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> Perhaps the versatility is the killer feature.

That is a thirst of it. There is little it does massively better than other options, in fact for everything I can think of there are better options, but it is powerful to do most things well enough.

An other third is the cost. There are not many options with a similar price/utility ratio, particularly when you count support (see point three).

The thirst third is support: up-to-date Linux builds supporting the hardware (a common complaint with other devices is old and/or buggy drivers that are a faf to build), community size & momentum, commercial add-ons, ...

> As a media box, you'd want a SATA port

Not for a media display box, which is what my currently active pair are used for. Local media storage is on the network in a box hosting many drives and doing other jobs too, and other media is remote anyway. And if you are using something for storage you want multiple SATA ports (I can't be the only one paranoid enough to apply RAID1+ to anything intended to survive the month!).

The Pi3 (and 2 for that matter) does admirably as a Kodi box, though it struggles with x265 (720p is fine though it drops frames on some encodes, 1080p is sometimes surprisingly OK in the winter but causes the thermal throttle to kick in after a while when the ambient temperature is higher) so I'm quite interested in the fact that the 4 seems to support this in hardware - I'll be keeping an ear open for news that Kodi supports its hardware support for that codec (and if it handles the commonly used format options well not just the baseline).

> router / pfSense without a second gigabit ethernet

You can use an external device, but yeah that does wreck the nice small form factor somewhat, adds to the cost, and you have the hassle of finding a reliable well-supported one. Though the main complaints I've seen for using simple SoC systems like this as a router (and one of the reasons why I've not got around to trying it myself yet) is not that 100Mbps is a limitation for most home users (anecdote: have ~76mbit down, ~17Mbit up, I know few here with much better) but that they don't have the umpf to keep up with that level of traffic, especially in both directions, with any degree of extra processing (i.e. being a VPN endpoint for a chunk of that traffic).
I'd be perfectly fine having a touchbar if it were in addition to the f-keys.
Losses in accumulated platform knowledge, purchased software investments, and custom built tooling. No, it’s not like replacing a dishwasher!
Russia to hold talks with Huawei in using Aurora operating system
In that time, the US has waged the longest war in our history, average college debt has only increased, easily accessible good paying jobs have continued to vanish, health care costs have continued to skyrocket, the minimum wage has stayed pitifully low, and real estate investment firms are gobbling up housing in the places that do have jobs.
I feel the opposite: automated tools are really useful for smallish POC type things -- MVPs and early stage work, but fail when things reach a certain level of complexity.
So not quite perfectly fine since no iteration of the Touch Bar has a physical ESC button?
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Do you ever consider ipad pro?
Love it, A+
You (and others) may enjoy Adam Savage's new book. He was one of the Mythbusters guys. In one of the first chapters he writes about his love of lists and checklists, and the impact it makes on the process of "making." I'm only a few chapters in so far but it's been a fun read so far.

It looks like there is an article talking about this specifically here on Wired if you want to dip your toes in: https://www.wired.com/story/adam-savage-lists-more-lists-pow...
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I've got one of the latest ones too, I still think it sucks more than the 2015 ones.

I used to keep them on my desk partly as screen estate, now keep the lid closed, leave it under the desk and use a bluetooth keyboard in the hope it'll survive.
Europe is different, certainly in the UK. The charging network is being built and you can go cross country with an electric car.

From what I understand from watching the Fully Charged Show there is plenty of charging infrastructure being put in place in mainland Europe. However, we are more like two or three plugs at a motorway service station (with one broken) fifty miles away rather than every lamp post having a plug on it.

Really it is the electricity companies rather than the auto manufacturers who are taking that part up, much like how BMW et al. don't own petrol filling stations they don't own the charging infrastructure.
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It has, and that's mentioned in the article. If you want to be #1 on the search page, buy an ad, because that will always appear above every "organic" search result.

Ads are Google's bread and butter, and has been for the entirety of its existence as a public company.
It's Time to Challenge OpenStack (and OpenNebula)
Possibly software and accessories that only work with macOS.
What was the kettle boiling? How long ago did it start boiling? Is it still boiling? That Sea level boil or high altitude boil? ARRGH! your function name isn't descriptive enough!
Real escape and full row of real F- keys. Just push the Touchbar above it, so we can power it down and ignore it (or run cute screensavers on it while plugged in).

The whole concept makes no sense. "Don't look at the computer's screen when you work, look down at your keyboard instead!" It is like an anti-touch typing gimmick, the tagline should be "become a worse typelist today!"
Thinking about your comment, I've started to become skeptical of my own position:

Sure, financial regulators are probably extremely upset about this, and are probably going to fight it. However, the data Facebook would be collecting here would extremely valuable to other regulators; data they cannot currently access precisely because it is protected by financial regulation.

If Facebook were to offer access to this data (on National Security grounds, or 'think of the children' grounds, etc.), agencies could have immediate access to immense amounts of data from potentially every user, whereas currently, they'd probably need a court order (or National Security Letter, etc.) to access the data of just one.

Would any of the committees you listed prevail against these interests?
The planet is perfectly capable of co-existing with raspberry pi’s. For something as grand as climate change, you won’t make a dent here.
Not sure I understand this. Apple means both hardware and software, are you cutting software and using linux on a macbook, or cutting hardware too and using on a windows machine?
You have parking. Installing outlets, while not 'free', is not impossible. Certainly more realistic than on-street parking situations.
I'd be curious to know if Apple collects telemetry on touchbar usage. I don't use it. At all. I have it frozen to only show the equivalent physical keys that used to be there (esc and the fn keys). Does anyone use the touchbar effectively and like it? What are the chances of Apple ditching it on some models?
It would definitely be interesting to hear the other side of this anecdote. My guess is that there's a lot of workarounds happening at the plant level that are being hidden.
Final update from me. This was a widespread problem that affected 2,400 networks (representing 20,000 prefixes) including us, Amazon, Linode, Google, Facebook and others.

https://twitter.com/bgpmon/status/1143149817473847296
https://twitter.com/bgpmon/status/1143149817473847296
Better keyboard and no touch bar would cause the MBP to be the undisputed champion of laptops. I have a 2019 MBP and love absolutely everything about it minus the keyboard, thank god the 13" has an option without the touch bar.
Information is very poorly distributed. It's hard to overstate how bad this is. Yes, that's contrary to what's required for a well functioning market. That markets function even a tiny fraction as well as they're supposed to on paper is practically a miracle, given, you know, reality. That they often wreck everything or are much more awful than we might expect or do weird crap like letting large orgs be astoundingly inefficient is unsurprising, given this. This is relevant because it means it's damn hard to evaluate a vendor aside from "they're big and everyone's using them so they're probably fine?" So big companies get big contracts, even when they suck, especially from other big companies (and governments).

Making a big organization work well probably requires a bunch of highly-paid people to take on personal responsibility and make judgement calls where the buck stops with them. No-one wants to do this. It's personally risky and there's a kind of game everyone plays where they know everyone's avoiding this and it's considered fine as long as you fake Doing Manager Stuff and bring the Big Four in when you can't avoid making a decision, so you can blame them if something goes wrong. The same attitude infects the entire organization, unavoidably. If the big contracts are rolling in anyway (see above) there's little incentive to take personal risks.

It's an example of success breeding success, purely for its own sake.
Yeah, with DRM that blanks out copyrighted content you haven't paid to watch, and reinserts adverts that your adblocker removed.

And they'll remove the optic nerve connector in favour of Bluetooth that will allow them to be 0.1mm thinner, and be wireless!

Ps did you miss iBalls on purpose?
“My favorite feature is the Obituary department” (1961)
Huh? Yes they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_of_care_(business_associa...
For me the most important part was in the abstract: autoscaling. It’s not just about going to zero but going to hundreds of thousands. I can remember my two most painful times with memcache:

1. A client scaled rapidly & we had repeated hits on the same key. We were saturating the NIC in the memcache server. We had to addd indirection for some data and introduced an local in-memory layer in front of memcache.

2. We had to extend the ring size to give memcache better CPU utilization. We had to teach all our code to handle a migration process (reads were fall through to the new ring and writes purged both). We couldn’t just turn off memcache because a total dump would overwhelm the database.
An interesting take. When borg was written the main machine class was dual-dual-core opteron. Now I imagine the typical borglet has dual Haswell or Skylake CPUs with I guess between 40 and 88 cores. Do you think (or do you have data that indicates) the typical Google container/vm has grown to keep pace with the machine size, or do you think the mainstream container is still 1CPU/4GB?
Is 300 very low? I've occasionally seen 60 in the wild.
The Surface Pro was an impressive feat of engineering, but was never a comfortable typing experience regardless. I would say the Surface Book legitimately has a super nice keyboard though, reminds me of the pre-2015 Macbooks in good ways.
There is not really a too late, at this point we need decarbonization regardless of what came before. Every ounce of CO2 avoided is a step in the right direction. Yes we will experience catastrophic climate events, but businesses still have time to accelerate into green tech, generate wealth, and lessen or prevent future problems.
This looks interesting but really needs some clear pathway to free samples to evaluate it. The first thing I did was click "Start Learning" and it took me to"Pricing".

I want to understand the quality and depth of what I'm paying for before I shell out.
If there aren’t laws damning this style of business there should be. The amount of power focused in such a few people can only have catastrophic effects on society.
IIRC they use the defense of just offering a marketplace where other vendors sell stuff. That did not work for places like Silk Road, and given that Amazon handles the delivery I doubt it holds up - at least not in all legislations Amazon is active in.
If you have children, you would understand ;-) Or if you are just an adult child...
If marshalling is the problem, fix marshalling. Erlang (built in distribution), CapnProto, Flatbuffers, etc

https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-...
In my case I like the end product to be code. I use snippets/generators to create components (models/controllers/middleware) then modify as needed.

Having used loopback before, it's a quick way to get an api up and running, I personally struggle with injecting logic into endpoints/writing custom endpoints.

If the code's "all there", I know where to look. If I have to intercept hooks it adds an extra layer when searching.

Summary, loopback has been great for creating APIs where all I care about is crud, but for larger projects I stick with snippets/generators so I can extend easier later.
Over the last two decades I've seen a dramatic increase in stressful academics at schools: More homework, more intense classes, ect, ect.

I went to a "college prep" high school that was harder than my college. As I became independent, I realized that intense academics stole my childhood and didn't have the value that the adults believe they have.

At the same time, when I lived in Palo Alto, I used to hear about how one of the high schools, (Gunn?) had a very high suicide rate due to the stress of academics. Someone (Caltrans?) put fences around the train tracks to try and stop suicides.

(I wish commenters wouldn't immediately blame social media.)
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> I'm curious what losses there are to be cut? Isn't it as simple as just buying a different product and using that instead?

Chances are they have software installed on their machine. OSX has a vibrant ecosystem of independent developer and thus a pretty large number of bespoke good-quality software which might / would have to be replaced. Especially as cross-platform software tends to integrate less than well with the platform.

That goes double for older mac users, which have a higher tendency to use native software.

And of course one needs the time to adapt to different paradigms, shortcuts, facilities, … once again especially for older users of the platform for whom this becomes second nature.

Incidentally the points mix, the second one drives the first, I regularly notice cross-platform software which doesn't respond properly to Cocoa's text-movement shortcuts (even a simple C-a / C-e).
Stricter norms and racial homogeneity don't seem to have prevented high suicide rates in countries like Korea or Japan. At any rate, it's awfully easy to diagnose broad cultural problems as the result of one's personal bugbears.
Curious how hifiberry will work with it...
Very light tax on electric cars (PHEV included) steers customers to electrified cars as well. I guess European manufacturers are forced to step in. I'd like to have powerful traditional combustion engine on my car but electrified PHEV makes much more economical sense due taxation.
Everyone wants to jump on this with their personal theory of what's wrong with the world (because that's what bothers them), but suicide isn't based on rational negative beliefs like the ones we have. It is a symptom of mental illness, which has completely different causes.
An opinion I understand and respect, but that I don’t share. Anyone with sufficient education can be absolutely terrified of the soul-crushing future we need to deal with, but what makes life enjoyable is overcoming any challenge put in our way.
Outside of people with religious beliefs, I don’t understand why people object to an individual being responsible to choose if their life ends on their terms (early).

And with regards to religious beliefs, I’m not aware of modern popular religions having a concept of collective judgement. Thus, if someone else makes a choice that “damns” them, why would that be a concern to some other believer.

In other words, why are people so caught up in dictating what is reasonable and natural while at the same time partaking of human efforts to alter nature for their personal benefit?
Elon Musk Solved the Electric Car Problem
I'm just laughing so hard at this thread. I also have a drawer, but with a bunch of Sonoff Home Automation devices. I promise I'll activate them one day!

My wife doesn't have a clever name, but instead of usually rolling her eyes at yet another unfinished project, she loves this particular drawer because it's perfectly (and neatly) organized, like the best of unused item drawers.
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As pointed out in the parent, recycling is emphatically less important than reduction of production.
This sounds amazing.
How did it turn out?
Whoah Whoah they’re talking about getting rid of arrow keys?
The article I think misses reasons for keeping the different business units separate (assuming they are indeed BUs). They can act as the smaller “agile” companies in their own markets that the author seems to say can get a lot more done. Who cares if there’s a lot of duplication. There’s a huge human reason to keep these separate: autonomy. Nothing sucks more than being stuck in org bureaucracy for years never solving a customer problem, watching the smaller poorly funded competition do better. You’ll never retain talent doing that, which frankly is the real issue large companies struggle with. And you’ll never satisfy customers when reuse and not quickly solving customer problems is the priority.

Consolidation and “reuse” is often the problem, not the solution.
I consider the majority of challenges we face today unsolvable.
Memcache was released in 2003, we didn't start to see server SSDs until 2008. For many places, if you put the database on SSDs, it's fast enough.
Because a large portion of it ends up as both macro and microplastics in the environment, which has a severely negative effect on ecosystems.
It's very low compared to 24 hours, which is what used to be the most common setting and that (among other factors) was a big part of the "DNS propagation takes forever" mentality
In general I disagree. In large codebases you're going to have a number of abstractions that you'll have to deal with by their nature. Flattening these can cause a scenario where you have a long function with clusters of lines of code organized in a block are doing different functionality that isn't clearly stated. This may include a comment at the start of each block discussing what the next few lines are doing. And without abstraction, the functionality later may not be cleanly decoupled. Debugging these types of functions also adds significant mental load trying to see the forest through the trees.

From the article it seems like the bigger issue might be debugging style. For me, when debugging those abstracted functions should be treated and trusted as black boxes until you have sufficient reason that function is the issue, and then dig into it and ignore the rest of the function. Trying to build a mental model by effectively flattening every function takes huge cognitive load, and only is feasible for small amounts of code. Once the codebase is large enough it's going to become impossible to do this.
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We've used a RPi 3B+ for a couple years as a home desktop and it's been great for general browsing, email, youtube.

Velcro it to the back of a HD TV and it can sit anywhere.
> I don't think the author thinks the headline is literally true.

Just a friendly reminder: authors do not typically create their headlines, headlines are created by an editor.
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Unless I'm the one misinterpreting here, I think you both agree.
As for modern Windows machines, I bought a Surface Laptop for my wife and that machine holds up pretty good. But she does not use it every day like I do and only uses it for browsing, Office and remote desktopping to her work environment.
I'm sure most of humanity for most of history have made do with smaller rooms than that.

How do you cope in a car?
i don’t know what your app is doing but what I’ve done in the past is to boot from the sd card and switch it to read only after and use an in-memory tmpfs after. I’ve hacked this together quite a few times that at some point I’ve put together a little project. maybe check it out: cattlepi.com
Look at the Bevin Boys: from 1943-1947 once a week the minister would pull out a digit from 0-9, and all men liable to report that week whose registration numbers last digit matched the minister's pull were sent off to be coal miners. While soldiers viewed this as a way to escape the dangers of the front, the men themselves faced the dangers of coal mining without a guaranteed job to come back to (unlike with soldiers, who could not lose their job due to government service).

But that was the only way that a Britain at war could get enough coal miners. Conscripting them
Riak uses Mnesia?
Look for as cards that are certified for dash cams. Either that, or make the write intensive volume a network share.
You can use sci-hub.shop to read the full text.

Interestingly, the trend of suicide among females seems to be unaffected. The rate is steadily increasing, but the trend has been nearly the same since at least 2000. There's a noticeable increase in the suicide trend for males starting in 2013. (If I'm interpreting the graphs correctly)
I'm actually switching back to Linux. Partially because of the issues you cite, I too love my 2015 MBP - where as I don't use my bigger 2017 MBP as a laptop (it's basically a desktop for me).

The bigger issue for me though is price. I love my 2015 not only because the keyboard is great, but because the price was good (it's a cheaper model). I can take it outside and not fear losing $2k-$4k. My bigger MBP is just over 3 grand, which is a lot to lose due to sea air, outside dirt, etc.

Sure, I could probably buy a cheaper 2019 MBP if they're quality and feel good about going outside, but I want power too. The price just doesn't seem worth it these days. If I go Linux, I can get a powerhouse for the same price as the lower end MBPs it seems (though I've not done rigorous comparisons yet). I want cheap and powerful.. and it just seems impossible to do that with Apple.
The idea of a mogul having earned every penny seems absurd to me. They take advantage of publicly funded research and infrastructure, a stable society, and all sorts of positive externalities. There's a reason why you rarely see tech startups emerge out of Sierra Leone.

That's not to say that they didn't get the ball rolling, or that the company would exist without them, just that the Ayn Rand moral calculus doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Heh, I know the feeling. I have three retired Pi systems (two OG units and a 1B+), but I have three running 24/7 as well: first is a 2B+ running OSMC as my media center. The second one is a 3B with a sense hat, running rtl433 and MRTG to graph outdoor and basement temperature and humidity received from transmitters on-premises, barometric pressure from the hat (and also displaying data on the LED display). The last is a 3B+ running Home Assistant.

I've been - cross my fingers - lucky with MicroSD cards (usually Samsung, sometimes SanDisk), but having USB3 on the new model is quite the game-changer.

ETA: I do have rsync backing up my Pi setups, so losing a MicroSD would be merely annoying rather than catastrophic.
hmmm...this company is coming to the US per it's website. Hmmm ...smh.
> Revolut cited 'personal and health reasons' for the CFO's resignation. Whatever those personal and health reasons really were, they clearly passed quite quickly as within the space of a few weeks, said CFO has joined another FinTech company as their new CFO.

Just waited for the golden parachute check to be cashed in.
For me, these are non trivial to replace on Linux or windows: 3 years of randomly generated passwords conveniently stored, a purchased movie collection on iTunes, tab syncing between phone and laptop, touchId login, and probably most importantly iMessage sync between laptop and phone.