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I think people are really confusing TSA with border control. TSA cares about people bringing knives and bombs on planes. US CBP/ICE or similar is a very different thing from TSA. I've never heard of TSA asking for any more detailed inspection of a laptop than swabbing it for chemical residue, and asking that it be powered on to confirm it's a real working laptop. CBP/ICE on the other hand are a totally different story (as documented extensively by the EFF, etc).
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you _should_ watch Moana, its a great movie with fun music.

then watch it a second time for the animation and rendering....
Have you tried Vimium[0]?

It brings vim-like shortcuts to your browser. Despite what the Readme says, I find it perfectly usable on Firefox.

[0]: https://github.com/philc/vimium
Except of course, that heard about DRopbox when it first launched, tried the free plan, thought 'this is a really cool product' and introduced it to all my friends. Dropbox hasn't pivoted much, and I knew nothing about their connections.

It was a scrappy start up with a good product.
Take him at his word; he can love them and their interruptions can still be drivel. Most normal peoples’ routine text messages are.
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Yeah. I got a Dell for my day job and unfortunately the nipple is entirely unusable. I miss my ThinkPad :/
Each triangle is an object with two v-tables? That's gross indeed.
> Advertisers are the customers. Non-advertisers are the product. The goal is not to provide a good service to the product, it's to drive engagement of the product up so customers are happy.

No.

Advertisers are the customers of the Facebook Ad product line (Business manager, boost, campaign, pixel facebook).

Users of Facebook Social Networking services are prospects tracked by Facebook.

2 products:

- the tracking and targeting tools

- the social network

Users aren't the product. Interfaces to target segments based on users's data is one of the two products Facebook offers.
Meh. 25/30 meg ain’t huge.

And who uses floppies anyhow?
Item 1: It's undeniable that the mouse is more precise, but it tethers you to a desk. One with enough space for a mouse. Not always feasible.

Item 2: You're mentioning Thinkpads. Try a touchpad on OS X, then come back. The difference is enormous. You can actually use the GUI without a mouse and without being annoyed, it's the only laptop/OS combination where that works.
Good question. I suspect the answer is something like "that they know that you know that they know that you know that they see at least one statue".
I love these stories of engineering and science from the trenches. Prefacing the story with "the early Pixar renderer was stupidly slow for silly archaic (and at the time sensible reason) X" followed by "luckily no-one is that silly anymore - except me, as an expert, did Y, which geez looks a lot like X" is a perfect start :) Not only is it an adventure you can join an expert in their field on but when told honestly it's a lovely reminder that everyone stumbles and drops the proverbial hammer on their foot occasionally.

It's also a loving testament to our era of content generation that a frequent task in creating a children's film is solving complex scientific or engineering problems. They recreate so many of the strange nuances and hidden beauty of our world (anisotropic rendering, Navier–Stokes equations, subsurface scattering, caustics, flocking, dendritic growth of snowflakes, global illumination, ...) just so they can render the purest representation of it for us.

I genuinely am so glad for the time I spent in art[1] and computer graphics, though neither have much relevance to my career now, simply as it changed the way I look at the world. When you want to try to recreate a real life scene from scratch you realize just how much happens in the real world without you ever appreciating it[1].

[1]: Even after the physics and science above: Do people frequently travel down this path? Might it become a holloway[2]? Does the roof guttering drain out here? There'll likely be moss or wearing paint. Old stone steps of an ancient tavern? The stone will likely be worn away at the center or on either side of the door. The background scenery in a modern computer graphics film has dozens or hundreds of hours in them and will be filled with nuance and/or in-jokes. If you need to create a background world in any appreciable detail, why not use it as a canvas to keep telling a story?

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunken_lane
Who cares about retaining those support/ops engineers you shit on because you don't want to own the crap you write, right? :)
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You're a victim of social media propaganda. It's not your fault though. Most people have busy life and they don't have time to stay on top of all the drama so they only hear from "mainstream sources". The thing is, the original Bitcoin community leaders have control over the largest websites for Bitcoin related content (bitcointalk and /r/bitcoin subreddit and so on) and they control their message through their channels and censor anything about Bitcoin cash. So everything you hear about Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash is pretty much a result of censorship and propaganda, which is why you only hear about Bitcoin cash being a scam. But this is far from truth.

If you don't believe me, find the smartest people you know who are professional crypto investors, they will say they secretly hold bitcoin cash but never speak out because they will immediately be labeled as "scam investor", and nowadays character assassination is really scary on Twitter so most people who actually know stuff stay quiet.

The whole Bitcoin thing is meant to be forked, and that's the whole point--that's why Bitcoin as a whole is anti-fragile. If something doesn't work out with one approach, there will be another fork of Bitcoin that may succeed with a different approach, but the original Bitcoin holders--unless they're stupid enough to sell everything just because they want "the real bitcoin"--will keep holding the same amount of fork coins, so everybody wins.

As for the details on Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash, they just have different philosophies. Bitcoin wants to focus on stability whereas Bitcoin cash wants to focus on usability. None of them are "scams" and there's nothing wrong with each party. Some people have strong opinions towards either of the forks, but most old Bitcoin investors stay quiet and are just waiting out to see how it all ends, because they have nothing to lose. If Bitcoin wins, then good. If Bitcoin cash wins, that's also good because they have the same amount of coins.

Think about this for a moment. What would happen if Bitcoin Cash dies because "it's a scam", and the original Bitcoin is the only option left? And what if that approach doesn't work out? Then we are left with nothing. I think it's great that these two forks co-exist for now and have chance to prove themselves.
> So what knowledge have you actually learned after the first round?

That your friend sees 2 or more, and your friend knows you see 18 or less. By itself, this is trivially deducable; but each day walks the limits closer to revela a fact that isn't trivial. You start the puzzle knowning that your friend can see either 6 or 8 statues, and each day you add a new fact about how many statues she can't see.

I'm more concerned that the problem as stated can be solved in 2 days: you say 18 on day one, then 20 on day two…
I know, this was my first reaction too!

Yet, the customizability rocks, and since xterm.js now renders using Canvas, performance is decent, and with my incoming MBP 32GB, I can afford the memory hit even more!

Although installing the plugins is asking for your fans to spin up.

If you really want to start making old-timey admonitions, check out https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperpower :)
I'd forgotten all about this ...

I'm surprised she's still there: https://www.dropbox.com/about

and this page still exists: http://www.drop-dropbox.com

I have to say, I've not heard any mention of her in relation to dropbox since she was appointed tho'.
Bear in mind that this is relative to webpack. A few lines practically is zero compared to a webpack configuration.
Notice how I specified "renders usefully". Few documents have to be pixel perfect, even fairly old HTML had tools to make individual parts where it might be more important pixel perfect, and given the higher level of standardization and standards compliance nowadays this would likely be better for documents created today.
But you already know your friend sees 6 or 8 based on what you can see, and that you know that between you, you see 20. Both of you knew already, that this was not a possibility. I think I'm missing something from the setup.
What if two of the 12 statues are also part of the 8 statues (or vice-versa?) There'd be 18 statues, making a guess of 20 statues incorrect. I don't see how that's ruled out here.
Reads as an ad for Corellium...
Very similar to the "Blue-Eyed Islanders" riddle: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a26557/riddle-...

They should make it clearer in the introduction that there is no overlap between the visible statues from each side.
My very first Linux distribution, Slackware 2.0.

Our ways have parted, but it is nice to still see it around.

Happy Birthday and kudos to all those that still keep it alive.
E-Mail is actually a nice alternative of note-taking that I never really thought of.

Good:
Endless Clients, Rich Text/HTML, Images, Open Format, Searchable, Selfhosted, Sync with Mobile, Tags ..

Not Good:
Only partially editable (drafts), ..?
"The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay / They drink at lunch in San José."

Seems like Tom Lehrer's Pollution is still relevant - just other countries.
I had a Thinkpad x200s, and all in all, nothing came/comes close to it (tolerating the slightly thicker build, which is inevitable for highly serviceable machines).

I've been an MBA user as well, for reference. I use the mousepad little to none though. Possibly (but I'm not sure, since I haven't tried) IBM had such capillary distribution to support the quite bizarre use case of selling and repurchasing a new machine every few months.

Sadly, the line is over, and this type of build is obsolete nowadays.
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Then watch it with the Director's commentary, which has fun nuggets like Maui spends a lot of time in the film with his hair tied up, because his unencumbered hair proved very expensive to render.
The communications issue is a very common theme in this thread, but I don't understand why it's an issue. Once the UAV is in the air, why do you need to communicate with it? You can't communicate with a bullet once you've pulled the trigger.
No idea.

I can only speak for myself. But in now 7 years I never connected a keyboard or mouse to my 2011 MBA. It's keyboard+Touchpad is just so good that I don't need it. Even when I connect to an external display.

I'd say no. In my experience other Companies aren't even able to recreate the smooth surface + 'clicking feel' of the Apple touchpad, which is what I value the most. I suspect that they can, but aren't legally allowed due to patterns.
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It's not made explicit but I think there is not supposed to be any overlap between the visible statues. Otherwise I'm pretty sure the problem would become impossible.
Continuously the last two years, 30+ countries. :)

What kind of details are you looking for? I unbox at the Apple store and:

- Temporarily turn off Spotlight & Time Machine (Permanently) because it helpfully tries to index everything and tinker with a handful of system preferences while a memorized curl|bash runs

Mostly appearance related. This can also be automated but doesn't seem worth it as it only takes a minute. I don't use iCloud.

- Selective sync with Dropbox (which was just installed for me), mostly for the 1Password folder, while the rest of the script runs. Read HN or better yet about the new surroundings.

- Manually run software update and reboot into my now familiar machine

- Turn spotlight back on

I do forget to remap the esc key each time I do this, or the name of the thingie that helps you do that, that's about the only noticeable difference between old and new machines.
I've tried it as well for the first time today and it totally worked as advertised. Maybe you misspelled or missed something?
It's easier to create a streaming service than a content house, apparently. So it's clear that this is the way things will go. Ultimately video streaming is a commodity technology and there are lots of engineers who can build such things. It's not like web search or AI.

The too-many-subscriptions problem could be solved in a variety of commercial ways, like simply offering charging for how much you watch rather than a flat rate.
People are spending just as much time watching TV as they ever did. If they've always paid $70/month for it, why would the entertainment companies settle for people paying less now?
Statistical mechanics is one of the most underrated Physics disciplines, having been largely replaced with the simpler thermodynamics in many undergrad courses.

If there was one Physical formula for humanity to leave behind, it should be Boltzmann's entropy formula. Conceptually linking microstates to macrostates could lead to a glut of other discoveries, including thermodynamics (think Industrial Revolution), solid-state (semiconductor stuff), and molecular/nanoscale physics.
A better solution, maybe doable on jailbroken/rooted phones, would be to have one pin unlock into normal mode and one pin to unlock into a mode with all sensitive information hidden but looks like the normal mode.

Again, I wouldn't advise actually doing this, but I like theorising.
I would pay good money for this and other improvements to make Linux even come close to Mac (HiDPI support, simple set of utilities, etc)
Maybe a good idea to comb through your photo archive and delete the bad shots. I do that once a month and it helps a lot.
I love them when doing programming that requires my fingers to rarely leave the keyboard. It's nice to be able to nudge the mouse here or there occasionally without having the context switch of moving my fingers completely off the keyboard.
On the first reading I thought that was the entire point. That they would have to deduce whether they where seeing the same statues from either side. Which by the end of the reading ofcause makes no sense since they don’t have and can’t pass information about that at all.
Thanks I will try that out though my Emacs-hands may get confused.
Microsoft's Surface Book comes very close actually, so while the MBPs are still ahead, the gap is getting smaller!
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Out of the box, you do have to install dependencies manually, but you don't have to track them, which is the part I would dislike about dependency resolution. Assuming you have a full installation (where all dependencies will be met), and you find your package on slackbuilds, dependencies will be listed and can be installed with about the same ease as you would install a package on, say, Debian.
Odd that people are including Twitter as a data point in the monorepo debate. I was there when they transitioned to a Git monorepo, and it nearly killed the companies productivity.

Imagine having to torrent a starter pack of the repo, then trying to sync and failing multiple times. Then after it syncs, it could take minutes to do common operations such as change a branch, or check in a file. Not to mention many developer laptops had to have their SSD upgraded as they didn't have enough space to get the whole thing and do work.

I'm sure they've improved it since then, but this was one of many things Twitter simply cargo culted from Google without any real benefit.
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Spoke to one of the creators on a conference and he confirmed it will have some config in V2.
Same here, started with Slackware 2.0 in 1996, already knew other UNIX systems given that I was a bit further along (at the university).

It was Slackware that gave me the opportunity to play with something UNIX like at home, but then as UI/UX focused developer I followed a different path of desktop friendly distributions, Red-Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Ubuntu, to eventually settle in Windows/OS X on desktop systems.

But yeah, learned a lot. Knowing Linux deeply helped getting some of the projects that worked as jumping stone for something else.
> So, before dissing this approach as 'non-SV-canon',

what's that supposed to mean and how do you get it from the parent comment?
Maybe one day these will hit mass production https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_lis...
I don't believe bread is that much easier to store than grain. Easier to carry maybe.

The problem about grain before agriculture was to collect it. The right conditions to make that feasible existed only in certain regions.
I tried running Linux and Windows on a 2009 MacBook. Touchpad felt crap compared to on OS X. Pretty sure the Windows experience was better than the Linux one, though.

So software is certainly a part of it.

Edit: This is just considering basic movement of the cursor.
They are big, because they invested every penny they made into getting big. And those pennies are converted through human misery in "fulfillment centers". (And AWS on-call is not that fancy either for engineers, though the two are almost incomparable.)

They got some parts right, some parts awfully wrong, and some are just irrelevant now. They make money, they are cheap + convenient, and that usually what people focus on. They are not sophisticated, they are not great designers, etc.
Direct link to the transcript: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
"The OA" would be a stellar example.
Slackware 2.0 required several of them, or in alternative dump them into the hard disk on an MS-DOS partition and point the installer to the location.

There were CD-ROM variants, but this was about the time EIDE support was still being added, so only those lucky SCSI owners could actually take advantage of it.
There's also Surströmming which is a swedish type of fermented Baltic Sea herring.
>..but XNU is now open source.

Well XNU has always been 'open-source' [1] for some time on Intel machines but its just that ARM support remained closed (until 2017) which is why the darwin-on-arm [2] project existed. But I'm assuming that the OP means that the ARM64 code was recently open-sourced in the XNU sources[3] making a possible open-source ARM port much simpler. I still find it quite interesting to see some regained attempts in emulating iOS; with Corellium being the furthest at doing this.

[1] (https://opensource.apple.com)

[2] (https://github.com/darwin-on-arm/xnu)

[3] (https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/search?p=5&q=ARM64&unsco...)
That's how the earliest bread winners brought home the dough.
The keyboard layout is an issue.
The Dell XPS 13 touchpad hardware isn't too bad either. It should be bigger though.
You seem to have a capable CEO that is able to bring in the funding. Unless he is blatantly lying I'd say what you are experiencing is pretty standard. Throwing in some buzzwords is not selling snake oil. It used to be "big data", now it's "AI", next it'll be "blockchain".
You can go to Groq.com -- that startup claims to have 125fj per flop (and each mac is two flops thanks to marketing logic). Started by 8 out of 10 founding TPU team members.
> but I don't see it being used or palm detection working

Where did you look? Some of that stuff needs to be enabled manually via the synaptics CLI or via xorg.conf, e.g. on my system: https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/fec4e0...
I think Microsoft's OneNote is probably the best one I've used personally. The only thing that is a little labourious is setting up your notebooks/sections but once you have that set up, its actually pretty good.

I just wished it had markdown support built in and also Syntax highlighting for code examples.
I've only ever seen that rhyme as "pease pudding hot, ...". Pease, AIUI, is mixed legumes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease_pudding
Sure: https://github.com/ant-t/LiterateHelloWorld

I've gotten interest in running a workshop on org mode for literate programming so expect for that to be filled in the next week or two.
What I find the biggest advantage is the hardware (as another poster here does), but not only due to its superior capabilities in gesture recognition.

I have yet to find a non-Macbook touchpad which is:

- decently sized: all Windows/Linux laptops I have encountered have ridiculously small touchpads, some not even a quarter of a Macbook touchpad in size. I have huge hands, tiny touchpads are awful when two fingers are wider than the touchpad.

- decent material: AFAIK, Apple is the only manufacturer using a glass overlay on the touchpad. The Windows scene exclusively uses plastic, which gets greasy after a couple of months for me. For the keyboards it's similar, Apple simply uses a material that does not get greasy...

- decent layouting: MBP touchpads are nearly flush with the casing, which means one can use its full surface area including the edges. Windows touchpads all are recessed, worst I had was 5mm - as evidenced by the grease-free borders I lost about 25% of the already small touchpad.
In a way, it seems strange nobody made a full-blown iPhone/iPad iOS emulator yet. Not a simulator like the one Apple makes, but an emulator like for game systems. I would guess the amount of information available about iPhone hardware and software would make it much easier to emulate than e.g. a gamecube, Wii, PS3, etc, especially for older models. Such an emulator could obviously be used for piracy, but could also be an intersting tool for a homebrew scene (custom firmware, developing iOS apps on Linux & Windows, etc.

Is there a practical reason why this would be hard or impossible? Or is it just for fear of Apple's lawyers?
Most paleolithic people didn't live near plains where suitable wild grain was abundant.

And these wild species formed the basis for agriculture later.
> Out of your friend’s window, which overlooks the opposite side of the graveyard, she can see eight.

It could be clearer, but it is in the description that your friend is looking in a different direction to you and so presumably at different statues.
Slackware was such a relief after downloading boot.tgz and root.tgz to build your own linux system.
It's easier to use human to raise other humans than to hope an AI gets it right.
I think the ultimate solution to bundling is to go the way of the CLIs, and Angular CLI in particular, where the framework team configures a sensible default bundle config with a few options exposed via the CLI. The user can then build with a single command and everything just works. The user can eject from the CLI and configure manually if needs be, but most of the time that won’t be necessary.

Bundlers probably have a certain minimum complexity that can’t be reduced if they want to be universally applicable, but a lot of that can be hidden for most use cases, particularly if using the same framework.
Although WebPack 4 has some sane defaults that you can use it zero-config
Wait a sec, I thought the monorepo was the SV canon. As in, "we have to keep our velocity high, to deliver customer value multiple times a day, so everyone should be able to make changes across the whole stack in a single commit, and release to production in five minutes."

In my opinion it boils down to a single factor: if you don't have proper APIs between your components, then you will need to make cross-cutting changes across the whole codebase on a daily basis, thus you need everything in the same repo to work effectively. If you don't have the time to work out the proper boundaries/APIs between your components, then sure, by all means go for the monorepo! But that's like not fixing a blown tire just because you would need to stop to do it.