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You know what, I was under the impression the 15" had a 99.5wh battery. My mistake.
If Apple wants to cling to the now-inappropriate "Pro" brand for these MacBooks then may I suggest they add a new line: maybe, MacBook Ultimate or MacBook Power or MacBook Unlimited or MacBook Retrogrouch or something. Please make those units thicker for larger battery and replaceable RAM/SSD, with headphone and SD ports and MagSafe.

Comments here suggest many of us would pay a premium for something like this.
surely, tzar meant that in a positive way
Thanks for the reminder. I edited my comment.
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I get what you are saying, buy Mac Pro is a bad example in this case. I think it's the only bad example here.
I managed to break my 2013 15” retina MacBook Pro a couple of days ago. It slid off my lap and down my legs and gently hit the floor from about 6 inches up. This managed to critically deform the lid and pop the screen. This in itself is a big WTF.

However, I spent the entire hour following this event being annoyed not because of what I had done to it but because I wasn’t actually annoyed. I was annoyed at myself for not being annoyed.

The I realised why: I know there was no path forwards because the current line is crap. I’ve been putting off thinking about it and dealing with the “what happens next” question.

What happened next was dragging an old i5 Thinkpad T440 out of the cupboard and firing windows 10 up on it.

Got to be honest. The keyboard is better, the thing is a ton more productive, it’s faster (!) to get anywhere and I had forgotten how much stuff I have in muscle memory which doesn’t require hypermobile fingers doing twisted fucked up devils chords on different meta keys to run the entire machine off the keyboard. Plus if you drop it, it still works. The trackpad is crap though (meh, use a mouse) and the screen is crap (meh).

Turns out the only good bits on the MBP were the screen and the trackpad. The screen is extremely fragile though.

The whole machine cost less than a recycled screen for a 2013 MBP and gets in the way less.
I don't understand how this fix can possibly be so performant. The speculative executions must be doing something positive, right? It seems like it should never hurt (ignoring security, obv). So how can disabling it not hurt?

Thanks for the stackover flow link!
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While what you're saying sounds nice, your theory has nothing to do with practice.

In reality, the ultimate source of this problem is the mismatch in speed between silicon logic and silicon memory. This is why your CPU ends up doing all sorts of tricks like caching, branch prediction, speculative execution to compensate for slow memory.
You're talking about a very specific "Christian" society, which, you should bear in mind, has very few things in common with other Christian societies, like the orthodox for instance.
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Stolen IP, that's how!

<waves a tinfoil hat>
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>Our specialiser had to be fixed to not produce code with this flaw.

Isn't prefetching/load-hoisting pretty much required to get any sort of performance out of an in-order VLIW-like machine?
A security vulnerability seems like a different ballgame than intentionally compromising security (aka, installing backdoors). Just one of the Lenovo incidents: https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish-malware.h...
I know there's this convenient meta-rule that says we can't discuss the rules, but this site really needs to scrap the concept of an "ideological rant". It pre-supposes the existence of non-ideological moderators and posters, a false assumption, which means it is only ever applied in one direction - there are lots of far more ranty and ideological things posted here which are left well alone, because they agree with the increasingly rather odd Silicon Valley (but not rest of America) social norms.

The OP posted interesting insights from his time in a small totalitarian state. He also drew comparisons to the writing style of Gizmodo. This sort of post has value to me, even if it might not be right, because it makes me think about new topics and existing topics in new ways. It merits further discussion and analysis, not downvoting, flagging, and being ticked off by moderators for being "ideological".

But this is one instance of a wider issue, that moderation and flagging in discussions of Google's diversity-related woes is often wildly inconsistent for no apparent reason. Slashdot associates adjectives with votes and moderation decisions, something maybe HN could use. I now routinely expand hidden posts and have showdead switched on because the ratio of useful and well written flagged posts to genuine spam or nonsense is so unbalanced. There's hardly any genuine spam or trolling here.

Other examples - there's a post further up by calculusftw that's dead for no apparent reason, as the post itself seems calm, well written and to present a reasonable point of view that is repeated by other posts elsewhere. Another post by nodesocket compares the management styles of Google vs other bay area tech firms and claims differing management style is related to the internal culture - it is both flagged and dead, again for no apparent reason.
I use this almost exclusively. Couple of weird things that I don't like:

There's no accessible "new tab" option without long pressing a hyperlink. If I want to open a new tab (so I don't lose my current page) and web search for something, I do it by long pressing any hyperlink on the current page.

Also, tabs are reloaded every time they're brought to focus, so I can't queue up three or four tabs to read later in a moment where I don't have data service (subway train, remote area, etc).

Oh, and oddly, they also have a "send usage data" option in Settings. Seems pretty contrary to the general purpose of the browser, but what do I know.
Because people like discussing things, plus dogfooding.

There was a time when a company could create an internal mailing list called "politics" without worrying too much.
This is, of course, very upsetting for the obvious reasons. However, there's a second aspect to this that is (IMO) equally infuriating. Which is that even when the Supreme Court rules on something, which (credit where credit is due) has always done its best in making rulings as clear as possible for future similar cases, that politicians (of any party really) will still find a way around it.
In 1868 (Crandall v. Nevada) the Supreme court ruled that: "a state cannot inhibit people from leaving the state by taxing them."

Sure, maybe the word "tax" can be up for debate (although IMO taking someone's personal information is a tax). But if you look at point 8 at this link:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/73/35/

It states that during the ruling, The Supreme Court ruled that: "8. The citizens of the United States have the correlative right to approach the great departments of the government, the ports of entry through which commerce is conducted, and the various federal offices in the states."

The "tax" inhibit this right.

It is now 2018 (150 years later) and we have simply replaced the word "tax" with a different obstacle, which functions in the same way: inhibiting the freedom of movement for those who don't (or can't) comply.
I recently switched from a MacBook Pro running Boot Camp to a Surface Laptop (not the Pro aka tablet) and I'm absolutely in love. The battery life is ridiculous -- a claimed 14 of video playback but even in my real world heavy usage, I still get about 8. I also never thought I'd find a touchpad as good as Apple's but I'm actually liking Microsoft's more.

It's a really, really good proper laptop. I think my only complaint is that it only has one USB port (A-type), but seeing as the only thing I use USB for anymore is charging my phone, it's not a deal breaker.
oooooh. Very interesting.

And I think I understand what you mean.
OT: thank you for your conscientious objection, and for talking honestly about the situation. Would be fascinated to hear the rest of the story; I hope you didn't end up going to prison as many peaceniks seem to.
a. Why do people have a need to write blog posts about why they won't buy a macbook? What do we care? I won't buy most things I see offers for: certain soda drinks, instant coffee, etc, etc, etc, etc

b. Why do these posts get so high on the HN main page? What is the value? Is it just nerdy conversation and, in this case, Apple shaming just like we do with celebrity gossip? Do we feel like giddy children telling stories around the campfire of fallen giants. That is fine, but why do we need to upvote this over other, worthwhile, articles? Relax people, a Macbook is just a product you don't have to buy.
Can you please not post political flamebait to Hacker News? It takes threads on destructive tangents, and the comment you're replying to was obviously more substantive than this.
> Apple’s only homemade blunders are the asinine keyboard and the silly half assed attempt at touch-but-not-screen.

The keyboard rules. Can confirm. Also some content creation apps I use (ex: Ableton) are starting to get useful treatment in the Touch Bar.

> Oh and the stupid obsession with thin

The thinner the laptop, the more stuff I can cram in my carry on. ymmv
The real solution is changing lobbying, but i am not educated enough about us politics to tell how.

Also supporting EFF & ACLU and their efforts to use the laws seems to be somewhat effective.

It also comes back to the individual convenience vs collective action. If everybody obeys the orders of border agents, police, etc without exercising their rights because they have nothing to hide, this gets easier by the day.

This is not about hiding something, this is about harrasment of an individual's privacy.
I was kinda onboard untill “bring the lit Apple logo back”. What’s professional about that?
I join that pack, the touchpad is specially terrible for debugging and IDEs, loots of my shortcuts are in that part of the keyboard it's infuriating to use it.

Have been given that choice a month ago, get one a new MBP or a dell precision 5520 + 32Gb ram with Linux.

Linux was the choosen one, couldn't been happier! In fact all our backend developers are switching... That must been something right, it was all macs since since the begging for them.
Worse yet, if you use the Facebook app to follow a link someone posted and leave it open for awhile, when you then hit the back button to close the browser and return to your feed, the post containing the link will no longer be on your screen, or even easy to find. Makes it near impossible to comment on it, re-share it, etc.
Are you carrying two laptops at the same time? I found I've not had too much trouble carrying my laptop in a backpack since 2008 (when I replaced a beastly ~5kg 15" Acer with a thin 2.5kg 14" Dell Latitude).

That really made a huge difference (the Acer used to give me backaches, as it also had a much larger power brick) but all the laptops since didn't really bother me in terms of weight.
I sometimes have to go to the US for business purposes but from now on will only do so with a wiped computer with just enough installed to look like a normal user's data.
That was a long time ago.
I think it was pretty clear from context that this was lighthearted and not a real quotation. Hell, I didn’t even include a source for where the quote allegedly came from.
I would be inclined to agree with you if the phenomenon was limited to the US. But its not, it occurs world wide, even in Scandinavian countries.

What you are suggesting is a world-wide conspiracy, across all countries and cultures, and across all corporations. I can't prove you wrong, but Occams Razor tells me this is unlikely.
Must be an incredible feeling to have designed and drawn what is fast becoming a core part of our language.

Although looks like the pile of poo and ice cream no longer use the same swirl:

https://emojipedia.org/pile-of-poo/

https://emojipedia.org/soft-ice-cream/
Are we meant to believe Mark Zuckerberg?
That looks like the Estonian flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Estonia
> Those most in favor of homosexuality are also those okay with abortion.

I am not sure this is the case. In the GP comment, he took a population for whom both elements (homosexuality and abortion) are forbidden. You are not allowed to support either of them.

If you are not in that population, you can have an opinion on either element, independently.

This said, a liberal perspective for one element may (or is more likely) to also be true for the other one.
They cant because every PR is written by a lawyer this is full protection mode against lawsuits who are coming anyway.
So, uh, you just kkept using the computer even though a common kkey was brokken, for two weekks?!!

And then it healed itself so that's no biggie?

Makes me wonder about your workflow. I write code and would have been in a (silent, I'm from Sweden) rage in a day or less.

Holding out for so long with a major fault seems very forgiving.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines. Would you please not create accounts to do this with?
Eich is a demonstrably smart man. I don't see how knowing him is anything but good.
> almost everyone reports getting a cookie-cutter email or scripted response about why the rep will stay the course

Who is “almost everyone”? Any personal experience?

Mine involves getting a personal e-mail from my state Assemblyman, being patched in to the senior legislative aide to my U.S. Congresswoman who spoke to me at length about the issue, getting follow-up by e-mail to calls after the points I raised were discussed with my U.S. Senator, and being reached out to by my state Senator’s office for input on a draft bill. I also know that for my tech-savvy Manhattan Congressional district I am usually one of a small handful voters regularly calling in about digital privacy.

I’m fine with voters being busy or lazy. But don’t brag about it.
Yeah this is what killed the MacBook/Pro as a touch typist and vi user for me. Plus, the extreme low travel of the keys. Went with an XPS 13 instead, which I can fully recommend. The keyboard, in particular, works really well for me.
Yeah but sometimes it seems like people are not aware of this. Lots of crypto advocates are talking about future where crypto will become de facto currency and transactions will be done in BTC or some other tokens. So merchants would price their goods and services in crypto tokens.

We are definitely not there if we ever will be (personally I am skeptical most of these tokens will turn out to be more than fads few years from now). Merchant still gets paid with USD, GBP, JPY, EUR or whatever currency is local to the merchant.

It also must be more inefficient to use Bitcoin or gold card. Because there is an additional layer of conversion from BTC/gold to fiat which I believe is not as advantageous as paying with fiat which uses daily Visa/MC interchange rate (Visa/MC set exchange rate for currency pairs once per day so it doesn't fluctuate when you buy 2 coffees per day for example) and is as good as you can get.

I imagine whatever service you use to change BTC/gold to fiat in the background must incur some fees albeit small ones (Coinbase or something else that's used by these cards, the API call you make to Coinbase to change BTC to USD will charge you small fee). So you will be paying more on fees / get worse exchange rate.

I still don't understand what's the advantage of using these Bitcoin or gold debit cards as it seems you are just paying extra fees for extra layer of conversion. I'd stick with old school boring bank debit cards since transactions are done in fiat anyways.
I had this same keyboard problem and Apple replaced it FYI. You might want to bring it in.
I do the same, I have to install a few apps on Mac to help out with window management but otherwise I can't say any OS is a true game changer anymore.
Those product delineations exist currently.

Macbook Air has always been touted as " high end specs, flexibility all with great portability". The Pro was sold as the mobile beast. There's some range confusion it seems.
use truecrypt
Itianium relies on advance loads which is a form of speculation introduced by the compiler to perform competitively. It is not unlikely that this is as exploitable as spectre.
I think your parent's point is that they'd like to be a paying customer but the cheapest tier is to dear to justify.
> if you are using vim, it is more efficient to use ctrl+[ instead of the escape key

I'm always amazed by how, after using vi(m) for so many years one can always learn something new. I opened a session and tried it out and then found my hand moving to the escape key automatically...
Note the following part of GP's comment:

> even from origins I allow (via NoScript)

This implies it's not about trust, it's about resource usage.
How is the time dimension modeled?
Well, if they could be that alike, then it's not much worth studying anyway...
The bottom line is that affordable housing is expensive because it is provided by a central planner.
Starbucks street cred.

It annoys me that mine lights up like a Christmas tree.
Let the record note my gripe was only with the genie/bottle wording, which indicates an irreversible change :)
Or just map caps lock to escape. Then you replace an almost useless home row key with an extremely useful one.
i'm on a 2013 mac book pro retina and see no reason to upgrade to the latest model. If it died tomorrow i'd look for a refurbed 2015 model.

Mostly i blame intel for not releasing mobile chipsets capable of more than 16GB of ram but apple is also to blame for allowing this.

My next purchase will hopefully be a amd ryzen based laptop with 64GB of ram running linux in 2018 pls.
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> There are issues with this 'laptop' (don't put it on your lap is one)

ouch, that is definitiv not a good issue...
but well my mbp late 2013" gets hot as well.
Things pg said about downvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691

It's how HN has always worked, and in my opinion needs to. A site that cares about discussion quality needs those white blood cells.
Been using an MBP for the past 3 years and looking to try a non AAPL machine for my dev work. What hardware is the most similar/superior to an MBP > 2015? I will be running a Linux distro. I have heard good things about the ZenBook, but I am wondering if there are any better options.
Is this sarcasm, or are you referring to Algolia?
> I find the keyboard terrible.

> I can't put my finger on it exactly

Sounds like that's your problem!
Though I understand your points, Signal is a protocol, you can implement and build things around it the way you want. Sure you can say that WhisperSystems should enforce a secured architecture around it, but it is not their job, and I doubt Whatsapp, Messenger and Skype would be using Signal if they were forcing that.

And I would definitely not say Telegram is the best tool here [1][2]. If you want something really secure, I would recommend the Signal app [3].

In the end, it is always who you decide to put your trust in.

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegr...
[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
[3] https://signal.org/
No, one at a time. I’m just saying that there is a noticeable difference between carrying the new one all the time vs. carrying the old one all the time. And that one was noticeably more portable than the previous model with the spinning disk and CD drive.
I wonder if there is a correlating increase in custom built PCs but I'd imagine that those numbers are very difficult to come by as you'd be asking individual component makers (Corsair, EVGA...) for their shipment figures.
Why dual boot instead of virtualization?
wait, so you're actually a spy? What kind of user are you if not a normal one?
> “What is the password to this device?” is a verbal collection of information, which is prohibited by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) unless it has been approved in advance by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a “control number” has been assigned by OMB, and individuals from whom information is to be collected are given notice of this.

I find this extremely implausible. If it were true, wouldn't it also imply that customs and immigration officers aren't allowed to ask any questions that don't appear on the customs form? I thought it was generally accepted that they had a wide latitude to conduct an interview and use the results to determine admissibility.

The Paperwork Reduction Act is primarily designed to regulate exactly what it sounds like -- standardized forms for data collection. It specifically excludes "A request for facts or opinions addressed to a single person". (https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=t...)
Yeah, I went from 2015 to 2016 MacBook Pro and the keyboard is way way worse. I use several keyboard and this new one is the only one where I regularly make typos (which is very frustrating when typing passwords).
And, judging from what was going on 5 years ago, whatever replaces it will be even crazier and trendier :)
Ive used a cheapo SDR on my phone before, with a microusb adapter. There aren't a ton of Android apps but IIRC I was able to look at ADS-B transponder data
Just have multi-boot and before crossing set the auto-boot timeout at 0, then change it later.
If you want to be safe, you can also copy and delete the boot details for your actual partition.

I leave a dummy partition with Windows, office and other shortcuts and a wallpaper of a cat during my US visits.
I also have both a facebook and a gmail subscribed to all the spam you can get.

Not because I have any criminal activities but my customers deserve to have their information protected.

If authorities want to check my private and work data, they can ask nicely through a judge.
Depends on your routine, and how much your development time intermingles with design, gaming, or being with slow/no internet.

I've tried to talk myself into a desktop & light laptop setup for years and everytime it's just felt easier to not think about syncing files across machines or whether the light travel laptop is going to be good enough for writing native code (i.e. compile times) or creative work (sitting here with ffmpeg spinning fans right now, and used Adobe's suite most of today around town).

How many developers need a desktop when there's cloud computing for heavy lifting?
Lenovo yes, but not the thinkpad line.
Anecdotal data for “I love it so far” here, too.

My MBP is a 2016 model, decked-out 13-inch. I can't say I love the Touch Bar but I don't dislike it either. It works fine. I wished the Touch ID sensor was used for more dialogs–some don't use it and I can't understand why. The keyboard is great, love it. The touchpad is awesome, absolutely love it. The screen is amazing. The battery life is OK (I wished it was better but I come from crappy laptops so it is much, much better than what I already know).
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The wiped laptop certainly doesn't look like that of a normal user without adding stuff.
I would say the .well-known/ is actually easier. one could just create a nginx (or somehow in haproxy) backend that will actually load the data to generate the cert from a trusted store. (I mean no user will probably use the .well-known endpoint (hopefully))

after that it could actually just put the cert into that store again and reload all public facing webservers
You're suggesting that your n=1 anecdote weighs more than those thousands of reddit stories? Or that my position is invalid because instead of engaging in another n=1 anecdote I aggregated the outcome of many?

For your one story, you can click the top few links of that search to see detailed accounts and full documented histories from representatives who are clearly systemically stonewalling this kind of activism. And judging by those counts, they are the majority.