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I don't disagree with anything you said. If you not the comment to which I was replying, I am addressing the specific point that the M1 was a revolutionary boost in performance, which it was not. Apple's Pro stuff (Intel) at the time was a year behind everyone else on specs. When their Pro stuff came out - sorry, but even the M2 isn't "Pro" anything.

What I am doing is comparing top of the line from Apple, to top of the line period. And consistently, Apple is always behind on workhorses, to get work done. They are better in your "light quiet slightly longer battery" category. At 50% more cost. The free laptop from work - I want the most powerful portable thing available. For personal life, now way I'm paying the Apple tax. So - no use case in my life. I do always get my wife iphones and macbooks though. She teaches languages to little kids and I don't want to spend my time helping her with tech stuff, so the Apple tax is worth it. But never for the hardware - just for the walled garden and fisher-price UI for kids.

The Precision is not light, but that's because it's thick metal that you can run over with a car, and extremely durable. No one complained about a thinkpad being built sturdy. For the use case you describe, an XPS with an I7 at the time was super light, got about over 10 hours of battery life if you just did regular office work (no compiling or large data processing), and has similar specs. I used to take that with when I'd go internationally. It absolutely did not get hot - the key was to turn off turbo boost if on battery by setting max CPU at 99%.

The thing is, if we compare pricepoints, you could have a Precision for the cost of an M1, and now you have desktop power on the go. It's not super-light, but it's still light and thin enough to put in a shoulder bag and not get neck pain.

The reason the M1 felt like that, is because you keep comparing old crappy apple to new better apple at every step. Here in the real world, when the M1 came out I was using a precision laptop with (if remembering correctly) 128GB ECC RAM, an 8-core Xeon, and a 1TB NVME SSD. I think it was a 4k boarderless screen, and the battery went about 8-10 hours if I wasn't compiling anything. I looked at the M1, and was in no way impressed.

No real ECC RAM - just the in-DIMM ECC, which isn't ECC at all - it's just there because the RAM is so dense you'd get corruption from regular use w/o it. When you have 128GB or RAM, and you work with medical or financial data, you really need ECC from CPU to RAM. I also could only get half the RAM I need for work - this enterprise "pro" laptop had less max RAM than literally every competitor. I ran some GPU-meter thing, and the discrete Nvidia card on my laptop beat the pants off of apple's new toy. I ran a data processing perl script that took over lunch to run on my laptop. The M1 laptop took half the day.

Now, unplugged, the M1 actually did Better than the Dell. When the Dell got fast, is if I plugged in the 180W powerbrick - or maybe it was even 250W - it was big, and it got quite warm. The laptop sounded like a desktop with its fan on max. The M1 was quiet but about the same very warm temp.

Here's the thing - when I want it to be fast to do large data processing, I'm probably going to have it plugged in. For real intensive work, I don't care about performance per watt. And when I need it to be portable in a conference room or cafe, both the Dell and the M1 are insanely overpowered anywise.

So, I agree with you that it "felt like that all over again" - because you were all over again, comparing the last-gen crap Apple likes to sell during the current year, to the absolutely average stuff they sell now. The thing is, for Apple's price, you don't have to buy the average stuff from not-Apple. You could buy top of the line stuff that puts Apple to shame.

I'm not some Intel fanboy - I've worked on and bought lots of Apple stuff for decades for my hobbies. Done lots of photoshop, 3ds max, after effects, protools, etc. That's just what that industry works on. But please don't pretend it's something revolutionary. The revolutionary part of Apple is getting people to believe their absolutely overpriced average shiny toys are revolutionary.

I'm not sure why you keep not understanding, despite simple words in a language you clearly speak. I don't support youtube, I don't not support youtube. Youtube can do whatever the hell they want, and I'll do the same. The reason youtube doesn't block my adblocker for example, is because it doesn't know I'm using one. It still downloads all their ads, and google has no way to know if my browser doesn't actually display them on my monitor or send them to my speakers, because a website doesn't have the access to my browser needed to see that - it runs in a little tabbed sandbox separate from the renderer process.

Are you typing up an email right now? I can't tell, I'm on HN on my computer. To be able to tell what you're doing, I'd need to be on your computer. Hope that helps explain things.

How is you getting $100k for 2 years, putting it into a 5% APY high yield savings account, then returning it in 2 years and pocketing $10k, "stuck in servitude."

>people with money problems

yes yes, a bunch of you "not salesmen by trade" engineers here, who came over from the teenage antiwork subreddit, are on this thread making up fake facts about this case, and calling a guy with a $3mil house "people with money problems." As someone who spent half of my career as a presales engineer designing and rolling out data storage networks, I fully understand your point, and your reasoning. You want to be angry at someone instead of yourself, so you'll make up victims and double-down on your stance till it kills you.

They owe money back, because they were given an interest free loan. They got laid off, because when the market shrinks, it's not the responsibility of a company to keep paying you for doing nothing. I have mentioned "these facts" fifty times already in this thread. But I would not expect you to change the way you look at them no matter what anyone says. It's similar to a guy I saw while working at a hospital a while ago, the summer when everyone I know got a vaccine. He was cough-screaming that covid was a big pharma hoax as they put him on the ventilator. He never woke up, but he did die thinking he was right. Reality didn't care what he thought, reality just is.

Let's face it - you made all of that up.

Ironically, it's a delusion (more of a victim complex) of the older people to assume the youth assume the older ruling class is logically or morally wrong. In fact, the main champion of the youth in modern day is Bernie Sanders, a man who looks like he'd be pushing an IV bag of antibiotics with his left, because he needs his right to take off the oxygen mask when he speaks.

Now, what "the youth" not assume but know, is that public servants whose salary they pay via deductions from their own earned income, are hire to represent and serve the people. What they also know is that some of those hired servants think of themselves as rulers or "the ruling class."

It is very safe to assume that if an elected public Servant thinks of themselves as "the ruling class," that they are logically and morally wrong. No one assumes it's due to their age - that's a false narrative you made up so you could switch victim and attacker. Here in reality, "the youth" think those are immoral lowlife degenerates on a powertrip, at any age.

Now as far as "access to smart people" - orange mango had access to smart people. He ignored them all to kill a million, and told a quarter of the country to eat horse dewormer, malaria medicine, and use disinfectants like bleach, hand sanitizer, and.. and sunlight, inside of the body.

Do you often observe people who are not smart, listening to people who are, or is that only in the delusion you made up to be able to state a point? Here in the real world, mine and statistical observations are that the dumber someone is, the less they will listen to someone who knows what they're talking about.

Now, you realize those "crypto-warriors" you talk about have zero to do with encryption - right? Do you know what crypto currency is, and what encryption is? Do you know what "https" means in the URL you're on right now, which isn't letting a man in the middle change the comment I'm typing, or the comment you're viewing?

Yes, a company sign-on bonus being dependent on staying with the company for a set time, is not only a reasonable arrangement - it is the most common type of sign-on bonus. Any 2-year interest-free loan is a great loan, and you can turn that into about 10-20k just by putting it into a treasury bond or an HSA. Have you ever, in your life, received a sign-on bonus?

They call it a loan, because it is a loan. Just like PPP was called a loan, and forgiven on a predefined condition.

I hear myself fine. I hear myself observing some people who I believe have not had a professional job in sales or presales, never had a sign-on bonus, never received stock options, and are calling a great thing bad, and being outraged on behalf of some rich asshole playing victim. I hear myself laughing at some people who have no clue about the subject matter, but like to create fake anger and outrage online, so they could feel superior by painting "evil" all around them to avoid dealing with the actual reason for their own failings - themselves.

Does that answer your question?

>There is a thing that we all by convention understand

yes, and by we all you are including people who don't deal with sales bonuses, presales bonuses, or sign-on bonuses. the takeaway here is if you don't understand something, don't start talking like an expert and correcting people about it.

what do you call the most common type of sign-on bonus - stock options that you lose if you don't work there for a couple of years? is that a "benefit?"

Benefits come with the job. A one-time benefit based on some criteria is called a bonus. Yes, a chunk of cash is also a bonus. A Cash bonus. This was not a cash bonus. It was the most common type of sign-on bonus that exists - one that is only fully realized if you stay with the company for a certain time. And you're free to not take it. But you can't take it and complain it's somehow a scam.

repeat after me - loans at 0% that you may even get forgiven after 2 years, are not predatory. they are The best loan you are able to ever get - the opposite of predatory. and someone giving you the ability to take this great type of loan, for the event of signing on, is giving you a bonus. Put that 100k in a 5% HSA for 2 years, give it back, and you just got 10k in cash. Predatory loan. You people will twist and turn reality just to double-down.

Yes, the interest-free loan with possibility of it becoming a grant is a bonus. At a job, a bonus is an extra benefit outside of base compensationn.

But that's not what you're arguing here, is it. Since there is no actual argument you can make here, you're making up added details that make you right, then attacking those made up details.

"but somewhere deep in the fine print" - there is Zero chance the bonus recipient had no idea that this loan is only forgiven is he keeps his employment. Zero.

"If the company touted "free food" - and again with the making stuff up. There was no free food. In your example, the company offered you $500 in cash to use as you please, said you'll have to pay it back if you get fired within two years, and you said thanks and took the money. Then you got fired.

Douchebaggery is making stuff up about a scenario because you have no actual argument in the scenario presented. Watch a lot of newsmax by chance?

ah yes, a predatory loan is a a loan where you pay no interest, have a chance to have it forgiven, and at worst just return the original amount almost 2 years later, gaining the inflation amount.

so any bonus that is not just cash in your pocket is not a bonus? what is the correct word for a really good freebie that a company gives you? you know, a great minimum reward, a possible much bigger reward if you are one of the top performers, so you have an incentive to perform.

Let's say you pay $5 for a lottery ticket, where you're guaranteed to win $5 but can win $100. Is it predatory and unethical to you if you don't win the $100?

Wait, so the fact that banks offer loans to people, which they don't have to take is predatory then? The 0% APR for 2 years offers I get in the mail are predatory? This indeed must be terrifying for you, since those terrifying zero-interest offers of credit are in every store you go to, every bank you go to, and omg even in your own mailbox.

So again just to be clear what you're saying. A loan with interest is ok. A loan with zero interest where you might get a chance to have it forgiven if you are a top performer at work, is "incredibly predatory and terrifying?"

And by the way, for a guy selling his house for $3mil, having to give back $100k that he knew he might have to give back, after using it free for almost 2 years, is not "a massive loan." My wife and I spent $80k on refugee aid last year, and I don't have a $3mil house. It was an unplanned expense, but it changed our other spending or lifestyle in zero ways. It just means last year we didn't save as much for retirement as the year before.

The people making and passing these laws are 70-100 years old and not only have no idea what encryption or p2p is - they start deleting their gmail emails in their browser when their laptop pops up an out of space message.

My favorite goto in these discussions - the Australian PM saying that the laws of Australia override the laws of mathematics, when talking about encryption. You heard that right an old bald guy who doesn't know how to use the second mouse button because mice don't have buttons - they have ears and a tail - is legislating to break AES256. You just have to pass a law to break it you see, and then the math law will have to obey the overriding Australian law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VB3uQHa14g

Here's the thing though - that's not what this is all about, and these old hags have a very well-versed body of people behind them pushing the agenda. The reason the old hags sound like clowns, is because they are puppets with clown makeup. The goal here, is exactly what you said. Prohibition of encryption, because the people in power want more till they're kings, and they want to see everything you do so they can stay kings. In reality, none of this is meant to be enforced. It is however meant to pile up bogus charges and remove you from the public eye where you can make noise against them, once they decide to remove you for any other reason they want.

This is exactly on point, but it has nothing to do with dating apps. The article claims dating apps are "soul-destorying" yet the first example it gives is of a woman solidly into her menopause who gave up on dating apps because she likes clubbing and one night stands instead of relationships.

There are low effort dating apps to get laid. To get laid, people don't want to put in a lot of effort. To get laid with a young guy, gramma Does have to put in a lot of effort, and it probably helps if her young lay is flipped out on E at an illegal underground club in London, as opposed to sitting in an office on his break between presentations.

My wife and I met on a paid dating app. It took me a day's worth of hours to fill in my profile, and what my requirements are. For my match, I defined education level, minimal number of fluent languages and what they are, age requirements by race (some age faster, some slower), political views, religion, even the types of makeup they usually wear (none in my preference).

I got about 20 matches per week, and could only write my matches. There was no swipe, no "like" button. Only a text box. I went on a date with a phd student in english lit. I went on a date with a french-american doctor chick who graduated Stanford with an MD at 22. I messaged about 2 girls per week and always got conversation going, usually mutually deciding not to meet. I got messaged by about 2 girls per week, and always replied. I went on one date per week for 2 months and met my wife who speaks 4 languages, has a master's, and is 7 years younger than me. We did have some incompatible things, which were flagged in the match profile, but we decided those could be worked on and got married 6 years ago, 6 months after we met. The only photo she had on the app was the one she took for her passport.

But on this app I used, you would not only have to pay $25/month, it would be next to impossible to get a piece of ass and you'd have to invest hours in text and phone conversations before you met.

There are different tools for different things. This absolute crap article points out that you can't win a formula1 race in a uhaul, and calls automobiles bad. And it's blatantly obvious in their very first menopausal opening paragraph. The article is the bad app here, and that type of "reporting" is what is "soul-destroying" our society. Shame on them.

If you read the entire comment before replying to the comment, you would have your answer before you asked the question.

"They are free to ignore any request I shout at them"

I don't have any opinion on, nor care about their latest announcement to do with their hardware as they please. Their announcements are theirs and of no concern of mine. It's just a random website the has content duplicates available at a hundred more places. Bing video search has fifty times more results than youtube for example for any item I search.

Given that, of course, they're always going to show me their videos, because about a day after whatever change they make, software (that runs on my computer against my data) will catch up. They've made changes like this many times over many years. For about a week awhile ago the ads were not blocked and I stopped clicking youtube videos and just typed the title into bing and in 5 seconds played the same video from another source. Worked 100% of the time.

Sorry if that's not the gotcha you were going for.

The "douchebaggery" is making stuff up and calling it "douchebaggery." You assumed the bonus here was cash and they want the cash back. There are many kinds of bonuses. For example, I once got $30k in prepaid visa gift cards, which expire in a year and can't be used for some things because they don't support 3DS.

In this case, the bonus is a large loan at the start of employment, which is forgiven if you are still employed in 2 years. The industry took a downturn, people got laid off and were not employed for 2 years, and now they have to pay back the loan they took out. The person in question here got an almost 2 year interest free loan for 100k. That is the minimal bonus, and quite nice. The max bonus (if he was able to keep his employment) would have been a 2 year interest free loan, and $100k cash at the end of that. If there are 22 people, and they cut all but the 7 top performers because now there's only work for 7, the way to get the maximum bonus is to be one of those top performers, which this guy was not.

I really don't understand the need of people to make stuff up that sounds really bad, and attack their made up stuff for being bad. Their press release stated a basic common fact. What is it that you are complaining about sarcastically? That the bonus given was not big enough? How big of a bonus is enough for you to give to a guy who feels victimized and unfairly treated by the world that he can't sell his house for $3mil instead of the (much lesser) amount for which he purchased it years ago?

This is false logic. Youtube is free to not show anyone anything - once they send me data and it leaves their system, they have no claim to it.

When I shout on a public street "sing me the Francoise Hardy version of I'll Be Seeing You," no one has to reply. If they do reply, but they decide to sing a 2 minute ad for a pyramid scheme first, I am free to cover my ears till the song comes on.

Google's servers have a public internet IP. I can "shout" a request to them. The data they send back to me, is mine to do with as I please. I am free on My computer, from the memory buffer on a RAM stick I own, to ignore some of the bytes, in My RAM change some of the bytes, or save some of the bytes to a file on my HDD. They are free to ignore any request I shout at them, but they have zero say in what I do on equipment they do not own.

So when I go to Australia I can click "download Australia" in google maps before I board my flight? Or does it still let you only download a little zoom square like it did in the year 2013 to which you are referring? Does search work in those maps as it Didn't back then? I specifically gave an example, you then purposely ignored most of what I wrote to create a claim I did not make, and then said that claim is false. Do you do this often? Word on advice - this works on fox news where people only see the out-of-context sentence. It does not work when the people who read your reply, first have to read what I actually wrote.

Now, speaking of reading, I unfortunately stopped reading after your first sentence. This is because you immediately made it clear you are not communicating in good faith.

You have a good day, and enjoy winning all those arguments you yourself made up. The adults in the room ignore people like you and just move on.

I don't use google search (most of the time) as it's inferior - it ignores what I'm searching for, and substitutes what it thinks I should be searching for - and it's been doing that for years. There were free search engines before there were ads.

I don't use gmail because why would anyone want to use gmail for anything but temporary throwaways that'll get spammed.

I don't use google maps. nokia heremaps and openstreetmap (I use magic earth) are better in most ways, worse in others. When I go to a different country, I click "download country" and have a fully searchable map. No, I don't want a map that needs a data connection. No, I don't want to have to visually search the map for the thing I'm looking for, because someone barfed up a salad of dots that are place ads for things unrelated to my search. Google maps is not usable to anyone who has used something else. People who always use google maps don't know any better.

I do use google translate. This does not support your argument, because that's a service that is free, and does not display ads. You saying that the current ad-free service will disappear if ads were blocked from it... Can't make the comment on here that I want to make, so I'll let you imagine <words>

Youtube... Who give a crap. There were sites with videos before, there are other sites now. No, no one can host a huge expensive platform like that for free. So how about the people posting stuff, pay for their stuff being hosted. Then those people can inline talking ads or put a coke can on their desk, in their videos. You know, how ads in videos have been done since the existence of the video format, in 1920 all the way up to right now.

Google products, google customer service, and google the company, are inferior to the competition in almost every way. Except for google translate. Which again - has no ads.

The US government isn't preventing anyone, especially non-citizens living in other countries, from exercising their free speech. We are also free to read your free speech, and deny you entry to our country because of what you said about our country.

What you are talking about here, is that we as a people, have no right to listen to what you say and make decisions based on that. What you are saying is that if there's a guy outside your house yelling that you're an evil bad person who should rot in hell, you obligated to ignore his words in your decision to open your door and invite him in, because he has a right to say anything he wants. Do you... Do you get robbed a lot? If you do, you should observe the world around you, and make decisions based on those observations. This will greatly help you not get robbed a lot.

It implies that other devices that are not supposed to report their MAC, but do, deserve a high CVE as well.

This has to do with a bug seriously compromising a feature. It does not reflect the overall security rating of the entire device. If I have a one-way data diode sending telemetry from the flight controller to a passenger's entertainment console, it works as intended - which is why they put in a layer1 one-way diode. When you have a feature, you use that feature for a scenario where it is useful.

If the flight controller data diode has a second fiber and allows it to be hacked from a passenger seat entertainment center, that is a high severity. It does not mean every network switch has a high severity security issue, because we don't put those into flight controllers that hook up to entertainment centers.

Let's do a car example. If I rent a Uhaul to move my piano, and it splits in half from the weight, this is a serious malfunction. It does not mean the mini-coop croaking from a piano loaded on it's hood is also a serious malfunction.

Let's do a food example. If I put an empty metal frying pan on a stove and it bursts my house into flames, this is a serious problem with the frying pan. If I put it in the microwave and it does that, that's not a problem with the frying pan.

There was sarcasm, but there was no derision. There's nothing wrong with sarcasm - it is a common and civil tool of communication. Sarcastically stating the fact about an bad take in someone's comment - that it is a bad take - is not derision. would you prefer dry talk completely lacking emotion? There is chat with a computer for that - you are here communicating with people.

Your take, is a bad take. Things are civil. They don't also need to look like two robots talking to an oven.