will of the people," which is distinct, by design. The actual implementation might have imperfections but tries to reflect th
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by tgma 2y ago
No one is restricted from "free exchange of ideas." TikTok can divest and stay in the US market just fine. It is an ownership question, not a freedom of exchange of ideas question. There is no constitutional right for a foreign en
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by tgma 2y ago
Please explain its first day then if you want to make that case.
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by tgma 2y ago
This list is reminiscent of "happiness index" which simply encodes a certain ideology via a benchmark, the components of which a reasonable American does not necessarily agree with being the utmost important factors, and only is t

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