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> I am extremely happy with the butterfly keyboard

Agree.

So much so, that I ordered the new Magic Keyboard for desktop use (which uses similar switches) to replace the previous-generation Apple Wireless Keyboard.

The new MacBook Pro keyboard is the best I've ever used. My fingers feel like they're flying over the keys. And I've owned all sorts of mechanical keyboards, ThinkPads, and odd devices like the DataHand.

I really don't understand all the hate for the new keyboard. Or USB-C. Or the Touch Bar.
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I think the worst part is ropes and stuff getting tangled. Unless you run some sort of fixed wing sailboat, which has it’s own share of problems (how to reduce sail in strong winds or make a full stop?)

What I am interested is using CV and sensors inside ropes to optimise for speed or comfort, without user intervention. Takes quite a bit of training to learn how to read sail.
It's great if you're white and a boy, and straight.
I own the 2017 Macbook Pro 13 inch.

Here is a list of my gripes:
1. I would like the ability to move the siri button over a bit so I don't accidentally touch it. (I should probably just remap this to something else.)

2. Some issues connecting to my hdmi monitor is slightly unreliable.

Here are the things I like about it.
1. TouchId is awesome. I use it more than the Apple Watch unlock feature.

2. I have never had an issue with missing the esc key. I love the touch bar because it allows me to dismiss alerts without moving my fingers so much.

3. I bought some usb-c adaptors for a ergonomic keyboard and tracball mouse. Logitech came out with a new trackball that is bluetooth so I will probably switch to that.

4. Touchpad is amazing I have never had an issue with palm rejection.

5. I only feel a slowdown when I have an insane amount of tabs open. When that occurs I'm probably saving too much information in that tab and it should be closed.

Am I happy with my purchase? Yes.

I love the color. The butterfly switches with less travel allows me to type faster. The screen is gorgeous.

I prefer the butterfly switches to the previous chick-let.
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is the spreadsheet itself. Interesting is that it justifies most of the savings by saving drivers time.

I'm a little dubious that's valid, most notably because the costs of mass transit projects tend to occur early ($14 billion of the second avenue subway and east side access in NYC), while the benefits manifest later, if at all.
I've been following Jimmy's blog for a while now and contributing via Patreon. It's just a pleasure to read essays that are well-written and thoroughly-researched. And it helps that the topics are interesting to me as well. :)
tinc 1.1pre seems pretty good, but I do worry about the legacy fallback for encryption; There doesn't seem to be any way to e.g. --force-experimental to prevent encryption falling back to the old RSA mode.
If you go all USB-C, the new models are fine. I think the primary argument is that Touch Bar sucks and I think it's overall useless to people who are used to a keyboard being a keyboard that's it... Which is probably all pro users for the most part.
The IOUs are "invested" in a special type of bond only issued to and redeemable by the SSA. It's clear by accounting laws that calling a debt an "asset" is illegal. There is no money in the SSA trust fund.

As for reliability, consider the gold bonds the government used to issue. They guaranteed repayment in gold, and hence sold at a premium. In the 1930s, Roosevelt repudiated them, paid them off in dollars, and pocketed the difference.

The government can, and has, simply printed money and forced people to accept that as payment of debt.
To each his own. To me, the utter dependence on automobiles, the blatantly wasteful lifestyle and the oppression of HOAs feels claustrophobic, dissonant and excessive. I feel depressed when I have to battle traffic to get access to nature.
I have a 15” Mid 2015 MBP as my personal machine and a latest model 15” MBP w/touchbar as my work machine, and while the latter is a bit faster I don’t feel much of a difference between the two in my day to day. The projects I work on are small/moderate sized, though, and compiling them doesn’t take too long. It’d probably be a different story if I were working on WebKit or Chrome or some other monstrously huge project.

There’s huge performance gap between desktops and laptops though. If the trend wasn’t so heavily inclined towards laptops as corporate machines I’d prefer a high end iMac to be sitting on my desk at work instead of an MBP.
How many formula errors does it contain?
After I posted that last one I realized I was getting off-track, and maybe just feeling argumentative. I think we fundamentally agree on the jerks issue.
If you liked that accelerator you should get a tour through the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. My sister was an operator there so we got an exclusive tour; and boy, that thing is massive! Those giant spectrometers... Makes me really regret I ditched physics in favor of C.S.

You can inquire for tours, but that probably depends on their available manpower. I believe the ray is scheduled to be inactive on Mondays, so that's your best bet.
I recall reading a similar clinical trial involving bacterial vaginosis. In BV, vaginal bacteria are imbalanced and thus it was hypothesized that transplanting healthy flora would be helpful.
So-called “explorable explanations” are outright harmful. They make it next to impossible for the reader to develop their mental faculties for abstraction.
I would add, “Apple, you have our permission to add a quarter inch of thickness and a bit of weight to create a better computer”. The compromises are becoming ridiculous.
They mention a "rebound" effect in quotes, but its a cited thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)
I got the last mac book pro at work, coming from a 2015 model I use at home.

Pro :

- it is lighter. I don't really find it is a very relevant pro, the previous one is already a light device so this isn't really relevant but it would not be fair to do not list it.

- touch id is very convenient. It has one huge caveat : it is very capricious. For example each time the mbp crashes, fingerprints are automatically deleted. I guess it is a security measure, but it makes it a pain to register my fingers again since the machine is not that stable.

Meh :

- the touchpad is extremely large, I am not sure why. I had no problem with the old one. I sometimes tap on the pad by mistake but that does not happen often.

Cons :

-Touchbar : I can't wrap my mind around it. It is just bad. This is such a gimmick, and a badly implemented one. I can't count the number of times I mistyped on this band.
Accessing a feature almost always take more time than with the old regular keyboard. On top of that, I really miss the tactility of a simple button. I am used to type without looking at the keyboard and with buttons you can't press it is far from comfortable to do so.

I am on the verge of just using a dedicated keyboard and touchpad just to do not have to use this touchbar.

It makes me very uncomfortable, but the high end machine my company bought for me is objectively less suited to my use case than the 2 years old one I have at home.

It is the first time that even after a couple of months, I can't get used to a new machine and long to go back to the last one.
To be born with the genetics to be smart and hardworking is out of our control. So smart and hardworking can be considered circumstances we are born into as well.
> (Someone once said that it is necessary to know English in order to learn about China. Important perspectives on China are only available in English and are generally not accessible on the mainland.)

I wonder what other books fall into this category?
No offence, but (1) hasn't been true for literally decades now, showing you to be a out of touch about the UK, which begs the question are you even vaguely right about 2 or 3?
> they’re at the lowest levels in US history

There wasn't even an income tax until 1913.

http://blog.jparsons.net/2009/03/us-government-spending-as-p...
That’s crazy to me! I’ll stick with my iPhone 7 and 2015 MBP
This looks like a ngrok competitor. Am I missing something or is this essentially the same kind of service?
A huge advantage of vpn tunnels is that they stay up indefinitely. I've had openvpn links stay up for months. With ssh, you're lucky to get a few days. I've tried scripts and even autossh, and ssh has never been as reliable as openvpn or tinc.
There's a couple different reasons I ended up going with this solution for my site:

1) Most of the time, integrating social networks into your site means either a) using widgets that are hard to work into the main site flow or b) having a backend to pull and integrate social media posts for you. This solution essentially provides B without needing to maintain a backend.

2) When planning my site refactor, Github Pages appealed to me because of its speed and simplicity. This lets me preserve the site automation that would previously have required a CMS, and because the site is static and hosted by Github, I don't need to worry about bandwidth or usage limits.
Do you find the Touchbar actually useful, or are you just indifferent / don't really use it?
You’ve also been lucky. Everyone is getting sticky and dead keys on these. I had “B” stick and double press, eventually it stopped after a few more weeks of use, but you can feel a key here and there being a little stubborn. It’s way more fragile than older keyboards.
Sorry but your comment does not accord with recent first hand experience.
Negative externalities are rarely fully accounted for with this model. If you ignore the non monetary impacts, specialization wins every time.
You're right, journalism is a good positive example.

I do worry, though, that it's being degraded by the widespread removal of the firewall between the news side and the advertising side of the business.
Check out Paul Robinson's comment for a general refutation. Given the popularity of 'artisanal'-type portable food preparations in both the UK and the US I think it unlikely the market could get away with such standards even at the low-end.

I find your comment valuable though for the insight that bread products may be cut by waterjets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrhThBHOGrU

This is astonishing: surely sogginess ensues?

Bonus bready humour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
> If you go all USB-C, the new models are fine

What if I don't want to go all USB-C, especially since USB-C is a disaster? https://marco.org/2017/10/14/impossible-dream-of-usb-c A "Pro" computer should serve my needs, not the other way around. I'm sick of Apple breaking things for no damn reason and then acting like I'm the problem for not just going along with it.

> I think the primary argument is that Touch Bar sucks

That's not the primary argument. Most people who dislike this machine think the touch bar is at least inoffensive, if not particularly useful. The primary arguments are:

1. If you get so much as a speck of dust in the keyboard, it bricks the machine and requires a >$500 repair, with no guarantees that it won't happen again the very next day.

2. The lack of useful ports means you have to carry dongles (at $80 a pop) everywhere.

3. They made a perfectly thin-enough and light-enough machine thinner and lighter, giving it worse battery life for no good reason.

4. They made a perfectly big-enough trackpad bigger, increasing the spurious input rate for no good reason.
I have a ZZ-Thriller fairing on mine: http://www.zzipper.com/Products/prod_upright.php

I don't know if it makes much difference to top speed, but it's really nice at 25mph (40 km/h) in the rain! (I have a 1300W mid-drive.)
I think the Touchbar could potentially be useful, but besides being cool and myself really liking sliders, I don't get practical use out of it, at least maybe not to warrant $400 for some people.
I remember bending out of shape trying to code a program for my mother to help with her (short lived) cross-stitching adventures. Gave up and discovered program (lot's of them as a matter of fact) which prepared excel sheets from image files and decided on colours based on thread manufacturer catalogs.

I'll say cross-stitchers beat everyone to it.
" that religion will be a steadily larger impediment to further progress if it does not fade"

Religion, which is the application of Spirituality (however crude) was essential to the development of morality in humanity, and hence civilization. Much of it has been codified and secularized, but the underlying metaphysical value remains the same and nothing has replaced it.

Scientific Materialists, who can't even seem to grasp that Religion and Spirituality aren't just about 'believing in random stuff' and that these issues are grounded in an existential metaphysical premise - are the real problem.

The combustion engine and nuclear energy are parlour tricks.

Morality and humanity ... much harder.

Progress is not actually hindered that much by some odd religious people worrying about 'too much adultery or gay marriage' - it's hindered by Scientific Materialism which presumes a universe ordered by a specific set of equations - a philosophy which taken to it's full extent implies we are merely random bags of noise, in a random Universe ... and therefore denies the very fact of life itself, let alone love, creativity, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom etc.. It underlines even our most obvious existential challenge: Global Warming (i.e. technology too advanced for our collective morality).

Materialism is ultimately an empty, nihilist world view.

I'm not worried because those who hold it, directly or indirectly so lack faith (I mean that loosely), don't see themselves as part of a greater whole, so much so that they're much less willing to reproduce, and form a bizarre 'end of the evolutionary trail' cohort. Those with at least an inkling of faith - even if only in their bones and not their hearts, let alone minds - will form the future, write future history, and shape creation going forward. And most people do have some kind of faith, actually.

There's hope in the fact that I find usually in the most ardent materialists, it's just a matter of ego. The ego is usually the thing standing between an individual an their own recognition of 'that which is greater'. The Buddhists put it in pretty good, nearly secular terms when they refer to 'egolessness', which is a good place to start for anyone interested in getting it.

The ancient world has a lot of similar Promethean-type myths (i.e. Lucifer etc.) - who brought us fire/light ... but it's the 'fire' or 'light' in our hearts and souls that matters, not literally 'fire', which useful, but ultimately, missing the point.

Hints - Colombia motto: "In Thy light shall we see light", Yale motto: "Light and Truth", Dartmouth Motto: "A voice crying out in the wilderness", Cambridge Motto: ""From here, light and sacred draughts" ...

EDIT: sorry for the lengthy rant :)
He discusses how the packaged sandwich industry has improved in his perception based upon a single store (M&S). I was discussing the IMHO base reasons for the popularity of packaged sandwiches. Chalk and cheese. Regardless, on cost as a driver we explicitly concur.
can't you add warmth by putting it behind warm glass cover?

I have LED overhead room lights and they're pretty warm and yellow.
I have no idea what you think we’re disagreeing about. I’ve watched Cliff’s presentation a handful of times over the past decade and implemented something similar (albeit simpler) myself. Yes, the particular FSM in his hash table is interesting and novel, but just as insightful to me was his argument that data structures implemented as state machines built on atomic CAS can save you much of the trouble of proving you’ve put memory barriers in the right places. “All” you have to do is demonstrate that every possible state is valid.
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I had a terrible experience during the first days with a MBP 13”, which was kinda offset by being amazed by the touchbar. That faded quickly though.

Finding ESC without any physical affordance is a pain in the ass. Normal things like cancelling a dialog become a hurdle. I haven’t used the middle section of the touchbar in weeks - nothing really useful there. I hate the way the volume slider works. A few days back almost hurt my ears when accidentally maxed out the volume while swiping off a bit of dust from the metal right above it.

I’ve had the standard dead key issue but it fixed itself. The keyboard actually feels nice, but a key gets a bit sticky every other day.

What made my experience better is fully embracing USB-C. I have a hub connected to a 4K monitor, headphones and power, so I can sit down and plug in a single cable that does everything - this feels magical. [To be fair, sometimes two cables since the hub can’t keep up with charging under heavy load.]
> Euroscepticism is just a symptom of things going south just about everywhere in Europe except maybe Germany and Switzerland. Just look at the failed ECB stimulus policy with negative interest rates.

That sounds wrong. Example: Czech rep. had much more expansive monetary stimulus policy (we printed quite a bit of money), is booming on Germany-level and yet is super eurosceptic.

Euroscepticism is just newest brand of populism in Europe. Especially after ECB stimulus Europe is getting better, "on life support" sounds like ridiculous hyperbole.
I'm not sure I understand. This seems to just be a list of words associated with each process. How is this intended to be used?
“When and how frequently to tack will all have to be determined automatically.”

The core “algorithm” of sailing isn’t particularly complex. I learned to sail small boats when I was about 10.

Making it robust enough to cross an ocean may be more difficult, though.
Related to this, does anyone know of a way to bet against bitcoin (or cryptocurrencies in general), without buying cryptocurrencies themselves?

There are lots of more-or-less sketchy cryptocurrency exchanges which allow you to shortsell bitcoin, but these all require buying cryptocurrency in the first place as collateral.

The upshot is that if you bet against bitcoin and win, you win a bunch of... bitcoin. Not so useful if you want to bet on a big collapse of crypto in general.

Selling bitcoin futures seems like a way to bet against bitcoin in the long term, using actual USD, although I don't think that will ever be an option for smalltime investors / individuals.
I think that's the problem, developers have different tastes. If I wanted a monster, I would get a Lenovo P71 with a Xeon at almost 8 pounds, or something like it. I like the 17 MBP for the most part, except the arrow keys and the size of the track pad (too big, I keep palming it). I like it better than the 13 I had before it.
One step forward two steps backwards. Why does every large organization on the internet have to be a shithead in 2017. Mozilla - no amount of sanitization will prevent shitty websites sending sensitive data in URLs therefore you don't include this in your product. Even if you obtain consent - because it isn't in your users best interest to have this enabled. I'm extremely disappointed.
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I think the OP wants us to fill it out?
I very much doubt GDPR penalties will be levied at individuals - even when a business entity is wholly controlled by an individual. Blocking of criminal services does seem probable in extreme cases - but so far most of Europe has been pretty lenient wrt outright censorship as far as I know. Filtering certain child pornografi content being an exception.

On a side note, the cp filter is scary - as the infrastructure implies the existence of censorship infrastructure ready for abuse in the event of a power shift.
You use such a cheery tone to describe your misery! How typically British!
Perhaps worth pointing out, pedantically, that really only the final two lines are the JSON handling — the first three lines here are reading/handling the input stream (HTTP).
I'm not sure how your Firefox ended up like that. Mine has the QR button, mic button and X button when entering a URL, or the reader button, tab button and menu button when viewing a page. The back/forward and refresh buttons are inside the menu ('three dots').
That's a pretty sensationalist headline. Making people more cognizant of their behaviors and reactions is a more realistic achievement.
What do you mean by serious products? There are plenty of massive projects written in purely functional languages (e.g. Facebook's Sigma) and while adoption isn't as fast as it could be, things seem to be shifting towards functional/immutable, which makes sense since reasoning about highly parallel code without RT and immutability is pretty much impossible.
>amount of time can be performing a calculation fully equivalent to letting the universe to live for that time

This one is very interesting since it brings back the question what time really is. Your point involves “metacircular” observer that can only work/simulate as fast as it can, but the definition of “fast” is external to it. Sure, if we simulate predefined-but-calc-required in our universe, then it will take time. But why should we measure it this way? I mean, does calculation process exist at all without something that requires time for it?

[Or we’re really talking about the same fundamental thing that lies behind both our and hypothetically deterministic universe.]
Some forex brokers offer bitcoin CFDs, where you can take the short side.
All patterns are post rationalizations.
Sure, but the same objection applies --

The Cave itself is only given definition in terms of what we might call the Ultimate (in a Platonic setting); though it's essence is to obscure the Sun (a symbol of the too bright to observe Ultimate), the very ability to do so is fundamentally related to the fact it's also a manifestation of the Ultimate.

Similarly, the Fire and anything used to cast Shadows. By careful observation of the nature of Shadows and Light from the Fire upon the Cave, we observe a manifestation of the Ultimate interacting with itself, because the Light from the Fire is merely a transposition of Truth from the Sun, while the essence of the Cave is revealed in it, and we can see the Ultimate through the lens of the Cave.

It's fundamentally impossible to separate the manifestation of an Essence from an expression of the Ultimate interacting with itself; ergo, any structure capable of self interacting and capturing its "Errors" will find in them the ability to distill a view of the Ultimate.

-- the argument is pretty endemic to any structure capable of expressing existing: what exists cannot be cut off from the nature of existence, because fundamentally it's doing that.

(Also, first time I think those philosophy classes came in handy.)
Mathematically, beneficial mutation X spreads to the population A. Beneficial mutation Y that depends on Y spreads to population A.

However without 2 copies of X, Y becomes harmful. So, it only spreads when the population A already has 2 copies of A.

Now, population B does not have any copies of X and pairs can only get one copy of X from a parent, but will also get 1 copy of Y from a parent resulting in offspring that have issues.

Critically, dependency between mutations is extremely common for example the shape of the bones in your foot are related causing an ever increasing number of incompatible issues. Thus, mathematically independent populations will become less compatible over time.

PS: Mules start to show up when only one copy of X is required so getting one X and one Y is enough. However, offspring are not going to always get a copy of X.
AI is highly likely to destroy humans, Elon Musk warns