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Tim Cook:

"I think if you're looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why would you buy one?"

"Yes, the iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people. They will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones."

https://www.businessinsider.de/apple-ceo-tim-cook-why-would-...

So it's hardly a surprise, that there is not much happening on the Mac side of things.
Wow that is shady as fuck. I've always respected Apple for delivering fairly high quality products because, well, they are all the same (granted for a very high price but some people they are willing to pay that for that kind of service whether it's expected or not)

I'm seriously disappointed they do that.
I'm not convinced that consumers care if their laptop has easily replaceable parts. Consumers definitely like thin laptops though, which is at odds with repairability in most cases.
We're really loving hair ice on HN these days eh?
I mean, sure, that'd be great. I think it'd need one heck of a societal overhaul to achieve, though.

If we wanna keep it in terms of a capitalist market, the problem is that investors are essentially selling a service just like anyone else, but because wealth inequality is where it is, there's relatively little competition in that "market". Thus, what you get is very high "prices" for relatively poor "service". This is a problem.

In an ideal free market, investors are just another kind of business, and would compete both on price and their offering such that everyone was getting a good deal and everything moved along efficiently. In the real world, investment is a very concentrated market, meaning that the deals are shoddy and inefficient.
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he misattributed - it was actually Mark Twain :) :) :)
How Hulu’s 11.22.63 awakened me to the secret on Think and Grow Rich
IMO it really became bad after US left the gold standard in 1971 and the petrodollar was invented.
Microsoft is bringing its SwiftKey keyboard to Windows 10
Cool.

A small suggestion: Allow to not show so much.

A problem I have with most log-like solutions is that them bombard you with so much info and you need parse them after the fact, yet none of the log visualization have a way for that (just ctrlf, with luck).

A simple improvenment? Put a search box in top of the displayer, and a way to make contextual search, (like :tree.at Code.py), and a way to save search patterns, so I can put the whole search syntaxt and just fill boxes (like :mySearch foo)
Eclipse, VisualStudio, and all other IDEs have had tabular expression viewers for decades.
In case you want to convert your MySQL database tables from utf8 to utf8mb4 please remember that each character will now take 4, not 3 bytes. This means you can easily run out of limit for a row length (65536 bytes) if you have many string columns and your indexes will grow. Also, if a column is a part of a foreign key reference you might have to remove the foreign key first, upgrade columns on both sides and add the foreign key back.

So converting an existing database might be not as easy as it seems before.
I fear that winning the genetic lottery is more than just a simple advantage. In the case of being born into a wealthy family, it turns the situation from "it's all up to you to succeed" into "all you have to do is not fuck up." Since tremendous luck, good or bad, is relatively rare the condition from generation to generation just doesn't change much - regardless of hard work - except in so much as society itself grows wealthier.
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How does pressure affect the time needed to break down collagen? The sweet spot temp. for most BBQ cooking is 225˚F, which is already above water's boiling point at standard pressure, so I'm unclear on how increased pressure would benefit cook time.
> Who do you think is footing the bill when the government has to step in?

Banks pay insurance premiums to the FDIC.

> The paper money doesn't exist.

Who cares? A college diploma that's not printed out is still a college diploma. I don't need to be able to physically hold it in my hands, and if a hundred thousand people all asked the Bursar's Office for a copy, they wouldn't be able to do so in a timely fashion either.
What? No. LARCs FTW. Since 2009, ACOG guidelines state they are the first-line option for birth control.

The impact, even of a uterine perforation, is not that high (and the frequency is also lower than you suggest).

tl;dr, the above is FUD.
You can do that on pretty much any Windows laptop.
Not the feedback though. Is there a feedback?
High school students are having sex at the lowest rates in decades
Apparently yes https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/1iybjq/comment/...
Great hearing more and more Elixir adoption stories from well known companies.

The quote that resonates...

> ...some of us are secretly hoping that one day, we’ll only have to deal with Elixir code
I was really looking forward to the part where you used servos to open and close the vents with a PID algorithm. Maybe v2 :)
This is the part I just don't understand. The Mac is a $25B business by itself, and yet it seems to be operated like a vanity project, largely limiting itself to flashy launches like the Touch Bar or iMac Pro instead of maintaining a steady update pipeline like any other B2B product company.
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I've been using exclusively Mac since 2007, and I used Mac as my primary since 2000.

I currently use a late 2011 MBP as my primary machine, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth.

I'm seriously considering getting a Linux laptop to replace it. I ran linux as my primary from 1998 to 2000, so it's not entirely foreign to me, but it will still be a bit of a switch.

The main thing holding me back is that I make income giving Keynote presentations, and I'm not sure how I'd do that with a Linux laptop without having to carry a second device.
I think the lesson is "don't silently fail," and in that regard mysql has failed at learning that lesson over and over again to the point where the lesson is now, "don't use mysql" because what else can you do when dealing with such shitty software? This is far, far from the only stupid bug like this. Use mysql only if you don't care about preserving data. Period. There are many valid use cases that don't care about preserving data 100%, apparently most companies, so it's not a huge issue in reality. Hopefully the data that deals with monetary transactions won't get corrupted, but when it does, one cannot complain if they used mysql. It's that simple.
I could be wrong but I thought most people who use PHP today were using it back before composer and PHP namespaces were even a thing..
Unless maybe you're working in Wordpress land, which I'm not sure has really adopted the practice of namespaces.

Out of curiosity, what made you choose PHP as a primary language 4 years ago?
Why not just put HTML in your markdown? Lots of parsers support it, you rarely need it so who cares if it's ugly, it avoids having to learn another thing, and it lets you do anything.
> It's always interesting how something monopoly-like makes companies lazy.

> I really don't understand why they fail so hard to update their hardware.

It's not because of their monopoly-like status, it's because they make so little money on Macs compared to the vast sums of money they make on iPhones. They probably look at their developers, and ask "how much is it worth to us to have this developer work on a Mac? How much is it worth to us to have this developer work on an iPhone?" and the iPhone wins out every time.

Which... well, sucks, for the rest of us, but it's not laziness—it's opportunity costs.
Meanwhile, PC laptops are now available with 128GB of RAM.
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Planned goals. Management and planning purposes. – iSmartLife app demo
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Are you an exception within your famous company or did they all abandon Macbooks?
Me too post...

Tonsils and Adenoids out when I was 3, so I don't remember it as vividly as you do, but I also woke up hours before I was expected to. They'd strapped me to the bed so that 3-year-old me couldn't mess with the IV they'd put in my arm. My throat was in searing pain, but was too sore to make a noise loud enough to alert any of the nurses, so I lay there in pain for almost an hour with no way to do anything about it. They sent me home a couple of days later, but it was weeks before I could eat solid foods and I had to go back to the ER to get IV fluids multiple times or I would've died.

I try to tell my story whenever it's relevant because I believe doctors and parents severely underestimate how traumatizing this kind of procedure can be for children.
Really? No target display mode in iMac Pro is painful, especially when you want it to do double duty as an external monitor. This only gets worse when Mojave drops support for non-Metal supporting systems like the iMac I have now.
> To my understanding, ASCII basically only covers English and Italian well

And German, too: while German does have ä, ö, ü & ß, they may correctly be written as ae, oe, ue & ss.
What Women Want (In Their Job Search)
It's entirely possible to write a GIF to the framebuffer (setting aside that the framebuffer is deprecated in favor of KMS+DRM) without implicating X11.
Thank you for sharing your experience! New languages is one of the "fun" parts of programming. Except at work.

There are legitimate problems of legibility, maintainability, and training when introducing new stuff into the stack. Then there's the balance that we have to strike with re-writing old with new. How much do we gain with the new vs how much time is it gonna cost?

Lately, these have been the things I worry about instead of algorithm design or product design. Precisely the things we don't get taught in school or get interviewed for
I think the Apple leadership's thinking is as follows:

- The revenues and market share of Apple's Mac unit has been stable for years[1]. No big gain, declines or spikes, regardless of how frequently they update, or how close their hardware is to the bleeding edge. Therefore, it makes sense to reduce their expenditure on the Mac until they see a drop in either revenue, market share or profit share, or some other genuine sign of danger beyond the griping of some professionals.

- The personal computer market overall is declining. Spending more for a slightly bigger slice of a shrinking pie isn't worth it, because there's no real opportunity for long-term growth that will please shareholders and analysts.

- Reducing the cadence of Mac hardware updates gradually closes the gap between the performance profiles of the iOS and macOS hardware, which moves them closer to the eventual goal of unifying the mobile and desktop software market.

- More frequent and more regular updates give more power to Apple's suppliers, as they become dependent on them for the components necessary to provide the updates expected by the market. Supply change management is Cook's area of expertise, and by delaying Mac hardware updates, and doing them on an irregular schedule, Apple can reduce supplier leverage, and walk away from deals it considers to be too expensive.

The most important supplier is, of course, Intel, and I think Apple would love to break the industry out of the idea that the supplier tail wags the dog in terms of CPU adoption. E.g. Intel can't just produce a new microarchitecture on their own schedule and assume all manufacturers will rush to adopt it, but instead have to accept a somewhat more subordinate role, whereby the big vendors like Apple can say "this is what we want, this is when we want it, and this is what we'll pay for it."

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/02/earnings-4q-2017/
Inanity masquerading as profundity.
As long as this pulled pork doesn't include the use of Mustard I can approve this.
The iPad Pro is a general purpose computer by any meaningful definition of the term "general purpose computer".
When a motherboard failure wipes out their soldered on SSD I'm sure they'll care.
Works in all the other browsers too :)
Why would you need the screen? Just take the glass/digitizer assembly.
See also the venerable libcaca: https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca

Demo: https://asciinema.org/a/kjsWPMv5qtn87IHRd4th3EuNB
You can try this https://guessthewinner.blinch.site/ (I built it)
You can read about it here: https://medium.com/@blinch/what-did-i-learn-while-building-a...
Help me share it, this is my first response in HN
Fox news is about the same amount of biased as Huffpost (which is to say, both are quite biased).

WSJ is definitely fiscally conservative, and otherwise fairly moderate.

Economist is actually quite liberal leaning.

It's possible that your personal bias is very liberal so normal "conservative" positions seem far right. To be fair, news as a whole tends to lean slightly liberal.

http://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444 is a decent source for news bias alignment.
> An attacker that gains SYSTEM permissions on a machine can dump the SAM database, which may contain credentials for domain or enterprise administrators. This is very bad.

True enough, but unlikely to be a significant risk. If you are concerned about it then it is much easier to have a separate AD account that only has local administrator on normal (non-admin) workstations and use that.

> A user with administrator permissions can modify their DNS settings to avoid DNS-level filtering to block known malware domains. This can be bad.

It is trivial to block or even reroute DNS queries to unapproved servers at the firewall. At least until DNS over HTTPS ruins that and simultaneously renders your point moot.

> A malicious or ignorant user can disable or remove antivirus protection. This can be bad.

I disagree. Anti-virus software has negative value and always causes significantly more trouble than it is worth. Case in point, the very issue we're talking about.

> A user can accidentally make a computer nonfunctional by, for example, deleting system files, perhaps because it was suggested (sarcastically) on a help forum ("LOL delete system32"). This is bad.

This is a minor inconvenience at best, that's what imaging is for.

> I'm far from a security expert, but from a sysadmin perspective, every user having local admin privs is an absolute nightmare.

If it were a nightmare, I'd have expected to see more issues arise from it throughout my career, but I've yet to see even one instance where a user having local admin has caused any significant trouble.
Yes it is very clear there is something going on in mac hardware. I believe it has been in this state for some time now, since prior to the updated MBP.

I believe it is a combination of failed milestones by Intel and a change in direction at Apple regarding use of ARM processors. It was a disappointment to have no HW announcements at WWDC, but I imagine there are folks at Apple who are more disappointed than rogue amoeba.

I run a fully loaded 2015 11' MBA I picked up after returning a well appointed 13" MBP. The battery life was way to weak to justify the high price.

The 2015 11" is showing its age a bit, primarily in rendering on a large 27" with higher resolutions than the apple cinema.

There is no good upgrade path for me right now, in mobility / price / performance.
What math are you using? By my understanding, women are able to reproduce for around or close to half their lives.

First result[1] I found while googling defines women of reproductive age as 15-49, and claims that group makes up 24% of the overall population, which would line up with my intuition.

[1] PDF http://www.who.int/management/UsingDataToImproveServiceDeliv...

EDIT: Ah, reread your comment, looks like your math lines up with mine, just misunderstood. Thought you meant 7% of the population were women of reproductive age, not that 7% of the population were women of reproductive age on the pill.

Although it also makes me wonder if a sizable percentage of women outside reproductive age are on the pill. Either because they are fertile longer than average, or as treatment for other conditions.
Word of warning: The current 2015 models sold by Apple don't have the discrete GPU, only an integrated Intel Iris chipset. Graphics performance is atrocious, especially with scaled Retina. I often experience sluggishness related to graphics performance. To get the discontinued, superior discrete model, you have to find a refurb or a used one on Craigslist/EBay/etc., and you have to be pretty lucky to find one with all the right specs (for me, minimum 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM).
I believe Norway has had mandatory conscription for all males, so sign up bias shouldn't be a factor.
RestructuredText seem to me like an alternative to Markdown.

Hamdown idea is to enable automated content-generation by
allowing ruby code embedding (like you can do with HAML)
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Brar was a crypto 'pioneer'.
John Gruber made an observation countering this narrative[1]

To sum it up; looking around you don't see people in coffee shops using iPads (or any tablets)--it's all laptops. Even though iPads have outsold laptops by a significant margin for years now.

As a bit of a tangent (also mentioned by him); anyone who is productive on an iPad Pro uses a keyboard. Apple has refused to add touchscreens to laptops, but iPads with keyboard suffer this exact problem. So something still needs to evolve.

I see iPads/phones replacing the entertainment needs a general purpose computer used to fill and maybe Apple gets out of general purpose computing. This is also happening for "light" computing needs in business; like POS and inventory. But I don't see any sign that a PC going away at all for workhorse tasks just yet.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/06/13/ipad-trackpad-i...
It surely seems impossible to fake at the scale he does it. I'm going to assume you have not seen much of it.
Note: My sideproject/hobby is how build a relational language.

The problem is not about using map/reduce, is that you need to return them as AST, so you can do the whole compiler dance to optimize them, instead of interpret right away that is the default.

Also, know this is usefull when you want to post-process the data after the SQL have run, and you need to do some extra pass in the client... Instead of the ad-hoc most do.
Thought about it...

I've seen some people using a fan that they modulate with a PID to control the temp, which is on my list of "someday maybe" projects, heh. I wanna say there's even an existing product that does this, but I forget the name.
That's the rag Daily Mail so take it with a grain of salt. They may have made it up.
Combined emoji, such as 🇺🇸, are great for this as well! Things like also help - separating them out, even on spaces, breaks the emoji. We are really making progress towards proper processing.
Yeah. If you only do photography or graphic design, there’s not much reason to move. But, if you’re doing high-end video editing, you can get a more suitable PC for 1/3 the price of a suitable Mac Pro. And if you’re using games engines or 3D software, there’s not even a discussion to have.

I think Adobe has a deal with Apple (and possibly Microsoft) which entices them away from delivering Photoshop for Linux, but I hear it runs well in Wine!

Adobe’s purchase of Macromedia has proven to be the thorn that any concerned spectator would have expected it to be. I think I was in high school at the time (loose guess). I used Adobe products for a good 10 years professionally after college and can attest that the Adobe software has essentially not changed beyond file format support and lock-in features. EDIT: Media Encoder is nice (now) but a good decade later than it should have been. The very recent improvements to After Effects sound useful but again too little too late. They appear to only be responding when competition appears.
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You're absolutely right, this visual quirk should not have happened. Fixing it now. Thanks for your feedback.
The biggest one that hasn't been mentioned yet:

Practice gratitude. Get a pen and paper and start writing down things in your life that you're grateful for. It can be something as simple as being grateful for food, water, and shelter (which gets taken for granted so often).

Do this for 15 minutes a day (preferably as soon you wake up) and you will notice your outlook on life improve. Religious people do this in the form of prayer, and it has been scientifically proven to increase your happiness.
It doesn’t need to be lit up to work as a trackpad.
> For a publicly-traded company all that matters is stock price.

Really? You don't want to qualify that at all, maybe?

If not, please explain the first 10 years of AMZN.
This is just "prescription drugs" which excludes caffeine.
Former Longmont resident/NextLight customer here. I can't understate how fantastic the broadband service is out there.

Usually my speeds clocked in around the 700-900mbps range (both up/down), and at its slowest, maybe 300mbps. No port blocking, so I could host my own web/game servers. The one time they performed maintenance, they notified customers a week in advance and scheduled the 15-minute down time to be around 3am. Since I was a 'charter' customer, my bill was a flat $50/mo, though I'm pretty certain that new customers don't pay much more than that.

I truly believe if more people understood what _good_ internet is like, there would be a MUCH stronger push for communal broadband services.
If you use something like Symbolics Genera or CLIM, the printed output is actually still connected to the data. Thus you can use relatively primitive PRINT functions and still be able to drill into the objects later.

I use often in Lisp the INSPECT function with a GUI inspector. Each call to INSPECT puts the data into the inspector. For example (inspect (list :loop-i i :value n)) puts the list with the data into the inspector. The inspector has a history, which then allows me to see the various items. Thus this is similar to a print statement, but records the actual objects into a separate tool.
It's not being lucky or being good. It's being lucky and being good. Nobody can succeed without both.

Of course there are occasional exceptions where somebody is successful purely through luck. However, very rarely is somebody successful with no amount of luck at all. It's hard to pin down just how much of an influence random chance has had in this chaotic world.

However there are plenty of very good and hardworking people who have yet to overcome a lack of good circumstances. The world is filled with failed geniuses.
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This is something that can change with a bit of training.

All the "plain text" formatting languages tend to break down. They work until they don't and then somebody invents yet another text-based pseudo-markup language. Asciidoc is best of the worst but fundamentally it's a bad idea. If you're willing to make the investment in tools and training there's a lot of value in enabling people to write real HTML (and MathML) or, better, Docbook + domain-relevant XML that produces real UI-agnostic structured information.

The problem here is that the tools are terrible or expensive or bloated. There's no reason why this should be the case and it's likely a real market opportunity.
Switch to uBlock Origin. The site loads fine with it.
The point of Org mode is that you can type the table.

How do you type ┌─ ?

It's easier to use a font that renders "regular" keyboard characters as borders, akin to https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Sorry, Bob. I can't make it to the BBQ event this year. My grill's CPU just died.