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TikTok has been banned in Montana, but chances of the law surviving are slim
Removing it from an App Store is not enough. TikTok has a website doesn’t it? The only way to sort of enforce it is at the ISP level; all network traffic that goes to TikToks servers from Montana would have to be blocked. Either by IPs or by detecting its certificates. Then who care you someone has the app.. traffic would be blocked, though getting the app dropped from app stores would be an added bonus. But, even if it was blocked at the ISP, it could still be circumvented by using a VPN. It just depends on the level of effort a user is willing to put forth to access it. -
After years of work, Microsoft is still trying to make its own Apple Silicon-like chip
TeslaDomination said:techconc said:I hope that was meant as sarcasm because you have that exactly backwards. The value of Apple’s chips comes from their custom design far more than the manufacturing process they are on. With enough money, anyone can contract and negotiate to manufacture on the best process.
Notice that M2’s performance gain from M1 is exactly the same percent as TSMC’s transistor density increase. It’s all fab process. Design has little to do with it.I view both sides as equally difficult and important. It’s hard to come up with a process that can further miniaturize a chip, but equally so is generating an algorithm that is solved by a circuit. A given algorithm could perform poorly no matter how good the node process is (in either efficiency or power). A solution that uses 50 transistors to solve a problem would be better than one that uses 100 to do the same thing.
Both sides actually have the same problem: design. It takes time, effort, intelligence, talent to do both. -
Amazon slashing 9,000 more jobs in fresh round of layoffs
lkrupp said:So millennials are finding out how the world really works, that no job is secure, that all this talk about how companies value employees is bullshit. You didn’t want to come back to work at the office but wanted to remain cozy working at home with your pet cat on your lap. It’s the BOTTOM LINE, baby, the bottom line. Get used to it, You’ll be switching jobs every few years for the rest of your lives with no security, no perks, no free lunches and lattes. Think joining a union will make it all better? Hardy har har. The SCOTUS is likely to shitcan your hopes of getting your student loan debt laid on the backs of taxpayers. $400 billion? Think again.
The world will continue to need electricians, plumbers, brick masons, welders, carpenters, big equipment operators for the foreseeable future, not so much programmers, data entry workers, marketing types, even certain engineering fields as AI will see to that. It’ll be awhile until Boston Dynamics comes up with a robot that can wire and plumb a new home.
End rant from a 73 year old curmudgeon.
As @StrangeDays has said, engineers don’t have anything to worry about (at least the good ones). ChatGPT can only generate things based on prior art, not write its own code from scratch. While ML has vastly improved, it’s still in the category of 4GL languages for programming in my opinion: I don’t trust them to always do the right thing. It’s a great tool, good for finding insights or solutions, but a tool doesn’t replace the programmer. That is not to say it’s useless. It could allow us engineers to be more productive by allowing us to focus on other, more important things, or provide us with insights we may not have found in a timely manner. As software engineers, we kinda strive to automate things so that human errors don’t happen, make things quicker, or have the computer do something we find mundane to free us up to do more interesting tasks. ML is no different and really the next step. -
Apple continues to evolve the hinge it may use on a folding iPhone
Or you can opt for a folding phone and get the usability advantages of both a phone and a tablet but without the bulk.Sometimes, KISS is the right thing to do, no matter how much it’s wanted. If I think I need a bigger screen, I plan and think ahead: do I need to tote my laptop with me in a backpack, or can it wait till I get home. Is it worth the inconvenience of carrying around a bag, or can I make do on the small screen of my phone?
At no point have I wished for a bigger screen on my phone. -
Apple continues to evolve the hinge it may use on a folding iPhone
avon b7 said:exceptionhandler said:avon b7 said:exceptionhandler said:muthuk_vanalingam said:Because - Larger is better, when it comes to display. It is that simple. Larger the viewable/usable display area in a smartphone/phablet/tablet - better it's usability in variety of scenarios. Which is why smartphone display sizes have grown, grown and grown in the last 10 years. Samsung was the first to figure this out and others (including Apple) followed suit. But with the non-folded form factor, it cannot grow beyond a point - pocketability becomes an issue, which is why phone display sizes have not breached 7" diagonal.
But the appetite for larger display is not going to go away anytime soon. So the next logical step in evolution of smartphones is - foldable form factor. It is not rocket science as Apple hardcore fans in this forum make it out to be. Just because Apple has not launched a foldable phone yet - does NOT mean that it is not useful or practical. It is only a matter of time that Apple will launch a foldable phone (once they are ready).
you keep harping on “bigger screen” is better, but why? Is not an iPhone pro max big enough? What use case requires a larger screen that could not be done by switching to an iPad or laptop or desktop? The one use case I can think of is maybe accessibility for visually impaired, but is the max big enough for that?
I mean sure, if they could fit a bigger screen in an iPhone mini without increasing its length, width, or height in any configuration, I may consider it (eg, holographic projection, or via AR/VR/MR headset), but it would still have to be usable from one hand in my opinion.
Depending on your hand size one handed use is perfectly doable on the folded phone.
As for bigger is better, that is always the case for when size is a befitting factor. There is an upper limit of course when size detracts from being useful but viewing content on a larger screen and modifying content on a larger screen both increase usability.
Even for silly things like moving the playhead around on video players. Larger screens allow for more interface elements to be viewed at one time. Opening multiple apps (one on top of the other or side by side) is much better.
My wife and anybody with poor eyesight will benefit from a larger screen even if it is basically a regular screen ratio with enlarged interface elements.
My wife has everything set pretty largish (but not to the max) on her iPhone and it's ugly to see how the system whacks the interface out of sync and usability actually goes down.
Honor Vs
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/honor-magic-vs
We use phones because they are always with us, relatively light and compact and available at all price points.
Given that situation and the necessary compromises, a folding phone opens up more usability benefits by simply doubling the screen size while remaining sufficiently compact when folded.
I can open and view apps onscreen on my phone (in split screen or floating mode). It works very well and I use it all the time. It's usable but a bigger screen would make the experience much, much better.
A 15 inch laptop would be even better but I would lose all the portability advantages of a phone and depend on earbuds. I can't hold a laptop to my ear.
But also, do you need to tote a laptop everywhere? Maybe your office is a coffee shop. But going to the grocery store, do you need to take a laptop with you to edit a video? Are you going to edit a video on your phone while at the store? I’d say maybe, if your job depended on it. But I’d argue 99 times out of a 100, that’s an exceptional case. Tote your laptop with you in whatever bag makes most sense to you if you’re going to need it, otherwise leave it behind.I guess I use my phone primarily for simple stuff. If I need to do something more complex than to communicate via phone call, message, or FaceTime, check news, watch a video or look at pictures, quickly buy something, or check a notification, I switch to a different device, and in my head I also context switch as well.