>It wasn’t that long ago when Facebook had to get special permission from the government to stay private until they got to $100 billion.

is this true? There was the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" (JOBS) Act, signed by Obama around that time that changed the maximum number of private investors or whatever, but was special permission given to Facebook?

Oh I was wrong, they were forced to go public. At the time any company with $10 million in assets and 500 investors had to go public. Perhaps I misremember them trying to stay private and failing.

But the point remains, it would have been unheard of for a company 1/10 the market valuation of these companies to be private, so the public market is missing a lot of the growth phase now.

Not that it matters, but I think it's closer to 600 lbs.

$40M /( $4.5k / oz) and then (1 lbs / 16 oz)

For precious metals, the units of measure are a bit different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight

You see, this is what I get for relying on AI. Kagi did catch that it was in Troy (hey that's me!) ounces, but I didn't check its numbers.

> No wonder they need to lay people off!

He clearly works at Apple, and they aren't laying people off.

> replay of Y2K, where, compared to the warnings, not lot happened

My dad was on one of the many Y2K teams that major tech companies had to make sure nothing went wrong. I feel like history may have undersold what could've been if not for considerable effort leading up to Jan 1, 2000.

Are you in Florida?

In San Jose it’s mostly kids on serious e-bikes doing wheelies. and it’s probably not entirely safe, but does look fun

SIP is similar to an enhanced secure boot. It's not (at least not primarily) for DRM.

He might be talking about a Gatekeeper override which is available by digging into the system settings? This allows you to run insecure resigned software (like pirated software is a common use case, honestly). But you only have to do this once, it isn't some constant headache.

I'm not sure what exactly he's referencing, actually. But it can almost all be disabled on macOS (the same is not true of iOS).

"...a modular system stamps out three massive, aluminum castings..."

I don't see how you can stamp out a casting - maybe (or maybe not) a forging

> discourage their adversaries from looking for the beacon signal

I thought the exact same thing the moment I saw it. LPI (low probability of intercept) beacon just makes so much more sense (in the kit the pilot ejects with... has existed for decades). Why would they bother detecting heartbeats? They might not even detect the right one or trigger on an animal or whatever.

Yeah but the base Mac Mini comes with 16GB. So getting that for $600 instead of a very clapped out M1 for $300 seems worth it. That's what I thought when I was browsing on ebay, anyway.

On the flip side, how much training data exists for coding in Swift? Especially when a new version seems to come out every 6 months.