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Are those the "earpods" or whatever? Since they started making those, I have thought of them as absolute garbage. The sound quality is terrible, they don't block any external audio, they constantly fall out.

Maybe I just have stupid shaped ears or something, but I have always thought as apple-brand "earpods" as gilded shit.

Apologies for the rough language, I just cannot express strongly enough how much I despise those "earbuds."
>"The biggest thing folks I know like about watches on both the Apple and Android side of thing are notifications."

I think this is exactly right. Notifications are annoying and the watch reduces the effort required to see and dismiss them. However, I recently solved this problem another way; I turned off notifications (excluding messages and a few other very context-specific apps).

This turns out to be the best way to deal with annoying notifications. Just turn them off.
And? This is only "unfair" if you assume that people should be taxed as a percentage of their income, but by moving to consumption taxes we discard that assumption.
At no time should my tool be the speed bottleneck. UI responsiveness is part of that. Correct code may require a certain slowness, but a slow editor will impose extra pauses that break up your workflow unnecessarily.
> JetBrains' tools have to be rented.

That's not correct. JetBrains subscriptions come with a perpetual fallback license for the version available when you purchased the subscription. This is basically the same as the previous model where you would buy a license for a specific version with free upgrades for some period of time afterwards. Most people would continuously buy the upgrade license they wanted to stay on the latest version.

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
You always have the password as backup to unlock. If your appearance were to suddenly change remarkably, such as via plastic surgery or a horrific accident, you would set your new face after unlocking with the password.

Based on their phrasing, I'm assuming the "adaptive" aspect means that slow changes, such as gaining or losing weight, will progressively train the existing face - without it ever failing to recognize you because you passed some weight threshold. Same would go for growing a mustache or beard. As to whether you can shave off a 5-year beard and have it still recognize you without manual intervention, that would depend on how much the algorithm cares about your chin and lip regions vs. the rest of your face. Based on the demo, the hair on top of your head is 100% ignored.
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What's wrong with being off-putting? Why do so many seem to want to embrace this disgusting care-bear idea of discourse? A discussion isn't lively without at least one provocateur.
Neither of those people should be using autopilot. It wouldn't save them.

I can also avoid being in either of those situations.

If autopilot is comparable ot an exhausted or drunk driver why do I want to use it?
Having its own sim card doesn't mean that it will need its own plan though.
I am surprised they didn't change the included lighting <-> USB cable to USB C. Out of the box still incompatible with the MacBook Pro, and forced to use dongles/adapters.
> Conpanies should not be allowed to hang on to 250 billion dollars.

Why? They earned it. And have you seen how much Apple donates to charities? Bill Gates at one point had a net worth of over 100 billion dollars before donating a huge sum to charity. If 250 billion is too much, what is a good amount?
yes, that's also very cool
What about the TXIO lookup DOS attack that was published last weekend?
Not that something like this could destroy Bitcoin, but it could potentially slow down adoption by a year, as people lose some confidence temporarily.

Still, I'm happy that it was published, at least now I know that it's important to always use the latest node software, as they contain secret security fixes.
I'm still sorry for the things we'll be missing with the loss of Metro Design, now lying in its deathbed in Windows 10 Mobile.

Wish Apple had the balls to just plain steal it, the iPhone home screen nowadays seems from last century.
Rings are not likely to slip off and break, though.
When I saw them rotate and play the video I exclaimed "what in the unholy f_ck" and an entire Starbucks looked at me like I am the crazy one.

Thats one of the most awkward things Ive seen on an tech gadget that wasn't made by Doc Johnson.
Does keeping the BlueTooth radio turned off help here?
The exact system I used to bank £10,419 in PROFIT in just 12 weeks
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This is especially true of the curricular administrators in the registrar's office, and S^3. You find a lot of folks in positions of authority who just don't get what it's like to be an undergraduate student at MIT.
This is wrong in a few levels.
Much of modern technology is built on modern scientific findings but few modern scientific findings have technologies built on them. There are entire fields, such as social sciences, which couldn't really be said to have any technology based on them. More importantly though, technology working isn't the same as an experiment, fire worked as a technology well before we truly understood underlying physics.
The front-facing dot projector and dual cameras
"The Waldo Moment" (Black Mirror) comes to mind.

Also speaking of Black Mirror, the first episode specifically, and the real world news story that reminded everyone of that episode… I'm sure David Cameron would love to unleash his inner pig :D
I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that .. https://twitter.com/warrenmyers/status/907657766063439873
Exactly. Someone mining Facebook could build a directory of doppelgängers near each person. A little social engineering could get a bystander to unlock the target's phone without them even realizing they are facilitating a crime.
Competition is actually the opposite of capitalism.

When Mr. Buffett tells companies to widen their moat and reduce competition, capitalism is working exactly as intended.
It's a problem with phonetic spelling in general, not specifically with diphthongs.
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Is there an exploit that works on systems with stack canaries? If not, then sensible Linux devices (which may well be a small minority) are not so severely affected.

I'm more worried about higher value targets like cars and things like lightbulbs that never get updated. This could be an amazing wormable bug.
> all DNS servers [in resolv.conf] are expected to return the same results

Better?
> 6 year old iPhone on the current OS

You might be stretching it a bit there, but otherwise this point stands.
No, that was the second attempt at unlocking. He even mentioned switching to passcode mode.
It's very good on both desktops and servers. I was an old-school sysadmin for a large, non-cloud Linux datacenter deployment that migrated from Debian 7 to 8 last year, and I am now super mad when I have to deal with servers that don't have systemd. Having consistent service startup and not getting things in my environment leaked into /etc/init.d/whatever start is amazing. Being able to register custom services and have them hook into the existing system with about 5-10 lines of config is amazing. `journalctl -u foo` to see just the logs from foo.service is amazing.

Yes, there are other systems that do all these things, but having this actually be implemented out-of-the-box is one of the amazing things too.

(Note that this is different from saying that systemd is flawless code or that I agree with the systemd maintainers' approach to everything. I do actually have a good number of disagreements. But they've made a working system that solves real problems.)
Under accessibility iOS already has a floating menu button, that a lot of people, especially outside the US, enable. It actually works very well, and I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing iPhones sold with it enabled.
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I see it as implementation being perceived as architecture. The instance of the library that is quoted does this, it is not part of the architecture. That library has been used in a lot of places, so people start relying on the side effect (a common one is to stand up a local DNS server, have it 'shadow' or give alternative results to some queries, like ad network host names, and if the host name isn't in it then to fail so that the next DNS server is queried which is more likely a 'legit' server.)

One of the reasons the IETF likes multiple running implementations of an RFC is they often have different side effects and so they call out things which might hang people up.

The "correct" way to shadow, and to achieve user required semantics, is to create a DNS proxy that answers queries that it is supposed to and recursively getting results for ones that it doesn't.

Correct here is in scare quotes because it doesn't mean it is right but instead just insures side effects of the libraries will not be a problem.
Heh. The line above the one you highlight makes dnssec vulnerable to MITM attacks by default. Nice.

(Also, the one below points at more Google infrastructure...)
What were the new incredible features that are missing now? Seems like the iPhone has been a pretty steady march forward in terms of processor, memory, storage, screen, camera, hardware features, and the software enabled by the hardware capabilities. Why is this release underwhelming?
> Forcing someone's eyes to open isn't impossible but would be difficult

1. Be at border.

2. CBP officer requests to unlock my phone.

3. He/She holds it up to my face to trigger the unlock.

4. I close my eyes to prevent the unlock.

5. The officer presses the end of his/her gun on my head and tells me to open my eyes within the next five seconds.

6. I comply to avoid having my brains splattered on the pavement.

7. ???

8. iPhone is unlocked.

Or, you know, anyone else who wants to unlock it (cybercriminals, pickpockets, etc) can simply threaten your life over a phone (since, let's be real, people have died for less in the first world).
I don't think it is about circumventing charges. I think it is so a "phone" number just becomes a general contact number, irrespective of whatever device I happen to have available at the time.
Several professors spoke out against President Hockfield's quickly formulated comments against Star. Patrick Winston, who received his BS, MS, and PhD at MIT before joining the faculty, is among them.
I expect big data and AI to uncover many 'uncomfortable' sociological trends that were censored by the widely postmodernist-minded academics in the near future.

The academics will deny these hidden truths but the greater population will (and already do) exploit them.
No, these are inexcusable deaths. This is literally a fatal flaw in the system.
I also wonder about, for example, the Maserati I sometime see parked just on the street in Daly City.

I have a shitty car and a relatively cheap motorcycle exactly so I can confidently leave them in the city without worrying too much.
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Here we go...

"Placing black bars makes your app feel cramped"

Screenshot from Apple design video:
https://twitter.com/SteveMoser/status/907686208154816515
All the new McDonalds in the UK have Qi charging tables.
I think Jobs would be throwing it into aquarium until the black
notch bar is removed. After looking at those photos the notch is pain in the eyes and pure abomination.
>Do you think phones are a "done" thing? I mean what we are seeing these days is more of an evolution than revolution.

Evolution is how we got from primitive sea creatures to man.

>What do you think will bring the next revolution in personal computing and communications?

I think that there have not been many revolutions in personal computing and communications. It's all incremental evolution. The only actual big revolution was the invention of the digital computer and of networking.

Beyond that, well:

There were computers at homes before everybody got one.

There were mobile phones, even touch phones, before the iPhone and mp3 players before the iPod.

There were tablets before the iPad.

There was "internet" and "www" (ARPAnet, minitel etc) before the internet and the world wide web.

There were social networks before Facebook.

Heck, there were actually newspaper columns chronicling a person's opinions and everyday life before blogs.
"Create beautiful selfies with sharp foregrounds and artfully blurred backgrounds."

This occurs optically, by choosing the proper depth of field, and an appropriate focus point. The blurring of the background is "bokeh" and used in portraits, none of which is considered "post processing."

Clearly the iphone guts aren't nearly as capable as my 5D2, but my opinion is that if it's software that can produce a reasonable approximation of something that can be done optically (or in the case of studio lighting with a pair of strobes), it's fine to not be pedantic.
Yes, but Apple doesn't points for those, they actively oppose them.
Completely agree. It was the most beautiful of all iPhones. It was bound to get shit the next iteration. After all, gotta iterate right? Gotta do something different, "better"...
You've got a large number of logical fallacies in your comment.

Comparing your experience chairing shareholder meetings to tax policy is apples and oranges. Specifically, that because you've chaired a shareholder meeting, this somehow makes you an expert on the efficacy and outcome of changes to the tax code.

The theory of "investment fleeing" due to capital gain tax increases is, frankly, not proven by the data. We've had an increase in the capital gains taxes under Obama (2014) - yet investment continued across private equity, venture and general investment.
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what a whole lot of meh regarding the Iphone X. The watch series 3 though, that I am getting.
I think they mentioned that the number will be the same
Thanks, that was my mistake I confused the two and didn't even notice before posting. Too late to delete my inaccurate comment(mods?). It certainly makes sense for Experian to advertise this service given their competitors recent leak.
I don't understand why you're mixing autopilot with IC engines here. The two things are completely unrelated.
Just like with TouchID, it _unlocks_, but actually going to the home screen requires a press of the button.
> I think ultimately we're going to see legislation requiring licenses/certifications for software designers and software companies and software service providers.

What will these licenses test us? I have no problem finding a software engineer guilty of negligence writing bad code because they were too lazy (but proving it is very difficult, what is the definition of "lazy"), but that means everyone is guilty! There are toooooo many corner cases, and we depend on upstream and downstream system to be non-faulty and 100% reliable.

Physical quality control is a lot easier to implement, so if someone fabricated lab inspection results they can go to jail because science doesn't lie right?

Now look at C++, even if we fix all the warning messages from the compiler, doesn't mean someone didn't cast the right type at runtime and boom (what about underflow, overflow, not freeing memory, reuse the wrong pointer)? We lost Mars Probe in 1999 because of a simple inch-to-meter conversion error. We don't have a formal verification system that we can all agree on.
How did he feel about perpetually renting them? Even if the tool is currently perfect, I don't trust that the company's future plans will align with my future needs; I expect that they'll diverge.

edit: I stand corrected; didn't see the asterisk and the separate page specifying that an active subscription isn't necessary to continue using the current version of the software.
From 2012.
My intuition is always to pronounce it "too-pull", because that follows the standard rules for how to pronounce vowels in words that are of English origin (which I will explain later). However, since it is related to the Latin suffix "plus", meaning "more" (see: quintuple), I make a conscious effort to pronounce it "tuppel" as in couple.

To clarify what I mean by "of English origin", of course all of the words in English are inherited from some other language, be that Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon, French, etc... I am specifically referring to words of Anglo-Saxon origin, which are not recent imports into the language.

Here is my understanding on the unspoken rules (at least, they were never explicitly taught to me) for how to pronounce English words that you have never seen before. Isolated vowels are to be pronounced in their short form when followed by two sequential vowels, and their long form when followed by one consonant and one vowel. That is, "VCC" is short, and "VCV" is long. For example, "pick" is not pronounced the same as "pike", because the vowel sound in the middle differs, even though the terminal "e" in "pike" is silent. Similarly, "bite" and "bit" only differ in the vowel sound -- a terminal "VC" acts as a "VCC" (except when it doesn't, like "put" vs "putt"... I never said there weren't any exceptions). Incidentally, this is why words with terminal "VC" frequently double the consonant when adding suffixes ("beg" -> "begging", "bed" -> "bedding", "cram" -> "cramming").

An observant person would note that "tuple" in fact follows the "VCC" form. Words or word-parts that end in "le" are frequently to be pronounced as though it ends in "el". For example, take the word "apple". There is unambiguously a vowel sound that occurs between the "pp" and the "l", so it's pronounced more like "appel". In the case of "apple", there are two consonants after the "a" even if you do flip the "le" at the end, so the "a" is short regardless. But if we reverse the "le" in "tuple", we get "tupel", which does follow the "VCV" order, so it seems like it should be pronounced "too-pull". However, we typically follow different pronunciation rules for words of foreign origin, and since "tuple" is of Latin origin, we pronounce it "tuppel". Compare the pronunciation of "avi" in "behavior" (Anglo-Saxon) to "pavilion" (Latin).

I am not a linguist in any sense, and so this is all my amateur reasoning about how English words are pronounced. When looking for Latin examples, I definitely ran into more exceptions than not, so take this all with a grain of salt.
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I'm curious to see the data plans
Great idea, but I get spooked easily. I signed up, figured I'd add GitHub, saw "This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights," and ran away.
It's worth noting that Russia (then USSR) was the one that introduced the Latin alphabet in 1927 in the first place. Before that, it was Arabic. So, arguably, if they wanted to fully reverse the effects of imperialism, no matter the cost, they should go for Arabic.

From a practical standpoint, though, Arabic doesn't make sense - it's more complicated to learn, vastly more different from the alphabets of all neighboring languages (starting with the whole right-to-left thing), and most other Turkic languages use Latin-based alphabets these days.

But if the choice of Latin is dictated by pragmatic considerations, then it's reasonable to compare it to Cyrillic on the same grounds.
The same people can just slip your TouchID device under your finger and unlock it.
To add to this, engineers can use the scientific method.
Well for one thing it'd be a hell of a lot more work to cut off a guy's head vs. just his thumbs (if you want to unlock again later).
Yes they are, but they have an extra protocol for their mat that supports multiple charges. They say they're trying to roll it back into Qi
If you want to "invest" in safe things, you buy treasury bonds. You'll get lousy returns, but you're guaranteed to get your money back.

If you are willing to "invest" in unsafe things, you buy bitcoin or a start-up. You might get 10x or 100x returns, or you might lose all your money.

Taleb advises what he calls the "barbell strategy": you put 80% of your money in ultra-safe things (treasury bonds), and the rest in ultra-risky things (out of money options, bitcoin, startups).

The actual price of bitcoin is irrelevant. If I have $10k to invest, I might get 10000 bitcoins at a price of $1 or 2 bitcoins at a price of $5000. It doesn't matter. It's the same $10k invested.

BTW, when I started watching bitcoin in 2011, it's price was $1. People were saying the same thing than, who is crazy enough to invest in this thing at the outrageous price of $1.
No, these are the wired headphones with an updated Lightning connector.

> The sound quality is terrible, they don't block any external audio, they constantly fall out.

I think the first two problems stem from the third, namely, they don't fit your ears.

> Maybe I just have stupid shaped ears or something

Yes, that is one issue with these headphones is that they don't seem to fit in everyone's ears. I'm not sure if there's an easy fix for this.
It was a proxy for the fact most teachers have summers off, so are only working 3/4ths the year...
How about the government spends a lot less money, thereby requiring far less tax to fund it?

Also, wealthy people are mobile, as are companies that don't have tangible assets. If you try to over-tax, they'll simply domicile everything elsewhere.
I don't really understand this argument in general. Let's not pretend that drugs aren't already being bought with regular cash.

Bitcoin may make it harder to track who is paying for what, but it's not like it brought on a drug-buying renaissance.
Why do you want notifications? I got one (also just to experience it) and found myself frantically trying to turn off the incessant notifications like a sick game of whack-a-mole until I realized it didn't offer the intrinsic value that my notification-less phone does.
Then you can adjust your Pi to spoof a known device. That's not too difficult.

The only solution is layered security. (And to be clear, banning unknown devices barely qualifies as a layer.)
> What Samsung actually did was implement software that would sometimes coincidentally "recognize" a face, and more often would "recognize" a photo of the target user

No way unique to Samsung. Every implementation I've seen fails at this, even the latest one in Windows 10.

If you care about security, don't use it. That's my advice.
Ah, good, found out from the person they got the phone through a third-party and didn't get either of those with it (and didn't know they should have).
Regardless of marketing pitch, resolver is no job for systemd. Or any other init/pid 1 process.

Systemd is known to but in into areas that are not / should not be of concern for it. Also known to do stuff half baked or changing things because you can.

So I'd very much love to see systemd fingers completely outside of dns resolver, that way we wouldn't have this conversation at all.
Yes. He has a vested interest in saying what he is saying. Let's defer our judgment until less encumbered members of the economics community have something substantial to say.
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This is an argument for denying man made climate change. Be careful.
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SEC treats Bitcoin as a commodity, and cryptocurrencies as an asset class.

Major banks, investment houses and hedge funds regularly publish [sometimes strongly-worded] opinions on their vision of the specific asset or asset class.

If Jamie Dimon made a statement that oil will remain stable, or that aluminum is overpriced and no JP Morgan trader should touch it, would it be viewed through the same lens of grand conspiracy?
Hi, Steve,

How about mid level people who are familiar with web apps but are mostly experienced in C++ embedded programming?
There's a surprising amount of people who don't own a computer and use their phone as their only device.