What I learned today: ECG pulse form stays pretty much the same all the time for an individual, especially the QRS complex. Absolute length of the QT interval varies, but it effectively depends on heart rate. Thus, very little to see there if you know your heart rate... especially as home ECG recordings tend to be pretty noisy.
But Mma allowed me to learn this "hands on" from my data at least. :)
Oh, that's nice, someone at WRI obviously cares about Linux users. They've finally added StartupWMClass=M-12.3 to the .desktop file for 12.3 so Mathematica windows are grouped together. Sadly I still need to add --nosplash but it's a nice improvement.
Interestingly I get a slight improvement in Benchmark[], going from 5.45 to 5.629
@kirma I actually really love it, I switched from Mac in September as I wanted to build a more powerful PC than I could afford if I'd bought a Mac, and I've never worked on Windows. I went with Pop!_OS and it's been smooth sailing, I barely notice I'm not using a Mac most days.
There's a little bit more rolling up your sleeves to sort out the odd issue that comes up, but it feels really smooth and polished nearly all the time. I'd love it if Netflix would give me full resolution though.
@CarlLange Hmm, interesting. I tinker enough with OSes on my real work and I don't really feel I need to do that home. It might be that my opinion is skewed by the fact that I have nowadays no problem coughing up something like 6000 euros for a new laptop if a need arises...
@kirma Yeah, this was the thing - I needed to justify the cost of a new computer to myself and 1200 for a linux machine was more justifiable than 3000+ for a more-or-less comparable Mac. And the ability to upgrade components in future is also really appealing (I've been a Mac user my whole life until now)
Plus, I wanted to be able to train NNs easily, and Nvidia cards are just the easlest way to do that at the moment.
But yeah. I only work one week per month at the moment. If I did a lot more than that, I think the annoyances that do pop up would feel like a lot more than just a mild annoyance, because my non-work time might start to feel a lot more like my work time
Mac prices can be ridiculous but at least Finnish consumer protection regarding them is wonderful. As long as you obviously haven't been mistreating your top Apple laptop you can get pretty much anything that doesn't wear naturally replaced for free, no questions asked. Like my previous MacBook Pro, I think it was effectively rebuilt (apart from the back plate) one or two times over, depending on how you count things.
They replaced mainboard over four years after purchase...
I got couple keys replaced (after something like four year keyboard replacement policy on this laptop had ended) and it cost 50 euros or so. Before that the keyboard (and battery along it!) had been replaced three times due to some key starting producing double letters...
I just got a bit sick of it all, and I didn't want to participate in the M1 vendor lock-in too much, so I figured it was the right time to move. I have to say though, my 2015 Macbook Pro was still really up there in the performance space, and it was still really nice to use. We still bring it with us on hikes for video editing on the go.
Yeah, those are really fair prices IMO, I'm quite jealous! Apple tax notwithstanding it's such a nice experience using their computers. I'm sure someday I'll return.
I'm waiting with some interest regarding "M1 vendor lock in" ... probably eventually I do give up and just get it because this laptop has maybe two hours of active life left...
Seems like Epic is ending on a strong note. I like their argument that it's unfair Apple is using the gaming industry to subsidize everyone else. Epic has to pay hundreds of millions in fees while Wells Fargo pays nothing for the same service from Apple. And Cook's response was just "That's the monetization route we chose." Then the judge definitely pressed him at the end. If a warning sign is that a company can set prices instead of the market setting prices, it sounds like she thinks they do.
But if Wells Fargo were to sell something via their app, they would be subject to the same fee structure. Seems like a strange argument; the terms of selling on the app store are well-publicized and well-known before placing apps on said store that have IAP.
@MichaelHale I can see that from Epic's point of view that might seem unfair, but I can't see how it is illegal. If a law firm takes on pro bono cases that they pay for using the proceeds from other clients, is that illegal? If a hospital admits patients that may not be able to pay, and the hospital ends up having to pay for it with the proceeds from other patients, is that illegal?
I like Tim Cook's argument that there is competition because they are competing against other devices. You can't split up a device into lots of different components and demand competition for each component individually because it's the total experience that counts. Apple has been pushing this idea for decades and it's why a lot of people like Apple.
Maybe. I agree they can have whatever weird monetization scheme they want if they aren’t being monopolistic anti competitive etc. To me sounds like they are making the same argument to prevent alternate store competition that Microsoft made to try to prevent other browsers besides IE on Windows. Which didn’t work. They didn’t want to burden their users with choice etc.
Schiller made an argument earlier this week that basically takes the subsidization argument and turns it back on would-be competitors. He said that Apple spends on $50 million each year on WWDC, their developer conference. If another company starts an app store and they're not required to pay Apple then they'd be getting that for free. It's just one of many examples along this line that one could come up with, I believe.
