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There's never going to be an infinite array of choices in a free market; there's only so many people and companies, and they can only make so many different things efficiently and sell them.

Apple made the decision to sell the Macbook with the touchbar, and you're free to either buy it or not. Personally, I don't like Macs or Apple, so I don't buy them at all, and I advise my friends and family to avoid them too. Most of them don't listen to me, and insist they "need" Apple products and pay top dollar for them, even though many of them are struggling financially. I try showing them my nice Android phone with removable batteries and dual cameras that I got for $140 on Ebay and that has MVNO service that costs a fraction of what they pay monthly to the big carriers, but it goes in one ear and out the other. Then they wonder why they're always broke and why I seem to be loaded....

Anyway, if you don't like the current Macs, don't buy them. It's really as simple as that. I have a Dell Latitude laptop that's (I think) 4 years old and easily repairable which I also bought used (ex-corporate lease), so I'm keeping it. And I have a phone that's 2-3 years old and has replaceable batteries, an SDcard slot with a 128GB card in it, and that cost me relatively little, and I'm keeping that for the time being too. Maybe if I see something better that I get excited by, I'll buy it, but I'm not dumb enough to buy something just because that's what some company wants me to buy.
IRC is just a protocol, neither the server nor the client do have to be open source.
There has to be a strawman like word for this argument. Last I checked, Jony's products didn't cause Cancer or kill anyone. At worst, all they did was annoy someone.

Your argument would have held credence without that argument.
The system is unconcerned with how useful the ads are to users. Ads exist to persuade potential customers to buy, not to provide utility to them. The "relevance" is for them, not you.
There should be a way to turn off @here and @channel. It should be a user-level setting, a channel-level setting, and an organization-level setting. Even if my org or channel doesn't opt out, I should be able to.
>Would you support reducing U.S. military spending from 2-3x that of China (the 2nd highest spender), to 1.5x?

China is currently constructing 2 new aircraft carriers (they have 1) with as many as 3 more planned by 2030 based on intel out there.

From 2001-2006 they built at least a dozen new classes of ships, putting 60 more into the water.

They have at least 10 known new ships/subs coming online with some being constructed, some seeing sea trials and some being fitted out.

Etc.

My point is, China is very much building up their military

>China's military salary structure is similar to other countries’. In terms of salary level, China’s level is comparatively low. "For example, a U.S. colonel who has served in the military for 30 years will have a monthly salary of $10,000. However, the salary of a Chinese who has served in the military for 30 years is just 8,000 or 9,000 yuan,” said Zhang.

It's also worth noting China has state owned oil wells, state owned oil refineries, state owned natural gas companies, state owned fuel companies etc which all likely keeps their fuel costs artificially low.

I'm guessing they also don't provide things like the GI Bill to their military personnel and similar benefits that we give to our military personnel.
> We only need to be as strong as the combined strength of our nearest rivals.

Ah, so you want to cut the U.S. military budget in half, then? I guess we're on the same page.
Climate change will probably mean more tornadoes for Kansas.
> because carriers suck

I'm conflicted on this topic. on one hand carriers are acting like total trash about android security. on the other hand people aren't forced into a lease and can get a vanilla android one device from a lot of different vendors and enjoy faster upgrades from the vendor and extended upgrades from projects like lineageos.

I think the root cause is the general populace voting with their wallet in a way that doesn't align with the best practices as seen from a more security conscious mindset.

however this issue intersects weirdly with budgeting and upgrading frequency. bar consideration on used market depreciation, one iphone purchase can get you 3 midrange android phones, so for the same budget you'd be more or less on the same os "freshness" for a comparable period of time, so to say, with increasingly better hardware and fresher batteries (because if you take 5 years as a iOS device lifetime you'll be hit by battery and subsequent performance degradation, likely twice), and of course if one has the budget to change device every year the issue disappears regardless of the platform.

as long as one can avoid carriers devices, I guess.
we use a mumble server as backup and parallel mean to discuss in the operations department... Sometimes talking all together using voice as if we were in the same office is much nicer than writing!
Not really. It is well known across the industry how you can get drivers in linux now. There many players, big (Dell, Lenovo) and small (system76, Entroware, etc) that sell linux supported devices.

Here's a great write up on the technical merits of linux's approach to drivers
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-api-no...
>So, sometime between the 1860s and 1936, the (Democratic) party of small government became the party of big government, and the (Republican) party of big government became rhetorically committed to curbing federal power. How did this switch happen?

>Eric Rauchway, professor of American history at the University of California, Davis, pins the transition to the turn of the 20th century, when a highly influential Democrat named William Jennings Bryan blurred party lines by emphasizing the government's role in ensuring social justice through expansions of federal power — traditionally, a Republican stance.

The article[1] goes on the state both parties started changing stances to try and win the new Western states.

[1]https://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-part...
Three Decades of Greenland Ice Sheet Change
The vast majority of human behavior is hypocrisy if you discard all context and justification for what people do.
I'm curious what your thinking is behind this. Ok, maybe you're a believer in the Trump's an idiot meme, fine, but do you actually think not a single person on Trump's trade team understands that trade wars are a high risk undertaking, that it might not be a complete cakewalk?

Take Robert Lighthizer for example:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/china-japan-lighth...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/watch-robert-lighthizer-test...

I wouldn't for a moment think he doesn't understand the risks involved, so I would be very interested to know what your thinking is...perhaps you're aware of something I'm not?

EDIT: I find the pattern of pattern of downvoting on political topics increasingly disappointing. The specific point of contention here is now whether this trade war strategy will turn out to be a wise move, or could have been executed in a more intelligent manner (I personally hold no certainty on either), it is whether:

"The logical conclusion would be that if you are a global company and want to keep selling to China (or to whoever will get a trade ban or sanction), you should not incorporate any US tech, or have US development teams. This seems to be quite counterproductive from the US point of view, it means that investing in the US expose you to additional risks. "

...is very much missed by trump and his team.

From a "pedantically" logical perspective, I would interpret a downvote as a belief that no one on Trump's team is able to understand or has not thought of this (and many other obvious) possible negative consequences.

More likely I suspect I am reading way too much meaning into downvotes and the actual sentiment is something more casual along the lines of "you're just wrong", but the level of discourse, partisanship and epistemic humility on such topics, often accompanied by an air of intellectual superiority, seems to me like far less than what HN is capable of if we were able to set aside our understandable frustrations. If we can't discuss these topics in a non-tribal, evidence-based manner, then how does one hold the belief that the general public "should" do so? I should also note that I'm far from guilt-free on this matter, but I have been making a sincere effort to be more consistently objective in such discussions, and I would hope that is reflected in my words, provided one is able to set aside our differences in opinions.
That's what I thought it was saying too. That's a mess from a compliance and best-practices point of view :(

Or am I missing something and this would follow the PCI DSS?
I think there are people that need physical presence at work and people that don't. I've been working remotely for 2 years and don't see myself stoping anytime soon.

All my coworkers are in California, but there's no assumption on my team that people will actually be present in the office. So effectively, things are done as if it was a remote team.

A huge part of this is selecting the right people. We can only hire people that are able to be effective in that environment. You need people that will reach out if they have a problem (but not before at least trying a little bit to solve it themselves). You need to be able to jump on a call at the first sign that you need a higher bandwidth communication channel than chat. As a senior, I always make abundantly clear that I am available to answer questions or fix things when someone is blocked.

I also haven't seen any issues with performance or reviews. Being present at work has nothing to do with performance. Rather, features added, incidencts responded to, tech debt accrued and paid off, etc are how you measure performance and none of those change in a remote environment. You can get an idea of what everyone is up to in a daily call / video chat. And for a more in-depth accounting, you can review git logs, incident notes, support tickets, etc. Basically, performance reviews are not that different in a remote environment.
It's not a PGM package. It's designed to work with arbitrary Julia programs and can be used for program induction etc. In that regard it's more like WebPPL or Church than Stan.
For all our worries about Big Data and privacy, Google et. al are apparently doing kind of a bad job at it. Seems like a one-hour conversation with a human would produce more relevant marketing insights than analyzing tens of thousands of data points does.
There was a blog post years ago from a stay at home dad who's spouse was a military member. He talked about the friction that he experienced.
I wonder if the mishmash of internal HR responsibilities sort of water down / naturally degrade focus on various things that maybe don't get as much attention such as thoughtful people development.
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hardware That Powered the Black Hole Image
In Rust you are forced to specify the type for functions and consts/statics, there isn't any option for inference there.
I don't think any serious IM platform really intended to replace email, they serve different (but related) purposes.
I can recommend The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein - mind you I found it quite depressing as the levels of corruption and cynicism that it describes are quite remarkable.
I am in my mid 30s and when I graduated from University, I worked 3 years on mainframes before joining systems group and eventually cloud team and then now Data Engineering.

I have had experience on mainframes, AIX platform, AS400, windows, linux, AWS, VSphere, docker, IBM cloud, etc. Heck I have even worked with punch cards!

I have programmed in environment specific tech stacks as well (JCL, REXX, Info Management on z/OS vs Python, JS, Kotlin on linux, etc).

I would have completely agreed with the author in 2015 because this article is from 2015 -- in 2015, Cloud adoption in corporate America/Canada was minuscule and general cloud experience was missing in the IT industry.

But now, in 2019, cloud is the new mainframe and the reliability gigantic cloud providers such as AWS easily rivals (may even exceed) the reliability of a on-prem mainframe setup.

And to top it off, majority of mainframe staff and managers are really not that sharp or tech savvy -- you will have a handful of crazy good developers and tech leads while the rest are still doing level of programming they learn in their college days...back in 1970s/1980s.
By accident I noticed that you can add as many characters as you want to the end of the url and it will still load that page. Neat.
> The T490 is a regression...

What about T490s? My university offers one but we can also receive the same amount of money as research funding. Do you think it'd be wise to choose the T490s over money? I mean, has this model improved things in the Lenovo series?
Why don't people use free software instead, e.g. a Matrix homeserver run via https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/ ? IRC without a BNC doesn't really work for a corporation due to disconnects.
The US military is an extension of its corporations and economic interests. It has nothing to do with the people which are sheepishly manipulated each time to suit whatever agenda the elite need pushed. The complex is a beast that rarely responds to the public unless there is massive pressure usually in response to some price like forced recruitment that the people have to pay to meet its needs.
Where does Tao claim that "anyone can do what he does if they merely study as much as he did growing up" ? I find that hard to believe.

Unless you have an actual citation, it's much more plausible to me that he said hard work is important in addition to raw talent.
I do.

I'm irritated, however, that you picked on Cloudflare as a bad actor here when we strive to be transparent and quick to get out full information whereas others (e.g. Amazon) are slow as mud.

But I get that being on the other side of this is difficult when you don't have information.
The whole point of email is fire and forget
The US steel industry is in better economic shape now than it has been in decades.

Nucor is nearly worth more than ArcelorMittal and earned more last quarter than ArcelorMittal did. Unthinkable just a few years ago.

Nucor's sales jumped from $16b to $25b in two years up through fiscal 2018. Net income jumped from $80m in 2015, to $2.3 billion in 2018 (operating income went from $654m to $3.3b).

US Steel Corporation saw its sales jump from $10b to $14b over two years through 2018, net income jumped from negative $1.6b in 2015 to positive $1.1b (operating income went from -$525m to +$950m over that time).

The US steel industry has been a disaster for decades. Now it's one of the strongest in the world financially. China's steel companies are hemorrhaging and require constant state support stimulus by comparison.

We can either have a healthy, strong domestic steel industry, or we can do nothing and watch China put it into the ground through dumping and massive state subsidies. I don't agree with any state protectionism. So long as China gets away with what they've been doing for decades in industries like steel, I agree with protecting important domestic industries. Steel companies (whether they're in the US or elsewhere) are directly competing with the Chinese state, the US state should intervene given the playing field is very uneven.
I make extensive use of Run Command (And Automations!) but they're not a replacement for every use case, and very much not a replacement for the specific use case you're replying to.
> Nvidia's lack of support for Wayland really hurts linux desktop adoption.

I doubt it has any significant impact. Linux Desktop adoption is hurt by many, many things.
I lived there up to about eight years ago, and I recall most of the routes running through the center city were dual. I couldn't name route numbers at this remove, though.
I suggest looking at the response the user made to the comment for a different reaction than your comment. Also i didn't say one way was better nor that I looked at it logically, or did I?
Radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi: What should be done? (2018)
There is a famous book called The Varieties of Religious Experience. It's probably good or something. I mean, I've never read it, but let me co-opt its title while subtly dismissing it, as a light segue into my blog post...
yes, and they specifically said:

We will keep an eye on it as we will want to ensure X.org stays supportable until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle at a minimum

which gives us a 10 year-ish time frame of support from RH.
I don't disagree with this, but, at the same time, if I haven't made any actual changes to the application, I'll generally not worry about manually taking it out of service, because autoscaling will be getting rid of it soon enough anyway.
"just running an IRC server" is... a lot. Or can be. Who is running it? Does it scale well? How is login synced with corporate logins? What about mobile devices?

It's not "better" than email, it's different. Real time. It has a million and one service integrations, which IRC doesn't.

Point is, it's really not all that crazy to just pay a third party to manage all this stuff for you. You might imagine the alternative is a perfect IRC server with 100% uptime, but I doubt that would be the reality. If you're saying a service like this is too important to be run by a third party then you're going to have to invest a lot internally to come up with an alternative that's more reliable.
Thinkpads are no longer made by IBM, so, yeah.

Other brands have faired a much worse fate. AEG for example was once a brand which stood for good german quality, nowadays everyone who wants to use that name only has to buy the right to do so from some turkish company.
OK, how can we do those without electing leaders into office who will do those things?
More like 0.00001%.
Let me clarify: where can I buy an expandable repairable laptop that runs macOS legally with support from the vendor?
These are all good things, because people like them, and are happily handing truckloads of their money over to Ive's company for products with these "features".

I'd like to see Apple try to take this even farther, such as making Macbooks require a dongle just to use WiFi, making it so that they only work with genuine Apple WiFi dongles, and then charging more for the dongle than the Macbook itself costs. I seem to remember a Space Quest game that had something like this in the plot. With the stupidity that consumers have shown regarding Apple, I have no doubt that this would work out just fine for them.
>For example, if I had the option to buy a current Macbook Pro without a touchbar, and with the circa-2015 keyboard, I'd do so.

Given enough money I'm sure you could find someone to do a custom build :)
Did you actually watch the Google video? It really does speak for itself (as do the leaked documents). I can't speak to other Project Veritas stories, but this one is definitely not a "grift".
There are also Slack-to-Matrix importers over at https://github.com/lampholder/concorde and https://github.com/Cadair/skill-matrixslack if anyone's interested :) We're also working on a next-generation 'official' one for https://modular.im/tools/account-migration.
What if that's just further confirmation that people who change parts are a small minority of the market? I could see Apple purposely sacrificing market share to achieve design trendiness purity, but boring TPS-reporting laptop manufactures? No way!
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> If I'm not intentional about it, I'll spend 23 hours a day in my house

I think that's the biggest difference with remote. A lot of things that were seamless with physical presence need to be done with intentionality in a remote setup. You need an explicit time for a daily call / team catchup. You need to either make extra effort or explicitly schedule social chats between coworkers (I like inviting people to do coffee or show off some thing they're interested in). And you personally need to make a schedule that gets you out of the house (I go to coffee shops 3-ish times a week).

I've been remote for 2 years and don't plan on changing any time soon.

Granted, there's a lot of policy- or culture-level stuff that can get in the way. If the rest of you team is co-located and isn't going to remember to bring you in on conversations, remote isn't going to work. Same if your manager equates physical presence to performance.
Yeah, and "tasty" is a specific marketing term meaning "poisonous", which I won't explain to you when I offer you a tasty sandwich.

Marketing does not create reality, no matter how much marketers may think otherwise. Words have meanings, you can't unilaterally attach some new one to a word and expect people to agree with it.
> The latter is something that isn't in any languages I would consider production-ready

What languages have you seen it in?
Looks like[0] using the scopes that allow for seeing all drive files vs specific files the user has invoked your app to see triggers the review process next year.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/enh...
Another baffling invention is the current trend towards verbs as nouns, unchanged. Namely, ‘compute’ and something else technicky.

You know, I think I'm gonna leave the browse for a while, sit in the eat-prepare and make me some eat to relaxed sound-play. To avoid my blood press go too high. Maybe take a walk on the walk or even down to the green-grow.

I guess people felt about the same way when nouns were taking off as verbs and adjectives. Anyway, soon all the parts of speech will change places and everything will be fine again.

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Also, get a load of “China Ferrari sex orgy death crash”: https://i.imgur.com/of9ZaGN.jpg
I think an argument for that is AMD have partnered with the Chinese. In the long run if the trade war damages US producers, AMD/China may take a larger share globally.
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Or just simply called donation
Francis Bacon: http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/best/BaconJohnson.pdf
Yeah, that sounds like the IBM I hear about sometimes. Bunch of real world-beaters over there.
All these tools from the founding fathers were abused and misused.
There are literally only two package managers for the npm registry right now. This is akin to apt vs dpkg.

There used to be bower, which installed via GitHub directly and has been dead for ages. There are now also several experimental alternatives but they have basically no traction.

The newest contestant is Entropic, which was built by former npm developers as a reaction to the problems of a for-profit venture capital funded startup running a centralised registry and controlling the client.

So for the Linux comparison (ignoring the actual implementations): yarn and npm are apt and dpkg, Entropic is yum and Bower is pacman. Not exactly proliferation if you consider how many packages there are on npm right now.
I'm now considering to stop using gmail and all google services in general
Going by history[1], I'd guess that the "respect for IP" by the west might get a bit squishy, and become sacrosanct in China.

1. Hollywood's current stance on IP has reversed from when it was founded and actively undermining Edison's cinematography IP. Same goes for aircraft engineering in France in light of the Wright brothers patent war, and the inchoate American industry vs British IP.
> That is balanced by the strictly superior American rule of law

The rule of law is looking pretty tattered and worn in the US of A right now. What with the President committing obstruction of justice in plain view and his AG declaring that a sitting President may not be indicted for any crime.

Not to mention the grotesque violations of human rights that are happening at the network of concentration camps the current administration has repurposed.
Career: From engineer to manager and back again