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> That's a pretty normal cost for a computer.

That might be the normal cost of one of 50 different Dell laptops but for Apple it's their lowest end unit and it lacks a display.

> Most platforms require you to have an instance of the platform available to you.

Nope they don't, but it is better if you do. It's also considerably cheaper.

> I can't think of a case where this has happened – can you give an example?

The PPC MacBook after the Intel Switch, the first gen Core Duo MacBook after the 32-64bit switch, non-retina iDevices... I'm on a phone or I'd keep going.

> I'm trying to put the cost/benefit into perspective. The cost of iOS development is minuscule in context.

If your context is "successful developer with a hit app" then yes, but the reality is that the majority of devs won't be anywhere near that successful.

> Again, you seem to be holding Apple to different standards than other platforms.

See that's where you're confused. I'm holding them to the same standards. Microsoft offers tons of free tools for managing large pools of enterprise machines, maintaining their patch levels, group policies, access control, etc. Linux has similar support.

Apple on the other hand makes you invest in countless 3rd party tools to achieve the same level of control. And at the end of the day it's still Flaky and error prone.
i don't know, a lot of folks show up to CTFs with skills to break conventional apps. Actual reverse engineering (especially something a little different like radio) takes a bit more creativity and effort.
Learning a language from movies.
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You are not the only one : 65% of app downloads are done via search according to Apple
To get from Russia to Serbia you'd have to go through Hungary or Romania both of which are EU member states.

I know the EU doesn't have a history of coordinated military action. But if tanks crossed EU borders France, Germany, Britain and Italy couldn't ignore that.
In a scenario where the entire list is in CC, this could matter. But when your scenario is leaking a small fraction of the list members, you would have to be batching CC. Once you're batching CC, then it doesn't matter if all the emails in a batch are sent out at the same time.
Another great resource at NIST: https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads//
Windows runs any hardware or virtual machine.

OS X does not.

So, no...you don't have to buy a computer to run Windows because you can run it on your existing computer.
'- Mars has gravity closer to the earth than the moon'

Depends on what you mean by close. 0.38 is closer to 16.7 than 1, but any improvement on that is important
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"Self-sustaining" by definition means able to survive indefinitely without importing anything from Earth.
Have you heard about Mars One ?
My impression of working in Japan around five years ago was that it felt like an economy medicated on caffeine.

Work goes on from 8am - 9pm, after which many are expected to go out and socialize with their colleagues (karaoke etc) and get drunk until 3am. Rinse and repeat, most days of the week. It wasn't at all unusual to see rows of salarymen asleep on the subway every morning.

Japan's most popular drink is a brand of canned coffee which is on sale everywhere and in the vending machines that line the streets. Coca Cola's brand of this coffee accounts for an outsize proportion of their global profits (something like 12%, only sold in Japan).

All of this seems to be totally okay and accepted despite the obvious impact on productivity of regularly going for long periods without sleep. This is the offices of Dentsu, Japan's largest media agency, at night: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX6--sQtsA
We've changed the URL to that from https://twitter.com/aaronraimist/status/741456355693760513 (and the title from "Let's Encrypt is sending out a list of all their users' email addresses").
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The Dragon 2 has about 1.6 km/s. Apollo had 2.47 km/s to land and 2.22 km/s to take off. Oh, and it would take on the order of 4.5 km/s to take off from Mars and maybe a few hundred to land.
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I keep thinking the colonists should have tunnel boring machines. They can then "build" more living and working space as they need it without more supply missions. Of course there's the job of reinforcing and sealing those new tunnels. Tunnels would offer decent protection and a more consistent thermal environment. Heating could be provided from waste heat off a nuclear reactor, or just spent nuclear fuel encased in concrete or something ;-)
Oh so you can buy the OSX upgrade and install it on any x86 hardware? No? Then it's not comparable to the retail Windows License.

You can pickup a Windows PC and an Android phone for half the cost of just a Mac Mini that still requires a display.
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Given it's stated purpose, I was surprised not to see benchmarks on things like the Linux kernel source code.
> And in a few years I think that will change, Swift will change it!

The compilers for Swift and Objective-C are command-line tools that are (relatively) easy to port to Linux.

But for a real iOS dev environment or CI server you'll need the iPhone Simulator, which is built on a large stack of proprietary frameworks. I don't see Apple porting it to other platforms anytime soon.

The trivial fix would be to allow virtualisation of OS X on commodity hardware.
Things like this happens all the time. Give them a break. They already did what needed to be done. It's a bad bug yes, but lots of people here could have done it.
I once asked to be removed from a list and suggested they use CC instead of BCC. I accidentally did so by way of Reply-All. Boy did I feel stupid. For days. While everyone kept replying to me.
I have worked in several office environments in Japan where coworkers have frequently napped at their desks.
That could probably be fixed by adding @NotNull annotations to arguments and not injecting in those places.
If the IQ test anecdote about the horse is real I'd like to see a source. It's extremely hard to believe that even a malicious scientist could convince himself that a horse cannot be ridden into town.

> One question in the early test asks, “A man comes into town but his feet do not touch the ground. What is he riding?” The story goes that a young Native American boy responded, “A horse” to which the tester yelled, “Wrong! It’s a bicycle!”
I've also owned a hardbody. Thing was a tank. The vg30 engine was indestructible. I sold it to my brother and somehow my dad ended yo buying it. In the process it got restored and will probably last like 20 more years. Parts are plentiful due to it sharing some with the z31 300zx.

The escape issues with the cable is widely know. I avoid them.
We've changed the title from "Palm Springs lithium mining company refused $300m buyout from Tesla,now bankrupt" back to that of the article.
Mount.ecryptfs_private.c in eCryptfs-utils does not validate mount filesystem
Convenience stores (which are everywhere) frequently have bins outside.
Right, I don't actually disagree with your statement in principle, it was more of a nit-picking kind of thing. Most law system would not be cleanly civil or common law, but a gradient between the two. I guess I was thinking it being more of an issue in country with bad judiciary system.
The mystery of the 'legal name fraud' billboards
Sorry, to clarify why this is not just pedantic, the MUA is likely to split up a long list of recipients rather than try to send an arbitrarily long list in one rcpt to command and potentially fail after a very long time processing and sending data. The fact that they don't have to be the same means that the list in the message can be arbitrarily long regardless of how the MUA batches it for the MTA.

In that event, it is interruptible.

Also, the MTA will batch its own outgoing sends to individual servers (giving them either just one rcpt to or all the recipients whose MX map to that server) and it could be interruptible there as well.

The point is that when sending to many many delivery addresses, things get batched at various stages and become more interruptible than if your CC was the master list of how a message were routed.
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> In addition to this, the employees are most likely expected to play the game or have to play it to do their jobs.

It is an expectation, and the vibe I got from how they described it (albeit as a visiting contractor) it seemed like anyone who says "you know what chuck, I don't think I want to play the game" would basically "not fit in".

Honestly it seemed like a kinda weird place to work, but maybe that was culture too (I'm not American and was just there for a few weeks)
> Cellphone thinness reached the "good enough" stage a very long time ago. Then all making them thinner did was start to make compromises for that thinness

100% agree. Instead of my phone being 1.5mm thicker, I'm carrying around a huge silicon case with a battery and a bunch of circuitry included.

Although I'm sure that's all based on studies that 85% of users don't need more battery life on 90% of the days out of the year, and 96% of users when confronted with a prototype phone that was 0.5mm thicker replied "oooh I would buy this". The tyranny of the market.

That said...

> No 3.5mm is a deal breaker for me

I switched to using bluetooth headphones in 2006 (was that really a decade ago?), so the disappearance of the 3.5mm jack in particular doesn't affect me at all.
Yup, in 20 days when the content becomes unavailable, people will trade them like they trade... well, pretty much anything that they can't get easily by following the law.
It does sound phenomenal, but bear in mind there was no placebo control, so we don't know how much of the effect was due to the placebo effect.

Generally the placebo effect will vary depending on the type of intervention. A very novel and invasive intervention like this will have a high placebo effect. Remember Liberation Therapy?

Given that psychological treatment alone can reduce the fatigue in MS to below that of healthy controls (van Kessel 2008), it's likely that the placebo effect plays a large role. (The placebo effect will also affect pain, weakness and numbness, as the part of the brain that produces fatigue - the anterior cingulate cortex and insular cortex - also produces those symptoms).
slowly the browser is becoming an JS IDE, and that's nice. Ctrl-Shift-I can become the "READY" prompt of the C64.
The "next thing" is CDT auto-saving your changes to css and js for a website, and optionally re-applying them on future browsing.
Having changed layout when I started learning Russian (since russian keyboard has letters in different places than their phonetic latin counterparts) I think it's just matter of how you learn. I had problems too, until I started learning by typing the same sentences that I used to learn Russian alphabet, which introduce letters in small batches of 3 or 4. After few weeks I was able to comfortably switch between both layouts every few sentences.
This is nonsense. The employee usernames are RiotSoAndSo or RiotNameHere, so they are clearly representing the company with their behavior.

In fact one of the explicitly listed common bad behaviors is abusing their position with the company:

> the use of authoritative language, sometimes using their authority as a Riot employee to intimidate or threaten others

There's no reason to think this shouldn't be a fireable offense, especially if there's a pattern of this kind of behavior.
All subjective - I'm sure we could show examples of where first to market trumps and where first to market being just a good beta to some later follower.

Then again sometimes first to market may not necessarily be a good thing, but due to it's popularity catches on anyway (nuclear fission power plants) Or in some cases first to market was too early for market.

On your effort - One advantage of first to market is while others are playing catch up you can be working on next generation - you already have the product skill, and also the opportunity to improve.
It might seem a bit strange, but there is a good amount of value in wrapping native DOM elements. The easiest way to describe it would be when using bootstrap.

<Input />

could return

<input class="form-control" />

Now, you don't have to type `class="form-control"` on every single input, and if you want to move away from bootstrap, you can remove it all in one place.
Yeh so about $1000 of that $15,600.
In the short term, you are either strip-mining soil to collect ice crystals, which you melt and store inside, or drilling a well (and piping it inside).
You would grow food inside pressurised tents.

In the long term, mars lost its previous atmosphere over billions of years. If you have the technology to rebuild an atmosphere in human timescales (few hundred or thousand years) the atmospheric loss is small enough that it almost becomes a rounding error. Maintaining it should be easy.
You can't beat Earth for easy access to liquid water. But you can easily beat the Moon. Mars beats the hell out of the Moon on that score.
Time to go back to Tcl.
I look forward to the variety of vendors who will offer RISC-V chips in the coming decade. I love Intel's approach to graphics and other drivers on Linux, they've been very helpful, and their products do often work well; however I don't think that I can bear the societal cost of something as misguided as the Management Engine. I'm perfectly happy to miss out on DRM'd consumer content on my workstation; I'm not happy to miss out on decent security principles.
Thanks! Ros looks interesting. Turtle bot appears to be the open-source roomba with a shelf on it.
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Thanks! Is FIRST for youth only?
Twitter locks some accounts after 32M passwords appear on dark web
> However, due to the elegance of the plan9 architecture, instead of having the app run in the terminal window or over a laborious x-windows protocol, it writes quickly over the network to the window that you invoked the command from.

I don't understand the distinction you are trying to make with the phrsase "quickly over the network". SSH and networked X aren't exactly slow. The latter can be a slug with a bad network, but I recently had to do something kind of fringe and ended up running firefox over wifi with ssh -Y, and it was usable.

You can argue that protocols, implementation, API, etc. are better with plan9 (consistent with claims I heard before) but I don't totally understand how that would necessarily translate into performance (if anything I would expect things used by more people over more time would be better tuned).
I've replied somewhere in in the thread, but you say that learning two layouts is not doable - it's perfectly doable, and I don't see why one would make such statement only based on own experience (unless you have some source for that, which I'd be very interested in)
Your assumption that the odds of abiogenesis is given by `~1/2^n, where n is the complexity in bits' is utterly, completely false.

Statistical mechanical entropy and information theoretical entropy ('complexity in bits') are not the same quantities! But even if they were, your expression would still be incorrect because living system are definitionally not at equilibrium - so equilibrium statistical mechanics (whose predictions you are using to get that expression) does not apply.

No one is surprised when convection rolls spontaneously form as they boil a pot of water. But equilibrium statistical mechanics predicts that this should be extremely unlikely as convection roll states have very low entropy. That is, of all of the ways that the molecules in that pot of water could be oriented, vanishingly few of them correspond to convection roll states, where several Avogrado's numbers worth of particles conspire to all swirl around in a coordinated fashion to dissipate the heat of the burner faster than would occur just by diffusion.

The origin of life is very much analogous to the formation of convection rolls in the pot. And I believe is far more common than classical predictions imagine it to be - nearly everywhere there is an energy gradient in the universe, you will probably find life.

Citation: I have a degree in physics
Just few things needed for that

- mining industry

- chemical industry with thousands of end products.

- biochemical industry (medicines, plastics etc.)

- microprocessor fab and IC fabrication

- indefinitely sustained biosphere

- manufacturing industry for different high-end products, including rockets, instruments etc. and ability to maintain them.

I think you need large city with maybe 500,000 people at minimum with current technology.
I know of other companies that have similar policies - e.g eBay - it's part of the application process to provide your username and background checks are done on it.

If you think you can be a jerk on the Internet and have it not potentially affect employment then you're being naive. Most interviewers will do an Internet search on your name and dig up as much as they can about your behaviour on platforms and social networks.
Seems a little strange to concentrate so much on keyboard layouts rather than switching to a split or ergonomic keyboard....
Why did science reject women in the past as if it was scientific to do so?
I wouldn't pay for daily news, which is usually reasonably binary.

I would pay 10-20 a month for a site that had high quality in depth analysis and articles, though. Something like a paid version of longform.org. The articles wouldn't have to be tied to current events at all.
what an annoying post. no real content, but an author desperately trying to prove he's smart.

"To say that I was treated pretty shabbily by David Nolen on this issue almost goes without saying."
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I think it's a winner take all task. If you are the first almost live form, you have plenty of time, and can evolved in an environment that has plenty of food. Something like the brown goo of Titan, with lots of hydrocarbons and other small molecules that you can pick up for free. And nobody is trying to eat you. So the reproduction process can be slow and unreliable, perhaps a few reproductions per day/week?/month??

The only way to die if a UV ray split you, or you fall into a volcano (there are no fire, because the atmosphere has very few oxygen), or a nasty oxygen molecule reacts with you, or ...

Well, there are many ways to die, but they are not targeting you, so perhaps you can hide from the sun under a rock. Or to be more clear, since you doesn't have any kind of senses or mobility, perhaps you are lucky and get beached under a rock. Perhaps the rock also makes a nice place to concentrate other molecules during the low tide.

Perhaps it's not a good idea to be near the surface and it's better to be lucky and get near a underwater sea vent with tasty hydrogen. I think the details of the first steps are not clear for anyone (in particular for me).

Once a stupid life for appears, the first thing it would do is eat all the free food. In particular, before the first life form the half of the amino acid were L and half D. We have used all the L amino acids (and created many more than the original supply), and we have also eaten all the original D amino acids. So there are very few of them floating around freely, it would be very hard to start an alternative D-tree.

A new life form will be targeted by the existing life form, like the free D amino acids. The competition will be extremely hard. So I think it's a winner take all task.

Moreover, then some moron decides to release a lot of oxygen to the atmosphere. Oxygen is extremely toxic for most life forms, and more toxic for isolated molecules that are barely alive ...

About the shadow biosphere: Perhaps we (humans) can't detect or identify them, but the bacteria and archaea can probably live there and eat them barely-alive. Our cousins can keep all the out-of-tree competition at bay.
Can't really judge the employees tbh. I'm pretty sure I'd be pretty antsy if I was forced to play that crap game for a living.
No, RHEL 7 was released in June 2014, not 2012. There's no sign of RHEL 8 yet either; it would be quite surprising for it to come out this year.

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078
I too found Colemak lacking. IMO it's because the most relevant keyboard layout metrics are

1) how well words break down into same hand "finger rolls", which help typing accuracy and to lesser extend speed

2) how often the same finger has to type multiple characters in succession

3) how often the same hand has to reach for the more awkward middle keys (y and b in qwerty) while also doing something with the middle finger

Finger travel distance is irrelevant. Common characters ought to be on the home row because your fingers can't roll across the top and bottom row.

Dvorak optimizes these very well. Workman seems to split bigrams across two hands, which prevents rolls. I would also recommend binding alt-gr to control in addition to making caps lock backspace.
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I'm not a clojure user but I am a fan of Rich's talks so I am kinda taken aback by this - this is just not the kind of Clojure I was expecting from what I know of the principles Rich preaches.

I really was expecting belt and braces defensive error checking and never ever giving a dud result.
I'm amazed they made different chips for PAL vs. NTSC instead of having a jumper or pin to select the mode. Same thing on Atari 800.
It's completely doable. Took me a little bit of fumbling to use QWERTY again after learning Dvorak, but it's easy to pick back up and do both.
Some cars can run on a mix of ethanol and gasoline now, and I think more found their cars would run (though with possible long-term damage). If I remember correctly from when I lived in Indiana, they blamed rising food costs on farmers switching out their food and feed crops for bio-fuels. In addition, drought conditions or crop diseases would mean we are right back on oil-based fuels and/or there would be a crisis because of lack of oil. I like the idea that it is clean (at least cleaner than oil, anyway), but I think there are better options than vegetable fuels.
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> So only a moron would trade stocks, speculate on real estate, or take a job as a salesman?

All of those are examples of jobs with fairly to extremely reliable performance measurements... E.g. if a salesperson sells makes 20 sales in a quarter, then there is zero chance of them getting fired because their managers think they actually made -7 sales.

> Morons are nearly as good at teaching as anyone else, and the results of good teaching fades over time anyway.

Again, not accurate. The evidence that good teachers have some magical impact on student performance as measured by standardized test scores is flawed, but that doesn't have any relevance to the question of whether or not good/bad teachers exist in reality. And in fact, if you buy into the idea that "education isn't the filling of a vessel, but the lighting of a fire," then you'd expect the impact of good teachers to become larger over time. (But again, not as measured by VAM.)
I would say he backs up his claims quite well, unlike your comment. He gave ample evidence at his frustrations with the progress of the language - what did you find annoying about it?
Enabling it isn't generally easier either, and it can be secured with certificates on both side. Every time this topic is brought up I'm surprised by the number of people who think remote access is bad and cannot possibly be secured, while not actually digging into what it would take to compromise such a machine.

Maybe it's the server admin in me, but OOB BIOS-level remote access and management for my systems is a godsend and my biggest issue with it is that they tend not to include those features in their "enthusiast" chipsets.