dws-2

arthurba said:

jkichline said:

You bought a machine rated at 3.2 GHz and you’re consistently getting more than that under full load. Boost is just that. Momentary. I’m not seeing why you would expect it to function differently.

Rubbish.  The turbo boost speed is for when you are running single threaded tasks and should be able to do so sustainably for long periods.  If you are running heavy multi-threaded tasks the turbo boost does not kick in.

Here's some information: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/turbo-boost/turbo-boost-technology.html

It basically says that sometimes you won't get the turbo speed, depending on 

• Type of workload
• Number of active cores
• Estimated current consumption
• Estimated power consumption
• Processor temperature

It seems that temperature is the limiting factor here, indicating that the processors could go faster if the cooling was better.

The real question is whether it's Apple's cooling system that isn't keeping up, or whether the internal core temperature just gets too hot after a while, and no reasonable cooling system would help.

steven n. said:

I personally think my sister contacted it at CES (about 50,000 people from China) this year. 18 days after returning from Vegas, she got the worst case of the flu with serious respiratory issues. Because she was outside the (then) 14 day incubation period, it was “just the flu” ruled by the ER doctors. 6 weeks later she is still getting over it. 

Shortly afterwards, I got a 4 day case of the flu which hit my muscles and joints something fierce. I was also at CES. 

I strongly suspect my sister got corona virus. Me? I don’t know.

i think it is WAY under-reported. 

You're describing a flu, and there's no way of knowing its source. You may just be one of the millions of people who get the flu every year. I had a severe flu four years ago much like yours, but it was just the ordinary flu, which of course kills tens of thousands every year. In fact, based on what we know, the major issue with isolating the coronavirus is that it's pretty mild in most cases.

In fact, I wonder if total flu deaths will actually be lower than expected this year because people are actually practicing decent sanitation. It's difficult to know, but nine times out of 10, things are better than the media reports. Of course, there's always the outlier that everyone points to.

Back and forth. Nothing is secure, but some things are more difficult/costly/time-consuming to hack.

One of my friends is a city prosecutor, and Android-based phones are no problem to get into, but iPhones are much more difficult.

Apple's chips are amazing. I think the challenge for Apple is figuring out how to do something with that power that otherwise would not have been possible. I just bought an iPhone XS from an iPhone 7, and I honestly don't notice any speed difference, mostly because the iPhone 7 was already very fast, especially with iOS 12. 

The thing I hate about Facebook is that they have no shame or sense of how much damage they do.

designr said:

dws-2 said:

However, it is _less_ likely that a vaccinated person would get sick and spread Covid.

Is there any data on this?

What I've read on this is that vaccinated people who get a delta-variant "breakthrough" infection seem to be more likely to be asymptomatically infectious.

I think what you're saying is that, once sick, vaccinated people spread it just as effectively as unvaccinated, which is true, with the caveat that the vaccinated tend to have a shorter period of time when contagious. What I was trying to say is that vaccinated people were less likely to get (and therefore spread) covid.

The protection of the vaccines from getting sick from Delta ranges anywhere from a low of about 35% (in other words, about 1/3, which is if three unvaccinated people get sick, then two vaccinated people get sick under the same conditions) to a high of about 80%. The range might be because of the differences in the populations being tested and the time since vaccination. For example, in Israel, the number is around 35%, maybe because it has been a long time since initial vaccination. In England, the protection is much better, maybe because they spaced out their shots more widely, and the time since people's second shot is much shorter.

What is confusing is that the CDC, until recently, was combining numbers from Delta and non-Delta covid, which incorrectly made the protection from the vaccine seem higher than it is. In general, the CDC has done a bad job of monitoring and updating when new information becomes available. They have also been really bad at communicating, making absolute statements one day, then changing it the next day. This is a fast changing situation, and communication should be clear about that uncertainty rather than state everything as a fact.

I hope Apple views this as a failed experiment.

I bought mine, and I love the screen, but everything else is problem after problem.

I move the cord at all, and the image cuts out.
The cords attached to the monitor sometimes don't work until I plug and unplug them.
My Macbook Pro randomly shuts down when connecting or disconnecting if I use clamshell mode.
I don't have mine by a router, but that's a future potential problem, too.

Now I'm going to score two spouses using the same method:

Spouse 1:
Loving 10/10
Supportive 10/10

I hope it's the same "additional time" they needed for the magic charging mat.

I have an Xs right now, and every time I use my wife's 7, I think about how comfortable it is to hold and use with one hand. I'm torn on these larger sized phones. They seem nice, and the big screen definitely helps on websites, but I just don't enjoy using them as much.