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Maybe not, but the toolkits they're based on will drop X11 support within the next few years. X11 is a technological dead end, NetCraft^WRed Hat confirms it.
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Parent is slightly off in the details but the basic point is correct: the dot went from a filled circle in one generation to an open circle in the next. There's no functional reason for this, and the form of the crown itself didn't change enough for there to be any real reason other than for "spectators" to be able to distinguish the models visibly.

(And I'm not casting a stone here: I say this as someone who bought a Watch from each generation.)
Sure. 1999 [0]

Here's [2] some comments from the big story of September 2001. I remember watching that happening live on a bash pty on a desktop computer at home. Did the same (albeit a laptop) 500M seconds later on the other side of the planet.

In the old days Slashdot was great - you'd get people from Bruce Perens [3] - he's still there, to John Carmak [4] to Wil Wheaton [5]

It went downhill, but it might be worth revistiing.

[0] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19383&cid=1897446
[1] https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15598&cid=2049318
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/09/10/0353238/billenniums...
[3] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13901478&cid=58544960
[4] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=116699&cid=9876672
[5] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=317777&cid=20872117
I feel personally attacked by this. I should probably write more
It's not available for sale yet.
My wife and I tried using Evernote for keeping a running shopping list. Our options were: You can copy the shared note, but only that most recent version. Or, you can keep it as is but always have to navigate to the "work chat" and click on the note there (no way to add a shared note to your notes without copying it).
2 sysadmins will cost considerably more than a few slack accounts. Unless your company is huge.
Delete NYT cookie, refresh page. In Chrome and Firefox this is available in just a few clicks by clicking the area immediately to the left of the URL.
GP is not implying that Apple products are like cancer. He is trying to show that GGP's argument was invalid, by applying to a different case where it obviously doesn't hold.

A: "X is not bad, because millions have used and loved it."

B: "That doesn't follow. Millions have used and loved Y, and Y is clearly bad, so A's argument doesn't hold."

C: "B claims that X is like Y, but Y causes cancer, and X doesn't, so B's argument is invalid."

D (me): "No, B doesn't claim that X is like Y, so C's argument is not sound, and B's is valid and sound, and A's is invalid."

Or so.
Anyone have a good resource of backdoor / spy / sketchy China computer manufacturing things?

I always see info about the Huawei scandal for example, and I would love to read a great write up of more specific technical details of things going on
289/30 is exactly 9 and 149/30 is exactly 4 because they are integer expressions. You need to specify the constants as floating point values if you want floating point behavior.

Ruby does know how to do math and is doing precisely what you told it to.
Oh man, funny that you mention that. So Bosch/Siemens have the most reliable appliances (lowest failure rates), except for their bloody dishwashers. They use unique, expensive parts and are very hard to disassemble. Terrible choices, no idea why.

Beko use standard components (except the main board) found on dozens of other brands and most of them only require you to remove the bottom cover for access.

To be fair, Beko branded machines are pretty good. Just not that good. Especially for the premium price they want for some of their other brands.

I've worked on several Beko washers that overheated until the glass on the door cracked (flooding the place). But that's nothing compared to some Miele that will power the heater even if there's no water, getting it red hot and risking a real fire. Ditto for Indesit dryers.
Yes, but you forgot to specify which car.
> I'm excited that some of the ideas from Datomic are starting to make it into some open source projects

Now if only they’d make it into open source projects in languages other than Clojure. I want my Datomic-for-Elixir, darn it! (And, if I wasn’t too busy, I’d be the first person to volunteer to build it!)
You can do the things you do in Node, Async, in Rust too.

Futures and friends are in nightly and soon in Stable, which enable you to mix the best of both world; Multithreaded and Async.

Once you get used to Rust, you fight the borrow checker a lot less.
Those laptops do come with a battery, though, so someone out there is enjoying a whole 22 minutes of battery capacity.

In all seriousness, though, integration into a set top box chip is a sign of commodity: A low power chip with limited application, where it is implemented not to power a large marketing department, but simply out of potential necessity.

This is to me a far bigger indicator of "things coming soon" than, say, integration into a high-end GPU.
No. That's not the way investments work.
IP is largely a tool of oppression. The only ones who can usually practically take advantage of it are incumbents with the financial capital to use the legal system as a weapon against competition. We see case after case of small time creator content being sued for having similar names or similar characters to some large media franchise and them being crushed under the weight of a hundred strong legal team from corporate regardless of what laws are actually applicable or not.

Its government guaranteed monopoly for a reason, and has no real human good. It has economic good, for the companies that use it for extravagant profit (and presently that includes almost all top 10 companies due to the value of software IP). But that economic boon to a few investors in dominators of the global IP market costs all of humanity in spades of lost innovation and rent seeking for culture or technology decades old at this point. Perhaps a few independent artists or authors in the last century would have elected to not produce their masterwork without state monopolies on reproduction and distribution. But billions of dollars change hands every year as corporations buy one another for IP portfolios to sue one another and those small time creators who might have made a masterwork without the looming threat of weaponized corporate IP overshadowing entire industries.

On the other side of the pond China has entire cities dedicated to tinkering, shopcraft, and the sharing of ideas and innovations because they don't have this heavy burden upon all their creative minds. Until now we could not see the flip side, the true costs of maintaining a regime of IP control overshadowing the economic realities of information and the human benefits of its liberation. China's government is a disgusting abomination of human rights abuse and genocide, but its people will hopefully show the working class of the world that there are alternatives to being under the creative boot of the wealthiest men on the planet.
It's dystopian to confuse an "emotional development curriculum" with indoctrination and brainwashing.
There probably is but it’s really hard to compete with a company with deep pockets. That’s what I find pretty worrying about these unicorns. They kill a lot of potentially good smaller businesses just by being able to burn a lot of money.
Israel is not in the top 20 active duty, South Korea is. A good friend of mine was forced to go back "home" to do military service after we graduated high school, from what he told me after basic training he basically served his time doing nothing near the dmz.

Sounded like they didn't know what to do with the conscripts they were being served up by the system.

Maybe he was unique or maybe he exaggerated.
In a technical support department where documentation is largely controlled / poorly controlled by a small group... I know of folks who have a lot of 'secret' one note documents that are quite popular inside the company ;)
We used (and I assume they continue to use, hi COFers!) Slack at Capital One. They are super careful about compliance so I'm sure everything was above board with the regulators.
Starting up a second Node.js process gives you no CoW advantages, that would occur if you fork off the original node process. But Multiprocess support in Node is piss-poor at best.
Doesn't the model you link to have a non-retina display? It's hardly comparable. You're not paying for raw specs when you buy a mac. You're paying for the screen, the trackpad, the aesthetics, the thin profile, the battery life, the speakers and microphone, and the OS. Apple has the good taste not to max out the specs if it means sacrificing other, more important features.

If you look for Windows laptops that check all the aforementioned boxes (leaving aside the trackpad, as none of them have good trackpads), you'll be paying just as much as you pay for a macbook.
It scans blood thin smears for malaria; but scans sputum samples for Tb.

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The downvotes are telling...
I get you but if you go on to the discussion forums for evernote either on their site or reddit you'll find people who have their entire lives at their fingertips thanks to this app and for whom it's vital to their work. They use its IFTTT functionality to an insane degree such that every document they get it's one click on the phone and it's filed.
My soul hurts a bit when I see people from a privileged position of power write this and judging the world in simplistic terms.
You say Lybia is better now, destroyed and torn by war, with no real government in sight, with ISIS there and civil war, thousands dead and economy destroyed is better than with Gadaffi and with biggest economy by far in Africa and with law and order (however that law and order is achived)?
War destroyed Syria is better than before?
And dont give me that "Asad used poison gas on his people" dumb excuse as a reason why US got into that war. Because US had no problem when they supported Sadam attacking Iran with poisonous gases, or when he used it on Kurd civilians, where US even supplied it to him.

I just hope US never experience this types of logic on their soil if in some future US loses world dominance and some other power decides that US "needs liberation".
Falling out of favor of the Chinese communist party has some deadly serious consequences. Those protestors in Hong Kong are braver than most people realize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
The author describes his feelings.

Since he went to Hong Kong and was in the end not abducted, someone holding a different opinion could argue that there was never an intention to abduct him.

But no, supposedly this doesn't matter, what matters is how the author felt.
thanks for the clear explanation. It's strange to me as a newbie in ruby that this can happen and I think that can lead to errors if you don't take that into account when doing calculations with numbers... Good to know
The thing is though, that it used to be even better.
I suspect by "ideas from Datomic" you are referring to ideas predating Datomic (and Clojure) that are used and possibly refined in Datomic.
Even without multithreading, Rust will soon regain advantages with Async being stabilized. You get the best of both worlds.
*first time ever _during the period in which temperatures have been recorded in France._

It seems pithy to focus on that, but implicitly hiding scope of things that have only been actively measured for centuries at most in order to use hyperbolic language such as 'ever' is /only/ used to drive fervor for a cause, and needs to be more reasonably grounded in order to draw a broader consensus.

(Also, no quicker way to get yourself downvoted than stating anything that could be construed as being climate change skepticism. This criticism regards use of precise language, not climate change.)
"The bag-of-nouns headline is a particular staple of regional British journalism"

Strikes me as more tabloid that regional? Maybe not in my region, regional??

Although I'm sure the Sun would have gone with

CAR PARK DEATH PLUNGE PRIEST. The readership loves a good old death plunge.
It's not for sale yet.
AMD is up because they are eating Intels lunch. The whole pie might shrink with sanctions on China, but AMD is in the process of going from crumbs to a legitimate slice of their own for the first time in over a decade.
A cooperative can be democratically run but still have a powerful executive figure who is invested with the ability to determine these sorts of things.

I think in broader terms, cooperatives are bound to be less efficient than an equivalent capitalist controlled venture, but that difference doesn't have to be a death sentence for the cooperative.
Quick question / thought, why not run it through beds of sand that take some of the radiation and bury that sand somewhere? Eventually as you run the water through the sand long enough it should become less and less irradiated right?
They aren't for me.

While I would say Macs have always had excellent pads, I still hated them.

I want to be able to have a finger on a physical button that doesn't detect any touch movements when dragging something.
Another great article that focuses on cooking-as-a-service with some data on how cooking-as-a-service aka takeout/delivery is becoming more routine

https://alexdanco.com/2019/05/09/cooking-as-a-service/
Last time I saw the EAV pattern used was in Magento. It was an absolute nightmare to query against.
I stopped using Evernote after they started pushing their "sharing" features in the UI so hard that I struggled to use it to take notes. I just wanted a notepad that synced between devices and they wanted to be something else.
I’m sorry that happened to you. It is not just, it is not right.
Can someone who has completed Fast.ai courses comment on the experience and then how you used the newly gained knowledge?
Evernote (the original offline app) was released in 2004:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041114033908/http://www.evernot...
Why without? Ever heard of Bernie Sanders?
The distinction between integers and floating point variables is the same in most mainstream languages and is not specific to Ruby.
There's more than one product out there. For phones, there's dozens of models available on the new market at any time, plus all the used ones (this is a lot since they change models about every year). For any given product, there should be other options out there that would suit you better. The problem with Apple is that people are emotionally invested into the brand; they buy it just because it gives them status (like a Rolex watch or a BMW), because they're a fan of the brand for some reason, etc., not because the product actually the best match to their list of desired features.
Thanks for your insight, good things to think about.
Bullshit. If they can't set their own rates and have customers (riders) accept/reject them they're not really independent contractors. Having Uber/Lyft set the price is like having a centrally planned economy instead of a free market.
You're blinded by the limitations of your tools. Of course you wouldn't do something that's impossible with the shell, because you know it's impossible, and would switch to another language if you needed to do that. That doesn't mean that you never need to use floating point numbers. It just means you need to switch languages when you need to use them. Which is my point.

And no, the kind of stuff you need to fork sed or awk to do is not "complex". It's simple. It only seems complex because you're writing a shell script, and the backflips you have to do to escape the parameters and fork the processes to do that simple string manipulation is complex, not the string manipulation itself.
Implement email authentication in a React Native app
> "this era of Pax Americana, spanning WWII until today, has been, more or less, heavenly. Free trade and democracy have been sprouting everywhere"

No, not for those of us in Latin America where US-propped brutal dictatorships -- trained in the School of the Americas -- have left scars which have not yet healed. It was a Cold War playground for the US, and little to do with democracy (though free trade, which does not require democracy at all, was of course involved).

Not for those in Vietnam who got to "enjoy" the lasting effects of Agent Orange.

And not in many other parts of the world, either.
This is what I'm wondering as well. Does the fact that everything is logged by what an IAM user does work as compliance, or are individual user accounts on the operating system still required?
You can make a call from your non-cellular watch, provided you're in range of your iPhone.
If they had all the freedoms of typical independent contractors (e.g. to set their own rates) then I'd agree with you. But they don't.
And forgot to specify cheaper for whom. If it's cheaper the difference gets gobbled up by Apple
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I suspect any modified hardware would be targeted, not every single computer. You probably shouldn't order a computer online if this is your threat model, and instead pay for one off the shelf.
Bose QC35ii. They're probably my most used electronic device after my phone. I love them.
America's strategic position is far stronger than China's because its cumulative military spending over recent decades places it in an entirely different category from any other power, and because it is part of a powerful trans-Atlantic alliance with Europe. China's military budget is relatively modest compared to the US, and it cannot call upon an ally as powerful as itself. Indeed, the closest peer competitor to China - India - is part of the West's strategic balancing against China.

In any case, the crux of the US-China competition is that the US has a presumption of global primacy, and feels that it cannot even allow a regional power like China to establish itself. All of the problems in the relationship do not disappear if you drop that presumption, but many of them do - and certainly the idea that we should prepare for World War Three does, which in any event, would almost certainly lead to a global nuclear holocaust.

Also, US Presidents have not been 'prevented' from drawing back from the world stage by 'external events'. Events happened, and they responded as such. There was nothing foreordained or deterministic about it. They could have chosen differently.
Another comment in the tree showed that some Rockchip SOCs do have most of the requisite widgets built-in to the SoC. So the market is already moving this way. Its just not ubiquitous yet.

The protocol is described in detail in the USB-PD spec under the physical layer chapter. Its a 300 kHz biphase mark coding scheme with lots of slop available in the timing. Looks like it was designed for low-end power supplies that considered USB 1.1 to be too expensive. The PD protocol isn't horribly broken or anything. But personally, I would have preferred to see all of it managed over the classic USB D+/D- lines as a separate device profile.

The basic set of microcontroller serial peripherals (UART, SPI, I2C, etc) aren't going to handle it well, though. Maybe you could finagle a SPI device into sampling the lines, and then figure out what the bits were in software, kindof like an oversampling UART? Maybe? Or you could bit-bang via GPIOs? Not the kind of project I would be interested in. For open source work, a small FPGA would be a much better choice to work with. Its not particularly complex logic... but doing it in software is going to be very inefficient.
Plenty of Unix shells support floating point. For example, the conveniently-named ksh93 was released in 1993, and was / is available on a wide range of systems. I’d guess the hipster-compliant fish shell can do these things too, but can’t be bothered to RTFM.

I think the takeaway is that floating point shell use cases are so vanishingly rare that no one bothers to switch shells over it.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40786/how-to-do-int...
That didn't take very long.
X11 applications are able to directly render pixels on the screen via OpenGL. In Wayland those pixels are always rendered to a buffer which will then be composed on the screen.

This doesn't mean games will be "unplayable". It just means that the performance will depend on the compositor. And since the compositor also includes functionality originally provided by window managers you might get into a situation where you can't use you tiling or whatever desktop for gaming and have to switch compositors for different applications with different priorities.

Fun times...
> Unless your company is huge.

Yes. Someone above have mentioned ibm using slack though. I think that's huge enough for the argument.
The medical terminology is better, its often "Men who have sex with men" or something similar that removes the need to understand the subjects mental state and simply focus on the important clinical data.
China has something the west wants. South Africa mostly does not. That's unfortunately how these things work. If Russia were China they could have annexed Crimea without the West doing anything more than complaining.
White House weighs encryption crackdown
FYI a URL parser was actually added around 2 years ago in v8.0.0. It's based on the WHATWG standard and matches the implementation in modern browsers.

https://nodejs.org/api/url.html#url_url_parse_urlstring_pars...
Not sure why you'd say that. The entire time reading this article i'm thinking, OMG what tool will I migrate to now? It serves a real need, which is why I happened to pay for both the service and pay with all the time required to keep it tidy.

PS: Any suggestions on alternatives?
AT&T hopes quantum networking will amplify the power of quantum computing
For those of us who have never used such a thing, what didn't you like about it?
I understand that and I agree China's trade practices were unfair and needed to be addressed. The way to do that is with co-ordinated and concerted international pressure based on consensus. Up against a united international front, China would have little option but to concede.

However Trump is a nationalist and a unilateralist so he's simply incapable of doing it. Incidentally this is why nationalists are almost universally also climate change deniers - because climate change is a global problem that requires global collaboration and agreement, which Nationalists can't stomach. It's useful to understand the political forces behind a lot of these policies and therefore the connections between them.

Instead of working with allies, the US is lashing out at both China and the tech companies trading with it as a group. This is forcing the tech companies to ally with China and start tech collaboration and transfer projects with them in order to save themselves. The Hygon Dhyana and Zhaoxin projects are examples of this. So instead of the non-Chinese international community being rallied against China, they are being forced in bed with them. Doing so also involves tech companies withdrawing investment and resources from the USA in order to limit their exposure to US trade sanctions.

Long term, it's probably the single biggest and most counter-productive trade and technological development own goal in history. Pulling out of the Iran deal might beat it though. The way it's pushed Europe into collaborating with Iran on financial and trade links, sidelining the US payments systems, while also giving Iran the freedom to breach enrichment limits is definitely up there.
I wonder how significant the cost differences are for Apple with this move, especially since they mention previously manufacturing in the US and that many components are sourced in the US. How high will the margins be on these devices??