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>If China knocks out one of ours, we’ll knock out at least one of theirs.

No, we won’t. We’ll impose several decades of meaningless tariffs and embargoes with tons of loopholes so it looks like we’re doing something until everyone forgets what everyone was mad about in the first place.
How does making cars less efficient help the rural poor?
I'm sitting at an 11e right now. Maybe I'm odd, but I miss the physical buttons. Other than that, it's a great little machine to keep in the family room (armored against my 3 year old's attacks ;-) ) And the trackpad's certainly better than the one on the more powerful HP I've got in the other room.
I've tried a lot of them, but they just seem to randomly break websites. So now you've just clicked a link from somewhere, but the page shows up blank. And you wonder, is the javascript still booting, or maybe the content blocker is blocking too much?

And as whitelisting websites from blocking must be implemented per content blocker, instead of being a builtin Safari feature. As a result it's different per content blocker how to whitelist, involving switching apps, copying over URLs and page refresh.
They have been making the trackpad bigger. But the Apple MacBook trackpads keep getting bigger also, perhaps because a trackpad can never be big enough? Rather than try to copy Apple, I would rather they keep the design as-is.
I meant the feel and responsiveness of the trackpad rather than size.
This hyperbole doesn't really withstand the thought process; There is little reason that the exhaust shouldn't be cleaner than the air it is taking in.

1. There is an air filter that immediately takes out large particles (dust, dirt, mites, etc)

2. Emissions systems use hot wires to detect airflow precisely

3. O2 sensors readily adjusting fuel on the fly to ensure a complete burn.

4. A catalytic process using space metals that further ensures a clean burn

Effectively, whether it's dusty, a cow has farted around you, or a chicken farm is producing ammonia; the modern ICE has the ability to detect this scenario and adjust faster that 8k times a second.
I don't see how corporations meddling with the government can produce any good for the developing world, apart from generating profit for themselves masked as charity. Digital natives will be offered a walled garden, terrorcorp version of "the internet" as we know it (e.g. Facebook meddling with Albanian government).

Decentralized alternatives, like Freifunk, are the best option in my opinion.
You could do it Objective-C.
I like how articles like this sometimes make it in the front page. Once I watched a documentary and for most old violins there is hardly anything original besides the main body (which projects the sound), pretty much everything else is renewed or modernized. The neck, pegs, bridge, etc.. for instance might have been entirely replaced on an old instrument. I found it interesting that that doesn't change the sound much.
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The Rolling Stone writer who tried it in December was impressed (of course that’s not to say he thought it was perfect either) and people at GDC who demoed it were also impressed. It’s looking less and less like this is the next theranos as everyone loves to say.
Clover Food Lab here in Boston got a small batch of pawpaws recently and used them to make soda. It was heavenly.

Hopefully recent trends of farmers' markets and such will increase the availability!
Agree in part, but note that tailpipes are only responsible for a small fraction of vehicular PM10 and PM2.5.[0]

Tailpipes provide the greenhouse gases, but the EPA regs were about local pollution, which is driven by tire breakdown, road surface breakdown, brake pads, and overwhelmingly, an interesting process called "resuspension." Resuspension is related to vehicle weight, traffic flow patterns, and city road treatments.

So agree the regs were "dumb," and agree we might want a pigouvian tax on underlying sources, but if we want to solve for local pollution, we also need some different set of regs that work on "total emissions" instead of "tailpipe emissions."

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223101...
> California seems like a state of contradictions. Antivaccine yet some of the best universities

The antivaccine movement is a very small proportion of the population, and one which (unlike the universities) is opposed by the people setting policy (California has a reasonably strong vaccine mandate, and is in the process of further narrowing the allowable exemptions.)

> Too much regulation yet opiod overdose is prevalent.

California has the third lowest opioid overdose death rate in the nation [0]; insofar as California actually has “too much regulation” and that is a thing that could reasonably be expected to be contradictory to a relatively high opioid impact (both of which premises are less than clearly established), no such contradiction is evident.

But, aside from the relevance of that claimed contradiction, sure, California is a large and diverse state, not a uniform hive mind. It has plenty of contradictions. It would be weird if it didn't.

[0] https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-de...
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> https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/...

Check out George W. Bush's ratings in the comparisons below the fold - massive spike peaking at a little less than 90% approval right around 9/11, and almost always staying above 50%. I really thought he was unpopular.
Getting it out to be used by as many devs as possible is also a valid way of "nailing gown".
Always used a mechanical pencil without the lead in it...
Seriously. I bought a Renault Zoe (in europe). What the F has Tesla to offer to maintain that kind of valuation?
I can find zero compelling reasons to by a Tesla compared to the Renault. Oh and also, I can't buy a Tesla at this date at that price.
Those are internet movies.
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As others have said, touchscreens suck in planes. Particularly in turbulence, they're very hard to use. The problem is twofold. First, when you're flying, you're usually multitasking. It's very useful to be able to perform tasks with the electronic gadget without looking at it. If there are physical buttons, you can find the right control by feel. You can't do that with a touchscreen. If things are a little bumpy, the tactile feedback is also very useful because you can subconsciously tell when you are about to push a button or turn a click knob without actually doing it, based on the force feedback. Since the whole thing isn't touch sensitive, you can also brace your hand with your other three fingers against the panel so that it doesn't move during turbulence. I fly gliders a lot as well as small single engine planes, and I really like the LK8000 software for gliders. It has a "turbulence proof" interface. Even though it's a touchscreen, the interface mostly restricts itself to touch events like "top half or bottom half of screen" or "corner of screen." The UI then provides unique audio feedback. Between the two, it's possible to use the UI to get to a particular view of information without looking at the screen. UIs that require you to do things like precisely tap on the icon of one airport among many in the middle of the screen are almost unusable.
People often forget that 2x increase in one dimension equates to a 4x increase in area and number of pixels. I didn't expect that of this community though, which is how I'm interpreting the down voting here.

This is my profession so if the down voters know something I don't I'm very interested to hear where I've gone wrong.
By lowering the cost to manufacture a vehicle by reducing the artificial constraints imposed by environmental regulations, more people are able to purchase vehicles at a lower cost, leading to an overall higher standard of living for the poor who couldn't otherwise afford the aforementioned vehicle.
Tesla is actually turning a profit on their cars. It's just the massive investments in manufacturing production eat up everything.
Alternately: smart people do dumb things sometimes.

Perhaps we could even take a lesson that under stress people make bad decisions. It could be some kind of warning to us all.
Renault already has a compelling electric car. A happy owner of a Zoe. Absolutely no regrets with this car. Which I can have today.
It's not uncommon. An example in Racket is html-template.[0] Hiccup is one in Clojure.[1] There's a spectrum of methods for doing things like this: both Clojure and Racket have Mustache[2] implementations.

"Confusing and hard to grok"† is in the eye of the beholder. Syntax highlighting and indentation go a long way (as well as exposure), though even in black and white, the parens fade for me much more than angle brackets do. Personally, I'd wrap some of the longer lines, but that's a style thing.

[0]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/html-template/index.html.

[1]: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

[2]: https://mustache.github.io/mustache.5.html

† Sorry. Couldn't let the typo stand. Heinlein made me do it.
No, the minimum franchise tax you refer to (not alternative minimum tax, a completely different tax) does not apply to every company in the state. In particular, it does not apply to non-profits with exempt organization status, which are what people generally think of when they think of non-profits. While my experience is with exempt organizations, my understanding is that the non-profits it applies to are non-exempt non-profits, such as homeowner's associations.
Those sockets are driving everyone crazy. Lotes ones seem to be ok
> I wouldn't be surprised to see digital prices in supermarkets that change depending on who is next to the tag.

I think safeway already does this with their just-for-u coupons which gives personalized deals on frequently bought items.
What are you talking about. I'm driving a Zoe as we speak. Super competive relative to a car I can't buy.
I feel like most of the time, pricing decisions involve a lot of information and it feels like a digression to have it all on one page. For simple apps and pricing structures, it's doable — my Rdio-to-Spotify app was $5, and said so up front – but the point of the landing page is to help someone decide if you're useful to them or not. Get them to the "yes, if" stage before showing them pricing, imo.
Hard to beat sugar dusted sweetness, but yeah the fresh fruit is delicious too.
So are you saying that your non-profit was not an exempt organization? Again, the tax you refer to does not apply to exempt non-profits, such as public charities and private foundations.
The poster's point is that the link between that and the actual object of value is a huge weak point. Let's use expensive art as an example since it's such a commonly cited use case. Blockchain says I own an original Picasso painting. You pay me 1 BTC in exchange for me transferring ownership of the painting to you: blockchain says the painting is now yours, _and_ I have to ship you the physical painting so you can hang it in your house / art gallery / whatever rich people do with art.

The problem is, how do you know I didn't ship you a fake replica and keep the original for myself, sell it to someone else on the sly, etc.? Sure, you could have a TPM which securely holds some data linking the physical smart card to the blockchain provenance record... but what links the physical smart card to the physical painting? Couldn't I just give you the fake painting + real smart card?

You could get an art expert to authenticate the physical painting, of course -- but that's exactly the same reliance on a trusted third party that art collectors have today, and blockchain has done nothing to improve the situation...
But is it illegal insider trading?

This is an honest question.
Lsofgraph – Convert lsof output to graph of processes, pipes, fifos and sockets
Just wait a bit longer it is downloading 18MB, that might take a while ...
I love assembly! I think if you know C/C++ it's not too difficult to learn. One thing I noticed is, it can be a bit rough coming back to an old project, I thought I had left enough comments on one of my projects (https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd), but I was still scratching my head a bit in some places.
you can disable, it is pretty much the same.

The only difference is the you don't get your space back since preinstalled apps occupy a different partition, but the app itself cannot run in any way.
Why has there been nearly 3M installs of is-odd – NPM in the last 7 days?
The differences to kinds of wines is not what’s being referred to. As you’ve also stated, the claim is that there’s no difference in the dollar value. A $10 Pinot is no different than a $100 Pinot. So, it’s just like the Strads.
My S7 had it, and so does my S8. Very cool feature that I haven't seen in other phones.
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I just replaced a cooler like that yesterday morning (with another one with the same screws)! Pretty annoying to work with.

Funnily, those screws also sort of fit into the grid on the back of my computer case, so I mounted the old cooler externally, and it helps draw the hot air out. No reason to throw away a good PWM-controlled fan if you have a free connector on the motherboard, after all.
Houra ! Such a great work... I love the USB applet (at top right once logged in).

Just plug your device and mount it into one of your VM. Really user friendly :-)
That's the strength of Apple's PR.
I made a little tool some time ago to show the relations of processes, fifos, pipes and sockets in a handy picture. This turns out to be very handy when debugging these kind of problems:

https://github.com/zevv/lsofgraph
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How is the iOS permission system different here ?

AFAIK Android's current permission system is very similar to iOS's one with granular permissions granted at runtime for camera, contacts, etc.
Thoughts on this? https://youtu.be/xdzo-uAvz5Y
> We're also working on other cool, related efforts- like a compiler (https://twitter.com/trueadm/status/944908776896978946)

That sounds like it could bring a lot of benefits. Would, and if so how, that affect people using TypeScript?
The SDK looks good, but I don’t see any big surprises: it looks quite similar to the Oculus and Microsoft Hololens frameworks. It seems like the kind of SDK a highly competent software team might develop just by extrapolating from competitors’ shipping hardware.
> and revoked easily .

I don't see how revoking permissions solve that problem.
Once an app has scraped your info, you can revoke it's permissions all you want, it is not going to delete your data from its server.
Tesla is fundamentally trying to change a 100 year old industry and get cars off fossil fuels. If Apple never existed we'd have uglier mobile phones. If Tesla never existed the switch to electric cars might well be delayed by a decade.

Perhaps people forget the scale of the Gigafactory and how important batteries will be over the next 100 years.

Let's see when Apple starts giving all their patents away for free.
Technically, a Rule is not a Law.
It's funny to read about "a caffeinated drink called x" when I just slice & dice Jet Alert tabs into whatever mix I'm having. There are mornings when 30mg is enough to push my intuition to extreme levels, and there are days when 100mg does nothing until I find the right song on the radio. I am using caffeine and ibuprofen as experimental tools to fight depression and keeping logs on how things go. So far it's amazing how well they work. Wish I had known back when I had chronic severe depression. No medical advice here btw, keep your own logs...
It doesn't look 2006ish, it looks like straight from the 1990s and I love that. And the first thing I do on a Thinkpad is disabling the trackpad.
I'm afraid it is. I had to relinquish my copies of Butcher's Copy Editing and the New Hart's Rules when I left my editorial job, but I've found the rule of indefinite articles preceding vowels referenced on the Chicago Manual of Style site[0].

[0] http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Us...
I am surprised that the rent for (at least) 5 square meters is less than 2 gym memberships in the SV.
I quite like the Thinkpad look. The design is somewhat iconic and it does put function over form (my T450 has a battery butt on the underside, it's ugly as heck but I can work for 8 hours uninterrupted no problem)
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This has nothing to do with open or close source.

Play Services have always been close source.
It means something different in American political culture. The American right has successfully framed liberalism as illiberalism, and illiberalism as "freedom".

Classical liberals of course do not believe in positive rights. The American right started calling progressives who believe in positive rights "liberal" because unconditional access to social services seems permissive to an authoritarian.

Ignorance and spite then ran unchecked for a few generations and authoritarians now use liberal as a pejorative for anyone not on their spectrum, raising hope that the term may boomerang into correct usage.

Authoritarians currently refer to authoritarianism as "freedom".
Depends a bit. The cheaper variants usually not so well but Thinkpads in general have outstanding Linux support compared to most other laptops.
Almost all of Apple's "responsiveness" advantage is from careful software tuning. You could get a windows trackpad to feel as good as Apple's if you tuned the acceleration curves and added better palm detection.
I've been lurking at the X1 carbon for years, but now I'm finally considering getting one I can't decide between the T480s this year!

On one side, the light weight and light size of the X1 is really appealing, on the other the larger ram, graphic chip and lower heat of the T480s makes it look like a wiser choice...

At this price, it is a hard decision. I unfortunately can't get my hand on both machines before buying one in the part of the world I am in, did anyone had the chance to compare them both side by side? Is the difference of size/weight noticeable in hand?

Another aspect is the display. The new 500nits HDR screen looks awesome, but I've been thinking a mate, 300nits display would be better for programming? I don't think I have seen a mate screen on a laptop for years... Is it really better for outdoor use? Would it make sense to privilege it, even being 200nits lower?
What benefits would a lower-level encryption protocol provide over TLS (or anything else on top of layer 3/4)?
Non mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
Facebook employees are perfectly suitable to work in spy organisations, such as in the NSA. They seem to all agree on “punish the leaker” attitude, instead of self reforms!
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Or event a decent 20-30 euros bottle of St Joseph or a Côte-Rotie. No need to go into three figues.
For someone who hasn't opened the app in three years going through the upgrading process for each major version/minor high version would be more difficult vs rewriting for most smaller components.

To the parent's parent's point Javascript has evolved since 2015 and comparing what a 2015 app looks like to a 2018 app is day and night.
This one is more focused on storytelling: https://www.heynishi.com
Curious to know if this C application server is an open project or home crafted closed code?
At first glance this seems dangerous.

How do you measure results of your self-medication? How do you identify substances to medicate yourself with?

Have you spoken with a professional about this?
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You lose almost no light.

You are changing the area of the sensor the part of the scene is spread over.

Its a triviality as a result of us expressing the F number as the ratio of the focal length and the aperture size.

The effective SNR of the sensor is increased due to more sensor being used for a given part of the scene, so the lower light level does not increase noise comparatively.
Just ask ICE
Hence the part about rebates for efficient emissions -- the base fuel tax should cover the maximum economic impact.
Is there a non-censored link? :-(
Was about to suggest that, good source
This is fascinating.
I wish they made the trackpad smaller. They used to have (T420 and older) a smaller trackpad and a wonderful 7 row keyboard but they've since switched to a 6 row keyboard to have a bigger trackpad.

That means I'm stuck on the T420s for the foreseeable future.
I work in this industry, and every early devkit device we've received from the manufacturer has come with these kinds of constraints for us. I would have been much more shocked if Magic Leap didn't require these kinds of things of its early devkit recipients. And I'm a big ML skeptic.
How is it verbose? It has much LESS noise than HTML.
IMHO, Lisp is the simplest and smallest readable representation of data structure.
I will trade JSON for edn [1] any days of the week

[1] https://github.com/edn-format/edn
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This is one of the problems with cryptocurrencies though. Consumers are unlikely to accept a system where they can't contest charges, either through a trusted large institution (e.g. Visa) nor through the courts. I haven't heard an explanation yet of how to solve that without layering on central authorities, which undermines the decentralization that's supposed to be crypto's #1 advantage.

This article has a good explanation of that concern, among others: https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...
So why isn’t it done? I think it’s not controversial to say that the trackpads (or “trackpad experience”) on MB*s are just plain superior than anything Windows has access to.
I'm driving my VW Fox from 2005 with a broken pump for 12+ months now.

The only bad thing is parking, you get used to it.
Gotta take the jacket off before attempting to park in or park out, or you are going to sweat a lot.
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Doesn't feel like it's needed. "getStateFromProps" would have been fine. I think any state "derivation" from props is implied.
TLDR: the cheapest possible dedicated machine vastly outperforms oversubscribed VPS machines on I/O bound problems (like website hosting, or frankly anything you might do other than perhaps machine learning).
Apple to me is not a software / services company. They failed to make Swift popular and imho it will just artificially keep Swift alive while everyone else will be using RN,Xamarin and similar.
Fun. Lately I have a growing pile of RasPis and SD cards everywhere. I guess I built enough PCs in the 00s and now they’re $50 so why not build clusters/etc? Back then PC games were around $60 or upgrades $200, now weekend projects with whole computers are too. I dig the idea still, would probably play before my next build which will surely be of expensive gear (eg. big Swarm/k8s nodes).
Pawpaws have very inconsistent harvests, don't ship well at all, and have a very short ready to eat -> overripe time.

They are also, like you note, absolutely delicious. I have two trees in my backyard. (You need two for them to pollinate and bear fruit.) But there are practical reasons why you don't see them for sale very often.
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I love the trackpoint as well - when I'm on my own system
I have configured hotkeys, a launcher, and qutebrowser, so I can do almost anything without needing a mouse.

Unfortunately, the company I work at is a huge MS fan, and I've found it very hard to use a workflow that does not depend on fast and precise movements with the cursor - so I switched back to the mouse, unfortunately.