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The only reason I'd seriously consider upgrading is if they fixed the typing speed. The input latency on iPhone has just _horrible_, and I know after another iOS update it'll be just as bad.

I taught myself to touch type at about ~80WPM with my thumbs, and how I have this bad of habit of typing a full google search query, and just staring my phone for 90seconds until all the text magically fills in and my phone shakes with haptic feed back that should've occurred nearly 2 minutes ago.

It is such a cheap experience I had to turn haptic feedback off because its not even remotely synced to touch inputs.
I upgraded from an iPhone 7 to an iPhone XS and FaceID and the faster processing speeds have been huge improvements for me too.

I find myself frustrated now when I am using a mobile device that doesn't respond as quickly and efficiently as my iPhone XS. The speed at which apps open/websites load, and the accompanying battery life... huge fan. My iPhone 7 would last until about 7 PM before it needed another charge, my XS lasts all day + night and I find myself using it more than I did my 7.
True, but the comment from danielvf that you replied to narrowed the discussion to economic value.
I couldn't find the discourse discussions I started, apparently they deleted them when they banned me from discourse, for 1000 years.

Here's an interesting discussion where they talk about how users shouldn't be banned from discourse / loomio, which I found interesting, though:

https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/t/banning-users-fro...
From /r/space:

Image of the occultation profile vs actual shape:
https://i.imgur.com/PNh4nmX.png

Each line is the same star viewed from a different point on Earth. They arranged for telescopes in a long line North to South to all observe UT at the same time, just as it was predicted to pass in front of the star. Then they precisely timed the apparent blinks of the star. The North-South offset meant the star bisected UT across different sections for each telescope.
Then they just worked out the parallax difference and mapped out the blink times on a chart to see the silhouette.
Well said, the shortcomings of EMEM and its variants are pretty well known. The only reason they have not been phased out seems to have more things to do with cost and institutional inertia.

Microbiology used to be in a similar place not very long ago, with people trying (and failing) to grow every species in lysogeny broth, a formulation from the 1950s that is not even remotedly close to optimal for any bacterium including lab strains of E. coli. Improvements happened gradually and by the mid 2000s things have been turned around, with more efficient techniques as well as the ability to study things previously considered impossible to culture in a petri dish. I think a similar shift will eventually come to mammalian cell culture, however we probably won't realise until it has already happened.
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I'm the author of Polar https://getpolarized.io/, a reading platform and personal knowledge repository features on Show HN a few months back.

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USB-C is being used to power things where 5V is not remotely sufficient. So while for some devices (cell phones, largely) 5V is a plausible tradeoff, I don't really see a world where many MacBook / Chromebook / etc users opt for 5V max charging power.
This comment threw me for a loop - "L2" and "lasso" triggered the pattern recognition in my head for "regression regularization" and it took a moment to realize the topic was still orbital dynamics.

Yeah. It's not the most apt choice of words.
That makes Li-ion pretty bad for motor vehicle use now, doesn’t it?
“For a longer explanation: see this Medium post.”

There is a certain irony there which betrays one of the problems left unaddressed.
Age has nothing to do with talent. Older devs tend to have more experience, go figure.
Did you?

> Apple is working with the government

And from the source article

>[Apple] will not allow me to replace batteries, because when I import batteries that are original they’ll tell me the they’re counterfeit and have them stolen from by [CBP].
They should've added those to Iron Sky
TL;DR

The post just reads like some opinionated piece for traffic. The author has never even used a monorepo as far as I can tell, so can only argue from one side, the best one ever used: polyrepo. Then goes on to list 'theoretical' benefits and the downsides (which should also be theoretical if having never been used) of monorepos. It concludes with "The two solutions end up looking identical to the developer. In the face of this, why use a monorepo in the first place? Please don’t!" implying that 'Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others' do it for no benefit.
Just my personal opinion, but designing a system that doesn’t allow for secure pooling will only enable insecure pooling. So making the choice to force people to share private keys as the only way to delegate capital will make the overall system a lot less secure, and just seems really irresponsible.
So many comments about product features and dongles, USB-C and certain design elements of Apple notebooks… these are all trivial.

Apple’s growth for the last 10 years has been very heavily weighted towards the iPhone, and now everyone has one… or two or three or their are on their 11th. The market saturated. Everything is an iPhone, even non-iPhones. It wasn’t going to continue forever. It’s why they’ve been creating new products like the Apple TV and Apple Watch. But they haven’t yet found something like the iPhone that literally everyone wants. Maybe they find a universal computing platform, maybe they don’t. But Apple’s future doesn’t rest on adding back the headphone jack or getting rid of the touchbar or so-called “game changing” or “killer” features on existing platforms.

If you want Apple to sell one billion devices again then it’s gotta be some real sci-fi level shit. As pretty as the iPhone was, it’s the software that made it magic and set a new standard for how we interact with machines. That “next thing” is probably voice, but no one even seems close. Siri, Alexa, Google Now, Cortana… it’s BlackBerry, Nokia, Palm, etc.. Give me that Hollywood-level magic where the machine gets it right 99% of the time, goes beyond what I thought possible and responds instantly. Impossible? Maybe. But so was a fully optimized touch-based OS before someone did it.
Jesus, this. Look, you're going to run into issues either way, because you're trying to solve a difficult problem.

It's like thinking OOP or functional programming is going to solve all your issues... I mean, in some limited cases they could, but realistically you're just smooshing the difficulties around and hopefully moving them to somewhere where you are more able to deal with them.

FWIW, I've worked in a many-repo org and it sucked worse than huge companies with monorepos and good tooling, but I'm not going to make some blanket statement because it depends on the specifics of your code/release process/developer familiarity etc.
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you seem to fundamentally misunderstand the market. The worry isn't that apple as a company is going to cease to make a profit. The issue is that given the new information on how apple is performing, people would like convert their shares into cash given what they can get versus what they expect to receive in the future by retaining those shares.

Is your argument that in a rational market apple reporting worse than expected performance should have no affect on the value of the company?

It's one thing to pinpoint why the specific information being released is inconsequential, or to argue that the magnitude of the market's reaction is disproportionate or moving the stock in the wrong direction, but your argument seems to be simply raise the question. You're essentially responding to information that says maybe apple isn't as great of a company as we all thought it was yesterday by saying "apple is a great company."
John Carmack has mentioned that he uses a visual Lisp environment on iPad. Scheme-based, iirc.

It's somewhere in here, I think (but alas I'm not up to listening again through half an hour of the old lady voice): https://youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A

I feel like marrying Lisp's meta-programmable DSLs to an easy visual environment is the ultimate cosmic dream of 'domain-centered' programming and customization for non-coders―but it also seems to me that Lisp is rather text-based, trading a readymade set of operations picked in the interface for infinite extendability through text. So I'm not sure if a visual Lisp is any convenient to use.

Also, for me the immediate downside of the Lisp environment in question is that it's only available for iPad.
> The child in me really want to say to Mr. Menghua something like

Go with your instincts, international pissing contests are the best way to get resources devoted to space exploration.
Most likely a mistranslation purposely done by NYTimes ...
I don’t know any of the details (apologies!) but some OpenShift devs I’ve talked to and work with at Red Hat do this for their work. It seems some of the details are here [0].

[0] https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING...
I'd interpret the stated duration as a criterion for whatever budget they came up with. Building something that'll last 90 days in a harsh environment is a lot less expensive than one that needs to last at least a year. And assuming the folks monitoring the rover aren't working for free, the budget needs to include their cost of employment for a fixed amount of time.
What's $400 for someone that can afford a Porsche 911? It seems like when you're spending that much money on a car you should know what you're getting yourself into. You wanted a racecar, and that's what you got.

I was curious so I looked it up, here's their very expensive torque wrench [0]. Here's some pictures of guys holding it [1].

It seems weird to me to complaint about requiring specialty tools for a specialty car. It's not like there aren't a ton of car options to chose from.

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[1] https://www.thextremexperience.com/blog/insane-torque-wrench...
The main reason you can't make a truly universal USB cable is the same reason you can't make a universal ethernet cable. You can make a cat5e cable, you can make a cat6 cable, you can make a cat8 cable. But you can't make a cable that's guaranteed to support anything.

Currently there are four common speeds/specs for the high-speed lanes: none, USB 3.0 at 5GHz, USB 3.1 at 10GHz, Thunderbolt 3 at 20GHz.

Cables that can support the higher speeds without signal loss issues tend to also be increasingly short. That's another issue getting in the way of an ideal cable; it's hard to carry such high frequencies to the same distances.

There's no tradeoff between speed and 100W support, but most cables do lack 100W support for whatever reason.

A lot of cables (even from Apple and Google) pick the "none" option for high speed lanes. Such a cable can only run at USB 2.0 speed and is often called a "charging-only" cable. (True charging-only cables are significantly more rare. They also probably violate the spec.)
Apart from a better screen, faster processor, T2 and A-series chips with far better graphics performance, Touch ID, inductive charging … what have the Romans ever done for us?
Where's that? I couldn't fimd it in the linked article.

Sounds like Elon Musk's original idea for a greenhouse on Mars, to inspire via realtime cam. Is there any indication they'll have a public cam for it?
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And the company went bankrupt (if it wasn't bailed out by MS).
Not a laptop replacement, but great for reading papers.
That remark aged really well...
I'm not familiar with how monorepos work in practice, but it seems obvious to me that it's going to complicate everyday tasks.

Ready to commit? Whoops, another team made a bunch of commits to their project, and you need to rebase your project before you can commit. (I'm having flashbacks to Clearcase already.)

Need to roll back the last two commits you made? Sure, that takes two seconds--oh, wait, another team made multiple commits that got interleaved with yours. Have fun cherry picking the files you want to revert.

Of course, I'm apparently a curmodgeon, because as soon as someone starts talking about running a find/replace globally across multiple projects, I want to grab something sharp.
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For that kind of reading my iPad is right here in my bag. For quickly sending messages, playing music or arguing with Siri, the iPhone 4 or 5 were much easier to hold or pocket.
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From that pic it looks like they were able to measure accurately to within meters of the actual shape at this distance! That is incredible
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I am sure this author means well but I respectfully disagree with this advice.

The author is arguing against the monorepo approach and then proceeds to list out some of the most successful software companies on earth as reasons NOT to do it. The reason they were able to get to their lofty heights was in some part because they used a monorepo. The biggest advantage of a monorepo is you can move quickly and understand the implications of changes since everything is housed under one roof. That's critical for startups IMO. By the time you reach the "scale" the author is talking about, you have the resources to deal with it. Is it hard? Yes. Is it worth throwing out the baby with the bathwater? No IMO.

I currently work in a polyrepo word that the author is encouraging. I can tell you it f*cking sucks. Just take the very simple example of firing up your dev environment. In a polyrepo world, you have to individually fire up each codebase or write up some sort of script to do that for you. The former example sucks for obvious reasons and the latter example makes the case for a monorepo since one dev could author a script that could then be used by all (since he/she will know the paths to all things that need to start). Don't even get me started on setting up an environment from scratch. Containers make this easier but again, it would be nice to just rock `./start.sh` and be off to the races. A monorepo can give you that.

Pulling/pushing changes to your vcs becomes a tiresome error prone nightmare since now you need to remember to run git pull on all the codebases that touch the area you are working on. You might forget to pull on one of those codebases and everything starts breaking and now you need to stop and track it down. Dumb error? Yep. Not a thing in a monorepo? Yep. PR's become really sucky because now you need to harass your team for n PR's instead of just the one if the feature you are working on cuts across codebases. I've worked in some fairly large monorepo codebases with lifespans of >10 years and I can tell you that I have yet to encounter any of the issues with VCS scaling the author speaks of. In the future if I find myself in a situation like that you know what I'll do? Migrate to a more performant solution like Mercurial or something. Will it suck? Sure. But not as much as dealing with a polyrepo.

Then there's dependency management. Holy sweet mother of god dependency management is the worst. Lets say you need to make a breaking change to one of your codebases, in a monorepo (with decent test coverage or a type system worth a damn) you have a decent chance of tracking down everything that needs to get patched. In a polyrepo? Phttt! Enjoy those bug reports from your customers and 1am hotfixes bruh.

I really really wish people on here would stop trying to solve problems of "scale" when that's literally the last thing you need to worry about. Being able to respond quickly to business requirements is the only thing you should be worrying about until its obvious that you've made it. Then feel free to worry about scale.
HN is too niche - I would encourage you to make a plugin/extension system and leave this website specific work to community.
Pulsars can be used to arrive at celestial positioning accurate to ±5 km. There is a test rig on the ISS that has validated this. No need to build human made beacons when the universe has so graciously provided us with them.

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If you think Apple products are quality, especially on the mbp, is superior, you need to try a high-end pc. Don't compare a $3k mbp to a $1k PC.
At least in the case of Oumuamua though, being non-spheroid wasn't really the weird thing about it. It was that it exhibited comet-like acceleration, without any visible off-gassing, and without breaking up as it passed the sun, as a comet would be expected to do. Also the fact that from our current understanding, it is much more likely for a comet to be ejected from a solar system than an asteroid, so it's surprising (not impossible, certainly, but unlikely) that the first interstellar object was more like an asteroid.
Perhaps they should finance it some other way. I assume credit cards or lines of credit are available in the rest of the world? Many people managed to buy desktop computers when they cost $2000. I don’t consider the utility of a portable computer/GPS/video player/camera/communicator to be unaffordable at $40 a month.
From the NYT article [0] on the topic:
"We Chinese people have done something that the Americans have not dared try.” -- someone associated with the Chinese space agency

Why so insecure? Not a good look.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/asia/china-change-4...
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Here's what I don't get. Why isn't Math.expm1 just implemented in JavaScript?

Math.expm1 = (x) => Math.pow(Math.E, (x)) - 1;

With this monkey patched version, Math.expm1(-0) now returns 0. I've been writing JavaScript for a long time and I didn't even know Math.expm1 was a thing. Was it really necessary to implement this inside V8?
Which large companies use polyrepos? Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, all use monorepos.
It’s easier to divide modules than put them back together. Wait until you know what the real boundaries are (they tend to change as scope and functionality expand)
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All much slower than native containers. My Docker daemon on Linux doesn't take 15 plus seconds to start and dynamically utilizes my CPUs and memory from the host.
It's a fine choice of words. It's just a coincidence.
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> “We Chinese people have done something that the Americans have not dared try.”

I don't believe it's a common thinking among Chinese people, but rather NYT carefully picked this particular quote from like a million opinions by the chinese.
lol，yikes
Here's the breakdown on Dec 3rd, 2018: https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/28764-45426-ios12-a...

iOS adoption of new versions is extremely strong and has typically always been that way. Rate of adoption is fast as well. From release of a new version to 50% adoption is often just a few weeks.
Can anyone here explain to me how a monorepo like Google or Facebook handles security?

If I pull the repo - I have the entire contents of Google or Facebook? Is that right?

Surely that lacks the normal security measures around what must be highly sensitive information, so there must be more to it than I know of?
> The fact that people have had devices destroyed by badly designed cables and chargers is proof enough.

No it's not! Badly designed cables and chargers have been damaging devices via power-only ports for decades.
It sounds like a flamebait from NYT. I would not bite.