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  • Apple's ARKit release left Google flat-footed

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    I find this article woefully lacking by leaving out Tango. While it seriously drove up the cost of the phone, it was a significant achievement by Google. It was also accurate and more powerful than ARKit. 

    Apple took the idea of Tango and did the following:

    1) reversed it so if could map the face. 
    2) decreased the range but significantly increased density and precision. 
    3) miniaturized the heck out of it. 
    4) made it fast. 
    5) made it mass produced. 

    Then called it FaceID. They used software and sensors for ARKit. It’s good enough for many applications but can still get better IMO. 
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  • Tim Cook says Japan's Seiko Advance is why there's a Midnight Green iPhone

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     "If we fall into price competition, we will be in a very tough position. We need to maintain quality to win."

    That has been my take in software over the past 20 years. I don’t compete on price with India but both depth and width of ability. I spend a good deal on personal education in some niche areas (like writing software for high radiation environments) but it has paid off well. 

    Competing downwards is a dangerous game. Competing upwards, however, forces you to always be learning.  
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  • Apple will enforce app notarization for macOS Catalina in February

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    slurpy said:
    steven n. said:
    razorpit said:
    So does that mean this will no longer work?
    sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/[name_of_application_bundle_here].app


    This 100%. 

    The team which designed the entire quarantine process must have been high on crack. The design is miserably broken if you do anything more than write live poems on Word/Pages.

    I so dislike the implementation.

    I hope the above still works.

    Really? I use maybe 30 pro apps for design/development, and haven't seen anything "miserably broken" in Catalina. 

    But maybe I'm actually imagining all that, and in reality I'm writing poems in pages. 


    If you have tools which auto generate test scripts, trust me, it is miserably broken beyond belief. The team was high on crack or their own self importance. 
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  • Mac Pro, Pro Display XDR orders start December 10

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    StrangeDays said:
    coolfactor said:
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    M68000 said:
    Looking forward to watching real world reviews of this new computer and monitor.  Yes it may seem expensive, but when you think that it's possible to get 10 years out of a computer this powerful and this monitor will certainly not be obsolete any time soon - is it really that expensive over time ?   Instead of buying 2 or 3 high end desktops\laptops in 10 years - just buy this... 
    I think it all depends on what you're doing. I doubt any serious professional (company) is gonna buy one and expect it to last 10yrs. For most companies the standard length they keep a computer around (Mac or PC) is 3yrs before its considered EOL (End of Life). That doesn't mean its useless, its just a standard some companies go by. 

    I could be living in a totally different world, but I've seen companies (and myself!) hold onto the same computers for 10 years. My current laptop is 6 years old and still good as new, running Mojave. And do you remember the XP years? Windows XP lasted 10 years, and people ran it on the same hardware that whole time. So the three-year timespan is questionable in my mind, and I think the Mac Pro has 10 years in it, easy. It's a real workhorse.
    I’ve worked American enterprise as a contractor for almost 20 years, none of the many companies I’ve worked for had us using machines older than a few years. My personal computer at home, yes (last iMac went 8 years), but never corporate machines. 
    Ive been working corporate for 20 years as a contractor as well. What I see is a "policy" to refresh your computer every 3 years. However, the refreshed computer is just another persons old computer and your old computer goes to someone else. So you get a "new to you" computer every 2-3 years. 
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  • Senators Elizabeth Warren & Sherrod Brown push for Apple Card probe by CFPB

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    crowley said:
    airnerd said:
    Supposedly there is a stat that charges more interest for some females than males, and Congress gets involved because that's discriminatory.  Meanwhile since the invention of auto insurance 16 year old boys are charged more than 16 year old girls because stats show there is a reason...and that's acceptable.   
    Yeah?

    16 year old boys crash cars more often.

    Where’s the stat that says women are worse at paying off credit cards?
    A 2015 National Debt Relief Survey showed exactly that. Most studies have shown women tend to carry higher debt loads than men (on average) and that could, on average, result in outcomes that look biased. Women tend to have better on time payment records and at the same time, slightly higher default rates.

    Oddly, late payments (but paying it off) is much more profitable to the CC issuer than on time but defaulting.

    That said, are credit limits biased? Absolutely. Otherwise everyone would get the same exact limit. Let that sink in. They are biased for a reason. They are not 100% egalitarian with everyone getting the same exact outcome. 
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