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I thought you were saying you wrote a PhD thesis about the Macbook Pro keyboard.

Yeah I can't quite put my finger on it but it bugs me too. I still have the old one at home, new one at work. It feels wrong, and it's so loud you can't type in a meeting without everybody knowing you're typing. I've put off buying a new one for myself because of this, hoping Jony Ive read everyone involved with this project the riot act.

We've seen butterfly v1 and v1.5. I'm waiting to see what butterfly v2 looks like before I buy another one.

...
I also hope that whichever people in the universe he accepts advice from have intimated to him in the strongest of possible terms that he should be paying attention to Apple's industrial design, and leave building design to architects (ex: walls you can't see really?)
It was an example, not a one or the other argument, sorry you misinterpreted it, and I can only put that down to how I presented it. My bad, sorry.

As for MP's being neutral, well, it's not impossible, and would be refreshing and well needed change. Otherwise we will just repeat the same old mess with no central point of facts and impartiality to look at for contrast. Making the whole vote a futile mess that will only end up with the same divide, whatever the outcome.

If only the EU stepped back and said we are looking at reforming certain area's, offering up something new to vote upon, at least that would appease the sense of democracy. Otherwise it would be seen as some as another case of the EU not liking the result and being told to vote again. Which is how they will see it, more so as that is what they feared publicly before the referendum and got shot down by the other side for lies.

So to say it is complicated is an understatement. But some grounding is needed and the MP's being neutral and not taking sides, same with parties. Would only help.

But then, much in politics that is flawed and in need of reform. Yet we can't even agree upon a digital voting system, let alone the ability to use more than a single character.

Imagine if Twitter had a limit of one character and you could only post once every 5 years. Think of the level of debate and productivity that would be achieved with such limitations and that is what politics is too the people and we call that democracy.
Trying this out. I like it more than I thought I would. But a couple comments:

1) The sounds appear to all be the same, regardless of key. Seems there should be some subtle variation in the sound, even if it just a very slight modulation in pitch? This would better map with real mechanical keyboards.

2) The sounds appear too far delayed to me. Like it's slightly out of sync w/ my typing. I turned off the keyup sound—which helps—but not enough. It may be this is a limitation you can't overcome.

3) The sound quality seems low. Maybe obtain higher quality samples and/or don't compress it so much?
My trackpad works well, as does the trackpad of everyone else at my company that I have ordered them for, however I have been told they had different suppliers for some of the X1's and a few people have complained that the trackpad and nubbin won't work at the same time.

Sleep mode works great, there is a bios setting for Linux which by default is set to Windows 10, once you set it to linux deep sleep works just by closing the lid, and it resumes as expected.

I do use it with Linux, I have Ubuntu 18.04 running on it and it works great. usb-c charging it amazing, and it works great with my usb-c monitor ( lets me have a single cable to connect everything to the laptop and to charge the laptop ) Battery life is fantastic, the only thing I have to get used to is the CPU in it can burn a lot of battery if you are running it at full load for an extended period of time. When I am running lots of containers on kubernetes it can burn down the battery in a few hours.
I'm a regular user of Airbnbs AND hotels.

I usually prefer staying in hotels and will look for Airbnb only as a second choice.

Reasons are:

- Price is usually higher on Airbnb.

- Airbnb crazy fees for multiple people, cleaning scam, outrageous service fees etc.

- Inconvenience to not have a 24H reception where I can get my keys.

The real genius of Airbnb is that they convinced a lot of people that they shouldn't look for Hotels anymore, which sadly is what a lot of my friends are doing (automatically looking for an Airbnb).
I'd argue that CL actually has a fantastic UI, it presents all the information you need, and nothing you don't, in a format that is quick to read. The only feature it's missing (or was missing the last time I needed it) is a map based list of housing for rent so you can simply filter out 90% of the listings that you'd never consider based on location anyways. That and a "prevent all Craigslist stereotypes from responding to my listing" button.
Always ask the question: "What evidence would I/you need to change my/your opinion?"
Yes, this is what you want, unless you hate Google. I stopped using Facebook for photos because I didn't feel safe navigating their privacy settings. Now I know the only people scanning my kids' photos are thousands of only potentially malicious algorithms.
I was a huge user of snapchat, even though my phone (Nexus 5x) was so painfully slow on it that I hated using the app. I got a lot out of it (keep up with actual friends lives, I don't use instagram). After the redesign, it was bad enough to tip me over the edge. I haven't opened it in months, and I miss the friends I kept in touch with it.
Life has been found far far underground, under the greenland and antarctic ice sheets, and in other even more inhospitable places. There is no way humans could eradicate all life before we managed to off ourselves. Only the destruction of the entire planet so that all that is left in the earth's orbit around the sun is a dust cloud could maybe kill all life (and even then I wouldn't bet against it).
I live in Sweden and do not use - nor even have - Swish. The only occasions where this has been 'inconvenient' thus far was at markets and fairs where they only took Swish payments. In nearly all cases simply stating that I do not have Swish has been sufficient for them to accept cash payments. Those few cases which did not want to accept such did not get my business - the way things are supposed to work in a free market.

Now if the state of Sweden abolishes cash - there is this talk of moving to the 'e-Krona' (the Swedish currency is called krona (crown)) - this will become more problematic. One way out is to pay with Euros, Danish or Norwegian crowns or any other well-known and respected currency. Just going with the game is not an option I'm going to consider.
It's not that crazy. My kids aren't terribly far behind him. I have a 7-year-old studying AP Chemistry for the test in May 2020, and if she does OK then she'll start college at 9. The older siblings started just a few years later. Homeschooling makes it easier.

In times past, people would be employed and married at about the time they physically matured. This is natural. We've deviated from this due to overly lengthy and inefficient education. We're losing years of employment, affecting total lifetime earnings. We're losing years of low-risk childbearing. If you can get your education completed before you mature, then you can start your independent family life at the natural time. You can have a paid-off mortgage-free home and several children by age 20.

I have a coworker that we hired at 18. He showed up with a degree and even some previous professional work experience. He has done well.

By "doesn't mean that college is a good place for a", you seem to imply that something other than college is a good place for these young people. I don't know what that would be, because the obvious alternatives are surely worse. High school can be pretty toxic and useless. Bad stuff can happen anywhere. At least college offers more freedom and respect than high school does, even if it is still 70% a waste of time.
I’ve had some success by mixing in a minute amount of baking soda into the coffee immediately before brewing. Probably works best for French press. Literally the smallest amount I could get between my thumb and finger. Ie 1 mg might be more.
The guidance was a loss between $100 and $75 million for the quarter, so even if they slightly beat that, it’s not doing much to stop the bleeding.
Of course, why would the EU adopt any other strategy if their goal is to keep the EU together?
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Yes, have tried this. Comes back working and then develops the same problem shortly thereafter. Further, Apple Stores are about a 2.5hr drive for me, so I can't just easily keep popping in for every issue -- especially if I think the fix won't last anyway.
Why no startups have copied IKEA's business model
Hilariously, it has a super intrusive popup asking you to disable your adblocker so they can show you someone elses work.
However, there might be a British politician brave enough to say "This is a bad idea, let's not do it", who, on the basis of saying that, might some time later become PM. They won't become PM this year, though.
The article included the quote in such a way that it appears to be pulled out of thin air - I was surprised when I checked other links to find that it was in the data.

And that all feels like casting a wide net anomaly hunting, rather than hypothesis testing, but that's probably not relevant at this point.
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Coffee is life.

I've stopped drinking coffee a fews times. Once while working at a coffee company and there was a full espresso bar across the hall from my desk. Not easy.

The trick for me is maintaining the ritual. Tea fulfills that need in me. First to black & green and then to herbal.

Happily, I've learned so much about tea, I love it nearly as much as coffee.
If you have flatter colors, no complex gradients, using PNG-8 can significantly reduce size. Photoshop can do this.
With public key encryption? Very unlikely.
My wife, who is obsessed with clickbait and loves buying nonsense-products from ads, recently quit Snapchat to use Instagram exclusively. That was my signal to double-down on SNAP puts. Straight to the bank!
My first thought when I saw they just wanted to do counting was could you not doing something like send a

> This_is_a_first_install

request the first time, then

> get_updates

in future, an so I'm glad to see the proposed solution is something vaguely similar.
It may have been inspired by arguments like https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html (although that one was published five years later than the change we're talking about).
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And we see time and time again how ineffectual the population is at getting people into a majority position of power to see the pop proposals of the day enacted.

These direct democracy votes often turn out this way - the people vote on a topic differently than how they vote for representatives. But a large portion of why we don't practice direct democracy in most of the west is because you don't want a mob of opinions dictating national law.

It isn't undemocratic for democratically elected representatives to go against a referendum. They were elected to rule on behalf of their people, even if that is in contradiction to non-binding votes by said people. Its their reelection funeral if they go against popular opinion and turn out wrong, but its their job to do it if they think its right. Its why we have representatives in the first place!
A lot of the arcanity in templates is the arcane C syntax they are shackled to. I wouldn’t call it ad HPC.

Lisp is so much easier. But current C++ is surprisingly expressive and generates pretty good production code. Instrumenting your Lisp with a lot of type declaration is pretty messy too.
Why do you say it's masquerading as B2C? It seems like straight up B2B to me...
It's downvoted because the statement, while true, was irrelevant to the question at hand.
Agree that the issue would have had a lot less salience if the government and media were largely free to ignore the DUP and Northern Ireland in general, though I imagine those ERG Brexiters who seem to want to find any excuse not to have a deal could have still made it a sticking point. And tbf, the unionists probably have as legitimate a point that a separate customs regime violates their idea of the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement as the republicans, though a customs border at [air]ports is obviously less disruptive than one between socially and economically integrated regions on the Irish mainland.
My family uses FamilyAlbum and everyone loves it (cross platform as well).
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Hmm. This is why climate change deniers can get a foot in the door....

....the door has been jammed open by skewed commercial interests for decades.
Unfortunately, Amazon Prime now has ads. Not as much as cable TV, but still very annoying now that I am used to no ads.

I watched the Illusionist last night on Prime video, and not only was there a minute of unskippable ads at the start, but there were 30 seconds of ads in the middle of the movie as well.
This comment wasn't about gradual typing, it was about power / generality of generics / metaprogramming support. C# fails at this in more ways than lacking value parameters and having limitations on value types.

There is no efficient and syntactically pleasant way to work with numeric types generically for example (I can't write 'a + b' and have it work for any types that provide operator+). That doesn't require C++ compile time duck typing (you could mandate something like C++ Concepts to specify a numeric interface, I believe this is sort of what Haskell typeclasses do) but it's easy, efficient and syntactically pleasant to do in C++.

The limitations of C# generics bite it in other ways too - the members of Enumerable are useful and the syntax is ok (not as nice as F# or C++ Ranges) but C# can't match the performance of C++ Ranges given the way they are implemented. They also get bitten by the operator problem - look at how Enumerable.Sum() has implementations for every built in numeric type and doesn't out of the box support your custom Numeric type.
I'm late to this but: After trying many different things over the years, I wrote this: http://onemodel.org (AGPL; and yes I plan to move to https sometime). In it I organize things in a variety of ways, depending on the topics: for periodic/calendar things, I just write a date and have a (relatively) few memorized keystrokes to move it forward a certain amount. For other things I prioritize and have lists by "role" in life (job, health, husband, father, etc).
Each entry can link to as much detail on that topics, including from other areas, as I want. Like a todolist for where I left off so I know what is pending, and what is already done, when I have to come back to something. For topics, I have hierarchies based on what it relates to, and sometimes the same thing is in multiple hierarchies, but it seems to evolve well within the system to meet ongoing needs. It is keyboard oriented and efficient, but you have to slightly configure postgres to install: there are clear instructions and a tutorial. On the web site are some tips for organizing info (in a somewhat raw form), but many more available upon request.

You can think of it something like a personal wiki + emacs org-mode, very efficient, keyboard-oriented, using postgres, but with a much larger vision than today's features, including sharing (linking/copying securely) between instances, and computability of the info for things like anki-like features. Self-hosted now but open to hosting for others. The most current code is in github (AGPL). Comments/questions very welcome, preferably via the mailing list; be patient if my answers are slow. The lists are currently low-volume, and the announcements list should always be.

(It can store files, but isn't especially smooth about it yet. For personal notes of all kinds, it is the most efficient, effective, flexible thing I know of. The FAQs link to a discussion comparing it with emacs org-mode and others. It has fulltext search, some finicky but very functional import/export, a nice numbered-outline export to text, and a journal/activity log.)

If someone checks the web site first, I am happy to answer questions per the email address (or preferably, list) indicated there.
What does services actually consist of? From [1], it looks like the major components are the app store, iTunes/Music (purchases, I assume) and the iCloud? I'm not seeing the data dependency that would incentivize Apple to look to Google for advice, at least not in this category.

The closest might be recommendation systems, but afaik even Netflix only collects from its own information pools, and the main chunk of it is probably for their custom shows; Amazon definitely doesn't track that much data about their users, because their recommendation system might actually be useful if it did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apple_Inc._services
It's a shame to see that DuckDuckGo and many other such companies (yes, also Apple) jump on every "privacy" marketing opportunity they get but largely ignore related user rights such as freedom of information and free software.

Actions like this, the fact that DDGs core components are still proprietary and the freezing of DuckDuckHack just kinda make me think DDG sometimes cares more about the PR than its users.

Don't get me wrong I do think DDG does a good job at providing a good search engine service that respects its users' privacy. It just bothers me that (almost) no one around here seems to care about freedom.

It's a similar thing with Apple, with the exception that Apple actively goes against even the most basic freedoms by forbidding sideloading (if that's still happening), forbidding the GPL on the App Store and being in control of the whole stack - from hardware to software - on almost every platform they have, amongst others.

I'm not saying you need to love freedom but it's a good thing to have, so why not propagate it alongside with privacy? And if you don't do it for yourself, do it for those who care about their freedom.
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How are those contradictory? I get rid of my dictionary, my other books still work.

I, personally, understand the shortcut. Do you want to not break stuff or educate consumers? One of those sounds really expensive.

I mean, it’s a clever threat. I think it overestimates people at their most angry. A rational person wouldn’t break stuff. An irrational person will double down on their belief that you broke other stuff.
Sounds like you should work on your marriage.
Maybe the proper way to fund open-source is just governments, altruistic companies and users, not selling? To some extent all of those already happen but growing so slowly, funded open-source software % growth could be sped up.
No. You seem very confused. Brexiters have not been doing any delivering. Brexiters want a WTO exit (aka "no deal"). The government are not brexiters - PM Theresa May is claiming her daft deal is brexit - she and a few of her supporters only - it is not what brexiters want.
Is profitability necessarily a good milestone? Wouldn't it indicate that AirBnB has reached a local growth maxima and doesn't know where to invest the rest of its huge amount of cash effectively to generate more returns?
Parts of this piece appear to me as evidence for the importance of basic-mid level classes / foundations in statistics, probability, and econometrics for machine learning. Learning to build a model doesn’t mean you can always use it well.
> Without permission, without compensation, and with little in the way of resistance, the company seized and declared ownership over everyone’s information.

No, Google has permission - it's given when you click I Agree in Android, or when you sign up for a Google account, or when you continue to use a website that has a 'terms of use' page.
What does water on another have to do with life there? Yes, the form of matter self-animation and replication that evolved on earth requires water, but won't similar evolution on another planet have different dependencies based on the environment of that place?
It's great. Automatically adds all the pictures of my son to a shared album.
Absolutely this. The day brexit was being voted, I said I would eat my socks if brexit goes thru. The voters did vote for "leave" and my colleagues were wondering if I would really eat my socks. However, I told them this would never get passed thru the parliament. They will dilly dally, drag it along and dump it in the end saying it's too complicated.

To solve any equation, just follow the money. Big business stand to lose a lot of money; therefore brexit won't happen.
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Right. Their margins on oil are far better than most anyone down the supply chain. If people couldn't get enough of my banana art, I'd stop eating them as a snack and go for an apple instead.

Full disclosure, I don't like bananas, and no one is buying my banana art.
Except even paying for all the Hulu feature tiers to stop commercials, Hulu forces you to watch their On-Demand versions which have--> commercials. Youtube TV was even worse on that front. After having a TiVo DVR and then a cable DVR, the ability to Fast Forward thru commercials or skip them was a godsend. Now we are heading to Streaming balkanization--with eventual price rises as well.
I don't get how your argument about time relates. You don't acquire the risk of injury, death or property damage at the same time you purchase insurance. In both cases under discussion, there is existing risk that is mitigated by betting.

> If you were doing both bets before the game started, at about the same time, then the second bet would effectively not be gambling. Not because of your motivation, exactly, but because it reduces the variance in how much money you'll have at the end of the game.

I would agree that if you could make both bets simultaneously that would not be gambling, but I don't see how that is relevant

In my example, both of the second bets reduce the variance in how much money you could gain or lose.
90,-10
after the second bet becomes
80,0
or
70,10

> Let's say you had a bet on team A forced upon you, because of where you live or something. At that point buying a matching bet on team B is an anti-gambling behavior that removes variance from the system. It's the equivalent of insurance.

Why does the source of the risk matter? You have said that gambling is based not on intention, but on effect on outcome variance. Why would the second bet in your example be any different from the second bet in mine?

Let's go with a more real world example. Let's say you have a shop near a stadium in the UK and you place bets so that you win money on outcomes that are likely to lead to vandalism or looting. My understanding of your position is that this is not gambling unless the shopkeeper miss-estimates his risk and bets so much that he gets vandalized and still comes out ahead.

In my view, the distinction between gambling and insurance is purely marketing and public relations.

I might buy a case that insurance companies don't gamble the same way that some bookies don't gamble, because they have the information they need to safely hedge their bets with certainty as they are made.

In my view, consumers generally have much less information about the risks they are hedging, that means they can't have the certainty required for buying insurance to not be gambling