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I bought a previous rev of the Mac Mini in 2014 to use mostly as a media server. It fits in a small media closet. It's quiet. It was relatively inexpensive. It's more than powerful enough to do the job so I have no need to upgrade.

The only goofy thing was that I had to buy a doodad[1] to stick in the HDMI port to get it to switch into certain resolutions even though I'm running it headless. While not a big deal, that seems like kind of a bug.

Overall, I continue to be very happy with the purchase.

1. https://twitter.com/harryh/status/527180708465639425
There is always the ability to control private enterprise when enough of a consensus is established. In this case, credit reporting is regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act which provides a number of guidelines as well as a dispute process, access to your report for free, etc. I would argue that is democratic control to an extent that the people’s representatives have chosen to regulate the industry to that extent, yes.
> Now, in 2018, people think it isn't feasible to build some train stations. And those people might be right! What happened to our ability (practically, politically, and financially) to get such things done?

Over time and increasing population there is a evolutionary niche filling kind of process that occurs within social, political, economic, cultural and other axes/planes/spheres. After the density of these filled niches increase sufficiently over some threshold, our civilization experiences a calcification of movement across the niches.

Each niche acts as a middleman to extract some portion of energy to successfully navigate across them. This takes the form of some kind of concession, trade, grant, swap, boon, promise, etc. Fill a path with enough niches that didn't use to exist before, and we experience it as "we can't get it done" because the cumulative energetic cost rises above a tolerable amount.

Historically, the emergent property in most capitalist structures appears to naturally tend towards influencing government agents via the principal agent challenge to support/enforce increasingly rentier behavior over time and deviate from capitalist structures; I personally believe this is due to scaling issues (Adam Smith was not a fan of the kind of large-scale capitalism we take for granted today). This wasn't supposed to happen according to some economic schools of thought, but here we are. And niche filling, and use of our government to enforce stakeholder extraction claims, appear as another form that this behavior takes.
Serious question: why do people, software developers actually, use Medium for blogging?

- they nag mobile users to install a shitty app "optimized for readers" because apparently the browser is no longer suitable for freaking blogs

- they nag desktop users to login

- they are in fact not GDPR compliant

- the downloaded pages are huge, the browser ends up downloading and interpreting over 2 megabytes of crap in order to display 3 paragraphs of text

- the domain name isn't yours so you can lose your content and your identity and it isn't easy to port to other platforms

Why do you put up with this shit?

I have a blog built with a static site generator since 2008, with minimal maintenance and costs required, on my own domain, with changes tracked in Github. My blog is at this point at least 4 years older than all Medium accounts and will probably outlast Medium.

This may not be for your grandmother, but you're a software developer and the setup would take you one day of work. It actually takes more than that to write a good article.
The problem with Google is exactly the same as Microsoft in the 90s.

They just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. What that means is, I don't mean it in a small way but in a big way.

- Steve Jobs.
For those interested in getting a high level of how China's Social Credit System works, NPR's Planet Money did a good show on the topic last month.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/10/09/655921710/chin...
If you’re not familiar with the principals of p2p generally and the kind of problems you get into I’d start with building a simple DHT based solution using something like the Chord protocol:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(peer-to-peer)

This will teach you all about adhoc networking, routing, the limitations of different architectures and so on. You could also tackle a real use case like distributed key value storage as a learning device.

What you’ll need ultimately will strongly depend on what you intend to build with it.
I suspect that those are the sorts of question this first installation is supposed to answer. They'll certainly have models for efficiency, cost, lifetime, maintenance, etc. but they remain models and field-testing the reality is absolutely the step they appear to be taking here. This was alluded to in the article itself, where they described the cooling unit as previously untested in the relatively dirty conditions under which a wind-generator operates, as opposed the previous applications of the cooler operating in hospitals and clean lab environments.
So you have not disabled all application's access to the microphone unless the one that actually need it? I thought that was the appeal of MIUI in the first place.
Yeah, ASD haven't got the best relationship with Huawei. For years they've been in the PM's ear about keeping clear of them for NBN infrastructure.

To be honest, no manufacturer can be truly trusted, but given the vastly different political and social ideologies between China and the West it seems reasonable that they're picking their poison.
> It changes, massively, from decade to decade. If anything that trend is accelerating: companies grow faster and disappear faster as well

This is not true.

Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful - Report published last week by the Economist

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/11/15/across-t...
> I have no idea whether the Chinese system of government is a good idea or an idea that will lead to the implosion of their society.

So if it doesn't implode, that makes it a good idea?
He was accused of 'hate mongering' by a certain subset of people. The only thing he did was posting a pic with some people and one of the woman in the pic was holding a sign stating "#SmashBrahminicalPatriarchy" which is basically against the caste system in India and aligns well with the Indian Constitution. The people who were butthurt by this are the radical elements which are constantly degrading the image of Indians inside as well as outside India
Think of the upside if your status followed you everywhere you went, and instead of relying on human decency you could expect treatment in proportion to your behavior.

Something like this will inevitably arrive in the West due to human desire for status. Not much different from a thousand little decisions you make every day getting dressed and walking down the street that show the world who you are and what your values are. Now conveniently bundled and accessible to all.

Our grandchildren will wonder how we did business online without it.
>you probably already weren't shopping at ikea.

Is one of the reasons I pronounce it 'ickier'. Well, that and their repeated inability to cut bed slats all to the same length. Sitting down heavily on an ickier bed is strictly for gamblers.
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Yes, but it was mostly accurate in its coverage of life working in a hospital if anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTGxzYo_YyY
>Secret kill lists are for terrorits. We don’t kill our own citizens.

What we do know is the Us has made multiple drone strikes targeting a US citizen and ultimately killed a US citizen.

Two you can’t know how many other citizens are on the kill list, that is the nature of secret kills lists.

Three we don’t even know the standard the government uses to label someone a terrorist (us citizen or not) for purposes of the kill list, because the US Supreme Court said we aren’t entitled to know.

And as to the credit...as I said the majority have good credit and love to think they earned that credit and like the permenant underclass of people who have bad credit can’t get jobs, housing, etc... Trust me the majority of people in China will have good social credit and say the same things as you...it’s easy to have good social credit, it’s not dystopian it’s helpful. History suggests people have a great love for societal hierarchies.
Another BS article. If you are a developer and have even an ounce of ambition better to pack your bags and leave for the states. Leaving the city was the best decision I ever made. I'd be willing to move back if the salaries are double what they currently are. Toronto is just waay to expensive a city to live in for someone in a modest salary and living in the surrounding suburbs is a hellish experience if you expect to commute to downtown on a daily basis. Not a fan of the urban design in the greater toronto area, sprawl as far as the eyes can see.
It's too bad he never mentions the Netherlands. We have few metros but take his 'walk to the station' idea and introduced 'cycle to the station'. You can always store your bike at a Dutch trainstation and coupled with good cycling infrastructure this increases the area served by a station.

We also have cross-country trains every 10 minutes and if you get to a station where you don't have a bike you can rent one from the train company. Or rent a car if you're a bit further away.

There's always room for improvement but right now they have a 90% on time record on an open rail system they share with competitors, foreign train services, and freight trains.

Adding bikes to the equation could solve America's "but our urban communities are too sparse to be served by a metro/train". A bike gets you quite far in 10 minutes. Let alone an e-bike or an electric scooter.

In Utrecht, the main station in our star-grid, they just opened a bicycle parking with 22.000 spots! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3M_GM_MDg8

edit: this is what our national rail looks like: https://www.spoorpro.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/spoorkaar...
big YES! RN has that too, and it was one of its main benefits for me...for the rest, the experience with RN is not as friendly as it is with Flutter...
even if it's an eternal long-term 33% to AWS, Azure and GCP, it's a rational investment for Google

They would need to grow their marketshare ten-fold to be in that position, and they would need to defeat Alibaba on its home turf. It’s not going to happen. GCP could possibly drive IBM and Oracle out of the cloud market, but even that’s unlikely.
Your responsibility is to yourself and to the universe -- not just to your partner. I think you did the right thing of leaving her. Accountability is great, but blaming yourself for an order of destructive events (her life) is foolish.

Take care of yourself buddy. You are intelligent and caring and have a lot to offer to the world.
And a better screen. The X220 is really let down by that horrible panel.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-16/chinese-tech-giant-zt...
Funny...one of the reasons I like it (and prefer it over RN) is that it doesn't use JS :)
This is a distinctly different claim than my claim that it is traumatic to be forced to move and the subsequent non understanding what is traumatic about it. Instead it is a claim that the trauma does not matter. I would then argue that it does matter, in that the lack of compassion towards traumatic events actually prevents efficient calculations in understanding why people don’t move or why assuming people will learn to adapt isn’t necessarily reflective of reality. The claim is not that people will not adapt, but that the quality of their lives will be fundamentally lowered as a result of being forced to move, due to massive loss in human interaction infrastructure. That this doesn’t matter to you is your choice, of course. I’m merely stating that this is a consequence that should be acknowledged during the transition period.
Well, the UK itself seems to be "Failing in London" these days. ;)
I'm working on just such a project:

https://feather-apps.com/

(although it's not officially supported by Google)
or kubernetes for sewbots
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Several years ago I was asked for a software for inhouse maintenance technicians (for AC).

As some of the customers were in the middle of nowhere, the technicians would have to check boxes on their checklists without the possibility to validate it online.

We add to go for a native app as service workers were not a thing at the time, but it would have save us a lot of time if we could have use plain html/js
First, you do have rights under existing regulation and in a court of law.

Second, I’m really not sure what the lending landscape looks like if you don’t have these ratings. (Not saying better or worse, just not sure) I guess if you want to go tell every lender your life story and get your own individual interest rate and negotiate it all yourself then feel free? Numbers tend to free up liquidity because it creates a relatively well understood framework that banks can hedge and lend on. This enables speed as well as more lending.

I’m not a huge fan of the consolidation of ratings agencies but I do like the speed and available credit these scores enable.
FB is failing because it’s old now and no hip millennial wants to be seen using the same social media web page as their mom. That’s why FB is falling as he core demographic for nativity that advertisers need to manipulate it has left. All FB needs to do is follow the millennials and buy up the services they decant to.
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Any urban change takes decades, especially if you have to build things. For example it takes years from proposal to completion of a single bike lane. Digging subway tunnels is much slower. Here in Berlin we're still debating plans that were originally drafted in the seventies.

I think the most effective tool cities have is zoning regulations. Getting them right enables the city to harvest organic change as opposed to having to plan every single project. Reducing free parking and allowing mixed commercial and residential use seems to me like the easiest way towards a public transit centric city. In Tokyo for example there is basically no curbside parking and shops are always within walking distance.
Just curious - why do you think a centralized system would be superior to a decentralized system? That would allow the norm to be dictated by the central authority, and not through public consensus.
> right now

> 22 November 2017

Also: https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=germany&source=lnms&tbm=n...
I assume you're being sarcastic b/c the laws and cronyism do not currently ensure such an outcome.
Keeping track of and prioritizing the things you need to do is a very different challenge from motivating yourself to actually get off your ass and do them.
Replace "greatest ally" with "military-industrial complex", do you still need sources?
If you look at actual numbers, brexit isn't doing much to the British economy. There's plenty of doomsaying in oral and written communications, but when people and institutions put their actual money in the game, the expectation seems to be that there's going to be life as usual.
>This looks an awful lot like fraud. Remarkably, the mark-up disclosure and best-pricing rules required to fix this could be largely copy-pasted from the securities industry.

This is something that bothers me a lot about the American health care system. It's not that costs are exorbitant. It's patients being defrauded every step of the way. Most medical procedures, devices and pharmaceuticals would be dirt cheap if there was a) price transparency and b) competition.

That not everybody is insured is one problem, but that most people need insurances just to have someone negotiating on their behalf is not sustainable. Especially when there's a quid pro quo between insurances, devicemakers and hospitals.
I'm a spouse of someone with IBS, and wanted you to know that those subs are fantastic. Thank you for being a good person to strangers.
Identifying and removing contaminants is a routine step in DNA-seq analysis. They might still flag and discard the sample internally but treating it would be trivial.
What is Brexit doing to the economy in your view? So far we seem to be experiencing wage growth, GDP growth and low inflation.
Millennials are 30-40 years old. If FB wants to be hip they need to go after gen z and beyond.
Everything is visible from space with a large enough lens...
I personally don't find the traffic that bad as someone who commutes from Mississauga to Toronto every day, but maybe I'm conditioned to think it's normal. What city are you comparing it to?
I think that use case was a very good one for the Mini, but with the price hike I just don't see why anyone would choose this latest model. You can pick up a HP MicroServer Gen8 for ~$150 or the latest ones for ~$450, and those offer tons more variety on configuration, more storage expansion capacity, and they're extremely easy to maintain (I'm far from a HP fan, but they sure can build a solid server).
People ask that more yes, on the surface they have a lot in common. Both can be used to transmit huge files, both can chunk files up and only transmit remaining parts, and pick up and resume at a later point in time, and (in case of tus optionally with the Concat extension) send these chunks simultaneously.

Tus however works as a thin layer on top of HTTP, so it’s easy to drop into existing web sites/load balancers/auth proxies/firewalls. BitTorrent ports are often closed off on airports/hotels/corporate networks. But websites work. And if you can access a website, you will be able to upload files to it with tus.

Another difference is that tus assumes classic client/server roles. The client uploads to the server. Downloading is done via your regular http stack and not facilitated by tus. BitTorrent facilitates both uploading and downloading in single clients. It is more peer-to-peer and decentralized in nature, where tus clients typically upload to a central point (like: many video producers upload to Vimeo. Not very contrived as Vimeo adopted tus).

There are more differences (Discoverability, trackers, pull vs push, pulling from many peers at once) but the comment is getting very long so I hope this already helps a bit :)

Happy to dive deeper into this at request tho :)
Yahoo failed because they were a directory service that saw the search box as less relevant. Google recognized that searching is the human approach, not ordering stuff into folders, which is an obsessive compulsive trait.
"Took me a while to work it all out. I researched the hell out it and pretty quickly felt like I knew more about IBD than the specialists, especially how the disease manifested in me."

Exactly this... doing this was the only way that I found any solace. In all of the confusion, I decided that I had to become nearly as educated as the doctors I was talking to. I didn't have to be an expert in the disease, but I did have to be an expert in "how it manifested in me" (great way of putting that).

After that, my discussions with doctors were so much more productive. My 20-30 minutes with a specialist wasn't spent on them explaining to me what I had, I already knew that part. We instead got to spend it on insightful discussions of treatment options, side effects, risks, and contingency plans. That was when I felt like I finally had some control in the matter.

I'm sorry you were treated so skeptically as a hypochondriac, I fortunately never had to deal with that. (I think it's because all of my GIs saw me at my worst at some point)

I hope you stay healthy.
Hynix has a 32Gb LPDDR4 chip on their catalog, listed as "in production". If a laptop was LPDDR4 compatible, you could fit 128GB in two double-sided SODIMMs.
"impulsively holding up a sign that has a very biased, potentially violent message, targeting a religious minority that makes up < 5% of India" wow!!

He did not held up the sign another person in the pic did. #SmashPatriarchy is very famous wording for any Feminist movement and adding Brahminical to it is just addressing the taboo of caste system which has been introduced by brahminical society.

Looking at your detailed justification why Jack should not have posted it, it feels like you align with the butthurt upper caste hindutva brigade of India.
On a recent mac, you can enable Greek as a second keyboard, and tick the box there to make caps lock switch keyboards.

As long as you don't need caps lock as your escape key...
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I'm disgusted by the comments in this thread that go "culture!", "tradition!", "philosophy!" to explain why this really isn't that much of a problem.

So because Chinese rulers have oppressed and mistreated their people for so long that their methods have become ingrained in the national psyche, it's somehow more OK?

George Orwell predicted that "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever". He thought he was making a dystopian prediction, a warning of sorts, but he could've just as easily called it a history lesson about China.

Sure, many other places, most places in fact, have horrible histories, with evil rulers vastly outnumbering the even somewhat good ones, but China is unique in that it's been all about oppressing and abusing the population as heavily as possible, without pause, ever since the first emperors gave the country its foreign name.

A non-stop tradition of oppression doesn't somehow make new oppression less bad.

NOTE: Nothing against the Chinese culture or people. I'm extremely fond of lots of Chinese things, not in the least Chinese humor for which I have a particularly soft spot. I love working with Chinese people, I love meeting Chinese people. It makes me sad that such a wonderful place and a wonderful culture can also have such a horrible tradition of oppression.
I have an early 2011 mbp, swapped the hdd for an ssd, got 16 GB of Ram and a new battery and the only thing I'd like is a higher res screen. Other than that the thing is pretty perfect. As a bonus I can still read and burn DVDs.
But Yahoo pretty much ruined companies they bought like Tumblr for example. I’m not saying Facebook won’t make the same mistake but so far they have done a relatively good job with Instagram and WhatsApp. Both of them are very popular and growing. Much different story than Yahoo, at least so far.
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Of course the lettering in Japan is not set in faux-asian typesetting since you already have real-asian typesetting everywhere else. Latin typesetting is mostly added to add a sense of occident stereotypes (to the point where the latin writing makes little to no sense, similarly how Superdry's Japanese slogan makes no sense to Japanese speakers), writing it in a brush stroke would defeat the purpose of such styling.

This is also why you don't see fake-cyrillic writing in any country using cyrillic because it is just odd and meaningless to readers to these scripts.
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I have lots of issues with VSCode. Atom always seems faster and more reliable to me.
I'm going to give the typical leftie answer: neoliberalism.

Basically, large public works projects still seemed possible up to the early 1970s. The hypothesis is that it's only after two near-simultaneous changes, the rise of Reaganism-Thatcherism and the fall of the Soviet Union, that the state seemed to lose all of its potency. It seems like we placed all of our faith in the wisdom of the market, a machine that can never be stopped once given power.
Sounds scary
Chinese value personal freedom and do enjoy quite a lot of it, actually.
In fact, I'd say that Chinese society allows more individuality and freedom than e.g. Japanese society.
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