For Mac Pro, Linus has a good summary of industry reactions so far.
Basically, this is a machine for an extremely narrow professional segment who refuses to move away, and also earn enough money that price is irrelevant. Everyone else, this is not for you.https://t.co/H5XnrZuHIi

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) January 26, 2020

People have just no idea how much real professional equipment costs. Let’s look at just monitors for a moment. Here is a (of a line commonly used in the industry) reference monitor that retails for $39,000. It’s only 4k.

The Apple Pro XDR display is 6K instead of 4K, also HDR, and the most expensive variant is only $6,000. It’s a fucking bargain, in other words.

Always goofy morons coming out of the woodwork to expound on shit they don’t know a fucking thing about.

Here's your periodic reminder that basic research is only "useless" until it suddenly becomes the most important thing in the world. 20 years ago, coronavirology was an obscure sub-field the public never heard about. Good thing we funded it anyway. #nCoV

— Alan Dove (@alandove) January 24, 2020

Constantly hearing both conservative and “progressive” mooks screech about how we are funding “useless” research really pisses me off. No research is useless, really, because we never know exactly what matters. Often we don’t know something is relevant for 100 years or more. Simply put, most people aren’t very smart or very curious so they can only imagine 15 minutes out, if that. Often not even that.

As the author of "Networking for Systems Administrators" I can attest this XKCD is 100% true. #sysadminhttps://t.co/ehSIh7Jcd8

— Michael W Lucas / Michael Warren Lucas (@mwlauthor) January 24, 2020

Yes, true. Networking problems is where the rote troubleshooters (can Google a little) and the real troubleshooters get sorted out. Issues associated with networking are 10x (at least) as hard as any problems with servers, OS, storage and the like. You absolutely cannot get by with Google. What answers are there are often wrong. You can’t even rely on vendor documentation. No, you have to be looking at the packets and understand what they are doing, why they are doing it, how routing and many other technologies work, and how they all interact together.

Networking is where you get into the deep magic.

Hollywood backs up a dump truck full of money at your front door to make any movie you want to make. What’s the movie?

— Kyle Summerville (@Damn_Fine_Kyle) January 26, 2020

Idea I had for a long time about how human consciousness as we know it resulted as a complex form of parasitism by another organism. In the future, some people choose to have this invader organism expunged from their bodies and brains, and it results in a new form of human that is essentially a philosophical zombie that experiences neither pain nor pleasure.

The first movie would consist of the discovery of this organism and the emergence of this new type of human, along with how the older humans are starting to be outcompeted by this “original” human.

The second film would be detailing the degradation of material existence caused by this massive change, especially for the parasitized (fully conscious) humans. This would be by the lack of any true ability to experience pain or pleasure that the de-parasitized humans possess allow them to be more productive than parasitized humans.

The third film would detail the inevitable war and eventual departure of all de-parasitized humans from the planet, out into space, as they can withstand far more casualties and loss due to their novel nature (and thus innovate new tech far more quickly as a result).

Last shot would be my protagonist (played by Margaret Qualley in my dreams) gazing out on a vast fiery sea of fusion rocket launches as the de-para humans depart, saying something like, “There won’t be enough room for them out there, eventually. They’ll be back, and we’ll still be the same.”