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We had a candidate come in for interviews, and one of them was a video-conference programming session with a remote interviewer. We set them up with a Macbook (running Windows/Bootcamp) for live-coding.

The candidate hit the Power button, located where DEL used to be. Laptop goes to sleep (candidate said it shut down but it probably just went to sleep). He gets it back up but then it needs a login etc., so he had to go find us non-remote staff to log back in, join VPN etc. Took about 5 minutes out of the interview, partly due to confusion + logging back into the things.

I can't for the life of me understand why so many vendors have put this button on the keyboard. It was so simple and sensible to have it somewhere else.

Edited: Macbook running Windows, probably just went to sleep but disruptive nonetheless, combination of hardware+software to blame.
I checked Venture Hacks and they don’t mention QSB. They didn’t mention 83b either which is strange. Venture Deals doesn’t cover it either.
The current C series does not really compete with the 737MAX for most routes, that is one of the absurd things about Boeing’s trade dispute. Boeing does not have a 737MAX small enough to overlap the CS is a 717compwtitor which they don’t make anymore anyway. It was all about what could be, not really about the CS as it is available today.
The one that really did make a dramatic difference is notable because it didn't have the human voice involved. I'm talking about the Star Wars theme. In that one, the difference between major and minor was dramatic. But for vocal music, the emotional cues seem to override the major/minor distinction.
Which place is this? I kind of want to try now.
The new MBPs are such a mixed bag for me.. I got one at work, while I still use a 2012 MBP, and I go back and forth on some things....

1) New keyboard took a while to get used to, and it does seem like they are a little finicky. After a while, I've gotten used to the feel of it and actually prefer it for the most part. The arrow keys are really hard to use, though..

I do hate that it is such an expensive/involved thing to replace the keyboard.

2) The enlarged trackpad is kinda nice sometimes, but really hard to use other times.. The way I rest my hands on my laptop when I'm using it while sitting back or lying down always results in mis-clicks and other problems with the new trackpad. I'd rather have the smaller-sized one, but I realize others may not have the same problems I do.

3) TouchID is really handy, but the TouchBar is an unfortunate gimmick. I keep trying to find good uses for it, but it mostly ends up being kinda useless - anything I can do with it, I could do before with less work. I hope it goes away, or at least becomes an optional thing in the future.

Overall, while it is nice to have a laptop that is smaller/lighter, the way Apple is sacrificing all sorts of other stuff (performance, repairability) to minimize size/weight sometimes feels wrong for what it supposed to be a professional series laptop.
I have a turbo pascal game from the 80s that still sort-of-works on the command box of windows 10. Unfortunately it starts, does a demo loop in which all the pacmen get eaten then exits, all within about a second. I thought it was broke for many years until I found a way of slowing dosbox right down to look for an error message and did not find one :-) Shame I havent got the source code. I also wrote an 8051 assembler and compiler again executable (com) file only but I havent looked at this for a while as its still on a 5.25" floppy... Ahhh memories!
We are in the middle of the Holocene extinction event, the extinction event with the highest extinction rate. Killing the animals is part of what we have done to destroy species, there's also habitat destruction.

And if we are smart enough and we melt the East Siberian Arctic Shelf we are next in line after we release enough methane to recreate Permian-Triassic extinction event.

"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." ... then go extinct.
As someone who's just getting into setting up mail newsletters, this is the most useful post in the thread for me, since it explains really what you're buying at MailChimp, SES, etc. I wish they would advertise this. It would be much more straightforward to someone like me.
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There was no RAD in Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS, secondly I had the opportunity to live in a country where a CS degree or similar is pretty much a requirement to be hired on the field.

Quite a few parallel programming research papers were done in Concurrent Pascal during the 70s.

Besides UCSD Pascal, there were a few other OS CS research done in Pascal variants.

Variable legth arrays were available.

C string manipulation is a joke as well, given that in 2017 still doesn't have a way to handle unicode in spite of wchar_t.

The whole point of unsafe code being hard to reach for, is to force people to think instead of producing yet another artifact to hang on the CVE list.

Finally, if we are no longer discussing pure C then Pascal also has libraries and extensions, nothing special about C here.

In any case, there is no need for C when we have C++, other than keeping UNIX kernel devs happy, and legacy code.
It worked for Gandhi fighting (or rather, not fighting) the British. Superior weaponry doesn't necessarily lead to victory in this kind of conflict.
Not any longer. We are post peak Jobs after all. The ilusion of self-worth by activity has spawned all these automated-zombie jobs that scream for a drone to give the controlled person theire dignity back.
Yes, but that's a really bad comparison because the net result ended up being a huge increase in new jobs that were created, thanks to the machines. We have tons more people and jobs today.
Plant-based and lab-grown is what we'll be eating in the future. Farms (be it livestock or fish) are inefficient and cruel.
On one of my trips, I bought a number of copies of a few books and left them in random places as I drove, more or less randomly, around the country.

I put an email address in each one, along with a quick note. I got exactly one response.

I left copies of:

Ishmael;
Another Roadside Attraction;
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanence;
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy;
Battle Cry

(the formatting kinda sucks)

A dozen copies of each, except Ishmael which I bought the half dozen I found at a bookstore along the way and added those to my random seeding of books.

I hope they were placed in the right places and at the right times, but I only got one reply so maybe not.
Part of that is kind of what Apple has been going for the past couple of years with macOS, even though they haven't gone all onboard by removing the hierarchical part (since there is so much legacy software and users would revolt).

A new user profile will come with a prominent "All my files" live search shortcut that just shows all your files in a jumble sorted by when you last used them. Then they expect you to search and filter through them by metadata (which is automatically extracted/indexed by Spotlight). Then you can save these searches/filters as saved searches which are live-updating virtual folders.
Agreed, Typora has this nailed. Separate edit/preview panes seem clunky by comparison now.
>And finally removal of jobs entirely, with no need of replacement.

For example, computers - who were replaced by computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
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Nothing about this makes much sense - regardless of which generation macbook you're using hitting the power button accidentally will not turn it off (you can try it right now). Did your interviewee keep pressing on it for like 10 seconds?
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Boeing is playing an extremely dangerous game here and they just keep on doubling down. They have an awful lot to lose if other countries, especially the EU, start to think they've crossed the line.

A lot of people think their management decline started when they moved their HQ to Chicago, away from their R&D and manufacturing. But prior to this incident they demonstrated not only how much influence they can wield in the US Govt, but their willingness to use it whatever the appearance, with the KC-46A contract - the US Military had already decided to buy Airbus's a330-derivative tanker aircraft, but Boeing managed to get the decision overturned and their objectively inferior tender accepted instead. From the press coverage at the time the unfairness, and near-corruptness, of this manoeuvre was not lost on other governments.

And now this - again they have demonstrated their hooks into government at the highest levels and willingness to use them for dirty tricks, in this case an outrageous 300% tariff on a tiny non-competitor based on absurd arguments about healthcare costs. Literally no-one in the aviation community thought it was even slightly reasonable.

So now they've driven that tiny company and its airline program (and to be fair, they made a lot of their own mistakes) into the arms of their biggest competitor and by extension the EU. The biggest strategic blunder imaginable. Now the C300 is an EU program. And yet they just keep upping the ante:

https://twitter.com/Boeing/status/920373843142864896

Last week they were trying to dare the governments of Canada and Ireland to start a trade war. Now it's the governments of France and Germany as well. And yet they continue to just hold down that accelerator. It's not lost on anyone that their theme of "america first no matter what" and hardball negotiations/threats by twitter seems eerily reminiscent of the current government in DC.

So yeah. Boeing, and by direct extension the US Government, seems intent on playing an ever more dangerous game of Trade War Chicken with an ever increasing list of opponents. If they win the battle but lose the war, like they did with BBD, the solution is to start a bigger war. It's shocking, it's arrogant, and America's biggest exporter has a lot to lose should anyone decide to call their bluff.

The geopolitical implications of this are interesting too. Just like there's no way Boeing is acting like this without assurances from the government that it's got their back, there's no way Airbus would have moved without assurances from its own member governments. The speed of the action was breathtaking - negotiations only started in August. This can only mean that the EU feels it has the upper hand should any real dispute arise. It's pushed Canada closer to the EU too. I wonder what's next.
> Raw farm-fed salmon and saltwater fish such as tuna are
> generally safe to eat,

I'm surprised by this. The amount of chemicals used to keep farmed fish free of parasites must be insane. I've never made sushi myself, but if I did I'd only use wild tuna as, AFAIU, it has the lowest parasite load.
I'll believe it when I see it. By that I mean, actually replacing programmers, not as an academic or highly specialized exercise. I think it will take AGI to automate programming on any large scale such as to eliminate a meaningful percentage of programmers.

Otherwise, it just becomes another tool for the programmer, where they're being asked to build ever more complex software for ever more kinds of applications.
The best kind of controversial Apple design is one that people grumble about because it's ahead of its time, but which ultimately replaces one way of doing things with another that's better for most use cases. See: ditching floppies and adopting USB on the first iMac.

The worst kind of controversial Apple design is one that people grumble about because it's aesthetically pleasing but actually makes the product less user-friendly. See: the hockey-puck mouse on the first iMac.

Regarding that second kind, sometimes Apple recognizes their mistake and, in a future iteration, completely replaces the bad design with a better one. More recently, they seem too infatuated with their initial design decisions and just keep putting band-aids on fundamentally flawed implementations. The butterfly keyboard mentioned in TFA is on its third(!) revision, and it's still clearly flawed. Another example: Apple "fixed" the impossible-to-tell-in-the-dark-which-way-you're holding-it Apple TV remote by putting a single tactile ring around one button, rather than just designing an ergonomic remote that makes it tougher for you to accidentally engage the touchpad and cancel out of the movie you're watching.

So why might Apple underestimate the severity of bad design decisions?

Apple's direction with the Mac lineup as of late is a great example of "success hides problems." [1] Supposedly, the 2016 MacBook Pros sold very well, despite a number of bad design choices that put form over function:

- The keyboard design as described in TFA

- The touch bar (only available on the high end models). The designer must have really hated those useless, ugly fkeys. But instead of putting the touch bar above the fkeys, they eliminated them. The touch bar is not a substitute, unless all you used the fkeys for was changing volume, etc.

- Eliminated all other ports in favor of USB-C, which while great in theory is in fact a highly fragmented incompatible ecosystem of poor quality peripherals and cables that don't give the user any visual indicator as to whether they work together. [2]

IMHO, many if not most of these MacBook Pro customers are buying not because of these bad design decisions but in spite of them. Computers are amazing because they're fun and powerful general purpose machines. These machines may meet some subset of people's needs better than the old ones did. But in exchange for that, they've stopped (or soon will stop) meeting the needs of many, many more.

Somebody once said "design is how it works." If you live in a sterile white world where there's no dust and you never plug anything into your laptop, maybe this product works for you. The rest of us don't have that luxury.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=success+hides+problems

[2] https://marco.org/2017/10/14/impossible-dream-of-usb-c
>>I think when we step back and think about it we really shouldn't be favoring people that did things like commit armed robbery over those that didn't.

I think people do not understand things like adversity and redemption do to a person's psychology.

The sheer motivation and drive to beat all odds and succeed are likely to be way higher in a person like this.

It might sound unfair to you. But some forms of failure are life altering, reformative and helpful, than success can ever be.
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That should probably read A319 - several other more reputable aviation sources mention this (for instance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardaboulafia/2017/10/17/bom...)

According to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A320_orders, the A319ceo (current) has a backlog of 50 orders and the A319neo has just 20.
Based on the title I assumed that this person was going to be complaining about joint damage due to the low key travel. This keyboard on my 12" MacBook is so bad that between having to get the top case replaced to fix broken keys (when as stated in the article, careful blowing didn't work and trying to replace the keys caused them to break) and my fingers feeing like they have aged many years from the poor ergonomics of no key travel (something I am extremely pissed about) I have mostly just stopped using a laptop: even when using this computer it is now docked at my home with an external monitor and a real keyboard. You have to understand that I am someone who hates desktop computers and has been using the 11" MacBook Air since the moment it came out as a replacement to an HP Mini... I love small computers, but this one is trash. I have it on my todo list to move back to my now-repaired 11" Air, but the thought of having to do that much data movement is demoralizing, particularly as I have grown accustomed to the high-resolution screen. I am not sure what to do as I just can't understand how Apple thinks these keyboards are reasonable... it just seems so obvious that this is dumb.
Greed, Glutony, Limitless Luxery, Writting without boundaries and principles, Depravity and textual Fornication are so out of characters

280 is the depth, where thought and rambling begin. Imagine a facebook of incoherent mindset selfdefense rambling. Do you really want to lose the freedom from this freedom of speech?
The Internet Archive WayBack machine kind of has an optional filter in a traditional URL scheme - you can replace the date in a WayBack machine URL with an asterisk as a wildcard and you'll get either the only entry it can find or a list of dates

https://web.archive.org/web/20000831072728/http://charlotte....

vs

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu:...
When you change early 80s thrash metal from minor key to major key, you get something that's pretty close to punk rock. Metallica's Kill 'Em All in major key is a fun listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i98v54fPYxU
That’s what people don’t get. It’s only really a decent outcome for the investors and the founders, and then only until you consider how long it took to get there. Front line grunt gets bupkis, and now has to find another job, because fuck working for a bank.
About the ESC key - if you're using vim you should be remapping it to caps lock. If you rather not remap, you can always just hit ctrl [ (and this works out of the box).

I've been doing this for so long its natural to me even on a keyboard with an actual escape key.
Say investors own 60% of the company. In an acquisition worth $220 million, 60% of the company would be worth $132 million. It's common for investors to have a 2x liquidation preference, meaning they get up to twice their money back before anyone other shareholders get $1. $80 million invested means investors get $160 million, more than the $132 million. $60 million would be left over for the founders and employees. There's enough money there to be a life altering amount for many people.
No moa [1] Britannica, really? It's not even on the 'birds that don't fly' on the next page!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa
Actually yes, I've been doing all that and more - I don't shy away from the difficult tasks.
It's rare seeing an ad get through ublock and hosts filters.
remap to caps lock or use ctrl[ which is better than moving your hand off the home row of keys to hit escape.

I haven't had any issues pressing the touch bar icons accidentally, not even once. Personal anecdote of course.
Very good point. Can't disagree with you. I am ok, however, with a contacts system letting me specify a single name nickname that it prioritizes in matching / searches.

And I'm probably also ok with the computer knowing as much about me as my cellular provider does, since all that is probably hoovered up already. Why should Siri be dumber than the feds?

To take this further afield, it would be interesting to interact with a "smart" assistant that only learned from info likely to be accessible to third party law enforcement and/or aggregator, as a demonstration of the risk & power.
Congrats on the release. I've been waiting for TiDB to reach 1.0 for a while.

I'm looking at the quickstart, and I strongly recommend moving that documentation to another document devoted to "classic/dedicated" installation, and instead rewriting the quickstart to use Docker, because the current one is anything but quick. I and the companies I work for use Kubernetes and will never touch Ansible, and your quickstart made my eyes water when it started talking about "machines".

As I'm sure you know, you can get very far with a docker-compose.yml that starts any number of TiDBs, PDs and TiKVs. Compare your docs with that of CockroachDB [1], which gets everything up and running with less than 6 commands, none of them requiring any machines or locally installed software beyond Docker.

Anyway, great news.

[1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/start-a-local-clus...
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A twist on the old if-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest riddle: If a hidden gesture exists but nobody knows it, does it really exist?
Wow, using pascal for 30 years and diddnt know this..

I am actually thankful its not that well known. Pascal is still readable where as #defines in C libraries give me terrible headaches decoding.
> you will stop talking to me if I request it;

I guess I can relate to what was happening there, and I can't dismiss the possibility of (extreme) psychological abuse from the other side.
A couple things: you don’t have to click volume and then move to the slider, you can just touch the volume button and begin sliding immediately and it will adjust relative to how you slide. Also, if you go into System Preferences—>Keyboard, you can customize the keys, including adding a dedicated mute button.
Are these sites slow because the software on the server-side is slow or because they're JavaScript bloated garbage?

That's a serious question: I find it's often hard to tell what the bottleneck might be in these applications.
> At one point in our history, one of the most important jobs in a large city, was removing the endless tones of horse shit from the streets every day. Cars made those guys as obsolete as AI will do almost everything.

Which was replaced by lots of mechanics, factory workers, marketers, office workers and salesmen. A lot of jobs were created by automating away the horse. I wonder how many people predicted that back then?

I don't see much evidence yet that AI is going to automate most existing jobs, unless Google, FB, Hitachi, etc is secretly on the cusp of AGI. The current machine learning isn't anywhere near that. This is being blown out of proportion, but it's always been since the beginnings of AI.

Maybe someday. Or 20 years from now, along with cold fusion and flying cars.
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I'm not suggesting that literally, I'm saying that's what the overall system does. Someone will gamble their time on beating powerful established businesses, and they will figure out some efficiency to win by.

Some of the factory workers will find other work, some in other industries, or other businesses in the same industry.

But when you are suggesting policy, you think about the overall system, not just the poor factory workers. The overall system works, even if labor isn't part of production due to automation, because labor builds, maintains, and services the automation. Sometimes there's some debugging involved too.

Yes some workers will lose their jobs because they don't have marketable skills any more. That's why we invest in education. Maybe not terribly wisely, but that's the idea.
Ah, that would explain the inspiration for the name.
I like the feel of the new keyboard, though I have two issues with it: 1. sometimes buttons do lock up. i'm unsure whether this is the same issue as in the article, but by pressing them harder they typically start working again. 2. the keyboard is much louder than the one on my prior MacBook pro. I feel very self-conscious whenever i type anywhere public. Maybe this is just me being self-conscious..