This was always going to fail because the requirements were insane: solving SQL, XML and JSON generation should have never been part of the spec. There are hundreds, if not thousands of libraries for the those cases.
The developers should have never tried to boil the ocean: simple Kotlin or Scala style interpolation with overloading `+` for concatenation is the 80% use case here. Yes it doesn’t do everything. But it makes life a lot more ergonomic. And they rejected this solution out of hand! So instead of something useful but not perfect we get nothing.
also, there isn’t even a barrel let alone any sort of rifling? So how could we conceivably measure laptops in terms of barrel length if there’s no diameter or length?
Apple first-gen products are often half-assed. But they iterate and improve on a regular cadence. The current Apple Vision Pro is a dev kit, it will get better.
$68 billion is a lot, but it also only three Big Digs ($22 billion). If Chernobyl killed the Soviet economy it was because it was in already terrible shape.
Because we outlawed railroad strikes but didn't outlaw airline strikes.
Doesn't really prevent a strike though: it just makes it cost more. Here in Massachusetts it's illegal for public school teachers to strike, yet it has happened a couple times in the last year. In one case the teacher's union was fined: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/02/08/woburn-teachers-turn...
Railroad strikes are not outlawed. They are probably more regulated than other strikes in some ways, as there are certain things they can't strike for, and certain times they can't strike. But when they do strike, they have more leeway too, like they can solidarity strike which is illegal under NLRA.
The most recent attempt at a railroad strike was stopped by Congress imposing management's contract. But that's not a general prohibition against striking.
It's not a general prohibition but what message does it send? "You can't strike because we'll just force you back because we care more about your bosses and Americans getting their cheap shit from China for Christmas presents than we do about you" seems to be the message.
It feels like Xiaomi is chasing a market that doesn’t really exist. Smartphone cameras are good enough for most people. And for folks who want more, mirrorless and DSLRs start cheap and much, much better.
Even worse, this phone looks to use the same small sensors and small lenses all smartphones are saddled with. A bulkier form factor and slapping Leica’s logo doesn’t make a “real” camera. Big sensors and big lenses do.
I am inclined to agree, but I applaud the effort. It is worth investigating the size of this market, which might be large enough to support a few of these phones. It might even push the technology envelope further so that standard smartphones gain some of the benefits of these niche camera-phones.
Not sure about that. A lot of us non-photographers do care about taking nice pictures and videos but don't really want to get into DSLRs because you never seem to have them around when you need them.
These days though most people don't care about more pixels, but better filters. There's still a ways to go before smartphone cameras get there. (imagine building in Moment-type lenses in smartphone cameras).
I agree. The only real use for more pixels is for crop-to-zoom. I want big glass and big sensors so we can get real bokeh.
My ideal phone camera would be a single APS-C sized sensor replacing all three current iPhone cameras. The lens should be a f1.2, 50mm equivalent pancake. Yes that’s hard to do, but using fancy fresnel lenses and a pile of CPU to correct things I bet you could make it work. Make the sensor ~30 megapixels so you can digital zoom.
Add a mount that includes communication so if you want you can add fancy lenses and they can be active parts of the autofocus system.
This design actually competes with low-end mirrorless and is probably even possible to build (the lens might be pushing what’s possible, but I bet we can get close).
