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I use windows 10 on several computers and while I did see that updates-mid-day behavior in the beginning I haven’t seen it in a long time. I’m not sure whether this is a real problem anymore, especially with windows pro where you can defer updates.
Windows is so terrible, though. I could never go back.
> When my Macbook Pro is "locked" it flashes an image of the desktop screen just before switching to the login prompt.

This used to happen to me and I was very annoyed. Felt like a major security hole.

But now I get a scrambled image before the login prompt. Are you on the latest macOS?
> and is likely what is contributing to their lackluster sales numbers at that price point.

I think the price tag alone has a significant impact on iPhone X's sale not withstanding the effect that the older iPhones (especially 6s) are holding up really well if you don't want or need a better camera.
The don't care _ is doing a lot of work keeping that code less verbose.
Parents are keeping kids out of football and some schools are having trouble fielding teams.
Duuuuuude my work macbook freezes at least 3 times a week when connecting up, I thought this was just my issue, I feel like we're part of a brotherhood now.
US Supreme Court expands digital privacy rights in Carpenter v. United States
Note no mention of battery life. Look at the internals and you'll see why - the battery is absolutely tiny, and the logic board, disk, and fans are comparatively massive. The parts are definitely not power-friendly either. Seems very optimized for staying plugged in, with only a quick unplug to go into a meeting. My guess is it'll do ~3hrs w that 55Wh battery at most. This competes with gaming laptops and not MBPs, though it does look nice.
You must be close to PCIe limits pushing that many displays.
My thinkpad x1 carbon running Linux feels like a pretty sexy developer machine.
China’s social credit system ‘could interfere in other nations’ sovereignty’
Did you raise any issues on GitHub for the problems you hit?
The New Gatekeepers of Silicon Valley Are Getting Played by Conservatives
Colorado Enacts Stringent Data Breach Notification Law
Would drvfs and symlinks solve your issue with ssh and npm?
I don't know, but what I'm asking is: if your real question is "why mention X's gender?" then why instead ask "why mention X's gender but not mention Y's gender?"?
My buzzword antibodies have been circling "federation" for quite a while, but the email analogy in this article has made me reconsider.

Ever since quitting social networks I've been looking for a way to push content to close friends and I really had to fall all the way down to email before anything worked. So I'm hopeful for some slightly more tailored technologies to step in.
The thing that scares me is that things that were appropriately condemned 30 years ago are now becoming socially acceptable.

People have always been racist, but overt racism wasn't something that was politically acceptable 30 years ago. That is changing.
In my view this is off base because it's a bit intentionally obtuse.

I think the real maxim is more along the lines of "if you need actual full stack engineering, you don't want a full stack engineer."

Because full stack engineers are not there for large, highly engineered, Amazon/Google scale sites.

They are there for the MVPs, the startups, the moderate scale internal line of business tools, your local city government, or one-off moderate projects.

A full stack engineer is not there to have expert knowledge of every single micro detail of front-end, back-end, databases, site performance, SEO and such.

They're there to have a general knowledge of them, produce something reasonable, and know enough of all the ends to ship in a timely manner, hopefully with design decisions that can be easily tweaked, meet requirements, and don't have boatloads of technical debt, until 'till it justifies a larger, more specialized, engineering investment, or just putters on with light support 'till end EoL because it's good enough for the scale of operation.
The Standing-On-One-Leg Version of Constitutional Law, Circa and Post-2018
It sounds like all they really needed to do was buy time to get the battery's form factor down.
Many people just take their trash from Switzerland to France because it's cheaper and easier for them.
Telemedicine – The New Standard of Care
Very unlikely. Ive is the successor to Jobs on the design front - what he and his team want to build chassis-wise, they're likely to build. He's got a great deal of political capital in the organization because he's been such a hit maker.

My semi-informed understanding of how things work at Apple wrt hardware is:

- Industrial design makes cool concepts, showing whats possible in hardware

- Eng & UX makes cool features, showing whats possible in software

- Product marketing determines mix of features that make for a compelling release

- Marcom figures out how to pitch it

Obviously lots of back and forth as a particular concept of what makes a compelling release is refined and roadmapped, and many other teams involved. That said, typically product marketing is driving what gets released.

As to the importance of product marketing itself, its one of Apple's greatest strengths because the vast majority of electronics/computer companies have a hard time figuring out a) what different segments of the market might want, and b) what is the intersection of possible AND useful with technology.

An easy way to determine if someone knows what they're talking about wrt Apple is if they complain about a monolithic 'marketing' bogeyman, because it shows they don't understand the nature of how products are built at Apple, nor how products succeed in the market.

That said, they occasionally miss. The keyboard has been generally well-received (tho a bit polarizing) EXCEPT for the obvious quality disaster. Not sure where the breakdown was there. And the touchbar has been very polarizing among the pro segment - the choice to bundle it with the high-end machines for the developer market segment was a miss likely entirely on product marketing.
Holy shit. https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10/blob/master/sc... is actively harmful - it's one of the better pieces of security software these days.
Can't wait for that job market 1 pixel attack. Here comes 500k!
I did lots of side projects, hit the pavement to find little local businesses that needed websites, and eventually landed a couple of clients. While building sites for people, I kept learning and applied for jobs constantly. Eventually someone gave me a shot at real work.
My MacBook does the same. I was messing around earlier this week taking a video of it as I thought you could capture private info from it and while I couldn’t do it from my iPhone with a couple of tries I’m fairly certain you could with a higher quality camera. It’s a ridiculous security vulnerability.
The thing that is consistently keeping me tied to the Mac is iMessage (and Xcode, but that can be more easily solved). Yes, I have my iPhone, but writing on Messages for Mac is just so much easier because full keyboard.
Here Is What I Found Trading ERC20 Tokens in Decentralized Exchanges
Wow, the splitting of hair reached nano-proportions. What is the difference again? Are you saying that if Bush lost, in the period 'after the election' Senate would've let him nominate a candidate he would like? Preposterous.
Virtues of a Great Leader
No, (s)he just doesn’t buy into the HN anti-Apple cirlejerk.
"b" as in bug, or "b" as in behavior? Having only recently learned that both exist I now am never sure what is meant by BDD.
What I'm baffled about is why the comparison was made against the contact's gender. How would involving the contact's gender have helped? Or if that's not the question that was intended, then why not ask the actual question that was intended?
I've seen this called a Confusopoly.
After all the regularities have been abstracted away, one is left, inevitably, with the messy details.
My work Dell does not hold a candle to my MBP in build quality or reliability. Good thing we bought the Dell service whateveritis that lets us send back broken ones to be replaced
Those things aren't taught in CS programs as the majority of companies don't need those skills. Most want application development such-as a web or iOS app developer.

This sort of thing is very relevant for someone writing an application or a server process. Programmers who can write their own compiler are much better C and C++ programmers, because they have relevant background. Programmers who understand the low level stuff can write faster code when it's important, and they know better where to look when optimizing. Since when has our "field" become so flubby that we're now eschewing the notion of background knowledge?

Are you telling me that we are churning out Comp Sci grads who couldn't write their own low level libraries or compilers? Tech people should have at least a working knowledge of how their own tools work, to the extent that if civilization fell, they could have a good chance of recreating primitive versions of those things.

However Computer Engineering programs teach those concepts as the focus is on low power micro controllers.

Also relevant to high performance code. Also relevant to game engines. Also relevant to interfacing servers with legacy code. Also relevant to technology like WASM. Whoever decided to relegate stuff like that to Computer Engineering seems guilty of the same ignorance I see in these recent students.
Does it count as slipping under the radar if you've both called it out?
Sell it and buy a refurb from a reseller. I did to replace my busted 2013 with a 2015, and now I'm set hopefully for another few years until Apple comes to their senses.

I use Windows just for games, and the sheer frustration even there is enough to turn me off of it. Basic things like launching apps and control panels from the search bar don't work. It fails to pick up the right resolution on my external monitor sometimes. "Geforce experience" is a piece of crap that requires an account to use. Everything feels like I'm at a mall, instead of on my own PC: tacky, hostile, fake, noisy, incoherent.

There is no Mission Control, no Time Machine, no Spaces, the UI still thinks of document windows as applications, there is no Application menu, the keyboard shortcuts are crap, application installs dump stuff all over, settings don't apply immediately, resolution scaling is broken,
... People who think Windows is on par with macOS don't know jack about macs and never bothered to get good at them. It'll be a cold day in hell before an NT-derived windows can compete. MS needs to clean house and commit to doing what Apple did with OSX in 2001... Get rid of the cruft, put the user first, and make everything work.

The article's mention that ejecting the screen takes a software release and that certain apps can prevent it is the kind of bullshit Steve Jobs would've mocked and told the developers to fix if they expect to be taken seriously. A product should serve the user and provide affordances, not hold them hostage.

Migrating to my new MacBook was trivial, and the machines set up an adhoc WiFi network automatically to transfer all the files. Once done, everything worked as before. All without my involvement. That's why people use and want Macs.
Looking into Java's Future: Empty Value Types
I run Debian on my work-issued X1 Carbon and it works well enough that my next personal laptop is probably going to be an X1.
I've heard of this being used in a few products, especially more advanced "LiFi" systems. I think one company was advertising an in store network for things like setting price signs and such based on optical data transmission using special bulbs.
Sort of having an esthetic and being willing threaten people, throw them in prison, to exile, or kill them over it.
AKA pentesting
I want to like this laptop, but the lack of a Right Ctrl key is a dealbreaker for me. There are many keyboard shortcuts that I need to press on the right side, like Ctrl+I or Ctrl+L, using only one hand.
It's difficult to get an accurate perception of a team without working with them for a bit.
Consumers seem to - I'd take a Galaxy S8+ with twice the thickness to get some decent battery life.
> And you wouldn't believe me if I told you that it's near impossible to create a normal user account without a Microsoft Live account along with it. You need to google for it and find some specific workflow to make it happen.

The button is labeled "Add a user without a Microsoft account", I found it rather quickly, never having looked for it. The flow certainly is focused on MS account creation though. I remember in Windows 8, having to look up on Google how to link my MS account! (For me, I appreciate the change, I have enough grandfathered in OneDrive storage that I'm a happy camper.)

All of my other computing devices require an account. PCs are trying to hold out. Linux obviously does not, and Apple requires an account login to access a lot of the services that come with the OS.
Google is working on making Chromebooks more developer-friendly. Some of them support running full desktop Linux apps now, but it's still in the experimental stages and I wouldn't recommend buying one for that specific feature until it's more mature.

That said, I've been doing light webdev work on a Chromebook using Crouton (to run desktop Linux alongside ChromeOS, with seamless switching) and aside from difficulties with the MicroSD slot and apt-get on Ubuntu it's been quite nice. Getting solid, first-party Linux desktop app support would make Chromebooks a serious contender in the "cheap dev laptop for light work" space, and I think Google is working toward that.

Obviously, the hardware is going to preclude you from doing any serious heavy lifting, but I'm pretty excited to see what they come up with in another year or two. The battery life on these things is fantastic, plus some of them can also run Android apps.

Crouton installation instructions can be found here: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

A tip: while you can find ARM distributions of Linux distros and packages, it'll make your life much easier to get a Chromebook with an x86 processor.
I also get the scrambled image as well. I am on the latest, last I checked. I generally keep updated.
Thinner for the sake of making other laptops look thick and crappy.
hum I'm been ticked since they cancelled the 17" MBP and I am more than a little annoyed that I lost physical esc and function keys (Yes, I used them - in Emacs).

It bad enough that I'm now spending a non trivial amazing amount of time on non-Apple laptops, but soo many apps have no acceptable alternative on Linux, sadly (I buy Linux version whenever I can).
And I'd hope it would err on the side of false positives rather than false negatives. A false negative reading could be disastrous
I’ve read some reviews about System76 and a lot of people seem to hate build quality to the extend or returning them.

Then there’s https://lambdal.com/products/tensorbook that focus on ML workloads.
My girlfriend and I bought 2017 MBPs at the same time.

She barely uses hers. I use mine daily and heavily. When I use hers now, I'm startled by how crisp and clicky her keys are compared to mine.

Not to mention my absolutely failing keyboard (many caps coming right off).

But I'd say the new MBP keyboard felt amazing for about one month. Now it's the worst keyboard I've ever used in my life.
As far as I can tell you can use the title if you've worked for about 8 years in the field. (Not that I really agree with the definition. But basically from what I see they do the same work as non-senior engineers but the job listings want more years of experiences.)
Don't get trapped in the fallacy of what-about-ism. Just because plastic bottles are a nuisance already present everywhere doesn't give other entities a license to produce more trash.
It's not old fashioned... it's great.

You said it yourself
OOP is lousy as an ontologicsal model of the stuff making up the real world. But that doesn't make it not useful for building designed systems.
I think the point is to make the difference more stark; merely saying "why include the manager's gender" doesn't show the inconsistency between calling out the gender in the case of the employer the writer is unhappy with but withholding it in the case of the employee the writer is happy with.
So you like putting lipstick on a pig.
> [Apple quietly announced][1] that they were extending the warranty on their flagship laptop’s keyboard by four years.

No, they didn't. If you read the very source the article cites for this, you find,

> The program covers eligible MacBook and MacBook Pro models for 4 years after the first retail sale of the unit.

The original warranty was 1 year[2]; this is a three year extension.

"Extending by 4 years" is just too good to be true. Although, I had no idea the warranty on MBPs was so bad; a well built machine should trivially last a year. And now that I Google around, this doesn't seem to really be unusual on Apple's part. My last laptop had a 4 year warranty, and it lasted about that long. But my current laptop only had a 1 year standard, and I had forgotten that I paid $80 to extend it for 3 years. Apple seems to offer an extended warranty ("AppleCare+") but wants $270 for it.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...

[2]: https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/
Drop in a thinkpad keyboard (best in the business IMO) - problem solved ;)

Now if I could get a laptop with a thinkpad kb, apple trackpad I'd be set
The hiring manager made it clear that exceptions are very rarely made in this regard. This is a sizeable company with little flexibility about these things (from what I can tell).

> If the company pushes back you really don't want to work for them. Seriously.

I would have agreed with you in the past, but the offer is otherwise exceptional. Like, getting-into-Harvard exceptional, from what I can tell, especially for someone with such a weird career track.
Just completely delusional.

The iPhone’s CPU is literally years ahead of comparable Android devices, with today’s flagship Android devices comparable to an iPhone 6s in terms of performance. One or two other devices may have a camera that matches Apple in terms of a spec here and there, but iPhone is still the gold standard. The fact you call Samsung and others’ garbage face unlocking from 3 years ago gimmicks might be the most accurate thing in your post, but those never worked reliably and in no way compare to Face ID.

And then you finish by noting that most Android OEMs require you to use their shit version of the OS. Well then, real convincing argument when the most critical part of any computer is garbage. This place is insane...
Don't know yet. IBM has a CPython-based JIT using OMR but it hasn't been publicly released yet.

Ruby OMR is a little more public and from what I can tell gets about a 30%-200% speedup. They basically just stapled OMR onto the regular Ruby interpreter, so there's nothing fancy going on yet and those numbers will definitely get higher.
> You know what I think? I think the CA grad student population no longer knows those things, so they are producing undregrads who know even less.

Any data points on the grad students specifically? Or is it just a guess based on how the undergraduates performed?
for many businesses, it's either impractical or downright impossible to [...] make up for [...] features of replacing Oracle

I would have granted you this if you'd said "for a few specialized businesses", but you're waaay overselling it. 99.9% of businesses using Oracle would do just fine with a "lesser database".
Probably because of the judicial cycle.
Apple reportedly mulling single subscription offering, ala Amazon Prime
Soon, AI will smell your weakness and go in for the kill...
Finally someone else who noticed this! I took video and it is indeed realtime. There has to be a way to exploit this obvious oversight. This is with filevault on as well.
I can't point exactly to any particular thing, but I can tell you how to identify them! The magic words are "Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis..."

Any time you see somebody say "We assume RH," or "assuming RH," then any stepping stone to RH makes this assumption more reasonable/likely/anticipated. At this point many working mathematicians will hold opinions like "RH is true" or "RH is true or there's a Siegel zero" so this is kind of like assuming plate tectonics in a seismology paper, or assuming human interference in the atmosphere in a climatology paper.

In cryptography, the only times I can recall having seen it, they meant only "assuming the primes are remarkably well-behaved in their distribution." The primes are empirically remarkably well-behaved, including in the neighborhoods of typical RSA keys. So this is not surprising or unexpected, and improvements on RH should only reinforce our confidence in our empirical techniques.
> It's also important for your references to know that they're your references ahead of time.

It's always good practice to get someone's permission anyway before you pass on their contact details. If it's time critical and you need to put people in contact, you get the contact details of the person who's asking and you pass those details on to the person they want to talk to.
Actually, if Apple were to stop selling MacBooks next year it could be the downfall.

How do you think that the iPhone & iPad ecosystem is sustained? Through developers (most of whom are) using MacBooks.

They have to port XCode to Windows, which means they don't get to have the lock-in they have now. If there's any flop for the iPhone for 2-3 years, the cost to jump ship isn't that high anymore.
I never use the right shift anyway. (It's farther away than the left shift.)
I wonder if that's because you have a stronger stereotype for male than for female in your mind (not to suggest that you use it, just that you have one or are aware of what others might have as their stereotype). I don't have strong generalizations either way but especially not for the term female, which is why I never understood when people got uppety about it to begin with. Now that I understand some people have a negative stereotype attached to their usage of the word I understand why people get annoyed. But it is a bummer as its all so personal and subjective that no matter how careful or sincere you are you could tread on someones toes and convey the wrong message, as I suspect the parent comment has done.
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I agree that calling it addictive isn't appropriate, but only because the vast majority of our clinical and social experience with addiction is entirely based around physical dependency. Just look at the amount of research into opioids, nicotine, amphetamines, benzos, and alcohol compared to the dozens of less addictive/harmful psychedelics and research chemicals.

Information and the psychological dependency it creates, whether it be a message from someone we are attracted to or the stimulating audiovisual response from a slot machine, used to be tied to slow physical mediums like snail mail and restricted by location. In that context, the smartphone has created a whole new era of crazy that we are completely unprepared to deal with. Coupled with the rapid pace of development that didn't leave anyone enough time to adopt to the internet before it became ubiquitous, they have provided a perfect delivery mechanism for psychological dependency optimized on a massive scale, long before we've had time to adapt.
> There was an interesting story of a doctor who noticed cancer while watching TV and passed the word on.

It's not hugely frequent, I don't think, but it's not unheard of for this kind of thing to happen.

Most of the family are in the industry, and just watching TV or whatever you'll occasionally hear a comment about noticing a tremor or slight droop in someone's face that could be indicative of whatever.