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kevindong
·4 lata temu·discuss
They have been moving to services, but all of their other services are distinctly mass consumer oriented; e.g. TV+, Music streaming, Fitness+ videos, Arcade, News+, iCloud photo backup, Card

https://www.apple.com/apple-one/

https://www.apple.com/services/
kevindong
·4 lata temu·discuss
I'm surprised Apple supports custom email domains to any extent. Apple is a consumer electronics company. Hosted email on custom domains is very distinctly not a typical consumer behavior.
kevindong
·5 lat temu·discuss
In the tech industry (for companies that employ at least several hundred engineers), we have https://levels.fyi which is far more helpful than having a firm salary range will ever be due to the prevalence of stock/bonuses in compensation packages which aren't usually included in legislated requirements.

Albeit the salary data on levels.fyi is far less authoritative than an official salary range in a job description.

Edit: Also for the larger tech companies, you can trivially see how much they pay their H1B visa holders in salaries, differentiated by company, title, location, and date. This site is unofficial, but it's a lot easier to use than the massive Excel files that the official data is provided as: https://h1bdata.info
kevindong
·6 lat temu·discuss
I'm not arguing for/against WGU.

My argument is that ABET accreditation isn't relevant to how "good" a CS program is. It does establish a minimum baseline, but lacking it just means you have to determine the program's value in other ways.
kevindong
·6 lat temu·discuss
ABET accreditation doesn't mean much for CS however. For example, none of these schools are ABET accredited for CS:

- UC Berkeley

- CMU

- Stanford

- Cornell

- University of Washington

- Caltech

- Princeton

https://amspub.abet.org/aps/category-search?disciplines=19&d...
kevindong
·6 lat temu·discuss
If the CPUs being compared are of similar generations (e.g. Intel 10th gen vs. Intel 11th gen, etc.), I agree. But trying to compare across distinct generations is a bad idea.
kevindong
·6 lat temu·discuss
Looks like there's two variations of the Air: one with 7 GPU cores and one with 8 GPU cores.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air
kevindong
·6 lat temu·discuss
Processor speeds are not necessarily a good comparator anyway given that things like caches and core counts are a thing.
kevindong
·6 lat temu·discuss
Completely unconfirmed speculation incoming:

There's a solid chance that the logic board is exactly the same on all of the Macs announced today and the only difference is the cooling solution. If you play around with the Apple Store configurator, the specs are all suspiciously similar between every new Mac.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini
kevindong
·6 lat temu·discuss
When Amazon is the seller, I can't find any available timeslots in my part of Brooklyn.

When Whole Foods (basically Amazon, but not technically) is the seller, there's one availability for 6pm tomorrow.
kevindong
·7 lat temu·discuss
I'm a big fan of the way JetBrains sells their licenses. Like a lot of software companies nowadays, they only sell licenses on a subscription basis. But with a very customer-friendly clause of where if you pay for a subscription for 12 months you get a perpetual license for the latest version of the product when you initially subscribed. And then after paying for any particular version of a product for 12 months, you also get a perpetual license for that particular version and so on and so forth.

Their FAQ page explains it a lot better than I can: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...