I only want to retrieve my luggage, my child

I think a big part of the issue is that the Chinese market is fucking huge, and the Chinese market also seems to love gimmicky software crap in their cars, and often emphasizes that over hardware features and other general aspects of, you know, being a car. It’s an unfortunate and obnoxious case of carmakers following the money.

Your comment belies your lack of understanding of yesterday’s SCOTUS decision.

Too bad SCOTUS just ruled that US government regulatory agencies are essentially meaningless a day or two ago

Did tech bros just reinvent the concept of trains?

It’s highly dependent on the application.

For instance, I could absolutely see having certain models with LPCAMM expandability as a great move for Apple, particularly in the pro segment, so they’re not capped by whatever they can cram into their monolithic SoCs. But for most consumer (that is, non-engineer/non-developer users) applications, I don’t see them making it expandable.

Or more succinctly: they should absolutely put LPCAMM in the next generation of MBPs, in my opinion.

I am suspicious they realized that they weren’t going to be able to make a loophole for themselves - I’ve seen several articles in the last week on how they were trying to do that.

While I nominally agree, there are some situations and contexts in which an on-call rotation is not only appropriate, but the responsible thing to do.

That said, on-call people should get special compensation/rewards/perks, because being on call sucks.

DARPA is going to have to play with this for a while before it gets to a point where it’s actually useful to the general public. And they are playing with it.

So the way MS is using it is incredibly dumb, but hardware wise, it’s just a NN-optimized tile on the CPU. That is going to be a great thing for democratizing access to serious machine learning hardware. In that respect, it’s actually pretty awesome, despite the fact that It’s annoying that the initiative is tied so closely to MS.

_subscript also ^works

~subscript~ also ^works^

It is unfortunately one of the darker aspects of the hyper-growth-focused tech and engineering is the often highly mercenary/transactional nature of many people in the field. Like, there’s a reason Facebook pays engineers 250-400k or more. Sure, the work can be difficult, but most of the time it’s not that difficult. They’re paying people that much so that they ignore their morals, shut the fuck up, and just take the paycheck and do the work that is helping to destroy society.

It’s immensely distressing to me as a software engineer. I am fully aware that my morality is limiting my earning potential, and that makes me kinda furious - not so much at myself, but that our economic system is set up in such a way that that’s not only possible, but optimal (in terms of earning a nice paycheck and being able to retire somewhat early).

Ah, neat! The wordplay is definitely stronger in German, which I’m sure is why it became an idiom in the first place.

Lmao they recalled Recall

I’ll wait until they demonstrably prioritize security. Corporations will say literally anything to avoid negative PR.

Edit:

But also, this isn’t actually about Recall:

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be “more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence.”

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, “has taken on the responsibility personally to serve as the senior executive with overall accountability for Microsoft’s security,” Smith told Congress.

His testimony comes after Microsoft admitted that it could have taken steps to prevent two aggressive nation-state cyberattacks from China and Russia.

According to Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris, Microsoft spent years ignoring a vulnerability while he proposed fixes to the “security nightmare.” Instead, Microsoft feared it might lose its government contract by warning about the bug and allegedly downplayed the problem, choosing profits over security, ProPublica reported.

Holy fuck. This is like National Security level shit. As in, potentially dire implications on supposedly-secure SCI-related systems. There will probably be Very Fucking Serious criminal charges of the type that you can’t rub money on to get out of.

Say it with me now: this is what happens when you let the business and finance idiots run the show.

“Gimme a blowie and you can just have one of my horses”

Fuckin yikes

“Sack”

I don’t think it’s feasible to blacklist posts about Intel in computer science related communities, to be perfectly blunt.

I gotta be honest: it’s deeply frustrating and dismaying that Intel is tied up with Israel, but the fact remains that, as technical professionals, it is literally impossible to avoid Intel, because enterprise customers don’t really care about that BDS list. Ignoring technical innovations from Intel - one of the leading CPU manufacturers since CPUs became a thing - is only going to kneecap your own knowledge and expertise.

Fair enough. And no worries - tone sometimes gets lost or misinterpreted when commenting on the intertubes :)

Honestly, by the time we get to that point, I hope that mass transit has improved enough such that a car is no longer critical to have in most urban/semi-urban areas of America. But that also depends heavily on how politics pan out in the coming years.

For what it’s worth, I absolutely agree that the pervasive data-gathering bullshit they are trying to push on everyone is messed up.