M1 Pro

Well it's quite different from the M1. Please don't mix it. It like saying i3 and i7 is the same if they are on the same generation.

It's not that different. It has more cores but they're the same cores.

And higher power limit, exactly like i3 and i5 and i7. Same core architecture, just different in clock, power and core count.

I think they have the same microarchitecture but are slightly different (in, like, the number of address bits)

He did it to the smartest kid in our CS class. I feel bad now because I feel like he deserves a degree.

A classmate of mine dropped out to do this. Failed, and ended up picking up later to finish the last two years of college. It really didn’t seem to have slowed them down, and finishing college a few years later (with some startup founders experience) seems to have been overall good. Unfortunately did end up going to Boston Consulting Group from on-campus recruiting, so not a great end to the story, but historically that’s a high-ish paying and hard to get job.

I get the feeling only very affluent and well-supported people follow this path, and they probably don't need THiel's money to do it. The vast majority don't have a few years at this stage of their life to play the lottery.

Yeah, I hung out with one of the early batches of these people (my former supervisor was involved) and would agree that they tended to be from better off families. How much of that was the Ivy league selection bias vs anything else I dunno though.

He'll receive plenty of opportunities regardless of degree so I don't see why you feel sorry for him.

He would have made a fantastic professor in my opinion. But I think also, certain opportunities just require a degree on a policy level.

> If you agree to $X but then don't do it: you're a liar.

No, you're unreliable.

Report whoever you want to HR people. Don't listen to this guy ^

I will give you the benefit of the doubt and interpret your comment as not specifically accusatory towards Carmack:

Report someone to HR who deserves to be reported to HR, not someone who gave genuine good-faith (and in this case, correct) technical feedback that unfortunately got in the way of someone else's promo packet / empire building.

There are certainly good reasons to report someone to HR. This is not one of them. Only toxic workplaces tolerate such pettiness. And ultimately, XROS was canned by Boz anyways.

Hopefully for a better reason than the report against John Carmack.

You're carrying an always on mic wired up to a closed source system with you everywhere you go already. It was already possible to stream or record everything anyway.

Holy paranoid.

Honestly, no. It enhances it. It's just a tool. Like do you bring a flashlight camping?

The truth is the internet was never designed or intended to host private information. It was created for scientists by scientists to share research papers. Capitalists perverted it.