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This is pretty mature technology, and like most mature technologies, there aren't going to be a lot of 50% improvements any more.

Look at CPUs or the Internal Combustion Engine. After 120+ years, it still improves, but you're looking at single-digit percentage points if that.

I'm not aware of a lot of things that could magically improve browser performance, but if you do, you have a great opportunity for a unicorn startup.

I have a 32" 4K monitor and the text quality is noticeably worse than on my Macbook Pro w/ Retina display and my iPad Pro. The dpi on the UP3218K is actually higher than my iPad (280 vs 264 iirc). That will likely be my next monitor unless another manufacturer introduces a 30-32" 8K monitor in the next few months.

Please don't turn HN into Reddit

I've gone back and forth. I don't entirely regret running Big Sur, but it really doesn't offer any advantages to me. It's seemed more or less stable although I've had intermittent issues with Facetime not connecting to older devices.

I've become more annoyed trying to develop on it though, and outside of iOS, I do my development mainly on Linux now.

Fwiw, this was on an iPhone 11 and iPad Pro (2019)

I've been using the Developer Betas since the first announcement and have had only a handful of minor issues (like my Bank erroneously thinking my device was jailbroken).

I think it's probably one of the more stable iOS releases I've seen.

It's not cavalier as much as it is factual. Of course I would lament the loss of our entire species, but the _planet_ will go on just fine without us. We (humans) are hardly the worst thing to happen to life on the planet. If we're incapable of being good stewards of it, really we're only hastening our own demise.

Habitability for humans. It's more or less a self-correcting problem

> but will not pursue the high-end market mostly because of their limited TSMC slots

Your second assertion that they can make more money from a CPU wafer than a GPU is probably correct, but assuming they don't abandon the GPU market entirely, they will still be using fab capacity to produce GPUs.

If they're using limited slots for GPUs anyway, doesn't it make sense to focus on the high-end high-margin parts first?

Because if they were hands, it would take 15,840 of them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_%28unit%29

Maybe a better analogy is: You have a problem with your living room light dimmer not working. The solution is to move all of your furniture out of your house, or being generous, just the living room, and then moving it back. Would you consider that reasonable?

Assuming you have a backup, then lets say some movers come out (for free) and do the moving. That's not inconvenient, right? After all, you don't have to do any of the moving. Just wait an hour or so and the movers will move everything back and quietly disappear.

I'm sure there's a way to hack this into a Tesla

This is a strawman argument, but the logic actually does hold: If the original premise is true, "taxing the poor to give to the rich" would accelerate economic growth.

The problem is of diminishing returns - it would have a disproportionate negative effect on the poor and a minimal impact on accelerating growth, so it would be considered one of the most inefficient ways to achieve the latter.

For console email, I still use Alpine. Can anyone elaborate on the benefits (if any) of switching to Mutt?

It was a mistake in the article s/MBH/NVH -> Noise, Vibration, Harshness

It seems like an easy solution to this is to have a 'trade academy' or a coalition of trade schools that allow / require you to do a rotation in each of the related trade specialties, i.e., if building / construction related, you spend a week / month / quarter learning about plumbing, electrical, framing, mechanical, landscape, etc. This would both promote understanding of related fields and give people an exposure to a variety of potential interests.

This is not unlike the required courses that predominate pre-major studies at a traditional university (in the U.S., at least)

Yet Uber was able to attract people who voluntarily chose to participate in their business model. There must have been something compelling about it.

The simplest explanation is that for whatever reason, those better-paying retail or food service jobs were not an option.

One thing to note to, is that any American citizen would be unable to set up manufacturing this way because it is explicitly illegal for U.S. citizens to pay bribes to foreign governments. [Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - FCPA]

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/foreign-corrupt-practic...

(Although given this account from presumably an Indian citizen, I can't imagine in any way recommending a non-local attempting this)

What does WYSIWHG stand for?

There are a number of blue-collar jobs that don't require close indoor proximity. That's almost the differentiating factor. A landscaper, welder, framer, forester aren't sitting in conference rooms breathing each other's exhalations for 8 hours a day.

And since most of those jobs aren't usually salaried, I think they'd all welcome being able to go to work and continue to earn.

That's a simplistic view that doesn't take into account property prices; not every landlord has owned property since the beginning of time, taking advantage of price increases.

Imagine a retired teacher who decides to rent out a garage apartment to supplement her pension - is she taking advantage of 'inflated rents' if the rent amount barely covers a proportional amount of the mortgage?

Additionally, landlords have to pay 'inflated property taxes', 'inflated utilities', and 'inflated garbage service' - these aren't discretionary costs for a property owner unless you advocate letting people stay in their apartments, but without landlord contributions to water, heat, cooling, garbage.

The measure that describes what you state would be the median, which is defined as the point at which there are as many values above as below.

Averages will skew with large outliers on either side. E.g. if Bezos and I are alone in a room together, the average person in that room has $95B dollars. (Granted, in an n=2 situation, the median isn't meaningful either)

> If I put a tracking device in my car today my rates would go up because I accelerate quickly and brake hard when conditions allow. That is not right.

If statistically other drivers who do that are more likely to, on average, result in a loss for the insurer, they are right to raise your rates. "Past Performance is no guarantee of future results"

With enough data, maybe it would support your assertion that you are, in fact, a very safe driver, by realizing that you only drive fast at certain times, in certain locations that are statistically lower risk.

So in that case they really need nothing from ARM at this point

Apple typically has forward-looking supply chain contracts. I imagine ARM is under contract for the licensing for long enough that Apple will build out their own design team.

Already, TSMC is the manufacturer for the cores, so Apple really doesn't have too much of a dependency on ARM in the short term.

I think what we'll see over the next 3-5 years is a divergence from the ARM-licensed design to an in-house-designed architecture: "Apple Silicon II"

That's a logical conclusion, but many printers outright refuse to operate if any of the cartridges are out, regardless of whether the print job requires that particular color.

I'm sure many people would happily shift from printing all black, to all cyan, then all magenta (yellow probably isn't practical) in an attempt to get maximal utility out of their color cartridge otherwise.

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My favorite line in the whole thing: "and a large warning sticker that threatened electrocution and prosecution, perhaps simultaneously"

He really is a master of the language. Thanks, Cory, wherever you are!

I think it's a logical fallacy to assume you can "observe all events" in any non-trivial system, particularly where there are humans on the edges.

Stay at your startup for now. You presumably make enough money to buy your own MacBook if you care that much. Ultimately it doesn't matter, it's just hardware.

Focus on the advantages you have in your situation - likely you'll be able to work on a broader part of the business than them and be able to leverage that into a more senior position elsewhere later.

Obviously (or not) you need to evaluate your progress over time. This early in your career it may not be advantageous to stay at one company too long, especially in a fast-paced environment as I understand Bangalore to be.

Re: The psychology of it, over time you'll realize that the perks, while nice, don't actually cost that much. Free snacks at work? Laundry service? Do the math yourself to understand the approximate cost, which will help you value them and help you realize that you're overly concerned about minimal things. Trying to keep up with your friends is just a trap that will make you unhappy.

tl;dr - You have plenty of time to join an MNC later. Learn what you can from your current startup.

Interesting read. Title should say the interview is from 2010