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I guess it's not so much the OS itself, but which tasks you want to perform on it. For instance, most of the programs the parents lists ("Photoshop, Lightroom, Sequel Pro, iTerm 2, Homebrew, Sketch, Transmit, Alfred, Reeder, Keynote, Airmail, Spotify"), I don't even recognize. I'm a computer scientist and probably spend most of my hours every day in front of a computer, but I must be working on completely different things and so most of the programs above don't mean anything to me.

Most of the functionality of my workflow is provided by other programs, but there is also a good portion that's provided by the actual OS -- mostly things like switching between workspaces, starting and closing programs, inspecting disk contents. (Of course, I'm omitting the fact that the OS is responsible for all that metal underneath to do something useful at all, but I guess all of the three major desktop OS's have that part covered.)

If your workflow depends on a functionality that is provided by certain tools/programs, and these tools/programs have no alternative on other OS's, then of course it will be difficult to switch. But I would say that in my case, either the same tool I'm using today is cross-platform and thus available on other OS's too, or the functionality that I need is available through some other tool. This doesn't seem to be the case for what the parent lists, but for me, I guess the main difference after a switch would be interacting across apps, not within apps.
I don't think so. There is no energy transmission involved at all. I suspect that there is some entropy transmission, but I didn't see an analysis of that, and the amount is negligible compared to what is already in the quantum mechanical system.

Of much greater surprise to me was the claim that an isolated quantum mechanical system neither gains nor loses entropy. I'm almost as astonished at this as I am at the fact that there are no chaotic quantum mechanical systems because quantum mechanical systems evolve linearly, while chaotic ones evolve exponentially.

If the latter astonishes you, I recommend reading https://michaelberryphysics.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/berr....
It should be there to rehabilitate, because (EDIT: in large part, there are other reasons) ultimately the vast majority of the incarcerated will be released back into society.

Unfortunately, the US has long since decided that punishment is the purpose, that these people are getting what they deserve. It's a very frustrating culture to be surrounded by.
8km/L is 2.35 miles per gallon. That's hilariously abysmal. Are you driving the space shuttle crawler?

Chevy Tahoe is the epitome of enormous gas guzzling SUV and it gets 8x that, at 16mpg.
The article doesn't conclude "computers can't count correctly" but instead it says "voting machines are set-up to enable election fraud".
5th column? More likely just a particularly lucrative and useful idiot.
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> We shouldn't be coddling those who commit violent acts against others.

How is spending a lifetime in prison coddling?

> The derrent of death alone would save far many more people.

That isn't true, criminals as a rule have a hard time tying consequences to their actions, have a high incidence of mental issues. If deterrence would work at all it would be nice but it rarely does.

http://nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx
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Couldn't all those affected by the IoT botnet sue the company fabricating the IoT products?
I usually read this as "lawyers are asking for more money"
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> The author mentions in another post why he is done with Apple after his 2013 13" MBP and states he has no use for the Touch Bar. Thats fine, just get the Pro without the bar and with physical function keys.

That model has slower RAM and I'd guess, based on that, an older generation CPU. Lower clock, too. May as well buy a '15 refurb.
On the XPS 13: Cons: Expensive. Unnecessary SD card slot

I find this amusing and interesting. I've seen lots of complaining about the MBP dropping SD card support ("photographers HATE it!"). It looks like everyone rejects it for not-entirely overlapping reasons. Reminds me of political candidates, where everyone has differing reasons to not vote for them.
Ok, I am aware of how it works, but I'm not talking pentests or hardening. I'm talking simple, cheap design choices in this case, that could've eliminated the whole Mirai debauchery.

In your app you already have a setup wizard, right ? Add one more page to the end "Hey, we're almost done! We just need to make sure your device is secure. Please choose a username and (strong) password."
Edit: Because if you have a login, you already have the components in place, you are not developing a new feature.

This one simple, design choice would have cost very little, both in terms of development time and increase in support costs, because Support is a cost center that scales with your user base and your knowledge base. Obviously not pennies, but still small costs.

There is the classical point of diminishing returns from security investments, problem is for most IoT products, we are significantly left, towards zero investments and, at this point, small investments and a few smart design choices would yield significant returns in security.

And with developers that's exactly what I don't get. How has it not become internalized that allowing users to run the default user/pass combo is very poor idea ? I'm not asking for much, I don't expect them to know a lot about security, but not even adhering to some basic good practices of security is killing me.
SSD in Macbook Pro is crazy fast. So fast that finally, after many years, we can think about "replacing" RAM with it.

LPDDR3 RAM speed = 17 GB/sec, SSD read - 3 GB/sec. As much as it sounds crazy, i believe, SSD will eventually replace big and inefficient RAM's (which consume 6 W of power for each 16 GB slot)
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They aren't buried under rocks or in darkened caves.

Their failure to adapt is our failure as a society to prepare them. By imprisoning them we become their guardians and stewards, we are responsible.
> The author mentions in another post why he is done with Apple after his 2013 13" MBP and states he has no use for the Touch Bar. That's fine, just get the Pro without the bar and with physical function keys.

The one with physical function keys is less powerful.
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> As far as the OS is concerned, data should be bytes.

If the OS knows the type of those bytes, it can do things like implement global garbage collection, intelligent caching, intelligent snapshotting &c. It can also enforce invariants across all user code.
Are Tootsie Rolls not even worthy of a negative mention? We gave out about ten pounds... and I don't think anyone threw them back in our faces or on the ground.
Not sure what you mean. I'm a non-paying user from almost day 1 (oldest article from 2011). At no point was I forced to upgrade to paid plan. Did you use a third-party app maybe? Those only worked with premium accounts (http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429)
Systems aren't broken, they are set-up to enable corruption. The article points to a clear intent of enabling election fraud.
What machine learning tools are missing from python? I think it's the best supported language but I would like to know what I'm missing
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"In prison this person can't hurt anybody else" - totally false. The homicide rate in prison is about double that of the rest of the country. In California it is 15 per 100,000 - terribly high.

"Cost a lot more than life in prison" - death penalty opponents have driven up the cost, so if cost was a real reason you oppose the death penalty, then we could keep it and focus on reducing cost.

"By killing the killer you inflict hardship on these people"- in your opinion. I think it would be a bigger hardship to have to have a living murderer as part of the family.

"I think the desire for revenge" - Why is incarceration not revenge? Justice flows from the notion that punishment is proportional to the crime. Taking a life should mean losing your life Whether is is lifetime imprisonment or the death penalty, you can call it revenge or punishment or justice.
At the very least, they should write less treacly Dear John letters to their former customers

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None of the things you mention would stop someone from re-entering society, in quite a few countries there are rehabilitation programmes in the jails with gradual re-introduction to 'normal' life after longer jail sentences.

Yes, this costs money but it helps to reduce recidivism and in general is a good thing to do.
There is also a really good book called Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson that has a lot to do with Bletchley Park and WW2 in general. Less informative but more entertaining.
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This might be an unpopular opinion here, but I think that there already are plenty of start ups (and I do not live in the bay). The author is probably right that reducing risk will create more entrepreneurs, but I don't "want more startups".

That's how capitalism works, the grand reward of making it big motivates entrepreneurs to do the extra work and take the additional risk to succeed.

Of course there would be successes that would arise due to the welfare state... but at what cost?
This is a bit of a red herring as I am making no assertions regarding what else may or may be assured 100%.

We have different tolerance for accuracy depending on the context, and my assertion was that in this case 100% would be necessary for, at least me, to feel comfortable carrying out the punishment.
Yes! Video game music also gets me in the zone.

If you're into oldschool games you might also enjoy http://muki.io. Pure DOS and MIDI nostalgia. :)
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Cute, but fallacious. To unpack, you seem to be arguing that since 4% of people sentenced to death are innocent, then about 1 in 25 people are wrongly convicted, and PG is saying that ratio is unacceptable.

I think your probabilistic reasoning is a bit off (by confusing P(I|DS) with P(DS|I)).

But the actual issue is about the punishment, not the guilty/innocent determination. So in other words, PG doesn't seem to be making any claim about the size of the group of "n guilty men" -- but rather about the way they can be punished.
I think you should read the discussion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335491

It explains it better than i can
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I'm not expecting a unibody design and flawless color gamut or anything. Even basic OS functionality like sleep/wake, (dis)connecting external displays, trackpad responsiveness, etc., is vastly inferior on Linux laptops.
The impressive thing about Enigma was that unlike most previous ciphers it was "secure" in the sense that even if you know its implementation details you still cannot break messages without a brute-force search. Particularly when the plugboard was used.

The key mistake was underestimating the ability to automate and parallelize a brute-force search. Turns out a keyspace of 3^26 is just too small. User error was a large contributing factor, of course, and ensured that the implementation details were always leaked. But when it came down to it, the Polish and British intelligence services could simply break the codes on a near-daily basis.
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It doesn't have to be an airliner; if you get to "sleep" for the whole journey, why not stretch the trip to a few days or weeks on a train or bus or boat?
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This is a difficult question. I have often thought about what would happen if for some reason I was wrongfully convicted of a serious crime (e.g. like in Shawshank Redemption). Its absolutely unimaginable for me to think of living a life such as one in prison, and in the US, even after you leave prison, your rights are severely curtailed, as are your job prospects and much of everything else. Stuff of nightmares, really.
It's a collective action problem. How do you incentivize an upgrade while allowing for seamless fallback? For billions of devices made by thousands of manufacturers? Which access hundreds of different carrier networks around the world?

I think you need some industry leader to push for this. Apple could do it, or possibly Google although they have a hard time exerting influence over Android device manufacturers.
There're rumors from KGI analysts, that early 2017 will give us 32GB and upgraded hardware. I'd hold my horses until then.
I always think of Star Trek and how some advanced civilization or a future version of ourselves will perceive the barbarism of our current society. I would not be surprised if the earth gets paved over for an intergalactic superhighway because frankly, we are not worth saving. Humans, have very little humanity. We have a LONG way to go. This is a small start.
One problem is that (apart from devs) Linux only supports "typical" computer users, and then only OK. For example a lot of Apple users are multimedia professionals and Linux multimedia apps are simply not in the same league. The same can be said for lots of other categories of apps. Could an accountant switch to Linux without Intuit compatibility? Etc.
Yes, I agree. Maybe it's not more oversight, but better oversight

And of course, prosecutors that push dubious cases should be punished as well.
Also, this is one of the cases where you can probably free up some memory bandwidth by transferring compressed samples around.
The second law is not violated because the Earth is not a closed system.

Also to a very good approximation, we emit what we absorb. When averaged over a long period, that approximation gets better. (It has been somewhat worse over the last century though.)
Also, when was the last Alpha built? About ten years ago?

It's fine for OpenBSD or NetBSD to support it, but Microsoft has not supported it in a long time.
Sure, some actions are more harmful than others. Killing a person is worse than imprisoning them indefinitely.

But the degree to which it is worse (and whether it is enough to ban the death penalty) seems quite subjective.

Seems to me that you could use an identical line of reasoning to conclude that prison sentences longer than N years should be banned.

Is it a matter of degree? Or is there something fundamentally different about the death penalty that warrants a ban?
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Wikileaks is exactly what it seems: the front page of GRU (Russian Military Intelligence Agency)
The resistance isn't about the use of electronic systems for our elections but about the poor reliability and lack of transparency of the current systems. The vote count should be reliable and transparent. Is it to much to ask?
Why not just not touch it?

What I'm actually saying is I don't know what is wrong with a touch screen.
There's no undo button for imprisonment.

Your life was taken, and no one can give it back.

It's a difference of degree only, not kind.
I applied both via the website and via email in the past, and never got answer.
> And on the same note, it's much easier to crucify a malicious hacker than it is to ruin the life of a guy who supports his wife and kids who just happened to make the economic call that running everything as root was okay.

Makes me wonder who makes the snake oil for the salesmen. I'm trying to say this is a plausible caricature that distracts us from a more complex (and way more interesting) reality.
If by community you mean a few government elite, and some judges, then yes. If you mean the population of the state, a large majority at the time supported the death penalty, which why it was reinstated by popular vote soon after.
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um, you know that book is fiction, right?
It would be great if they engineered such a laptop. Since they don't want to try, though, other manufacturers are doing it for them. Those companies are also taking pretty solid amounts of their market share, too. [4]

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12843775
Its hard to fix the jails and prisons when widespread poverty still exists in society, for the simple reason that if the prisons offer a better lifestyle than living in the society, more people would choose to go to prison.
Haha.. like I said, some people have really strong opinions on this (and are really attached to one or the other). To be fair, there are rumors of professionals that use GIMP as a daily driver, but it's not a hill I want to die on.
My sound hardware seems to have the bare minimum of ADCs, DACs, and headphone detection pins to get the audio signals in and out. The drivers that do all the heavy lifting, decoding, conversion, etc on the CPU. Why do the decoding on comparatively expensive custom silicon, when you've already got a fast and flexible CPU?
The cell tower is trusted, and the preferred cell tower is the one with the strongest signals. That's literally the entire selection strategy.

Cell towers also choose the encryption that the cell phone should use. I don't think any currently available phone notifies you when no (A5/0) or weak (A5/1) encryption is used.
That assumes everyone cares about weight / thinness over of system performance. Apple no longer gives users an option to choice their preference.
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That was my perspective as well before, but what I never paid much attention to is the fact that every person is part of a network of relationships which gets affected by that person's death.

The importance of that I think is clear with respect to the dynamics for terrorism and war. People who experience their loved ones dying easily get vengeful and radicalized.

If I lost somebody dear to me, I don't think the execution of the killer that my increased satisfaction from this would likely pale compared to the sadness inflicted on those who cared about the killer.

This is a fundamental thing in human psychology. We react more to losses than gains. If e.g. the boss takes money from you and gives to me as a bonus, then my joy from this will be significantly less, than the dissatisfaction you will feel from this loss. The sum is lesser than its parts so to speak ;-)