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One thing I've learned about the Middle East is that you have to give it a month before even considering the headlines. There isn't a single honest trustworthy media outlet out there. Everyone is partisan or tangled up in everything to some degree. That goes for ALL sides in this conflict.

Had a friend who was out there as a charity worker to help clean up after Srebrenica. It was worse than documented publicly. Same demilitarisation failures and covering shit up in Lebabon. UN can get fucked.

The latter is quite normal. There is an APU in most commercial jet aircraft.

Making loads of money cleaning up shit already here.

It’s the less bad than America option.

Strangely I see a lot of people hitting things with the brute force hammer quite regularly rather than using calculus.

Some of our financial modelling stuff was CPU bound and took seconds because someone couldn’t be bothered or didn’t know how to work out an integral.

Not a dying breed. There is just a relatively static demand. Proportionally it looks worse because the rest of the industry has grown massively.

Really the problem is there are too many CS grads. There should be a software engineering degree.

Professional statistician here. Not that I get to do any of that these days, bar read Significance magazine and get angry occasionally.

Looking at the original blog post, it's marketing copy so there's no point in even reading it. The conclusion is in the headline and the methodology is starting with what you want to say and working back to supporting information. If it was in a more academic setting it would be the equivalent of doing a meta-analysis and p-hacking your way to the pre-defined conclusion you wanted.

Applying any kind of rigour to it is pointless but thanks for the effort.

Depends what you do. The sudden large accumulation of layers and corporate SaaS crap in the industry since about 2001 you're right on. But those of us a bit further down the stack or before that, it's pretty useful still.

That’s his job. He’s doing it.

I think Tim is only kissing ass because the desk trinket is cheap and the investment will take time to materialise, probably after this presidency. And Apple will be around longer than trump will be alive.

I’m sure it’s killing him as much as us.

I’ve done the same last year. But it was so I could play games :)

As someone who hangs around with academics outside the comp sci field regularly they mostly seem to have old MacBooks which are falling to bits. Not sure I’ve even seen an ARM one yet. They mostly don’t need a lot of juice and don’t want anyone changing anything on it. Also I don’t think I’ve seen anything more than a sneer on AI.

Yep that. I just upgraded my M1 Pro MBP to an M4 Pro MBP and I can’t tell the difference really. I’ll leave it 6 years this time.

Yeah. I've been in an A320 simulator before for a few hours. They are pretty easy to fly and land. What isn't easy is getting one in a state ready to fly and to the runway. I can fly a Cessna 172 (didn't get enough solo hours for PPL though) and it's not difficult. Again prep is the hardest bit.

Good. Hopefully we're going back to more sensible and sustainable 2-3 year cycles.

I use Apple's cloud services yes. And I have ADP turned on. It just works.

(I have offline backups of everything of course)

I spent a good few hours contemplating this over the last couple of years and the only rational answer I can find is that they are, apologies for language, just complete fucking morons.

Yeah I'm with you there. Someone sent out some professional communications to me about a week ago and it was a bullet list where the bullets were emojis. And signed it with a smile.

Just no.

Appears a lot of people write something up then throw it into chatgpt or something to spice it up with the things as well.

I've tried most of that. It's really nowhere near any of the basic Apple stuff.

I have no issues with GrapheneOS just stock android.

Yeah good luck with that one.

I ran a home lab for a number of years. This was a fairly extensive set up - 4 rack mount servers, UPS, ethernet switch etc with LTO backups. Did streaming, email and file storage for the whole family as well as my own experiments.

One morning I woke up to a dead node. The DMZ service node. I found this out because my wife had no internet. It was running the NAT and email too. Some swapping of power supplies later and I found the whole thing was a complete brick. Board gone. It's 07:45 and my wife can't check her schedule and I'm still trying to get 3 kids out of the door.

At that point I realised I'd fucked up by running a home lab. I didn't have the time or redundancy to have anyone rely on me.

I dug the ISP's provided WiFi router out, plugged it in and configured it quickly and got her laptop and phone working on it. Her email was down but she could check calendar etc (on icloud). By the end of the day I'd moved all the family email off to fastmail and fixed everything to talk to the ISP router properly. I spent the next year cleaning up the shit that was on those servers and found out that between us we only had about 300 gig of data worth keeping which was distributed out to individual macbooks and everyone is responsible for backing their own stuff up (time machine makes this easy). Eventually email was moved to icloud as well when domains came along.

I burned 7TB of crap, sold all the kit and never ran a home lab again. Then I realised I didn't have to pay for the energy, the hardware or expend the time running it. There are no total outages and no problems if there's a power failure. The backups are simple, cheap and reliable. I don't even have a NAS now - I just bought everyone some Samsung T7 shield disks.

I have a huge weight off my shoulders and more free time and money. I didn't learn anything I wouldn't have learned at work anyway.

Don’t forget the CoPilot key you accidentally hit that suddenly pops up a window after 2 minutes waiting saying there is a problem at the moment.

And if it’s Dell, a built in rattle!

And full of XSS and weird bugs if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Eh use their own hammer against them. Calling someone a pedophile is libel in the UK. Sue them!

I caused enough stink for them to be looking over their shoulder.

They moved the emoji thing to where the globe is and gave you a bigger space bar. Also changed the font slightly.

Wake me up when someone makes a better Reminders, Calendar and Photos app on Android...

I'm using AdGuard for blocking ads in Safari. Works fine.

I do have a GrapheneOS pixel 7a as well but I'd rather not let Google near my shit.

PM like it because they can break it until it fits their worldview. I've worked at 3 orgs in a row where the JIRA was a complete fucking broken mess because the process in it didn't match reality but someone thought it did.

User retention is a more important metric. Everyone is silent there. That is directly tied to MRR, long term viability and ROI for investment. If those were positive I'd expect them to be crowing about it, but they aren't.

Capacity just means there is currently more demand than supply and that might be a number of negative factors driving that: users with no ROI (free users), too rapid growth, poor efficiency etc etc.

I think the real problems are that knowing when to use something appropriately and holding yourself honestly to that are pretty difficult for most people.