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My wife's iPhone 6 (4 year old phone) is still snappy and will get iOS 12 in a few weeks. My Pixel XL (2 year old phone), to be fair, it's snappy but it's EOL in OS updates this fall. All while the iPhone 6 will most possibly get iOS 13. Maybe I am a sucker for Apple keynotes, but this emphasis on long term use makes me seriously consider to upgrade my XL to an Xr especially seeing how the 5S will get iOS 12.
> The fact of the matter is, virtually no one has been or is a slave

why do you believe that?
> their devices are expensive but made to last, and they directly support them for 4 or 5 years

Do you think a $1,000+ phone lasting only "4 or 5 years" is really that good?
> Mismanagement of a single users data could cost the farm.

No it couldn't. This is a distortion that has been repeatedly debunked.

Here's a company who had a legal obligation to register with the UK ICO, and they didn't. They were handling medical data. Far from "losing the farm" they didn't even get fined. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/u-k-healt...
> You may say something that's upsetting to someone, or is brilliantly insightful, or in retrospect obviously silly. So fucking what!?

It seems like you mean well, but as a person with generalized anxiety disorder, telling someone who is anxious about parties that they shouldn't be anxious about parties probably isn't going to be very helpful.

> Personally I detest people who interact with others in a programatic way. Not perhaps the people themselves, but this kind of behavior. I feel compelled to snap my fingers in their face and say "WAKEUP! We're right here talking, stop performing!"

If a person who is anxious about parties tries to socialize at a party using some sort of system in order to reduce their anxiety, and you call them out for how they are socializing, that person is now going to be more anxious at parties.

You seem like a person who isn't anxious about social situations, which is good, but understand that some people are anxious about social situations, and articles like these can possibly help those people.
iPhone SE is no longer available in the online apple store (at least in Poland).
As an SE user, me too. I wished they would have done a refresh for the SE.
This is devastating news. I'm going to completely change my workflow around email. Does anybody know of a comparable product?
I responded to a comment pining for the days of politics not affecting software, by pointing out that software development always has been. I'm not commenting on any particular changes here, I'm commenting on the position of "I don't want to think about politics" being a position that biases in favor of the status quo.

Apart from that, I'm not suggesting that people should ignore normal contribution procedures and conventions when making such contributions. Nothing in my comment is endorsing ever single person who has ever made such a contribution, regardless of the approach they took. I am, however, suggesting that maintainers who refuse such contributions (for reasons like "I don't want to do this" rather than "this change has issues, please address them") are part of the problem.
Of course. We're just claiming that it's easier to not give up on your responsiblity when you're managing your transmission alongside everything else.
I agree, and even if one does not keep a copy of the code, the techniques one develop for coding or optimizing the code cannot be erased from the mind of who created them
Nah they mean Docs pretty sure ;)
Agreed on the battery life. The concept is a good idea but my mother would never keep this charged up and on her wrist constantly enough for it to be relied upon.
But then I have another company knowing my personal information (dob, etc. etc.).
They are doing very well about being open in the developers space.

Open sourcing libraries and tools that make the lives of programmers much easier and even porting them to run on linux.

This may be a selfish approach approach from Microsoft (win the hearts of developers and the regular users will follow), or it might be signs of actual positive change.

The one thing that is clear is this openness does not extend to regular users of windows.

I'm mentally making notes that I should really be switching back to linux for my core desktop computing, even if I continue to use Microsoft technology like vscode, typescript and dotnet core.
Reddit’s Qanon Ban Points to How It’s Tracking Toxic Communities
My favourite Rip quote is "A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up."
Even "Tennis" and "Tennis Match" is bad.
Calling language exclusionary isn't labeling a person.
ask Fisker Karma owners. At least in case of Tesla one can expect a robust cottage industry to quickly spring up, not just one small shop of former Fisker engineers which will bleed you dry.
It's because "Feature Updates" are actually in-place OS upgrades. They're essentially reinstalling Windows and migrating applications and settings, but also choosing to not migrate some of them.
Brave doesn't promise to block all third-party scripting; that isn't necessarily a bad thing. If we were to block all third-party scripts, the web as a whole would largely crumble. Instead, we are judicious about which scripts we block, and which ones are harmless.

As for transparency, we couldn't be more open. Take it from me, an ex-Microsoft engineer, Brave is an open book. We talk about features before they're shipped, our source is open to all (github.com/brave/browser-laptop, github.com/brave/brave-browser, github.com/brave/browser-core, etc.), and we regularly host AMAs. The openness of this company still, to this day, gives me wonderful culture shock.

With regards to your conversation with one of the Brave team members, do you have a link? I'd love to gather context and establish a frame of reference. The only white lists we have in brave are for ua-strings and siteHacks.

For some websites, we'll identify ourselves as "Brave". To all others, we identify as Chrome. This is for many reasons (which I'm happen to discuss if you're interested), but this is the first white list. The second "white list" would be our siteHacks.js file. This file contains special logic to repair sites which are broken as a result of ad/tracker blocking. But again, this isn't letting flagged scripting through to the user, this is laying our own custom logic on top of an otherwise broken experience.

I hope this explanation helps shed some light on the matter. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please do not hesitate to reach out. Again, we're open and eager to share.
You haven't read it at all, have you?
The tie in to assistant, used as a shopping list, was already axed for some garbage online-only thing that can't even reorder items.
Really, they went with "XS" for the biggest phone yet?
Sampling product, and a lighter gun left burning...
Wherefore art thou iPhone SE? :(
I don't know any.
Real answer: Tesla would be acquired before filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Theoretical answer: The cars would continue to function as cars, but network-dependent features like Autopilot and remote unlocking/monitoring would cease.
I find it confusing and nonsensical. As they say, naming is hard and using the correct term is a worthy refactoring IMO.
I've talked about it, but I seem to be the only one...

In any new suburb or city you are not allowed to put jobs where the people are. There is exactly one house within comfortable walking distance of my office: the farmhouse that was here before the area was developed. If I bought a lot in this office park I would not be allowed to put apartments or houses. A couple miles away there are lots of houses, I wouldn't be allowed to buy a few and put in an office. A few miles in a different direction is a shopping mall that is failing. If I bought the mall I wouldn't be allowed to rent space for offices or apartments without first doing a zoning change, and then I'd have to choose either apartments or office, I wouldn't be allowed to put a house in the parking lot that is bigger than either apartments or offices would need.
>From an economical point of view it makes no sense to put legislation in place that will strengthen the market position of mostly US, non-EU companies.

The EU is failing in both the tech sector and the media sector. This is just sacrificing one to slow down the other's decline. Censorship is a bonus but it's not the goal, just like privacy was a bonus and not a goal of GDPR.

>Another reasoning could be to "prepare" a censorship infrastructure, but I can't find any hard evidences to this.

The only thing you need to watch for right now, and what will be seen in the future, is uneven enforcement. You'll have a choice to either censor material Europeans [are bound by law to] find offensive, or face a nice fine. Again, much like GDPR (though that law is also designed to get big tech companies to pay their taxes). This probably will come in the form of a deal with companies that won't be disclosed to the general public, but it's a nice backdoor way to get around US law which correctly doesn't require such censorship.
Daniel Yergin is an energy analyst who has written several good books on oil and energy, The Prize and The Quest. The Prize is a history explaning how to got to 1990. And The Quest explains how we got to 2011. By the end of The Quest, you will understand how we got to here. Why Russia is a major natural gas provider to Europe. Why Venezuela's economy is collapsing. Why Saudi Arabia may follow. And mostly importantly, why the US is now one of the top energy exporters in the world (TL;DR we have tons of resources and the capital and business structures to exploit them).

Right now the US seems to be using oil exports to weaken other countries, rather than banking the oil and exploiting it when supply starts to dry up. I also think that some methods aren't long-term a good idea.
I liked the NYT article[1] better because it clearly illustrates how Serena Williams' opponent did all the right things: played well, made very few unforced errors and, at one point, literally turned her back on the court to keep her focus on the play and tune out the distractions caused by Serena's rants and the crowd's boos.

Everyone should read this article, whether or not they are interested in tennis, because it has a lot of life lessons on how to conduct yourself when everything may not be going smoothly.

It's a pity that Naomi Osaka won the Grand Slam and made history on a number of levels but the focus remains on the poor loser. I wish the press would celebrate her championship win and her classy conduct more.

[1] Serena Williams vs. Naomi Osaka: How the U.S. Open Descended Into Chaos https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/sports/serena-osaka-us-op...
They are probably leaving because Elon works them like he works his engineers. They want nice cushy executive jobs and Elon does not give those to them. Finance people are a dime a dozen. It's not as if any actual irreplaceable knowledge is being lost here.
Uhg. Still no Airpods wireless charging case (first announced at last year's September event). I've held off on buying Airpods for a full year because I want the wireless charging case. How much longer will we have to wait for this product, Apple?
Why would an insurance company care about what you do with your HSA/Flex account. They aren't out of any money.
> but the America of the early 21st century is not kind to the mentally ill.

This line really strikes me and I have shared my thoughts on this before. Mental illness like Depression has become much more accepted and view as a real thing in the US and to me because it is something that people can experience without having the disease. The combination of physical and mental symptoms of depression can all be experienced without having depression. It can be understood by many people. But there are many other mental illnesses that are have symptoms foreign to most people and I think it makes it harder to sympathize and even understand.

Personally, I was diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder when I was 17 (16 years ago) and had many hallucinations and delusions. It messed up my college plans as my family didn't think I was safe enough to live on my own (which was correct). A few years ago, I was diagnosed with OCD. Now, my OCD isn't like the kind you see in movies or TV. I don't obsessively wash my hands or have to count. Mine is much darker. I have homicidal thoughts as well as what pretty much amounts to being a stalker. Again, it is hard to express to people my thoughts. I grew up pretty much thinking that I was going to end up in jail as my thoughts would get the best of me and I would act on them. It took me several years before my wife found out about my thoughts and that was only because I accidentally left a blog open that I was writing. She didn't understand and she was scared for her own life. It made me feel even more like a monster.

As I'm writing this I realize I'm getting off topic from the article, in a sense, and I don't know what I'm trying to accomplish. Maybe this is just me needing a release. We have come a long way in the US with mental health over the past 50 years but we still have a long way to go.
For a device which is heavily used every single day, yes.
Has it ever really been marketing doublespeak? AFAIK, Apple keeps their devices updated longer than any other hardware manufacturer.
If it suits you, look at car industry: once in a while the bloat is removed and an end of the line car is transformed into an entry one with all the modern essentials there and none of the crap.

Or you get your own team and build the equivalent of a Subaru Rally car by investing a similar budget
His point was that he is making effort not to be dick over unimportant matters to people who don't enjoy that. Because all in all, what he described was not looking for throughtfull discussion and it seemed to be intentionally so.

I for one, appreciate effort and am willing to reciprocate. If he don't explain me why my favorite shows are dumb, I will not insult his shows.

You also assume that people who take others apart don't mind the same being done to them. In my experience, they typically like to pick apart others, but can't handle being picked apart.
Thunderbird is still around and I'm sticking with it as long as it works.
Do you think a $1,000+ phone lasting only "4 or 5 years" is really that good?

You don't have to buy a $1,000 iPhone to get 4-5 years out of it. You can buy a cheaper model and get the same longevity.

Or you can buy random_chinese_android phone, pay the same $1,000, and get software updates cut off in two years.
I think it's significantly better than most non-Apple phones. But I think too that the there is significant invisible engineering required to make the device well recyclable after whatever the lifetime period is, and that's harder to judge. The only visible aspect of that is perhaps Apples acceptance of older units in trade, but it's indefinite, as one would really need a third-party assessment to know how well that was doing.
It happens all the time in Outlook.
Say what you will about hardware and chipsets...the website is downright amazing.
The same is valid for my iPad 1. Several apps I bought for it I no longer can download again if I need, because of new OS versions or because they are no longer in the store. And believe me: my iPad 1 still works great and I have several educational apps that my toddler is now enjoying the same way his older brother did 6 years ago.
For iOS I just stick with the native Mail.app to be honest.
Neither are enough. Until I can drive across the continent as conveniently as I could in the ICE car I have today, I'll be extremely reluctant to purchase an electric vehicle.
The article argues much of the industry may not be profitable on using normal accounting and:

>the public markets have been valuing fracking companies not based on a multiple of profits, the standard way of valuing a company, but rather according to a multiple of the acreage a company owns.

A bit like valuing dot coms on eyeballs rather than GAAP profits. It all depends on oil prices and the like I guess though.
perf is important but I also want user scriptability (as part of the actual app feature(s)). Love2d uses LuaJIT (it does use the C API to bind its native calls rather than the FFI -- but actually that has better perf when not JIT'ing).
The question is more how to monetize it without annoying the users with ads and/or paywall.
I like the way Inbox handles certain kind emails differently —- e.g. it extracts relevant data from newsletters, tickets, receipts, order confirmations, package tracking emails etc. so they are available at a quick glance. A quick glance tells me that is not the case with Gmail — correct me if I am mistaken.
Yes. Apps are a step backwards because they are in a much less user-controlled space. App adoption is more correlated with mobile platform adoption as opposed to demand for ad blocking.
> If I believe they didn't uphold their part and I can't resolve it with customer service I can sue them.

Actually no you can't (at least if you're in the US), because the Steam user agreement mandates binding arbitration: https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/#11, where, for all practical purposes, the consumer always loses.

> Nothing gives me the right to just break my part of the contract and take my money back.

The whole point of chargebacks is that they're supposed to give you that right, if the CC company decides that the vendor wronged you. Valve's behavior here is an unethical and unilateral end-run around this process.
No. EU regulation uses court as a matter of last resort. This is a good thing. It lowers barriers to entry because the regulators are not the enemy that you need to lawyer up tot talk to.
There’s a big difference between how long a device is directly supported for, and how long it lasts.

Additionally many people would consider a laptop being directly supported for 5 years pretty good.
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Yes for a portable personal device, 5 years of typically non-stop daily use is quite solid.
The Tenth Amendment clarifies that conflict significantly, IMO, in favor of the states.
> I do question whether Apple is serious about this aspect though if for no other reason than how hostile they are to the non-Apple-first-party device repair market for their devices.

Well they're at least serious about supporting devices for a long time: even if it's dropped from iOS 13, the 5S will have been supported for 6 years. Although the devices getting less and less repairable is a significant issue.
Both Apple and Samsung are going to get their lunch eaten by Xiaomi, Huawei and the rest I guess, then.

I'm eagerly awaiting the Pocophone F1 release here in Uruguay.
A "sale" is a necessary pre-condition to application of the first-sale doctrine, but that does not imply that exhaustion of copyright is a necessary pre-condition to the existence of a "sale." The Copyright Office's official position is that first-sale doctrine does not apply to digital sales, not because they are not "sales," but because they necessarily involve creating a copy of the digital item--unlike the sale of a physical item. The Copyright Office and USPTO has stated that digital sales do not meet key assumptions underlying the first-sale doctrine: there is no tangible good that can be owned by only one person at a time that is subject to wearing out.
Inbox had two distinct content types, emails and reminders. Both where handled the same by Inbox but reminders don't show up in Gmail. Anyone found yet how to migrate these to Gmail? I have a lot of reminders that are snoozed at specific times and also to "Some day". Would really hate to loose them. I checked to data exporter Google provides and it has no entry for Inbox, only Gmail.
I'm not too familiar with it; how is this different from setting a "skip the inbox" filter?
It's actually XS Max. Like pepsi.

XS is the smallest of the three phones announced today.
Big phones fit in my pockets and in my wife's purse, but not in my kid's pockets. He chose the SE, because it fit his pockets. He's still growing, so we'll probably be able to postpone getting him a new phone until he's bigger, but it seems an odd choice for Apple to eliminate the most kid-friendly size. I would think that bringing more kids into the controlled theme park that is iOS would matter more than the margins on this particular device, but I guess Apple moves in mysterious ways.
For me personally, 350-400 miles (in the worst case: with the A/C on full blast, up an incline, including frequent stopping and acceleration) would be a start.

But it’s also about about refueling (i.e. charging). Until a spot at a supercharger is as easy to come by as a gas station wherever you go, it won’t be the same. Not to mention having to wait 30+ minutes to charge, which can add up on a road trip.
You're obviously not the market for Apple. They want people who don't think, just buy.
Considering the heavy daily usage, yes.
It's not about distance for me, really. It's about availability and convenience of fuel. Gas stations are EVERYWHERE and it takes 3 minutes to fuel. Electric fueling stations require route planning, and takes 30+ minutes to fuel.

For people who can get away with charging at home & work, it's fine. For people like me who do stuff like 170 mile trips to Tahoe often, I won't be able to have an electric car without "range anxiety" any time soon.
RIP to the Perfectly-Sized iPhone
Unlikely

Apple/ARM is developing their processors for a very narrow power budget (mobile). While they have shown promise in benchmarks designed to compare their peek performance while mitigating thermal issues [1]. The long term consistent heat mitigation, and power draw limits consistent behavior.

Secondary performance gains from multi-tier caching (Apple does 2, Intel does 3, IBM does 4) and multiple channels of ddr which can greatly accelerate application throughput.

In short. Apple's processors are designed for mobile first, and ARM can still gain _a lot_ in terms of performance. While it is approaching compute/cycle of Intel's processors it isn't there yet.

[1] What I'm trying to say is don't link GeekBenchmark that what ever mobile process has >= the same number of BogoMIPS as a server class CPU. Geek Benchmark throttles hard on mobile doing burst testing to avoid thermal throttling, this effects the benchmark results negatively on server class computers (as the test doesn't generate enough load to kick up the core clock) and positively effects mobile (by avoiding dropping the core clock).
The swipe-based navigation system on the X family actually makes a huge improvement on the old “reachability” feature of the 6/7/8/Plus. Instead of the awkward double-touch-the-home-button-without-pressing gesture to slide the screen down for one-handed use, you can actually just swipe the little home indicator down instead of up and it will do the same thing, only faster.

For some reason, this isn’t enabled by default, but it’s a big enough usability improvement that I would actually consider a large X-family iPhone because of it.
Skimming Wikipedia and RFC 3875, it seems like there was never a notion of a “common gateway” that needed an interface. The name suggests to me that there were many ways forms of “gateway interfaces” between web servers and executables, and the standard was to pick a common one.

In general, it seems English doesn’t try to make a distinction. Is a small, red bird a small bird that’s red or a red bird that’s small? Same difference, and in fact the standard ordering of adjectives (1) would preclude such a distinction from being possible.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#order