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The first generation Macbook Pro that used an Intel CPU (2006) and the later ones (2009 15 and 17 inch) were the same idea as this Thinkpad, in terms of industry standard ports and I/O. They put as many I/O ports in it as they could fit. Wired gigabit ethernet, firewire 400/800 which was state of the art at the time, dual audio jacks, three USB ports, etc. The 2006 model even had a full size DVI port which could drive a 2560x1600 display.

If Apple had continued the same design philosophy from the 2006 Macbook Pro and put it in the 2018 Macbook Pro, it would have as many ports as this Thinkpad and probably even more.
Low voltage DC was bad. It had to be low voltage because there were only motor-generator, expensive and inefficient transformers for DC. Today, all conversions can be done in solid-state electronics. DC to AC and DC to different voltage DC are still more expensive and lossy than AC-AC, but sometimes the best option in a given situation.
Microsoft added a bunch of hooks to get your location and track offline searches without adding almost any usefulness. Privacy advocates definitely hate Google's location tracking, but Google made it into a feature with the location timeline. Does Microsoft even let me see what searches or locations I've shared with them?
Do you have any tips for getting used to it? I've been using my first Thinkpad (a 5th gen X1 Carbon) and I've tried on and off to get used to it but it doesn't feel like it'll ever be better than using the trackpad.
I guess the reason it needs a 100W charger might be that at load the laptop might use more than 100W, and therefore wouldn't charge
If you had enough nuclear capacity to cover for when wind/solar aren’t outputting anything, then you don’t need wind/solar. You’d just use your nuke plant 100%.
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They are similar in the same fashion that most organs between apes and humans are similar but they are still very different in how they function and what they were designed to do, same goes for differences between all apes.
Breaking causality is allowed by the laws of physics.
If only Ableton ran on Linux...
... but it is not valid to conclude that the sun will continue to rise in the east forever. (It won't.)

Can you use induction in a valid way to invalidate induction?
I know I have one, that's why I never notice when the extension is on (I have it installed in Chrome, but I spend half of the browsing time on Firefox these days).
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Unfortunately there's no accountability in these companies for bold-faced (bald-faced?) lying. They can just stress how much they're listening to our feedback and then kinda go quiet after their latest move goes against absolutely everything the users say.
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I think this is a legitimate concern. That’s one reason I only buy MacBooks. I trust Apple more than other companies.
Replying to you and vanderZwan.

People have investigated typing for stack-based languages before, [1] is a good overview. I've been implementing a dialect of Joy in Python and it turns out that it is pretty straight forward to implement type-inference and -checking.[2]

However, I recently realized that I was doing waaaay too much work. I reimplemented Joy in Prolog and got typing for free. Several pages of Python became two pages of Prolog and the interpreter is more powerful, I could go on. It's really weird being so excited on the one hand and so rueful on the other. This is so cool but I wasted so much time!

Anyhow, going by what you're saying the_grue about passing variables in the wrong order, I think you may have been going at it in the wrong way.

Using Joy and deriving new definitions with it I've only very occasionally had bugs related to "typos" in argument order of stack items. If you start with little pieces and build up stable conceptual interfaces as you go the process seems to flow and lead to correct code. It's like playing with Legos, or deriving a mathematical theorem.

[1] http://prl.ccs.neu.edu/blog/2017/03/10/type-inference-in-sta...

[1] http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Types.html
The key phrase was by convincing free users to quit, i.e. the number of paying users remains unchanged but you want to improve the ratio of paying to free. To double the ratio, you have to halve the total (being sure that no paying customers quit).
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No. Induction is invalid, full stop. It cannot be validly used to demonstrate anything.
For these kind of test I think Servethehome.com and https://www.phoronix.com does a better job.
And if only a great DAW ran on Linux! We'd have lots of competitive optimization options...
Ah yes, I actually have one in my dashcam too! Oops. As you can see this is an area I don't know much about.

I was more thinking along the lines of larger 'industrial' scale capacitors, but I'm not sure if there are fundamental barriers physical that can't be overcome to make such devices a sensible route to pursue?
Any plans on open sourcing the code? Or do you have a public roadmap? I signed up, by the way.
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He could just be referring to the existence of matter at all to be fair. Violations of thermodynamics are required for anything to exist at all.
> However, can you imagine living with a friend that's constantly recording their lives (including you)?

I can imagine; I hope it's better than the blue screen glow that takes over all my friend's faces when I get the once-a-summer chance to hang out with them.
Could you store renewable energy via electrolysis, and instead of having storage tanks of dangerous hydrogen at home, pump the gas back into a grid? Most houses have natural gas lines and those are relatively safe. Would it be viable to have "hydrogen lines" that just ran in reverse when excess renewable energy is produced? Then draw off it to a home fuel cell during peak demand?
The latest X1C HDR panel is just awesome. Bright and AdobeRGB 100%. I doubt the panels here are worse.
I recently read Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick and it was fantastic! He talks about his journey and evasion of the FBI while he was on the run
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Why does it seem that the European fintechs are advanced in every area of personal finance, except for investing? Robinhood etc has existed for years and yet we have nothing across the pond!
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Another somewhat similar (in that the result is unintuitive) problem about false positives:

Imagine that you have an HIV test that is 95% accurate (false positive rate of 5%). and around 2% of tested population is infected with HIV. What is the probability that you actually have HIV when your test comes back positive? Is it 95%? Nope, actually just 29%. You do the test again.

Numbers from wiki about the paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
Hmm, I might be confusing the two, honestly. This looks interesting. Thanks.
On a typical OEM Android device, there's likely more non-free software than free. Due to Android's permissive license, any OEM can change any part of the OS for each device and not publish the source code. On a Lineage or AOSP install, the only significant non-free part are hardware drivers and some library components such as RAR. While this isn't ideal, I doubt Google is spying through them. Using a Android phone without Google (using F-Droid, and OpenStreetMaps) is definitely doable but I don't think most non-geeks would even consider it. I used one for about a year and a half, until I went no-smartphone.

I think Eelo is trying to make a "user-friendly" distro, but it just looks like a coat of paint on top of Lineage+microG, I don't think there's much new to it.
Yes, but in case I was using the context of "America as sovereign nation" rather than "America as geographic region."
Then how do you know that the sun won't rise forever?
Well I use the 30W charger (from the 12 inch Macbook) to charge my 15 inch MBP instead of the 87W one, and I run the machine at full blast pretty often. Yes, it's possible to use more power than it can deliver, but on average it charges just fine.

Anecdotal, I know, but 87/30 is a much bigger ratio than 135/100.

I prefer the 30W charger because it is smaller and easier to carry.
Best practice:

Just don't install Nodejs. Just don't.

> Wrap common utilities as npm packages

That's how you get things like isEven, isOdd... Leftpad anyone?
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I guarantee other hotel chains will be watching this situation with great interest. If Caesars suffers no consequences, then they will all see it as a green light that they can also treat their customers this way, and soon it will be normalized.
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It will also means many consumer software can now optimise from low core count to a 64 Core / 128 Thread scenario. And this is likely be a decade worth of work.
There's quite a few USB-C magnetic breakaway adapters on Amazon etc
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We're going to need a small army of lawyers who understand code and can subpoena repositories and databases to get out of this horrible dystopic nightmare.
OK, I suppose that's fair.
Ask open ended questions that get them talking. Avoid leading questions. Avoid yes/no questions. Don't ask if they would buy it (they will lie to be nice). The book mentioned in other posts may help.

You don't need to convince users that you want to help them and this is a useless task. If a user won't talk to you, find someone else to talk to. If you can't find anyone, offer incentives (free lunch meeting, etc).

To listen better, dig deeper into why they are asking for something. Example: I read of a company that kept getting requests for ftp integration. The founders recognized that what the users really wanted was more file based features. The users wanted ftp because that is what they knew. The new features became a big selling point.
I’ve seen that before.

Stayed at that job for 4 months before realizing the other engineer was just going to keep writing the same crap. No tests, no comments.

The real kicker was that the “database” was several different instances of mongo. So doing joins was a pain, and having transactions was almost impossible.
Every piece of computing hardware you own has been designed so that it is able to spy on you. If that, combined with the general government trends going on right now doesn't sound dystopic to you then nothing will.
My hypothesis is that on-the-spot problem solvers are likely good at playing office politics, which can lead to the appearance of being more competent. I have never seen a quick thinker be bad at office politics.
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Oh, I agree they're not malicious but they do have power especially aldermen in Chicago. Out of college, I worked at a real estate law firm right out of college for a time and had a first-hand view of the power they've got in city hall along with the power in the county. In the case of NYC, It's normally just not summed up to wanting to use their social and political capital to get dog houses on the sidewalks on the books.
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You clearly didn't read the article
Google most probably has a much larger reserve of everyone’s dirty laundry.

Like a record of every website you've gone to that uses JS served fast and free from Google, fonts served fast and free from Google, on-site search by Google (complete with a logo most likely served direct from Google), etc.

And that ignores the most obvious: Google Analytics, where in addition to telling webmasters # of distinct visitors to the site, for each of those visitors they can track "Visited site X" for their own internal use.
> Only in the US...

Which part? The traits desired in a husband? The morning prayers? The list of goals? Some of it? All of it?

Those all seem like things that could describe a lot of people in a lot of countries.
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Indeed Netflix was successful, while a lot of other companies are not/weren't (Blockbuster, etc.). But because a company doesn't quite understand how/if it is going to be impacted by a digital transformation doesn't mean it shouldn't try or care. Quite the opposite, if you ask me.

Not long ago AI was such a taboo word that people were avoiding it at all cost, because pronouncing it was a sure way to drive any kind of funding away (funny how quickly these things change). So anything yielding tangible results (machine learning, natural language processing, image recognition, etc.) was "not AI". AI were those crazies trying to put the human brain on a chip. My point: because Netflix underwent a successful digital transformation doesn't mean it's not a digital transformation, it just means that it's possible to describe it in a much more specific way.

Same in the heavy industry: Boeing/Airbus underwent crazy digital transformations, but they are not called that way because it's possible to be much more specific: simulations when it comes to design, 3D printing on the production side, etc.
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Yes, not to mention that nearly every casino/hotel on the Strip is owned by either Caesar's Entertainment or MGM Resorts. They are huge publicly-traded companies who want to minimize risk.

MGM Resorts Properties:
Bellagio
Circus Circus
CityCenter (50% joint venture with Dubai World)
Aria Resort & Casino
Mandarin Oriental
Excalibur
Luxor
Mandalay Bay
MGM Grand
The Mirage
New York-New York
Park MGM

Caesars Entertainment Corp:
Bally's
Caesars Palace
Harrah's
The Cromwell
Flamingo Las Vegas
The Linq
Las Vegas
Planet Hollywood
Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino
It is a universal phenomenon -- large incumbent teams will fight to entrench systems even as they are failing.

With senior leadership help firewall and replace can work. That is, firewall support for existing systems to old team and make new team build new setup. But it is really hard -- old guard will fight to kill new process after every mistake and new teams will try to kill existing systems prematurely.
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Hahaha, look closely at the PDF and online version (just look at the math). There are a ton of corner cases which EPUB and especially the EPUB readers do not support. It's definitely not convert into EPUB once and then make books out of it with shell scripts. This is a very wishful thinking of the EPUB standard (which is not a bad standard but it's not that overall solution you are stating here).
What helped me understand this is to look at a specific example.

One way to have 99% free users is to have 99 free users and one paid user.

Similarly, a way to have 98% free users is to have 98 free users and two paid users.

But GP didn't say "convert one free user to paid" or "acquire another paid user by other means." The number of paid users isn't changing: you will still only have one paid user.

So you have to cut both numbers in half to keep the same ratio. Instead of 98+2, you end up with 49+1 to have 98% free users.
https://www.whatsapp.com/android/

Whatsapp distribute the apk directly from their site if you want it, and have done for years. My MiL uses it on a 2013 Nexus7 as she doesn't want a smartphone (even though they say tablets aren't supported)
> Folklore would have it that single-thread performance is the most important aspect of desktop performance, but that isn't what I've observed.

It still is. It is only that we have approach the end of the performance limit, or it has approached the same as its competitor that you want to trade double the core count vs ~20% more maximum single thread performance.
Apple knows that if they tried to sue every random manufacturer making $5 magsafe clones they would end up losing more money on legal fees.

If Lenovo did it though...
> You just added and deleted 100k lines of code. Congrats, you have a "churn" and stuff like that. But the reality is that you neither "wrote" nor "rewrote" these lines of code.

I've seen that in some projects too, usually where developers don't trust their package managers and/or just want to inflate the size of the project to manipulate the client.

Rule of thumb: don't commit external dependencies (like node_nodules) when you can lock dependencies in place. If you really have to do it then have a downstream repo that will do that automagically.

This makes your strap situation far less problematic. You'll still touch everything that uses said strap but then it's actual programmer effort and not manual package management.
The BSD 4.4 log-structured file system is the earliest CoW FS that I know of, though the ideas really go back earlier to the database world. (There's a tremendous amount of duality between databases and filesystems, so much so that it's pretty shocking that they haven't quite merged. WinFS should not have failed.)

I think of ZFS as a direct descendant of the 4.4BSD LFS, though I don't know that it is so -- in fact, I suspect Bonwick et. al. did not take inspiration from 4.4BSD LFS, but came up with a filesystem that looks inspired by it.
He may be a hero to us, but he is also a coward to a lot of iraqis. For all the sympathy we conjure up for our own, we too easily forget the suffering of others.

To put things into perspective, about 4000 americans died as a result of the iraq war. Over a million iraqis died.

Hundreds of thousands of children died in the iraq war. And hundreds of thousands of iraqi children grew up without a father because of the iraq war. I guess it's all perspective. But I doubt most of the world would consider him a hero.
Strange, I keep location services off all the time unless I am actively using Maps navigation. Location history is off also. I don't receive "nags" excepting when I start Maps, I get a request to turn on location services.
Verbal contracts are binding as well in Germany.
> To be clear, when I made the public announcement, just as with this blog post and all other discussions I have had on this topic, I am speaking for myself as a potential bidder for Tesla.

Elon Musk sent an e-mail to all his employees on August 7th, and published the e-mail to the world. In the e-mail he made a number of quite worrying statements as the CEO of the company and some outlandish claims. One week later on August 13th, Elon Musk rips off his mask and cackles manically: Behold! It was me all along! Not the mild mannered CEO of your heart, but I have been secretly talking as a potential bidder for your company! Moohahaha.
Its good to see such development in i2p. Anoncoin/Anoncash uses this protocol as well.
I'm confused why elon says 2/3rds of shareholders would keep invested in a private Tesla. How would they ever get their money back out? Only if they went public in future or if they sold to another party? Based in their market cap compared to GM, Toyota, etc. that seems a bit crazy.
Yeah I'm out on this count alone.

I just had my Dad over with his IBM laptop and it had the most unusual proprietary connector I've every seen. Worst thing is he had brought an IBM charger, just not the right one, it was the old style round-one they had that that worked with everything for years.
The Chromium compile being faster on 16 cores than 32 cores is pretty weird, given how embarrassingly parallelizable that should be. Wonder if it's out of memory, or if the bottleneck is actually linking.
The content here seems fairly good, but from opening a random sample of textbooks, I notice pretty consistently poor presentation and formatting. Almost everything is presented in a wall of single column text with long paragraphs, a small font, and limited in-set visualization. This was especially bad in Intro Sociology and Intro to U.S. Government from what I checked.

I found some pagination / page break issues (e.g. page 379 in Intro Statistics is empty and the transition from 381 to 382 also has a weird orphan problem). The same section also has section numbering problems. Edit: Reading more, I see a ton of equations that aren't rendered very well (page 405 in intro stats, look at all of the \bar{x} in the first half -- is this even using LaTeX to render or is this like a bad Microsoft Word equation editor thing?)

In the statistics world, OpenIntro Statistics -- https://www.openintro.org/stat/ -- seems quite a lot better as a textbook
The 4.4BSD log-structured filesystem was the first CoW FS I'm aware of. The ideas go back earlier still to the DB world. There is a lot of prior art in this space.
The sequel, Homeland, is also pretty great.
What a beautiful write-up. Some colleagues and I used to joke that everything was Dijkstra. It's pretty awesome to see that elucidated so well.
OMG Becky, really?!

First off, yes this piece raises some important ideas, but also misses the point of the comic, which isn't about smugness. It's boiling down the importance of something complicated to point out AT LEAST one reason to shut it down.

Second, this is the kind of thing I could pull up and show any of my non-tech relatives. Nitpicking does not help anyone.
Friendly reminder: electronic voting is totally unnecessary. Many highly developed democracies (e.g. France) have totally paper voting where the ballots never leave the public eye.

If the past is any indication, there will almost certainly be a lot of comments on this article proposing complicated schemes for making electronic voting secure and verifiable. Consider when evaluating these schemes whether there is any benefit or upside at all over good old fashioned unhackable paper.
No one said it does, but the military does afford one plenty of opportunities to become a hero.
If a single instance of a VST can use 100% of a thread, you're using a woefully underpowered processor or a ludicrously inefficient plugin. Many composers regularly work on projects with hundreds of tracks and thousands of plugin instances. Projects of that scale used to require multiple computers and a bunch of DSP accelerator cards, but they're now entirely feasible on one high-end workstation.
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You can power planes with lasers. You could power rockets too.
> made by a Chinese firm

So are MacBooks. Designed in California, sure, but they’re made in China.
Agreed, it is useful, certainly. But it's not to be wielded without subtlety: notably in your quote the use of 'imo' and 'in many cases'. Anyway, apologies for the terseness. My gripe is just when it is used as a magic omnibullet in discussions about 'what is science?'.