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It’s not just me! My 2014 spec’d out MBP (i7, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia 750) was all of a sudden lagging with just a few chrome tabs open for the first time since I’ve owned it. I thought the issue might have been a Chrome release.

This is really disappointing, I wonder if it’s a portent of more slip ups to come.
I'm hoping to make a concerted effort to both meditate and journal every day. I began meditating this past year, and it has been a surprising boon to my overall well-being.
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It seems the world today the timing is entirely based on the country. In the U.S. the time it took for regular mobile phones to be supplanted by smartphones is ridiculously small yet the same cannot be said for many countries in the world. It seems to me that countries slow to make progress in tech will be the victims of it initially. It won't take that long to do so once the economic and logistical aspects of are ironclad.
So what is it worth? What help is this to someone 6'5"? He can hardly change his height to be more in line with the average person.
Well the other POV is that if a comment contributed positively to a thread, it would have a positive score. A negative score means that the thread would be better without the comment
What...? You assert a cause-and-effect without any proof whatsoever -- and it's hard to find one since USB C is happy to work as DisplayPort with a relatively cheap dongle.
Well said! Have you tried communities like www.rallypoint.com to keep in touch with your tribe?
Laws and rules will never be adequate on their own. In my opinion, in the human realm, what is written down is only a shadow of what is needed for us to get along. The rest, the "unwritten rules" are what actually keep everything functioning.
But not for the seat in the back.
Yeah it's not a super great article, one thing I prefer to see is ufs compared against ext and zfs under both OS's. Plus detailed info on the setup.
Given what I started and how I've been thinking, maybe "aware". Being aware of what's happening around me, of the thoughts I have, of the progress I make, doing the mental process of noting things rather than being passive about what's going on. Does that make sens?
Of course you can, what's it going to cost? $20K? $50k?
This creates a pretty significant barrier to entry! and that is just to learn what the rules are, let alone comply with them!

The end result is keeping small operations out of the market and protecting larger commercial operations that have the scale to deal with the regulatory burden.
I only fly first/business due to my height, and this is true of most passengers in those sections. Very rarely does anyone recline, and I think it has something to do with type of traveller.
As of today, I don't have to purchase any upgrades to use my 15" laptop on the foldout tray in 'normal economy class'. Things only get cramped when the seat in front of me reclines.
I have a MBP Mid 2014; it has always had a freeze problem. During 2016 probably twice a week. Drove me nuts. I forget the 2015 rate. The second half of this year, approx, has been really good to the point that I'd forgotten about freezes until a recent "your computer restarted 'cos it had a problem".
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So, should everyone's pay be cut proportionally to compensate the people who do not work? Should teachers be paid 25% less?
I've stuck to a policy of never reclining my seat on domestic and daytime flights. Unless of course the person in front of me starts a chain reaction.

I believe it is a reasonable policy, but no one else seems to follow it.
Why would people revolt? I had a surgery last year and in pre-op room as anesthesiologists questioned patients about what they were taking, I heard two guys explain why they were on fentanyl patches. They defended their use of them.

So many older men are on opioids for chronic pain. They're not going to revolt when their alternative is no solution to their problems.

When they become heavily addicted and it's too late, an American sentiment of personal responsibility kicks in.
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Why is Apple software so terrible these days? They have enough money to hire the very best programmers, why are they skimping on the most important part of their company? It's really gotten very evident that the quality at Apple is slipping big time, a lot of resters-and-vesters instead of people who love their job. Their debacle a few weeks ago with passwords, etc, and then tripping over themselves two more times in a week is shocking for such a rich company who can afford the very, very best.
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I don't know if you have a specific reason for using Chrome, but on my linux desktop, I use Chromium for Amazon (and the few websites that just don't work right with my firefox+privacy/security setup), and with Widevine I can even watch Prime Video just fine.

MPV has also worked pretty well for me, in addition to Mplayer.

CMUS is a nice command line music utility. Works great in my experience.

Obvs desktop != laptop, but I run two Dell 1440p monitors on my desktop and they look just as good as my 6 mos old MBP w/ Retina. (Maybe font rendering on the MBP is marginally better, but maybe my eyes are getting too old to tell.)
the 'missing space' has hit me a few times over the years, but the highsierra/apfs made it worse. it will often slowly reclaim the space. I've deleted a multigig file, and, say, 30-40 minutes later, the space shows as 'available'. 2016 apple refurb SSD (2015 mbp model). It's all their own hardware and software, and it's buggy (or now designed to be confusing re: disk space).
It's all part of the endless fight against proprietary systems. When cloud providers started using 'optimized' images the response was to move everything above the VM to 'container' level. The same thing happened in the VM boom once hardware makers started adding binary blob drivers to bare metal.

We'll just keep building layers as manufacturers try to lock the lower ones down :)

See WeChat in China for a good example on Android
1) Typos fixed.

2) "That's not true. You can see plots in the 2011 and 2012 papers that give these calculations as a function of mass."

- Can you explain what you mean via figure 1 in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7235 ?

- I don't see the relevance of calculating p-values as a function of mass to my comment

3) "Not withstanding the fact that there's no Higgsless theory to do calculations for the background"

- Then what model did they use to calculate the p-values? (I do not know the details but am fairly certain it is one where there is no Higgs boson at any given mass)

4) "Also, if the Higgs mass were so low, we probably wouldn't exist."

- Ok, but I've also read headlines like "CERN proves the universe shouldn't exist", clearly this is just because their model of the universe is wrong. I'm sure in a pinch people could come up with some kind of balancing out of whatever problems would arise from such a small Higgs mass. The point was that assuming the current theory is correct, the Higgs would be a much worse explanation than detector noise.
My goals: do everything in this thread :)

But seriously, nothing major. I just want to incrementally improve my writing, coding and health and reading.
I'd love to get a job in NY writing React, I'm currently employed in Philadelphia and a move to the NY area would push me out of my comfort zone drastically. Hopefully I'll be able to achieve it by June.
BTDT, have experienced numerous freezes on my 2013 iMac since my upgrade. At first I suspected the NVidia video drivers as it locked up in a few games I never locked up before in, yet reverting to the Apple drivers had no better result.

Interesting is that whatever is in my browers; usually watching streamers or listening to radio; still is active. I just have lost all input. Pulling the USB connections have no effect. Then there are the times it just freezes hard.

the annoying part is that since I have bootcamp in all instances after a hard freeze the system wants to boot to that volume instead and even more fun, keyboard use of the option key fails until I let it successfully boot into Windows. As in, the option key fails with either USB or BT keyboard until a successful boot occurs
Guess what? The answer is gone now!

I did not know that Quora did or allowed that. Did the writer remove it? Did it get down voted to oblivion (unlikely, had positive up votes yesterday)? Seems un-transparent.
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Caffeine is a stimulant. I personally feel motivational effects for hours from a single cup.
And gone now.
My 2018 goals are intentionally vague. "Be more of the kind of guy who..."

In early 2017 I set these very specific goals that all revolved around some kind of measured productivity: Learning, doing, making. Then, (my theory is it's because I was on vacation at the time, feeling rested), I set and almost immediately _increased_ the expected output. Memorize a word a day in German? No problem! That's only 365 words...let's ramp that up to, say, five words a day? I can do that with mnemonics...

Well, I gave up on that goal within 10 days, after returning to my normal hectic life. I couldn't even let myself dial it back; I had to quit it entirely (so idealistic, so brittle an approach).

Fortunately, I had also calendared monthly check-ins on my resolutions. I analyzed my progress and realized:

- I should just trust myself to make up little goals as I go along. My interests changed enough throughout the year that a few single, hard commitments were more like a distraction from my normal, fluid mode.

- I achieve a _lot_ even excluding any resolutions. I decided to track my accomplishments starting this year (and backfill previous years as best I could remember) in a milestones.txt file. So in 2017 I finished 10+ different personal web projects, completed my 15+ year-delayed university bachelor's degree, started a new business, became an Extra class ham radio operator after starting in the hobby 2 months previous, bought crypto for the first time, learned to use a transceiver and had my first QSOs, got into AMSAT and (attempted to communicate with the pileup that is) Fox-1B, downloaded Russian SSTV images from the ISS, invested in individual stocks for the first time, became a certified handwriting analyst, joined the National Space Society, and finished two other certifications. So with all this, exactly why did I think I needed any new year's resolutions?

- Any resolutions I have should probably be general directions. This will hopefully prompt me to be more flexible and make needed course corrections along the way, rather than heading toward some fixed point.

Finally, the huge outcome for me was realizing that all of this productivity results in higher anxiety and higher chances for depression (just based on my journals). So I pay a price for achievement. It should be obvious, perhaps, but like a moron I just thought that to achieve big things meant to become happy. A risky thought! There's much more to it.
I'm a developer. Possibly a little more experienced from the level of ad hominem negativity you're comfortable directing at others to feel better about one's self.

A software developers union would be interesting. Accreditation from testing to be in a professional body will still have people who can hide among the work of others, but much less so. Also a challenge for a tech union would be the rapid changing nature of software development compared to other unionized industries to maintain a baseline. Not the first time it's been thought about.

Non tech positions are even harder to test for at hiring. Especially since so many hr, accounting jobs themselves are requiring increased digital transformation skills of knowing how to select and implement business systems.

Tech hiring interviews were designed largely by tech people.

The real hilarious part is seeing a non tech hr person try to buy a hr software system and implement it. Being the subject matter expert no longer means an ability implement and roll out programs as it used to - its a growing issue that requires people who can understand and work with detail.

Working with details requires an ability to care about the plight of others, organizations and their processes to prove to lower the suffering of people at the hands of their employment environments.
How do you keep the drive after years of development?
Hi all,
I have been coding for the last 4 years, about 15 hours a day, 9 in my day job and another six on 2 failed side projects. I am now in a senior position but lately I feel like nothing new is happening and every challenge is the same old one with a different title. I am starting to rethink my path as a developer. Thinking I need to get into new fields of coding I have started coding blockchain and AI, at first it was magic, nothing like any code I ever knew but now 6 month later its starting to smell the same and I know in a few month it will get old.
I am a person who always needs new and interesting challenges and I feel like the software industry can no longer provide me with them, of course, there will always be new challenges but I feel they are all of the same type.
How do you keep the drive after so long?
alternatively what job in the tech industry or out of the tech industry could you recommend where every day is fight or flight, a battle for survival where if I fall asleep on my watch I will lose?

Thanks
This is great to know! I hope this ends up cleaning up the bad colleges, and improving the quality of engineers!
More intermittent fasting. The health benefits are well documented.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-health-benefits-of-i...
If an application can freeze the OS, then there's definitely a problem with the OS.
In this case it's probably macOS' notoriously bad GPU drivers.
Our culture intentionally pacifies and rounds off edges. Of course nobody is revolting.
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Yes, I believe it is folly to try to build a "general purpose" language these days. It's just too much work to clear the bar for adoption (i.e. what do you offer that C/C++/Java/C#/Python/Ruby/JS don't). A language could be great in many ways, but as you say, you have to be able to solve problems you can't solve otherwise with it.

It seems like most newer languages that see some adoption have a solid niche, like Erlang/Elixir, Julia, or Elm.

A friendly reminder I posted over on reddit :)

http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html
It’s inherently unfair from the beginning.

If you’re poor you go to a public school. Even if you are get a perfect GPA, it probably isn’t good enough to get into good universities. Anecdotally. my high school had several students that were AP scholars, national merit scholars, great SATs, etc... and all of them went to Ohio State after getting rejected from better schools. I don’t think anyone that went to my high school had been accepted to a prestigious university in several years.

Your teachers are also trying to teach 30 other kids so that will hurt compared to better public schools/private schools. Hell, you might even have to skip doing extra curricular activity’s entirely in favor of work, which will hurt your chances of going to a good college. Additionally, your parents don’t have “legacy” status at good universities which will probably hurt you. If you’re poor your family probably doesn’t have connections that will hurt you after your formal education has ended. If your family is poor then taking business risks are also less likely to happen and more financially risky.

The list can go on and on. I don’t know how to fix that and it wont be solved solely by wealth redistribution.
Even with -ba (which I could never remember), nl does too much magic:

$ printf 'foo\n\:\nbar\n' | cat -n
1	foo
2	\:
3	bar

$ printf 'foo\n\:\nbar\n' | nl -ba
1	foo

bar
Not sure what you're asking, did you misread my original comment? This magical seat does not exist, even on new planes.
> A database of passwords hashed with SHA256 will take days, maybe weeks to recover most of the passwords through brute force. With bcrypt, it would take months or years.

Or it will take seconds on special purposed hardware, not much longer than salted sha256. In the mean time you'll have made poor security decisions based on the invalid assumption that your attacker will need months or years of compute...
With a GPU?
He did adequately disclose that the OS was swapped out while pgsql and settings were held steady. Adding in more arbitrary benchmarks like FIO wont really clarify pgsql performance if that is the desired investigation. Instead, active bench marking where you identify the bottlenecks in each tested platform would be a better use of time, and you could hypothesize how to improve each platform if you were to pick it.

As a counter-example, I could easily cherry pick versions, tunables and patch sets to make the numbers go whichever way I want so these types of comparisons aren't that useful unless someone is dropping a big delta on the floor with out of the box settings vs another.

As a FreeBSD developer, I will actually tell you that Linux could be selected to graph massive wins by cherry picking hardware with very high core count and several NUMA domains. But even then, by selecting kernel features (which could be innocuously hidden in a version number/vendor patch set) you can cherry pick large swings. That said, FreeBSD+ZFS+PGSQL (https://www.slideshare.net/SeanChittenden/postgresql-zfs-bes...) is a joy to administer, and is unlikely to be the weak link in a production setup if you stick to a two socket system. There is a lot of work going on in HEAD that is relevant to this workload in the memory management subsystem, including NUMA support. And some TCP accept locking changes that'd be relevant for TCP connection turnover.
Could you give some examples of stating a subject and object and not being able to ask a non-trivial question?
My avoidance of their built in apps is just simply that I don't want to be locked in to the apple eco system.

Apple has always took a closed approach to their software and it's going to hurt them in the long run.
You missed a chemistry joke.
Okay, so it's just coincidental that a regulator showed up when they could cause the most harm.
2017 was a great year for me professionally, where I shipped a few initiatives that I'm proud of. I now work in elixir full-time, which was a goal of mine.

For 2018, I plan on branching out into new hobbies. I'm in danger of becoming a one dimensional person. I think about code most of my waking hours and most of my friends are engineers too. I plan on picking up biking, taking dance classes, or improv classes to meet new people.
It was released last year but quickly removed. This article explains why...
Where do you plan to camp?
That was a good episode too!
Global absolute poverty has plummeted from 40% in 1985 to less than 10% in 2015:

https://ourworldindata.org/slides/world-poverty/#/declining-...
I didn't realize that. I say "only" because my father is 6'10'' and many of my siblings are taller than me. My perspective is skewed.
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The 'what' is the fact that this doesn't give management an incentive to improve.

"It's our best selling product ever" easily trumps "...But a lot of people hate the software and aren't really sure about the hardware."

Apple won't change until the entire edifice comes crashing down in some horrendous techno-corporate train wreck - possibly one where lives are lost.

Cook doesn't have the imagination or the empathy to understand the user POV. As far as he's concerned, as long as the company is making money everything is fine, even if it's bleeding goodwill from every shiny white polycarbonate pore.
It seemed that way, then I got a train driving simulator. Buy a train simulator (Train Sim 2018 is what I have) and try to drive a train to the timetable. Then play with the conditions (raining, autumn, midnight). Then realise that you need to do this without the map at the bottom of the screen. Then try to understand all the rules and regulations that a train driving simulator doesn't simulate, like how to walk down the track safely (old training videos are on YouTube are very interesting).

Also, in real life, train drivers are responsible for the safety of the passengers on the train, and also have to deal with the aftermath if anyone ends up being in front of the train.

If I was a train driver, I would like to be paid enough to cover all of that!
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The same applies to sporting events. I went to a college football game a few months ago and the first row was entirely dictating when the whole section had to stand up. Kind of an odd thing where many people don't think about it or just don't care.
The Skytrain system in Vancouver is fully automated and works well.

Only time I saw a driver was when we had a lot of snow last year. He was there for safety since Vancouver isn't so ready for snow.
At some point you're going to have to come to grips with what motivates you. Writing code just for the sake of writing code will always get old eventually.

Find a company where you can see the purpose of your work. Where work is something other than a constant stream of assignments to be completed. If all you do is assignments, the work will never be fulfilling. Make sure that your work drives the success of the business/effort that you're working for.
Proofs are fun when you study them on your own time. When you're time constrained, as you often are with school, they're way less fun and way more stressful.
I am sure these problems with opiate addiction centers will be solved by going to a single payer system.
Its not a free market for Indian developers coming to US on H1b. Its just high paying shackled visa.

As someone who worked for a long time on H1b (at startups in US), I realized only later how shackled I was compared to even high skilled immigrants from other countries!

I think with tighter immigration restrictions in US and EU, its been amazing to see many product companies popping up in India (instead of just the IT services industry).

US is sitting on a golden egg (of H1b engineers in US). If US makes it difficult for Indian immigrants, sure the immigrants will lose in the short term, but long term it is good for Indian and Indians.
We should just drop the significance testing/reporting period. The ASA's recent statement on p-values is spot on:

http://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/P-ValueStatement.pdf
The money will soon start to trickle down from the top 1% especially with the latest tax cuts. Be patient just a little more.
Platforms should be utilities. We can't really do without them, and there should not be too many of them for practical reasons. But use them, and we risk giving one or few players all the power. Also platforms give rise to internally regulated markets, and it's one thing if the government regulates a market, but yet another if a company regulates it.

I'm guessing we need special economic rules for platforms, or governments should own them.
Adhere to a filesystem... Right now all my files are a mess — often getting saved in random places... I know I can find them with a quick spotlight search, but it tends to bite me a bit when I need to locate a document from several months ago.

That, and keeping a journal of some kind.
Where's the evidence?

Oh, you don't have any.
You are correct, and it doesn't even require a one block gap. Simply clipping the corner of a block can allow a player to clip through as well, which is how you access world -1. That particular glitch can be exploited at either the very top of the 1-2 pipe, or at the open edge of that same pipe that Mario would normally enter. Every video one can find about world -1 will exhibit this glitch.

The article is really only technically correct, as those are glitches and certainly not intended, but in actual practice, yeah, it's not totally correct.