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Most of what the author mentions, like the "bloatware" (that happens to be one of the best OEM pack-in values in the history of personal computing) is personal preference.

There absolutely is a problem with the direction of Apple's pro laptops, though, and that is simply that they've lost the pragmatism of the Macbook Pro line:

A balance of current and future ports is pragmatic. Going from exclusively USB-A to exclusively USB-C is not.

Making the occasional experience of replacing the battery harder in exchange for a thinner and lighter device is pragmatic. Making the everyday experience of typing on the keyboard less reliable for a thinner and lighter device is not.

Adding a novel new mode of interaction to high-end models is pragmatic. Adding the Touch Bar to the base 15" model and increasing the entry-level price point by 20% is not.

There has always been an element of designer vanity to Apple's products, but it has been tempered by pragmatism. The 2016 MacBook Pro marks the point where vanity gained the upper hand – and I hope pragmatism takes it back soon.
In my early 20s I shaved my head b/c I thought I would not care. As it turned out, my head is as spherical as a ping-pong ball and of almost the same color and sheen. I'm balding now and more vain about it that I wish I was.
Well yes, let me rephrase then: it's a shame there is no standard API to categorize and access data in other sections.
Author here. In retrospect, using the word "bloatware" was unnecessary, given the connotations of the word. I totally get that it's a very personal situation and that most Mac owners probably use a fair amount of Mac software.

I only included that section because my shift from Mac software to alternatives was so gradual that I didn't really realize how complete it was until I started writing this blog post. At which point I wanted to list them out point by point for my own self-reflection.
Linus ineffective? He's one of the most successful project leaders, he does not even program that much himself now.
I love the new keyboard as well. Hate the fact that like 5 of my keys have a strange combination of sticking and being not properly affixed (ie they just fly off the keyboard at random times). It's pretty crazy that to get your keyboard fixed you have to turn it into an Apple affiliated store (Apple Store won't take them in Berlin), and suffer through a 10 day wait. For fixing... a... few... keys.
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What? Summit had been in development for years, and is ridiculously efficient for a machine with so much performance. It's a major milestone on the path to exascale computing.
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Tesla is a symbol, Musk is a strong personality. To me it's the same as when Jobs said during the antenna fiasco that "you're holding it wrong".

Being a symbol, being an entity that creates objects of desire is financially beneficial to the company. The question is, who's message will the potential customers hear: the NTSB's or Musk's?

Of course I'm not saying that this is a good strategy - Tesla may as well fall from grace eventually, but the bully is ultimately powered by greed and hunger - for adoration, for money, for financial gains.
sure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_(video_game)
Last time I read about this it sounded like the chances of it passing seemed high. Check the "Where the member states stand" chart on this MEP's blog: https://juliareda.eu/2018/05/censorship-machines-link-tax-fi...
nice try Google xD
This seems optimistic to me, especially if Bryan Caplan is correct in The Case Against Education: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/03/12/the-case-against-educatio... , but it would be nice to see real disruption.
Nizoral shampoo can help. Reduces inflammation and fungus, and blocks scalp DHT uptake.
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It seems likely that BA will order more A380s to replace at least some of these.

They already bought their A380s. They're not buying any more. The 747 will most likely be replaced by A350-1000s or 777-9s.
If anything in this situation can be said to be "so 20th century," it's the notion that the bonds of trade and friendship transcend conflicts of interest, competition, and (god forbid) war.

Early 20th century, I might add.
What kind of issues? O-o
It might as well be KVO under the hood, no problem. It's just that annotations can be really handy to indicate a ton of stuff that would otherwise be lines of code. I use it in other languages all of the time.
The history's even longer and more tangled than you may know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200#The_seed_of_the...
Wow -

"Eventually, as value hits diminishing returns, both the Sociopaths and Losers make their exits, and the Clueless start to dominate. Finally, the hollow brittle shell collapses on itself and anything of value is recycled by the sociopaths according to meta-firm logic."

That has a sort of cynical beauty to it.

AFAICT I'm a loser-turned-sociopath as I now sell to the highest bidder on a strictly short term basis, and don't believe in anything apart from my bottom line.
Trying Arch on a ThinkPad, Ubuntu on a Dell, and Windows on a Surface Book made me appreciate my MacBook more.

It's very tempting to realise you don't use any Apple apps, see how you're paying a lot for last year's hardware specs, throw up your arms and say “I'm done with Apple! I'll get a hacker's laptop!” But — if you've become accustomed to Apple hardware and macOS — the experience felt like a real downgrade to me.

I have a laundry list of Mac niggles, but they're generally in the category of, “I wish I could tweak that behaviour a little” (like fully removing OS-level UI animations beyond what “reduce motion” offers) rather than, “I can't work until this problem is solved”, which is what I saw much more of on Arch, Ubuntu, and Windows (redraw issues that rendered applications unusable, updates that broke critical deps and required rollbacks, and almost daily blue-screening on Windows).

Apple also gets a bunch of things right by default that you miss when you go elsewhere, like their trackpads, screens, and zero-config full-disk encryption.

The Touch Bar MacBook Pro I have now may be worse than the previous model in some ways (I do not like the keyboard or use the Touch Bar), but overall the experience hasn't declined enough to fall behind everything else that's on offer for me.
And some people would even pay more for that "enhanced" experience. And nothing says their experience should be limited to actual views of the outside - they could have the sensation of traveling through space at hyper-relativistic speeds or whatever experience they want.

In return, I'd be very happy if my window seat faced the window and my back a narrow corridor. I'll fetch my meals from the galley myself, if that's what it takes.

On airliners, at the very least, they could add good cameras with removable IR filters to all new planes and pipe real-time video (from gate to gate) to the entertainment system. Flying and being able to watch the Milky Way from above the clouds would be a memorable experience. Has anyone in management even consider what makes people learn to fly themselves in the first place? Hint: it's not the paycheck.
Women generally won't express it. They often won't return advances, though, which speaks louder than words. Not that it matters, as there are far more important things to be anxious about.
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I'd love to read a book on git wizardry that goes beyond the git book.

Manishearth, a Mozillian and Rust contributor, wrote this post on splitting apart a repo. He's good at explaining all sorts of things.

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/03/05/understanding-...
That's not really a counterargument when the original claim was "never" and parent provided examples of times it did occur.
Hear, hear. I would happily trade an extra pound of weight for a 17-inch screen and 32 GB of RAM.
DFW was very insightful in his quote.
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We're really building the world we want to live in here aren't we?
how can you dispute payment method especially when they tell that you used your card with OTP/signature giving your consent to use this payment method? Just trying to understand so can use this technique if situation arises :)
Media needs their narratives and to keep readers emotional. It's how they get people coming back.

This is one of the reasons why they're losing so much trust.
Bitcoin trading in Venezuela is skyrocketing amid 14,000% inflation
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A friend of my just replaced his motherboard to keep it going. My laptop is my 3rd screen...not having a 17" is not at option as far as I'm concerned.
Author here. I've been looking to switch off Evernote but haven't found a suitable replacement yet.
Unity is powerful enough that the UI learning curve didn't bother me too much. There are some really odd decisions reflected in the Unity UI, though.

I find the Unreal Editor UI to be a direct precipitate of the way the engine is designed and the way the code is organized, and that makes it a little bit harder to find what you're looking for than what an ideal UI would offer, and there is nothing that is really hidden and hard to find. That is not the case with Unity, and it seems to be getting better each and every release.
I thought this was pretty cool, but the people in that video thought that it was the most amazing thing ever. Pretty funny.
If you remember that so, so much old PHP was reliant on global scope included from other files, it explains a lot of the DI obsession. If you were lucky, it was just a single bootstrap.php, but often not.
I live in Barcelona where there is a big issue due to Airbnb. I moved here from the UK and I work in Data Science so I'm not like a janitor or something.

The problem is that Airbnb will charge maybe 80-120 euros a night for an apartment depending on size, location etc. And I am paying 750 euros a month.

So a landlord can make more money from a week of Airbnb than a month of normal rental.

In the three years I have been here the rents have risen probably 15% or so - it means even with promotions and pay rises you just keep up.

Ironically London also has an insane rental market so moving back wouldn't help much...
I have not looked very into AMP very thorough, but isn't does AMP simply to make your webpage lean-and-mean, which can be done without AMP and simply with some common sense?
The stock market has being going sup since 2009 or so. Sometimes a little faster, sometimes a little slower. Look at a logarithmic chart and you will see that trend from 2009 to now. Same for unemployment. The rate has steadily gone down from 2010 on. There was no turn around in 2016.
I wonder about 2Sigma. I seem to naively assume that contributing to a lot of open source projects equals great engineering culture, and this company does seem to have a lot of lead devs from large OS projects.
> There is also very little benefit to putting pages on a CDN.

Well, you can often pay much less for bandwidth than alternate solutions.
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As I wrote the main comment here, I just performed an experiment in real time...the language you use in a comment has to be carefully worded to not convey too strong of an opinion excluding others or contain too much colorful language reflecting one's personality that may stray too far from the mainstream relatability. This is a perfect case to apply machine learning as I could see in real time votes responding up or down solely based on the emotional tone rather than the underlying meaning.
As someone who grew up in a tourist area I support governments and communities that fight tooth and nail to not have a proliferation of tourism friendly housing (at the expense of the rental market no less) or allow other things that increase the market share of tourism relative to other local industries. When tourism is a large local industry it has tons of negative effects on the community that generally result in local government that doesn't have much reason to do a good job doing what it should do and plenty of reason to do things it shouldn't. It's bad in the short term that get made worse over generations.

edit: Yes I know I didn't provide any specific examples and that this viewpoint will be foreign to those of you who go somewhere for vacation and think it seems nice (yes, that's the point, to seem nice enough to get you to spend your money here, that doesn't mean it's actually nice or nice for the people that live there).
That's how NLP can be a dead end by putting your faith on NN.
The people I talk to, from Microsoft. Disagree. The politics are brutal and the infrastructure brittle and constantly changing (with all the overhead and oversight of a high-security industry like finance) until nothing really gets done.
I can't validate the truth of that perspective, but there was the better part of a decade to correct this issue.
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link: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
But was that with the amendment introduced on 25 May? The original article says the proposal was introduced on GDPR Day, I assume that means 25 May. That blog post was last updated on 25 May. Was that before or after they had taken the temperature for MEPs' stance on this new proposal?
Honestly his attitude in general seems to be "once live, it stays", no matter if it is git commits, "broken" APIs, or anything really (just check out his recent opinion on the C standard).
Have you tried out what it looks like on Windows 10 with a high resolution display properly set to zooming like 200%? I think that Windows has made a lot of progress on this in the last few years.
i've been typing for more than 20 years and i do not get the fuss over keyboards, i can type on any of them with very little adjustments. i haven't had a problem with dust on the latest MBP either, and i treat mine pretty poorly.
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First time I am using landen.co saved me a ton of time to launch the MVP.
I disagree. As discussed in the talk, Network.framework is built on top of their userspace networking stack. This eliminates the kernel-userspace context switch and gets rid of one packet copy operation. These are known problems in the socket paradigm, at least as it exists in Linux and every BSD.
This turns out not to be the history of the game designers' creation of the level, but rather of speedrunners' efforts to squeeze milliseconds out of their time to reach the Warp Zone. A pretty remarkable story of dedication and obsession.
I was trying to get in contact with my bank to allow a large transaction through that they were blocking. Was impossible to talk to a real human, super frustrating. I finally decided to say I wanted to "open a new account"; was immediately connected to a human that helped me from there.
The crappy GPUs make the MBPs much less appealing for video work than they used to be, compared to other laptops that are better able to cope with modern demands (4k, HDR, noise reduction, stabilization, etc.). So maybe scratch another profession off that list.
IMF Declares Cryptocurrencies as the “Next Evolution of Money”
Kill the windows entirely if it can be safely done. I don't care. Cost, safety, speed. All else is optional.

And wtf are these guys who panic without windows going to do when they have to close them so others can sleep. I think that's a stupid objection. People are intelligent. They aren't going to panic for this shit. That's idiotic.
> but it's the best desktop linux experience

This is extremely subjective. I'm a full-time EXWM (Emacs as a window manager) on NixOS user and my environment is customized[1][2] to work the way I want it to.

Default desktops can work great for you if your mindset and workflow align with the designer(s) of the UI - but in my opinion it is much more valuable to be able to (note: not forced to) customize everything about your environment to slowly tailor it to your needs.

TL;DR - there's no single "best desktop experience".

[1]: https://github.com/tazjin/nixos-config
[2]: https://github.com/tazjin/emacs.d
Disagree with most of the items here:

- Charging/Ports: USB-c is excellent. Used to have two+ cables to connect power and dual monitors. Now its just a thunderbolt cable feeding to an elgato dock. I can also (albeit slowly) charge my laptop with a usb-c power bank when traveling. I've yet to find myself needing a dongle most of the time. Cameras these days have wifi to copy files off and wireless ac is fast enough to not need ethernet. The only time I bring one is when traveling and even then its low profile and half the time I forget its even in my backpack.

- Keyboard: Okay this is fair. Gets really bad as the computer heats up, way more noticeable on normal Macbooks.

- Trackpad: Yeah I don't get your criticism, I love having a large trackpad.

- Touch Bar: I find it really useful and have it customized like crazy using better touch tool. Pretty nifty. I could live without it, but why? Love it.

- MacOS: Not sure how this makes the MBP "decline" as all macs have had this for years.

- Docker: Again not a MBP problem, complain to docker devs.

Biggest problem the MBP have is lack of ram. They absolutely should have sacrificed battery life for the people that really wanted more than 16gb. I'm already hurting my battery life as it is with the radeon graphics card.

Other thing I wish they'd change is round out the corners near the trackpad, they can be quite sharp sometimes.
Australian drug raid officers seize $350,000 in Cryptocurrency
Chatbots were never the “next big thing” by any measurable metric other than artificial hype created by the companies trying to create a new platform for extracting revenue and data from users.

For this argument to make any sense, there would need to be data that showed growing usage of chatbots, followed by a plateau and then a drop off. I’m not sure what that data looks like, but I’m pretty sure there was never a high growth phase where users were actually interacting with the chatbots. It was all hype created by Facebook and a few idiotic VCs who wasted money on what they thought would be the “next App Store.”

I, and many others, were saying around the time of this hype that chatbots would never become a category defining product, simply due to inherent usability flaws in their design that have been discussed ad nauseum.

The only people surprised that chatbots failed to become the “next big thing” are the people who mistakenly thought they ever would be. This assumption was never grounded in any real data of user desires or real problems. Chatbots were then, and are now, a solution looking for a problem. I’m not surprised at all.
The GDPR does not prohibit sharing data with third parties. It prohibits sharing data without informed consent or any other legal basis. Compliance with laws and regulations is explicitly listed as valid basis for data sharing. You can’t deny your employer to share your income information with the tax authorities either.
this is an attack on the USA, it is an attack on mixtape producers, remixers, and artists

any police who enforce this are targets of american military force

when the EU makes American art illegal, the Americans do not recognize EU police as friendly

this is an insult to the American people

those Europeans should commit suicide
Me: Then get rid of zoning laws first.

Property owners: OMFG! it's the end of the world, what about my property prices!
That's a fantastic idea. Do you have any photos of the hoodies?
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You should have tried Fedora with Wayland Gnome. Its been working pretty well with HiDPI since F-25 and it's F-28 now.

Fedora still has some issues with mixing 1x and 2x DPI screens, but heh, so does Windows.

And yeah, you still have to manually edit the fonts for the virtual consoles and the GRUB boot, if you care. Otherwise keep a magnifier handy to edit the boot commands. ;-)
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I love the keyboard. The Touch Bar is interesting sometimes, but the virtual Escape key is a deal breaker.
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This is incorrect. Right to work, prevents a monopoly on labor that a business must consume via a union, from using its power to preserve its monopoly.

Previously, businesses, even if opposed in principle to a union forming, had little recourse but to deal with the labor monopoly once formed. NLRB specifically went after businesses opposed to union formation, or who wished to purchase labor on the free and open market.

They had little choice in signing of the contracts. Blaming them for acquiescing to unreasonable demands in order to avoid further material harm ... isnt ... a win, for anyone.

This specific action, that unions so happily crow about, costs employers more. Which drives them to look at investing in new sites where costs are lower, and automation. You are seeing exactly this in the rush to $15/hour areas.
I mean, British Airways flies a 747-400 and an A380 daily to Chicago. It's cities like Austin, TX, San Jose, CA and Portland, OR that are getting huge boosts of non-stop service to western europe.
> , which will make them respect CPU resources more and performance of web apps will go up.

I disagree. I think the current crop of developers cares more about how quick they can get a basic app coded up than how quick it runs. And they definitely don't care about battery, network, etc. because they're mostly using very fast networks and keep their machines plugged in.
Despite having used Git on a daily basis since more than 5 years, I still have trouble using it, and have to Google things almost everytime I need something a but out of the ordinary.
So... the Uber for Hats then?
Like it or not, it is quite a bit of a competition.
The reason why is that the phone tree/IVR and back-office systems were developed by someone like IBM, Accenture, Oracle, etc instead of actually competent developers. The budget being blown on the aforementioned companies, they have no choice but to stick with it.
I recently switched from MBP to iPad Pro with keyboard + mosh and digital ocean linux box. Using blink https://github.com/blinksh/blink is amazing and free if you just compile it yourself. Mosh makes all the interactions with the command line just like it was on my local MBP but finally the keyboards works! And the iPad Pro has LTE so no more entering wifi passwords or waiting for the wifi to connect. LTE is always on. Also using iOS Slack and iOS Firefox and iOS google docs etc all the normal business day to day apps is amazing. So I have best of both worlds, terminal + gui. Oh and battery life! Wow, just need a little usb battery pack with lighting cable and it last days.
I've read that it's only a problem if men ignore the side-effects and continue taking the drug. Is this not true?
Yeah man! Indian software work is pretty shoddy. That's why 80 percent of American software and IT outsourcing goes to India. And this has been going on for last 2 decades. Maybe you Americans don't care about quality as long as its done cheaply!!!
Multiple bots were accused of racism, surely one reason for pumping the brakes.
The fact I can't uninstall certain non-critical applications like iTunes certainly makes it feel like bloatware.
That’s the full beauty of bureaucracy.
The labs and supercomputer manufacturers also need this narrative to get continued funding from Congress. I spent many years in DOE supercomputing labs, and there was a heavy emphasis on competition whenever you wanted to knock loose a few hundred million dollars to buy a new computer.
It's interesting to think about. In some ways GUIs are more primitive than text interfaces. The scathing
characterization of GUI as "caveman's point and grunt interface" isn't entirely wrong. But at the same time, chat bots are spoken word. Text is a later invention, which was created for a reason. It has much higher information density, allows you to look at multiple tings at the same time and skip irrelevant detail, etc.