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Your story resonated with me because I had the same experiences with a 12” MacBook.

While I can’t really use you as an example, since you kind of need a Mac for a lot of the work you do specifically, I’ve heard the same complaints about Apple hardware from other long-time Mac users that don’t actually need to have a Mac.

I am curious how many of those of us that don’t need macOS day to day have voted with their wallet away from Apple’s pro line, and what they switched to. I still use a mid-2014 MacBook Pro at work, but at home when it was time to upgrade I took the same path you did and went for the 12” MacBook. It sucked in every way.

Now I’m the owner of a Dell XPS, the supposed most Mac-like PC, and I’m simply stuck with another set of problems: it’s developed a great amount of coil whine, thermal management is spotty to say the least, and the sound card drivers have to be reinstalled every few reboots else it will not detect when I have plugged or unplugged headphones, which has me carrying around a USB DAC. When I need macOS, I’m still running High Sierra on a quad-core Mac Mini server from 2011.

The sad thing is that I don’t think there is a good option at this point. All of the “alternatives” to the MacBook contain their own faults.
In addition to what others have said, meeting someone in person doesn't automatically give you good insight into their character, either.
That’s not what the founders will tell you. Even for employee #1 in 999 cases out of a 1000 it’s not really worth it, if the goal is to get ahead financially.
this language is super cool. High hopes.
This is the reason I bought the entry model without Touch Bar and maxed it out as a custom build.

I'm very happy with it. Except yes the arrow keys suck.
And, if you just could, it would become worthless by its very abundance.
I have the 2016 MBP, and have been using it extensively in third world conditions this year. The keyboard has been so good that I didn't even notice it. What I do notice is having to limit myself to the 15 inch display vs the two 40" 4k displays I have at home. The machine supports four, and I would buy a third 4k display (This time UHD) if I could figure out a desk arrangement that supports all three and still keep the MBP in easy reach.

I love my MBP. The flash storage was a little more expensive than I wanted, and I'm going to wait an extra year to upgrade.

Anyway. this isn't a product story- the keyboard is fine.

This is a service story-- Apple should have fixed his right the first time.

PS- Touch Bar is great.
Okay, was wondering about that. Still, it's a neutron friggin star. A star, made out of neutrons. Colliding with another. Galaxies away. And we got it right. Down to very small details. The more I think about it, the more my mind is blown.

Physics: what happens when neutron stars collide? vs
CS: how do I exit vim? :)
Oddly enough, you can observe the same phenomenon for fighter pilots! After an amazing run, pilots tend to give a mediocre performance.

Is it 'future value compression,' or just reversion to the mean?
In Go, `error` is an interface, which means you can return anything that implements the `Error() string` method as an `error`.
yes I agree. I don't know how hardware teams with such a stellar track record as Apple have can make such awful decisions. The first time I used the new keyboard I thought that it was broken in some way (how is a shorter key travel a better thing?), and the touch bar is just stupid. I've seen people use them and the awkward way they have to stop what they're looking doing, orient themselves with the silly little screen and press a button is just beyond stupid.

I'll go out of my way to buy an old mac before I spend money on these stupid new machines.
Do you realise how ridiculous you sound ? You're blaming a Mac for Windows OS behaviour.

On Mac OS pressing the power button does nothing, it takes seconds to come back from sleep and it never drops VPN unless you are going to sleep for hours.
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Because it's interesting to read others stories and thoughts.

I don't use Go nor Python but still thought the article was interesting.

> they don't have much specific information except very generic "developer productivity"

They give you a lot of reasons but in reality choosing a language is seldom about arriving at a scientific conclusion and much more about what feels best. Just like choosing a dish at a restaurant.
I too have found this keyboard it to be a disaster. I made the mistake of buying two MacBooks as soon as the first 12" model was released, one for me and one for my wife, and my wife's keyboard had so many problems we took it in to Apple. All they could do was offered to swap out the keyboard for a mere $400. My wife refused, and the problem mysteriously solved itself.

Meanwhile, mine "works", but the short key travel makes touch typing next to impossible even after two years of use. I have just purchased an inexpensive windows computer from a Lenovo and I'm trying to get accustomed to Windows 10 so I have a workable keyboard. This is a big deal because I am deep into Apples ecosystem and lock-in.

I do not want to switch but I type all day and I can't bear to buy another Macintosh because the keywords have all gone this way. I am however considering purchasing a new old stock MacBook Air.
The MacBook Pro 2015 doesn't use an USB connection to connect the internal keyboard when using macOS. Instead it uses SPI. Unlike the newer MacBook Pros it still has the keyboard wired to USB, but doesn't use that because of power saving reasons.
Ctrl + [ won't work on any non-English keyboard as the square parenthesis are hidden behind a modifier already. This is a constant problem with software, and now hardware, manufacturers that they assume everyone in the whole wide world is using a US keyboard.

Yes, you can remap and fiddle to make it work but that isn't the point, the point is to pay the same price, sometimes more than Americans and get the same value and experience. Instead we get an inferior experience that requires hacks. Not good at all.
It sounds like there's real, serious problems with it, but nothing in the article comes close to justifying the hyperbolic title.
Marching cubes is the rendering technique, it's based on distance fields which is a similar idea to iso-surfaces.

With the SVG/Bézier approach I doubt you could do 3D, true :)
And that Dos Equis guy travels at all of them at once.
stop making excuses for Apple's dumb decisions. With physical buttons I can find a key by feel just by running my fingers across the top row. Good luck accurately hitting any button on that stupid little touch screen.
Where's a good place to find new old stock MacBooks?
The left/right comparison for HDR are pointless : they should show the same image with same contrast/exposure with the two techniques at 100% pixel. The difference between without HDR and with HDR should be less noise (otherwise if it's just about having more exposure in the darkest parts of the image, then a little bit of image processing can do the trick)
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I understand what you are getting at, but in reality not everyone has issues with the new design, and I’m as yet unclear whether it’s a vocal minority who do, or a more widespread thing.

Personally, I really like my new 15” Pro. I’m in favour of anything which can make it thinner and lighter, to a point, as I like to be able to carry it around easily, while still having a large screen. The design looks beautiful.

In regard to the specific points you raised:

- I prefer the keyboard to the old one. It feels satisfying to type on in my opinion. The only thing I would change is the noise of the keys, it’s hard to type quietly.

- The touch bar isn’t perfect but I think it’s a worthwhile effort, as most people (me included, and I’m a developer) rarely use the function keys for anything aside from the media functions you mention, mainly because it’s hard to remember what they’ll do and having shortcuts visible there is a good idea.

However, the lack of tactile feedback and visibility in sunlight is an issue. I’d rather they’d gone with distinct keys with e-ink displays or similar, but like I say, to me the Fn keys are no great loss (I’ve been remapping escape to caps lock for years anyway!)

- I find the new port set up much more flexible and have had no problems using my old USB devices with adapters or via a hub. I did find the article about USB-C interesting though - hopefully the industry can sort this out in due time.

I don’t make these points to say you’re wrong, but just to show that not everyone agrees that all these design choices are bad.
According to Wikipedia the CS300 has the same seating capacity as the 737MAX 7. The CS300 has a shorter range--3,300 nmi vs 3,825 nmi. OTOH, I imagine it's a lighter plane and much more fuel efficient.

Is the range a big deal for most customers? Or are the CS300 numbers not realistic to put it in the same class as the 737MAX 7?
My experience is eerily similar. I bought the 11" Air the second it came out but gave it away after purchasing the 12" MacBook. Talk about buyer's remorse.
I completely identify with your anger
Wordpress has supported all of that for as long as I can remember
Could you elaborate on how ROS fits into this framework?
Most of the time, runtime speed is far, far less important than developer speed.
Oh hey, it's you. I weirdly recognize your name from many many years ago. I have vague memories of dealing with you in submitting an open source patch for Django Facebook. Or maybe it was just a documentation change. Either way I remember you being very polite and professional. Just wanted to say that stuck with me and please keep it up, as I can see you're doing here!
I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me, seems to me like C++ templates are like their own language grown within C++ and can do lots of crazy things.
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The touch bar finally forced me to remap Caps Lock to Escape. It's much easier to hit on my computer (just don't ask me to use yours).
Ishmael. The reply was more about the note that I'd left than the book itself. Though, they thanked me for the book and felt that it'd be something they might appreciate later in life. They said that it was too deep for them and they weren't able to understand it all. I replied and told them that I'd read it multiple times, at different stages in life, and that I'd not fully understood it either - that I took something new away with each reading.
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As I understood it the part where you hit the power button when you don't want is the root of the problem. The horrible Mac keyboard is accidentally also the topic here.
I'm in the middle of this hell.

For reasons that I hope are rather obvious, I don't want my personal FB account linked to my employers Page. I also don't want apps created for my employer to be administered by my personal account.

And now I'm stuck in a weird lock-out loop for my work account. I was able to get a dev account and set up an app.

But now I can log in, navigate Facebook proper, but once I try to access anything in the dev pages, my account gets locked, I have to submit a photo, wait two days, my account is back. I log in, I go to the dev pages, my account gets locked.....

I can't find a way out of this hell, or anyone to speak with about it.

The photo thing gets kinda creepy after the 5th time.
Yeah. I'm just shocked by how much people are willing to just deal with as if it is normal or something. I have a friend who recently told me they are surprised as how much I hate my 12" MacBook as they are loving theirs... and then a little later they tell me that the O key on their keyboard doesn't work half the time and just... I just don't even... wtf. I swear all the people who love these new computers must just have extremely low standards or something: you shouldn't have to mess around with your computer every week to fix some stupid keyboard issue that wouldn't exist if the laptop was a mere millimeter thicker.
so anti-terrorism hysteria is warranted because anti-terrorism hysteria has already triggered an avalanche of death and trillions of dollars spent.
linux as daily driver is honestly good, from the bottom of my heart (I recommend xfce)
Halide and OpenCV are not comparable. Halide is mainly about decoupling the description of a low-level image processing operation from implementation details regarding tiling, storage of intermediate results, etc. OpenCV is a library implementing high level algorithms like multi-view 3D reconstruction that Halide does not even attempt to address.
Not really happy with any of them for various reasons so I'll cop out and say Shunji in LA. X_X

That being said I think plenty of places in SF offer high quality nigiri, and a few places in South bay are decent places for casual stops. None really entice me to frequent them.
I have also noticed that the new keyboard is much louder, which would be tolerable if it were higher quality, but it isn't: it is simply inferior technology.
We used to eat shellfish at least "while it's still smiling" - caught right off the side of the boat, force the shell open with a knife, perhaps a dab of hot sauce, then down the hatch!

It's certainly a unique experience.
Right now, Docker, K8s and their adoption among Microsoft, Oracle, IBM are what keeps me keeping up with what goes on Go, because "hey we need to write some stuff in Go here".

For me Reason 3 is exactly the opposite, if I have to spend time manually writing code that other languages give me for free, I am anything but productive.
Interesting idea, but reality looks different. Everything underneath the PaaS layer becomes less and less important. With container engines it may be hard to see for most people yet, I have to admit that. But with OS and hardware you can see it. E.g. think about what OS you run your PaaS on. It doesn't matter. The only limit here is integration with Docker/Kubernetes. If these are available on the OS then it doesn't matter which one you choose. That's also why many people now start to use complete unmodified OS images that don't update individual packages anymore but the whole OS layer together or nothing. Then hardware. Would you say anybody running k8s has an advantage when running on a super computer compared to a cluster of hundreds of desktop computers? Probably not.
I don't know about the pure statistics, but my experience and other people I know (which actually still run the Surface Pro 1) have had a great experience.

In the past, there was a minor issue that the surface tablet didn't understand that you removed the keyboard. But that seems to be fixed now and it didn't happen that often anyway.
> Same with every major site, and every major webserver.

I last tried this a few years back (probably around 2011). I found that a substantial fraction of major sites did not support it, and a substantial fraction of those that seemed to support it produced web pages that were at least partially broken.
Yes, but I didn't find that ad "out of place" or annoying. So I do not mind!
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I have two 12 MacBook at home. I've replaced the keyboard twice on one and zero times on the other. Each time some keys got stuck in pressed position which meant we had to press harder. My other had similar issues except the keys popped back up somehow.

That occasional glorious press on "Return" key may lock it... and it feels terrible.
> One thing we're learning is that the UK government can do whatever it wants

This shouldn't be news for anyone who's lived here a few years, with a basic understanding of UK politics. The acrid stench of arrogance and righteousness that emanates from Westminster travels to the far corners of these isles.
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Makes me wonder if we lost something with the transition to computers...
> If we accept that, should we not also accept religious views in the internal environment?

We (in the US), rather emphatically, do.

(There are some protections against religious discrimination in employment that apply to most employers, but those protections do not extend to prohibiting employers from all internal expression of religious views, or even substantive policy based on religious views. And, in fact, writing additional affirmative protection for employers’ internal expressiom of religious views, even to the extent of making that a basis for exempting them from generally-applicable legal requirements, is a popular trend in the US right now.)
>I've been eyeing one of those absurdly expensive drafting table style Wacom setups for my desktop ever since even thought I could never justify the price.

Have you looked at the Surface Studio? I realize it's not super powerful for a desktop, but the price is simply too good compared to the Wacom tables.
That link is frightening. Even though I think about this often, watching it in action is scary. Is there any similar tool for twitter?
I just realized that they don't even sell the old form factor any more. They kept it around for a while, but now it's gone.

Where can I get an old-style MBP?
Agreed. I just wish I knew a viable alternative strategy.
So from that page I did a rough calculation - the following is in billions of tons of the animals alive in 2006:

Chickens 34
Cattle	560
Sheep	70
Ducks	2
Pigs	75
Total	741 (animals)

Humans	420

Looks like there are nearly two measures of livestock weight for every one of humans.
You can use it for things wouldn't normally remember or that require arcane key commands.

Two buttons I use are to Expand/Collapse All Code Folds.
Well, I looked up some reviews on Ishmael because of this discussion, and it doesn't seem quite like what I'm looking for at the moment, but it did cause me to stumble onto "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" which I'm now thinking of picking up. I wonder if anyone here has opinions on it...
> “Hold on,” I said. “If a single piece of dust lays the whole computer out, don't you think that's kind of a problem?”

> ...

> The Genius shrugged empathetically. He cast around and pointed to a nearby pre-2015 MacBook Pro with relatively thicker keys. "I have one of those," he said apologetically.

Wow. That's got to be the worst tech-support I have ever heard of.
Pick the Fortune 500 list, take out the SV darlings, the majority of their backend stacks will be a mix of Java and .NET deployments.

Easy to find out just by looking at their open job positions.
I had keys go bad twice on my 2017 MBP, but both times I've managed to "massage" them back to life by pressing down hard and wiggling the keys around.

My previous laptop, the original 2012 MBP Retina, lasted 5 years. I have my doubts this one is built as robustly...

That said I actually enjoy typing on this keyboard. The short travel and sharp, stable clickiness has lowered my typing error rate and makes it feel like I'm typing faster. I was never a good typist though.
The Escape key is always in the same position (top left).

I always hit it with 100% accuracy just like I did on my previous MacBook.

And I am not making excuses for Apple. I think they should've made Escape key in particular a physical key.
I've occasionally had things spontaneously break. Most recently the cryptography package just stopped installing on deployment. Had to add a pip upgrade on deploy, which somehow prevented the AMI I was using from installing some of its requirements. Had to add those packages to my project requirements.

Also some of the data analysis packages don't work with virtualenv.
Yeah, I tend to just get up and go on long journeys. I try to make them mean something more than just engaging in wanderlust. It has given me the chance to see the world and meet many, many people.

I wish I'd more replies from my book seeding but it serves to demonstrate that what I thought was sheer brilliance really wasn't seen as such by others. It's humbling but not without reward in and of itself.

Those were all books that had impacted me in some way. I left personalized notes in each one, as well as the email address. So, to answer what I was thinking, I was thinking that I'd share something that had been meaningful to me, in some vain hope of similitude. I guess it was more about the hope of a shared experience, even if remote and unknown.
Well, as noted though, this behavior is determined by the OS; it's not a hard-coded part of the system or anything. Windows has a control-panel option for what Windows should do when the power button is pressed, and for whatever reason, it defaults to "Shutdown". This is not the behavior on macOS, and as such accidental presses are not a problem on macOS, nor would it on Windows if the user desired.
I don't think you understand the situation though.

On the older Macbook's the power key is still in the top right corner just like it is on the new ones. If you can't type properly it is still possible to hit it.

Not that tapping the power button does anything.
For me, the ecosystem matters as much as the language itself these days (actually more). There are languages that I've used at home just as a learning experience, but ideally, I want a language that I can put into production at work. That means quite a list of criteria: only a small number of languages have a well-supported AWS SDK, for example.

I won't say that Go is mainstream yet, but it feels very "production-ready" in those respects.
debt? sounds like you want retribution.
As long as your mindset is on punishment, rather then to fix (if possible) what drove the person to such undesired behaviour, it's going to be hard to forgive. You want to lock up people because you have to, either as a WORKING deterrent, or to keep people outside jail safe.

And in some cases the debt is not repayable.
Can you define standard of living in non-monetary terms?Probably not.

Yes, capitalism raises the monetary value of individuals the most. But if that again is a quality of life is discussable.

Since we are not living in feudalism, you wouldn't say raising the amount of inheritable titles you own is a quality of life. But that is what feudalism is best at. From a feudalist perspective capitalism sucks. You pay taxes on your inheritance, and you can only inherit ownership.

Capitalism also makes people grow apart, so from a communist perspective capitalism really sucks. Owning nothing but a good relationship with your neighbors would be valued highly in communism. In fact ownership doesn't really even exist in communist POV.

You need to evaluate the system from outside the system, or it's not really an evaluation.
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The 8th gen U-series i7 in the SB2 is a quad-core, 8-thread beast with TDP-up of 25 watts, 8 MB cache and 4.2 GHz turbo.

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I think it depends where you are, regarding the use of sheep.

In Australia and New Zealand, lamb consumption is quite popular. Australian figures from 2016 show 9.5kg of lamb consumed per capita[1]. From the article:

"This means that with underlying population growth, the total volume consumed in Australia is forecast to edge above 240,000 tonnes cwt by 2020, which will account for 46% of Australia’s lamb production."

Which means there's a further 250,000 tonnes exported.

The UK appears to be even higher in absolute numbers. Average purchase per week per person of mutton and lamb was 35 grams, which equates to 1.82kg per annum[2]. With a population of 63 million, that is once again a fairly large consumption of sheep.

[1] https://www.mla.com.au/prices-markets/market-news/2016-austr...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/284346/weekly-uk-househo...
Yep, I have the 2013 15” rMBP and the 2016 15” rMBP.

Much prefer the keyboard on the 2016 model.

Just two gripes:

- keyboard is noisy as hell, very noticeable in conference calls

- trackpad is way too big, it’s hard to find a resting position. six months in i still accidentally touch it when not meaning to.