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Apple Shortcuts engineering manager Ari Weinstein departs Apple
Some of these "tap to run" shortcuts have be released from their shackles to run automatically in iOS 17. However Apple still feels the needs to send a notification every time, which you cannot disable. It's really annoying.ihatescreennames said:Maybe now someone can make it so location based Shortcut automations can run automatically and not require I tap a “Run” button to initiate them.
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Apple issues Rapid Security Response update for iOS 16.4.1, macOS 13.3.1
Worked just fine on my iPhone, including a reboot. And on my Macbook too.
Interestingly it seems you can remove the update too.
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Apple's diversity efforts are 'selfish & practical' says head of developer relations
"My vision of the ideal"? Way to go branding someone racist who quite clearly is not. When did I imply in any way white people are superior? That is utter shit. There is no superior race. Race and gender should be utterly and completely irrelevant when hiring, as I stated, the best person for the job should be hired, hiring based on race is by definition racist. I'm sure there have been discoveries and inventions lost due to racism. That historical racism and discrimination toward minorities and women doesn't mean it is now acceptable to discriminate against white people; to do so is in fact, racist. I quite clearly explained that it is only nondiscriminatory to aim to have an employee ratio that matches the country's workforce. If that is too difficult for you to understand I pity you. Grow up and think for yourself.JP234 said:elijahg said:
Enacting policies of forced inclusion and diversity is the exact opposite of hiring solely on merit, and therefore will not benefit Apple whatsoever. It forces recruiters to discriminate against highly capable white male applicants to reach some arbitrary diversity target. If these targets were representative of the workforce it would be a noble objective, but they are not. To be anything but representative of the workforce is discriminatory, but apparently discriminating against white males is fine.JP234 said:enacting policies of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will benefit Apple Inc. in the long term through hiring and promotion based solely on merit, not race, class or religion.Women are underrepresented within Apple relative to the population, but not the workforce. There are simply very few female engineers in the workforce. Generally, the number of women who enjoy engineering is tiny compared to men. Arbitrary targets wont fix that, it needs to start in schools.In a company like Apple there is very rightly very little discrimination against underrepresented groups. Asian men are very much over represented for example - because they make brilliant engineers, but no one is complaining about that.Ponder this: what has this brand of racism cost this country? What great discoveries has our country lost because our ancestors relegated people to slavery and servility, or detained American citizens in internment camps or reservations. All because their skin didn't conform to your vision of the ideal? Sadly, we'll never know, will we?
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Apple's diversity efforts are 'selfish & practical' says head of developer relations
Enacting policies of forced inclusion and diversity is the exact opposite of hiring solely on merit, and therefore will not benefit Apple whatsoever. It forces recruiters to discriminate against highly capable white male applicants to reach some arbitrary diversity target. If these targets were representative of the workforce it would be a noble objective, but they are not. To be anything but representative of the workforce is discriminatory, but apparently discriminating against white males is fine.JP234 said:enacting policies of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will benefit Apple Inc. in the long term through hiring and promotion based solely on merit, not race, class or religion.Women are underrepresented within Apple relative to the population, but not the workforce. There are simply very few female engineers in the workforce. Generally, the number of women who enjoy engineering is tiny compared to men. Arbitrary targets wont fix that, it needs to start in schools.In a company like Apple there is very rightly very little discrimination against underrepresented groups. Asian men are very much over represented for example - because they make brilliant engineers, but no one is complaining about that.
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MacBook Pro 14-inch review: M2 Pro model has just gotten more powerful
Well since 16GB RAM is pretty constrained for a pro machine, they may well notice when it runs out of memory and starts swapping furiously. Mine spends a lot of time with 50%+ memory pressure. Safari is the main culprit. 20 or so tabs and somehow that's 7.5GB. Close them all and it still uses 2.5GB. Apparently full of memory leaks.charlesn said:It seems like EVERYONE has reported on "SSD-gate," i.e., the slower SSD speed specs for the 512GB configuration for the MBP. (Which follows the previous outrage over slower SSD speeds in the 256GB configuration of the M2 MBA vs the M1.) And we know that the slower speeds in the MBP are the result of a 1x512 SSD configuration instead of the 2x256 configuration used in the M1 MBP. Further, we know that the change in configurations was driven by tightening supplies and higher prices for the lower capacity 128GB and 256GB chips. But the question NO ONE answers is the most important one for prospective buyers: what's the real world impact of these slower SSD specs on the work done by a typical buyer of a base model MBP 14'? I'll go further with that question: is there ANY real world impact at all? I suspect it's so minimal as to go unnoticed in actual use.
Yes, I'm sure that if you threw a workload at it that was more typical for the buyer of higher spec'd MBPs, then real world differences might show up. But those buyers aren't buying base model MBPs, so what's the point?
