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The original iPad was a first generation product; its status as a minimum viable product was only clear after subsequent product cycles.

I suspect that new iMac design has been in the can for years, waiting for the technology to catch up. And it’s a consumer device anyway; the real test will be whether the “M1X” ser…

The original iPad was, in terms of compute specifications, a minimum viable product. The M1 Macs are not—they are the combination of a mature platform with a mature silicon chip. G…

Wherever possible, they've done exactly that—so how is that a criticism? Case in point is the end-to-end encryption of iMessage. Or the at-rest encryption of iOS devices. In other …

> Even more cynically, you can say it's private from their competitors. I've heard this from a few people recently, but I don't understand the implied criticism. What should Apple …

Replaceable batteries were superseded by batteries of sufficient capacity for 99% of users. (And for the remaining 1% I'm sure the non-Apple marketplace has fantastic, no-compromis…

This is true. Our hearing is well tuned for utility in a pre-modern context. They just don't have anything remotely like the precision of our eyesight, which can judge things like …

I am not confusing the two. In a band-limited signal, the Shannon-Nyquist theorem mathematically proves that the sampling rate is the frequency resolution. It also proves that when…

For me bedsheets are their own wash cycle, so there’s nothing to stack them with. I just carry them upstairs and dump them into the blanket box when they're done. No need for a bas…

> 128k MP3s Twenty years ago, such files would have been barely listenable. Ten years ago, this would have been tolerable but obviously compromised. Today, with the best encoders, …

The crucial difference is that compared to our other senses, our ears are really, really, astonishingly shit. They can be highly precise in one context and ludicrously imprecise in…

And more stress on the speaker/tweeter drivers. Of course, when you look at these high resolution recordings, the amplitude of material above 20kHz is piddling. The amount of harmo…

I believe you are sincere. But I think that if you were able to run a sufficiently rigorous blind test (note: precise level matching is critical ) you'd surprise yourself.

> It definitely sounded different, I heard things in songs that I've listened to for years that I've not heard before. That usually means one of two things— 1. the frequency respon…

Again yes, that’s exactly my point. They are double dipping on the good will; first as an employee perk, second on their corporate annual reports.

I never understood the need to fold bed sheets. Crinkled sheets simply aren’t a problem I’ve ever had; you barely notice the difference once they’re stretched over the bed and pill…

That’s my point. The donation is financially a corporate donation, but is being marketed to the employee as a perk of their employment. That it’s “their” donation.

And then the accountants probably tabulated them as corporate donations. So were they gifts from the employee or not?

Not every website requires retention of every person in order to survive. In my case, my website is better because my user base is tolerant of a bit of jank. I consider it a win wh…

Exactly this. I have no desire to develop against the most bleeding edge target. Thanks for explaining this better than I could.

It's no matter; I'm not here for the points. Personally I find it hilarious to be down-voted for stating plain facts about my own (demonstrably effective) development process.

You do realise that my “about” is a joke, right? Regardless, I’m self-employed and my website makes enough money that I can spend plenty of time arguing with people on the Internet…

HTTPS is necessary. QUIC is not. It’s going to be a long time before any site requires QUIC in order to work.

I just don’t like the idea of having my own devices conspire against me to compromise my own privacy.

As a web developer I don’t test in Chrome—I develop against Firefox and sanity check using Safari iOS. Therefore my site is explicitly optimised for Firefox. Chrome users might exp…