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Serious question: what outside of legacy (i.e. almost all of it) Windows CAD software uses or benefits from FirePro cards and the like? I spoke with a dev of a CAD suite I actually use, one of the few that doesn't have a requirement to use one of these cards, and asked about this. The reply was preceded by a snort of disdain: "no we use any DirectX compatible GPU. Get a good gaming card, it's cheaper and better."

My impression, right or wrong, is that this segment of the graphics card market mostly serves expensive legacy (and almost entirely Windows) enterprise graphics packages that don't want to migrate to more modern graphics APIs and cards.
Are there people that do 3-D modeling or 4k video color grading on a laptop?
If you're a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to our legal system. It costs too much.

This is not an intellectually serious speech.
I tried to specifically point out that the tax credit accounting of "cost" is fine by me and that I am including its benefit in my numbers for comparison. My post is not about that.
I find it pretty intense to watch people doing things up high. I figure fear of falling is a healthy instinct.
I suggest you looking at Wubi input method[1] which is widely used in China for more than 20 years. My first impression of your method is just the same as Wubi.

The reason why Pinyin input method is more popular, I guess, is that Wubi is too hard to learn which need remember a lot of rules.

But quoted from Wikipedia,

> it is true that Wubi is extremely fast when used by an experienced typist.

So Wubi is still very popular among those who need to type a lot of characters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_method
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I've tried many Hackintosh options out there years ago specifically to get started developing on iOS. While I think many machines can run Mac, I gave up on Hackintosh for iOS development mainly because:

1. Opportunity cost - The time you spend on hackintosh could be spent exploring the iOS SDK. It is an extensive and amazing SDK to work with.

2. Need to embrace the platform - I once hated the fact that you had to get a Mac to develop for iOS. But then a light clicked in my head: If you aren't willing to get a Mac, you'd never appreciate the iOS platform and always hate it for not being more open, or not supporting many languages, etc.
Not sure if it is a new system or an implementation of an existing one. There are already a few existing ones [0] (no English translation). They are great for people who can't speak the official Chinese language properly, which is more than 80% of the population in China (or > 90% world wide), to whom pronunciation based input systems are impossible to grasp.

[0] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/字形输入法

The efficiency of such input methods depend much on one's proficiency, and also the compression ratio of the encoding. After some practice, these methods beat pronunciation base methods easily, as the codes are shorter and with less degeneracy.

On the other hand, all the cell phones have the basic Wubihua [1] that uses only five keys to encode the order of how you would write a character.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubihua_method
> Windows 10 is such a total dumpster fire - privacy nightmare, usability nightmare...

Gee, it's so easy to say things like that without qualifying them at all isn't it?

Here let me try: Android is such a total dumpster fire-privacy nightmare and usability nightmare. I wouldn't use an Android device if they were giving them away!

Hey, at least you can get update for Windows 10 without waiting on any carriers though, lol ;)
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Cars with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay still have the automaker's UI, whatever that may be, or you can buy third party "radios" that replace the head unit.
That's a perfectly valid criticism. I think ditching the headphone jack, while having little effect on me personally, isn't a great move. At the same time, Apple has a long history of ditching compatibility early (floppy drive, cd drive, vga, etc) and with generally good effect long term, so I'm not sure that they actually made the wrong decision here.
Posting this as was wondering if anybody had built such a device yet, given now 17 years ago and the costs of building such a device would now be much cheaper and hence would be surprised if somebody not built one. If not then certainly something for my project list for winter as was looking at optical computing and was pondering howto produce large primes with the use of optics and came across this article about TWINKLE.
The thing I like about Thiel is that he recognizes that there exist people outside of the dozen or so bubbles of prosperity, and that they aren't doing so hot, by and large.
> "Now I don't agree with everything Donald Trump has said and done. And I don't think that the millions of other people voting for him do either. Nobody think that his comments about women were acceptable. I agree they were clearly offensive and inappropriate."

I, for one, don't agree with Thiel's support for Trump. But I think it's fair to say that donating to or voting for a political candidate doesn't mean you support everything they say, do, or stand for. For example, voting for Secretary Clinton doesn't mean you agree with all of her policies - many people vote for her because she's not Trump.
It's not possible to develop for IOS on Linux, Windows, or IOS itself. So not only is Apple hurting future app development on IOS with this move, they're also hurting their internal developers of IOS. Their cash cow -- IOS -- cannot survive without strong pro-caliber Macs.
I find it shocking that Apple doesn't understand this.
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My current Windows installation is 53.6GB, with 29.5GB in a folder called Installer, and 12.9GB in a folder called System32, and 6.1GB in a folder called WinSxS.

I have similarly bloated Windows directories in other computers. It also shouldn't be my problem to Google how to delete defunct Windows system files or whatnot.

Also, the default setting is for Windows to use your bandwidth to share their system files or update files to other windows computers anywhere in the world. Not just your network. So it is in effect, using extra upload bandwidth that you would have otherwise not used. In fact, you have to set your connection to metered for this to be disabled.
There's a tendency in the popular science world and the physics world to glorify high energy physics, and string theory and all that goes along with it.

It's definitely useful - After reading one of those books I was pretty convinced I wanted to do a PhD in Physics. I'm currently four years into a PhD in physics, except in something completely removed from what she works on.

There is also a tendency to elevate theorists and denigrate experimentalists. The experimentalists work is often portrayed as 'dull and technical' and they only worry about the details, whereas the theorist dreams up these wild theories in flights of genius. I can't speak for anyone else, but this was true of school where I was from.

I'm just a little tired of this fairly one dimensional portrayal of physicists (theoretical or otherwise). There's plenty of interesting stuff out there that doesn't involve dark matter or strings (or quantum field theory!). Fluid dynamics is endlessly fascinating to me, or non linear systems ("chaos theory").

Lisa Randall is a phenomenal physicist and I don't begrudge the author her admiration - There just need to be more pieces like this about other facets of the sciences.
> if you have a brand new Macbook Pro and iPhone 7 you can't connect the two without an adapter

Without a cable, not without an adapter. Very big difference. I can use the same cable to charge my phone from my MacBook's power supply and from the MacBook itself. When I travel, I only take one power supply and two cables. Even if the iPhone and the MacBook used the same connector, I'd still take two cables so I could simultaneously charge them both, so I don't have to carry any extra hardware.

Yes, it would be nice if they could use the same cable, but at least I don't have to take any extra cable or dongle for charging my iPhone (I still need dongles for other things, though).
Ask HN: Keyboard or Touchpad
The last few days here have seen a lot of posts and discussion on the topic of moving away from Macbook Pros. A (relatively) minor resistance I've noticed is that nobody makes touchpads as good as Apple. And every time I come across such a complaint, I can't help but think about how bad my experiences have been with Apple laptop keyboards, and the general complaint about the new Butterfly keys being worse.

So I wonder ... if we could choose only between good touchpad, poor keyboard and poor touchpad, good keyboard ... what would HN choose?
From the article:

> As of September 1, 2016, there were 1061 CCS fast-charging connectors in the United States, versus 2010 Tesla Supercharger hookups.
No apparently the site is for talking shit about Windows continuously.
Excuse me, you are saying 9 MIL isn't enough to employ people to troll behalf the campaign?

There is a list of all the people working for ctr half or full time provided by the gov.

CTR Budget: 9,4MIL[0]

[0]https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00578997
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If you are talking about the Apple EULA, that is not enforceable in the EU.
Since the Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) used in this scraping is being brought up again, I'll ask a burning question: is development of the API dead?

From the commit notes in that repo, the only changes from the initial release in 2014 are "minor README updates."
This is the other excellent outcome. People trust the news, they eat it up. Trump has shown it to be a farce, a circus (thinking of the tape he leaked a few months ago that got him a full day of coverage about absolutely nothing). This can only be a good thing, although perhaps I'm overestimating the number of people that will actually change habits.
It's definitely a part of getting a well rounded education... but a large part depends on WHAT you are learning.

What's needed to learn C/C++ is different than what's needed to learn Javascript. C#. Ruby. PHP. SQL. Etc...

A Javascript developer could spend his/her life without ever touching a compiler. I've spent my "career" without ever needing that level of knowledge as a .Net Developer (C#/VB) and Sql Reporting guy (SSMS/Crystal Reports/etc).

I would agree wholeheartedly that a C/C++/Assembly guy needs that experience... but most programmers don't need to know how a linker works.
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There are offline phone navigation apps also. Have you looked at Navmii?
Toyota's hybrids have low maintenance costs; the transmission varies the gear ratio by electronic means and is overall far simpler than either a manual or automatic.
> I don't know how this is an issue for Apple

Oh, it's absolutely not. Apple makes a killing selling adapters. It's the users who get screwed.
Yup, we will have a world with many adapters. I don't think it'll be a big of a problem though.

Also, Tesla has already done so much for any car manufacturer:

- They have made all patents free to use by anyone.
- Elon has stated that he would welcome other car makers to join in on the Tesla Supercharger network if they are willing to contribute in an equal manner.

Seeing as Tesla has more Evs on the road than anyone else by a large magnitude, and they have proven their charging network far more than anybody else, it's odd nobody else wants to join in. But that's Wall Street for you. Nothing will be given away "free", and we can't be seen working with the competition. Despite many of the 'shareholders' are institutions who likely would own shares of both companies regardless. And at the end of the day, Wall Street is a secondary market that should mean jack.

Hell, the only reason other companies are now pushing for EVs so much is because Tesla lit a fire under everyone else and despite Wall Street betting against them (high volume of shorts), Tesla is now the top selling luxury sedan in the U.S. Now everyone else is scrambling. We will see one or two major automotive companies that have been prominent in the last century fall. They will either A. not keep up with the EV world (maybe they receive too much money from the fossil fuel industry) or B. Their tech will not keep up and/or fail and they will lose all their competitiveness.
It lies in both.
As you point out, there's a right way to do fingerprints, which Apple did. Only the key pair stored in the secure enclave is tied to your online identity.

There is a missing link in the trust chain though, which is attestation of that secure enclave (how do we know it is a legitimate and uncompromised one?) However, privacy preserving attestation mechanisms such as DAA [1] require somewhat expensive crypto.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Anonymous_Attestation
sorry, it's because they were morons

just saying/keeping it real

keeping it real edit #2:

to expand on that yes they were/are morons; but:

the reason that those people who you are referring to wrote that way is this:

writing on a piece of paper and writing using a computer are two different skill-sets in the brain. while these people had the ability to write using paper, when they would use a phone, a large percentage of their mental capacity was being used just in moving their fingers and typing on an electronic device, leaving them with only about 10% of their writing ability -- while they were using the device.

see, while they were good at writing, they were not however, intelligent. see, if they were, they would have figured this out.

dumbasses
How do I write "日月"? I can only write "明"
Remind me again how function keys can produce full colour multitouch interfaces, such as video/image scrubbers, colour pickers, etc.

The standard "function keys can do anything" response is getting old.
I would also add that I would be _incredibly_ wary of doing any professional develop outside of a properly licensed environment.

To my great sadness there is no such way to do hackintosh development in a properly licensed manner. :(
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There are multiple offline navigation applications on Android (e.g. Sygic or OSMand), and those are more up to date than the ones in car.
If you're trying to drive for 14 hours continuously for the safety of everyone else on the road I hope you take extended breaks...

I would never take a privately owned vehicle on a road trip. One of my coworkers rented a giant obese SUV for a road trip and when it broke down in the literal middle of rural nowhere, it was no problem, the rental car company drove another car to their breakdown in much less than an hour, then they didn't have to deal with paying for 100 mile tows and scammy rural mechanics knowing you will pay anything to get the heck out of there. Also no wear and tear on their regular car. Plus its fun to drive something new.
How well would this work in a situation with artificial (moving) lighting? I have seen reconstructions for wrecks underwater, and we are interested in doing something similar.
Just leave notepad open with some unsaved changes in it; it will lock it from rebooting
I haven't had to use VIM in awhile, but knowing the shortcuts is important and makes you MUCH more productive...

My current hat is .Net and I haven't touched VIM - or the bash prompt - in almost a year.
just download the offline map before you go!

You'd probably have to do that for your dedicated GPS anyways, right?
you're arguing yourself in circles.

so we're against any notebooks now, as a typical user only ever needs a tablet? great, you've confirmed Apple's strategy across PCs and iPads (incl. the iPad Pro).

they're abandoning the Air and cheaper lines for that very reason - the iPads and iPhones are good enough now.

MPBs are now a testing ground for new inputs (Touchbar) and port unification. Eventually they all add a full touchscreen keyboard, once it can do haptic response (see the iPhone7 home button for a preview). first the Touchbar will become haptic, so we're at least 2 iterations away from it.

Actually more likely that this thing then ends up in the iPad product line, fully destroying the classic PC line. but who knows.
I was quite a jerk in the teenage years and regretted that too until not long ago. I come to convince myself that turning into a jerk was only an adapting reaction to fend off abusive people. From what I've noticed in the pool of abuse-avoiders friends, the ones having enough social skills maybe managed to deal with it gracefully enough, but for the others (me included) being a plain jerk was the simplest working solution. If you still beat yourself over it it may be because you just forget the problems and limitations you had back then.
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Then you download the offline gmaps package, which has everything except real-time traffic and public transport info.
I have Carplay and it is a disappointment. It crashes and freezes up. Maps is better in the latest iOS but it is still horrible. I prefer Honda's Pandora to the one in Carplay.

Overall my best options for music are SiriusXM, USB flash drives, the Honda Pandora, and the Honda iPod interface. None of these involve Carplay. Also, Carplay requires a corded hookup. The Bluetooth in my car lets me make calls without hooking anything up.

I don't know if Honda's setup is atypically decent, but after buying the car in part because of Carplay, I now don't use Carplay.
That's not relevant to the negative impact of custom electrical outlets. New residents don't alleviate the hassle of, say, ungrounded plugs.
...which is why I spent my entire last paragraph discussing why addressing inequality is often considered as a way to tackle inequality. We don't get to pretend they're separate things for at least another few centuries.
Not even close - there are roughly 2x as many SuperChargers as CSS stations. Also, CCS stations are clustered around population centers and not optimized for long road trips. Lastly, CCS charging can't be built in to the purchase price of the Bolt.

All of these facts are directly from TFA...
> You'll love using your phone for navigation, until you go to Canada, where you don't have data. (Or affordable data.)

In that case just use the HERE WeGo App (for iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/here-wego-effortless-city/id...) which has free offline maps for pretty much every country and doesn't need a data connection for navigation in offline mode. I use it every time I'm in another country.
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Heh, must be fun to be able to own any auto-updating Huawei device.
Hi! I've created a really simple Chrome extension that does this for YouTube, check out it out:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fulltube/nmabgnejf...

source code: https://github.com/ijanos/fulltube
It's also possible that they aren't fixing what's not broken.
Not, it seems. We've banned these accounts.
Spotify, Google Music, Apple Music, Pandora?

Before I had to worry about space and moving my music around. Now it's on every device. Has all my playlists, all the music I listened to + discover new stuff, friends can send me songs I might like, can even download for offline if I'm worried about not having internet, etc.

It's been a much better solution than playing everything in Winamp which I used forever or iTunes.
Except for a week later he ditched the Bolt and was back in his Tesla. He was just trying it out because he had a demo. He quickly found out that the Bolt is no comparison really and switched back to the Model S.
I think they are both right. We want earth to be a beautiful "residential district" AND we want a backup plan.
This would not work. setuid binaries do not respect these flags, for obvious reasons. But if you're at the point where you can inject environment vars into a devs workstation, it's probably too late for that dev.
The thing I like about Thiel is that he recognizes that there exist people outside of the dozen or so bubbles of prosperity, and that they aren't doing so hot, by and large.

We can rail on about how those people are deplorable, racist sexist, XYZist awful people, or we can try to have a little empathy and realize that things aren't so rosy from where they are standing, and their communities are crumbling, their industries have dried up, their best and brightest are fleeing to the cities to chase what opportunity there is, and despair is on the rise.
Yeah, I agree, progress in electric vehicles is largely due to batteries getting cheaper (and improving).
Apple is now waiting so long between computer updates that inflation is a meaningful consideration for the price. That's pretty depressing.
FWIW I've used Scott's arguments to get at least 2 more votes for Trump. Including one from a 20-something girl that was a diehard Bernie supporter. I know, anecdotal.

What I find effective is asking people to really state exactly, specifically, what actions Trump himself is going to do that'll lead to the downfall of civilization or whatever they think's going to happen.

Clinton's dirty play with Bernie also helps quite a bit. And honestly, the US accepting that kind of thing, openly (as in, act like this, have it exposed, still become president) would be much more damaging to society.
Figure out why compilation takes so long and if there's any way to improve it.

Get compile times down to more reasonable levels. Use the shorter breaks for checking on things in your issue tracker to start on whatever is next in your queue.
I imagine a car's sensors could be more accurate than a phone's because they're in a fixed orientation. Plus it can tell if you're turning the wheel and should have the same distance info that the odometer gets.

The OBD-II data should include odometer readings. I assume phones could at least get that via bluetooth dongles, but I'm not aware of any nav apps that do.
It's not 'included' - it's a $750 option for the port, plus you pay per-use for the CCS stations.
You've become Derek Zoolander. http://i.imgur.com/eOXfo95.jpg
Did you expect them to come out and say "The Touchbar is just ok. You might like it" ?
same issues apply, even worse for home users. spyware, crapware, win10 upgrades, hardware issues, etc. - but where do you go for help? family or best buy?

with apple you get a genius bar at least.
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This sounds kind of similar to something I started working on years ago, but never really shipped in any meaningful way: <a href="http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/htfs/">HTFS</a>.

I suffered from the same issue of rewriting the prototype a few different times, in a few different languages/approaches, and never really seeing any of them through far enough to know if it'd be truly useful.

Hope you get yours shipped, for purely selfish reasons!
Finally! Looking forward to sending this to my parents after it develops a bit more. They've struggled with communication for years (decades?) now because they can't type using phonetics.
"Ways of Seeing" was also made into a short BBC television series.

A few years ago, Lorna Mills gathered a number of contemporary artists and remade the series as "Ways of Something", with each artist contributing a minute of material to accompany the audio by John Berger

https://vimeo.com/105731173
Oh, that's interesting. Back in the day when I wrote that tool all the IME tools I found and tried that were able to understand pinyin expected you know the correct character but lacked support for any kind of verbal cue (definition, dictionary) about which is the correct character with the intended meaning.
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I expect that the Bolt will also have crappy resale value...

The battery pack replacement is a major maintenance cost, even if everything else is running fine. That's something a used EV buyer should take into account.
Their ethnocentric headphone design discriminates against those with larger ears.

So many unused headphones, so much waste....