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No, it's just immature thinking from people who aren't familiar with the workplace and its norms. If it wasn't social media it would be some IRL friends.
Fun fact: at Giants Stadium in SF, you can get a wristband for a free soda if you are a DD. Just swing by Guest Services and they'll give you a wristband.

Not-so-fun fact: you cannot redeem the wristband for water. You literally have to get soda.
My parent comment indicates that the password needs to be different. Your comment does not support that.

First, sudo should not be cached for this very reason.
Second, agent caching should never be enabled for this very reason.
Third, agent forwarding should never be enabled for this very reason.

Indeed, using key authentication to log in and then using a password to upgrade to sudo is, I think, very reasonable.
Thing about the problem this way:

When your battery doesn't last as long, what do you think of replacing?
When everything on your device runs noticeably slowly, what do you think of replacing?

> You’re arguing that given the problem they saw once the phones have been in the field for years they should have designed the phone differently originally. That’s not reasonable.

I'm arguing that given that battery degradation curves are absolutely a known quantity, and have been for many years, they should have chosen to not put in a CPU that would, with 100% certainty, fuck itself in the eye with batteries that otherwise still appear to be reasonably healthy. 500 _complete_ charge cycles should get a battery to 80% capacity according to Apple. 80% original capacity doesn't mean suddenly turning off at 40% of current capacity because of power draw.

> they should have designed the phone differently originally

They should have. The current situation has been caused by either negligence or intent to deceive. That's what has people so upset. Did you know that you don't get the performance back if you keep the iPhone plugged in?

> I’d be very curious to know how android phones handle this. They must, in someway.

By running their CPUs at voltages farther from the absolute edge of what their batteries are capable of putting out. Possibly by displaying charge percentage differently. Definitely not by making performance unbearable.
Anecdotal evidence, but my 6s (which I had the battery replaced a year ago under the iPhone 6s battery replacement program) was shutting down just last week when I would walk outside, even if it was at or above 50%.

I'm really interested as to where this issue came from, because before I had the unexpected shutdowns with my 6s that Apple came out and admitted was the battery's fault, I had never had this problem with a previous iPhone (or even in the first 6-9 months that I owned the 6s).
> What about those of us that already paid to have the battery replaced?

Devil’s advocate: one doesn’t complain if they buy something the day before it goes on sale at a store. It’s just bad luck.
WinNuke! Those were the days... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
For a low resolution (8x8) option, there's Panasonic's GridEYE. It's good enough for basic area thermal imaging, though not nearly as useful as a high res sensor. It is only £30 or so though.

Depending on the object temperature, you can also use Silicon or Calcium Fluoride which will work up to around 8um. Humans emit at around 12um though. CaF2 has the advantage that it'll also pass NIR/visible/UV light down to 180 nm.
They're not biting into their revenue. They are doing the minimum possible to maximize their revenue given the news is out.
I've been using Mac since 2011.
I use Mac 2016 Office including Outlook for reading mail.

The Mac generally works well for me and I run all sorts of open source software on it. I recommend the following to minimize pain. If you do this, I have trouble understanding why you'd have software issues.

1. Every year with the .1 upgrade e.g. 10.13.1 I do a fresh install by backing up everything, clearing the disk to fresh install the software from a bootable USB (e.g. 10.13.1).

2. With each point upgrade, eg. 10.13.2, I apply the combo update.

3. I reboot every day or two, depending on what I've been doing.

4. Upgrade hardware every couple of years.
There's a huge second hand market for iPhones so I'm guessing the majority of devices get trade/sold or at least held onto as spares until they are no longer viable.
I know it's not common for people to say this out loud, but I spent $1200 on an iPhone last month, and

a. I don't care about a headphone jack, at all; I use Airpods and the experience is phenomenal

b. Consider me crazy, but I actually like my phones getting smaller and lighter

What if Apple is just making a phone for people like me, and is comfortable with those trade-offs?
You seem to be right -- at least "no diagnostics required" is mentioned a few times in $10.1.5 of N4700. To be honest, my comment is not from the article in the example, but from my own experience, and that is mostly with GCC 7.2.
I don't recall ever overly praising the Pebble. Here's everything I've ever written about Pebble:

https://daringfireball.net/search/pebble

I really only wore mine for about a week, finding it more annoying than useful. As I stated here: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/02/24/pebble-time

I like Apple Watch, but only as one of several watches I own. The others are mechanical, not digital.

I don't know which weather app you're talking about, but I've never recommended anything I haven't used, and the only posts I get paid for are the once-a-week sponsorships, which are always clearly noted as being sponsored.
You're a real life version of this ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJIQm9qH-w
You should rather xor it with two other random keys.
That is the problem here. Employed work means sharing the duties of social security between company and employee. Uber moves their payments on your shoulders.

And that point is exactly what makes up Ubers' valuation. Ignoring the questionable ethics of that this should be reconsidered though because comparing to the technical value of their service they are requiring way too many engineers to deliver their services, which is a considerable risk if they grow any further.
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Prisoner's dilemma: if everyone shares it's great all around. If everyone shares and you don't, still safe but less benefit for you. If nobody shares and you do, you're hosed. Strategy: always defect.
All you did was move the question--why does this thing fit an exponential distribution?

The birth project of agile--the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation project--should have been a wonderful example of the 80/20 rule. They implemented the most important chunks of the project and got about 80% of the cases correct--totally awesome.

Except--it wasn't. The value of the project was in handling all of the exceptional cases. And those cases started consuming VAST quantities of resource.

80/20 only works when you can interchangeably wipe out tasks without affecting the result. Most engineering is NOT like that.

Analyzing the soil may not take very long when building a bridge, but you can't skip it.
Ah gotcha cheers. I was looking at an InGaAs sensor for around 2um for alcohol measurements a while ago, I didn't realise body heat etc. would require longer still.
I kind of want to share my viewing habits with studios that are willing to listen. They've been turning out some real garbage the last few years.

I'm fairly privacy-paranoid in general, but in this case, I'm maybe okay with it.
Yes. I've started using a "rule of 60" for estimating an alcohol drink's impact. Alcohol % by volume x drink size in oz. A 5% beer in a 12oz bottle is equal to a 1.5 oz pour of 80 proof liquor. That 8oz snifter of 10% beer is worth 80 points. Same if you order a pint of the 5% beer instead of a bottle.
This isn't about timing the market, it's about rebalancing and maintaining a good diversity of exposure to various sectors. Rebalancing is not antithetical to passive investing.
> For years I knew that my iphones were becoming obsolete

The clock down feature is new so your past experiences are very likely unrelated.
Corporations don't have feelings, no need to be so personally attached. Who cares if Apple gets hate?
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> Your HTC stock should catch up soon.

Because stock price is an indicator of how well a company's products are engineered!

Meanwhile until a month ago; username: root, password: none (no password, not the word "none"). Try it twice, get administrator access!
Google photos or FB photos do a pretty decent job at this, except for integrating into family tree services.Not sure that's monetizable though.
also, isn’t luciferase (and other fluorescent/luminescent proteins) now trivially engineered into at least a few common plants?
Q is the quality factor, not the resonant frequency. It's the ratio of stored to dissipated energy, in other words the amount of "amplification" you can achieve by stimulating at the resonant frequency as opposed to the non-resonant frequency. It's never infinite unless you have a system whose oscillations dissipate no energy. In "squishy" systems Q tends to be rather low, and the effects of resonance rather muted. I would expect humans to have a low Q.
Be transparent in all of these surreptitious actions henceforth. Give more power to users to make their own decisions about browser, battery, OS, etc. But they won't. So I guess the answer to your question is to change the type of people that they are, which is an unrealistic request of course.
An interesting thing I noticed while traveling in Central America is that in the poorest of the poor places on earth, there is no such thing as homelessness really. Anybody can just build a shack anywhere and have some amount of shelter and a place to call home. It’s not what you would call a ‘home’ in the us, but it’s more dignified that sleeping on a street corner in LA.
I don't think it would help much.

If someone is considering whether to drive to an event or get a ride, a coupon isn't going to sway them. They may want to show off their new car, or have the ability to take someone home with them, etc.

For people who drove to the event and drank too much there, they'll worry about their car. Also they'll take offense at being offered a ride. Alcoholics often have a lot of arrogance and would rather risk it than use a coupon to take a ride because they're "out of control", and take that hit to their pride.

This would only work if the law would allow for free transportation to the event, as controversial as that may be.
Because it fits their biases better. Simple as that.
> There will be no breaking changes from Beta 3 to stable, so our changelog should be short and sweet. Expect some linting, Sass variable improvements, updated docs Examples, and more build tool improvements.

Nice! We can finally use Bootstrap 4 without expecting future breaking changes.
Google and Apple also both offer "switch" software that makes transferring the critical parts a trivial affair.

https://www.android.com/switch/

https://www.apple.com/iphone/move-to-ios/

I still like iOS better and don't intend on switching but the only "lock in" I feel exists is the years of sunk cost I have in purchased apps I still use.

I would disagree about iMessage though. I have older family members on iOS that would not use another messaging or video chat app. Our chat experience would simply degrade to stock SMS.
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I've been thinking of getting this. I typically go to the movies when they're otherwise empty or at least not very crowded, weekday afternoons or early shows on the weekend. For the theater this would otherwise be an empty, wasted seat. Something is bound to be better than nothing.

Outside of Friday/Saturday night, shows are pretty unlikely to be sold out.

Plus, if you're at the theater, you'll buy popcorn, candy, and drinks, which is where the actual theater makes most of their money.
Ask your grandma etc if they would use that. Anyone above 50 these days will probably not give you a nice answer to having to use smartphones or voice assistants that usually understand less than a newborn child.
Maybe manufacturers should focus on usability instead of bling and flesh-cutting thinness, the latter of which would probably never make it as a feature request if it weren't for the incentivized yearly upgrade cycle.
I upgraded my iMac, zero problems so far (though admittedly this uses a fusion drive so no AFPS).

As for reasons to upgrade, there's nothing particularly exciting, but things are just a little better. A lot of nice stuff in Safari, though at least most of it is available in Sierra as well, and I'm not actually sure offhand what (if any) requires High Sierra. HIEF support for photos so they take less space. Also better editing of photos in Photos, including the ability to muck about with live photos (e.g. looping them, bouncing them, etc), which is fun. Notes has some good stuff, such as tables, pinned notes, and sharing with other people (which I've made heavy use of lately). And so on.
I don't see any way that the "one movie per day" model continues. At some point, they're going to cancel it and replace it with a significantly limited plan, and hope that a enough people stick with it anyways.

Otherwise, it's just unsustainable. They've got to be burning through VC money like kindling.
Not only is my 6 slow as molasses since upgrading to 11, i've seen it display a 30% charge and then shut itself off, claiming no charge in the same breath. Standing in line, infact, waiting to show a ticket barcode to get into a show, no less. Had to explain what happened and luckily they could verify my name.
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Iphone 5s restarting like crazy because of the battery gets nothing then...
Interesting, reminds me of the reporter gene technique often used in genetic engineering. Genes that express green fluorescent protein (GFP), or other similar proteins, can be used as a "genetic logging." Basically if the tissue is glowing, you know your changes took.

I'm curious how much extra metabolic stress a particularly bright plant has to bear? Through genetic manipulation, and artificial selection, you could pressure the organism toward brightness. But I could imagine quickly running into some hard limit, where the plant's metabolism is taxed too heavily, and it can't survive.
Then make it 3 of 3, it all depends on your threat model.

For me, my biggest threat is loss, followed by theft, so it makes sense to have some redundancy even if it means reducing the security against theft.
Does there exist a post mortem?
Ask HN: Behaviors you plan to forego/reduce in 2018 that you couldn't in 2017?
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right, i agree! original behavior was shitty, but their response is good.

their response is

- an apology

- a promise to update the software so you know when you're getting throttled

- cheap battery replacements

i think that's pretty solid.
I think I missed the mark in several ways with my review of the original Apple Watch, but I complained strenuously about the fact that the display doesn't always show the time -- something I'm used to because I've worn a traditional watch since I was in middle school. I think I complained about not being able to read the display in sunlight too. The gist of my review -- and I still think this today -- is that Apple Watch is good at doing several new things (notifications and fitness tracking) but isn't as good as a traditional watch at traditional watch things (showing the time and date continuously).
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Actually, you do complain and then get the store to match it or use your credit card price protection.
I'm sure it's cheaper to solder it in, and you don't have to make the components sturdy enough to stand up to repeated assembly and dissassembly.

I still hate it. It was nice to be able to have a stack of charged batteries and not worry about being away from an outlet for three or four days. Especially with a phone that had its USB port melted by a shoddy cable.
Password reset functionality effectively gives this universal access to your email provider.
I like the idea but I wish there were a widely-trusted implementation with public security reviews, maybe built into wallet software.
What's the problem with 1password?
Just to add some more details to what to3m said.

The ST's screen address did have to be on a 256 byte boundary. With 160 bytes per scanline you could scroll 8 scanline vertically by changing the screen address.

People did work out a methods of scrolling the screen with finer control. Sync scrolling [1] used overscan techniques.

ST screens had a border around the image, not filling the whole screen. Methods were developed to the bottom, right, left and top borders [2].

By combining left and right border removal different offsets could be generated to position the screen on any 16bit/pixel boundary [3].

[1] http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4357&sid=8a77...

[2] http://aldabase.com/atari-st-fullscreen-demos-history/

[3] https://blog.troed.se/2015/12/23/overscan-and-sync-scrolling...
Sexualising battery replacement schemes needs to stop.
As soon as iOS 11 came out, there were widespread complaints from iPhone 6 owners. Your timeline is about determining the cause which had to sadly be done independently. Ask yourself why they had to wait for outrage about the cause for this response instead of the symptoms (which should have provoked research into the cause)?
^ This. Apple's hardware is second to none, and iOS is mostly alright but it feels like MacOS lags behind further and further with each release. Though I suppose Apple isn't selling the software so they have no reason to improve it.
/r/iamverysmart?
Charging and usage stats are logged so it should be pretty easy for Apple to spot the problem.
Different potential risks, driving with a drink or two in you as an overweight man only puts you at 0.03% BAC, not even half the limit.

Commonly in parts of the midwest, people will pop a roadie while they're driving, to the point that it is part of the culture in places like Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Nothing truly unexpected.

Just one more shinny, almost perfect PR reaction... after the fact actually facts which "just incidentally?" helped the sales of newer/replacement products?

That does neither give money back to ppl. who actually replaced their phones for big bucks "because it was slow" nor undoes the unnecessary waste, tactics like this produce, in which waste I guess the Management-Team of the company would not like their children to play in.

We know, we know totally unintended... "the corporation" says after being caught.
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It's simple: gauge your internal enterprise tendencies towards the right-thing-to-do-by-default (in some countries by-the-law btw) or pay up big time.

It's new kind of mass-market tech news too; vw and other car makers, now apple, many more to come:

very nasty tricks we benefit(ed) from and got caught doing.
It's not less noticeable. It's unnoticeable to anyone who isn't a professional mechanic.

How many people complain that their new car is slowing down significantly after less than a year, or becomes inexplicably unusable around the time the year+1 model appears?

This is very much not the case with the iPhone slowdown, where a lot of people were noticing issues, on a product which already has a pitiful and barely practical battery life.
Yes, after next year, they still want to make dough from battery replacements that should have been priced into the outrageous premium price of a new phone that is billed as durable and long lasting. Why are you supposed to pay twice for long lasting performance? Either lower the price of the phone, engineer a better battery that lasts at least 5 years, or make its replacement free for 5 years; otherwise shut up about being a long lasting product.
I think that the understanding of software engineering as an occupation is a bit oversimplified.

While there are good chances most people will be working on web or mobile applications, there's much more going on. Compilers, cryptography, compression, operating systems, graphics, simulation, data retrieval, distributed systems, etc. To that you need to add machine learning and AI.

I think it is hard to come up with a unified set of tactics/strategy to be an effective engineer at each part of this occupational spectrum.

For example, some engineers, while learning, try to specialize themselves in an area while others try to become generalists. Both approaches can be valid depending on the role.

Some engineers focus on applied science while others on theoretical science, some others just on empirical knowledge, processes and techniques. Again, the impact of this decision will largely depend on the role.

Then, prioritization is a double edged sword. To do what is perceived as important is intuitively the right thing to do. But during learning it is harder to recognize what is important. This is how many people end up neglecting valuable learning.
I've seen people do this at multiple small startups. I guess if an office is small enough for you to know everyone, then they know firsthand if you're lazy or not and don't have to make assumptions just because you're napping.
I don't think it's just about it being cheap; I think it's about literally making some sizes and configurations of phones work.

If you look at where the battery is currently (https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/2oa2QHEoq4Ke16su.m...) there's no way to make the battery accessible without letting you easily open the entire case.

It's just a trade-off, and a replacable battery isn't worth the trade-offs. I 100% agree with Apple on this.