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I admire the work it took to build it but not the design.

I have a Coolermaster H500 (I wanted high air flow with filters as I have ambulatory fur producers (cats)), it’s a bit too RGB for me but other than that very very functional and was a dream to build inside.

Against that the Mac Pro doesn’t fair well on cost to function at all.
That's assuming you actually believe the numbers haven't been rigged, VW-style.
This is not a concern in my threat model.
You mean the yellow boiling cauldron icon that no one knows what it is?
I meant send links from any app to firefox and switch to firefox at a later time to find them ready to be read.
So does ESET. Blocks this site.
Is the requirement to have higher hoodlines? Or is it to have safety mechanisms within the hood, which result in higher hoodlines?
Obviously it varies between counties, but here in the UK I can transfer money between my three banks essentially instantly (normally less than 15 seconds), for free. And we were late to the game. The only time I pay to use an ATM is at ones in small corner ships. Bank ones are almost always free, and you can use any bank's machine.

Planet Money did a good episode on why the US system is so bad compared to most other developed countries. Mostly seems to come down to the huge number of small bank's you have, it massively complicates any attempt to roll out a new tech platform.
Or even just draw the text in a canvas and check pixel colors. Which feature do you take away? Drawing text in canvas? Or inspecting the current content you’ve drawn in it?

This sort of thing is used for even deeper GPU fingerprinting because the exact results of graphics commands can vary slightly. I’m not sure what browsers can/are doing to prevent that.
I, too, would like the option of a thicker laptop and my beloved magnetic break-away power connector. That has saved my bacon many times when my foot caught the cord. I assume that wold permit a thicker battery with a longer lifetime...
My experience with usb c is from people in my lab with usb c only MacBooks, looking to move files and borrow one of our extra drives, realize they don’t have the ubiquitous usb a and look for other solutions. Or trying to plug into a projector that has hdmi and 6 adapters but no usb c yet, then trying to get their presentation to another notebook..

I’ll keep my multi port Mac Pro till it falls apart at this point
Is it just me or are all of the features they list on the landing page exactly what Google inbox did before they stupidly shut it down? I loved the inbox UI...
Melting stone with plants: Was the mythical 'green chisel' a real ancient tool?
Yes, exactly. We still have giant and obsessively maintained rigs, they're just made from ten thousand cores of x86.
> I think a very small percentage of people alive at the time of using nuclear weapons on Japan would have actually done so.

Ever talked to any older Asians from nations who were occupied by the Japanese before and during the war? They would have happily used as many as the United States was willing to provide.

It's amazing how many people forget the immense scale of the atrocities that the Japanese committed before and during WWII, eclipsing even that of the Germans.
This is what we do in our office. We use airplay or a Zoom screen share. Plugging in is a last resort. I never have to do that.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.isoron.uhabits/
I totally agree with you on C#, I don't think there's a really strong reason to chose Go over C# for a lot of applications.

Some of the core advantages of Go over Java are less pronounced with C# since C# has async/await, value types, easier C interop, unsafe, etc. The tooling for C# is great too.

C# also has bindings through Xamarin/Mono for iOS/Android/Windows/Mac development that the Go ecosystem doesn't really have an equivalent for. And of course there's Unity for 3D stuff.

There's some minor things like Go being a little less verbose or having a little easier learning curve, but I didn't really find those to be significant problems when using C#.

The main reason I'm using Go right now is mostly the GC properties. It's easier to avoid allocating memory but also the pause times are much lower than most other GC languages including C# [1]. For anything where latency is important Go is an interesting choice these days since it's hard to go any lower without adopting some form non-GC memory management.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*_Nom6vNYqIAqozgK0...
Can confirm, it has been great. No more running around the office trying to find another macbook user when I accidentally leave my charger at home. I just easily roll up to anyone using a newer Lenovo laptop (that charges with USB-C) and use their charger.

Ironically, it happens more often than not the other way around. Anecdote incoming. When I had to use a Lenovo laptop last month for a week as my on-call machine, the Lenovo charger refused to charge the laptop. It would register, because the power button would blink when I plugged it in, but the laptop would refuse to turn on even after an hour of charging. Plugged it into a macbook charger, and it turned on like a charm instantly.
I just spend <1 minute to update the login procedure for that site in my password manager and don't think about it again, continuing to log into all sites the same way, with a hotkey to perform auto-type for that site.

Which of us is happier?
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I actually didn't see the name of the new company in the linked article. Turns out it's called LoveFrom.

https://www.wired.com/story/jony-ive-leaves-apple/
I just use a text editor.
I think it's more that charisma (as traditionally understood) is sometimes inversely correlated with engineering ability.

Also, there's more to charisma than just speaking ability. pg's an excellent, and I would say charismatic, writer. In the modern age where companies are more distributed and things are becoming less physical in general, there are other ways to spread ideas and inspire others than being magnetic in-person.
I agree about the principle you propose. I'm certainly not saying taxing the robots is how it should be, just that it might be easier.

Governments might rather tax robots than properly deal with anonymous corporations playing extremely aggressive tax avoidance games.

Pushing money around the world has become so much easier. Try to make countries give up on fiscal anonymity, tax avoidance marketing or even plain tax evasion marketing. It might work on some micro nations, but good luck trying it with countries like the US...
It's unlikely they will move out of the market which gives them the most recognition as a brand and accounts for a disproportionately high % of their revenue.
A least where I live, there is a ton of honking, too, usually for pretty trivial reasons, which is a bigger contribution of cars to noise pollution than their actual engines. I wish it cost $0.50 or something to honk a car horn.
I found a little bit of footage of the actual app in this video: https://youtu.be/IdYGpiRZIgg?t=1476

Interface seems reasonably fast, but not surprising for native clients. Does anyone know whether it's actually native? Or just electron that doesn't suck?
Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and refraining from flamewar-style comments here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Superhuman has read receipts. AFAIK no email clients offers that outside of email marketing software.
CMake has a GUI (https://www.johnlamp.net/cmake-tutorial-3-gui-tool.html), and Make is pretty much perfect for your use case.
> Maybe you don't ever need to present anything from your laptop [...]

I do, almost daily. I even bought the HDMI dongle thinking I might need it when doing presentations outside of my usual workplaces but I have literally never used it. The presentation problem was solved years ago by airplay and chromecast, and the only thing I use HDMI for these days is to hook up things permanently, not temporarily.

I did think at first that I’d miss MagSafe, but I’ve never had an issue with the cable sticking in the port such that I yank my laptop of the table, and I’ve yanked that cable out a number of times. As another commenter rightly pointed out as well, the move from MagSafe actually meant when my cable got damaged because someone put a chair on it I didn’t have to swap the whole power supply, just the cable. Huge win and since I had extra I could solve it right then and there.

I’m no photographer though, so can’t really say for the SD thing. Maybe that does suck.
If you use Gmail, turn off loading images by default and it won't open any of those stupid tracking pixels. They won't get read receipts.

I thought a long time ago this was the default behavior to not open external images but it seems this has changed. I don't know who decided on changing that default, as pixel trackers can also enable stalking behavior.
TBD.

Books have lots of failure modes too. Wide distribution is one way to protect them.
I wasn't focusing on the cost aspect, mostly the "dang, that's a cool front panel" aspect.

I do agree that it needs some filters, but other than that, it looks pretty good, and I like it. Does that mean I'm going to spend $6K on a base Mac Pro? Probably not- I have friends with access to everything I need- I'd just have to come up with a design.
Same fundamental problem.
I’ve seen many National Parks in Australia that gave me the Disneyland feeling, but on the other side they made a lot of work to keep the NP accessible.

In Spain some call it Decatlón tourism, from the low-cost chain selling outdoor accessories.
A Boston startup developing a nuclear fusion reactor just got a $50M boost
The bullets are really cheap.
The last paragraph has nothing to do with Jony Ive and is like a little self pep talk from Apple.
It seems still be an accurate assessment of what they are planning.

> Ads and trackers are blocked by default. You can allow ads and trackers in the preferences panel.

> Later, as mentioned above, Brave will let you opt into receiving a reduced ad load that comes without trackers, maintains your privacy and helps support the publishers you like.

https://brave.com/faq/

Do you have any evidence that Brave's ads are not intended to be a replacement for traditional ads on publisher sites? What else would they be for?

And, regardless, the rest of my comment stands. It may be "better" to shows ads without tracking, but it's still rent-seeking in the ad blocking space. Ad blocking is a solved problem - just use uBlock origin.

Edit: from only a year ago:

> Brave will scrub sites of ads and ad tracking, then replace those ads with its own. Meanwhile, BATs will be awarded based on user attention, or put plainly, time spent viewing ads and content. Brave users who agree to receive ads will be rewarded with BATs. The tokens, in turn, will be exchanged between users, advertisers and site publishers.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3284076/brave-browser-...
I often think with apple people either get what they care about or they don’t.

I own the most recent iPad and iPad mini (on that now) and I like both but neither more than my Nokia 6.1.

All three are functional devices that do what I need with little to no fuss.

The tiny aesthetic differences between them are lost on me or more accurately are irrelevant to me.

Which is why I don’t have an iPhone, for tablets apple are hands down the best but for my phone needs a Nokia running stock android at one fifth the price does 99% of what I care about.

I have zero loyalty to a brand or a platform, I use whatever works for me at the time I guess.
Do you actually need the thin part or just the light part? I used to amuse people by demonstrating that my not-at-all-sexy ThinkPad weighed less than the original MacBook Air despite being a lot thicker and more powerful.

The recent iPhones in particular bother me. What’s the point of being mostly thin if the camera lens sticks out and snags on things?
For a more extreme example: it took less than seven years from the discovery of nuclear fission for this discovery to be used obliterate cities.
Meh.

I worked on mainframes for years and cheered when minis came along.

I worked on minis for years and cheered when PC's came along.

I worked on DOS for years and wept when Windows came along.

I worked on windows for years and sang choruses of joy when Linux came along.

I haven't moved off Linux because it just keeps getting better and better.

Would I recommend anyone go back off Linux to ye olde mainframes?

Not on yer Nelly. Never.
Oh well. I hope it won't, but that's probably gonna be interesting.
Please don't use HN for political or ideological or regional flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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There are also magnetic adapters you can get for USB-C.
I had a mainfram course at university, really interesting stuff, but besides legacy systems and political decisions, their times are long gone.
Please keep ideological and regional flamewar off HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Strongly seconding. The one and only reason I bothered to switch from Chrome to Firefox on Android was because I could install uBlock Origin on it. It's also the reason I installed Firefox on my wife's smartphone, and why I keep recommending it to friends and family members.

(Of course, some time later I realized what "extensions enabled" truly means, and started using other extensions I have enabled on my desktop browser too :).)
The problem is Jony Ive ran out of Dieter Rams designs to borrow from.
This has been discussed before but to summarize, it doesn't work that way.

I realize you didn't say "into orbit" but it is a reasonable place to start. The disadvantage of 'gun' type launch systems are that they only get one shot at putting energy into the system and they have to do that at low altitude where the air is thickest (the biggest impediment to going fast) as a result your space craft leaves the gun and goes into the soup of the atmosphere and burns up[1]. This is a problem with the rail gun as well as hypersonic projectiles that have active payloads have to deal with friction heating and remain functional at the point where they arrive. The secondary problem is the g-force as a function of the acceleration of going from full stop to 7.9 kM/s in say 10 milliseconds. Your basic physics will tell you that is an acceleration of
80 thousand 'Gs'. If you are launching a payload you need a container that can not crush its contents. Of course all that air resistance will bleed off energy/speed so you actually have to start much faster than 7.9 km/s, as much as 10 - 12 km/s to "coast" into orbit. Now you're over 100,000 Gs to start.

[1] This is not unlike shooting a bullet into water (other than water has higher viscosity and the bullet has a lower velocity) but the effect is the same.
I did mean pre-Chomsky. I was using him as a rough reference point for when linguistics started to get serious as a scientific discipline.

Because people have been informally studying linguistics for all of human history (by trying to learn new languages in adulthood), it's surprising to me that we ever thought that natural language processing would be easily solved by computers. To me, it seems quite obvious that this is a fundamentally very challenging problem for computers, like theorem proving or painting, rather than accounting or printing.

I was born with the benefit of hindsight here, but I find it strange that computability theory was formalised in the 1930s (before we could actually build powerful computers), and yet decades later, leading experts still failed to realise that language processing was fundamentally difficult, and intractable on the hardware they had at the time. This seems like an obvious consequence of a number of facts which they did know, like "describing an algorithm is very different to having a normal conversation," and "texts are open to interpretation and cannot be perfectly translated into other languages."
Have no idea why you're downvoted. Books are quite fragile and very difficult to duplicate in book form.
On Jony Ive Leaving Apple
What better way to signal the importance of libraries than to have one on that expensive real estate?

Or what better way to signal a change in values than to stop having one on that same real estate.
I actually consider read receipts unethical. It enables stalkers, and enables bad employers to make judgements about their employees' personal time and sleeping habits. Good e-mail clients should never load any external resource without the user's explicit consent. It should be enforced that images to be displayed in the e-mail should be attached to the e-mail itself.
But the MagSafe cable would serve exactly one purpose, whereas the usb-c cable does not. And now I can charge from Either side of the box too – great stuff! When my cable broke it wasn’t a big deal, I had an extra (shorter) cable I could use, and then go get a new one later. I’d be hard pressed to buy extra MagSafe cables to carry around just in case one broke, but the extra usb-c cables are actually useful or other things too.
Stop expecting Target to carry a 2019-appropriate selection of tech. Just go to monoprice.com.
Part of this is laughable. "Security" of mainframes in particular. I have a friend who does security work on mainframes, and, like, no.

Also, I will someday write a blog post about how to get into the field, starting with "at first, grow up on a farm". The point being that there are hundreds of ways to get into this field and have serious fun without following some Official way.

Part of the appeal of mainframes, and of consultancies that focus on them is the seriously low salaries. Oh, also hostility to new ideas and lack of development tools.

Disagree strongly.
I agree, but he also brought us the 2016 MBP which is possibly the best programmer's laptop ever made.
Ok, we've squeezed the feds into the title above.
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You could save a decent chunk of your fuel this way. Maybe 25% or so.

In exchange for that, you have to build your rocket and satellite to withstand 10,000 gees of acceleration and hypersonic flight through the lower atmosphere. And somehow build a rail gun that can fire something the size of an office building.
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These are an ISO standard and automakers use them because it removes liability, not because the designers like them.
>Either because a majority in some way stigmatize the work, or the pay is too low, etc.

The 'pay is too low' bit always bothers me. It implies that we should want to bring in a serf class to do work Americans won't. It's usually in conjunction with some non-white immigrant group, usually Hispanics, which makes it racist to boot. We must not accept arguments about not being able to find workers because the pay is too low. Raise the pay. The wealth and income gaps are bad enough, don't keep pushing down the median wages by bringing in more serf class workers who are willing to accept these wages.
Before I ever got a mac (or cared about these sorts of things), I saw the Jony Ive exhibit at the design museum - left quite an impression on my family and me - we thought of computers as some kind of calculator++ but this felt like something out of a very upscale music studio.
> maintenance costs are lower for electric vehicles

I think there is a <citation needed> here. Do ICE drivetrains really constitute a large fraction of the maintenance costs on cars and buses? In my experience, suspension and steering, and auxiliaries, are the things that break.
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"Designed by Jony Ive's design firm for Apple in California" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
But you tolerate Windows?
Reminds me of the electric car tech, in a way. I remember reading somewhere on HN that when the cars were initially gaining traction, electric engines were an option already, even with some prototypes. The issue was that the battery tech wasn't quite there to make it efficient and have any mileage compared to gas powered cars. So we went the gas route. And only within the past 5 years, we got a sign of electric cars coming back as a real alternative to gas cars.
> There are no hypersonic antiship cruise missiles deployed today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon
There's zero evidence that that's what happened, here.
I thought this was going to be about non-local type inference (ie. write down a bunch of type equations and iterate until fixed-point) as opposed to simple bottom-up inference. The former has benefits, but also disadvantages: sometimes obscure and unintended types can be inferred, and it makes features like "give me the type of this expression" difficult.

The author is talking specifically about inferring the type of a variable from the type of the LHS of its initialization. Opinions differ on how much you should use this (he points out Go, and Go is nothing if not opinionated) but there are clear benefits to having it as an option.

Suppose you have

foo(super_long_name(), x, y, z)

and you want to refactor it into

var bar = super_long_name()
foo(bar, x, y, z)

This is only a stylistic change, but if you have to write down variable types, you need a piece of information for the second that you don't need in the first. If the first was not unclear (just long), why should the second be?

The type name may also be difficult to write down. It might also be unenlightening. Knowing the type of a variable is not always helpful during normal reading (eg. the types of iterators in C++ or Rust).

Also in generic code (eg. templates or macros), you might just not know the type of some expression. I believe this was a major argument in favor of adding auto to C++.
I wonder if they are expecting account holders to moderate comments to their posts. Youtube used to be more or less this way until adults started posting icky comments to children's videos.

As of yet, I haven't seen anything alluding to self-moderation of one's content streams, but if that's what it is, much less grief would be had if there was more clarity surrounding such an expectation.
No because "chemical" guns accelerate their loads by putting enormously high pressure gases behind them. Obviously, then, once the load is off the gases spew out the end (and make a really, really loud bang noise). Railguns, IIRC, use a chemical charge to get the first couple of mach but then the magnets to pull the load to full speed so it's not followed out the barrel by a mountain of hot gas.

The flames you see coming out the end are chemical charge and/or bits of the sled melting and it travels down the barrel. (people who know better, please feel free to correct me)
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Screen cast dongles are pretty much a dime a dozen these days though. Maybe I’m lucky but in he past two years or so I haven’t been anywhere that still relies on hdmi for presenting on big screens. Except conferences.
Does it matter what the cost is if it's cheaper and the money doesn't go to the owner? Seems like reasoning in search of a real world difference rather than a real world difference in search of reasoning.
It is this, but on every page during normal navigation. Not as a one-off activity.

Track this is probably better than what the GP asked for, but you must remember to use it, while fingerprint randomization can be done by default.
Eh, Google's system is born out of a compromise because of the DMCA. Simply put most large publishers dropped their suits and do not file actual complaints with this compromise.
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Ontario has a law allowing Sikhs to wear turbans instead of motorbike helmets:

https://globalnews.ca/news/4533568/ontario-government-to-exe...
For movies? Netflix. For books? Piracy is irrelevant. (See far too many articles from Konrath, who at one point uploaded all his books on a torrent site AND advertised that on his blog... to no effect on his sales.)