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I’ve been in this circlejerk of hating apple for its very expensive and closed environment. I’ve been using windows and android for years, until I started working in security which actually made me realize how vulnerable data is and how certain providers and services treat their consumer data and that privacy comes with a price.

I switched to an iPhone XR now and I couldn’t be happier, even tho I wish some of the features would be implemented for other platforms, especially Linux and windows. I’m not saying that apple is completely trustworthy nor perfect, but in the end it’s an compromise I’m willing to make, when the other choice is google/Samsung.
What do you expect from a blackbox setup?
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The title of this post sounds far more definitive than what the linked content says.

> A mass die-off of seabirds in the Bering Sea may be partially attributable to climate change,

...

> A reduction in food resources before entering molt may have prevented many birds from surviving, the authors suggest.

...

> The authors suggest that climate-driven shifts in prey abundance and/or distribution, combined with the onset of molt, may have caused this puffin die-off, and note that further climate variability in this region is probable.

If we go look at the article on which this post is based, we have, in the abstract:

> Mass mortality events are increasing in frequency and magnitude, potentially linked with ongoing climate change ... Immediately prior to this event, shifts in zooplankton community composition and in forage fish distribution and energy density were documented in the eastern Bering Sea following a period of elevated sea surface temperatures, evidence cumulatively suggestive of a bottom-up shift in seabird prey availability. We posit that shifts in prey composition and/or distribution, combined with the onset of molt, resulted in this mortality event.

No one is doing anyone any favors by stretching statements like this. If you look at the time series[1], you notice regular seasonality and just how anomalous this particular event seems to be. Given that climate change did not begin yesterday, this may actually indicate some other cause. Then, you look at Panel B of that same graph, and notice that this particular data point is also associated with an anomaly in survey effort.

I wonder why they did not show N_found/Effort.

[1]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/...
>But that leads to a second theory I have about abusive commenters, that this is a "tech" or engineer thing, and not a creative person thing.

Don't think it's specifically tech-related. Probably goes deeper.

One of my hobbies is music, I play in a live rock band and frequently meet other bands. A feature of fellow amateur musicians that stands out the most to me is how often they are dismissive and snobbish towards other musicians. I've been in bands and amateur musicians' circles in two very different countries, and people in both had this thing going on! It's bizarre.
And coming on to the next point...

>Tech has an asshole problem, and maybe there's correlation between people who are technically good, but emotionally abusive or lacking in empathy.

I've seen this behavior from people that are pretty proficient at their instruments more often than from newbies, too!
one of the markers of monopoly is that you can use your dominance in one industry to move into other industries and achieve dominance there. Sound like anyone you know?
now that both the mouse and the local storage work, can we finally code on this thing with a real local codebase and server?
And also they didn't hack iCloud, they hacked the accounts of those users.
Yes - they were part of it - and they are saying "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone."... so they are effectively lying... It would be better not to say anything...
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I owned a 2nd-generation iPod touch during the “iPhone OS” era. It wasn't always called iOS. I'm not actually sure what it was called on the iPod touch though. I found some old reference on Apple's site to “iPod touch FW 3”, but I don't remember how much Apple explicitly mentioned it ran iPhone OS.
I've never seen any IDE as good as IntelliJ IDEA when it comes to Auto suggest, and it has no real AI, just deterministic understanding of the project's source tree and dependencies, an indexed AST, how the type system works, and what's in scope at the cursor. In other words, two classes both called 'List' should not show up when I start typing 'List', if only one of them can possibly be relevant in context. A lot of IDEs, especially in refactoring, for Java often appeared to use string comparison. So you'd do a system wide refactor of say interface 'Foobar', and it would match completely different interfaces called 'Foobar' that had no relation to what's under the cursor.

It's this almost 100% exact matching that develops into a rapid muscle memory where you learn to trust the IDE, and non-deterministic algorithms which have say, a 1% failure rate, tend to be annoying.
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I dunno about OP, but there are definitely industrial spy issues, and individual Chinese students do have issues with the government in traveling to the US. I had a Chinese student who I would have loved to keep in the US, but according to him, his parents would suffer because they worked in the banking industry, and they'd fall under suspicion.
Something is not working with this carbon credit market, the article says demand for electric cars is not there so the auto makers can't generate their own credits. Yet people who are into EV cars view the big three as well as the German marques as not even trying.

I bet that selling the credits was never in the Tesla business plan. But it is now!
> Many of them won Pulitizers for their efforts...

Like Snowden exposing basically the biggest conspiracy of government employees breaking federal laws ever seen?

Journalists win Pulitzers, whistleblowers get their lives ruined for exposing criminal activity. This is a common theme the world over.
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Wholeheartedly agreed! We always need to look at stuff from both angles and I forgot just how complicated adding new features can be (even if they are 'simple' changes, Chaos theory comes into mind.)
If suggestions are to be made i'd rather have them be made by the designers of the APIs/languages, especially those are have been around for some time and have developed better approaches for doing things already possible previously but in a worse way.

For example imagine you have an API that Foos Stuff, the initial version could have been FooStuff but it turned out that after 10 years of active use, the approach was slow for modern use cases and the only way to improve it was to change the API to BeginStuffFooing, ProcessStuffFooing and FinishStuffFooing but still keep the original FooStuff for backwards compatibility.

After 10 years of use, an AI-driven approach that data mines existing codebases (especially popular codebases that are more likely to be mature/old codebases) will be more likely to use FooStuff than Begin/Process/FinishStuffFooing, thus people will be steered towards FooStuff instead of the better approach.

Something that is driven explicitly by the API designer can start recommending Begin/Process/FinishStuffFooing from the moment it is available and recommend against introducing FooStuff in new code (it could even show up a tooltip or whatever with a "here is how to use the new approach if you already know the old approach" link).
If you're using Intellicode in Visual Studio with C#, I'm afraid I don't really believe you. Intellicode strongly prioritises nearby code elements.

Could you give an example of a situation where it's completely missing the point?

VS Code's default completion is strictly buffer based, so no sure what you mean there either.
>> So how would you judge your comment by that metric? To me it seems you just repeated what OP said many times without adding something new.

One could say exactly the same thing about this comment - and the one I am making right now. Comments about comments should be kept to the bare minimum as they invite flame wars and add noise.
> For one thing, Chinese culture is quite alien to western culture, and I don't mean that in a judgemental way, just that their spoken, written and body language is so much different that it is automatically harder for them.

I call BS on that one specific point with a counter-example: Taiwan (regardless of if it is/isn't part of China, it's a majority-Chinese-culture country).

I would agree though that students allowed to study at foreign universities are somewhat selected, in that the CCP forbids travels for 'tendentious' individuals. No doubt they would enjoy having "highly selected" ones, but they're just using basics metrics covering way too many candidates for that to be effective.
Edit: I should have read the article instead of guessing it's content

Also, AI programs in such matters get way too much credit. They is a lot to be done before we should consider using them like that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/algorithm-compas-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/13/ai-progra...

Another problem is that most of these tools are developed by private companies. Relying on them for judicial decisions pretty much the same as privatizing justice. Especially when said tools are such black boxes

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-crimi...
+1

(I'm a Googler, opinions my own) As someone who has been on oncall for 3 year and done a decent amount of production support, this public doc better explains the cause than the internal one if you aren't well versed in the underlying infra.

A config change reduced used network capacity by half, and then things started falling over. And pushing the fix took a while due to the now overloaded network.
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Are we so brainwashed that we barely can feel outrage at a title like this? How about privacy as a basic human right?
The world today is very different from the 1960s, particularly regarding both the US and China. I have absolutely no doubt that there are unbelievably intelligent people in Africa now, just as there were (and of course are) in China and everywhere else where people exist.

The lack of infrastructure, support and adequate living conditions is all that severely limits them from reaching their potential and they know this, which is why they climb the Everest of bureaucratic hurdles to get to a place like the US. China is a unique case because it has become wealthy (enough) very quickly and critically also has a very large population, which statistically increases the chances of very intelligent people appearing given the right conditions; if 1% of a billion population is very intelligent that's 10 million people in real terms.

I don't think the US has the dominance it did in science like it did in the 60s, when Europe and Japan were still recovering from war and China was still poor. I think the loss of a large number of Chinese students would certainly have an affect on the US's development in science today.
I don't see how any anti-trust laws based on having monopoly-level market control could possibly be applied to Apple.

Apple simply does not have a monopoly in any market, from either a narrow "by the book" perspective or in a broader functional perspective.

Unless the DoJ Apple is unfairly monopolizing the market for Apple's products and services...
Who will configure the configurators?

Hopefully this layer would be far more stable and very infrequently touched.
When judges are giving orders they are not acting as private individuals, but as officials of the state. They have no right to not be associated with the decisions they are making.

Think about politicians: "You have no right to use my personally identifiable data to accuse me of bribery!"

If you are acting officially on behalf of the state I have the moral right, whether the law says so or not, to scrutinize your decisions.
Well, the number of researchers obviously isn’t
Sure. But there is also a lot of Metal code out there in order to make iPads fly. And they really do fly, I was amazed what kind of performance I could get out of them. For example, I had an algorithm running on my iMac Pro, programmed in Swift, utilising all of its 18 cores fully. It took about 5 minutes on a typical example. Then I recoded the algorithm for Metal, and it runs on the same example on my iPad Pro in under 10 seconds.

So, my bold prediction: Apple is going to shred Nvidia to pieces within the next 10 years.
> I think most EU Advertising Control Boards would verdict that Apple's privacy claims are misleading and therefore against the applicable Advertising Law.

I think not. From the horses mouth[1]:

Since the directive on unfair commercial practices (2005/29/EC) is in place, the misleading and comparative advertising directive has been applied only to business-to-business (B2B) relations concerning misleading advertising.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/consumers/unfair-com...
I use Fish too :) And I haven't really connected with zsh. I've tried. However I think this is good news for Fish too. It's the beginning of a long-overdue un-Bashifying.
WhatsApp to get a new type of message with weird 'interactive buttons'
I'm quite interested in both terminal emulators and internationalization. Curious if you've tried out mlterm and what issues you might have run into regarding rtl. Actually, I'd be interested to hear any of your stories regarding rtl in cli tools.
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I believe that I wouldn't change your legal relationship and, therefore, duties.

I'm not a big fan either, but that's how it is for now...
I don't think there's any need to pretend Apple is marketing this simply as a virtuous act. They have competitive advantages in some areas, and not in others. They are taking advantage of such an advantage.
I really like the "unpreferred" idea, but I think it should be just a setting. Sometimes the filtering/"unpreferring" should be opt-out (e.g. gore, porn), other times opt-in (left-wing propaganda, right-wing propaganda, ...), but at all times configurable by the user.
> Use of Python 2.7 isn’t recommended. This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS won’t include Python 2.7. Instead, it’s recommended that you run python3 in Terminal. (51097165)

and

> LLDB’s Python scripting is now based on Python 3. If you are using Python extensions that aren’t compatible with Python 3, they will break. To help with the transition, you can run in Python 2 mode by setting a default

So looks like python 3 will become available and default
You send information to the apple address, that's what its for. You can still send it invoices or a magic link, the user gets it and clicks on it, nothing is changed in that regard. The difference is they can turn off that email address and never hear from you again if that is what they want.
"The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web" was originally released in 2005 and I'm afraid some of the advice may be stuck there. This advice being among that advice. In 2005 many displays were still 4:3 ratio and this advice more applicable. With modern 16:9 ratio screens 66 character line lengths can seem extremely short and require unnecessary vertical scrolling to view a message with such line length. I find it quite visually jarring to receive an email with a fixed width that wastes the horizontal space of the viewing window. Instead of being fixed width the text should be reflowed to properly fill the viewing window.
Isn't that what the Obsolete attribute is for? Or similar attribute/test driven enforcement of migration to new approaches.

It mines your own codebase, not public ones.
You know when I'll believe it? When the un-screw up their app store which vastly incentivizes the development of free-to-use ad-driven apps that prey on user tracking data over premium alternatives. Ad-based revenue has a higher value proposition to developers because it dodges the inane anachronistic 30% tax. "Privacy" first is an utter illusion when the majority of apps approved in this closed ecosystem that ostensibly supports privacy does just the opposite.
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> To the amalgamation of politicals and criminals, with which the concentration camps began both in Germany and Russia, soon a third element is added, which would soon form the majority of all inmates. This largest group consisted of people who hadn't done anything that stood in any rational relation to their imprisonment, be it in their own mind or in that of their torturers. Without them the camps could have have existed, that is, they would not have survived the first years of the regime.

and

> Criminals don't actually don't belong in a concentration camp. That they still form a permanent category in all camps is, from the viewpoint of the totalitarian power apparatus, a kind of concession to the prejudices of society, which in this way can be made to get used to their existence the most easily.

and

> the first crucial step on the way to totalitarian power is the killing of the juridical person, which in the case of statelessness happens automatically because the stateless person ends up outside of all law. In the case of totalitarian power this automatic killing becomes a planned murder, because concentration camps are always placed outside of the penal system, and the inmates are never to be put there "for punishable or other offenses" (also see Maunz, p. 50). Under all conditions totalitatarian power takes care to put people into the camps, which only are -- Jews, carriers of diseases, members of dying classes -- but have already lost their ability to act, be it for good or bad.

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But how can marching in goosestep be wrong, when not marching is goosestep is so scary, right?
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It sounds like the cost of the credits is not high enough to make a real dent.

Another effective way of doing this is adding the cost of pollution into the price of the car as tax making ICE expensive and electric cheap. That is done here and the demand is very high. ICEs generally have > 100% tax.
The issue here is fraud, not the chargeback. The outcome would have been the same with stolen cash, just with more lawyers.
GP was, I believe, talking about a whole new mobile OS, built from the ground up for privacy and an open ecosystem rather than just innovating on the existing platforms.
My cynical side read this as
cheap/free = google/android who own your data in return for their services

vs expensive = Apple who are selling you some degree of perceived privacy baked into the operating systems of their primarily hardware offerings, which you pay more for.
Seconded, this kind of formatting shouldn't be hardcoded in the email. For me ideally, the presentation would be specified in the clients and it wouldn't be part of the message. Provided all emails are prose-like, which they are in my case.
Yes and few are better at this than Apple
Perhaps as a rapid prototyping machine, this might work. As a hobbyist, I am not so sure.
Why is that surprising?
did not prevent death,,US took over retirement plans of two automakers..that is death right there no matter what the remains become as it means you have more retirees than workers..ie firm decline
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Video av mer om detta. :)

https://youtu.be/EugciUdAmSs
Which most likely means someone downloaded a leaked database of another website and logged in to icloud because everyone reuses passwords.
The optimal width of a column of text is not a function of the container it is in, or the screen it is displayed on, but rather a constant based on the capacities of human vision. It's roughly empirically accepted that it's easier for us to read a block of text that flows from one line to the next after approximately 65-85 characters. Thus that extra space on the margins isn't wasted, it's serving an important purpose.
Am I the only person we thinks Apple might be setting itself up to take a shot at a private, secure, ad-free, paid for social media play?

I mean there are a growing number of people leaving Facebook (ok mostly for Instagram and WhatsApp) who would be willing to pay a few dollars a month to have an advert free experience in a private social media network.
It's all over the place I can't even begin, or do you not see the plethora of ads plaguing apps available in the app store and mobile web. If you think tracking isn't involved, you're sorely mistaken. Apple set the 30% tax for premium goods, and effectively killed the premium market as a result. Google followed suit largely because it aligns with Google's core business. Apple's angle is? Honestly, I have no clue. I'm inclined to think it's incompetency at this point.
I know a Brit who is banned for life from America for not having a visa when he got searched on a bus. Maybe he had a fake permit or something too, I can't remember.

Maybe they're less likely to get searched/caught, but when they are it seems to be enforced. I can't find any stats supporting either position though.
Modern hand tool woodworking can match or exceed the accuracy of machine woodworking, albeit with a higher skill threshold. You can achieve very fine results with very basic tools. Machine woodworking is undoubtedly faster, however.

Tight tolerances are often completely counterproductive because of wood movement. Even with an impermeable polyurethane finish, you'll get significant seasonal movement. Effective fine woodworking is about designing to account for that movement - building drawer runners slightly undersized so they don't bind up, allowing door panels to float in the groove so they don't bow or split etc. One of the key skills of cabinet-making is developing an intuition for wood movement.

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primary and secondary education costs virtually nothing compared to college so thats a pretty weak point to make.

You could make the exact reverse point, that universities in the US have built their expertise over decades if not centuries and Foreign students are largely benefiting more from them than whatever they could get in their home countries.