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Is MacOS getting worse or are too many Electron apps to blame?
I had a Mac Pro (16gb ram, 6 cores) that was less than two years old and went in circles with Apple support but Apple could not figure out why my computer kept freezing up. So eventually I bought a new iMac with 32gb ram and 4 cores.

Before my Mac Pro I owned an old iMac with only 8gb ram and 2 cores, and only ran 1-2 Electron apps plus chrome and never had problems.

I use chrome and between 4 to 5 Electron apps that I know of on a daily basis now days and keep at least 3 open all day. Today my new iMac froze up just like my Mac Pro did. So, my question is (and could be a false dichotomy), is MacOS to blame here or Electron? Why would a brand new iMac freeze up? I've owned plenty of Macs over the ages and only had freezes when I would spin up a virtual machine running Ubuntu--and even then the freezes were not common.
Lots of keyboards let you remap keys directly on the hardware. I'm currently very happy with the kinesis (which has backspace, delete, space, enter, ctrl/alt, pageup/pagedown, and home/end on the thumbs).
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https://www.easports.com/fifa/ultimate-team/coming-soon

The FUT Web App and other FIFA Web features are down for maintenance while we prepare for FIFA 19. The new web app launches on September 19th.
Also Bezos is starting the Homeless fund from his own money, Amazon pays for Amazon's employees, so they are conflating things on purpose --though I would say Amazon the co could pay their warehouse emps better, given their success --something along the lines of Costco.
You can find something funny without feeling superior to it. Life is absurd!
I guess in the end that air was just vapor
That reads more like "you can not too aggressively work against one of your shareholders' influence", not "you have to maximize profits at all costs", and the article claims Craigslist could have mostly preserved it's non-profit-oriented culture through means not challenged by the court.

To me, the article more supports than denies the stance of "it's a myth that companies can't improve their workers situation because that would breach their responsibility to shareholders". The responsibility to shareholders exist, but it's not as absolute as argued.

Some quotes:

> First, the business judgment rule provides broad protection for
managers and directors when they make decisions that benefit
customers, employees, suppliers, the community, and other non-shareholder interests, as long as these actions are reasonably
believed in good faith to promise some shareholder benefit.
Enabling corporate social responsibility is not the purpose of the business judgment rule; it is, rather, to avoid the courts’ second-guessing of reasonable decisions by officers and directors.
However, it serves, albeit unintentionally, to enable corporations to act responsibly without risking legal challenges from shareholders.

> In any event, the elements of the plan that
were struck down by the Delaware court were aimed at question-
able objectives, which need not have been attained to preserve the
Craigslist culture and way of doing business, at least in the short
run.
Stainless I would argue belongs in material not in grade and class as these are different attributes. You can get grade 10.9 bolts in stainless, black, zinc plated and possibly in other materials and finishes. If it doesn't specify the type of stainless steel the safest thing to assume it's a low quality material which doesn't conform to any specific specification or at least lacks the appropriate accompanying paperwork.

I.e. I'll select a grade/class based on the mechanical properties I require, and the material will be selected taking into mind the environment the fastener is going into, any possible material incompatibilities there might be, i.e. don't want to accidentally build a battery, or select materials which gall together.

Honestly I think search in this area is actually extremely difficult due to all the inconsistent standards, specifications as well as random proprietary fasteners that exist.

I find that websites that sort by category to be better in this space, but that also assumes that you know what you want.
What's striking to me is that they appear "precise", so it required training and technique. It wasn't some kind of amateur inking.
As someone who plays an instrument, and would like to spend a decent amount of time practicing.

This is possibly a thing that is not very possible, and very cumbersome with long term travel. Especially if you would like to practice multiple instruments.
I imagine it's much easier to maintain a company culture where everyone is directed toward only profit than one where it's well known they are passing out extra goodies and everyone would like some.
I use a relatively old Macbook that wasn't particularly powerful when it came out (i5, 8Gb). The only time the fans spin up is when cargo needs to compile a billion dependencies for some crate that probably doesn't even need half of them. I use zero electron apps.

It's probably the electron apps.

>I had a Mac Pro (16gb ram, 6 cores) that was less than two years old(!!!) and went in circles with Apple support but Apple could not figure out why my computer kept freezing up. So eventually I bought a new iMac with 32gb ram and 4 cores.

Why would you throw more money at Apple if their support wasn't even able to address your concerns...
Bow ties? Are they back?
My local Best Buy had a few in stock.
I should be able to do it from any app as I stated earlier (not just Google's) just as I can on Android.
Conservatives have let illiberalism take over their party. The US was founded on liberal idealism - that all men are created equal then later a liberal conservative, Lincoln followed that same ideal. That's always been our ideal. How is it that people surprised that illiberal conservatives are reviled when they go against the very values this country was founded on?
Same here. Permanent silent mode (quarter moon icon on Apple, volume switch off). Have done this over the last 2 years. I spoke to an old friend recently on the phone, it had literally been months since my last phone conversation. It takes an effort to unplug but it’s hard to go back once you do.
I'm fine if Taiwan declares independence but they should stop using the words "Republic of China" to represent themselves and to renounce their claim to mainland China, Taiwan isn't China and should never represent China, if they want to be treated as a separate nation, the first thing they should do is stop using the name of China.
I have a UHK and a Kinesis gaming. The UHK keys are mounted on a steel plate and it feels super solid. The Kinesis feels pretty cheap in comparison. The Kinesis does have separate function keys, arrow keys, and a (big honking) esc key, but it also takes up a whole lot more room in my desk.

They both have apps for mapping keys, but the kinesis app is Windows and Mac only, the UHK app runs on Linux (probably those others too. I wouldn't know).

You can fit the two halves of the UHK together to form a regular non-split keyboard. That is impossible with the Kinesis.

I like them both, but the Kinesis just feels so nice and solid. I made the left-side space bar a function key and that makes the function keys and ESC usable enough for me. I'm an emacs user so I don't use those that much anyway.
Rewriting COBOL software in Java also looks like repeating the same mistake. Java as a language is already becoming obsolete for many things, including JVM itself, so languages like Kotlin, Scala taking off. On the other part, the same languages also work very hard on being native [1] [2]. So for the long-term strategy, it makes more sense to use the platforms that already made this leap - OCaml, F#, Haskell. Those languages are already popular to some extent in the fintech/govtech. Elixir might be a good choice too, but less mature and not statically typed, which can be a problem for mission-critical software.

[1] http://www.scala-native.org/

[2] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native-overview.html
It looks strongly like a quark, in which case it's not vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown. That core is fundamentally a 486 and doesn't do the kind of speculation behind these vulnerabilities.
In my young and reckless years i loved to [ab]use INT 13 to literally mechanically destroy hard drives with 12 bytes programs.
Every single person and business relies on third parties. That is the way the world works.

The key is always having a plan to replace a third party that is no longer providing the service you need.
Make the left space bar a function key. Makes it way easier to get at those secondary functions
> the tattoos, which were created via small incisions traced with charcoal

That makes me assume that each of line was made with a single straight-line cut that was rubbed with charcoal.
PowerShell went for "pwsh" instead of "posh" because posh is already a name of a shell - https://www.commandlinux.com/man-page/man1/posh.1.html
lol do you really have 3000 vim plugins?
Certainly sounds like it. I find this bit pretty funny though:

> entire enterprise cloud stack written in only the newest of the new JS frameworks and containers

I'm of the opinion that the JS ecosystem is one of the few spaces where a healthy dose of NIH can save you a lot of time and money in the long run. And it seems like the only place where they didn't go for a custom solution.
How Does Fasting Affect the Brain?
Wow, I wonder how slow that would've been in practice.
This is indeed a massive problem with GWA (genome-wide association), since the studies only see additive variation. Lot of interesting techniques around to look at non-additive variation. Had acquaintances working on drug-drug interactions and the genetics of skin colour; had to find some cool workarounds.

On the other hand, given that height is closely linked to metabolic conditions, and both the transcription/translation rate and functioning of every cellular component relies on metabolism, it doesn't take long for changes to propagate to simple traits like height.
Serious question: COBOL's just a language. How come no one has put together some kind of runtime interpreter, for COBOL, or thought to produce an emulator facade that keeps the business logic of legacy code, but ports it to another platform, architecture, infrastructure?

I look at some of the perfectly cromulent stuff people do with Emscripten [0], and it just blows my mind the things that a browser will run these days. So, why not that?

[0] https://emscripten.org/
It's not a big deal, you just wouldn't expect that your iPhone is running x86 instructions.
That's the power of marketing for you. One required privacy policies while the other didn't. One asks before enabling AGPS data collection, while the other doesn't even let you opt out. One allows you to use on-device maps as default, while the other doesn't. One allows you to replace the default SMS app with Signal, while the other doesn't.

When you think of a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities, you probably don't think of Apple either, even though its App Store infected more users with malware than all its competitors combined. https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/09/malware-...
For me it depends on which route is shorter and has less inconvenience. Where I live, there's a trail about 1.5 miles long that I can ride to get to work. When it was first paved, I started riding on it since it was a shorter route to work compared to taking the roads there.

After a while, they put up gates on the trail where it crossed an access road. These gates required that cyclists dismount, walk their bike around the offset bollards while crouching to go under the gate arms, cross the access road, and repeat the process when getting to the gate on the other side. After that, I just started riding on the road again.
So condemn the working conditions of the company then. What does that have to do with his personal act of charity? Sure, charitable donations are tax deductible, but you say that this equates to "...truly the most selfish public display of giving..."? Why is the assumption that a wealthy person is only capable of charity for tax benefits? As if he needs the tax deductions to retain his wealth? As if he personally mistreats employees?
Imperfect people are capable of honest charity.
They do because they work on more than one keyboard.
As someone who also recently moved to the Bay Area from the south, I actually feel like Atlanta traffic is much worse. Granted, maybe I'm not seeing the worst of the Bay Area since my commute is just along one section of 101, but going from Atlanta suburbs to downtown (or back) was an utter nightmare, even on the weekends.
Yeah, the difference is striking. I can understand why he'd like to believe that outsiders hate Russians rather than him, yet people often times say Putin or Kremlin, to differentiate between ordinary Russians and the actions of their government. Even more so, if they have experience living under an authoritarian regime.
The guy went for one year abroad, not sure what exactly he was expecting? It takes time to build contacts in a new place. Most digital nomads don't move from one place to another all the time, they got 2 or 3 bases where they stay most of the time and where they build their social circle.
Everyone: make the left space bar your function key. It makes using function keys, ESC, arrow keys, etc. super easy
> I might be for that, as long as any welfare given to a company's employees is billed to the company.

Sounds like a convoluted way of having a job and getting paid for it.
It could prevent unintended mistakes or rogue employees from compromising the machine. A Diebold-sponsored plot is not the only vector to worry about.
I started "Dune" in January and am now nearing the end of "Chapterhouse: Dune". The series as a whole is so chock full of amazing wisdom and meditations on what it means to be human and how far we can stretch humanity until it becomes unrecognizable, but it gets there so slowly that the teachings kind of creep up on you in the end.

Cannot recommend the series enough. So sad that I'm reaching the end of Frank Herbert's part of the legacy, interested to see how Brian Herbert continued it.
In SDG&E territory, I had a plumber notice a leak near the gas meter, and encourage me to call it in. I called it in at 3PM. At 5 there was an initial crew. At 11pm the guys with the real tools came and finished it off, including the use of a jackhammer at 12:30am (you do what you have to do). Then I read about people with gas bubbling up through their lawns in San Bruno before it blew up and I was shocked that the other utility company had such low standards.
Why most female newscasters have the same hair
Making things with maths – Steven Wittens [video] (2013)
> The difference between zinc plated fasteners and hot dip galvanised fasteners is actually quite significant

Yeah, but those aren't listed under coatings. They're listed under materials. And they certainly don't list the same variety of zinc coatings you could find at McMaster-Carr.
Or in other words, no such “modern spacecraft” fitting your earlier description exists outside of designs which may or may not work as intended or ever fly. When such designs are actually built, tested and proven feel free to make sweeping statements about what constitutes the reality of what’s required to fly around the moon. Until then the entire existing history of spacecraft is probably more reliable and informative as to astronaut requirements than paper fantasies.
Emacs user here. I have the UHK and I love it. I'm not sure if you realize that you can remap anything on this keyboard. My Emacs setup uses Ctrl, Meta, Super and Hyper. Thanks to the UHK I can also have non-conflicting keybindings for window management (i3 on Linux, various apps on the Mac).
I’ve picked up node and js more seriously recently, coming from .Net and C# and I’ve been wondering why people in my learning material are relying so much on third party libraries for very basic things.

I’m probably a little old fashioned, but I didn’t even know moment existed and I’ve been fooling around quite a bit with JS dates recently. It didn’t take a long time to write the .ToString(dd-MM-yyyy) module, that was the only thing I really needed aside from the standard library, but I guess it would’ve been faster to import moment.js.
> It boils down to trust. Do you trust Google? Do you trust Apple?

Why don't boil down even further? How comfortable you are when you put your own security on other people's hand? Do you trust others will protect you no matter what? Do you trust others will completely be honest with you no matter what?

I don't know about you, but for me, I always trying to figure out the detail of the thing that will be rely on, even it's just a door alarm. Only after that, I can then tell whether or not I trust it.

If I understand you correctly, I can say that your "trust" is actually a form of trade off: I want to use the awesome __________ Phone, so I can ______________. For that, I could take some shit from __________ as long as they don't ______________.

However, that just means you've convinced yourself to trust something, hardly anything else.

And speak of "business model", many company was cool and awesome when it's young. Things change.

So, if it's a question: Do you trust Google? Do you trust Apple? Both no. I kept my file encrypted when uploading to Google Drive, and I don't use iCloud at all. I have 16 different Google accounts and 3 Apple accounts, each for different things, and I replace most of then every two years (Or when Google start to ask me for my phone number).

My advise: Don't dip yourself into that situation when you have to make a choice like that.
Moba’s feature a number of low-cd spells. I’d say the bigger differentiator is that mobas usually have a “skillset” while twin stick shooters usually have “set of skills”. That is, the former features a very high degree of synergy, and performing the whole combo is main task you want to achieve. That latter features shooting as the main goal, and your skills support that one basic task.

Your game is in an awkward spot because it fits neither: there’s no real combo to act out (i didnt look through the skills too thoroughly so maybe there are some interesting combos to derive), so your primary task is fireball’ing, with skills to support that task. Yet the cd is annoyingly long, so you’re mostly waiting!

The high risk shots dont seem to have real any way to allieviate the risk too: think of the basic moba combo: snare & pummel. You can still fire off the slow as hell ultimate, but its only really risk—free if they’re pinned first (and so pinning, not the ultimate, is really the thing you’re trying to avoid as the enemy).

Again, I haven’t gone through your game with any thouroughness to really judge; this is just my ideas on how skills play a significantly different role in the genres you’re coming from, and how theyd function in yours
I don't want to sign up for any more web apps or web only services. They keep shutting down
I've been missing this sort of thing since the maintainer of notepad.cc shut it down...
I have the UHK and I love it. I would recommend this keyboard to anyone who needs to work with several different operating systems. I have it set up with keybindings for Mac, Linux and Windows and switch between the three quickly. You can set things up so that switching is relatively painless, e.g. the same shortcut will do similar things in all OSs that you work with (well, to the extent that Linux apps do similar things given the same keypress...).

What I also enjoy is that I can place the halves on both sides of my laptop, with my MacBook in the middle. A very comfortable typing setup.

BTW: Jamie Zawinski writes "I don't know about you, but the frequency with which I change my keymap is: exactly once ever. So I don't really need this thing glowing at me. You can turn the light off, but even when unlit it's still ugly as sin. It begs for a piece of electrical tape over it. Also, I'm baffled that they chose to devote so much physical space to such a useless indicator."

I guess I'm different: I switch keymaps all the time. And this is a killer feature of the UHK: easy management of keymaps, fast switching (using shortcuts which I can define!) and a visible indicator of which keymap is currently active. But then this is a keyboard for hackers, who I'd venture to guess routinely use several computers, right? :)
XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress
> Also from a metric country, things like number and wire gauges are odd to me as well as I only occasionally have to deal with them.

Well wire gauge is typically not how one would identify a bolt. Number wire gauge would typically be referred to by the units (either AWG or mm^2).

> If you are looking for fasteners for specific industrial use then I'd assume you would have the expertise to select the appropriate fastener or some internal engineering specification to follow.

Typically, yes although a friend was lamenting in the difficulty in finding a castle nut for an automotive application on the McMaster site.

> You don't just buy something from the scientific bolt category on Amazon. You may also require material certificates etc, which I don't believe is something these online options typically offer, though I may be wrong.

Well, McMaster offers will call (at one location) and offers phone support. The other folks Amazon is trying to compete with (Fastenal, Grainger, MSC) have a variety of B&M locations. I can't speak to material certification but I've purchased a certified caliper from Grainger no problem. Meanwhile Amazon still has the counterfeit issue to grapple with.
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Sure, they didn't shut IMDB down however. Amazon pulled the plug on CDNow after purchasing them.
I use it as the Mouse key. I consider the key that is usually CapsLock (Mouse on the UHK) to be Control, which I guess dates me to the Sun keyboads.

The beauty of the UHK is that everyone can set it up to his/her own preferences!
It seems worthwhile pointing out the comment at the bottom:

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I’d like to point out that a lot of our young men are currently attempting to do the exact same thing as was described above for the Afghani translators who served with the US Army even at tremendous risk to their lives. They have sponsored them for visas since their lives, and those of their families, are increasingly at risk back in Afghanistan because of their work with the US. Many of these Afghani and Iraqi translators saved US American soldier lives, and made it possible for the our soldiers to work with the local populations when this was critical.

Unfortunately, even as American soldiers are working hard to bring their translators they worked with, along with their families, to the US, they’re running into a lot of red tape back in the US, even though we’ve only filled a fraction of the visas that Congress allotted for Iraqis and Afghans who served with the US Army and other branches.

See: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/10/afghan-tra...
If Apple wants to make privacy a selling point for their products, they would no doubt seize the opportunity to do so very loudly.

At the recent iPhone / Watch launch event a few days ago, Apple COO Jeff Williams stood on stage with a single word backdrop "Privacy" and said:

"At Apple we believe your personal information belongs to you, you should decide who you share your information with and who gets to see it. Period. All your (Watch) health and fitness data is encrypted on the device and in the cloud".

- https://youtu.be/wFTmQ27S7OQ?t=1673

That's not a legally binding statement from Apple stating exactly what they collect, but it certainly is Apple making privacy a selling point and doing so very loudly.
The Polymath Project: A Few Principles for Thinking Clearly
It would still distort the market just as badly. People making minimum wage have easily replaceable skills for the most part. If they go on strike, the company can just hire other people who are willing to do the job.