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All your comments throughout this thread have been extremely interesting to read. Thanks for taking the time to share with us!
The problem is that these types of regimes tend to preside over a system that's extremely stable, right up to the moment when it really really is not.

Batista's Cuba was very stable and friendly to foreign investment too, for instance. Then along came Castro, and suddenly not only was it not particularly stable, but lots of those foreign companies had all their holdings expropriated by the new government for having collaborated with their oppressor. Oops!
I’ve worked on $100k devices that are used for research. I believe there’s a good future for this type of work. Most of what makes those devices expensive is the R&D that goes into them, not the production costs.
So come to the north then ...

(also, australia has usually much lower air humidity, so it does not feel as hot)
Is it legal to monetize zeroday like this?
We only need to look at North Korea, Eastern Germany and Cuba to understand what the USA was fighting against when it intervened in South Korea, South American nations or in Vietnam.
I hear this referenced constantly but without source.

Trying to find sources on my own has turned up nothing conclusive, nor clear enough to say that a "flip" occurred in any short period.

Does anyone have decent sources for this?
Despite Trump's many faults, I like that he acknowledges Taiwan. I think whoever the next president is should do the same to resist the PRC's relentless propaganda/narrative... hopefully it will give places like Hong Kong hope that other powerful nations stand with them.
Keep in mind this is a laptop from 1975. Well, a luggable all-in-one from 1975. I/O options were pretty limited.
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> Supply and demand fixes these things.

Not necessarily. A lot of know-how in many Western nations has died out over the last decades of off-shoring, and factories have long ago closed shop. You'd have to do a start from absolute zero and that needs more money, way way more money, than the US can afford.
Did they get to that enviable position by making a long series of good or bad decisions on balance?
Even without wayland, in recent Fedora releases (I forget if it started with 28 or 29), I've found optimus switchable graphics to be impossible or at least impractical to configure. What's become easier is having the entire X display use the nvidia gpu, with the intel gpu transparently slaved to relay pixels to its connected laptop display.

But, it does return the annoying, periodic driver breakage, where a dnf update replaces the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia RPMs and suddenly the userspace is incompatible with the still-running kernel module's slightly older API, so new processes cannot use opengl until I reboot. This was one benefit of optimus via the optirun infrastructure. The main desktop was on the intel gpu and I could actually unload and upgrade the nvidia module if desired, without forcing a disruptive reboot.
That's literally what ad hominem means...
You can only impose economical sanctions if you also have the mean to at least contain any military aggression the sanctioned country could take as a reaction.
A wise man once said that all of the business contracts in the world don’t matter if the two sides don’t trust each other. So just claiming to stay within the rules & limits is not enough. Good faith goes a long way.
Micro-Lean: Lean Without the BS
This reminded me the superb short story “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges:

> There are no nouns in Tlön's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" languages and the dialects are derived: there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic suffixes (or prefixes) with an adverbial value. For example: there is no word corresponding to the word "moon,", but there is a verb which in English would be "to moon" or "to moonate." "The moon rose above the river" is hlor u fang axaxaxas mlo, or literally: "upward behind the onstreaming it mooned."

You can read the original for free here: https://ciudadseva.com/texto/tlon-uqbar-orbis-

And in english here: http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/0066/borges.pdf

Highly recommended. 17 pages.
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Spoken as if the establishment doesn't actively pick which candidates the people get to "choose" from.
We have much better engineering tools today, so why would it take decades ?
I actually disagree that it's lowered the barrier. JS is a hard language with lots of "wtf" behavior and weird runtime errors. You need lots of discipline to write code without tons of runtime errors, and beginners don't even know what they need to be disciplined about.

I'd argue that JS raises the barrier because lots of beginners now think it's normal to have a bizarre type system where null is an object, to have a complex Webpack/Babel setup just to use new-ish language features, and to have to constantly hit "run" to debug code.

Most previous-gen web languages also have lots of gotchas, but something like Go, Kotlin, or Dart would be a much more sane beginner language.
My guess, based on recent history:

It will be an executive order that requires companies with a communications product and over 500k users to implement lawful intercept protocols for communications between any two users.

Most likely companies will repurpose their GDPR tools to provide standardized exports to authorities with legal intercept requests. The regulation will be written in such a way that it precludes end to end encryption as an option, rather than forbidding it specifically. Failure to comply with lawful intercept requests will result in a fine with high interest.
NB - you get the same result in MS-SQL (and for exactly the same reason).

Ruby behaves like SQL in that appending a decimal to the values results in non-integer maths being employed.

MS-SQL itself is slightly out (I assume due to floating point inaccuracy)

SELECT (289.0 / 30.0 * 30.0) - (149.0 / 30.0 * 30.0)
140.0000100
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It's HUMID in the Veneto - that's what does it.

BTW, if you want to get out and see some smaller towns:

https://blog.therealitaly.com/2008/09/26/visiting-the-veneto...

https://blog.therealitaly.com/2015/01/08/pellestrina/

And feel free to hit me up for any other suggestions and ideas; I lived in Padova for a number of years.
So... there's this place right next to America, called Canada. And instead of attacking Vietnam, trying to overthrow South American Governments, going deep into debt over nonexistent WMDs, they just don't do military budget.

And magically... they don't get attacked. Funny how that works...
Even if that's true, people on the right seem to be more likely to actually follow threats with physical violence. At least this is the case in Germany where the deaths caused by right-wing extremism since the beginning of the 90s number more than a hundred, while there have been only two deaths since 2001 caused by left-wing radicals. Unfortunately the article I read on this didn't have numbers for left-wing violence in the 90s, but I doubt they would make up for this significant difference.
It's as if people don't consider Generals Smedley D. Butler and Dwight D. Eisenhower as authorities on the subject when they warned against the racket of the military-industrial complex.

It's depressing and utterly pathetic that we refuse to listen to wise words because our primitive monkey feelings don't jive with the advice they gave.
Just a printer port and a tape drive.

http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html
Brain fart, my error. Corrected.
Wild idea... the creators of Eve introduced the “hostile” aliens (drifters) in order to unite the rest of the players against the common threat and then to make them shuffle the cards and make a fresh start. Like a universal war where humans come together and then after the war they make peace with each other (until the cycle is repeated)
A CRC is the remainder or residue after division (by the CRC generating polynomial).

So you are given a dividend (the message) and a remainder (the CRC). What is the divisor (the CRC polynomial)? From one example dividend/remainder you can come up with several possible divisors, but you have already greatly narrowed the field. With more examples you can eliminate the false positives.
Strictly when it comes to customer service? Maybe Razer?

Their prices are definitely horror inducing for some of their peripherals, otoh...but that’s probably applicable to a large part of the “gaming peripherals” market.
Any type system that allows null or any shouldn't be trusted any more than a dynamic language
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Tritium can be refined, and is done for various applications (radiolabelling; nuclear weapons; nuclear fusion). However it's expensive, as is reflected by its cost of about $30k per gram. It'd be even more expensive to refine from a dilute solution.

That said, an imperfect distillation may be cheaper, but the quantities of fluid here are still huge.
The lost Apple jobs shrink the Austin market for labor.
For such weather I recommend Trento. Even though the temperature is the same as everywhere, the city itself is filled with greenery - I was there last week and comparing to e.g. Bologna it was much more bearable.

Also if you disregard the signs while climbing to Cesare Battisti's monument and go through the tunnel meant for cars(which are allowed only at certain hours) you'll experience a few minutes of much needed cooling.
Program in the old BASICS, such as BASICA or QBASIC. Very fun.
Even worse yet, once you get the dongle you cannot use your mouse while it is charging cause the port is on the bottom.
In spite of the Chinese party...

The Chinese gov may be massive and seem all encompassing but they don’t have an economic and financial administrative system yet comparable to the US (or Europe) which is involved in licensing and oversight of everything at multiple tiers of gov in the west, from who can be an interior designer (4yrs! of education is mandatory in some states) to who can cut hair. When China does have a system in place it can usually be bypassed by “financially partnering” with the local party officials. Which has allowed industry to flourish there, in spite of the sweeping sociopolitical controls and strong security posturing, which of course includes some of the downsides of lacking forward thinking administration with a strong industrial sector (environmental, long working hours, etc).

Just take the example of the whole process of opening a factory in the US, despite having the full support of the executive branch and some local governments, it has been an eye opening disaster for Foxconn. Any large factory opening in the US is a big deal and a laborious process that has to be greased by extensive tax breaks (to already wealthy companies) and other such nonsense (see Amazons whole HQ charade) to even happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn's_Wisconsin_plant

So the improvements to the economic lives of the Chinese may have improved massively there are still lots of other areas it's straight-up authoritarian, or worse, its opaque what level of government is involved.Which in business is usually none until you’re making a lot of money, which can be skimmed. The good thing is with economic success comes improvements to education, healthcare quality, foreign travel, etc which improves the individual Chinese position in the world and hopefully can empower their home country to some brighter future.
Maciej Ceglowski recently wrote about this: https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm - he calls it "ambient privacy."

> For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it ‘ambient privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record. Not every conversation needs to be a deposition.

The article is presented more in terms of JS/app trackers, but I believe the analogy still applies.
What was the purpose of this statement?
Tritium natural decays pretty quickly. Half life of 12 years.
Link to the live map: https://www.qwant.com/maps/
In professional environments the price of a computer is so minimal it doesn’t really matter. If someone is being paid even $100K a year then the extra $4,000 for a computer they’ll have for probably 4 years is a rounding error.
I'm not really sure it's Apples job to advocate for policies in a foreign country. They're a business, not a nation state. I think the extent to which privacy is valued is up for the Chinese to decide. Not really a fan of American companies engaging in corporate activism abroad.
Instead of this 'long and winding road' wry style pr, the reality is EN spectacularly screwed up.
They had the world at their feet but got in their own way. I still use it because incredibly there isn't anything better i'm aware of (I tried onenote but didn't like it) but for me EN is a case history of the incompetent side of valley hype
If you don't mean there's a universal definition of what a shell should and should not do, then WHO do you mean proclaimed that "computation is not meant to be done via the shell or shell scripts"?

Just because Eric Raymond writes something in a book doesn't mean it's true.

I've been using Unix for at least 37 years, and other operating systems before that, so I think I have enough experience and understanding to judge the "Unix Philosophy" myself, instead of simply believing without question and regurgitating everything Eric Raymond writes. (And unlike him, I also don't believe black people are violent and stupid, or that white people's long term objective must be to break, crush and eventually destroy Islamic culture, either!)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
SaaS subscriptions are magical when they work; they provide much needed regularity to cash flow forecasting which assuages investor timidity.

However, creating a subscription model doesn’t necessarily mean there is a service that warrants it.
The Night the Stonewall Inn Became a Proud Shrine
Pretty incredible difference in policy between Obama and Trump administrations (not that Obama's was particularly respectful of privacy to begin with); from the 2011 WH "International Strategy for Cyberspace" [0]. Remember, the Snowden revelations took place June 2013.

> Ensure the end-to-end interoperability of an Internet accessible to all.

> Users should have confidence that the information they transmit over the Internet will be received as it was intended, anywhere in the world. Equally important is the expectation that under normal circumstances, data will flow across borders without regard for its national origin or destination. Ensuring the integrity of information as it flows over the Internet gives users confidence in the network and keeps the Internet open as a reliable platform for innovation that drives growth in the global economy and encourages the exchange of ideas among people around the world. The United States will continue to make clear the benefits of an Internet that is global in nature, while opposing efforts to splinter this network into national intranets that deprive individuals of content from abroad.

[0] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/rss...
> How do you make a detention facility not a "concentration camp" under a definition of "concentration camp" that just means any detention facility?

You might just have to accept that in order to enforce some laws you're going to have to put people in mass detention and you may as well own that instead of trying to get people to not call it what it is because the term for it makes you uncomfortable.
IMO The current MacBook design iteration has mostly been a disappointment. The hardware quality has materially worsened over the previous generation, with numerous reports of keyboard, screen, and speaker issues. They sacrificed far too much in order to achieve the thin form factor. The touchbar is also a terrible joke.

I’ve had two current-gen MBPs through work and both of them have completely convinced me against buying my own. They’re both so inferior to the design of the previous generation.
Trump doesn't use computers; he probably won't tweet about this.
That brings up a good point. There are a few nuclear zones that no one lives in right (Chernobyl came to mind after watching that hbo show)? Why don’t we at-least get some value out of of these sad situations and convert one to a nuclear disposal site?
I mean... having grown up in the Great Lakes region (Chicago). Summer is always 30C (85F) to 41C (105F) with 50% to 100% humidity and little wind some days.

We also get down to -30C (-20F) with high winds in the winter.

Welcome to the Midwest!

That being said, surprised this is happening in France. I recommend no one move to a place like this for the weather...
That's true.
If I had an SV engineer salary I probably wouldn't think it too much.
But the cheapest MacBook Pro is a quarter of my yearly earnings, so right now I will choose what is cheaper to maintain.
I'm always annoyed that whenever someone purports to have an article or book on queue theory, no one actually has any math. So I'm just left with a bunch of anectdotes and no understanding.
Sounds like a promising approach. Maybe they should ask Gates for some funding.
"More than 80% of the workers working across three assembly lines were contract employees paid minimum wage for eight-hour workday...when their shift ended, many walked off the job, he said—even if the lines were still running."

Of course they did, that's what anyone in that situation would do surely? Are they supposed to work for below minimum wage because the company can't organise shift changeover properly?
> They stand for rights and privacy only when it does not interfere with their revenue stream.

I understand the sentiment, but it's a nonstarter. A company that prioritizes human rights at the expense of profit, is a company that has no chance of survival in our political or economic environment, regardless of whether it's in China or the US. The corporate incentives are not fully aligned with the long term interests of humanity. That's why we see companies supporting LGBTQ rights and immigration, but fight to their teeth to prevent labor laws and unions.
how did they spectacularly screw up? honestly asking.
Ah, the first amendment.

Yes, we do still have freedom of speech and association.

But the govt is attacking freedom of religion through "religious freedom" laws that allow discrimination against people who don't follow Christian behavior, in the opinion of any random Christian.

The president attacks the free press, labeling them traitors and "enemy of the people."

When part of the 1st amendment is under attack, all of it is.

The president says if you plead the 5th, you must be guilty.

The president wants to delay the census until he gets the answer that he wants from the supreme court.

When some of the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution in general, are under attack, then all of it is.

We are at risk of losing what was thought rock solid, and so we are that much less free. We may still be better off than some, but we are slowly losing that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_Unite...
I spent summer 2018 biking across Europe & everywhere I went, from Spain to Scotland, was much hotter than the climate data I looked up on Wikipedia prepared me for. It definitely felt like the climate had tangibly changed— especially if the same thing seems to be repeating this year.

I guess everyone in Europe will be moving towards installing air conditioners, and they'll need to add peaker plants to power them on hot summer afternoons. Hopefully solar & storage will be cheap enough that it isn't too bad for the climate.
$250 in parts is not a $250 microscope.

The expertise required to design, source, align, calibrate, stock, distribute, sell, and support such a microscope is not without cost.
To put the markup into more concrete terms, here's a sample Windows laptop I quickly found around $1000 (the Prime price, normal price is apparently $1400). [0] I'll compare it to the cheapest MBP at $1300. [1]

I wish HN markdown had tables.

15.6" 3840 x 2160 vs 13.3" 2560x1600

i7-7700 vs unspecified i5

16GB RAM vs 8GB RAM

GTX 1050 vs Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640

256GB SSD+1TB HDD vs 256GB SSD ($800 upcharge for a 1TB SSD on the MBP when in reality a 1TB SSD costs $100)

Numpad and usb-A ports, HDMI vs no numpad and usb-c only (no ethernet on either but I didn't look very hard to find this listing)

And some have an affinity for Mac OS (I don't understand it at all) but on the Windows one you'll be able to easily run any game you want and have a much broader software catalog to choose from in general.

0: https://www.amazon.com/VivoBook-Touchscreen-i7-7700HQ-GeForc...

1: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch-space...
I read this as a joking reference to the fact that class field theory is an important area of contemporary mathematics, which presumably employs many people (though perhaps not literally thousands).

I’d be curious to know if anyone reads it differently.
What does this have to do with robots running "open loop?"
This is mainly an issue if you are running windowed or borderless windowed games and under Windows there is latency too.

It is a shame that playing a game on a window is given such a low priority as personally i often prefer to do that for short term sessions where i'm waiting for something (email, some task or just pass time). Though under Windows with how busy the desktop environment often is it can be distracting. But on Linux, especially with a tiled window manager where you can have a tiny status bar above/below the window and perhaps a stripe here or there with stuff, it is perfectly normal to want to play a game in a window as opposed to fullscreen.
Versant, while an awesome ORM, taught me that I hated ORMs ;)
Except some of their most loyal customers have been switching to other laptops that made less sacrifice. They could have pleased new comers and loyal customers, and kept a better reputation by delivering a higher quality device, instead of becoming just a fashion statement.

They grew because of their obsession with thinness, BUT at some point they should have recognized the diminishing returns, that people wanted battery life and real keyboards. They left money on the table, with regard to opportunity cost, that wont ever be calculatable, by not changing their tune once they became thin enough.
Even if the NSA could break E2E encryption (a very big if), that doesn't automatically imply that local, county, and state level law enforcement agencies would be able to.
Especially since said code certainly runs server-side.
I think, in the long run, deep economic engagement with China will change it for the better, not economic withdrawal. If you care about the people of China I think this is a positive (albeit, a drop in the bucket).

Not that they should just embrace or accept the worst trends of China -- that wouldn't help. But engage and apply pressure with the resulting leverage. Here's a link to Apple's self-reported efforts in this area (it seems sincere to me, though I don't have any special insight into this): https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_2...
About 4 years ago, I started creating hand-drawn illustrations for all my tech presentations and blog posts. There are lots of benefits, including being unique and engaging. I've written on the subject many times. Here's the most recent post: https://reverentgeek.com/how-to-be-a-superhuman-communicator...

Ask me anything ;)
So is "resist@google" a thing? Do you believe the document is in any way true?