what a timeline to witness, absolute glorious

I agree with your sentiment.

I'm a designer but 80% of the time I implement user interfaces. I have to say that the worst user interface code comes from traditionally educated computer science people... it's almost always a huge pile of shit with layer upon layer of useless abstraction.

I think you're right... no one has it figured out, it's all a mess.

> "we've left money on the table because we can't manage our supply chain. Oh, and we've pissed off an entire market segment."

It's probably false to say they're leaving money on the table. They'd be leaving a lot more money on the table if they allocated chips towards consumer gaming GPUs instead of maxing out the server AI/GPU compute segment. The entire gaming market constitutes like 15%-or-less of their revenue nowadays.

And Nvidia has enough mindshare that they could piss on consumers for the next 3 release cycles and still have more than half the market. I don't like it but it's reality.

The top end should at least be stocked because a lot of us are using cards locally for AI that eventually runs in the cloud.

So yeah they did leave $2600 from me on the table that is now becoming more likely to be spent on a bootleg 48GB 4090 than a 5090 and if I get that they won’t see money from me for many years till they beat 48GB in consumer form factor.

"You PC people got us where we are now - so screw you, we don't need you anymore because the AI bubble will go forever!"

Sounds like your friend ruined his own startup by employing only a junior dev?

> Discord ... immediately and permanently killed every other voice client on the market

Do you mean voice clients like FaceTime, Zoom, Teams, and Slack?

They're talking about TeamSpeak, Vent, Mumble, and Skype.

Well, voice clients on PC for casual gamer use :p

True Tone is also turned on after every OS update.

This is particularly annoying when you calibrate your screen for some modicum of colour accuracy.

Bluetooth is also turned on after every OS update. I don't understand why macOS does these. They can't be bugs because they have been around for years.

Because a newb might complain that their earbuds/pencil is not working.

That they cannot be bugs definitely does not follow. One look at Windows tray icons, monitor recognition, sound volume management, and many other things will tell you that much. Broken since forever. So definitely big companies and tech giants can keep bugs in there for many years. Also note the bugs on iOS described by someone else here in this thread.

It changes the landscape with its multifaceted approach.

No honour among thieves

> Dieter Rams is the man behind Apple's design philosophy.

Rams and his work at Braun may have inspired Apple's products via Jony Ives, but Rams never worked on an Apple product (as far as I'm aware).

It's a bit like claiming "Thomas Edison is the man behind Tesla's motor technology".

Jony Ive specifically has said he looks up to Dieter Rams and his philosophy

Yep, as I mention above

I think the point is that "the man behind" connotes direct responsibility, not indirect inspiration. It's misleading wording.

You might try "Dieter Rams inspired Apple's design philosophy."

The man behind Apple's modern design philosophy is Jony Ive.

I'd go with "Dieter Rams is the inspiration behind Apple's design philosophy".

Well, you can be as firm as you like about the claim, it's still reads as if Dieter Rams worked for Apple.

Dieter Rams no doubt had significant influences and admiration for those who shaped his work and design philosophy, should we credit those people as being behind Apple also? How far should we go? Perhaps we need to point out da Vinci is also one of the men behind Apple's design philosophy.

Seems reasonable to suggest "the man behind" is generally understood to mean "the person directly responsible for".

A few reasons that occur to me:

1. The volume of snow to be collected would have been significantly greater than the resulting water.

2. Heating snow at elevation requires more energy.

3. Perhaps getting snow into the steam generator wasn't so easy.

> The volume of snow to be collected would have been significantly greater than the resulting water.

Yes, dependent on the nature of the snow but a broad idea is that if you want a litre of water, you need five litres of snow.

The stat I've seen is even worse at 10:1.

Depending on elevation, the type of parent storm, the ambient temperature, and other factors, the water content to snow can vary from 1:6 - very heavy chunky lake effect snow falling right at the freezing point, the kind you get wet just walking from the car to the door, to 1:12 , the kind typically seen in mountainous, more semi-arid locales. The fine white snowboarding/skiing snow. Generally the colder the air, the less moisture in the snow, same with height, unless it's precipitating out due to orographic uplift first.

anecdotally I think I've had to scoop about 30l of snow in a stuff sack, to get about 2-3l of melted water (of which I've probably added at least a cup or 2 of water to get started - to prevent the bottom of the pot being scorched by heat before the snow melts), so that sounds about right.