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> I guess that might bleed into real-world politics, but it's unfortunate.

> All I can say is prepare for some hard times, followed by the US not having the geopolitical 1st place. Maybe it's too stark a warning but unless we start to see each other as something other than demons hell-bent on destroying all good in the world, I don't see how anything productive is going to happen.

This discourse has certainly bled into the real-world politics, especially in Congress. Throw in the Internet's lawless landscape, a reckless leader, extremism and nationalism, and you have a powder keg ready to explode.

During the Democratic debate last night, many candidates said climate change, China, Russia and even Trump were the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States. What none of them said was the continuing divide between the right and left in this country, which, within at least another two or three decades, could escalate to a full-blown conflict.

Many people scoff at the idea of another civil war: "Not possible" or "Not in this era." I'm worried we're sowing the seeds for a future conflict, and other countries, like China and Russia, eagerly await for the shining beacon of hope, which the United States boasts to be, will tear itself apart from within.
Ah, I haven't taken Part II of the course. Probably not a bad idea to start :)
What is the quality of text with DSC?
Are you a lawyer? I wouldn't advise anyone to shoot at people who are not threatening.
Missiles are bigger (they carry their own engine and fuel), are in the sky longer due to their longer range, and shooting missiles from the sky has never been implemented with a high success rate in active combat.
Start with a simple Aruino board from Adafruit. Tons of documentation and kits, and an endless array of sample projects to get you started in every direction.
You put it well. The problem of of putting energy into projectiles caused a move from kenetic to chemical weapons (missiles).

But delivering chemicals to a target is expensive and at some point scaling it up becomes politically dangerous (you cannot just lauch even a conventional icbm without all sorts of risks).

Scaling up kenetic weapons ended up with huge battleship guns that did almost as much damage to the ship itself as the target (OK, a bit of an overstatement but I doubt any of those sailors left the navy with hearing intact). They were slow to fire, extremely heavy, and required a lot of dangerous chemicals to be stored. One mistake and the ship would blow up.

This allows deep penetrating weapons containing huge amounts of energy to pierce bunkers from way over the horizon.

This is the kind of weapon the Navy will want if the Korean peninsula ever heats up to a boil.

Edit: I suspect I am being downvoted because I am discussing weapon systems. There is a difference between advocating for weapons/war and discussing them. It is better weapons are discussed in the open, than developed in secret where the public cannot weigh in. Truly horrifying things are born in the dark.
I got 0.9 on Chrome, logged into google.
I also got 0.9 on Firefox, not logged into google.

In incognito mode in chrome, I sometimes get 0.9 and sometimes 0.7 when I reload.
Some of them can steal:

- Jesse James
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Arsene Lupin
- Lupin the third
You can certainly damage a cable, but I'm sure those old thick black PC charging cables with a barrel connector are way sturdier than the flimsy but aesthetically pleasing macbook ones.
The article reminds me of Brendan Gregg's talk, "Performance Checklists for SREs".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxCWXNigDpA
One person made the extension. It wouldn't take much for a company to threaten a lawsuit to take the extension out of operation.
i.e. Nielsen advocates something much more like Material Design
100% success, expected time until death 3-70 years with a 95% confidence interval
Most ATMs don't charge a fee, so if your bank doesn't charge one for a withdrawal out of network, you're good. A lot of countries have had pretty good online banking offerings for a while now and free withdrawals at any ATM are typical.

SEPA is over 10 years old now, and while not the fastest protocol, modern banks clear transfers in a couple of hours. Not bad for something that allows you to wire money to some 500 million people. And the newer SCT instant payment scheme is being rolled out as we speak.
Why did it die?
Well they actually do this in Seattle and it seems to work out. A fixed route is also not a bad thing (see bus rapid transit) and can encourage private development.
Read someone mention that some reactors in France are limited by river temperatures in the summer. Or else they'll start cooking fish.

Me I think we're in the harm reduction phase of industrial civilization. Nothing we do isn't going to have some negative impact.
The short story "Car Wars" digs at this kind of issue.

https://this.deakin.edu.au/self-improvement/car-wars
My comment was supposed to mean that the new mac is what trash can generation mac should have been. The opposite of what you probably understood.

And my understated implication was the trash can would have been an Ive design.
Google-savvy reputation consultants will cover up arrests, poor customer reviews
Time for a separate computer just for when i am forced to interact with websites using Googles recaptcha for paying bills etc
Source? I see price parity across us-east-* and us-west-2 for every service i've looked at.
Much of it seems to be truckers just switching companies
They are doing the same. Intelligence is dirty business but it has to be done.
My biggest gripe with type inference is compile time performance (in regards to Swift especially).

When I'm writing hundreds of lines of frame layout code, I have to explicitly write `let transientValue:CGFloat = ...` hundreds of times or else the compiler quits on me saying that it was unable to infer the required type before timing out. The error makes sense if you think about what the compiler is doing (solving a system of equations with all of the number like built in types) but frankly it's unnecessary to begin with.

Compiler performance aside, it also makes working on code a lot heavier since the editor needs to be able to infer the types (something the full blown compiler struggles to do given all cores and tens of seconds!) before it can give sane autocomplete suggestions. I'm not sure if a better IDE than Xcode could handle this better but I've found the tools have forced me to be explicit just so I can get my work down more quickly.
My city has upgraded to hybrid and NG buses in the last decade (in addition to some non battery very old and new trolley electrics), there are plenty of solutions in between dirty diesel and clean electric that have to be considered as well.
You're forgetting the SSO use case.
HK economically is not significant to China. It wants to control it for ideological reasons. If it destroys the economy, that's a price it will be willing to pay.
What argument? What possible position could "if you can't configure a VPN, you're probably mediocre" be an argument for?
It’s also full of legacy infrastructure since it was the first region.
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Most electric forklifts use lead acid batteries. These batteries are only warrantied for 1-2 years because they fail unpredictably after that time frame (hence why they get replaced on that time frame). They also take forever to charge and their performance and lifetime is highly dependent on temperature. Basically, they are a pain.

EV buses will not be using lead acid and will use longer life battery tech (e.g. Li-ion), so your reason #2 will not be as big of an issue.
I work pretty much exclusively on my 13" laptop. I carry it with me pretty much wherever I go. It being thin and light is crucial to fitting it in my bag, and not being uncomfortable to lug around. The current form factor is pretty much perfect to me – slips right into its dedicated slot in my bag, and the weight it adds to my bag is really no biggie. I wouldn't mind if it was lighter, but it's damn near perfect to me at this point.
I don't know that I agree with that considering the S10+ has what amounts to a hole in the top right corner. The notch isn't great but I actually think I prefer seeing those 2 options side by side.
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Pro cameras us CF / CFast cards, so the SD slot won't really help them. It's probably OK not to have it wrt the pro market.

https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/learn/educ...
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Hooray! Can we now get skeumorphic desktop and Fn keys back?
> Oh, that's why that kept happening on my Macbook pro? I thought I was loading a broken site or had too many tabs open like I always do.

That's what I thought as well, but apparently it's something to do with the compositor and FF redrawing the whole window instead of just relevant pixels or areas - which provokes a lot of unneeded calculations -something specially damaging for users that have scaling set to more space (effectively a higher resolution).

That was my understanding at least, when I first learned about the bug many months ago. I followed the development for a while with no (public) improvements and now I just wait for news about the issue or something, but all FF related news so far have been about new features or products.
Could the targeting system account for the sideways movement?
Realism is making somewhat of a comeback, take a look at the Books app.
> I just pointed out the fact that it seems the design team didn't get input from others, who IMO would've mentioned the similarity sooner, possibly helping Apple alter the design.

????

The model before the "trashcan" was popularly called the cheese grater for a long time, so I'm sure they were well aware of the resemblance already.
I really don't worry about dongles though, what gave you that idea? I have a few cables, and I do have a couple of dongles but never really use them so mostly they're spending time in a box somewhere.
We've banned this account for taking HN threads into ideological flamewar. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules when posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I find the opposite. If I just want to read, I prefer a book. If it's a text, I want to be able to read and search, and I want to be able to scale the graphs and footnotes. Not all eBook formats support color and scaling, but some do.

It's nice although our preferences are reversed to find someone else who has preferences for both in different circumstances.

I really like the books that include an eBook with the print copy.
Slowly, over decades, we're developing iconography for common operations. Take power buttons, or menu buttons (the "hamburger" icon). It takes not only time, but some amount of consensus and buy in from a significant portion of the marketplace.

In the US at least the fuel level indicator is fairly easily recognized by a gas pump symbol, and the temperature gauge is recognized by a thermometer icon. The problem is, these don't denote those things exactly but fuel and temperature in general, and sometimes they are instead dummy lights indicating a warning about high temperature or low fuel, and not where the guages are.
Not really, the 85D weighs nearly the same as our Ram 1500 EcoDiesel(taken both to the dump scales at one point or another).

It really does come down to the fact that you brake in the 5-10mph range on the EV(or not at all in stop/go traffic).
I heard that they also filter results by some undisclosed parameters, like they don't show you anything that hasn't been modified in the last ~10 years, no matter how hard you try
Your HN profile appears to be blank, actually. Is this you? https://github.com/benreesman
The article mentions, that sources could not confirm which nation launched the attack.
Perhaps on PCs, but plenty of mobile and consoles use a shared memory architecture.
>No they don't. I've been in a car with a front window defroster and a rear one. The icons are different, but who knows which is which.

Umm ... I do?

For me this was really a "figure out once" and remember forever.

And even if I can't remember which is which, it's trivial to press them and find out. Especially if you have the fan/ac running.

Perhaps they should make this as an international standard and part of the driving test? I mean, if we can learn what all the road signs mean, this isn't any harder.

Edit: Cannot add more comments so replying here:

Looking at your comment above, you seem to believe we're transitioning from words to pictographs in cars. My experience doesn't agree. I've never seen a car without these, going back to the 80's. Looking at old Toyota Corollas, they use the icon. Same for the 80's Corvette.

Given how prevalent they are, did you ever ponder why they use icons instead of text? Serious question.
Apple, Inc. did - they sell all of their music without DRM for the last, like, 10 years. Meanwhile the music industry is alive and well.

The key is convenience. When it's convenient to buy, people buy.
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Sometimes equipment isn't obviously on or off. Like the main switch on a power supply. I also like to know that something is off when I try to plug it in (like the table saw).
I've had USB C phones for almost 4 years now. Most micro USB cables have swapped to C with a few C to micro adapters around (1/2" dongles on a key ring). At work we just purchased USB C based drives for imaging/deployment process. If I didn't prefer displayport and had the cash to drop I'd see about USB C monitors at home too. It's taking over but the USB A standard is still in use.
>The front window defrost has always been an option on the air con dial and the rear is a button

This hasn't been the standard for a long time. My 2003 and my 2015 cars both have them both as buttons.
I'm sending this from it right now using the dark theme it comes with, dark bar (at the bottom), it has exactly what you're asking for! I'm really happy about this; dark with bar at bottom is what I've always wanted.
(rewritten by suggestion - same content, different vibe)

Many of you came here to talk ish about mainframes, and by doing so you precisely illustrate why new IT people need to learn about mainframes.

It's disingenuous to say that GNU/Linux is getting better when that is hardly the case. It has business-itis. One distro's lessons don't translate well or sometimes at all to another's. It's growing subsystems and methods that don't have well thought out or even decently documented rationale, and the rate of change doesn't appear to be slowing.

By trying to make examples of some of the worse characteristics of mainframes, some of you are showing that you're not speaking to the article at all.

The point is that what we call modern with regards to reliability is simply aggregation and redundancy. It's a collection of solutions to symptoms and they don't address the underlying problems at all. This is nohow like a mainframe. Not even a little bit.

Heck - a modern virtual machine farm can't even cluster as well as VMS can cluster. Why? Because our virtual machine farms have evolved to fix the symptoms that come from the problems of less reliability, and have taken little or nothing from mainframes.

Mainframes have already learned about the problems of reliability, addressed those problems, then moved on, and they did that half a century ago.
I've just been alerted of this data leak :(
I had this problem too on my 2015 MPB, when Apple went from Magsafe 1 to Magsafe 2, which was (vertically) thinner. The Magsafe 2 easily disconnected when there was even a little vertical torque.

I bought a Snuglet, a thin metal shell that inserts into the Magsafe recess on the MBP. It reduces vertical and horizontal clearance between the Magsafe connector halves. In my case, this has completely eliminated unwanted disconnects.

Disclaimer: no connection with Snuglet or NewerTech, just have found the product useful as advertised.
Is DJGPP still maintained? All I could seem to find are very old versions, unless the project has moved somewhere that I couldn't find.
The tire pressure icon is the newest and least comprehensible icon of them all. I looked at it for years without knowing what it was, and never had any flat tires, due to wear or pressure related damage. Just nails, debris and scheduled rotation during inspections.

When I discovered that there was a new standard of RFID pressure sensor chips embedded in the new tires I bought, suddenly it all clicked.

But that's what it took. I needed to shop around and buy a new set of tires, notice that there were some, a little bit more expensive than others, read the feature list, and notice the RFID chips listed in the spec.

RFID chips? In my tires? It's more likely than you think!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_syste...

Suddenly it all snapped into place. The worthless idiot light tells me nothing, by magically interfacing with systems behind my back, and what's more, every tire on the road is uniquely identifiable, through remote passive electronic sensors.

This just quietly appears, on the down low. Low key spyware on essential disposable components that everyone needs, and that everyone will eventually be forced onto.

To get rid of them, usually they're in the valve stem, so you could probably just microwave them with a disassembled magnetron, or run a high voltage arc through them with a stun gun. But no one does.
I don't think so, you can buy usb-c magnetic adapters right now and I haven't heard any issues with them.
The biggest drawback is that it's inflexible, slow to work on and pretty much the definition of proprietary. Everything is a secret, everything has as much red tape as a lawyers office and nobody wants to share.
How can the effects be minor? Immigrants are doing work for cheaper than their domestic counter parts or they wouldn't be employed. This means they are producing economic value in excess of their compensation more than their domestic peers.

Where does this excess economic value go? It lowers the cost, for one. This is common sense.

Given the amount of illegal immigration and the support structure that exists among employers, you will have a hard time convincing me their effect on the economy is minor. Why would anyone bother with all the trouble if what you say is accurate?
I’ll buy it. My email is in my profile, drop me a note.
He might but humans have this amazing track record of slaughtering each other. Recently (1990s) with machetes in Rwanda. Very low tech.

I don't trust humans to avoid war crimes. Robots could have protections built in in a way that international orgs can verify.
Suppose you're Jony Ive, and you've designed so much for Apple-- computers, fonts, even Apple Park-- what would entice you to leave?

I speculate his reason must be to design something massively popular, that so many people in the world touch every day, that blends computers and architecture. And that his reason must a project so big that it can't reasonably fit inside Apple Park, both in terms of physical space and in terms of manufacturing partnerships where the team must be on site.

I speculate he's leaving Apple to design the Apple car.

Replies: 1) If Ive wanted to retire, I'd expect he could; he has mountains of money, and has achieved tremendous success in the marketplace. 2) If Ive were forced out, I'd expect an announcement akin to "will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook", not "founding an agency with Apple as a client". 3) Why leave now? Because Apple just bought a big piece of the car project, Drive.ai.
Sounds like someone at Verizon messed up their BGP system.
I thought we're talking about cars? I never claimed all standardized icons for all equipment are intuitive.
It's not insanity, it just depends what they were talking about. Personally I like the feel of the keyboard and find it's quite nice to type on, but I don't like the reliability issues. I've already had mine replaced once, and there's nothing preventing the replacement from failing again at some point.

It's very easy to brush aside the failure rate until it happens to you.
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

Considering it has GCC 9.1.0, I'd say it's still maintained.
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"Reasonable rate" means what?

Working in slaughterhouses, working in fields picking produce, working in construction, working the back of house for restaurants, working as housekeepers, working as landscapers or day laborers, working at the car wash. These are all jobs with lots of immigrants. Are you surprised to learn this?
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As a former user of SMSBackup+, at a certain point it did seem like I was putting a lot of trust into a 3rd party to have full access to both my text messages and my email. So I can kind of see how it's a risk, but it seems sad to just shut it all down.
I read the post to suggest correlation, not causation.

To your other points, a close friend of mine loved to mosh as a younger man too, and at his last warped tour he tripped and fell. Unlike the shows you described, everyone who saw it kept jumping and smashing into each other for minutes while his companions struggled to get him to his feet. His head was beaten into the ground repeatedly by people's feet, fracturing his skull.

He's still physically scarred and cognitively not the same and years later it seems like that will linger forever. I wanted to share this counterpoint to your post because I think there is validity to your perspective but it is not fully reflective of reality.
> the seller is not required to produce a replacement

As well they cannot demand any such thing - the country's money is legislated to be accepted as a settlement for any kind of debt. It's the "legal tender" thing.
> Worse, often it'll be the case that the instructions are given late enough that if you wait to consider or second-guess them, you'll miss the turn.

Also, it will often recalculate with the assumption that you can immediately follow its directions, even though by the time it's finished saying them you're already past the next turn (and then the next, and then the next...).
The problem here is Google.
It reads like it was written by someone who just happens to like mainframes. None of the listed aspects are mainframe-exclusive. On the other hand: yes, there are a whole lot of "IT" places that just run broken workflows and cheap out on everything. Those places will never buy a mainframe.

The gist of the whole article (as already stated a few times) is "work in a properly managed place".
The thing you can find a book that is hundreds of years old that is still readable, how long would data in a hard drive last in the wild?
Thats linux. Not UNIX. I think tool suites from companies now dead made tiny-c and the like, and had tractably small memory model, split i+d stuff in the c compiler toolchain. Not much work on them. Why not?

Well.. targeting 8086, 80286 was somehow off the radar for a bunch of people. I think because a lot of flight ready milspec stuff ran on 6502 or 6800, and especially the latter was a classic gordon-moore model simple register==memory model, a lot more ports went into 6800(x)

Interesting to think if IBM had selected a motorola CPU like this instead of an Intel, or if Intel had been in a mood to adopt a PDP11 instruction set... what the world would be like.

As a DEC-10 and PDP11 and Vax person, I used CP/M, it was ok. I could survive. MS-DOS blind-sided me. I had no idea what was coming down the pipe. talk about walking into a room of razors with closed eyes.
Trolley buses are necessary on many Seattle routes because of all the hills, you just can’t beat torque on a good electric (same is true for many other hilly cities like SF, Vancouver, and Lausanne).

Metro and sound transit has also invested in a lot of hybrids. The most recent fleet is pretty interesting (they also have a few battery-only electrics, but these seem more like testing).