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It seems like the writer has a personal stake in the idea that Apple can do no wrong, therefor Bloomberg must be lying.

As an example they claim 10 reasons not to believe Bloomberg and cite two other pieces they have wrote, both proclaiming apples innocence.

They literally give the same reason multiple times, and the reason is little more than "Apple wouldn't lie!". Apple has been caught lying in the past about other things like battery life.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/05/chinese-spy-chip/
> memory allocation should be handled differently from the construction, destruction and other resource allocation.

These other resources still need an in-memory representation to track and reference resources, so you can't really separate them.
They had all the resources to wreak havoc, occupy and keep hundreds of millions in factory-feudalism. They would have drafted half the world to wage their wars if necessary.
That's not quite what I want -- I don't mind tech things being visible to family, but I suspect they're following me for the baby photos. So I don't want circles, or friend lists, that block people from seeing things, so much as a functional tagging system that lets the viewer decide which of my circles/lists they want to be in.

And I want it simple and easy to understand and use, even for non-techies, such that it "just works". And a pony.
The Chinese... or a third party?
this is peak desktop linux
Merge a separate video and audio file without looking it up - I've got a document stored that lists all the different commands I've used and hopefully some context about what they do.
Personally, I still pull up "man git-pull" or similar. I'm actively annoyed that I have to remember that the AWS CLI is different in this regard.

Not to mention that using "--help" for man pages requires I open up a separate window when I typically just want a quick reference to the most used flags.

Moving man pages to a different command is like coming up with an alternative icon to the hamburger menu for your regular UI. Sure, all the functionality is still there, but it requires a full stop and search to remember where to find it.
@berberous, it's good advice and welcome feedback. Thank you.

I just tend to write the way I talk and using punctuation, speech marks and italics/bold is the only way I can think of to convey intonation/meaning. I will try harder to avoid the excessive use of emphasis, as you say it detracts from the writing/reading.

PG almost never uses any sort of emphasis in his essays: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html so I'm going to wean myself off it.

I am genuinely grateful for the feedback. =)
A possible explanation, also from the ambergris Wikipedia page:

> Ambergris used to be very highly valued by perfumers as a fixative that allowed the scent to last much longer, but it has been replaced by synthetic ambroxan.

But buyers still exist for the natural stuff.

> A 1.1-kilogram (2.4 lb) lump of ambergris, found on a beach at Anglesey, Wales, was sold to a French buyer for £11,000 at an auction in Macclesfield, England, on 25 September 2015.
Part of this is on them, another for example is in enterprises with Outlook Safe Links. Personally, I think the net benefit for at least Safe Link is great as they can protect against phishing, but on the other hand I wish I could just see the original URL. I feel like whatever functionality fixes this problem could be used in that same realm too.

I feel your pain - it's challenging to have users be vigilant by checking URLs when these things happen.
Tone.js is great! Also check out timbre.js if you haven't.
very true. That's the icing on the cake. After 4 years, no one in the family needs to bother about visa, visa interview, stamping, stamp expiry, renewal of visa and a zillion other things.
>Sorry, I've lost the thread of the argument.

I didn't respond to the "thread of the argument" above, I responded directly to the smaller point made in your comment.

My point regarding the whole argument is in my longer comment above.
Jupyter notebooks are ultimately just a text file, which can be version controlled, verified (via the VCS or independent hashing), and if necessary - digitally signed in a cryptographically secure manner.

Given that Git is already secure, I'd say all the researcher needs to know is basic usage of Git. Version controlling the notebook satisfies all the requirements you mentioned: prevents accidental distortion, is verifiable, restorable, etc.
In text form: https://www.techspot.com/article/1722-misleading-core-i9-990...
I use Python and it's OK, but I find a lot of the breathless hype around it as a language a little baffling as there are more than an average number of stupidities in there. However this piece is really around exploiting the amazing infrastructure that has built up around Python that empowers mathematical and statistical research, which is fair enough.
Neither of these fields award Nobel prizes :)

More seriously, maths (I don't know much about the theoretical cs field) is a bit of an anomaly in this respect compared to most of the sciences.

The problem seems to be worse the more money you need to do your research - maybe this is why maths excapes the usual feudal hierarchy where the lord own everything including their serfs ideas.
Also they seem to have tested AMD CPUs in "game mode" which disabled half of the cores (one of two CCXes)...
I legitimately want to push him down a flight of stairs.
iPXE is the best example I've seen of that - every error code is a link to a wiki.
To elaborate, from the link:

"The first experiments in the 1940s used around 150 pounds of sand, but now it’s around 5 million pounds per well."

"the proppant industry is definitely up and to the right – 57 billion lbs in 2012"
Do most gamers need the latest hardware or care that much about framerates, or do they care more about actually playing games? I'd suggest the latter.
One more reason - the man pages will be specific to the version of your tool. My man pages on my mac will automatically pull up the BSD version of "ls", not the GNU version.
I googled "Midori outcomes", but I only found your posts mentioning it. Have a better keyword to search or a link?
Gag orders can only force companies not to say the truth. They can't force them to lie.

They certainly can't compel them to make such clear, specific, long-winded, and persistent denials of claims like these. That kind of thing's the stuff of conspiracy theories and Hollywood plots.
I, too, wondered if this might have been planted by someone to either disrupt existing supply chains or raise awareness of this sort of vulnerability, but this makes it look more like journalistic incompetence, possibly magnified by pressure to have impact.
> hope to find a way

There is a clear difference between wishing for the impossible, and having plans for the future.

> actual experts

To explain how polarized light works? No, I absolutely do not want quotes. I want statements of basic fact.

> they're much more likely to say that it can't be done with this technology

How about this: Any technology for blocking OLED would be a completely different thing from what they used to make these glasses. It's not an improvement, it's a replacement. It's misleading to use terms like "right now" to talk about such a situation.
Toronto/Vancouver will become extremely attractive for those wanting to come up with startups, even for VCs to invest due to massive influx of high skilled immigrants, with valuable knowledge from US work experience.
BSD manpages or Linux manpages? There are very few Linux manpages that I'd consider acceptable.
We could recover Mathematica interop easily. i wrote a tool to convert Python expressions to Mathematica expressions, evaluate them, and return the results as Python expressions, probably back in 97. I believe M still has the Kernel C API so it should be easy to resurrect & make modern. http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/585/
"At this point, it seems like Apple and Amazon have hard facts"

Hard facts? Which ones? An independent review of all server hardware by an external auditor? Call me stupid but I don't think companies can audit themselves if a lot of money is at stake. Not saying Apple is wrong, but for now we still have "This isn't the case because we say so, believe us." nothing more.

It will be interesting if Bloomberg has a followup or if they fold.
No. All three of the responders so far have implied that this functionality is in man. It is not. It's in the pager that man invokes; ironically often, but not necessarily always, that very same less program.
This is exactly why the vast majority of my friends/family/contacts/whatever didn't use it.

Facebook was the first of this type of social network to get just about everyone to join. MySpace and Friendster and the like got the kids and the heavy web users but Facebook got your mom and your grandma. They got your boss, your barber, and your barista. They got the people who designed websites and the people who never did anything more complex than pointing at a picture on their iphone to launch an app.

It didn't matter if you or I liked some feature or other on G+ (or another competitor) because you can't just switch platforms like you can switch webmail providers. In order to work, you all have to be on the same platform and a good chunk of the potential userbase will simply never deal with switching platforms. How many people in your family or friend/acquaintance group still use their old hotmail (or AOL) email account? Probably not zero.

So even if they did "build a better Facebook" (which I think they did in many ways) it doesn't matter. A nicer layout and some improved features aren't enough to move the entire user base away from the default option. As long as it's a winner-take-all system, it will take a lot more to replace Facebook. It's more likely to become irrelevant than replaced.
And it has been mostly rejected by everyone else, just like the first time it was made.

This is a silly debate but I suppose Zoffix has contributed enough awesome code to buy himself some credit.

In any case, it is Perl6 and changing the name now would be an even bigger mistake.
Because searching bulky artwork is meaningless security theater unless you're also X-ray scanning every person who enters the building.
> Modern societies are supposed to be organised for the benefit of all in society

That's a nice sentiment to hold, but that's simply not true. All societies are formed by the elite for the benefit of the elite. If others benefit in the endeavor, it's simply an accidental side effect.

Industrialized human society is no different than the industrial animal farm. The industrial animal farm doesn't exist for the benefit of the animals. It exists for the benefit of the people who own, run or rule the farm.

> This is why the government usually sponsors education, for example.

Modern education system in the US and UK and everywhere was created to indoctrinate the students into a particular belief system of the elite, produce future factory workers and to keep child labor from competing against adult laborers. It was one part to serve as innoculation against "wrongthink", one part to produce factory workers who can read simple instructions and to remove labor supply ( child labor ) from a society which couldn't produce enough jobs for its adults. A reason for the constant increase in education demands from jobs is simply because there aren't enough jobs to go around. A solution is to keep successive generations longer and longer in school and out of the work force. But a side effect of this is that students are indebted more and more. And debt is slavery as adam smith pointed out.

> I believe the start of the problem was the rise of neo-liberalism, holding the market and competition above all else.

The problem predates neoliberalism. Neoliberalism ( and neoconservativism ) is just national industrialism writ large ( international ). It's the natural progression from national industrialization of the past 200 years.
> when many C++ and Rust programs are about to end, they spend the last few cycles uselessly deallocating memory that would've immediately been freed via _exit(2)

This isn't useless because memory allocation can happen during destruction/exit, e.g. to write some data to the filesystem.

Suppose you have a container with a billion objects. The container's destructor iterates over each object, doing some housekeeping that requires making a copy and then deleting the original before moving on to the next object.

That requires memory equivalent to one additional object because an original is destroyed following each copy. Stop dellocating memory during destruction/exit and the total memory required doubles, because you have all the copies but still all the originals.

There are also some helpful things that happen during deallocation. For example, glibc has double free detection, which strongly implies potential UAF but it's only detected if the second free() actually gets called.
Almost certainly the journalist, given that they're quoting something that he said during a podcast.
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Fair point.

I think the market doesn't have room for another desktop OS beyond niche uses.

As in, why would a mainstream user go with Linux over MacOS or Windows?

Same deal with Android and iOS. Insufficient room or need for #3.

Also, apps/software. Devs don't want to support 3 OSs. Users don't want to switch to an OS missing software.

If Microsoft couldn't do it with Windows phone, I don't see why anyone else could.

(Although, I just recalled, Chromebooks exist, found a niche (education, grandparents) and found a monetization method (vampiring on user's privacy.))

Makes me wonder if Ubuntu could do a ChromeOS-like strategy. But without the data-sucking.
https://manpages.debian.org/ffmpeg (or whatever package) is good, too.
On my playlist with music that's not yet in the public domain, I've added in the description of the playlist the full list of the name of the songs. So that each time a video got removed, I only have to check the list and find another copy on YT. Still it only works because I rarely add any new videos to the playlist.
I wrote a report in my freshman year of college on Google+ and how it was going to be "the next big thing in social media" due to Circles and how easy they were to use (I even got A!).

I still wish these had caught on more, or at least that Facebook hadn't implemented Friend Lists as an answer to this that they all but bury in their UI. It would be a much more tolerable place if they made it easier to use this, but similarly, if you have to categorize people in such a way that you rarely see their posts, what is the point of "keeping in touch" via Facebook in the first place? At least for me, if I don't care enough to see your updates (or at least the memes you like) on my news feed I may not think to look at your profile.
I do use explicit drop() calls in my own code to call attention to drops with side effects, but it does not seem to be common practice.

My preferred semantics would have been early drops by default, and a must_drop annotation similar to must_use, to say that objects like RwLockReadGuard should be explicitly dropped or moved.
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I haven't seen anyone mention that, in the shredder video, the blades are all placed flat, parallel to the painting. I don't see how they could have cut anything in that orientation, unless the mechanism is tuned to score the paper by dragging it across the point. Or am I missing something?
I think the biggest problem with Quicksand is that its creator stopped updating it after Terra went to 'eager type-checking'. I'm not a Terra expert, but I did go through the Quicksand code a little while back, and a bunch of it seems to still compile, but one of the big things that does not work is the constructor/deconstructor system. It could be fixed, but it would take a bunch of effort. Fortunately the Terra project seems to be coming back to life recently.

Its interesting you mention Fennel, I think embedding Terra in Extempore using Fennel or http://urn-lang.com/ would be fairly fun, there may be a better way to go about it though; both xtlang and terra have a current stable release based on LLVM 3.8, so they should be able to trade llvm bitcode back and forth without high level language translation. I have a super prototype piece of Terra code that will spit out xtlang type declarations for Terra functions.

Hit me up at grant@iowntheinter.net if your actually interested in forking quicksand and bringing it up to date with the current Terra version.
> As mentioned, how are you going to prove who's lying?

As I mentioned, the proof lies with the accuser. See

"Presenting such a case without hard, verifiable evidence is ludicrous and only works because many people are susceptible for a bad company/bad government conspiracy narrative."

If you think this is a he said/she said case, then you are deep into conspiracy territory.
i'm not sure what is wrong with this. Normally, it's done the other way around, IE you write the papers, publish them, and then write the thesis (whose copyright ends up being owned by some random monopoly company in the midwest). But, you got your name on the paper, and your supervisor, who almost certainly had scientific and funding input to your research, was rightfully coauthor.
>Most people dislike ads, but want content and apps on the web - therefore some economical model is needed

When you figure it out let us know. Other than paying for content (which even when you do that you often STILL get ads, hulu for example).

Ads aren't going anywhere. The fact that people dislike them is irrelevant. Ads are here to stay. So to answer your question, nothing. No business model is going to replace ads on the web.
They took it to "Banksy's people" to have it authenticated.
I don't have an answer. I'm' not a tax expert and certainly not one in the UK. My earlier comment was just reiterating what part of the gp stated that seems to have been missed.
Not sure how you see Perl6 and Nim/Crystal as being competitors...they occupy completely different niches.

Perl6 is supposed to be a new approach for dynamic scripting languages. Maybe you think stuff like gradual typing means it is trying to compete with systems languages...but I don't even think it is the case that "idiomatic" Perl6 will have a lot of type annotations and I personally don't use them much.

I think a better comparison is Racket. Racket is also trying to push the boundaries for dynamic languages. I do not consider Python3 to be a competitor because it seems quite clear that Python3 is not intended to offer up much in the way of fresh thinking, just a cleaned-up Python2 (which is perfectly fine).
Pretty damn cool.

Sort of reminds me of the sunglasses from the 1988 John Carpenter film: "They Live".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8AMRbqY6w
I'll never hate on another company's success but I remember one of their engineers speaking at an event back in like 2013 and it was really politically incorrect. Made me uncomfortable and I'm not exactly squeamish. Doesn't seem like the type of company I'd like to work for.
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> $180,000 on a 4-year degree in 2018 would’ve been a $160,000 downpayment on a house for my parents generation, plus the $20,000 four year degree.

$160k would buy the whole house! (If not, most of it!)

> Success only begins when you build enough wealth to pay for:

> Your own continuing education: $0 — $125,000

> A home for your family: $750,000 — $1,500,000 (depending on how far you are willing to move from a major urban center — but don’t move too far because the wages go down too)

> Education for your children: $180,000 — $325,000 (start at the bottom of the range if your kids are 18 today, move up accordingly)

> Medical expenses: $50,000 guaranteed between childbirth and insurance, more with pre-existing conditions or any large event

> Your own medical care as you age: $0 — $LOTS

I get the feeling that the author purposefully picked one of the worst places to build wealth with "average" incomes (which so happens to be where he lives). While these are bad, these prices aren't average.

I live in the rust belt and might be making some very large (read: expensive!) life changes in the next year or two. There is no way it's going to this expensive.
Not necessarily, Jean-Michel Basquiat started out as an anonymous graffiti artist, who later revealed himself and did very well under his own name.
That's not a reply...
I just went to the announcement at the commons which was interesting. The most important info came from the Russian outfit"The Insider" who I hope manage to continue without too much being arrested and the like. I think the main guy is hiding at the moment.
Snags (dead and fallen trees held up by their neighbors) make excellent firewood and in some cases useful lumber, as it has already been cured!
If only you were famous. You could have made millions from that idea.
It will be worth a good deal more.
Is this it: https://github.com/mohayonao/timbre.js/ ?
(It says it's not maintained anymore)

What does it offer that Tone.js does not?
Possibly of interest to you: https://medium.com/cryptomuse/how-the-nsa-caught-satoshi-nak...
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Those semantics would be nice, but they have a lot of unsolved issues: https://gankro.github.io/blah/linear-rust/
This is a super neat idea. There's a lot of discussion around the value of printed images vs digital images and this is a great way to bridge the gap in a useful way. Also a fantastic gift service (what grandmother wouldn't love new photos of their grandkids delivered every month?)

Good luck!
We need a word that conveys “yes, there are systemic problems that are unaddressed in use of this word, and I did not include it in the document using this word, please direct all conversation unrelated to the topic at hand off thread.”

And then we can use it instead of meritocracy*. Inventing a new word will have the same problem and likely be worse due to the confusion around using a word with the same meaning except it’s not bad.
This. Also, Bloomberg's report is not specifically targeted at Apple. It seems, that it's being attacked here only because Apple is mentioned in it, and the author tends to trust Apple more than Bloomberg.
It's a nice little puzzle to prove that: Irrational number <=> Never repeating infinite decimal representation.
Avast claims there's malware on that site, fwiw.
Exact same though. The designer MUST have had that in mind with the shape/aesthetic he went for.
I disagree. I think it would be interesting to do that same article, but replace the MIT tuition with that of a decent in state school, and replace the housing prices with those of a medium/large midwest city like Omaha, Cleveland, or Pittsburg.

Salaries don't scale like rent does. In Cleveland, you can get a 1 bedroom for around 900 dollars, in SF, that's 3.5k+. That means to maintain the same purchasing power and keeping monthly rent at 1/40th of salary, you'd need to earn 36k in CLE, but 140k in SF. 140k isn't out of reach in the Bay Area at all, but usually requires a college degree, while 36k in CLE is in reach of those without a college degree, and numbers twice that high are in reach of those with a STEM degree.

This means you're going to have more disposable income, not having to deal with 5%+ rent increases every year, pay less in the higher tax brackets, and be able to buy a house without paying nearly as much interest. All just because you stop trying to be the top 1% and live in some place that isn't NYC or SF, but is still in the top 50 largest cities in the US.
I think it has more to do with demand. Ambergris can't be found in large quantities. This makes it useless for big houses like Chanel,Dior,Guerlains etc.
The other thing is consistency. The commercial fragrances want their fragrance to smell the same every year. Something you cannot guarantee if you do not know what Ambergris will you stumble upon.
These days Ambergris is used mostly by artisan perfumers.
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