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That's simply wrong.

Apple maintained 68k compatibility for years after it migrated to ppc. That's a completely different hardware architecture

It maintained classic compatibility for years after it moved to osx. That's a completely different kernel and basic system architecture.

It maintained PPC compatibility for a few years after transitioning to intel.

It supported 32 bit x86 for a number of years after the entire line was 64 bit capable.

Apple does care about compatibility, it just isn't as beholden to the past: it's much more willing to say "this is bad, so we're deprecating it, eventually it won't exist/work".

But they work to not break any software until the feature being used is actually removed.

It is considered a high priority bug if someone changes behaviour of a function or object in a way that isn't backwards compatible. All APIs are essentially statically vetted to ensure they don't change, including things like struct layouts and sizes.

That said, it kind of misses the point to respond to "Apple and MS care about backwards compatibility" in this context to say " I don't think Apple spends anywhere near the amount of effort MS does on backwards compatibility". The point is that if you care at all then libraries and services that are unwilling (or even hostile to) abi stability cannot viably be shipped in any publicly facing way as part of your platform.
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Technically Xcode has supported Playgrounds since before the iOS app existed, though if you mean the teaching content, it doesn't have that.
Vinyl is kind of silly compared to supporting actual live music especially I'm a city like LA with such a tremendously rich variety of live music acts. Not to knock vinyl but it's like why build a cafe for vinyl in la where there are so many tremendous live talents lacking space to perform?
No, but it's still likely to outperform a system delivering assets over WebRTC from whatever p2p users are serving it up.
best comparison would be Nextcloud.
Fun fact: I ported "IP over Avian Carriers" over to the web.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03aEf26YupY
Meanwhile Carnival will not hire you to work on a ship if you have tattoos because they are afraid of the image it will portray.

Cruise lines and the people that support them with their wallets are an environmental scourge that perpetuate the worste aspects of tourism.
I was gifted an anatomy drawing class with live models (kind of by mistake) and decided to jump into it. I never doodled or tried to draw, basically ever in my life, and I was amazed at the complexity and challenge of it.

My first drawings were laughably bad, trying to do 50 things at once during a 10 minute drawing - they ended up worse than a bad stick figure. And I kept expecting to turn the corner and suddenly do things well, but it really is a long road. At first I thought my biggest challenge was simply how to make effective marks with a pencil, but so much more is what you said - understanding of the 3D form, the skeleton and musculature, not to mention unraveling and rebuilding all the mental shortcuts our brain takes when constructing an image from a picture. I really love nerding out on reductive drawings now, especially ones that convey a ton of info with minimal marks. It is still like magic to me, but I am excited to keep learning.

Anyone in the Bay Area interested, the class I took was from this awesome charcoal artist who is starting teaching from his own studio in SF: https://www.instagram.com/jacobdoodles/
Have you seen the Bahamas lately?

Between the cruise ships and massive resorts they have killed the entire ecosystem.
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That doesn’t sound mature

(Shrug) Don't tell me, tell Plato. He came up with the notion.

It’ll be as effective as saying, “don’t be afraid of the dark, there are no monsters, that’s just your imagination.”

That's pretty effective, and something almost every parent has to tell their child at one point or another. What do you recommend saying instead?
It seems logical to pay off debts as soon as you can as they're expensive. However, in your example, if I use that $2,000 to pay down (a tiny bit of) my mortgage, I put myself in a dangerous position by not being able to come up with some extra cash in case of emergency. I hope most people with mortgages wouldn't do that.
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So you're saying Apple should adopt brew as default package manager and install all system tools using brew? I could get behind that, but just dropping everything without replacement makes it harder for first-time programmers.
Dietary vegan, a type of vegan?
No: you can sign and notarize packages.
I agree completely. Cruise ship tourism is disgusting.

Bring your culture with you to insulate yourself from anything that might make you uncomfortable and pollute at an absurd scale the entire time.
> Faced with this, one is better off putting extra cash into paying down the mortgage rather than in a savings account.

Cash poor means no easily accessible source of cash, it doesn't refer to the amount of money in your wallet. In your scenario you can access that cash again by jumping onto the banks website (or even visiting the bank) and moving it to your everyday account.
Sounds like a job for the public suffix list.
Ok, I guess it's worded vaguely enough to allow for the possibility of optional installation ("by default"), even though they don't outright promise that they'll offer a way to install it. (I interpreted it in the same way as "macOS doesn't include Photoshop by default".) Having it come from the app store doesn't seem totally appropriate since it would need to do more than dump a bundle into /Applications, like making some /usr/local/bin symlinks. Maybe they'll allow themselves that exception.

"they’d like you not to use the same ancient batteries as they have previously made available, because, well they are ancient" --> Right, I couldn't figure out if that's all they meant. Valid point or not, it doesn't seem appropriate to make it in the context of those notes. If you're going to make me bundle the language anyway, don't also give me a lecture about which version to use. :)
Thanks. I find it annoying when people write essays on Twitter.
I'm confused that there are no comments here yet about the actual topic at hand: international media willfully flat out lying about what happened. Basically, fake news in mainstream media.

Sure, the Daily Mail isn't particularly a quality newspaper, but a lie about an entire country's medical practices is quite a bit different than a lie about some aristocrat's love life. And even then, aren't eg BBC Radio or the Independent supposed to be quality news sources? The latter writes "A 17-year-old girl who was raped as a child has ended her own life through legal euthanasia in the Netherlands" [0]. What's going on here?

This is the kind of stuff that we're being told only fringe media do, the rogue blogs that will do anything that heats up facebook outrage, for ad impressions - the kind whose business model is to invent lies for maximum shares. This story isn't about euthanesia or suicide. It's about how the mainstream media took a note from the invent-outrageous-lies-blogs' playbook. About how it's totally OK now for BBC Radio 4 to report flat out lies, if only it gets people talking about BBC Radio.

This is a serious problem. While everybody is falling over each other to blame Facebook for undermining democracy, apparently the likes of the BBC and the Independent are slowly transforming into the real perpetrators. Sure, I know why: their journalists are paid by the click just as any other. But apparently any sort of fact checking went out the window there, and I wonder whether that's a viable business strategy in the long term. Why consume "quality" media if the quality is the same as the inflammatory rando blog post your aunt just shared on Facebook?

I recognize that journalism is under a lot of financial pressure, but if lies like these get willfully spread by people who should know better, what's left? How do we know that this Politico article isn't a lie as well?

I'm deeply troubled by all this.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/euthanasia-c... the headline I quoted is from the video. There's a little "oops we might've lied hihi" on the bottom of the article but they couldn't be bothered to fix the video because hey, clicks lol.
> Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with not just inanimate nature running on behind-the-scenes clockwork, but with our behavior, including our belief that we are free to choose to do one experiment rather than another, absolutely predetermined, including the "decision" by the experimenter to carry out one set of measurements rather than another, the difficulty disappears.

You see, I think Bell is kind of obfuscating here: this is just normal determinism and it seems to me like Lagrange would have been perfectly fine with this. Causality only, even for the atoms that happen to reside in a human brain.

Edit: what do you mean with your last paragraph? Because I interpret it like this: the belief that interferes is that we have free will and can choose and basically change the past (counterfactuals). But I have a hunch that you mean it like: QM is weird, be careful.
I think most of the people who visit HN would be the type to optimize altruism.

It's not just impact though. There are sites which try to research the most cost-effective causes.

But that feels mechanical and hurts the "feel good" effect. While you can probably feel good by donating something closer to home that has a 70:1 effect compared to a 101:1 effect, for example.

There's also some other selfish factors to optimize for like tax breaks and divine favor.

And sometimes it's more effective to work for a good job as compared to taking a high paying 'evil' job and then donating that money.

But yeah, I try to systematically do all of the above. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter how long I live or how much money I make, only how much benefit I contribute to the world in the end.
As far as I can tell, this is some sort of thing that Twitter does to Safari users because it can't fingerprint them well and thinks it might be abuse.
California already had free education. See the "California Master Plan for Higher Education." We had to stop because of prop 13.

"The State’s higher education and prison systems are a study in opposites. The prison system saw its state funding in dollars leap 436% between 1980 and 2011. Back then, spending on prisons was a mere 3% of California’s budget; it’s now 10%."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/california-publ...

https://time.com/4276222/free-college/

https://senate.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2017-02/Reclaimi...
Ask HN: How do you deal with fraud, is there an easy way?
We're a new service and we use stripe we've had about 30 fraudulent transactions put trough and we don't know how to stop this person from putting more, Stripe only goes so far, it's fairly easy to fool.

It's costing us ~ 0.7$ every time we need to refund which is sort of annoying. Also it's a waste of time.

How do you guys deal with this?
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I prefer Bill Burr's approach of just sinking them.
I personally believe that the reason why Apple is losing mindshare among some software developers, particularly in Silicon Valley and in academia, has less to do with particular choices regarding macOS and has more to do with Apple's hardware situation, particularly regarding the keyboards on Apple's recent laptops. The keyboard situation has led some developers to consider alternatives to the MacBook Pro, which often necessitates needing to consider non-Mac alternatives. PC manufacturers have been offering some really compelling alternatives to the MacBook Pro such as the Microsoft Surface line of tablets, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and the Dell XPS 13 and 15, among other computers. Those frustrated with Apple's long delays in releasing updated Mac Mini and Mac Pro models have also considered switching to PCs, if they haven't already.

On top of this, the introduction of WSL in Windows 10 has made Windows a compelling option for many people who use macOS as a Unix that doesn't have the driver issues of Linux/*BSD and happens to support Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and other commercial software packages. Provided that they are not hardcore Unix systems programmers, if they want a Unix-like userland with support for Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite, why not try WSL? Despite my preference for macOS, I've used WSL on my work-issued computer as well as on my personal Dell XPS 15, and I must say, I'm very impressed with it. No more having to mess around with PuTTY or with virtual machines to do Unix work on Windows. While I am personally more productive in macOS than in Windows even with WSL, I know quite a few former Mac users who are very happy with Windows 10, thanks to WSL.

Now, software engineers who primarily work with Apple frameworks and technologies probably won't be satisfied with Windows. But software engineers who use macOS primarily as a convenient Unix with support for commercial software packages might want to give Windows 10 and WSL a try. Now, personally I'm still turned off by certain lingering "Windowsisms" (insert gripes about telemetry, ads, mandatory updates, and the UI here), but for many people Windows 10 is now a compelling alternative to the Mac.
The distinction between racism and nationalism matters. You can ultimately never completely quell racism. Racists emerge out of the woodwork any time they think they can find solidarity. It's evil, and evil is fought through awareness.

Nationalism however is the fundamental basis behind modern sovereignty. It's an identity based on shared geography rather than appearances. Nationalism ultimately prevents the people in the nation from getting conquered by other nations. You don't want the sentiments running away on you, but a certain amount of national pride is good for a people.

Nazism hid racism behind nationalism, in order to meld the two political forces together to form a ruling coalition. This was fundamental to its success. You cannot merely say the Nazis were racist, to turn them into the bogeyman, without acknowledging that the rest of the world had a role to play in bringing them to power.

The West, collectively, brought about World War 2. We didn't listen to the lessons learned over a thousand years of grappling with warfare on the continent, we did not do what was needed at the end of World War 1. It was so obvious that Germany was going to rearm and try again that France immediately went to considerable expense to fortify their eastern border.

We left an enormous power vacuum in Germany in the name of greed. We would not make that same mistake again at the end of WW2, though honestly the spectre of nuclear war had a lot more to do with it than moral imperative.
That's under the principle that a corporation holds the same rights as a person, which is not a principle that everyone agrees with.
That's not at all what the author is saying. He's saying that consumer attention and convenience has hit its limit. That's not the entire field of technology.

Energy clean and too cheap to measure, faster construction, new modes of manufacturing, new medicines, efficiency of engines, new modes of transportation and propulsion and so on. You can easily imagine an entire array of things that would materially improve our lives and improve productivity through the entire economy, applicable even in rural places.

What has probably reached its end is the zero-sum rent seeking enabled by platform owners and attention merchants. Maybe the Silicon Valley investors of this world will go back to the scifi of the 60s and try to come up with inventions that touch the physical world instead of continuing to pump money into the cyberpunk version of the future we've been trying to emulate for the last 20 years.
I did not offer any opinion on what actions to take in that matter, nor do I have one at the moment.

I am generally in favor of international exchanges and people being allowed to go where they think they need to go. I'm not in favor of cheating your hosts.
In my opinion, it does, by assuming people can make choices about how to set their measuring apparatus.
You stop that by isolating the cows from badgers and any other wildlife.

Beyond raising cattle in a hermetically-sealed shed that is effectively impossible,and definitely beyond the bounds of any sort of economic reasoning.
If you actually run stuff the Dual Xeon system won't be sitting at 75W either.
To be fair, Crowder went after an outspoken socialism activist named Carlos Maza who happens to be very openly gay, to the point where his twitter handle is gaywonk, and he hosts an opinion program with Vox and shows up in media from time to time. So he exists in the ether of popular media and all of the bullshit that goes with it.

Carlos has a propensity to call everyone he disagrees with politically either bigots or white supremacists, and has advocated for deplatforming and silencing any dissenters against his brand of politics for awhile.

He won obviously, he whined enough to get his way because he wants to have his cake and eat it too when it comes to disseminating opinion. This wasn't about homosexuality at the end of the day, he parades it regularly himself, and he used it as his weapon with the backdrop of pride month.

The big issue is about the one sided discourse going on this country where the first amendment used to mean something and we took great pains as a country to defend it, even the ugly stuff. Now we are at a point where any opinion held outside of left leaning PC popular thought is "hate speech" or harassment, even though all sides in the media, both social and professional, engage in overt targeted harassment at this point, and tech companies are all to willing to jump in on one side and crush opposition.

Enjoy the show, once silencing dissenting speech and political and social ideas becomes normal, acceptable, and popular with the blessing of the mob, this ride won't stop. True fascism requires that only one acceptable track of speech and political thought exists, and we are on that road now.
Was going to say exactly this. Major common misunderstanding about even Haskell. Mutable state has to eventually be a part of basically every program that does something useful. The Haskell philosophy is more about having an explicit and predictable boundary between the pure and effectful parts of your code/system.

Though you'd be surprised at how much you can do while forgoing mutable state entirely.
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You don't have to use brew. And if you aren’t a developer making software, you don’t need to do anything.

If you are a developer, there are many ways to get the software you need for development. Apple is saying they’re just not going to provide it on client machines by default — which is probably fine because honestly, more often what happens is the version Apple has on the machine is old or missing newer parts anyway.

I guess you could argue Apple should make their own package manager, but they just don’t want to spend the time and energy on that when they want to focus on Mac and iOS software rather than UNIX software.
This is a good point, but is an edge case: a contract made under duress (external coercion) is not valid. That is implicit.

What I am speaking of is of a person plainly expressing their own intent, perhaps to the contrary opinions of medical professionals, family, legal professionals, et c.

Obviously if that expression of intent was coerced, there is a question of legitimacy of the expression of intent itself. But that is not really what we are discussing.

There is of course room for legal opinion on whether or not the documentation of the intent is valid or not. But the intent itself cannot morally be questioned by any second party for any reason, on any grounds. Our bodies are our own.
> your phone always has to be broadcasting the BLE beacon, regardless of if it is lost or not

It could have an X-hour "deadman timer" after which if it still hasn't successfully phoned home and been told it's not lost, it starts pinging?
Mac OS versions prior to OS X used ':'.

Mac OS X, initially released on 24 March 2001, uses '/', like other Unix-derived systems.

Also, like other unices, OS X uses '\n' as the line ending. Prior Mac OSs used '\r' as the line ending. Windows uses '\r\n'.
Last time I visited the Occupation Museum in Tallinn, the old Lenin etc statues were stored inside - downstairs near the toilets, quite appropriately.

There is a German soldier's cemetery in Viljandi:
https://www.visitestonia.com/en/german-soldiers-cemetery-in-...
... which, as I understand it, was developed and is maintained with funding from the German government. I wonder if 'Mother Russia' bothers to contribute similarly to Russian-soldier related memorials in Estonia?
I’m working on a realtime video conferencing service. Lots of long running connections with state updated by streamed events. React works pretty well for this use case imho. Not a lot of CRUD there.
> A suicidal mind is often one caught in the temporary throes of delusion and irrationality, even if it comes from internal wiring going haywire instead of external substances.

Why do you make this assertion that a rational person can't be suicidal? DFW was definitely a very rational person, for instance. I'd recommend reading Good Old Neon for an insight into his character, and a good depiction of both a suicidal and rational character[0]

> Suicidal impulses are most often fleeting relative to normal lifespan.

Key words there are 'most often', but I'm curious to know your evidence for this assertion.

> With therapy and medicine, she is very, very happy to be alive now

This is a great result for her, and you.

[0] http://sdavidmiller.com/octo/files/no_google2/GoodOldNeon.pd...
Calling “a Garrard, an audiophile turntable” is the most laughable thing I’ve ever read in the Times. Yes, it’s a belt drive table (although there may have been some with idler wheels) but, audiophile, no. A starter table like a Thorens, or a Rega, might count, but a Linn or any of the true audiophile tables might start to qualify. The difference between an analog record on a great system and a. Digital mp3 on anything would make most people who love music cry at what’s missing in the digital version.
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Talking about factually wrong...

If you look at the full picture: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

"DarwinPorts" was originally released in 2002. You can see it trending and then the name change which occurred in 2006. It's been on a downward trend ever since.

Even thought Homebrew was released in 2009, it trends relatively constant for the entire dataset. In fact, from 2009 onward, you see a downward trend and then a slight upward trend. So, I'd say, Google is having trouble differentiating "Homebrew" as a drink and Homebrew the package manager.

Now, my personal opinion on the matter:

I used both Fink and MacPorts extensively since around ~2002. I eventually moved to MacPorts because it had better support for Latex at the time.

MacPorts is solid and follows UNIX philosophy in its design. I've been using it for almost 15 years and in that time I've had almost zero issues with either available packages or installation bugs. It's very reliable.

I did try Homebrew. Once I realised it installs user-owned files into `/usr/local`, I tossed it. It's simply broken by design. For more details, e.g. https://applehelpwriter.com/2018/03/21/how-homebrew-invites-...
with open("~/Documents/important.csv", "r") as f:
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No? Oh well, I guess programming is hard, IT was right. Ok, back to excel...
It uses the system python? I doubt it.