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Ask HN: Resources for learning about boot loaders?
I’m trying to find the best resources I can for learning about boot loaders. I recently installed Fedora dual boot on my MacBook Air and want to understand what is happening during the boot process, and why, for example, I’m now staring at a Grub console after resizing my APFS partition.
How does excluding that person ensure that they won't use the fruits of your labor for an effort that will you cause you harm? If you think that was the ultimate reason for them to work on the same thing as you, they can still make use of your work indirectly. If you think that they are not just a one-dimensional character, and just happen to enjoy some of the same things as you; then excluding them deprives them of that enjoyment, but it doesn't really help you, does it?

Your second paragraph seems to assume a fixed number of developers working on a project, and in that case there is no downside in replacing them. But what about an open-source project where they keep sending PRs for bug fixes and features that all have technical merit? Would you ignore that and redo the work? If I'm working on the same project, should I avoid merging their work to accommodate you?

While I agree that a community where everyone can feel comfortable is something to strive for, I think that does not require excluding some members for the views they hold. It is enough when they don't push those views onto the others.
The battery can't handle 1 year of use because they undersized it. A 1 715 mAh battery will, once aging, be less able to provide the voltage asked by peak CPU usage than a 2900 mAh battery that has aged for about the same amount of charge cycles.

iPhones are the only device sold by Apple that are only rated for 500 charge cycles before degradation starts. Macbook, iPads and Apple Watches are rated for 1000 cycles. In the case of the Apple Watch I'd guess it's because despite being tiny, the SOC also doesn't ask for as much peak voltage as the phone SOC.

I've had the Honor 8 for a year. It's still holding a great amount of charge and running fine and as fast as the day I bought it. And unlike my 5s, no phone update is coming to turn it into a slow crawl.

The iPhone battery problem with regards to the topic, spontaneous shutdown at 30% and less battery remaining, is probably exacerbated since the evolutions that made those SOC more powerful than before. There wasn't a large wave of 5s owners having spontaneous shutdown requiring an OS update to throttle the CPU. That only started with the iPhone 6. A combination of paltry battery and modern SOCs having peak power usage that stress such battery more than before.
Moore's law in its original 1965 meaning was an observation that transistor counts doubled every year and a projection that this would continue for the next decade. Moore revised the projection downward in 1975 to every two years, which remarkably has held into the 2010s. But it is transistor count, not necessarily performance. A coworker calculated that performance was doubling in 18 months. https://www.kth.se/social/upload/507d1d3af276540519000002/Mo...

Transistor counts continue an exponential growth curve, particularly in GPUs. It may be time for another downward revision on the rate (2.5 years? 3 years?), but we aren't getting as much single-threaded performance out of the increased transistor count. This provides increasing performance difference between the highly parallel GPU architecture and the more limited parallelism of traditional CPUs.
I do not think situation is quite so simple. Apple has designed phones with insufficiently good battery to guarantee top speed operation as device ages. They have probably done it to make thinner handsets, but the end result is that an older device physically slows down. Moreover each new iOS release is slower and makes the older devices feel cruftish.

Where does that leave us? People that must have newest and fastest are encouraged to upgrade every year. Others accept slow downs due to old batteries and new iOS.

This is definitely not 'planned obsolescence' because your phone still works. Maybe 'encouraged obsolescence' is a better term.
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I didn't really understand ownership until I started working in c++, now I think I understand it a lot better.
Or until you right click the icon and remove it.
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This was a surprise to me. I always thought Apple engineers worked on the next flagship device and the lag on older hardware was because they didn't optimize iOS for the older devices. As an app developer myself I tend to test my app on the latest device that I could get hold of and the older devices are an after thought (most of the time).
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Yes, batteries should be replaceable and all those things you mention - '... the additional layer of plastic needed under the battery compartment ...', '... replaceable ones are much more robust in design and shielding -- additional plastic ...' don't make any sense at all. Any 'need for any additional plastic' in devices with replaceable batteries is easily offset with the messy sticky tape Apple deems necessary to hold their batteries in place. In practice the battery usually just lies atop the circuit board with a thin sheet of some insulating material in between. That sheet of material is part of the device and does not need to be replaced when the battery is swapped, this in contrast to the double-sided tape Apple uses which needs to be replaced whenever the battery is removed. Replaceable batteries are no more robust than non-replaceable ones, both consist of a Li-polymer pouch with a bit of circuitry attached somewhere, the combination wrapped in heavy tape or shrink foil.

Batteries should be replaceable without the need for special tools (a simple standard screwdriver (Torx or Phillips) is OK, pentalobe screwdrivers are not) OR they should last the life of the device without significant degradation.
Normally I’d consider politics submissions to be outside the bounds of HN but in the case of Mr. Trump...

I’ve had tech co-workers in multiple companies that are from Iran and other countries that this man is unconditionally biased against. I’ve interacted with people — yes, they are people, deserving complete respect (as humans, much less experts in a field) — that this man dismisses without knowing anything about them.
U2F isn't a Google product.

Virtually all new major browser features are built according to standards, proposals, or explicit extensions platforms. See https://www.w3.org/TR/, where it's very easy to map recent browser features to standards or healthy proposals. Your proselytizing would be more appropriate in Redmond, Washington in 2007.

I'm not sure what gives you the impression that successful standards are developed in a vacuum. You're right that some are, but most of those are terrible technologies that were designed by the "hard work" you think got us where we are today.

The rest -- the good ones -- are battle-tested through gradual deployment and iterative improvement, eventually emerging nearly unrecognizable from their original vision, but genuinely useful and usable.

Only then does the "hard work" of advocacy begin.
Can't speak for them, but for me the issue isn't all taxation, but it is the extent of taxation and what it is spent on. I mind being taxed when that money is going to corrupt government contracts, being used to kill innocent people, and a number of other positions which I would get varying levels of agreement with.

Taxes used for ensuring murderers aren't free on the street is a lot different than taxes used to put people in prison for pot.

This is especially true since we are at a point where most people are taxed without representation, because their vote buys so little in comparison to lobbying or other factors (such as us having first past the poll system of election in the US).
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Spoken like someone not from Canada.

When the government was funding all of the residential schools, you had no option but to pay the government or risk being tortured.
>The spinsters are deliberately confusing "lifespan" with "resale value".

I realize I'm responding to someone arguing in bad faith. But lifespan directly influences the resale value.
Yes thank you, I understand all of that - it's very well known among web developers. None of it changes my argument:

The majority of the functionality that we care about in our web browsers comes from an open source library.
I had to replace the batteries in our Nexus 6Ps recently. I didn't buy from Google, so they wouldn't deal with it out of warranty, despite it being a defect.

They're replaceable, but they are clearly not meant to be done by the user. There were many opportunities to break pieces of the phone or ruin it completely. It's a horrible design.
I love research like this. Our psyches are so complex and we are so filled with biases and errors in a plethora of ways that the only way IMHO we can compensate for it long term is to understand how those structures work and build social systems and structures that auto-correct it.

It looks like this area turns out to be one of the lucky ones that we can at least attempt to improve ourselves, unfortunately when it comes to cognition and particularly cognitive biases and errors to much of it seems not to work like muscles or have simple "do X" solutions.
What metrics are you looking at in the used market to support your hypothesis? Could they be explained by a different hypothesis?

I'm still enjoying my 3-year-old non-iPhone, and intend to keep using it until it stops working entirely, whereas my spouse with an iPhone was already voicing suspicion before this announcement that Apple was intentionally slowing their old iPhone through updates, just to provoke an upgrade. With the announcement, I can't fault the reasoning.

How much of the used market for iPhones are devices that had been traded in (because slowed by Apple due to old battery), refurbished by the mobile phone company (probably just to replace the battery and reset it to factory settings), and then resold to people whose older model refurbished iPhone now needs yet another new battery? That generates an additional sale of an entire old iPhone, whereas other phones would only generate a sale of a replacement battery at that time.

I think you would probably have to look at what mobile phone customers are actually using, right now.
Isn't that what we are doing? Not exactly shutting it down, but massive amounts of privacy destroying laws and related technologies are in place for this reason, but which are used more to enforce laws with far less agreement. We didn't shut the internet down, but we destroyed a part of it.
That seems unlikely, especially under union rules. Do you have any evidence to support your claim? Edit: Downvotes in the absence of that evidence makes me concerned.
Do you also mind having free public schools and roads...?
That is a fair point.

I worry for what transpeople -- who lack meat-world social choices -- are enticed to reveal about themselves online to the secret police. Our governments' thugs are happy to lend an unsympathetic ear to their problems.
There is no such battery.
It's pretty obvious now that free software has real value to companies.

We ought to have a cultural shift toward corporations supporting their developers' work on free software.

Proprietary software is not the only valuable work a developer can do for a business. I would argue that free software is even more valuable.
I’ve always suspected that the reason underwood is a democrat in house of cards is solely to deflect this very criticism.
That really depends on the values of the business in question. Some would look at that differently, and argue that developing to wider standards and testing on other platforms is an investment in quality and longevity.
Happy people tend to not choose demagogues as their leaders.

Please read the actual report with its casual analysis rather than look just at the numbers. Aspirations play a huge part here. perceptions of stability and social net too. (As opposed to actual quality thereof.) Input data for numbers is additionally flawed by taking averages, which is unfortunate.

As for suicides, take a peek at all cause mortality instead and you will find a less interesting though much more informative picture. (Homicide rate in the US for one.)
the problem is that some communities have devolved into:

person a: "my opinion is that green is a nice color."

person b: "i hope you die a painful death."

I'm happy to hear differing opinions. But watching people threaten and harass each other is something that quickly turns me away from online communities.
You are free to make the choice to not buy phones you deem environmentally unfriendly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15979227
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The battery is replaceable. Apple offers free replacement with AppleCare and $79 replacement otherwise.
A CEO saying "people shouldn't buy our product" ("no one should eat it") isn't just a belief, or just bad optics. That's a CEO doing the exact opposite of their job (selling the product).
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> and the remaining third perish due to the failure of one or more other organs.

One of these organs is the heart-- the seasonal variation in influenza actually overlaps with an increase in acute myocardial infarction (AMI, or a 'heart attack'). Recent meta analysis has shown an odds ratio of ~2 for AMI in the setting of influenza.

Mechanistically, there is a suspected link between the virus and inflammatory changes in the blood vessels supplying the heart that destabilizes existing atherosclerotic plaques.

More here:
http://heart.bmj.com/content/101/21/1738
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1473309909...

Edit: The article mentions (viral) myocarditis as a sequelao f the flu-- this can also happen, but is separate from AMI
I think you're referring to this article about Thomas Hargrove that was in Bloomberg in February:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-08/serial-ki...

He's the founder of the Murder Accountability Project:

http://www.murderdata.org
Out of curiosity, beyond the weakness, how painful / unpleasant was the experience ?

I've read in an account collated from a hunger strike participant that starving is a bit unpleasant the first few days and then pretty much OK (which I was pretty skeptical of); albeit apparently the more overweight you are initially the more unpleasant and painful it is, at first at least. Although of course 12 days is comparatively short. I'm still curious if you have anything to comment on this description though ?

I believe the source where I've read this account was here: https://books.google.fr/books?id=ipQDHj1aAe4C&pg=PA111&lpg=P... . It's a fascinating, if a bit morbid, read. The guy stopped eating for 68 days, and ended up weighting 44kg.
We should put it in proportion. Is Chrome worse, privacy-wise? Safari? Edge? Security-wise? Performance-wise? Cause it all ends up, like on large sum of + and -.
Every major browser vendor has a proprietary extensions platform. It's a good thing; it enables innovation and solution-building without needing to leave the web platform entirely.

Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have Native Messaging. Safari's extensions platform uses "native APIs and familiar web technologies."

Yes, like ActiveX.
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I don't dispute that, but that does not explain the observations that a fully-charged, reduced-capacity battery performs poorly on a standard benchmark test versus a new battery.

It's not just smoothing out a peak demand. It's reducing the peak performance all of the time, and that is unique to iPhone.
Watching all you little trump supporters say things like "i don't mind taxes" now that the GOP is in control and is in fact RAISING YOUR TAXES is absolutely hysterical to me.

Guess you ole boys picked the hill you want to die on...with a fat orange cheetoh leading you to the gates of hell.

Good luck!
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If they didn't get paid, why on earth did they do it?
> However, later, he offered a conflicting explanation that he didn’t write the curl at all, but that an AI wrote it.

Does this guy even know how to code?

Edit: Here’s another gem!

> IOTA was created to be immune to quantum computer attacks, today I have revealed that it was also created to be immune to attacks from an AI.[1]

Wow dude, it’s not only immune to Shor’s Algorithm, but an AGI too!

[1] http://come-from-beyond.com/time-for-a-paradigm-shift-has-co...
> it's not like you have to learn one of the really esoteric mappers

True. I guess I have console-manufacturer-coloured glasses on†; I was more thinking about what you'd have to know to be able to reimplement the NES mapper architecture yourself, such as in an emulator.

Though, also, if you want to do NES demoscene stuff, you're gonna want to understand the more esoteric mappers. And that's usually what amateur graphics programmers inevitably want to do when learning their first platform—use every feature to get a cool demo—which in the NES can result in a heavy focus on abusing mappers, which ends up not really giving you useful portable insight for anything else. (Except, maybe, for pixel shaders!)

† ala Raymond Chen's "kernel-colores glasses" — https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110512-00/?p=...
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It is replaceable, just not replaceable without expertise and tools. Would you say that most of your car parts aren't replaceable?
I'm not familiar with Bryan Lunduke but that video was supposed to pass as any form of reporting then it was absolutely cringe-worthy. Lots of inflated controversy and hyperbolic statements.

Its ironic seeing a company making questionable decisions being reported by someone getting paid for questionable reporting.
I don't get it. An old iPad 2 was running fine card games until we upgraded to IOS 9 a few weeks ago. Now it's almost unusable. Pretty sure we had the same battery before we upgrade, so why wasn't cpu throttled before we upgrade?

This looks more like Apple needed to slow down devices to sell new ones and found a really good excuse for it.
You have at least three viable browsers available on popular platforms. This is a great thing.

Developers who give a hoot about new features will be attracted to Chrome, it's just the nature of the game. If Firefox wants to attract those users, introduce more features.
For example, their integration with Paypal is completely broken in Firefox.
Seems like this is prevalent across the nation!!. I am more worried about not able to reach out to folks from inside in case of emergency!!..
> against the whole sentiment of open source

So the sentiment of "open source" is to tell people not to contribute to it? I say no.

If, for any reason, someone wants to contribute to free software, they are free to do so. That is very much the point of a free software license.

Our biggest advantage is that we can welcome anyone into our community.
Sealed, seamless, performance-degraded, costly to service, with planned obsolescence.

It's quite obvious that it's a waste of money to pay middle-men to perform basic service on it for stuff a user can do at home with any other phone.
The fact that iPhones are updated for the longest time and are built well is directly related to why you can get as much as you can when you sell a used iPhone. Apple actually has an incentive to create the longest lasting iPhone because the economics of the iPhone Upgrade Plan and every carrier upgrade plan depends on it.

That iPhones retain their value over time is a testament to the fact that Apple has not been slowing down old iPhones to make you upgrade (this conspiracy theory predates iOS 10.2.1 by many years).
Chrome is the new IE.

Chrome ships new features fast, and some of them are very cool. Because of course! "Embrace, extend, extinguish" doesn't work unless the "extend" part is full of shiny, delicious candy. And platform makers can make lots and lots of shiny candy when freed from pesky things like standards.

It's hard to believe we're having this discussion again. Did we learn nothing from Internet Explorer 6? IE6 damn near ruined the web because it had 95% market share, was objectively terrible, and it encouraged lock-in with its nonstandard behavior and "convenient" proprietary features.

Now, of course Chrome isn't terrible like IE6. And that's both good and dangerous ...because Microsoft might have "won" if IE6 was any good at all. Luckily, IE6 was so terrible that Mozilla was able to win back a sizeable enough portion of the web with a far superior product, and FF's market share was big enough that people had to start paying attention to web standards again.

No such savior in the form of a "far superior product" is likely to exist this time around. Chrome's pretty darn nice, and as long as it doesn't suck as bad as IE6, we'll never see a direct competitor that eclipses Chrome in the way that FF1.0 surpassed the god-awful IE6.

That means we, the developers, are the only thing between an open web and a dangerous Google monoculture. Support web standards, not proprietary lock-in. Develop for the web, not for Chrome. Stick to the standards and it's pretty easy. And fun.
Love that movie. I would almost wish they would make a remake of it , but Hollywood would ruin it with their myopic political views.
>>>>And everyone is a "law abiding citizen" until their very first homicide.
>Really? Everyone is law abiding until they commit a murder...

Fine, if you want to be that pedantic before you address what I say, I meant "everyone WHO MAKES THEIR FIRST HOMICIDE is not a killer until their first homicide". So the phrase "law abiding citizens" doesn't mean you have "nothing to worry about".

>It is completely absurd to compare a nationwide static about violence where many many many many individual events unconnected to each other occur to one organized event.

It's not absurd at all if the other country (France) doesn't have gun homicides the rest of the time! And it's doubly not absurd when the President tweets this:

http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/donald-trump-paris-terror-a...

>I agree with this

So we mostly agree, but you chose to comment on the stuff we disagree on to pick a fight? :)
I switched to FF Developer Edition a little over a year ago, and I have caught several bugs that went unnoticed by my Chrome using colleagues.
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I think there may even be a chicken and egg situation going on - for some reason, media websites such as CNN are pushing giant rich media content objects at us like videos, which obviously are meaningless to a text browser. Even webdev blogs are being posted with big GIFs every paragraph or two.

I'm not sure why content creators are feeling the need to go multi-media - perhaps it's getting harder and harder to tell who your audience is, or segment your audience, or maybe the "smearing" of society is causing an audience for a given topic (ES6 development, say) to have so many different desires it's impossible to create content on the subject without annoying some portion of them (either by having plain HTML and CSS for your blog post with no helpful GIFs, or a bunch of GIFs that piss off people in text browsers or slow connections).
So this might be the largest scam, ever? We're talking trillions USD. (Their yearly revenue is around $200B, most of it iPhone.)

(Wow, that was downvoted almost instantly.)
Nope. The donors don't have control, only influence - a vote that contributes to some algorithmic determination.

Any stakeholder gets to participate, including the people/projects being funded.