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Personally, and I have no idea how to implement this, I think any charity that attempts to influence the political opinion of its members should lose their charitable status.

In the UK, Eton, the most expensive, exclusive public school in the country, is a charity, largely because it was set up to educate the poor, something it hasn't done, modulo a few bursaries, for some time. That needs to end.

Single handedly? I'll say the same as when people described Steve as a genius, he is an accomplished marketing machine but genius is reserved for the like of Einstein and Feynman. Do you think SpaceX and Tesla were Musk's idea? Or were they the recommendation of the MBAs hired to research subsidized industries with significant barrier to entry? It is not that he isn't successful but he is no genius, he just has the money to overcome, what otherwise would be, impossible hurdles. I am glad he's beating bezos to the punch though, it takes a special kind of business to make Walmart look like the good guys. I think Tesla is a horrible car, exactly the wrong vehicle to address the climate crisis but it seems we are addicted to the car and consider public transit some kind of badge of shame. EVs, specifically autonomous EVs should be targeted at the last mile, IMHO. I'm not trying to be contrary, I dislike musk because I think he's dishonest and a narcissist.

I think we should all congratulate these guys. They have been knocking it out of the park for years andI hope this brings them financial security, hopefully life changing reward.

Just because space karen is having a temper tantrum, it's a little early to predict the next silicon valley. Does anyone actually think HP and Oracle tagging along achieves anything other than freeing up some real estate in the bay area?

Well, it doesn't introduce anything novel but perhaps it is time for a new personal computer revolution. Raspberry PI 400 running Risc OS gives a taste of what the Archimedies was capable of, lots of problems too, but they are certainly addressable, and it is somewhat refreshing to see the performance of modest hardware using an OS that is designed for a single user, a taste of what a users experience was like in the Amiga era.

I read "I couldn't find libraries that did most of what I needed and I couldn't be bothered to contribute said libraries"

This. The M1 achieves its remarkable performance through some good engineering and the extension of the SOC concept to include system memory and storage. The same reason that Qualcom could not match the A series processors. I do think the GPU team deserve a hearty pat on the back though!

Totally agree but Graviton, impressive though it is, doesn't have the aggregate advantage of M1, Intel is setup to respond to that challenge, M1, not so much.

What percentage of pc unit sales do Mac's make up? Anybody seriously see that market share growing because of M1? Mac's have a lot of baggage to overcome, not saying they can't but by both amd and Intel are not work shy lightweights and many of the advantages of the M1 do not translate to the expandable platforms the pc world expects.

Because their profitability is of the SOC alone, Apple, the entire product, so they are forced into certain design compromises.

I think I'll wait until some real world testing can provide definitive results. I would be very happy if these results translate, I just don't believe they Intel and AMD engineers are so inferior to Apples that Apple could pull this off with a known CPU architecture without some smoke and mirrors.

I could definintely get behind sets of cores and associated L3 cache being isentified as a task unit.

Do we really want MultiTasking? This is a question that I have been pondering for a while. What made the Amiga / ST / Archimidies special was that all that computing horse power, for the era, was dedicated to a single 'user' task. Today we have powerful hardware that doesn't seem to live up to its potential. I have no data but one wonders how many cache misses of a foreground application are the result of a background application invalidating cache lines? No, I have not totally convinced myself of the argument, but I do think, that when we look back at the golden age of the home computere, we should at least recognize that the operating systems in play were not the multi-user, multi-tasking leviathans of today; it was a simpler time and perhaps we could do with a little more simplicity in our lives.

Not really, Apple's CPU/GPU teams are very good, hey chaps and chapesses, but their primary advantage comes from the fact that Apple is looking at revenue for the entire device, the SOC is not the product. They can afford a little more cache etc. It's also right to point out that the margin is pretty narrow in A13 and Snapdragon 865 guise. So saying they are year(s) ahead is hyperbole, perhaps 6 months! In anycase the relatively close performance of the current SOCs makes me eager to see what they do with Apple Silicon in order to bridge the gap to Desktop/Laptop class performance? I do wonder whether the current cooling solutions in Apple's laptops are more about delivering the best product to the consumer or creating a favourable comparison to their own silicon. I found this LTT, https://youtu.be/MlOPPuNv4Ec?t=321, intriguing and wonder if this is deliberate or a manufacturing defect. Note the gap between the CPU lid and the die. It's a fairly entertaining video, the things they try but that gap, the entire cooling solution actually, are a little hard to understand.

It's not even remotely the same. They don't require you to distribute on the epic store. Moreover you don't owe them a penny for using the game engine until lifetime gross revenues exceed $1MM.

Frankfurt.

Well, a history of illegality isn't a good look for anyone but they pull it off so well.

Caffeine.tv offer similar latency. (Full disclosure, I used to work there)

Moreover, your audience are all at the same part of the stream, not separated by seconds because of buffering.

It's a bit like GW Bush, now that you have Trump you forget how awful he was (Patriot Act, War in Iraq, ...).

I was not aware that swift had affine types. Never been a big fan of Swift, I loved objective-c, so there is some built in bias there.

Hey look at me, I am communicating, I am being seen to communicate. As I am being seen to communicate, people who matter will notice my industry and reward me; never mind that I am actually a net loss to the productivity of the organization. That's slack, that is.

Being diluted by a round of funding is dispiriting!! But this!!

tldr: I am going to present Go in the worst light possible by pretending it doesn't support typed containers. Hopefully you'll gloss over this and support my viewpoint.

Rust doesn't need an 'assist' but articles like this will certainly damage the, otherwise sterling, reputation of it's community.

I don't know if he's guilty or not, but he has just, single handedly, made bale for high profile indictees very difficult indeed.

He's under indictment for corruption, and fled the country using what can only be described as corrupt means, hardly an endorsement.

Compare and contrast with the treatment of Julian Assange.

Patel's signature alone should be sufficent to file this away in the bin.

Perhaps broaden your horizons then, SwiftUI is a credible alternative to Flutter. Apple don't innovate, they build a better mousetrap. It has ever been thus.

If they choose to, not if required to!!

That's somewhat disingenuous. When Apple added bluebox to Rhapsody were they not so focused on AppKit any longer?

Lots of great arguments for and against herein, but how about the reality that the gig economy, that Uber exemplifies, is an unmitigated disaster for society, as a whole?