How unfortunate that the first line of that article contains a racial slur. Does the race of the pickpocket make any difference?
You may not realize that the Romani were victimized by the NAZIs or that they have been vilified because their traditionally nomadic lifestyle conflicted with the bourgeois mores of the shopkeeper class, but in the age of the Internet it's not too hard to figure that out.
Summary: Since we cannot possibly accept the actions of the pilot in the context of our worldview, we must find some alternative, no matter how improbable.
You can improve the effectiveness and professionalism of your communication by spelling out initialisms the first time you use them, like this: high-bandwidth memory (HBM).
After you have spelled it out, feel free to use the initialism as much as you like for brevity.
You can look up acronyms that are contextually indicated; in this case by the word "DDR5".
HN only supports a limited number of characters in headlines.
Searching for `hbm ddr5`, for example, appears to find the definition of the acronym. Adding the word `Wikipedia` finds an article about same.
IIUC Silicon Carbide (SiC) wafers are an alternative to doped Silicon Dioxide (SiO_2) wafers, but EV chargers are built out of 6x6 SiC wafers and they're very expensive.
To move semiconductor fabrication off of scarce highly-processed commodity inputs would help to eliminate current production bottlenecks.
This was above the article text: "High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Roadmap" under the heading Toms Hardware Premium Roadmaps. It's also spelled out in the 2nd paragraph of the article.
Because big-budget films and TV are increasingly fascist. They focus on the nuclear family as being qualitatively and quantitatively more important than anything else. Within that context, the plot inevitably seeks to establish the absolute uniqueness and superiority of the individual. Superhero stories are an extremely good fit for this narrative.
Deep down, we all know that having a family is exactly as great a biological accomplishment as taking a nice shit in the morning. Dad came; mom squeezed one out. Lampreys and slugs do basically the same thing just as successfully. It's not special. We are not special. Movies and TV push the lie that we are, and we recognize the lie and we have begun to resent it and to be unable to suspend our disbelief.
Youtube is enormously better because it discards the lie. It's just some dude earnestly trying to figure out why a plane crashed or how to run Doom on a smart toilet. It's refreshing because it's real. It's interesting because it's real and it doesn't alienate us by spending all its time trying to shove the big lie down our throats.
We got an entire article without a single video or photo of the "drones"? Great journalism there, Cowboy State Daily.
The core problem here is that too many Americans believe that their imaginary sky friend is going to take them to heaven when they die in a mass shooting, and therefore their critical thinking skills have atrophied below zero, meaning that they are not just incapable of analyzing a situation to find the truth, they are actively fantasizing the situation.
This is a nonsense article. It is either written by someone with a toddler's understanding of the world or someone who is over it and writing for the money.
If you entertain, without evidence, the notion that Bigfoot, UFOs, malevolant drones, ghosts, clairvoyance or any of the other human slop we foist upon ourselves and each other exist, you are simply a broken organism. You need to check your brain, because it's not working properly.
The problem with the Karen Wetterhahn story is that we have no evidence to back up the exposure. Sure, months after the alleged event we have high mercury levels. But we only have Karen's recollection of a single tiny exposure through gloves months before. Colleagues said she was careful in the lab, but that would be limited to what they saw.
The mercury levels were so high that it would be nice to have levels from before the event and some that were taken immediately after.
We will never have that information. Was Karen as careful as we have been told? Unknown. Was it really just a single exposure? Unknown.
Maybe she annoyed someone who, like Putin, found an effective way of erasing a rival, or just someone they didn't like. Pretty much all students and staff would have had access to the Dimethyl Mercury in the NMR lab. How hard would it be to put a tiny drop in Karen's drink? Not hard at all.
In the meantime, Karen Wetterhahn has become the scary legend of the NMR set and we have changed standards, changed gloves, and many other things as a result.
I thought, "That sounds like an interesting book." And then I read the precis on Wikipedia.
Humans. Everything has to be a fucking competition. Turned me right off reading it. This is one of the (many) things I hate about humans. Along with ideas that go in to the brain and get stuck there and have to be defended to the death without the brain ever having thought critically about them even once.
Why gatekeep? Why compete about things that don't need to be a competition? Why let yourself be brainwashed about a philosophy or a company or a person?
Humans. Yech. Barf. I hate humans. They make me sick.
If you're talking about the competition part of "Moonwalking..." I hear you. Many would argue that the author's participation in the memory competition glues the book together and adds an entertaining angle. Personally, it sometimes feels boring when the author dedicates too much space to dialogs with memory athletes-focusing on mundane topics instead of techniques or what they learned about memory. Still, there are so many fascinating facts and references that I'm okay with it.
That book doesn't really teach the tricks of the trade (and it is not promised anyway), but it is a good introduction to the world of memory for people unaware of the potential of memory.
Tim Cook has been absolutely fantastic for Apple shareholders and absolutely awful for anyone else, particularly the customers.
The walled garden has to end. There is no excuse for making people pay a premium price for an iPad Pro that can't run a third party web browser or do software development in any meaningful way.
Outside of a very narrow use case, the iPad product range is useless, despite the endless rantings of the brainwashed fanboys. Source: used to be one. Left the ecosystem when they started treating the RFCs like toilet paper.
At one point, there was a case for preventing scammy and fraudulent apps. For a long time, the ios App store had a much higher quality than android.
But now? There are tons of scammy and fraudulent apps on the app store. If you try to search for any popular app, you'll be presented with a dozen apps that look similar with similar names and logos.
And there are literally app farms pushing hundreds consealed illegal gambling / casino / betting apps to app store daily. Apple approves every single one.
They are then getting removed in days / weeks, but it just proves their review process is a joke.
I know! I was just out shopping for a towel and these armed gunmen grabbed me and pulled me into this store and held a gun to my kids head until I bought them a new iPad Pro M5. I am traumatized.
Oh, no, wait, I remember, my kid wanted an iPad Pro for their art and for school. They liked their wacom, but the iPad was more portable, and with the keyboard, it was perfect for taking notes.
Steve wasn't exactly famous for playing nicely with other tech either.
He signed his name to the "fuck Flash" memo, promised to publish interoperable specs for iMessage/FaceTime and never did, presided over the original App Store launch, etc.
A lot of the balls Tim is rolling were first pushed by Steve.
> The walled garden has to end. There is no excuse for making people pay a premium price for an iPad Pro that can't run a third party web browser or do software development in any meaningful way.
Why?
There's an alternative: Android. I'm perfectly free to use that instead. I don't.
If I want to "do software development in any meaningful way", I'm not using a tablet. I'm using something with MacOS or GNU/Linux on it.
People willingly pay what Apple's charging for the iPad in the face of competition from a different OS and different classes of device, so I'm not really seeing the problem, especially when I can hand my technologically-handicapped 65-year-old mother an iPad and not have to worry as much about her installing something that will wreck every device on my parents' network or compromise her bank accounts or something.
Besides, the whole "locked-down device" wasn't Tim's idea, it was Steve's. There are plenty of reasons to gripe about Tim Cook, but "the iPad is too locked down" isn't one of them.
> There's an alternative: Android. I'm perfectly free to use that instead. I don't.
I think this is my entire problem with most of these conversations. When they say "The walled garden has to end." ... they mean "YOUR walled garden has to end.".
I also like the Walled Garden. Do I think Apple should be able to charge more than Stripe? No.
I wish they would stop conflating the gate keeping price to enter the walled garden being too high with the wall garden and the gate being a moral wrong.
Apparently, the market can bear Apple charging more than Stripe. Hell, Stripe's business model is just moneychanging at its core; at least Apple can make an argument that they do more than that.
Hard disagree. Tim should focus on fixing their software. It has become extremely buggy and it needs to be fixed. No one buying an iPad cares about running some custom browser and supporting it is pointless and is what makes the software emote complex and worse. He should take better care of his paying customers rather than engaging with opinionated activists.
>For iOS 27 and next year’s other major operating system updates — including macOS 27 — the company is focused on improving the software’s quality and underlying performance.
-via Bloomberg -18d
Edit: almost can’t be true if they’re going to try to push Siri hard :-/
I'm a consumer too and I despise having 20 different logins for each vendor to extract data from and the resulting increased exposure to identity theft. I'm grateful for Steam's dominance in the gaming space, my Playstation Sony account was hacked and was a nightmare cleaning up. It is not my job to care about developer margins, all the apps I care about are able to stay in business regardless of Apple's fees and if they cannot then they should charge more. I also dread the idea of having to spend time cleaning spammy "Patriot.Eagle App Store" from my elderly parent's devices if the walled garden is fully removed in the future, I know that shit is coming.
What gives you the right to tell someone who purchases Apple devices because of the walled garden that they should no longer have that option because YOU don't like it. What an incredibly entitled and selfish position. Have you even stopped to consider for even a second why Apple devices are so popular, especially with normal people who don't spend their time fantasizing about how they want to control other people's purchases with other sweaty nerds on the internet? Have you ever considered that other people may have different preferences and desires from yours? Jfc.
> Outside of a very narrow use case, the iPad product range is useless, despite the endless rantings of the brainwashed fanboys
The use case is rich iPhone users who want an easy experience to watch videos, read, or consume social media on a larger screen than their phones. It’s especially popular for the children or elderly parents of these rich people. You can argue this use case is narrow, but it’s decently profitable.
Just because this use case doesn’t apply to your experience doesn’t mean anyone who disagrees is a brainwashed fanboy.
I will agree that the iPad Pro range seems overly niche to me — but also it could be I just don’t understand the use case. If someone else finds it productive and pleasant to use, what difference does this make to me or you?
Tim Cook, or any CEO, is accountable to the shareholders, so job well done it seems. It's still the user's choice if they want to live in the walled garden or not, and lots of people do, so why would they change it?
I heart that at least in the US losing access to Facetime would be a serious loss in social status. So then this would be a real hurdle WRT user choice.
You may not realize that the Romani were victimized by the NAZIs or that they have been vilified because their traditionally nomadic lifestyle conflicted with the bourgeois mores of the shopkeeper class, but in the age of the Internet it's not too hard to figure that out.
Let's keep the overt racism to a minimum, please.
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