I agree with all this. However, even though I still use Macs for everything, it's been clear to me for a while that Apple 'Pro' users are not tech people. There is a big difference in keyboard necessity between a developer and any 'Pro' user. Key travel, actually having real keys, are all a big deal to devs.
I think Apple lost their function and form way a while ago. It's never coming back. The new Mac Pro is the latest example of this. I bought a 2018 MB Pro 13" last year and the touch bar is a waste of space in my mind. We see now that Apple is ditching the scissor keys, but regardless, their design decisions for a while have just been wanting to have something look cool instead of a balance of looking good and functioning great.
Although apple doesn’t publicise the fact all that much on the new Mac Pro coming later this year, it does actually have two SATA ports and some 8 pin power connectors. Apple don’t provide the necessary “cage” to mount the drives (at least as far as we know so far), but third parties have already announced some products that mount internally and use these ports to connect a bunch of disks.
As for power, I believe the two MPX bays provide dual 8pin connectors for up to an extra 300 watts, so should support most power hungry pci-e card designs.
Honestly though, if you can afford this machine it’s not like really any of this matters, this isn’t exactly a hobbyist computer people are going to buy and upgrade themselves all that much.
They haven’t announced the maximum amount of flash drive space you can get from them (and I wouldn’t pay Apple prices for it anyway), but you can get 4TB of overpriced SSD storage on the current iMac Pro.
Driving, for me, is a massive exercise in being mindful. My goal, however, is not to mind the suffering of others but instead, to take those inputs, not associate with them, and let them go.
For instance, some driver doesn't want to get in the queue at the back, so they drive up and cut over in front of me or a car or two up. There are a lot of thoughts on that that could go through your mind. These range from "no fair" to "jerk" to other things.
But, I've come to realize the best way to deal with that is to detach. You can either not let the person in and then go down that range of thoughts/emotions (primarily negative) or just let them in and not dwell on it. Observe it (assuming it's not jeopardizing anyone's safety) and let it go.
This is a very simple exercise, but it has the potential to be carried on to larger experiences in life. I'm not here to judge if you don't think it is, I just know what makes sense to me. And this is not something I have come up with on my own. This and similar techniques have been highlighted in quite a few books I've read, people I've listened to at various events.
This for me is a much deeper discussion and I think completely personal to the experiencer. I tend to fall on the side of being mindful of yourself and the struggles/suffering of existence are of your own doing and choices (obviously, this is a simplistic statement, but to me true on a high level).
I've been listening/watching quite a bit of Naval Ravikant podcasts/videos. I think he has a lot of good wisdom to digest and he definitely covers this subject. I highly recommend anything of his you come across. https://nav.al
Oh yeah, I’m all about being a detached driver. I don’t even look into their window to see the driver. I just leave it at “red SUV” and don’t allow myself to develop a picture of the driver.
Yah, CW is a joke. He has TrueCrypt partitions from, supposedly, Satoshi that have all of Statoshi's millions of bitcoins on it/them. He cannot (yet) decrypt any of these, but his claims of being Satoshi will be realized when he can decrypt. See?! I do have the private keys! Never mind it's 10 years later.
Just thinking about that is ridiculous. CW is worth $500m and some change and that's not enough..?
As for bcash, don't forget about Ver. While I get where he's coming from with having so much time and money invested in btc and such, along with wanting to have a 'cash' type coin, it's just not reality. Bcash has never stood on the solid foundation that btc has. It can't. I don't disagree with the btc people that the btc blockchain is too slow (as is) to handle massive transactions. And that being the case AND also the fact that is has not been hacked in over a decade, you just have to concede that it is what it is. It's the worlds oldest and most stable blockchain and the value is not in small transactions, but hodl.
So, SV is a fraud, bcash is welcome to try its hand at massive block sizes, but will ultimate, just be a side show.
I keep going back and forth between POW and POS/DPOS... Some chains to think about in regards to their governance, txn volume and throughput: Tron, Eos, and Eth, and IOTA. (I personally, think Eth is already v1 tech..). These are the guys I'm watching through 2020.
No the real red flag was trying to prove he had the keys and then using a cryptographic sleight of hand to fool a bunch of people. When this was discovered he backed away and said he won't be providing proof anymore. It wasn't even sophisticated.
All he has to do is sign a few words with an early wallet and the matter would be resolved instantly.
He's been caught out numerous times modifying timestamps on documents and flat out lying to deceive those with little understanding of cryptographic proofs.
He thought using some billionaire called Calvin would make people pay attention to Bitcoin SV and money would solve every problem he has but apparently it didn't work that way.
He tweeted he has enough assets to dump BTC down to $1000 in an poor attempt to threaten the BTC community but he now even deleted his Twitter account.
If he was really Satoshi, somehow he seems to have lost most of his brain in the last 10 years.
I've waited for this for a few years.. Until I stopped caring last year. Alas, I'm underwhelmed. Mostly in the form factor.
I had an Intel beta machine from yonder. Apple sent everyone an iMac that year we had to send those back. I had that and a MacBook Pro for a few years until I got a 2009 Mac Pro. Had to retire that when OS X upgrades stopped working on it. I loved that machine and put it through its paces for many years.
In 2014 I got a trashcan Mac Pro and that's probably been the most beautiful Mac I've ever owned. I know a lot of people don't like it, but it's been quietly humming away on my desk for years. It takes up about a 7" x 7" corner of my desk. It's perfect. I love stuff that doesn't make a sound and gets out of my way.
The new form factor, I'm not into at all. It's great that it's expandable and powerful, but it just doesn't do it for me. I've been doing Mac and iOS development for so long now and thrown so much money at them that I think I'm just burned out. I mean, how much 'best ever', 'amazing', 'sensational', every year can you take? I no longer drool every time Ive speaks and the video for it had me yawning. I've seen it before, even though I haven't. Yah, no one else makes that design, I get it. But, I am now asking myself, so what?
It seems like they have been less 'pro' the past years and now they're extreme pro. I'm just average pro I guess. They didn't design this machine for me and that's ok. I'm just underwhelmed by everything Apple now.
"What's not affordable is spending most of your income on rent, and this is hardly a choice for most people right now."
Not a choice? Don't you enter into a rental agreement via choice? I've never met anyone who's said they were forced to rent some place.
I don't necessarily disagree with the housing shortage, but there's reasons for that. Look at state, local laws and nimby's that pass and influence local zoning restrictions. San Francisco is a perfect example of that process gone awry.
Want affordable rent? Then you can still choose not to live in one of the areas that is anti-housing.
I wish people didn't trivialize the struggle with moving from a metropolitan area, as if leaving everything and everyone close to you is a simple, rational, mathematical decision to save a few hundred a month on rent.
I think Apple lost their function and form way a while ago. It's never coming back. The new Mac Pro is the latest example of this. I bought a 2018 MB Pro 13" last year and the touch bar is a waste of space in my mind. We see now that Apple is ditching the scissor keys, but regardless, their design decisions for a while have just been wanting to have something look cool instead of a balance of looking good and functioning great.