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Re:Monitors for Work
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:27PM (#49224468)
If you are working with text a monitor with high pixel density is important. 4K 27” is good for Windows, 5K 27” is great for Macs. I think companies should provide a monitor of this calibre and a laptop powerful enough to easily drive them to technical workers. I would spend my own money on the hardware if I could use it for work. It’s like if a company said they will give you a $5000 pay raise, but you have to use a 2006 flip phone from now on. I think a lot of people would refuse the raise.
Re:Proxmox VE now available for ARM64
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:23PM (#49187673)
Would be cool to run this on Snapdragon X Mini PCs in a 10 inch rack
Re:Apple's Pro Display XDR takes Thunderbolt 3 to its limit
on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:55AM (#38405876)
Excited to upgrade to a Mac with Thunderbolt 5 which should allow for 6K at 120Hz with 10 bit color over a single cable. All this with an OLED panel is just about peak display for me.(though miniLED would be fine too)
Re:Bill Gates – AI is about to change how you use computers
on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:20PM (#38222457)
So in a good case scenario say AI continues on it's current exponential pace, most information workers are replaced by an agent, and a UBI comes about. What then? For people the life's journey is often more important than the destination, but now we are essentially playing on a God mode and everything comes too easy. This is something i've been dealing with, It will be hard trying to find a purpose when your contributions dont mean much. Your family and some hobbies is alls left to contribute to. We will be like spoilt children who have everything given to them on a silver platter, will it make us miserable?
Re:New Hetzner dedicated vCPU cloud servers with AMD Epyc CPUs
on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:57PM (#37241300)
Hetzner seems to have the best deals in cloud computing right now, especially for individuals / small companies. I'm excited for their dedicated ARM vCPUs to become available!
Re:SVG Chromium bug is more than 10 years old
on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:18PM (#36850380)
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130573...
Vector GPU Rasterization in Chrome is still broken on Apple Silicon Macs. Has been for more than a year.
Re:Linux 6.5 Adding Initial Support for USB4 v2, Intel Barlow Ridge
on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:55PM (#36576529)
Cant wait for Apple's 6K 120Hz OLED Pro display using the 120Gbps upstream support of this spec. We are nearing peak display.
Re:Last update of Safari has problems displaying JPEGs
on Friday May 19, 2023 @06:54PM (#36007734)
To be fair vector images in Chrome on m1 macs have been pixelated for over a year
Re:Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Till ’26
on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:13PM (#33886385)
I think we are seeing a 2 pronged change in the automotive space and I think Apple can contribute to both.
1. Consumer-owned Electric Cars with advanced AI safety and lane-keeping assist (Traditional Automakers)
2. Corporation-owned Fully Autonomous Vehicles as a service. (Waymo, Cruise etc)
The former Apple is already having its presence known with CarPlay and will continue to expand with its 'next generation' previewed at WWDC that can take over all screens in a car. I feel as though by 2026 when electric cars will be even more mainstream the Apple version of a Tesla will be less differentiated and not high margin enough.
The latter is a more ambitious and disruptive long term goal. It's harder to do right, but has a much greater upside. The Apple Car may actually be the Apple Car Service with custom autonomous driving hardware and software developed by Apple. The service would be highly integrated into Apple's exiting ecosystem and would bring with it the luxury and trust that people associate with the brand
Next Gen Carplay: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/apples-next-generati...
Re:AMD Launches EPYC 9004 “Genoa” Processors – Up to 96 Cores, Zen 4, ...
on Thursday November 10, 2022 @08:26PM (#33556219)
agree, cloud services are way too expensive, especially when you can get an 8 core mac mini for $700.
Re:It's time to admit self-driving cars aren't going to happen
on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:25PM (#33379683)
Cruise and Waymo are the clear market leaders in Autonomous Vehicles. Tracking the progress of these companies in the past year alone where they are operating with no safety driver in dense San Francisco is incredibly impressive. The field of machine learning in general is advancing at a great pace as well. I think by the end of the decade in places with limited weather events AV will be as common as Uber. At some point people will reconsider buying a new car and just rely on a robotaxi subscription along with walking, cycling, and transit to get around. It will be survival of the fittest though, only few companies will succeed. Tesla 'Autopilot' on the other hand doesn't even use Lidar, seems to disconnect frequently and is much more dangerous. I really think they use deceptive marketing.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone using Swift on the server-side?
on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:56PM (#32534345)
I am writing the backend of my side-project with it. Async/Await in Swift is game-changing for safety and productivity. The tooling is only getting better and you can expect greater maturity with the coming of [Swift 6](https://forums.swift.org/t/on-the-road-to-swift-6/32862) likely next year.
Re:Vector graphics on GPU
on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:43PM (#32420943)
Now if only chrome could do this on macOS. :( https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130573...
Re:Nvidia Unveils 144-Core Grace CPU Superchip
on Saturday March 26, 2022 @03:16PM (#30814491)
The 2023 Nuvia based Qualcomm Laptop SOCs are coming in 2023 and could bring M1-Like performance to windows. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17075/qualcomm-x-nuvia-silico...
Re:The Stroad
on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:13PM (#29302635)
Transportation and housing are intrinsically linked with affordability and quality of life. For North American society to improve we need to address these issues.
Re:Will real estate ever be normal again?
on Sunday November 14, 2021 @10:36PM (#29223387)
In Canada extremely unaffordable housing has been the reality since the Pandemic. I think the US is just catching up and when it does there will be more unrest because of how much influence the states have over social media and news in general around the world.
Re:Favouring tools is bad engineering (2018)
on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:16AM (#27947138)
Hard disagree. By this logic we’d still be writing COBOL. Yes, switching tools has an inherent cost associated but, you must calculate what makes sense for your team. Not everything is relative, some tools are simply better than others.
Re:Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:02AM (#27560105)
Tabs are imperative to web productivity.
On Google Chrome since tabs are on their own row at the top of the window and maintain their size and position you can fling your mouse to the top of the screen easily hit them. On Safari since the address bar expands from the active tab, the size and position of the tabs are drastically changing. This makes selecting a tab more difficult. Additionally, since the size the address bar is wider the distance your mouse has to travel to select the neighbouring tab increases.
In the end this leads to more effort and bad ergonomics. I would love it if they just had the tabs on one row and address bar one row, until then I will stick with chrome on the desktop.
Re:Swift on the Server (2020)
on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:29PM (#26936370)
If you look on the Swift GitHub page you will see tremendous effort going into async/await. It will change the game for server side swift later this year.
Re:Your Product Sucks: Apple Music on macOS Review
on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:41PM (#26685724)
It's not the worst, but doing anything network related is very slow. Apparently it's uses html5 in the browse section under the hood, not even a true native app.
Re:Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous
on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:20PM (#26520564)
Haha I know. So many people think it is fully autonomous too.
Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:46PM (#25561901)
I could see Apple come out with their own in-house Cloud Computing platform within the next 2 years.
- They would be vertically integrated with Apple Silicon
- Apple themselves are increasingly depending on cloud services
- Async/Await in Swift will likely land next year, making Server-Side Swift much more appealing
- Apple is greatly increasing cloud / Kubernetes hires
- Could share a single Apple Silicon ARM architecture from client(ios) to dev(mac) to cloud
Re:Weather Service faces bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:39PM (#25382000)
The CEO of AccuWeather Barry Myers who Trump just appointed to head NWS/NOAA is essentially trying to privatize it. NOAA's API is horrible, slow, and you often have to resort to scraping the HTML because it leaves out data. Instead of rate limiting essential 3rd party services they need to rewrite the API and heavily rely on caching and a CDN. Sadly it looks like private money lobbying is ruining an amazing public good.
Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide turns aga...
on Saturday October 03, 2020 @03:39PM (#24674187)
It wouldn’t have to be exclusively macOS. You could likely choose your OS or it could be some kind of containerization.
Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide turns aga...
on Saturday October 03, 2020 @02:21PM (#24673760)
I could see Apple come out with their own in-house Cloud Computing platform within the next 2 years.
- They would be vertically integrated with Apple Silicon
- Apple themselves are increasingly depending on cloud services
- Async/Await in Swift will likely land next year, making Server-Side Swift much more appealing
- Apple is greatly increasing cloud / Kubernetes hires
- Could share a single Apple Silicon ARM architecture from client(ios) to dev(mac) to cloud
Re:Swift on Windows
on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:43PM (#24571064)
I’m betting once async/await lands in Swift it’s usefulness as a server-side language will greatly increase. You can check on GitHub the work on a async/await by people like Doug Gregor has begun. Very exciting.
Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:43PM (#24344475)
Interesting that this card has 8K capable HDMI 2.1 but not DisplayPort 2.0. Wonder when we start seeing DP 2.0 support in products, VESA said late 2020 in the press release.
A great update to a safe and ergonomic language. The best is still yet to come with Swift on Windows and Android, SPM Resources, and of course Async/Await.
Re:Swift Server Work Group Annual Update
on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:54PM (#21413624)
I love Swift and I think it could be one of the best languages on the server. However here are a few things that I think would make it better:
- Async/Await
- Swift and Swift package manager support on Windows
- Swift Package Manager resources and run scripts
- Backtraces
- Faster/incremental builds