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Thinkpads are really good when it comes to laptops that play nice with linux. I still have my T430s around and I love the keyboard and form factor.
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I cracked it! the laptop was designed for DJs!
Now they can scratch and mix right from the laptop instead of putting it on a stand as if it was a super model..
No Magsafe? it was one of the coolest feature on macbooks.
No HDMI?
No USB ports?
No SD card?
No Escape key.. negatively impact vi/vim experience.

Basically they want you to buy adapters for everything (maybe next version will also drop the audio jack).

and they call it a step forward? Surface book looks a lot better to me despite lacking in graphics specs.
Like the movie the green mile you may not want to live forever when everyone you love dies and that cycle continues over and over. Emotionally you might wish you too followed the cycle of life all those you love were following.
I've got a Cinema Display, though it's been relegated to my second monitor it is pretty nice to have all my cables routed cleanly to that and just plug in the MagSafe/T2 connection and my MiniDP connection from my big monitor every morning and just be done with it.

Some cursory searches suggest I'll be anywhere from $80-150 in getting a Thunderbolt 3 -> Thunderbolt 2 adapter. This, just to get back to even after an upgrade.

I love my MBP, I've gotten one every other year since 2008, except for that time I lost my laptop bag off the motorcycle on the freeway. It's the best blend (for me) of *nix and 'Just Works'. I can't even fathom going back to Windows, but I might go see what Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora desktops look like these days, and I hear Dell has some decent upper end hardware again...
It's not that im prohibited from developing, its that the value proposition of a macbook pro is going down and I have no other option other than a macbook pro, all these changes are detrimental to me and I have no alternative.

Can't use (now) old magsafe, can't simply connect hdmi to current screen without an adaptor, yubikey will be useless and will need a replacement, adaptor for headphones because I use hd598s and will never use wireless headphones, need to get used to new f keys when using vscode shortcuts when meddling with non ios or react native code.

Nothing is a death knell, but feels like they're choosing a death by 1000 paper cuts with these incremental changes.

I honestly can't point to a gain except maybe able to click on a emote faster using the magic bar and other odds and sods that a magic bar offers.
> it's become extremely finicky

Clean your connectors and the problem will be solved. Do you know what will be extremely finicky in a permanent way? Your Thunderbolt 3 port after it's had the power cable unceremoniously ripped out from it.

At least there are 4 of them, so when one breaks you'll be able to use one of the others.
It's over 9000
Why do companies/society need to accommodate people who have kids?

People are giving you these answers about the importance of children, etc, etc, etc. They're right, but I don't think that's the reason companies accommodate people with children. IMO, it's pretty rare to see policies that are truly based on altruism.. there's usually at least some financial/economic basis for those policies.

This is simple really... if you don't accommodate them (something that costs little), they will go somewhere else that does. So you're left with a smaller pool of employees.

Some of those that you've lost, may be very good, but they will go work somewhere else where they get what they value. So to attract those people, you can try offering more money (likely more than what child-accommodating policies would cost).

Either way, you've reduced the employee pool, and increased wages to compensate. That's not a good situation for any company to be in (unless the cost of such policies costs more... which is unlikely).

Edit: also consider that the older a person is, the more likely they are to have children. So if you didn't accommodate them, your employee pool would be filled with younger, less experienced people (ie: 18-30). That's also generally not a good thing for a company.
This only applies for segregated societies, though. I can see an argument for reparations to the grandchildren of slaves, for example, because their whole economic structure was impacted in a heritable way. The same doesn't apply across generations for women - if your mother was discriminated against, you suffer equally for it whether you're male or female.
As a dev I pay for a lot of services (AWS, Digital Ocean, Github, etc). However, on my personal life the only paid service that I consume is Netflix. Everything else is free. Can you compete with free?
Or, hopefully, the asymptote that is Scala's compile times.
My laptop is my primary tool I used in my job, which allow me to support my family and myself. I spend around fifty hours a week using it. Investing in a good tool, when there is a guaranteed pay-off and productivity (or living quality) increase isn't unreasonable at all.
I guess Apple not approving your app for the app store mught be a stopper.
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I love it, personally. I installed it and VcXsrv and put a link to 'bash.exe -c "DISPLAY=:0 xfce4-terminal"' on the panel. gVim on Linux works great for code editing.
I agree. I've been a PT, I've done Yoga, stretching, all that usual stuff, and the key to not exacerbating the existing problems is doing it right.

By sitting for hours at a time you're changing the muscle balance of your body - some are turned on for longer, some are turned off entirely. You're tightening muscles while others atrophy over time. You may eventually find that there are muscles you're unable to consciously relax, and this could be a source of pain.

Other issues brought on by this include skeletal alignment problems, such as slumping forward or head rolled back, and not using joints correctly.

This takes knowledge to correct, and while it may seem quite simple even a small change can have a large impact. Consider shoe inserts for an example of this.

TL;DR is "See an appropriate qualified medical practitioner."

It's worth noting that you should find someone who does specialize in this field. I had knee problems for a while, and my doctor diagnosed me with having weak muscles in my knees. She gave me exercises that didn't help, and after a few months of more pain, I approached a sports physio who took quick look and gave me stretches to fix the muscle tension in my anterior thighs. Don't waste your time with alternative medicine such as chiropractic. Yoga may have some value, but more as a preventative than a complete cure, although nothing beats standing up and going for a walk for a few minutes every 20 minutes, though. When you've had a correct postural alignment pointed out to you, you'll recognize the proper relaxed state.
While I don't believe in Heaven, I do believe that Bill Gates can buy his way there.
So what happens if the relationship starts when people are equals, and one later gets promoted? What if the people are married?

Depending on the policy, you might have people having to leave the company or decline promotions.
I don't know if this is a thing on OSX, but tmpfs can be pretty sweet for speeding up various storage-IO-heavy tasks. (In essence, it's a filesystem partition mounted in RAM)
I wish they would have kept MagSafe in addition to adding charging via USB-C. I doubt MagSafe adds much cost to the BOM or that it would have presented much of an engineering challenge to keep both. It seems like that solution would have pleased most people while also keeping a unique selling point for MacBooks.
Seems like they'll have to do an external keyboard with a touch strip, so that folks can access the cool UI stuff when they're docked at a big display.
Touch typing. Unless they added some haptic feedback it's not gonna be enough.
> Thinkpads are seriously nice

I use a T450s for work. My wife took one look at the FHD screen (she uses a 15" rMBP) and said "can't the firm spring for something less shitty?" The backlight bleeds, the keyboard is warped near the touchpad, and the touchpad isn't that precise. I bought my own for personal use and then sold it because it was so underwhelming.

The one redeeming quality of the machine is sick battery life with the extended battery. But on the T460 series, you can either have the high-resolution screen or the giant battery, but not both. Doh!
Looking forward to seeing if a web standard comes of this. Would love to be able to make use of this additional UI in my web apps.
Ummm... monkeys and chimps are not in the same family, let alone the same species. One might as well say that humans "genocide" chickens.

Tribes of neolithic humans occasionally attacked and killed each other, but it was about something real, like the survival of their families. Civilization has given us kings and armaments manufacturers, who have us kill and die over bullshit like "God" and "freedom".
Thinkpads are built pretty well. I can't comment on the latest series but i've had good experience with the T series of thinkpads. I still have my T430s around. The hinges and latches are solid, the keyboard is still a joy to type on.
Because abuse is not the problem. If someone disagrees with you, libtard philosophy demands that you are silenced. So they constantly come up with what's "abusive" so that they can functionally silence anyone that threatens their power.

Blocking people is the worst option for then because they won't be able to see how people threatening their power are doing so.
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I genuinely don't understand the drive to make all these sacrifices just to make the computer a couple millimeters thinner. Are there people who look at the previous generation of MBP and said "that's too thick"? If so, why?
I've had 0 need to do that as a web developer, and I much prefer developing on windows 10 than Ubuntu. The bash shell does everything I need it to. The small things that don't work in the bash shell, I can just run the windows version. It basically just boils down to the tools and environment you need, but I have everything I want and need on windows 10 now.
Well, it was a runtime option that was requested, and runtime options don't have to be identical on every platform.
Dell. The Dell XPS 13 is the best line of laptops I've owned. They come with Linux preinstalled, and all the drivers that they write to support the hardware are pushed upstream to the kernel, so you can run whatever distro you want.
Totally. Maybe it's the Canadian in me, but put a fancy camera above the goalie net and I will pay to be transported there during a game.
My guess is the next iPhone or the one after that will drop lightning altogether, and just use induction charging, and wireless for all I/O.
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You understood my point...
Have you read this book?
I have seen this book being recommended before, and am curious to see what you would rank it
New Lenovo trackpads are an absolute pain in the ass to use. I rage quit my T440s for this alone because on the long run in starts grinding your gears pretty hard. I am glad you had a good experience with it but I strongly recommend anyone considering it to actually try and experiment with it for a couple hours.
There's no prejudice or discrimination at work if some women volunteer to answer questions from the Internet.
Data mining. My mom just sends emails but inherited my old computer...
It's ridiculous that the stylus needs a port.
I can't take all the credit, Jess Frazelle was the reason that I started to work on an upstream version of binctr. But one of the cool things we can do with the rootless containers work (aside from making the lives of researchers easier -- something I've experienced personally) is to add OCI image building to KIWI (which is (open)SUSE's image building tool) and thus add it to OBS (the Open Build Service which is (open)SUSE's package building tool). I think there's a lot of cool things that will come out of rootless containers. :D

I'm going to be giving a talk about rootless containers at Linux.conf.au 2017 in case anyone is going to be attending.
People like to assume the natural course its somehow the best course, but its far from the true, the fact its that from a biological perspective its much easier to start from scratch than to remain alive for too long; and that's how evolution works, evolution does not care much about what happens after your reproductive years have gone by (so to speak), maybe only enough so you can take care of your offspring while is needed, but thats about it.

Dragon Flys only live for 4 weeks, but its enough time to reproduce and that's all "mother nature" cares about, and hardly anyone would suggest that living 4 weeks is long enough; so we need to understand our lifespans are just as arbitrary.
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I forget who said this, but "Apple used to make good products that were mostly thin and now they make thin products that are mostly good."
and you can get 32g ram on a $2600 xps 15
In a shameless plug for myself, I recently worked on an open-source side project for digital audio players (a.k.a. "MP3 players") that handles the client end of a 2FA system.

This form factor offers several advantages over a phone: first, some devices can automatically type your 2FA code by posing as a HID device, and second, some devices support hardware AES which makes it difficult to clone your tokens.

It's been merged into the Rockbox project: http://rockbox.org
I do, after using macbook air.
Pay what price, though? That's the question I'm asking. What the heck are people using the Escape key for that's so important that they can't tolerate having to tap the Touch Bar instead of having a physical key?

As for ubiquity, that doesn't mean anything. Just because we've had something for a long time doesn't mean we need to keep having it. For example, my current physical keyboard has no Insert key, but that's a key that keyboards had for a long time (my keyboard replaced that with the Eject key). And yet I didn't even notice its lack until I looked at my keyboard just now.
I think surface book graphics are better but I'm not sure.
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> a single integrated protocol that cryptographically verifies and compounds in each step from the request to the response

Sounds expensive. Does it scale?
Sorry could you elaborate? Not understanding what you mean. Very much wondering the answer to this question
You are a vim user and never use esc? You either map it to another key for not apparent reason or not using it really.
This is how I got in:

Open an Incognito window in Google Chrome. Go to nytimes.com. Search for "Common Swift Bird". Sort by "newest". Go read the article.
Unless the OS is rendering the bar off-screen even when there isn't a hardware bar, you could trivially determine whether there is a bar by having the code that controls the bar set a flag / send a message.
Good point on not needing to replace the entire power brick but couldn't this have been solved by keeping the MagSafe port and releasing a cable with the MagSafe connector on one end and USB-C on the other?
Contributor is great for people that just want to avoid ads, but lots of people also object to being tracked.
is the touch bar accessible to folks using screen readers?
Sorry—we used Remedy Action Request System at the George job. Source: I'm the webmaster and I was there :)
> leads me to believe that the software people at Apple were railroaded by some hardware folks

Well, the guy in charge (Ive) is basically a hardware person.
But then where do you store the nuclear waste from the reactor you had to set-up in your backyard to power your macbook?
There's a bizarre focus on Larry Page buying it for whatever reason. Sounds almost like a plea.

But hey, let's imagine that's possible - why do we want Google guy to run Twitter, too. What does that solve? Google has already tried and "failed" in the social area, Page buying it doesn't strike me as some kind of panacea.

What this election cycle has proven to me is that the old media and rapidly more and more of the new media censors things they or various friends of theirs don't agree with, and that doesn't sound like a path to a healthy society to me. The media's problem isn't about being "Old", it's about trust, and expecting people who have built the modern landscape to take a different path seems naive.

There's no evidence that modern social or political discourse is made better by Twitter. Some people seem convinced that Twitter shouldn't just die as is natural. Why?

Twitter strikes me as a platform where the existing media and celebrities pat themselves on the back. Of course media would think it such an important tool, but the average person doesn't get value from it unless we really like to hear Donald Trump's unfiltered thoughts at 3 AM. Personally, don't find that especially compelling.

Edit:

The country’s pre-eminent newspapers, including this one, have long been controlled by families who have understood that the press is not just an ordinary industry, but a civic calling. Twitter is not yet treated as hallowed, but it has the makings of an institution that could be.

I find this in particular hilariously out of touch. At least we're now admitting that families control the country, but let's not act like what the press has been doing for some time now is is anything like a civic calling. This election wouldn't be a complete disaster if the media had been doing its job instead of entertaining or pandering. If that's the standard that the media is holding itself to, then Twitter doesn't have a high bar to clear.
You could say the same thing for removing serial ports, or floppy drives, or CD drives. People used them when Apple got rid of them. People whined. Apple still did it. We don't miss them anymore.

Its possible Apple could go too far, but I don't think its fair to say Apple did anything wrong _yet_. They're always early on removing this stuff, but they've never been wrong. Literally never.
That's actually an amusing idea if you rotate it 90 degrees and use the main display for most of the "table"
Have you considered adding OCI support to Nomad? Is this something you're interested in? Currently we're working on getting an OCI-powered container runtime that works with k8s called ocid[1]. It'd be really awesome if nomad was interested in getting OCI (or even ocid) to work as a runner as well. :D

[1]: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o
I've found the Dell XPS13 to be pretty great.
Bidirectional power, reversible cables, ability to add extra modes (eg. Thunderbolt 3) to the same port with USB 3 fallback.
Honestly I like the Macbook Air for Linux... Alas.
magsafe saves my macbook every 6-8 months

I would need at least one if not two extra chargers (one for the office, one I leave in my bag, one for the other room I work in); dongles to connect to an external monitor; and dongles to connect to projectors. All told probably another $350+ on top of the $2.9k (w/o applecare!) the 15-in model costs.

They're probably going to save me $3500 by causing me to buy a mid-2015 laptop though.

I do love how you can't plug lightning headphones into this thing without another $19 adapter.
> Hard to believe that whole teams using Emacs / vim were ignored

What do you use ESC for in Emacs? I used to occasionally use it to hit M-x, but now I use key-chord.el to map 'xx' to M-x and it's all good.
Man, I wish you lived in my neighborhood with that sense of humor. Seeing Johnny Cash say "I may simply be a single drop of rain", but "I'll remain" and "be back again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again...." had me heaving in a mixture of jovial convulsions and sincere frustration with this dadgum relativity conundrum that ultimately tears us all apart. Brings me to wonder; how many planets might Johnny Cash have thrilled with his reasonably excellent tunes? I just hope that Earth wasn't the only planet in the void to incur the equivalent wrath of Cash + Danzig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWUY57ar18

PS: I think it would be perfectly reasonable to have a permanent national Mount Nelson, in approximate accordance with the video in which the concept thereof was reasonably placed slightly above the local peak. I mean, humanity always transcends its circumstances. Why not Willie?
> the price of a premium something is still going to be greater than $X

Yes, but how much greater than $X is the question. If median salary goes up, high performers have to come down a lot in order to not run out of money.
Rich men have been seeking the holy grail for some time now.
The point of the Windows Subsystem for Linux is that you don't need to run a VM. It is much more efficient in terms of speed (you're not keeping a whole virtualized Linux kernel and everything else running) but also in terms of energy. I can run bash on my Surface (not pro) 3 without any noticeable hit to battery life and without hurting performance.

If 'real linux' is the Linux userspace, then that's what you're getting with Ubuntu - all of 'Linux' except the Linux kernel. WSL allows the NT kernel to handle all of the Linux syscalls. If you consider just the public interface, then WSL is also 'real linux'.

Of course this is all theoretical because there are still some bugs here and there. Those are being dealt with and WSL is making great progress.
You mean instead of the new days with dozens of dongles?

Gigabit ethernet. Video converters for each external monitor type, plus for the projector that you only use twice a year. The external mouse that you really like. The phone. The 2TB USB3 hard disk that you already have. The external DAC and pre-amp that turned your Mac into a high-quality 4 channel recorder. The non-bluetooth wireless mouse that you like so much better than Apple's. The SD card for the video camera that your kids use.
wouldn't you still need a brick at the other end of that usb-c cable?

Very surprised to hear of the battery capacity reduction. Is that confirmed? I haven't looked at the numbers. Anyway, I always felt like that is a red line that Apple would not cross.
You're entirely right, but it's not gonna happen.
I come from a similar background but I started to feel this way a bit sooner, near the beginning of this year, when I realized that almost all of Apple's computers were 2-3 years out of date. The Mac Pro hasn't been updated in any way since 2013. The Mac Mini is almost as old. They used to do "silent speed bumps" all the time to keep up with technology advances without the needless expense and effort to redesign everything every 8-12 months. So if they can't even put in the minimal effort to ship a newer processor, why should we expect actual greatness at this point?
Please don't. I really don't want to be forced to look at my keyboard.
You mean the same way that everybody switched to DisplayPort and dumped HDMI? Wait, no, that didn't happen. Every mac user needs to carry around another dongle instead to convert.
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Don't forget that even childless adults are sometimes put in situations where they need time off to take care of someone else, such as a sick spouse, sibling, or parent. Having a system where theses events are accepted helps companies retain their employees through times of crisis.
> about something real vs die over bullshit

While the military-industrial complex is a thing, most armed conflict can be abstracted as resource exploitation or contention expressed as territorialism. Religion and ideology is just a convenient cassus belli.

As the Lesser Bonapartes podcast puts it, "The in-group always has a problem with... those people."
What do you mean? African or European swallow?
> there is an elegance to the 4 completely symmetrical USB-C ports

shudders You might not be the target demographic if your brain has trouble parsing this sentence.