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Apple Hit with Two Class Action Lawsuits over iPhone 7 Audio Issues
Linux 5.1 Arrives
The most common justifications for murder are morality-based. "He deserved it" or "she was cheating on me" etc.

Not saying you are right or wrong in this case, but in general you want to check in with some objective observers rather than taking the law upon yourself.

It's also worth remembering that quite a few industries have death as a side effect. If there is an obvious and economical way to make things safer, and someone cuts corners, then sure, they are culpable. Otherwise, it's just a cost people have implicitly accepted and rage shouldn't be directed at one person.

Speaking generally here.
Definitely the vertical oriented for smart phones. You cannot view them in a page layout. Makes me kind of sad because I don't look at content on my small smartphone, instead I use a large LCD monitor or a large tablet. These webtoons are annoying to try to read on them. :( Makes me sad that I won't be able to read any because of the annoying interface.
You can service pretty much everything yourself with thinkpads (except some recent models). No need to ask anyone to open up your machine as long as you have a screwdriver.
My second-favorite self-checkout peeve is when I go to Target (+grocery) and want to buy two or three things for lunch, one of which is an apple--a Fuji apple, which I have memorized as produce #4131. The apple has to be weighed, so it goes on the scale. But the scanning lasers also go across the scale plate.

If the scanning laser manages to read the little bar code on the produce sticker before I manually type in the number on it, the whole self-checkout station immediately panics and calls for a store employee to unlock it. Every. Time.

This problem has existed for years. I now trigger it on purpose whenever I'm not in a rush. There's no excuse whatsoever for a self-checkout system to grind to a halt when reading a bar code that legitimately appears somewhere in the store.
People get VERY nervous about police with a track record of murdering unarmed people waving guns at them, and they are human beings just like everyone else looking down the barrel of a gun.

Maybe that opinion is unpopular because it puts more expectations on the victims of unjustified violence than the theoretically-trained perpetrators.
when my Mac had a serious problem, i was so disappointed by the low level of service at my local Apple Store that I looked on Yelp for a good one. i would have driven a hundred miles to get away from the smug, the problem denials, the repeated trips, the incompetent repairs carried out with defective used parts.

but there weren't any good ones. the Yelp ratings for all the stores in my area were just meh, or downright bad. i felt like i'd been tricked into buying an expensive, unmaintainable hunk of aluminum.

i like Macs, but those experiences made me want to avoid any more Mac purchases.
Apple's document said service providers could request a
"warranty exception" for affected iPhones, which
resulted in free repairs for at least some customers,
but that abruptly ended in July 2018 after Apple
deleted the document.

We're probably just a deleted-document away from keyboard replacements costing $795 each time too.
I specifically follow Andrew Hall Cutler's frequent low-dose chelation protocol.

This is all done in 3-10 day rounds. I started with 1mg DMPS every 8 hours and saw rapid improvement of many symptoms within a few rounds. I worked my way up to 10mg DMPS and added ALA every 3 hours currently at 1mg.

I take many supplements which facilitate healing. It is unlikely that one would see rapid improvement without a proper supplement regimen.

I'm currently using 3mg DMSA only due to DMPS supply issues. I get many side-effects from DMSA so progress has slowed recently.

I've completed 37 rounds and have been chelating for just over a year. I know several people who are claiming near 100% remission of their symptoms after 2-6 years of chelation.

ALA is easy to obtain as it is regulated as a supplement. It is very dangerous to take in the doses normally sold if you are mercury toxic. DMPS/DMSA are prescription only, but is easy to get.

There is another product that I am going to try soon. They make dramatic marketing claims which makes me suspicious, but the science behind it is compelling once you dig past all the bullshit. It is called TRS annd is manufactured by Coseva.

Feel free to write me at jbob286 (aat) gmail if you have questions. I can point you to a bunch of free resources.
> get the government about of marriage

Out of marriage you mean?

Marriage bestows a number of desirable benefits to spouses, in terms of property, taxes, and kinship (having the ability to speak for your spouse in case of severe illness and sudden hospitalisation is definitely something married couples tend to want). It is reasonable for governments to award such constructs, as they are the one type of institution that can grant them.

Opening up this civil marriage construct to polyamorous lovers is probably fine, as long as there are safeguards to prevent abuse of that construct. Like a maximum of n people perhaps (but I'm no expert on this topic).

This is of course separate from any religious marriage which a secular government already stays well away from.
1000% agree. I don't always want someone to walk me through setting up my iPhone. I've used them since the very first one, I don't need any help. Take my money already and let me get out. Even just picking up a set of airpods for my wife took far longer than it should have. A vending machine would be all kinds of awesome, maybe like the ones Best Buy has at the airport (which sells some Apple products like airpods, coincidentally...)
The wait times are ridiculous. It took half an hour the last time I was there just to talk to someone.

I was there to spend upwards of $5000 on new hardware and I knew exactly what I wanted - I just needed to pay for it and have someone hand it to me. Total transaction time was over an hour and I would have left if I didn’t need it that day.
Here is one more comment to tank my karma.
There are tons of people who's job is to deal with the public in negative situations who manage to not go off the deep end like a lot of cops seem to do. Police should be held to an equal or higher standard, not lower.
The INF treaty maintained MAD as a status quo. However, since it is now dead, there is a risk of MAD (which only works in theory, because it assumes "salami" tactics, short-range weapons and anti-rocket systems are impossible) collapsing again. The result can be either a nuclear war or another return to sanity.
been using it for over a year on my windows machine, never really had any issues. probably gonna try out the new microsoft terminal soon tho
In Apple worldview, 50 people milling about the store bored and confused looks nicer than 50 people standing in line (and doesn't scare off shopper as much as seeing all these people waiting for repairs), and therefore is preferred.
Why “Autistic Spectrum” doesn't mean what you think
The problem you mentioned did not require marriage per se, it just made it easier. Inheritance and visitation and all the legal stuff could have been conferred by domestic partnership. Marriage, in this case, was somewhat besides the point.

Normalization has a much greater impact than property rights.
No idea. Locally speaking, the academics seem to be pouring gasoline on that fire rather than water. I wouldn't even know where to look.
HW design, that fails 3 times in a row in the same place (and ultimately even destroys the logic board - probably because of the short on the exposed cable wiring), and the service that fails to prevent that, I'd hardly call a "true heaven". It's terrible.

Say, they failed to make the cable protected enough in the initial design. During the first service, they should just not replace the cable, they should also add the protection, so that the issue doesn't happen again for that customer.

If you google around, you'll see that this is a known problem and some people were even modding their MBPs proactively, to avoid this specific cable issue, caused by wrong design, to happen at inappropriate time.
The problem is that a line delivers crucial information: you can estimate roughly how much time it'll take before you're up next, you can see the constant progression, and you know you're not being forgotten or skipped over.

If you want people to sit around all over the store in a haphazard fashion, you need to somehow provide these things. Without them, you will massively increase customer anxiety and therefore impatience.
I am just being pragmatic. If she had just done what was asked instead of angrily protesting she would have gotten a traffic ticket which could have been fought in court and not have gone to jail and would still be alive
Yes but if you are left with less disposable money you don't have any escape whatsoever if the government is not well run.
You make the perfect point that fair trade advocates push for. China's $5 umbrellas are heavily subsidized by the government (and mostly through debt and near zero environmental controls). African umbrella companies can now sell at $5.15 without subsidies, setting the actual market value for an umbrella without the Chinese government causing an over-investment in umbrellas through the market distortion of (grossly unfair) subsidies.
Depends. At some point, I was getting one about every two hours. Got a call rating/blocking app then, and hey presto, they all get blocked automagically. Machine v. machine: fatality! Apparently word gets around, as even the attempted calls decreased after about a month.

(And yes, I would probably be juggling significant state at the usual calling times; pushing and popping all that is far more than 5 seconds, even if that were completely lossless)
Sorry If I mis-conveyed the ideas. They are quite different.

The openai paper is introducing operations which are a fast middle ground between dense and sparse operations. You still have to specify the sparsity structure you like. (Although often some random sparsity structure work well).

The MIT paper describe one way to choose a sparsity structure and starting point which will work well in the general case.
So, if a cop orders you to suck his cock you should just go along with it? Or maybe we should expect police officers to meet some kind of standard. If we let cops act like Judge Dredd then that is what we will get.
I had a bad experience at the store in SF. The staff all have this very pompous “can’t be bothered” attitude and they make you wait a long time in their creepy indoor seating tree park with other hostages that showed up for their appointment. Then you finally get to speak with someone, who can’t really do anything other than replace your device. Why couldn’t one of the sales people just give me a new device?

What’s the point?
You are in fact wrong.
> It's OK if a publisher doesn't want its work distributed around the world for everyone to see.

> And it's the artist's choice to do so, not the audience's.

There's a (not) very subtle contradiction in these two sentences.

In short: yay for authors' rights, forever and ever! but I probably couldn't care less about the leeches^W publishers.

The faster the publishing industry - perpetually stuck in the 15th century and trying way too hard to bring us all back to that time - is brought down in flames and replaced the better.
> “It’s become harder to buy something, even when the place isn’t busy. Buying a product there used to be a revered thing, now you don’t want to bother with the inconvenience.”

Hmm, yes. After work I thought I'd 'just' pass at an Apple store and either buy a new battery or let it quickly replace. No chance: first came the appointment, then I learned that no batteries would be sold and an exchange needed about a week. What now? Ended with buying an Anyoneer at Amazon for a third of the price and not feeling too happy with Apple. (But it started before, there is a reason I needed a new battery for my old (2013 highly 'loved') MBA and bought a new Thinkpad).
Right, that's absolutely the ideal, but its not reality. Reality is that the safest thing to do is "yes sir, no sir" and comply and live - you only get one life
More raytracing resources:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerGraphics/blob/master/ray_...
You can have IE 11 on Windows 10. It's what I have, since the software we're working on use ActivX (to communicate with card reader software on the client machine); we should finally move to Chrome this year.
Usually a bank run will involve people hoardong money, and run away inflation is caused by people spending money as quickly as they get it.(is a rapid increase in money velocity and the other a rapid decrease). So these two forces should counteract each other.
I can't read the article b/c of paywall, but I do wonder how they controlled for legislation vs. the effects of media, subsequent social pressure and acclimation, the higher likelihood of legislation being passed in a state already favorably disposed toward SSM, etc. Also, what is the definition of "anti-gay bias"? My guess is that any critical attitude would be classified as such which is an ideological tactic i.e. normalization through the repeated conflation of opposition with bias or even hatred. In any case, the idea that the government can play a role in normalizing certain behaviors and attitudes is not surprising. With history as my witness, all kinds of things, good and bad, have been normalized partly by government backing.

In any case, whether SSM makes sense or should be recognized is not a matter of purported benefits, but a matter of principle. It doesn't take much imagination to recall evil deeds that may result in some desired effect. What matters is whether SSM should in itself be recognized. Note the use of the word recognition. Marriage is not a manufactured social construct (pace postmodern), but a natural institution that governments only have the freedom to recognize. Neither societies nor governments can arbitrarily manufacture institutions. They can pretend to do so, just as they can pass immoral "laws", but neither such ersatz laws nor such ersatz institutions have any legitimacy and thus may and must be freely rejected by citizens (coercion has forced citizens to simulate assent and submission to such false laws and institutions, of course).
Tutorial: Free Geocoding with Leaflet
Show HN: PrettyFWD makes forwarded emails readable
I think it's safe to say that someone who switches from a Mac to a Windows/Linux machine just because of a bad experience at the Apple Store is probably not quite telling the whole story. I assume they had other experiences that were already pushing them to make that decision, but which are not shared in this post.
this looks awesome! Got to try it out on some of my code
Ironically, this attitude causes much of the problem. All that red tape isn’t just decorative. It’s a reaction to tons of concern (and concern-trolling) over government waste.

“How do you know that a contract is above-board?”, you ask. You know this because some committee put together an absurdly detailed Request for Proposals, complete with requirements, evaluation metrics, milestones and circles and arrows on the back of each one. Throw in some politically-imposed requirements (can only travel on US Airlines, lest we “waste” money on the British) too for good measure. The winner’s proposal gets turned into a Statement of Work that specifies what’s to be done, when, where, and how. The whole mess gets audited and inspected and archived so it can be reviewed later by more auditors, Congress, and concerned citizens like you.

Hiring is equally bonkers. Managers (mostly) can’t flip through the submitted resumes and pick out someone that seems clever and driven (“What if it’s their cousin?!?”) Instead, there are long questionnaires and fixed experience requirements. The manager can only pick from the top 3(?) candidates and the salary is barely negotiable.

It is a huge pain. It’s slow, it’s expensive, and it’s not always responsive. The complicated process is exclusionary (Raytheon has rooms of staff that know these rules chapter and verse; you don’t). Right now, it feels like the system spends $100 to be sure it saves $1. We would be better off if we relaxed these controls a bit and trusted individuals a bit more (backed up with audits, obviously, lest anyone get ideas), but....here we are.
alright that's enough flaming from you for today
I’ve stopped using ProtonMail because the mobile client (iOS) kept logging me out at seemingly random intervals. With two passwords and TOTP it became a real hassle. Especially as notifications would stop, and I would only notice once I opened the app (why would I if I don’t get a notification?).
Anyone doing scale up in the HPC space. It's a massive market. This link has a picture in it showing the industries that buy that stuff:

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/06/22/casing-hpc-market-ha...

Although they cost a ton, there were at least two reasons to like NUMA machines:

1. You program them much like multithreaded machines instead of message passing like MPI. You do need to account for locality. There's OS, library, and documentation support for handling that, though. Porting a multithreaded library to NUMA is much smaller problem than clustering it.

2. A massive amount of memory with lower-latency access than on clusters. If your data is in memory, it's much faster than if it's being moved in and out of memory. Then, when it is moved, it's moved faster. Low-latency reduces the damage of many smaller copies, too.

For such reasons, I always wanted a SGI or Cray machine. Modern, multi-core machines with plenty of RAM are good enough for most of my purposes, though. I do plan to do some model-checking of software in the near future. The amount of RAM used grows exponentially or something like that with the size of the program. Small ones already use GB of RAM in the analyses. Some are getting parallelized a bit. Obviously, 88 cores with 100+GB of RAM could be pretty useful if handling programs twice or three times as large. :)

Btw, there are also languages designed specifically to take advantage of parallelism in many HPC situations. Like Go, they were intended to let you describe the algorithms in a high-level way with the compiler synthesizing efficient implementations for everything from multi-cores to NUMA to clusters. That's the theory. The best one from my prior research was Chapel. Then, there's simpler ones for stuff like data parallel with Cilk being an example.

https://chapel-lang.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk

ParaSail was a recent one with interesting design. I'm not sure what its current status is in terms of usability.

https://www.embedded.com/design/programming-languages-and-to...
They both pay high wages for SF software devs, for starters.
This affects some of my family directly and has a very noticeable impact on local businesses who had become accustomed to and were investing pretty significantly in attracting Chinese interest in their products (California wine industry). While the industry existed for a long time before the Chinese market became a factor, starting in the recession their was definitely a push to attract Chinese individuals to california wine, to the point where many major tasting rooms were recruiting people who speak mandarin, and some folks I know regularly had relatively wealthy recent Chinese college graduates working harvest jobs. I have not been aware of a Chinese intern in our circle for years, and also haven't seen a listing looking for Mandarin in months if not longer.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-wine...

I imagine the situation is similar for many other non-essential exports to China.
Tell that to Daniel Shaver, who when shouted at by police to perform conflicting commands by multiple police while begging for his life, was executed in cold blood. I'm sorry, but that is a frighteningly naive stance to take and must come from a position of extreme privilege.
Cooperating might make it harder to fight your battles via the legal system. "Sure officer, come into my house/car and look around, gather or plant whatever evidence you feel is appropriate."

Even going down to the police station voluntarily for a "friendly" talk might screw you. In Salinas v. United States a man cooperated by going to the station. He answered some questions but was silent when officers asked if his shotgun would match shells from a crime scene. His silence was then used as evidence of his guilt and the Supreme Court decided that's OK.

You need to know your rights and explicitly assert your rights. The legal system is not going to do that work for you.
This isn't a completely ridiculous or inconsistent viewpoint, but it's not a popular one. Most people favour at least some of the benefits of marriage (whether it's in immigration, tax, inheritance, healthcare, parental rights...) so the government really should keep them around.
"I'd argue that for easily digitized works, there's no such thing as scarcity."

Since AI can't create great pieces of art or digital works in a short amount of time, there still is scarcity.
First of all when discussing about offline edits we should make effort to draw attention that "offline" could mean different thing to different people.

Offline editor from the point of view of the app's software developer might mean that editor can sometimes survive few minutes of lost connectivity, after which it will reconnect and possibly sync the team work.

Offline from the perspective of a team of scientists writing a joint paper means that some of them will take their work truly offline, to a secluded mountain hut, for an extended period (week or month) and will come back with a complete rewrite of the text to the point of being unrecognizable to the other authors. And then the coauthors will disagree with most of it, and will want to revert some of the pieces and keep some other pieces.

And scientists are not the only people needing joint collaborative environment. And not just for short papers. Few years ago, I was working in a larger team with a group of people doing revisions of a book, and there were so many revisions and revisions of revisions of revisions, and zillions of comments, that we had to split the book not in chapters, since Word got stuck even with 20-page chapters. We had to split the chapters in sub-chapters, of 5-10 pages in separate files, so that the processor would not get stuck with the myriad of comments and revisions.

These are all separate scenarios in collaborative writing, and there could be many other scenarios, so any solution should first explain for what type of scenario is it really targeting. Automated sync of collaborative work is not always the best thing to do.
Seems like encouraging sadism or jihadism.

These should be illegal in the USA
Back in the 1920s/30s when sales tax was introduced, companies had to decide whether to include the tax in the item's price, eat the cost, or pass it along to the customers. As we are all painfully aware, it was passed along to the consumers. This is a really creative way of combining credit/store card rewards with sales tax in consumer's minds. Of course money is fungible, so it doesn't matter if the reward is covering sales tax or just a fixed percent (although the later could be higher than most fixed percents depending on state). Regardless, an interesting experiment.
Speaking of scarcity, valuing it, and protecting it, it seems that physical media, like CDs for music are, or were, more popular in Japan than other places [1].

Is the situation in South Korea similar or different? I don't know enough about either; just thinking out loud.

[1] http://fortune.com/2014/09/18/japan-cd-sales/
Wait, this was written by Piketty. That doesn't mean it's not misrepresenting his data, researchers do that all the time in popular forums, but I'd be really interested to hear what specific difference you're pointing to.

(I did notice that his theory 2, tax avoidance, wasn't actually examined, and that he argues for a lack of GDP harm but doesn't actually show here that lowered top income produces lower equality.)