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My specific and helpful feedback to you would be to not immediately feel attacked if someone criticizes something tangentially related to your work. OP never said your work was bullshit. They said the article/coverage of your work is probably 'breathless gushing bullshit'.

OP was actually wrong with their hueristic in this case - the article doesn't really go into your age beyond a passing mention, but that doesn't change the fact that OPs critique was with article writers, not programmers-who-have-their-work-written about.
Well obviously they have agreements with AMD. Apple gets special treatment from AMD/Intel/Nvidia, they get to see unrevealed roadmaps, custom contracts etc.

Whether it's an exclusivity deal or not we may never know. But it does seem strange given Nvidia cards generally have lower TDP/performance (something all macs struggle with)
I think the Dutch have come up with a solution to the rear-right problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA
And why on Earth does iOS allow me to split a portrait mode vertically, creating two thin strips that are seemingly useless for any work?

Depends on what work you're doing. I do it all the time. It's especially useful when you're writing something in Notes in one pane and referencing e-mail in another.

The bottom half of the screen is the keyboard space.
You can use everything gmail on Apple products. But, as he said, Macbooks 2015 were the top of their art, and it’s all going downhill now. Since 2014 they start to have kernel panics, since 2016 they have a failure-prone keyboard with no hardware “Esc” key. And it now costs 150$ for an external keyboard. Prices up, quality down, emojis in.
Agreed. Net neutrality needs to be an election issue in 2020. Red/blue agree. The most upvoted comment ever removed from t_d was about NN [1] [2].

[1] https://revddit.com/user/yiannopoulos_m?after=t1_dirwgoo&lim...

[2] https://revddit.com/r/the_donald
One of my eyes has myopia. The other one is fine.

Did I play out too much as a pirate with an eyepatch?

Joke aside, the disease has many causes, and there is some genetic predisposition. It is too easy to blame it on the modern environment.
What you say is true, but apple has generally been better at selecting processors from intel that aren't just re-bagged low clock xeons. It wouldn't surprise me if this thing is 5Ghz turbo on a couple cores. There was that 28core 5ghz beast intel was talking about (definitely not 300W though) and a few rumored W3175X, follow on.
Bait and switch is a dark pattern, even if it's a common one.
Multimedia professionals do not store their data in internal/primary drives.

They generally have RAID boxes with either Ethernet or thunderbolt connection.

Most video editing/rendering is done on big storage arrays anyway. So 256GB storage is more than enough for most serious multimedia professionals.
> Why shouldn't Microsoft do something similar when they have different goals?

They explicitly said they wouldn't fork Chromium.
Ahhh, I don't get it. XCode already does all of this, and has done for very many years. Y'all are excited because you can see the code?
>> high-level ideas about user intents way down through platforms and compilers and operating systems to wires and semiconductors.

Indeed. I did one like that for software developers, just in the reverse order (starting from charges and voltage all the way up to how a microprocessor executes code). I just wrote about that in this comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20088868
> I think part of the difference in HN opinion color is somewhat related to transparency.

It's not that I disagree with you on the topic of transparency, it's that I think we can't really compare opinions on two very different topics as if they were the same topic. People complaining about too many subscription content providers are not really arguing for or against a monopoly. It's not the same discussion.

> And I'd say Google and Facebook haven't done a sufficient job in proactively informing the public about what they collect, how they generate revenue from it, and what's currently stored about a user.

Granted, but I'm pretty sure that even if they did so, it wouldn't make much difference. I always refer people to Moxie Marlinspike's DEF CON keynote called "Changing threats to privacy" [1]. I would definitely recommend watching it in full, but the key takeaway from it -- for the purposes of this discussion -- is that it all boils down to choice. He talks about the way technology changes the fabric of the society, how it changes the way people interact, communicate and coordinate, and declining to participate in this new way of doing things exposes you to the "no network effect".

This is why it's not enough for Google and Facebook to merely inform people about what they collect and how they use it. As long as they're practically monopolies, they can disclose and inform and then go on just the same, because there's no other viable alternative and they'll work hard to ensure it stays that way.

The traditional way of dealing with an incumbent that is too powerful to reasonably compete with is to break it up, in hopes of diminishing not its power to compete, but rather its power to stifle competition.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
I love how downvotes on Hacker News have become a totalitarian attack on free speech.
What you call entitlement, I call a vice. You don't build a business model upon a framework of addictive & memetic psychology and then blame your customers when they feel entitled to it. That entitlement is the whole point. Most of us would be better off watching less TV, and we realize that, which makes it hard to justify spending more money on it.
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I know this is an Apple/Mac discussion, but from a Linux/OSS perspective, it looks very different. If it weren't for CUDA, Tensorflow and so on, I wouldn't even consider buying NVIDIA (anymore).

Currently, I have a laptop with NVIDIA graphics and a desktop PC with AMD graphics. The AMD stuff just works; out of the box (OSS, good performance, happy user). But NVIDIA either comes with nouveau (OSS, poor performance) or the nvidia proprietary binary driver which has all sorts of weird issues (e.g. always-on fans, animations running at different speeds, etc.).

Sure, this doesn't say anything about how a Mac would run with NVIDIA drivers, but it gives a hint that NVIDIA has its own weak spots. But the reason why Apple decided to skip on NVIDIA in this case, is probably rooted deeper within their strategies.
I have been lucky with not having to tweak anything in my setup for a few years besides adding/removing indexers. Definitely need to check radarr out!
Yes, but Apple lists 12, 16, and 24 core Xeon W options, none of which are currently available from Intel but do match those leaked for Cascade Lake Xeon W. So it’s quite doubtful Apple is using Skylake Xeon W since the majority of the specs don’t match.
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No, the person proposing the progressive tax is simply saying that there is an optimal, non-zero level of taxation that creates the best outcome for society as a whole. This person could be at the top or bottom bracket with no effect on the argument. The richest in our society actually generally agree with that notion, cf. Gates, Buffett, as well as those who have the most to "gain" directly through distribution of public services.

And yes, even though it wasn't my point to begin with, it is possible to distinguish ideologies in the case of wanting higher taxes vs in the case of wanting lower taxes by outcome. In the case of wanting lower taxes, without regard to ideology, both payers would want the taxes on themselves to tend to zero. In the case of higher taxes, the ideologies do differ by outcome in that the ideological party will want to pay something herself, whereas the disgruntled party would have to impose taxes on "the rich" and not on themselves (relatively) to achieve a desirable outcome (this assumes they don't "hate" themselves as well).
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Is the apple marketing through the window of Poe’s law at this point? This page could easily have been a parody, complete with insane price.
Apparently I didn’t get the memo for tech companies becoming collectible trading cards.

“You give me Google, I’ll let you have Amazon.

Oh you want Apple? Ok, I’ll trade you for your Facebook.”
If you spec something with similar workstation grade hardware, you'll be in the same ballpark. Gaming PC hardware isn't comparable.
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Congrats! You are one in 90 lifetimes! From http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2010/08/brain-injuries-...

> Rather than reacting emotionally we have to look at the numbers to make sense of this. The overall risk to Dutch cyclists (it's on page two of the document) of a "head/brain injury" is 153 per billion kilometres ridden. That means that one such injury is one per 6.5 million kilometres ridden.

> On average, every Dutch person makes a trip by bicycle 5.6 times per week. This works out as an average across the whole population of 2.5 km cycled every day. That's the highest figure for any population in the world. If we assume that people cycle every day of their lives to the age of 80, and that they cycle that 2.5 km every day of their life, they will ride a bike for a total of 73000 km during their lifetime. Divide it into 6.5 million and you find a figure that a typical Dutch cyclist can expect a "head/brain injury" once every 90 lifetimes.
And Netflix is not, probably because Hastings once said net neutrality is no longer their primary battle. IOW, they will pay to play. Disgusting. The selections make this a transparent move.
This likely is a great machine for creative pros.

But as a developer, I wanted a desktop class CPU and just a separate monitor (tired of hearing my laptop fans all the time, and it not being expandable), so I can upgrade them independently.

So while developers are pros, we won't appreciate things like XDR because we don't need them, unlike movie studios and photographers. So a $5k monitor is overpriced for editing code. But I honestly would've shelled out even $2k for a good monitor. $5k is too much.

The computer seems like a better value if you know you'd keep it for 5-10 years.
Totally agree. I set this up for myself to have a anything@mytrowawaydomain.com and it's great to see when folks sell your email :)

So far it's only happened once, actually, when Keen.io got bought by a PE firm, I got a bunch of spam, so they clearly sold off my email address.

It's a system that would be hard to operate as a "normal" person, so this is a great step.
Considering it was a civic hatch (which is a model that isn’t sold in the US iirc), i bet it was in kmh and the parent just conerted it to mph for the HN audience.
I was really hoping Apple would price the Mac Pro at a reasonable starting point, hopefully stymying the flow of developers from Apple hardware to alternatives. The features are obviously right for extreme creative pros, but I don't think any developer in their right mind should pay this much for such little hardware. I would have loved to have seen support for the LGA 1151 socket, off-the-shelf Nvidia GPUs, and user-replaceable RAM and storage.

My company offers a $2500 hardware budget, and I have a refresh coming up this fall. I already have a MacBook Pro, so I want to go with a desktop this time around. With that budget I could get a Mac Mini with an i7-8700, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD; or I could build a PC with an i9-9900K, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and the same GPU as the Mac Pro _and still have $1000 left of my budget_.

Too bad that would only get me the Pro Display stand. That would have been a nice display to have.
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I grew up in Chennai and Mumbai. Chennai is for crows and Mumbai is for pigeons.

My grandma used to tell me that the crows are super smart. After she cooked food she used to keep a ball of rice for the crows. Within a minute crows used watch and descend to eat it.

Once I got attacked by a crow. It used to attack only me and nobody else. It is fly down and scratch my head. I was terrified like hell. My mom told me befriend it by feeding it a biscuit which is a rectangular cookie. lol and behold he stopped attacking me. So the crow can distinguish between humans! Super smart creatures!
iPads still don't have a calculator app? I find that baffling.

Also baffling: People who will spend $600 on an iPad, but not 99¢ on a calculator app.

I sometimes wonder if Apple intentionally leaves these gaps in the ecosystem (Weather, Stocks, etc...), hoping that the market will bring forth solutions. It doesn't seem to work all the time.
Point taken. Thanks for noting.

Still feels like HN generally has a counterproductive attitude to stories of this type.
I used to do something similar when I ran my own mail server. Whenever I created an account for a new service, I would add an entry to /etc/aliases e.g.

news.ycombinator.com: stirner

and sign up for the service as news.ycombinator.com@mydomain.com. If I ever left a service, I would just remove the corresponding alias and restart Postfix.

I eventually got tired of the work required to avoid spam filters and switched to iCloud Mail, so I’m glad to see this feature built in.
So a really bad consumer grade performance machine, starting at $6k, and already obsolete.

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I like that you can use the feature on the web too, but it appears you need a paid developer account to generate the client id/secret

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/signinwithappleres...
I'd go with SapporoChris's answer with Mechanical Engineer.

Locomotive Engineer's basically are the one in charge of operating the locomotive. What most people think of as a "Conductor" is actually a lower level job and is mostly paper work from what I hear.

Source: Close friend is a Locomotive Engineer in Canada.
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What liability is there for not providing data you don't have?
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Public supply usage hasn't changed meaningfully for a few decades.
I'm curious what your experiences are here. With enterprise-level networking equipment and LACP (802.3ad), I've never run into any weird issues.
Yes, have noticed this too. Love when trucks try to pass each others, one going 80 kmh and the other 81. Blocking two lanes completely for 10 minutes.
What a coincidence, Google works for those people, too!
Just because you learnt them long ago doesn't mean it isn't the most interesting thing in the world for someone just learning it anew
I've taken plenty of business law classes, and I've never heard such a thing in terms of what defines a monopoly. Your 1st point is debunked by your second point. Your 2nd point of "isn't workable in practice" is just bunk. For your third point, GSuite costs more per seat than O365 in some cases...so I don't even know what you're talking about.
Glossy display.
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I think most of us recall the $1899 - $2499 Mac Pro entry point in the late 2000's and early 2010's. It's kind of a bummer - but you're correct that Pro performance has moved a bit up-market. Heck. The 8-core Xeon-W costs almost $3000 at retail.
My additional rules:

- if I'm driving on the right lane and I'm approaching a car in front of me while some other car approaches me on the left lane to overtake me (or even if it's on the right lane but quickly approaching) then I usually slightly break even if I wouldn't need it. This way the car approaching from the back will see my break lights and will know that I don't intend to suddenly change to the left lane to overtake the car in front of me. This is nice for the other person and makes the traffic more fluid.

- the faster I drive the more I have to force myself to look more in the distance to be prepared for anything unexpected (sudden traffic jam, animals, debris, etc...). Sounds obvious but in other countries I usually drive up to max 140 km/h but with 200km/h I need a lot more space to react.

- I try to anticipate and modulate the speed more than in other countries. E.g. even if the pavement is dry where I am driving, if I see a dark cloud in the distance I usually start slowing down as it could be that a few km ahead even, if it's not raining, there might still be a lot of water if a heavy cloud just did a pass-by.

All in all I usually loved driving in Germany, with the exception of during the hours when people go or come back from work (can be quite hectic).
Nice, just went there today. Good job Quest!
Could be possible, but given Apple optimizes like crazy using its own hardware and software, Apple products get crazy performance. On top of that Nvidia and Apple aren't on good terms, so they obviously didn't want to build a very powerful workstation.
If Amazon has a monopoly on all things bought and sold, that would undermine the antitrust cases against the other targets.
Presumably it was for dumping the address book off of the simcard.
That's a pretty cool sight, although some of the classifications confused me.

For example, suppose I've got two ropes that I want to join together near the ends. I need a splice, right? And there is a "splicing" category...but the "splicing" category only contains one knot for joining two ropes end to end. All the rest are for joining a rope to a non-rope, or joining two non-ropes via a rope, leading me to wonder if I misunderstand what "splice" means.

There are plenty of splices on the site for joining two ropes near their ends, but they aren't in "splicing". There is the Double Fisherman's knot, which is described as being for securely joining two ropes of similar size, which is listed under "climbing" and "scouting". There are similar cases of splices in "fishing" and "boating" and some other categories.
I'm not mad that it's 10GBASE-T, but I'd personally rather 10G over SFP+. The sorts of shops that can afford these probably already have some pretty burly networking infrastructure, and 10GBASE-T is both expensive and (IME) less reliable.

The encoding/decoding capacity of Ethernet-over-twisted-pair seems to be reaching a point of sharply diminishing returns and the hardware for 10GBASE-T is really expensive for what's been, in my experience, a less reliable experience than SFP+. I'd rather tell somebody who needs 10GBASE-T to use an RJ-45 adapter than to have to go grab yet another Mellanox card to stick in a computer this expensive.
> I wonder what could be driving it.

Redirecting people's anger for Comcast, and this admin's failure to maintain net neutrality despite protest from both sides [1], towards something else.

[1] https://revddit.com/user/yiannopoulos_m?after=t1_dirwgoo&lim...
All of the Xeons in Mac Pro say 4.4Ghz turbo from what I saw at apple.com.

So the 2019 iMac i9 @ 5Ghz on 4 cores will beat the crap out of them for software development purposes, and from the benchmarks so far it seems there is very little (or none at all) throttling on new iMacs.
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Also in the US they'll use left side exits, which pushes exiting traffic to the "fast" lane. Drives me crazy when road designers do this.

I think this also varies state-to-state, I recently drove from Colorado to Texas and it really seemed to me that in general TX drivers observe the "stay right except to pass" rule much more than CO drivers.
They could also afford to take 10 $100 bills and set them on fire, with only slightly less utility than spending the same amount on a monitor stand.
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Looking over the references and docs, this is pretty much the builder pattern to generate the view tree and data binding to update it.
European cars, or those built for the European market generally have both MPH and KPH on their speedometers.

My '92 imported (from Japan) Legacy Turbo Estate (man I loved that machine) had both sets of speeds.
Generally a waste of space but it depends how one way the peak flow is and what local casual riders think. I can’t picture a fence in the UK.
Probably has to do with other software like Maya or other simulation like programs. In fact F360 worked flawlessly on my 2016 dual-core 2.0 ghz CPU with 8gm of RAM.
Watch them start sucking up to Trump to make this stop.
Once it's up and running, does it really take 2 full-time people to keep it running?
Yes, but doing tutorials doesn't really generate news headlines.
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Can someone recommend a good programmer's calculator for the iPad?

If I'm going to buy a calculator app, I might as well get a good one.

Bonus if it can do time calculators. (I used to have a physical time calculator that could do 15 hours + 3 hours, 21 minutes = x minutes, and it was surprisingly useful=.)
> Time is definitely money in their industry as well.

Paying $6k for what’s roughly $2k’s worth of regular consumer hardware is also money.
I wonder if that card support metal2, which AFAIK is still the recommended compute (openCL/CUDA replacement) technology on macos?
> What's "protected" about a bike lane that crosses freeway onramps? I think you're talking about something completely different from what some other people in this discussion are calling "protected" lanes.

"Protected" here refers to the bike lane itself having a physical barrier in the straight sections. The barrier disappears at intersections and crossings. I know from discussions with others (particularly Europeans) that this doesn't meet a stronger definition, but this is what "protected bike lane" means in my experience as a US cyclist.

I agree entirely that the "protection" this style of lane affords is not enough.

> Around here, the "protected" way to cross a freeway is a bicycle/pedestrian bridge. These usually have entrances and exits on residential streets.

That's one good way to do it, but I strongly doubt the city of Austin will implement anything like that at the intersection I have in mind.
I wonder if it makes sense for the government (or private sector) to develop an official identity database and provide identity-as-a-service. One which has a public "username" that is unique/permanent and can be freely given out - a private "key"/password that you should never ever hand out to anyone - and physical offices that you can go to with your passport and other evidence, in order to change your password when needed. You could then develop apps or APIs on top of this, in order to authenticate your identity whenever requested by a 3rd party.