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I think if you actually had one of those you'd be very disappointed. 4k is rather a lot of pixels. You need at least a reasonable 2D GPU if you want to be able to move windows around without ghosting everywhere. Blitting everything through the CPU would be far more power-hungry than delegating it to dedicated hardware.

Not to mention that a lot of people would be upset at not being able to watch Youtube fullscreen in decent resolution, for which you would need hardware decoding.
Have you used Beamoff to disable beam sync? Once it runs, the performance is drastically improved.
Exactly. It's a doable workaround, but doesn't make sense when "just buy a Pixel instead" is an option.
You're not losing function keys, they're just becoming more powerful. You can still set the touch area to be a row of function keys, if you like that! Or they might become more dynamic, by updating which binds are available based on what's on screen.

It is a nice gimmick. Is there anything wrong with an improvement, even if it's a little one?
> it's really quite impressive.

It is? I've been charging my Moto G for a few months like that.
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They did once. One of the earlier iPhones boasted about how its smaller screen size was "the perfect screen size" due to the size of your fingers and how you needed to be able to reach both top corners. Obviously they made bigger screens since then and ignored that they ever said those things.
Franklin was full of interesting ideas (I think if Tim Ferriss could go back in time to interview one person, it should probably be Franklin) and I really like the idea of trying to reconstruct/emulate good writing. If you have the time, this is a great technique.

For most of us, who need to write for work, we probably don't have (or think we have the time to do that). I've found it helpful to think of the story I'm trying to tell, as a story, with a beginning, middle, and end, and a hero(es), villian(s), etc. Then, everything is about the story, not about showing how smart you are by using a lot of big words, not about hiding complexity where it's a key part of the story, etc.
> A leader gets an idea. He finds logical, data-backed
> reasons why the idea is the right course of action. The
> team scrunch up their faces and ask innocently ‘is this
> really the simplest way to address this particular
> problem?’. The founder insists, explaining how it will
> ‘kill several birds with one stone’. The team nods
> their heads in agreement and execute the idea. And the
> problem survives.

I've seen this so many times, As a "leader", I'm guilty of it too. I make sure to preface my suggestions to the team with, "Now, this is probably another terrible manager-idea, but how about we…".
Think I'll stick with the pinyin input method.

I spent about 20min trying to figure out how to write 白 and still cannot.
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If I could only buy three books, it would be:

- Peopleware
- Mythical Man Month
- High output management
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When I last looked at their pricing you could keep using their version you subscription expired on you just could get any updates for it until you subscribed again, is that not the case anymore?
You may have misread the original comment. Breakdowns and maintenance schedules are not the same thing.

Breaks, fluids etc.
When is the last time a Macbook Pro had a graphics card that was better than average? I don't think it has ever been a GPU monster.

It's fine to criticize Apple for that (plenty have), but to me it seems weird to single out the newest model for something that has characterized the line for years.

I expect the 32GB option will appear with the next Intel architecture. They undoubtedly engineered the case for that point in time and will just suffer the complaints until they get there. The case is not something they can change from year to year; the logic board is.

In the meantime it will be interesting to see what happens when people actually try the new machines.
Right. So select copies. You can select with touchpad, or select with mouse. As for pasting, it's typically shift-insert (that is the keyboard shortcut for third mouse-button - three-finger tap should work, if you prefer). But I think Sakura might try and follow gtk(?) convention of generally supporing ctrl-v for paste (can't test that right now, as I've not gotten around to dual-boot/install a Linux vm on my Surface).
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You are partially correct. The battery is very difficult to fix at home. But the motor and stator can be replaced in your own garage with just a few hours of work -- again a magnitude less time and effort than replacing an engine.
> seems the server couldn't handle hackernews

Who can? :-)
It seems to be back now BTW.
I think you can also use Instant Articles. Basically, publish on your blog and point Facebook to your blog's RSS feed.
"MagSafe is a series of proprietary magnetically attached power connectors, originally introduced by Apple Inc. on January 10, 2006, in conjunction with the MacBook Pro at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, California."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe

(I'm honestly not trying to be a jerk, and will certainly admit that I thought MagSafe was several years newer than that - I still stick by my comment above, though)
> The standard "function keys can do anything" response is getting old.

That "function keys can do anything" is, in my opinion, the exact reason they had to go. They're scary for the typical user. What is F7? You may know, but it's not obvious in any way. That some of them cause destructive actions (e.g. Alt+F4 on Windows) makes it worse - they're scary to many users. And even when after figuring out what some of them do, one is stuck wondering "was that F8? Or F9? Oh! It was F10" (which, includes the worry that a wrong guess could cause problems).

Though, I cannot believe they shipped it without the haptic feedback to make it clear that a button was actually clicked.

^ Also, none of that, to me, includes Esc. Esc seems clear enough in its intent, and I hold no ill-will toward the Esc key.
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"Also for the record, I've ordered the XPS's and Lenovo's people are mentioning here are alternatives. They are decent machines, but it takes 2-3 tries to get a fully functioning one without QA issues."

Citation needed. The implication that 1/2 to 2/3 of Dell XPS and Lenovo laptops fail QA would seem to be ... big news.
anecdotal evidence: many of the bad decisions we've made have been data-driven. in other words, we should have listened to our guts more. i think the challenge is knowing when to use data, and when to use gut.

either way, making decisions is very hard. it's basically predicting the future based on flawed information about the past.
Geo-engineering is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how you balance projects like that with the push to cap bad behavior. Maybe we need both. It's hard to garner the proper emotional response to the climate trajectory we are on. Maybe a geo-engineering project would register the appropriate level of alarm that we seem to be missing. You might like this book that I'm almost done with: https://www.amazon.com/How-Cool-Planet-Geoengineering-Audaci....
Local electricity cost multiplied by the capacity of the battery listed on the Bolt's site (ignoring any inefficiency).

Cutting e.g. $3/charge off the cost doesn't really swing the figures towards paying off the Bolt's extra $5.2K starting price over the life of the vehicle.
As a native Chinese speaker and one of the first generation born and grew up with personal computers (born in early 80s), I'd say a machine-learning powered handwriting input method is more convenient. No hard feelings. It's just too hard to reinventing the wheel on this issue where tens of thousands of engineers had worked on this problem throughout the 90s.
I remember when I went to college in Beijing in late 90s there were literally 100s of companies were selling Chinese input method softwares and hardwares or both. What I've witnessed along the past two decades is that all converged into a few methods based on pronunciation (variants of Pinyin or voice dictation) or based on shapes (variants of Wubi or handwriting). And I can attest that Pinyin is predominant since it's a mandatory course in schools. There are even newer machine learning powered hybrid input methods emerging.[1]

Having said that, if you don't know Chinese neither any of its input methods, just want input Chinese characters casually, this may be useful but if you do want dive in to learn Chinese from ground up, I am not sure if learning this Wuhou input method is time well spent.

[1]: http://www.xunfei.cn/
> Honestly do you really expect any company to do that?

Yes? Many companies do that, especially small to medium businesses.

Multinationals are the only exception.
The connector also has pretty much phenomenal build quality, compared to every other whatever USB cable shipped with whatever device.
Apple's mice have all been duds. Siri on the desktop is a dud. The pencil is a dud.
Just a minor note: the unit is "kw multiplied by hour (kW hour)", not "kw per hour (kW/hour)". kW measures power. Hour measures time. Power multiplied by time = total energy.
Now that quote really makes my day! Thank you.
GraphViz/dot isn't GNU.
Just picked up a new car on Friday, and the $300 CarPlay option required the $1,900 navigation option.

Nav seems nice so far but the real test is always several years after the latest update...
That's a lot to pay for a car. I bought a used 2001 Mitsubishi Gallant 10 years ago and it still is a solid daily driver. I think I paid $7,000 or so for it.

Perhaps in 5 years a used Bolt will be a sensible purchase. Until then, I'll let everyone else buy them new and pay the depreciation for me.
What is the Microsoft Botframework and, more importantly, what is LUIS?
Nah man, you're holding your phone wrong.
Warranties on electric cars are insane right now, I suspect specifically to counter some of that new owner anxiety. Chevy are putting a 100,000 mile/8 year warranty on the battery systems in the Bolt; Ford are putting a similar warranty on EV components in their electric/hybrid range. Tesla do 8 year unlimited mileage on battery and drive units. You shouldn't have to pay for a repair on the battery cooling system in a new EV.
The Surface line-up provides a similar feature for User Access Control (UAC) prompts via Windows Hello facial recognition (or the available fingerprint scanner for older Surfaces). It's a pretty slick and natural application of biometric authentication, and this seems a natural for Touch ID as well.
Seeing as Tesla has more Evs on the road than anyone else by a large magnitude...

I thought this was the case too, but was recently told that the Nissan Leaf has sold pretty well too.

I'd say I see about equal numbers of Teslas and Leafs driving around my area. And Chevy Volts are nearly as common, though that's not a true EV.
Also external graphics cards bit expensive right now but I see laptops being able to convert into a powerful gaming pc/workstation just by being docked.
Terminology note: there is a difference between Style Transfer and Fast Style Transfer.

Fast Style Transfer takes a very long time to train a style model (and the output models can be somewhat large; the pre-trained models in the Dropbox are 20MB), but the styles can be applied quickly. Fast Style Transfer is the technique that is used by Prisma/Facebook. This repo is the first I've seen that uses TensorFlow instead of lua/Torch dependency shenanigans, and as a result should be much easier to set up. (this code release also beats Google's TF code release for their implementation: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/10/supercharging-style-... )

EDIT: Playing around with this repository, I can stylize a 1200x1200px image on a dual-core CPU on a 2013 rMBP in about 30 seconds.

Normal Style Transfer is ad-hoc between the style image and the initial image; it can only be used for one image at a time, but overall it is faster than training a model for Fast Style Transfer (however, this is infeasible for mobile devices).
What is amazing to me considering these numbers is that there are enough people buying new cars every year to keep all these car manufacturers around. I'm a pretty decently employed individual, doing better than most my family and I've only bought one new car ten years ago for $15K a Mazda 3. Who are all these people buying new cars all the time?
I wonder if anybody close to the auto industry could shed some light as to whether there are engineering reasons behind what appears to be a deliberate effort to make their EVs look as ugly as possible.
it's not brake feel... it's the feel off the accelerator. when you let of the accelerator in a Tesla, it doesn't coast, it's like letting of the trigger of an electric drill.. it quickly grinds to a halt. it's strange to get used to at first but you get the feel by the end of a test drive. it is strange to still be pressing the accelerator as you pull up behind a car at a red light.

this weird feel is one of the problems that halted tesla's collaboration with toyota on electric rav4 drivetrains.
Here is the full file tree: http://pastebin.com/HWf43kav

Any idea what this is ?

Edit: this article [1] provides more information stating that the list is the NSA's list of staging servers, compromised machines that they use to launch attacks from. Apparently the list is 9 years old.

[1]: http://www.networkworld.com/article/3137065/security/shadow-...
Shares are a form of equity. Owning the shares will give you a claim to the residual assets of the company after all the liabilities have been settled. So what you own is effectively the 'Net Assets' of the company. This is different from outright owning the actual underlying assets of the company.

To slightly complicate things, the total assets shown on the annual report of these companies are mostly on their cost basis. During an acquisition like this, they would be 'fair valued', which could result in significant write up or write off compared to the cost basis.
> I'm not sure what the value of USB-C is on the iPhone.

Ridiculously fast charging, plus the ability to use the same charger for both your laptop and your phone.

Being able to consolidate all the chargers I own is an unbelievably exciting promise. That's only an option for me because I use an Android phone.
More enthusiastic about privacy and free software. I often see worse apps recommended for privacy reasons, so why not bring up the flaws in those and what's better about this. If something better comes along I'll switch to that and recommend that instead.
> However that's a corner case for most people.

Using a pair of headphones with multiple devices? At least between phone and laptop? That's not a corner case, even though Apple seems to think so by skipping out on a Lightning port on the Macs after putting out lightning headphones.
Would a NAS like QNAP/Synology be sufficient, with proper maintenance (updates, antivirus scanning, credentials)? Trying to think of what I could be mindful of here.
Yes. To be precise, power, which is energy per unit time, is cubic in velocity: it takes 8 times as much power to go twice as fast (because of air resistance). But for a given distance, the energy required to traverse it is quadratic in velocity: it takes only 4 times as much energy to cover the distance at twice the speed, because it takes you half as long to get there.

ETA: There are other sources of drag, of course -- tire drag, and mechanical friction in the drivetrain -- but AFAIK the power required to overcome those is linear in speed, and so the energy is constant for a given distance. Anyway, at highway speeds, air resistance dominates.
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I'm just a nobody but let me share my story:

I thought Trump was a racist who is inciting hate. At some point I read somewhere saying Trump hadn't said what media was reporting. I thought it to be BS and went to see myself. Lo and behold after searching more and more pretty much all the media reporting are false.

They are mostly positioned to counter what Trump is saying about Clinton or see what sticks. Trump calling out Bill's rape victims or remember before Clinton campaign was bombarding Trump that he wouldn't get along with Russia.

As a side note: It's quite scary to see paulg comparing Trump to Hitler and accusing FBI dir for doing his job.

-Read the Podesta emails. Clinton campaign is in bed with mainstream media.

-Media coverage is absolutely joke. FBI has been investigating Clinton Foundation for weeks and there is no coverage of that. Should be headline news.

-The only campaign inciting hate and violence is the Clinton campaign[0]

-Twitter constantly takes down trending hashtags that are created by Trump supporters and are against Clinton. Reddit blocks all pro Trump from /all, check out r/politics not a single negative Clinton story etc.

Trump looks like to be the next President and I would recommend doing your own search to see why.

[0] Video I: Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump: Rallies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY
Tried using ubuntu xenial directly from Windows 10? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...
There is a Volt out in the wild that is running @ 353K (http://www.voltstats.net/Stats/Details/1579). So to assume that Bolt will not make 400K is still up to be tested.
These aren't brakes, this is the braking effect of the motors in generator mode.

It's still a bad surprise, but you can tap the brakes if you want to slow down.
does it really?

the eula, which is hardly enforceable anyway, says literally "xcode must run on Apple hardware". just that. they'd have a really hard case if you used a apple keyboard or pen drive...

but, I'm not a lawyer and the lawyers at my company didn't want to test it themselves
I'm with you here. Glossy screen is hell. Open plan office + glossy screen = distraction city.
> But somehow, I still want to do it : the need for freedom is so big I can't give up :-)

Perhaps there is an alternative freedom? Instead of accumulating so much wealth you don't have to work (as per The American Dream), how about cutting consumption so low (and freeing ourselves from a lot of our first world "needs" like 24/7 entertainment) and trying something self-sustaining like subsistence farming?

I feel as if true "freedom" is closer to not relying on "the man" at all, as opposed to attempting to make him your slave.
I think this isn't necessarily true, especially in an era where returning to underground/cult IPs that didn't sell well is becoming a more common strategy. Shenmue 2 and Nier were both games that didn't make back nearly enough to support the developers, and yet they both have anticipated sequels on the horizon that devs/fans/news outlets are taking seriously.
I believe Apple are partnering with healthcare providers since the savings in care costs make it worth subsidising the phones. Or, at least, that's the theory; I'm not informed enough to say if it's going to work.
Is it possible to heat non-leather seats without a fire hazard?
Yep, I learned about rumination from some therapy I had about a year ago.

I'm very far from being an expert so take what I say with a pinch of salt and see a professional therapist, if you can afford it.

It sounds pointlessly glib, but the answer is to stop thinking. It felt very unsatisfactory for me. I'm naturally a 'thinker' so there was a tendency to think that if my problems are caused by thinking, they can also be solved by thinking. I had to accept that this isn't true.

With practice you can begin to learn to gently redirect your thoughts to something else. Don't rush it, you mind will naturally wander back to rumination. But you can slowly get better at steering your thoughts away from it. It's a skill, a muscle that needs to be exercised.

This is basically what mindfulness is all about, although I didn't have much joy with the guided meditation exercises. I'm going to return to them and try again at some point.

Also, there's nothing wrong with getting there through an exhausting amount of exercise. It helps for me too!

For me, the rumination went hand-in-hand with being self critical. Being kind to yourself is another skill that needs to be practised.

Hope this is helpful in some way.
Funnily enough, the mosque was built atop the original Visigoth church. And God knows what was that church built atop of. Hm, maybe we should build a supercomputer on top of it!
I guess I was implicitly thinking about people running Linux on MacBook Pro hardware and/or wondering how people would enter a range of non-ASCII characters in macOS, which I should have made more explicit.

Thanks for your answers.
For the purposes of mutually assured destruction, you only need to be able to destroy civilization once.

With respect to whether a war has ended or not, I'd rather look at the annual defense budget.

The US defense budget, as a fraction of GDP, has spiked four times, to 12%, 22%, 41%, and 15% for Civil War (does not include CSA spending), WW1, WW2, and Korean War.

Since then, the Vietnam War steadily consumed about 10% of GDP for several years. After it was declared over, spending dropped to 5.5% until the Cold War started. Then it popped back up to almost 7% in 1986 before dropping down to 3.5% in 2001. Then it went up to 5.7% in 2010 before starting to drop again. We're now at about 3.3% again.

Prior to WW2, peacetime defense spending was a consistent low level of 1% to 2% of GDP. The US has never reached such low levels of military spending since.

But the Cold War is a clearly visible bump in the chart around 1986. Similarly, the War on Terror seems to have peaked in 2010. The Cold War, specifically, ended in 2001. But the US has never gone back down to a peacetime economy since the end of WW2.

With my tinfoil hat on, the numbers almost look like the lizard-people are titrating to find the optimal intensity of continual war, to maximize their revenues from military spending.
Dozens of engineers from Tesla and SpaceX contributed in the Hyperloop whitepaper. Plus Elon considers himself an engineer, even though he has a degree in physics.
I thought web assembly compiled to JavaScript, but it doesn't look like that's so. It looks like a binary format. I think that's great if so. Finally we can expand beyond JavaScript on front-end development.
But an EV presumably has all those advantages and also no gas engine to maintain.
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Things like this make me appreciate Hangul(한글) more and more. It isn't immediately obvious to me how I can enter basic characters like "国". (I still can't figure it out.)
> all you need is a valid ISIC card.

Too bad for non American non UK students.
Is there support for only C/C++ at this time?
If you aren't a partner, "making it personal" at work means quitting when you have had enough. "Passionate" co-workers quit earlier, without another job ready and/or with some kind of unpleasant showdown.
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Sadly I wouldn't know - But if the content is mostly the same, I assume the visual component is great: my one gripe was that I kept having to google high-res images of the paintings mentioned, because the ones in the book were tiny and unhelpful.
In the UK, I'd get rather different numbers: the Camry hybrid fuel tank is 70L, petrol is currently ~£1.20/l, pound at 1.22 to the dollar (thanks Brexit), so a full tank would be $102.48.

That gives a saving of $74/680m or breakeven around the 50k miles point, if my maths is correct.
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Nice work! Have you seen this - could help reduce some of those checkerboard artifacts

http://distill.pub/2016/deconv-checkerboard/