May I introduce you to years he let Jony Ive control that. Which brought us things like the butterfly keyboard, thinness at all costs (battery life), and loss of ports (in part due to thinness) that had to be walked back.
Incredible is stretching things. Apple had to catch up with AMD in efficiency, and they did that. Outside the mobile market, Apple is basically a non-entity.
Apple doesn't have huge sales volume for Macs because of macOS and their astronomical pricing schemes, but it's not because of the hardware. Macbooks are easily the best laptops you can buy for most purposes, and they have been since the M1 came out. That has never been true of Apple computers before.
It's because of the hardware. For mobile Apple is competitive, for desktop applications they don't even show up on most benchmarks next to AMD/Nvidia hardware.
That's also because of software. Apple deprecated OpenCL in MacOS eight years ago. In productivity software with solid Metal implementations, like Blender, the M4 Max is on par with the top of Nvidia's (mobile) 5xxx line, except with much more VRAM.
No software fix exists, Apple's GPUs are architecturally limited to raster efficiency (and now, matmul ops). It's frankly bewildering that a raster-optimized SOC struggles to decisively outperform a tensor-optimized CUDA system in 2026.
I get the feeling you had a specific use case that didn't work well with Apple GPUs? I'd be curious what it was. The architecture does have some unusual limitations.
By software problem, though, I meant referencing OpenCL benchmarks. No one in 2026 should be using OpenCL on macOS at all, and the benchmarks aren’t representative of the hardware.
Given the push to monetize user data it seems Microsoft is demphasizing their focus on key piracy. I bought a computer with a 55" touch screen. The company selling it said it was a Windows 11 computer. The computer was a 14 year old Intel CPU/Mobo that was never designed to run Windows 11. The company selling it had hacked Windows to run on this old computer. They didn't have a license key. I report it to Microsoft and crickets. The company ghosted me on the issue. In 2003, with XP in it's prime, they were cracking down hard on piracy... now it's part of the business model...
Absolutely. I would also think that the amount of money "lost" on license keys specifically on the "regular consumer" side pales in comparison to the data that they get once you're on their operating system. How many non-power users bother with disabling telemetry and other data that MS collects through their operating system? How many people bother configuring a Local Account? All of that is probably worth way more than a ~$200 license key.
On the business side, businesses make it a focus to be in compliance with licensing agreements so they still see whatever oodles of money from companies that have fleets of computers that run Windows.
I documented all of my early computers throughout early college, and I'm glad I did. I remember the first computers well, but without those notes, I wouldn't remember the first ten in so much detail. My first computer that was not a family computer was: UMAX 233mhz Pentium 2, 64Mb Ram, 8Gb HDD (was crushed when sat on by sibling)
I switched to Podman on Windows and found it less laggy, and it works fine for local development. I'm sure I'm missing some features, but as Docker continues to struggle to generate revenue, the open-source option will be important to an increasingly large part of the industry.
FYI- If I was docker, I'd stand up some bare metal hosting (i.e., a Docker Cloud) designed around making it easier for novice developers to take containers and turn them into web applications, with a product similar to Supabase built around this cloud to let novice developers quickly prototype and launch apps without learning how to do deployments in more sophisticated clouds. Supabase and AI vibe coders pair well, but the hole in the market is vibe coders who want to launch a web app vibe coded but don't know how to deploy containers to the cloud without a steep learning curve. It keeps many vibe coders trapped in AIO vibe coding platforms like Lovable and AI Studio.
> but the hole in the market is vibe coders who want to launch a web app vibe coded but don't know how to deploy containers to the cloud without a steep learning curve
Is it really a hole? I'm not the target user, but I keep coming across "Build & deploy your own platform/service/application with VibeCodingLikeThereIsNoTomorrow" and similar, maybe new one every week or so.
Seems like its a hole in the market if new services are cropping up. If there wasn't a hole then established clouds would have this. I don't have to think if I want a virtual machine booted with Ubuntu. I can do that in any cloud. How many have vibe coding support to launch containers that work locally in a cloud so they are accessible as a website? How many of those have a build process that does security checks and helps patch the code and automates building browser tests to verify the functionality keeps working (or kicks it back to the coding agent to fix)? Basically, the last 10% of the vibe coding a web app locally that isn't automated. This is a big opportunity for a semi established vendor like Docker that a startup would need users and capital (for bare metal) to fix. Two things that a Docker has at their disposal.
Those seems like such basic and tablestake features of such a platform, that I've assumed they all do something like that already. Is that not the case? Is it vibecoders who aren't programmers who are building these services or what's going on?
Yes, vibe coders are telling prompts to build web apps in IDEs like Windsurf/Antigravity, and it sets up the local environment, but getting that from local to web is still a pain point. It's a hole in the market with potential for a firm like Docker that needs to monetize without upsetting its community. Remember, vibe coders are more enthusiasts than professionals. Check out /r/vibecoding on Reddit for an idea of the general market that would use something like this.
This is the same company that mishandled the Office brand (abandoned it) and is mishandling the Xbox brand (what even is an Xbox anymore?). Are we surprised?
Let me fix that for you. This is all happening because the institutions in America failed to deliver for working-class people for over four decades, and Americans got fed up, elected a billionaire willing to be a bulldozer of those institutions and the systems that work for knowledge workers, twice.
Who knew that cutting taxes while keeping government spending high AND lowering interest rates could result in so much free money going around? That coupled with the dollar losing 10% of its value in a year, of course stocks are higher than before. Inflation and dollar losing value = winning!
>Who knew that cutting taxes while keeping government spending high AND lowering interest rates could result in so much free money going around?
That's been going on for many presidents in a row, in no way unique to Trump. Bush and Obama take the cake.
>That coupled with the dollar losing 10% of its value in a year
Is this some new virtue signal on BlueSky? USD is still trading in its channel at above historic averages. This is like saying the US market is crashing because we had a -2.5% day on Tuesday. Look at DXY and zoom out. It's been flat since May.
>of course stocks are higher than before. Inflation and dollar losing value = winning!
Three consecutive years of solid double digit market growth that has outpaced inflation and dollar valuation. Tell me you know nothing about financial markets without telling me you know nothing about financial markets.
> That's been going on for many presidents in a row
You were attributing your "knowledge worker 401(k)" growth to Trump though?
> Is this some new virtue signal on BlueSky?
No, I'm not on BlueSky or any social media. Is this a poor attempt at some Trumper "own"?
> USD is still trading in its channel at above historic averages.
Look at the chart after "liberation day" in April. It's been down since then and stayed there. Not a very good sign for his policies.
> Three consecutive years of solid double digit market growth that has outpaced inflation and dollar valuation
I agree, Biden did well with covid recovery. Not sure how electing Trump did much for us other than cause a market crash in April (and subsequent dip buying) and weaken the USD?
> Tell me you know nothing about financial markets
Oh, I know plenty and I'm actually bullish on stocks because there is so much free money going around. It would be stupid not to have your money in assets with such high inflation on the horizon. I just find it funny that you're touting bad policy as a win when his whole campaign was about "Biden's inflation" causing high prices and Republicans are supposedly for being fiscally responsible yet the OBBB goes against that.
>You were attributing your "knowledge worker 401(k)" growth to Trump though?
You were attributing the "cutting taxes while keeping government spending high AND lowering interest rates" specifically to Trump though?
>No, I'm not on BlueSky or any social media.
Yet you suffer from the same brainrot.
>Is this a poor attempt at some Trumper "own"?
Is this a poor attempt at some pantifa "own"?
>Look at the chart after "liberation day" in April. It's been down since then and stayed there. Not a very good sign for his policies.
Yes, it is still trading in its channel at above historic averages. A regression to the mean, the same drop happened under Biden in 2022. Not a good sign for [Biden's] policies.
>Not sure how electing Trump did much for us other than cause a market crash in April (and subsequent dip buying) and weaken the USD?
Of course you're not sure because you're financially illiterate. We're hitting all time highs again.
>Oh, I know plenty and I'm actually bullish on stocks because there is so much free money going around.
ZIRP is over. You're bullish because the market is hitting ATH under Trump. I've been selling puts all year to gullible "investors" that thought, and still think, the market is going to crash, any time now, under Trump.
>It would be stupid not to have your money in assets with such high inflation on the horizon.
"Inflation is on the horizon!" they screamed for an entire year. Trump's first year of his second term CPI was 2.7%, lower than any Biden year.
>I just find it funny that you're touting bad policy as a win when his whole campaign was about "Biden's inflation" causing high prices and Republicans are supposedly for being fiscally responsible yet the OBBB goes against that.
People find things they don't understand funny, news at 11.
> Let me fix that for you. This is all happening because the institutions in America failed to deliver for working-class people for over four decades, and Americans got fed up, elected a billionaire willing to be a bulldozer of those institutions and the systems that work for knowledge workers, twice.
Let me fix that for you. Billionaires conned working class into giving up everything for "low taxes". Working class suffered.
And then the same working class elected - get this - another billionaire conman - the same category that previously conned them.
AFAIK, no, but I could see there being cause to push citations to also cite the validations. It'd be good if standard practice turned into something like
Paper A, by bob, bill, brad. Validated by Paper B by carol, clare, charlotte.
Academics typically use citation count and popularity as a rough proxy for validation. It's certainly not perfect, but it is something that people think about. Semantic Scholar in particular is doing great work in this area, making it easy to see who cites who: https://www.semanticscholar.org/
That is a factor most people miss when thinking about the replication crisis. For the harder physical sciences a wrong paper will fairly quickly be found because as people go to expand on the ideas/use that data and get results that don't match the model informed by paper X they're going to eventually figure out that X is wrong. There might be issues with getting incentives to write and publish that negative result but each paper where the results of a previous paper are actually used in the new paper is a form of replication.
I am still reviewing papers that propose solutions based on a technique X, conveniently ignoring research from two years ago that shows that X cannot be used on its own. Both the paper I reviewed and the research showing X cannot be used are in the same venue!
IMHO, It's mostly ignorance coming a push/drive to "publish or perish." When the stakes are so high and output is so valued, and when reproducability isn't required, it disincentivizes thorough work. The system is set up in a way that is making it fail.
There is also the reality that "one paper" or "one study" can be found contradicted almost anything, so if you just went with "some other paper/study debunks my premise" then you'd end up producing nothing. Plus many inside know that there's a lot of slop out there that gets published, so they can (sometimes reasonably IMHO) dismiss that "one paper" even when they do know about it.
It's (mostly) not fraud or malicious intent or ignorance, it's (mostly) humans existing in the system in which they must live.
However, given the feedback by other reviewers, I was the only one who knew that X doesn’t work. I am not sure how these people mark themselves as “experts” in the field if they are not following the literature themselves.
Windows 11 is the enshitification late stage advertisement economy product that no one asked for, and everyone in the C Suite at Microsoft is excited about. Probably the only thing they are more excited for is yet another terrible branding decision.
i don't get this take. i've been on win11 since the closed "beta" (i think, it's been a real long time). i wrote guides on how to "fix" the most common and also tricky issues with the upgrade path from win10 to win11, as well as guides from 7/8 to winten.
however, i should note that i actually don't like windows 11 at all, but for different reasons. for the first two years or so, third party apps would crash to desktop if a folder had a literal "@"[0] in the name. That was patched on the "big patch" that a lot of people complained about, about 8-10 months ago.
Currently i have another issue, for brevity's sake, i'll just list these two. If i reboot, but don't log in, my computer will freeze. if i log in fast (within about 5 seconds of the login screen accepting input (enter, mouseclick, etc)), and get to the desktop, if i walk away, computer will freeze. My computer freezes (hard freeze, reset button/power button to fix) if it is idle. it's the silliest thing i've ever seen, surpassing even crashing with "@" in the directory name.
my fix? I run an idle game (nomad idle or idle pins) and that stops it from crashing forever. But once a month i wake up to a hard-locked computer because of an automatic update + reboot.
ugh.
[0] i think the newer windows terminal and/or the newer powershell API used to assume an "@" was something else, on powershell, it turns green and autofills stuff like "@Alias" and "@args". My assumption is they didn't sanitize it and let powershell hook everything when that's just silly. Windows 11 is silly.
You didn't read the article. The TLDR is: treat it like learning anything else (Like learning a language). Go into it full force with good faith, and you'll have a better outcome.
I'm okay with missing things. As I got older, I cared less and less about being aware of everything out there, and I was glad I got the thing done I needed so I could spend time with my family.
