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Like a few other commenters here, I'd look into getting him a roller skating lesson with harness or some safety device, rather than a VR solution.
If I remember correctly you can use PAM modules on OS X as well. Perhaps writing one and integrating that with the touch ID button might be possible.
You should offload the build to a compile cluster. Especially if there are multiple developers doing this it will be worth setting it up.
To be honest I don't really know much about Dediu but I did read his article and I didn't get the impression that it lacked substance.

What is wrong with his methodology or assumptions that invalidate the 45% number?

I am honestly curious because I don't want to continue to cite a bad source.
> You miss the point. Once it's cracked - that's it. It's pirated forever since, and no further DRM would stop that. So again, not releasing it DRM-free means some sales will be lost and there is zero risk in such release.

I don't agree with this. To acquire a cracked version of something you have to research and understand the channels in which pirated material is released - this means having the basic technical competency to do things such as download a torrent or run a game crack.

I know people that cannot or will not put in the time to do this and will simply purchase the material instead.

If, however, it was simply a binary to download this would not be an issue.

To suggest that DRM is completely useless is inaccurate. Even if it is just a hurdle, it does have an effect.
I think one of the main things we get wrong is that pretty much any language can be used successfully to write a small to medium sized program, it's when a large program is written that things can start to fall apart. Some language features aid large program developement e.g type systems, but can get in the way, or even seem pointless, when writing small programs
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Derail a train = put a rock on the tracks.
I might recommend PSVR which has a street luge game (played with head motion only) that may be the closest thing to what you're looking for. It is also the most comfortable headset by far, works best with glasses, and is the least expensive with positional tracking (which is a big improvement to the experience over Cardboard or Gear VR).

https://youtu.be/Git0feyYlf0?t=3m48s
Spacemacs is essentially a bunch of config files for evil, btw. I don't know why people mistake it as an entirely other editor.
My numbers are based around the idea that the US has a 1.6/20.8/77.6 Agriculture/Industry/Services breakdown, while India has a 17/29.7/45 breakdown, and that 40% of the US GDP doesn't seem to depend in any way on things that would produce much CO2 (compared to say, heavy industry) -- real estate (not construction), finance, health care, information, entertainment, corporate governance and education. (That's not counting another 15% unspecified government spending, which likely includes a substantial amount of non-CO2-producing expenses, likely pushing that number up to about 50% GDP.)

Similarly, industry-volume-for-industry-volume, the US should be more efficient in production, meaning that it should use lower CO2 even with the same level of industry.

Which is what we see: the US does use less CO2 to produce more GDP, precisely contrary to what the argument supposes (that they're exactly correlated).

I'm not saying that the US does make poor use of its CO2 emissions, merely that the argument I was responding to failed to show either direction -- the argument it made was fundamentally unrelated.

Ed: To put math on it -- the US is somewhere between about as efficient as India and less efficient than India, depending on how exactly that 40% aligns with actual CO2 production and how closely that 15% aligns with CO2 production. In the case of the 40%, the US is within rounding of not wasteful. In the case of 50%, the US is somewhat less efficient and probably is wasting CO2 production.

The problem with your analysis is that a) it was simply wrong about the numbers, and had a 1:1 CO2:GDP relationship, when the numbers don't bear that out (and hence didn't account for my objection) and b) it supposes a fact about comparing CO2 production to GDP that isn't true, because the composition of economies varies substantially.

I wasn't saying you were wrong. I was saying your argument was bullshit.
I'd like to see improvement too, but the problem is everytime Apple tries to improve a product, everyone talks how Apple have lost their way and haven't put out any revolutionary products in X years (admittedly, sometimes Apple's marketing department doesn't help).

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Laptops are tools. What you want depends on what you do.

I'm also unhappy with modern offerings, though I come from the Linux side. Whilst I use Macs, I've never been a fan of either the hardware (keyboard and touchpad aren't my thing). I've been exceptionally disappointed by Lenovo's products and behaviour of the past few years.

My druthers would be a lightweight, portalble, Linux-friendly system with a trackpoint-type pointer control.

I've been using an Android 9" tablet which is mostly good hardware, and an absolute obscenity in terms of the OS, vendor (Samsung) lockdown, and apps.

This with a folio-type self-supporting laptopable keyboard case is close to the perfect form-factor system, most especially for reading printed material (many many many ebooks and articles, most in PDF form).

But nothing about this system is built for privacy, creation, complex interaction, or organising and managing large quantities of content. As a Linux box it might work.

Laptops fail to offer the flexibility of keyboardless operation (and bending keyboards back ... tends to break them), and stink for reading online content generally.

I've also noticed that large-format tablets (9" - 10") don't seem to be offered by anyone.

A decent userland, rootable / ROMable system (Samsung's BDSM lockdown basically means I'm fucked in terms of Rowhammer), and sane hardware (the Logitech keyboard's also been sheer failure mostly due to the company's failure to honour its warranty in any meaningful fashion, and the tightly-coupled HW binding of tablet and keyboard).

I've about had it with hardware, period.
Tried elementary awhile back, but I've recently gotten tired of ubuntu's kernel, and just some errors/quirks with my hardware. So when I upgraded my hdd to sdd/hybrid I said screw it and went with Antergos (arch linux) distro. The gnome build is pretty beautiful, lightdm is styled very lovely, better than ubuntu/xubuntu/lxde/kubuntu by far. My hardware performs way better with less crashes, though I think I've narrowed that down to a bad memory chip that I need to replace soon.

I did pull out gnome and swap it for i3wm. I recommend if you haven't tried i3wm give it a try, there's less graphical flair, and panels -- but you gain in performance, speed, and productivity, everything is just a shortcut away, and the i3 config file makes adding more shortcuts even easier. Definitely worth the time to learn.
To quote Linus: "Nvidia: Fuck you."
Have you considered just storing the settings and configuration in the keyboard itself?
For his major work "Either/Or" it can seem this way. If you understand his thesis that conscious life is a series of choices. Choice of action is what creates an individual. You choose how you live and exist. He wrote "Either/Or" as a refutation of contemporary logical thought, which he felt robbed the individual of the consequences of choice. He also had a bone to pick with organized religion (mostly Christianity).

Along with Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard is one of my favorite philosophers.
> Well, I can remap things, but then it wouldn't work on a remote aws machine, or at my colleague's machine, etc. And this is not only Vim.

Hmm, backtracking to my grandparent comment, if you can map the terminal emulator to do the equivalent of C-c upon C-S-c, then why not do the same with C-v and C-S-v. Just send the ASCII keysequence for C-v down the shell.

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> Having a system-wide set of shortcuts without having to fight the system is extremely powerful.

This follows the exact same argument OS X has to not using Ctrl-c, Ctrl-x, and Ctrl-v for copy, cut, and paste: history. When I first used OS X, coming from a Windows and GUI Linux keyboard usage background, I found that odd similarly to how OS X terminal users find Linux's terminal shortcuts.

But hey, historical decisions have stuck. And it's not that hard to commit to muscle memory a few platform differences here and there. There certainly are many OSX-isms a not-primarily-OSX user has to deal with.
Heaven save those who have to handle Heidegger.
You still need people to develop for your platform, and delivering underpowered machines does not help with that.
OMG, I kinda had the same eye glasses as this guy back in 96 with my Quickcam! » http://snap.auguststurm.com/LuNx/1QIyKao7
Much the flak that's been posted about the new MacBook Pros implies there are better offerings from PC manufacturers, and certainly there are plenty if your priorities are very different from Apple's (e.g. you care more about upgradeability than sleekness). My personal priorities are pretty similar to Apple's, but not quite the same: I'm skeptical about anything that reduces key travel. So I browsed around to try to find something that could compete with the new 15" MacBook Pro for my next purchase. To my surprise, I couldn't find a single model from the major vendors that had all of the following:

- 15" or close

- In the general "thin and light" category (ideally at least as thin as my 2012 rMBP at 1.8 cm; latest is 1.55cm)

- Higher than 1080p screen resolution (old and new MBP are both 2880x1800)

- At least 7 hours of battery life (advertised battery life of my 2012 rMBP; latest advertises 10 hours)

It seemed to generally come down to 1080p and good battery life, or high resolution (usually higher than the MBP) and crappy battery life. I think the Surface Book was most tempting, but it has a significantly smaller screen.

If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear them. But for now my plan is to suck up the reduced key travel and buy a new MacBook Pro...
Only the g2m web client works on linux; anything you need the desktop app for (i.e. pretty much anything for which you are the presenter) does not work.

WebEx's Linux support is excellent though.

Google Hangouts works fine under chrome on linux.

As far as hardware, webcam support is generally good. It's now at the point where if you bought a random webcam, there is a better than 50% chance it will just work. That being said, it's much safer to check if others have used it, or to just buy a laptop that has a webcam and ships with linux support (Both Dell and HP have laptops that ship with linux installed). I have a Creative Labs USB webcam that unfortunately has no model number printed on it (I have a long list of things I don't like about built-in webcams).

Sleep has worked on all laptops I've tried in the past decade or so. Hibernate (i.e. suspend to disk) is much more spotty.

Battery life lies somewhere between windows 7 and Mac, though certain applications are particularly bad at draining the battery (powertop can be useful in identifying these).

In general linux on a laptop has gotten way better; in particular networking is much more bearable now that NetworkManager actually works and it's much easier to find laptops with linux supported wifi gear preinstalled.

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I saw someone mention audio issues; that reminds me. The situation there is more like what networking was like 5-6 years ago. Pulse Audio promises to provide all the basic features people expect from an audio stack), but sometimes crashes, or drains your battery or just causes weird sounds to come out of your speaker. On the other hand, getting ALSA+dmix setup correctly without pulse audio (which is the only real alternative), is fairly arcane, and leaves you without things like per-application volume control (though many linux applications provide their own software-implemented volume control).
I just read an entire blog post that simplifies down to "IO is not pure". Can I have my time back?
have anyone tried Apricity, https://apricityos.com?

I'm currently using Archlinux now, so far I enjoy using it, but the fact that we have to put much effort on installing it makes me don't want to recommend it.

I try to find simple-to-install-with-Arch-linux-based-OS, still with rolling release and pacman -Syu to update the entire OS.
Oh, then OSX's sudo has little reason to not use PAM. In which case, this project would be better written as a PAM module instead of a sudo fork.
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A few post on Hacker News, occasionally.
gnome 3.
i really enjoy the way that gnome 3 has evolved. i think it is more usable than even OSX.

plus it comes with all the new systemd security integration. i dont think cinnamon has been rebased on gnome 3 yet
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> I don't agree with this. To acquire a cracked version of something you have to research and understand the channels in which pirated material is released - this means having the basic technical competency to do things such as download a torrent or run a game crack.

Which is trivial, since nothing stops first knowledgeable pirates from applying those cracks and releasing cracked versions ever since. Downloading such games is trivial, you can either accept the inevitable, or pretend there is no elephant in the room (pirates providing easy to use DRM-free versions).

Business wise however, you can get more sales by releasing it DRM-free, because not only those who avoided the game because of DRM would buy it, but some of those who pirated it before, would buy it as well. It's good there are sensible studios who realize that and release even their new games DRM-free.

> To suggest that DRM is completely useless is inaccurate.

It's not useless, but it's not used for increasing sales. It's useful in a crooked sense, i.e. its purpose is always bad.
Positive of using AWS is that you learn how to do it which is a valuable job skill later on. These are important skills and the best way to learn them is on your own projects.
Hilarious. New tech with pun marketing. Precious. I think I enjoyed the pun more than the product. I agree that not every thing needs a cloud behind it. Why couldn't it just store the bits to it self? Shock! Then I wouldn't have to spent ten or twenty extra minutes making sure it could connect to some damn server to update itself or change a simple function. Pass. Cool concept.
Yes – good backups would be somewhat resistant to malicious tampering, so that old versions are not immediately lost no matter what happens on the source computer.
I agree. But my thinking is that touch id just shows who the person claims to be (like a username), but it doesn't actually authenticate they are that person.

I know that in practice apple does use it to auth.
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Sorry about that! Turns out I hadn't written it after all, or at least couldn't find it. A while back I made a little library of fractal drawing in Common Lisp, and thought it was there.

In any case, it's written now: https://github.com/jl2/ifs-qt
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I will not pay a dime for a computer with no ESC key. Because it is scary to use a computer you cannot escape from.
Looked at the deasync that this is based on, and it looks like they are trying to reinvent threads? Seems ironic to me.
I agree with you as an end user that the features of all terminal emulators available in emacs are atrocious. Have my up vote, and silent support should you decide to really put some time into a better terminal for emacs.
Rather than calling it suto, the author could just use the PATH env variable in .profile

I don't think the system would have much problem with that since profile is explicitly for interactive user sessions.
Many are good, and may have gotten in years before but there just too many for them to handle. I'm just saying what someone said though.
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At least go try out the latest Dell XPS and HP Spectre, possibly at a Microsoft Store if you can.

To be fair, I probably should have got a Macbook as my last laptop upgrade.

The laptop before that was the Lenovo X1 Carbon - slow, memory constrained and expensive to repair.

I've got a Dell XPS 9350 at the moment, and it was more expensive than the top end Macbook at the time (!). It's quite good, but I can't recommend it against the last gen MacBook - there's still a coil whine issue that Dell refuse to really fix (or can't), there's issues with Broadcom wifi cards, and then there's this fun issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/3v6tvp/dell_xps_15_ra...

It gets ~6 hours of battery life in power saving mode, but closer to 4 if I'm doing dev work.

It could be so good, but it's just not there yet. For $3000AUD I expect utter perfection.
You can change the google settings to specifically give you ads about topics you like

https://www.google.com/settings/ads
Yes, lots of questions, irrelevant to this topic but as a huge fan of illumos and SmartOS very much relevant to me, personally.
Do you have acceptable ads on? They somehow managed to get whitelisted.
Equally clear is that a lot of people aren't even trying. An honest effort to be as unbiased as you can goes a long way.
So have all the world's governments. That's not a very strong argument.
I really wish we can think beyond nationality when we face a problem that is not going to see border lines.

> There is nothing we can do, as long China and India get a pass, 3.2 billion people in 2 country doing nothing.

This is what the OP said. I honestly don't get it, then why is India's (and China's) responsibility for climate change dragged in whenever the topic of climate change is brought up. Is it because, as you mentioned India has ~16 times less CO2 emissions (per capita, but still way less than US) and ~15 times less GDP?

Isn't there a fair responsibility to spearhead dealing with climate change problem when you are polluting more and have more resources to deal with the problem. While India and China, having their own problems are making efforts in this direction and US is still dealing with denial, conveniently.
You two are both doing the "ATM machine" thing. (PAM = Pluggable Authentication Module)

"Written as a PAM" sure feels wrong on the lips, though.
> Safety standards are imposed and enforced at a national, not an international level

That's simply untrue. The European Union and its predecessors have for decennia regulated safety standards of products on an international level.

The entire framework that would be required for regulating security standards on electronic equipment is already in place. It already operates on a global scale. Try looking at some of the packages (or stickers on larger electronics) and look for the CE mark. That's the Conformité Européenne
stamp of approval. We can easily include security in there.
Didn't sound like the author was trashing on emacs for being old, to me. It sounded loving, if anything. I was practically jealous of his intimate relationship with his editor by the end of it.
A trackpoint is an absolutely non-negotiable requirement for me, so I bought several lenovo bluetooth keyboards, set them up for all the desktops I use, and kept a few spare in case they are discontinued.
What do you do in your first five minutes in a new Word document then? Or do you have a go-to template?
There's always backlash from the self-proclaimed "pro" crowd about Apple's events. So many people can't get past the idea that Apple's aiming at the general public, not at their little power-user niche, and so they declare that Apple has "lost its way" or are otherwise putting out bad products, even though they'll sell them by the butt-load since, ya know, they're aimed at the general public and the general public will buy them.
I'm not sure that's true. Anyone can claim to be "rrmm" but only one person has that set of fingerprints.
I bet they're using you to try and find differentiating factors between the different dating sites. You've already told them that you're willing to provide useful information about dating sites -- now they're just extracting as much info as possible.
> The field was even more scarce 4 years ago

Dell Precision and HP EliteBook W series had more than 16GB well before that; several in the company where I worked had 20 and 24GB. Neither was obscure or exotic, both were aimed at the same professional market and were 'standard issue' for the top-tier in many large companies.

Apr 2011 ... the EliteBook 8540w can accommodate up to 32GB of memory

April 25, 2011 ... The Precision mobile workstations can handle up to 32GB of 1333MHz RAM and 16GB 1600MHz RAM
The ram is more that skylake doesn't support the right lpddr3 ram thus maxed out at 16gb.

Thinness is part of it, but only due to energy use and chipset support.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/09/skylake-for-laptops-f...

If its lpddr3, all we'll ever get is 16gb. I think the kaby lake mobiles will do lpddr4 which will allow for 32.
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> "...to avoid making the same mistakes people did decades ago."

I don't understand this part -- do you mean the past has nothing to teach the present?
> Plus, what about people who make iOS apps? Or heck, even just develop for the Mac? There's literally no other option than a Mac.

The message from Apple seems to be 'get an iMac'. They seem to prefer their developers to be stationary :/
It is already the case. In the keynote, they demoed Fast User Switch with a touch of finger. If multiple people share a single computer, switching to the right user account is a touch away.
A different way to put your question, is how do the design goals of the MacBook differ from the MacBook Pro?

As far as I can tell, the design goals are the same. The difference is that the Pros are more expensive.
How Florida's electricity utilities are manipulating voters to oppose solar
I couldn't say which precisely, maybe only part of the market, maybe some part of the post production pipeline. Surely lots were done on Flame like systems, which AFAIK weren't Mac based.
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Compartmentalization. They are certainly fools with respect to the origin of humanity though.
Partly inspired by this thread, I read a couple of EU reports and realised that 50% of energy consumption in EU goes to heating and cooling. That is huge. Of course it includes industrial heating, but that is 18% in total (~third of 50%).

Clearly, there is lot to win here,with existing insulation techniques. we could do a lot in a short-term with existing technologies, it's mostly policy and financing issue.
I feel like the video really really was based on faith that the future will just become more complex. This is prolly the number one reason why man doesn't progress as much as it should. It just presumes so much and yet so very little. It's like the whole AI taking over theory. Really really doesn't go well with people because it lacks complete and utter detail.
Thus it's pretty obvious that member states are free to leave any time they choose

On this subject the late, great Antonin Scalia supposedly said, more or less: "we settled that issue 150 years ago".

it's the only reading of the supreme law of the land which makes any sense

Much to the frequent lament of Scalia, the supreme law of the land is no more and no less than what a majority of the Supreme Court chooses to believe at that particular time.
I never understood the obsession with sudo. Why not just be root in the first place?
Why does macOS need sudo to boot?
You're running code you didn't write or entirely read yourself.
I thought it was interesting, too, for the same reasons. I'm glad it made the front page.
Maybe better approach is to make stuff not require sudo in the first place.