I've had thermal throttling issues with my 16" since I've gotten it, and it's only gotten worse. I had to do a downgrade to Catalina to even be able to use it. It's so funny that a $4.3k machine can't even run Zoom or Meet properly. I also had to do a SwitchResX trick + clamshell mode to even be able to dock for a few hours (and it'll overheat again).
I play an occasional Dota 2 match, that my 2014 13" handled without any issues, while my 16" just shuts itself down because of overheating (even while not docked, because of dGPU usage). I don't care if it's an AMD issue, then the GPUs shouldn't be in their machine.
MacBooks used to be so good, and just work. Now not so much. I'll think twice before buying anything Apple (computer-wise) ever again.
Considering her previous attacks to anyone who disagrees with her and her previous public feuds, I'd say people may be afraid of being stamped as a racist/sexist because they had to reject her paper. She was a disruptive employee who threatened her employer and the employer didn't accept it. Why is Google obliged to keep her employed?
There are many people in SV that are very quick to bring up race, gender and diversity whenever a dispute arises. It's becoming predictable to the point of being problematic.
As a POC myself, I understand there is a time and place for this.. and it definitely isn't all the time, publicly, on social media.
I fear that people like Timnit are inappropriately wielding justice rhetoric to benefit their own careers, at the cost of actual injustices that may occur to others. This is just my opinion.
That is very sad indeed. I am a second degree immigrant and active in politics in Norway. This behaviour is actually limiting our abilities to work towards eliminating real discriminatory behaviour. I've seen it first hand where someone has accused someone else of racism, when it was there own fault. I guess it benefits them, because they get their way but it also creates a divided and toxic society. Working with people like that is also very tiring and stressing.
The funny thing is she isn’t going to be harmed by this. In fact if she felt like she needed a different job this is one way to do it. I personally would hate the stress, but some people like it.
One thing I rarely see is people talking about her email where she said “give me a and b or else I’ll leave” - paraphrasing slightly. This isn’t in dispute, she readily admits this.
What ... is an employer supposed to do with this? Also she’s a manager, so there are extra lame legal crap. It feels like they could have not taken her bait - which sounds like hyperbole to me - but I guess they did, and do they have to?
I can’t say about any of the review things, if she is being over reviewed or not, could be. Demanding to know everyone who looked at her work so she could... wage a Twitter war of destruction, well I could understand not wanting to do that. I mean if I was asked to review her paper, I would decline. Who would get into that?
That's an angle I had not considered. She has a reputation for retaliation using -isms and those reviewers were able to successfully ask their employer for protections against a historically confrontational coworker. Google as a company takes the hit, as it is in their great interest to prevent their less-vocal employees from getting raked into a public fight.
Exactly. That would be very unfair to those employees. How she treated Yann LeCun and how she now publicly bashes Jeff Dean it is no doubt that those employees would also be named and shamed publicly. She threatened to resign and her resignation was accepted. Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk :)
How was she marginalized? Marginalized means keeping someone in a powerless or unimportant position in society, which she was not as she had one of the most important roles in AI and was a manager.
I totally agree with you. Screaming racism/sexism/marginalisation every time someone disagrees with you is annoying and tiring. I am a second degree immigrant in Norway and I always see this behaviour in people who blame society when they don't get their way when in reality people rarely get their way all the time. I hope the level of stupid activism does not reach Norway although we do copy many stupidities of the US :)
Worst of all, it pushes non-racists to become actual racists.
If you start attacking people who previously had no problem with you, grouping them as evil on the basis of their physical characteristics, you’re going to get various forms of backlash. One of those is going to be those people seeking support among others belonging to the evil group identity that you carved out for them, and they’re going to push back in kind.
> One of those is going to be those people seeking support among others belonging to the evil group identity that you carved out for them, and they’re going to push back in kind.
I don't think that happens very often outside of the villain origin stories in comic books. A normal non-racist person doesn't react to being called a racist by becoming the biggest racist they can just to spite people.
Oh, I don’t think it happens in the common case, no. But it absolutely happens at the margins, particularly among folks who are more predisposed to radicalization. I know that happens.
And racism isn’t binary. You don’t have to be pushed all the way to wearing KKK garb to have some level of contempt or prejudice towards other races. So a great way to avoid this outcome and minimize exacerbating existing tensions is to not engage in more divisive hostility on the basis of their identity. Like the guy she is berating likely didn’t even consciously realize he was white until she made a point of reminding him in the worst way possible. A dumb, counterproductive strategy.
But her behavior is going to make it harder for all other black people to get hired. People who are otherwise not concerned with race or sex at all will see this and then need to convince themselves that she is not representative of most black people. Some will undoubtedly just go with the option that seems like it carries the lowest risk to them personally and professionally.
Personally I would not hire anybody who has a history of trying to weaponize twitter. And being smeared as a racist, like she is doing to Jeff Dean, can be extremely damaging and severely career limiting. He’ll probably be ok, but it’s something that many people can never move past, especially if Vice or Vox or Salon or whatever culture war libel vehicle decides that they can twist your story into a hot hit piece.
Other situations where Facebook processes data sent by third parties to show relevant ads for said third party and not use the data to match for other ads is also legal under GDPR, since Facebook only acts as a data processor to act on behalf of said third party.
When ordering from Spreadshirt, you may be ordering from a partner that uses Facebook for Business and their privacy policy apply to you. This is also stated in Spreadshirt's privacy policy.
GDPR is not an umbrella protection for all type of tracking, even though it usually is brought up as such. It only makes sure you have insight in what is getting shared, a way to export, modify and delete said information. In shop/partner situations, you have to contact the partner to request deletion as the shop is not responsible after your approval.
I may be completely wrong, but this is my general understanding.
Just putting it in the privacy policy isn’t good enough. The general consensus is that unless you’re claiming another legal basis for your processing of data (which would be hard to argue here), consent needs to be informed, opt-in, and granular per usage. I don’t see evidence of that in this story.
Will Google please consider explaining to us why we continue to experience multi-region failures and what will be done so that we can build reliable systems on top of GCP?
I have been taught by AWS that we should expect occasional cross-AZ failures and almost no cross-region failures. This does not appear to be the case at GCP. I would like to have GCP as a cloud option - some of your tech is very impressive - but I have no idea how to design infrastructure on GCP so that I can be confident it won't fail due to a GCP problem that I cannot fix.
I'm very confused. On one hand, the tweet claims to have a bootrom exploit. On the other hand, the fifth tweet in the chain talks about an iBoot vulnerability that got patched in ios12 beta[1].
Maybe the vulnerable codepath has some code sharing between iBoot and SecureROM?
If I've understood this correctly, it was an iBoot vulnerability enabling the exploitation of the BootROM vulnerability untethered (without connecting to a computer again). Since the iBoot vulnerability is patched, the phone has to be connected to a computer every time to boot if there has been any tinkering (custom FW or any change in boot sequence).
So prepatch you could exploit the BootROM vulnerability untethered with the iBoot vulnerability, but postpatch have to connect to a computer to boot every time if you have done any tinkering which is why it is currently only adviced for security researchers.
Tinkering with the BootROM also leads to invalidations of APTickets (so a future restore may be impossible without special gear).
I play an occasional Dota 2 match, that my 2014 13" handled without any issues, while my 16" just shuts itself down because of overheating (even while not docked, because of dGPU usage). I don't care if it's an AMD issue, then the GPUs shouldn't be in their machine.
MacBooks used to be so good, and just work. Now not so much. I'll think twice before buying anything Apple (computer-wise) ever again.
Specs: 2,3Ghz 8-core i9, 64GB RAM, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB