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I read an article somewhere that manual dexterity was one of the most important factors in a successful surgery (more than education). Seems like something we should be screening and should be something that favors gamers?
The ISP box in my home has a SFP cage, and fiber sfp adapter, with wireless ac and a nice OLED screen. Total cost is $130, but everybody gets a free rental.
To me, typing on a phone is a lot easier to learn in terms of dexterity than threading a needle.
Such things happen all the time all around the world, but even more so in Eastern Europe, Latin America, SE Asia, and so on.

You could fill pages with such things in a place like Mexico...

Some examples from a quick search and mainly focused on bankers -- if expand it to business magnates in general, there are tons of such cases...

https://www.businessinsider.com/r-the-silencing-of-maltas-an...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/dec/07/italy.theob...

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/banker-sex-scandals-2011-...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/may/12/roberto-calvi-bla...

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-doral-bank-murder/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gangster...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-13/inside-look-two-mo...

https://www.unilad.co.uk/featured/shocking-video-fuels-claim...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/billionaire-who-blew-whis...

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/22/630866527/mastermind-behind-m...
Does this mean you can't use it in a configuration with say one laptop, two external monitors, and lid closed... and still use the mic?

I don't have a Mac so maybe that isn't a valid use anyway, but I do that with PCs all the time.
Most drives I've looked at get around 400mb a second (I also use https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/), and the SSDs Apple use are 2500mb/s, so 6.25x faster.

I priced up the high performance 2TB SSD setup about a year ago, so I'll concede that data point is out of date.
Out of curiosity, what is the appeal of the new MacBook Air over a regular MacBook? Is it the 13" screen vs. the 12"?

I'd just assumed that when Apple introduced that crazy-thin 12" MacBook a couple years ago, it was meant to replace both product lines. I don't understand why it's necessary to maintain a third discrete product line. Why not add a 13" variant to the standard MacBook line with i5 and i7 processor choices? That would be similar to what they do with the MacBook Pro line.

Is there some other difference that I'm overlooking?
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Raid 5/6 require parity calculations before data can be written to disk. This is a significant amount of data, especially at high writing speeds. That is what causes the inflight data problem.

Battery and flash backup on controllers dosen't fix the problem of hardware failure (which is significant, especially on big hot controllers.
I pondered raising this issue in my above comment but decided not to since the comment was already long enough but the issue has been raised nonetheless.

I agree that "the planet can't support X" is code for "I don't want to change my lifestyle" or, by extension, "I want my children to have the same lifestyle".

Lots of animals return to the point where they were born to breed. Some cross vast distances. The human version of this is a mix of normalcy and nostalgia.

By normalcy I mean however the world was when we were in our formative years we view as "normal". I really wonder what life was like 500 or 1000 years ago when politics may well have changed but largely there were few if any substantial everyday technological and societal differences from one generation to the next.

The problem with this is that ew can easily start seeing everything through this lens such that things that diverge from our view of normal are (more likely) "bad" and those that don't are (more likely) "good". This I feel is a big part of conservativism/traditionalism.

The nostalgia is obvious. The time when we were young is often romanticized, even fetishized.

So as to maintaining lifestyle, let me put it this way: assume you're fo middle or upper class in the US. Could everyone in the world live as you do now? No. So by some measures we're already living beyond our (collective) means. And as hard as you may have worked, as smart as you are the biggest difference between you and a resident of some far less well off country is just plain old dumb luck that you were (probably?) born "here" (wherever here is).

Granted some people from more disadvantaged backgrounds do better their lot in life but the odds are stacked against them in a way that just isn't true for someone born in the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, Western Europe and a handful of other places.

Fun fact: the population density of Tennessee is 160/mi2. The land area of the US is 3.8m mi2. If you populated the entire US at the same density as TN you'd fit 6 billion people there.

Would you consider TN overly dense?

You may not have ever been there but it doesn't matter. No one is piled on top of each other (like, say, Hong Kong at ~7000/mi2). People live on large lots in big houses and there's still wilderness.

We only live on a tiny fraction of available land. The vast majority of it is farmland but if farmland can produce 10 times as much per unit area then we need an awful lot less of it to support a much bigger population.

Unfortunately preserving one's way of life is so often just code for NIMBYism, excluding certain groups (eg segregation in the US) and maintaining the status quo just because you were lucky enough to be born in the right place.
Killing Xcode would also end your debug session. Presumably Apple will think that far ahead and grant the necessary entitlements so that this doesn't happen.
While this is very cool, using the distance each invader survives as the fitness score seems like maybe not the best choice for this scenario.

With so many invaders spawning at the same time, and the 'bullet' you shoot moving so slow, the last invader to be destroyed seems to me to be a result of random choice (which one did you get around to shooting last) rather than it being any 'healthier' than the other invaders.

I don't really have a suggestion on how to improve it other than maybe slow down the vertical progress of the invaders and speed up the bullet so that distance made vertically is actually tied more closely to it's ability to evade your shots.
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But the fact that a big chunk of the user base is there for particular kinds of content inevitably colors all the other communities. This is why the best parts of Reddit are the parts that either restrict themselves from /r/all (or moderate so aggressively that people who show up from /r/all functionally don't post), or are too small/niche to ever show up on it.

They can actually foster an internal community without getting Eternal Septembered once they break a certain size.
It seem that the RAM is user-upgradeable, the SSD not. But as it has 4 thunderbolt ports, EGPU and external storage are possible.
I use it in raid 1 on a 2x1TB setup and it works great, if you don't use its 'exotic' features like software raid and the fancy volume management stuff just stick to ext4
They are not completely different. Entire large projects can be written in C that also compile with a C++ compiler, and it is entirely practical, even easy, to maintain them that way.

My TXR language is like that:

./configure cc=g++
make && make tests

The Lua people have done this too, and call this dialect "Clean C", I think.

Compiles cleanly and tests pass. I usually work with it with a C compiler. Before releases I run it through the C++ compiler to see what breaks, and fix it. (Usually very little and often nothing at all.)

Teaching them at the same time? I'm not sure I would take programming newbies and try to teach them how to program in C such that it also means the same thing as C++. That is to say, I would be confident that I could teach this in a straightforward way; however, the problem would be the lack of supporting material. For instance, there is no reference manual for the "Clean C" language; what would we use as a text book?

One approach would be just to use C resources, and cover the C and C++ differences as one chapter of the course: basically, how to port C programs to the C++ dialect.

I'd definitely teach the students how to leverage the stricter C++ type conversions while keeping the code C, including the following trick:

#ifdef __cplusplus
#define strip_qual(TYPE, EXPR) (const_cast<TYPE>(EXPR))
#define convert(TYPE, EXPR) (static_cast<TYPE>(EXPR))
#define coerce(TYPE, EXPR) (reinterpret_cast<TYPE>(EXPR))
#else
#define strip_qual(TYPE, EXPR) ((TYPE) (EXPR))
#define convert(TYPE, EXPR) ((TYPE) (EXPR))
#define coerce(TYPE, EXPR) ((TYPE) (EXPR))
#endif

This would be a nice way to cover the preprocessor.
Morgan Freeman owns (owned?) the rights and has been trying to make it since the late '80s: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/morgan_freeman_insists_re
https://system76.com/cart/configure/meer3b is probably a better choice unless you need the 64GB.
"Why should I care about proprietary software competition?"

Because without it we all pay much higher prices than we normally would, and we get sub-par quality/innovation. Unless you're somehow intimating that proprietary software can be completely eliminated, but I don't think that's the case. I don't think that such views are grounded in reality.

"And how are they building these free software moats that stop other people?"

I think this has been demonstrated pretty clearly over the last 10-15 years: they use open source to direct the industry in ways that are beneficial to them, regardless of whether they are good for everyone else. And, it is often the case that there are serious issues for anyone that would want to compete against them in a specific area of software because they're now competing against "free". It forces companies to diversify into areas where they have little expertise, just to be able to compete. So, instead of a company being a developer tools company, they're now something else that also happens to give away developer tools. In the end, it favors large corporations over smaller enterprises in an industry that has traditionally been one with very low startup costs and lots of opportunity.
K&R is a bit old, but I think it still serves as a good introduction to C. It can be supplemented with newer material, but it still serves as a pretty solid foundation.
I own many Apple products, and I like Apple as a company a lot; but I would have to agree with your observation. The reality does not agree with their marketing. I understand marketing can be employed as a tool to favorably present reality, but still, the edge-to-edge statement is quite a stretch.
Better debugging is something I want to focus on in VSNotebooks.

Personally, I like VSCode more than Atom, so this was one of the reasons I started working on this extension!
It seems like Ubuntu supported ppc64le long before Red Hat; I assume that was sponsored by IBM.
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Agree on the size, but that price...
Unfortunately it's opt-in and if you don't have an account (like me) it can be a pain to constantly look for the little itty bitty link to revert back.

The best part is that the subs I lurk have banners that only appear in the redesigned view that instruct you to use old reddit because they rely on custom CSS for filtering and other things.

It's amazing that reddit management has thrown it's creators under a bus in search for monetization.
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No you can go i7 with the 128GB model as well. I think the 256GB base model makes sense though, to have enough headroom for the OS and such.
That isn't the fault of the cable. Every USB port from 1.0 and up is required to limit current provided on VBUS. If your port blows it failed at doing that regardless of any misconfiguration within the cable.
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It is a valid use case, and no it seems like it won't work.
Take this with a gain of salt, I've heard that Microsoft is eyeing Edge for the chopping block, and they're prototyping yet-another-chromium-based-browser with a look and feel of Edge. It's obviously a massive development effort to build a browser and this would ease porting edge to different platforms. I assume a PM decided to stop reinventing the wheel and cut costs to get more visibility for promotion.
> semantically equivalent

Of course, the #1 biggest problem of C is that C's semantics are not what people think they are. Most notably, pointers are not integers in the C abstract machine, nor can you really enforce such a mapping without prohibiting nearly all optimizations [1]. And when you teach people to understand how processors work via C, you start to claim that C's semantics are processor semantics, which has not been the case for a very long time.

[1] The underlying issue here is that the model you need for any sane optimization is that if you tell nobody that this box of data exists, then there is there no way for anyone else to refer to it. This basic fact opens up the ability to do things like move variables from stack allocations to registers, eliminate dead stores, etc. It also implies that you need some sort of pointer provenance in the semantic model to track who actually has the ability to refer to something. In practice, a semantic model for C needs to carry pointer provenance through integers as well, but that really means that C's integers also aren't mathematical integers (modulo some power of 2).
What happens if the T2 Chip fails? Is it possible to recover data on the disk? Or do we have to recover data from the last backup?
In theory you should be able to install alternative operating systems by disabling "secure boot", but at least with Linux that isn't working properly yet. Trying to use the NVMe controller results in reboots, caused by the T2 chip. It's not clear so far if that's intended, a bug in the software running on the T2 chip, a bug in the NVMe implementation in Linux or if there is some logic necessary to properly initialize the T2 chip.
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XCode on iPad seems like a WWDC type announcement. And if there is some sort of new declarative UI that will target iOS and macOS they may just wait a year or two until that is ready (not that XCode as is would be ready today even if Apple wanted it). If they can get Photoshop on the iPad I’m optimistic we’ll get some kind of iOS IDE in the next 9-18 months.
No that was the price before the update, now it says "from $799"

Three years ago (until about 5 hours ago) you could get a new mac mini for $499.
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The keyboards themselves didn't have the V, it was the extension cord, and it was because it was out of USB spec. If you push hard enough, any old USB port went in just fine.
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"pointing out something in history that was very prosperous before Cultural Revolution but died right after" I don't understand what you're trying to say there.

You can google up all sorts of things if you like. I've found it's not worth my time to post basic history, particularly with regards to China on hacker news. Too many accounts that amount to "nuh, uh prove it!" and have nothing else to say.
>Apparently you're not old enough to remember those apple "USB" keyboard plugs with the little v-shaped indentations so you couldn't plug in non-apple approved devices.

Wasn't that because of the extender cable? As I recall extenders couldn't be USB compliant, so apple made a notch in the extender so that it wasn't technically a separate USB accessory from the keyboard?
This is not true at all. C and C++ are about as similar as C and Objective-C: sure, your code is pretty much a superset (or in Objective-C's case, a strict superset) of C. But most of the time your code looks nothing like C at all.
I would say that being able to compile code in one language means close to nothing if a developer can't understand how a project is structured and how a component is supposed to work.

Thus, the observation doesn't inform the debate about C and C++ overlap.
I sit up straight when I can. It is easy to end up sitting wrong when I focus on the terminal too much. I get up and walk around. I take garlic extract which makes me have to use the restroom hourly and keeps my BP lower.

I walk around the parking lot / complex a couple of times a day and drink water while doing so.

If my back gets inflamed, I use a topical anti-inflammatory creme (penetrex), but do so carefully, as it dumps all the buildup in the muscles into the blood stream which puts a heavy load on the kidneys and spikes blood pressure. It contains no warning about this.

If things get really bad, I pay a local massage place to walk on me and spend 2 hours working on my back. That also requires drinking a lot of water and / or sugar free cranberry juice to keep toxins flushed.

I am contemplating a standing desk, but not sure that I would use it as often as I should.
That's not an exchange rate issue, that's a political one. Presumably you get something out of these high sales tax, in the form of cheaper education, cheaper healthcare, better infrastructures, or a better social net. Why would Apple close that gap by charging the American customers more? If you want cheaper sales taxes, vote accordingly. Don't ask Apple to cover the difference.

Though you could argue that if Apple was paying its fair share of taxes (for your own favorite definition of fair share of taxes), maybe VAT could be lowered. Again, that's a political issue, not an exchange rate issue.
Judging from New Horizon's targeting capabilities and assuming the "discarded" light sail still has guidance then I'd conclude our aim could be amazingly good!
> I think of that bottle of ersatz Worchestershire sauce whenever I hear from Linux advocates who say that some piece of GUI software is as good as a big commercial project in the GUI realm.

I don't think that this is at all fair. Some anecdata:

I can't compare GNOME with macOS, as I haven't used either, but when I switched from Windows 7 to Ubuntu/Unity, I honestly felt that Unity was far superior both in terms of usability and degree of "polish", to the extent that during the transition time, while still dual-booting, I futilely tried to make Windows more Unity-like.

Further counterexamples: Firefox vs IE, VLC vs Windows Media Player, etc.

(Yes, in most of these cases the FOSS version has/had a large organisation behind it, to some degree, but then so does GNOME, at least for the moment.)
That's weird. It works normally in the "Matterialistic HN" app's built in browser.
One mistake people make is pretending that every choice we make is a hard one with no good answers. Sometimes there are good decisions and bad ones, and we end up making bad ones even when the good ones are obvious. We often see this happen with individuals, it shouldn't be too surprising that this happens with societies as well.

A few years back when I looked at solutions to "cooking this planet" that didn't involve anything that would cause much disruption to most people's lives. The reason we're not solving the problem isn't because of the hard choices we have to make. It's because a few industries that might make less money if we fight climate change try to stop efforts to combat it, politicians who get money from these industries say climate change is a hoax, the public at large is largely too apathetic to remove politicians who don't act, people who oppose all collective action oppose collective action to fight climate change, the media doesn't report on it because it doesn't get ratings, etc.

Could we have everyone's standards are close to the current standards enjoyed by developed countries without destroying the planet? Maybe, maybe not. It's insanely premature to pretend that we know it's impossible. Not only have we not seriously tried to solve the problem, but a large part of the U.S. is actively opposed to even stopping the problem. "There's no solution" is an easy way to absolve us from our failures.
The 1TB configs have 6 GB of RAM making it even less of leap to assume they can do it soon.
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Official Apple response: "You're holding it wrong."
TY, interesting.

Granted, I get that for security ... can't be bending the rules or it would just be the method use to circumvent it.
>I still don't like that people get into their own bubbles and do little to bridge the gaps between political and ideological differences

I have never found any sites/forums/bbs that didn't eventually devolve into a echo chamber given enough time.

People like to repeat the same opinion as others and those who don't like these opinions tend to be the first to leave for other pastures.
Joystick down means nose up because it's simulating the yoke of your airplane in which you pull back (joystick down) in order to "pull up" the nose of the plane.

The recent fad of reversing the touchpad scrolling direction is an attempt to simulate how we use our phones in which we tap the content on screen and drag it around to pull other content into view.

Because the touchpad was invented to replace a mouse, I expect similar motions to produce the same results. For example: scrolling the wheel down moves your viewpoint in the current window down, so a similar motion on the touchpad (swipe down - use two fingers to differentiate from a normal touch) should produce a similar result. Instead, we get manufacturers who by default include un-intuitive configurations of something that had been working for decades for billions of people. At least for now we are allowed to change those settings.
It's not cherry picked. It's literally the first result in Google, from Wikipedia.
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Have people been finding that AWS SageMaker disconnects you and you have to restart after a couple hours?

I am curious people's thoughts on using Jupyter for long-running code. Having a totally self-contained experiment in one notebook, even if it long-running, is very useful for reproducibility. It works fine on my local laptop and a remote server, but not with SageMaker.
Did you take a look at http://www.wolfram.com/language/fast-introduction-for-progra...?
A friend of mine took up being an orthopedic surgical PA late in life after being a mechanic for a couple decades. From what he says, there's a lot more brute strength and ignorance involved than one might envision, and the skills of handling power tools transferred surprisingly well.
This is because the glass is edge to edge, even if the pixels aren't. (so 'technically' correct, but certainly misleading)
Overall the iPad has a very attractive hardware as a laptop competitor. It has a touch screen, the pen support, is fanless, can be used without the keyboard attached. The more "Pro" it gets, the thought of replacing a laptop with an iPad comes up, but ends at the software limitations.
He wants to make it into a movie though. I hope he is considering a high-level TV series a la Game of Thrones. I feel like there are a lot of nuances that would get lost if made as a movie or series of movies.
I love Jupyter Notebook for experimenting and rapid creation of reports, but dislike it for not being able to use my editor and for intermingling inputs and outputs in a single file. So I'm working on an alternative frontend to Jupyter kernels, which is heavily inspired by KnitR: https://github.com/azag0/knitj It is still being developed, but it's functional and I use it every day.
That is not what "refugees welcome" implies.