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I'll never understand the infatuation with mechanical kb's. I am old enough to be trained on them, but the low-travel scissor types are so much nicer to type and don't give you RSI.
Everything substantive addressed here can be handled by proper and ruthless application of anti-nepotism and anti-discrimination policies, cracking down hard on abusive management styles, plus such tools as "blinding" the names and addresses on CVs.

This seems like a severe memetic hazard for ill considered racist responses.
The first sentence of the article: “In more than 100 years of Anchorage history, weather stations have never recorded a single 90-degree reading.“
Consider reading this reddit thread regarding Linux on a 2010 MBA, https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/9rnyw4/linux_on_...
That he raped Sally Hemmings has been verified by DNA testing. Are you saying that we should not say anything negative about rapists?
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Walmart has a monopoly on physical retail? I can almost understand your position on Amazon e-commerce, but I don’t think Walmart is anywhere close to monopolizing physical retail.
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I still don't understand why this derivation is such an achievement.

If anything, it seems like dirty hacking, but this time done by a mathematician.
But YouTube having faster servers isn't an "open web" roadblock, Facebook's social graph isn't either -- neither of these shed any light on your previous comment for me.
Churches aren't businesses, they have different legal rights. Still, if you walk into a Baptist Christian church reciting versues from the Quran you will find yourself quickly banned and the church is within its rights to do so, even if muslims wouldn't like that. Fortunately, a mosque has the same freedom.
Keep in mind that your success in FTL tends to be highly variable too, I still occasionally manage to die on the first encounter, even though I also often make it to the last sector.
Are you going to get a report each month of where the money went?
This is one failure mode of an open-ended immigration system. If you admit large numbers of migrants in a short amount of time, they cannot possibly assimilate quick enough to avoid forming cliques and bringing with them certain problems from the old country. If these cliques and problems are big enough, they attract the attention and ire of natives and other migrant groups, and you wind up with new problems.

I don't know what the solution is. As a non-Indian tech worker in America, I've had great 1:1 experiences with many Indian co-workers, but I've also heard of and witnessed many of the problems described in the article.
Yes, and no.

There's bitching but Apple's audience is always the first to absorb the change that eventually hits the whole industry.

MacOS Classic to Mac OS X? They kept Classic Mode around for 5 years for a reason. Eventually the benefits outweighed the drawbacks.

Loss of floppy drives and serial ports in the iMac? Bitching galore, but it was the right move.

Loss of built in DVD/CD drive on the Macbook Pro (circa 2012 with the retina MBP)? Bitching, but when's the last time we needed it so often?

Lots of bitching about iPhone 6 screen sizes being too big, leading to the iPhone SE. But ultimately more people liked the bigger size.

Lots of bitching about USB-C vs. Magsafe, but ultimately USB-C is proving to be the correct move.

The touchbar feels like the main misstep. I think most of the bitching would go away if they brought back haptics on the ESC key.
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I just have to disagree. A car company can and should expect the users to read the manual. If you only use what's visible in the driver's seat, you'll never find the sump plug, service plan, tyre spec, engine bay...

The alternative is worse ergonomics for people who do read it to give better discoverability to those who won't.
There's some truth to this article but it's overtly racist by generalizing "all" Indians to be this way. I've had Indian friends and co-workers over the years openly admit that this happens, and that they hate it.

It's a side effect from hiring people from a culture with a caste system.

What should we do about it? No idea. A good start would be only allowing a certain percent of hires from each country through the H1B program. You can create a curturally mixed team without denying any visas.
Correct. Which makes me think of various c++ template libraries MS has shipped alongside SDKs (ATL, WRL).

Actually the same reasoning could be said to apply to STL.

Or, relatedly, somehow it's possible to link statically to CRT.

It's interesting with these cases, because something can seem perfectly reasonable behavior in the mind of a developer (an app using platform headers or standard library) but you can wind up with a different answer trying to figure out for what if anything enables that behavior in a legal context.
1) I had no idea what it was, I was just thinking my throat was going to close. They never did a culture. I was sent out in 10-15 minutes after I was seen.

2) I was expecting some antibiotics. But because I said I was in pain they gave me a "pain" pill I guess and sent me on my way.

3) For sure. I was expecting them to do some better diagnostics. Certainly after charging $400 (in early 2000's money, I would probably be more now).
I think it means order in a way that's quite specific to the study of phase transitions. In a phase transition a system switches between a disordered phase (eg a gas) and an ordered phase (eg a solid) as measured by a so-called 'order parameter'. Here the transition is that of percolation (google it, or percolation theory, for detail - it's a big subject by itself) which, in 2 dimensions say, transitions between a phase where the order parameter is zero and there are just disconnected clusters with an expontential size distribution, and a phase where the order parameter is non-zero and a cluster is connected across the entire system. The critical point at which the transition actually occurs tends to be the point of most interest and it's characterised by power law distributions. So it's a slightly broader definition of order than people outside the subject might be accustomed to.

Here, they analyse percolation on a random geometry and look at how this influences the percolation transition. For instance, how the size of the largest cluster scales with system size. This isn't new in itself, it's been an interesting problem for at least a couple of decades. Just skimming the paper, I _think_ what's new here is one or two new results for the combination of this particular random geometry and percolation. I have to say, I didn't quite get the sense of novelty from the paper that I felt the title of the article promised.
The thing about standard practices is that they don't come as standard. For every 10 fort knox, there's at least one place with the side door left ajar. You only hear about those instances when a hack makes the news in a sort of reverse survivorship bias
Thanks, the TL;DR is "Yes" then. Too bad.
If sales are not the most direct indicator of whether people like something or not, what is?

Apple has released many MacBooks with essentially the same keyboard design since 2015. If people really hated them, sales should have tanked in subsequent years, and Apple would have something different by now, 4 years later. The people who keep posting that they'll switch to PCs, would all have switched by now.

Do you suppose the number of people complaining here represent a significant percentage of the millions who have purchased MacBooks with the butterfly keyboards?

People who are satisfied with them aren't going to flock to every post to balance out the complaints. Those who do post in favor of the new MBPs get downvoted into grayness. There may be issues, but the incessant negativity feels bizarrely overblown and seems memetic at this point, if not outright paid for by rival companies.
130.000€ fine for a bank with 320M€ of revenue in 2015 (see [0]) doesn't seem too much...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniCredit_Bank_Romania
> In the long term it means that you don't pass your set of values onto the latter generations.

Education, activism, involvement in the community, publishing research, etc. are all effective ways to pass on values to future generations. Nudging the overton window of society is arguably a much more effective way to pass on values.

> Intelligence, conscientiousness and empathy are all heritable to a degree.

Nowhere near enough to keep up with technological and societal change.

> More importantly, your kids will likely inherit most of the socioeconomic factors that made you become environmentally-conscious in the first place. And I'm assuming you want the next generations to be as eco-friendly as possible.

Those kids would need to have a net-positive contribution to the environment for this argument to make any sense. It also seems mostly irrelevant to the argument about whether to have kids or not: any virtue you ascribe to those potential kids can also be ascribed to anyone else: if those kids could be a net-positive to the environment, why not the friends and neighbours that are already here? If influencing others in similar socioeconomic situations is beneficial, we can find plenty of those people around already. And so on.

> exploding birth rates across the globe

Do you have a source for this? All the evidence I've seen says the exact opposite (e.g. the UN's data and projections for this century show birth rates declining across every continent https://population.un.org/wpp/DataQuery )
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WarpKnot is a PHP/MySQL based CMS & framework that allows you to build websites for any purpose.

You could either build a small blog, or a corporate portal.
All the more reason why you should not expect that a for-profit business will host your content for free without pre-conditions.
Seems to me that an Instagram influencer post is now a negative indicator of quality.
Ads pay a lot more than that on quality websites such as the Scroll ones. 50c per thousand page is so low I can't see how you find it fair. We're talking lets say 1000h of work, and your fair price is 50c ?
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Or have hiring practices where an applicant gets a random team in the org that interviews them first and they are hired based on a committee, kind of like google, that way you avoid these type of problems for the most part.
What the hell? Are you suggesting that not having children is fundamentally the same as murder?
I thought it was ironic that an advertisement for exterminators came up in the middle of the article. Another triumph for add algos ;)
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"Gave up" in this case consists of a certain party's legislative membership fleeing to Idaho to deny quorum.
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>My dream is a Magsafe cable

Like this[0] ?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Adapter-Connector-Quick-Char...
Not nearly enough.

Short story: helped found a startup in the political/finance space. Got burnt out, tired, and depressed building software to help make bigger banks bigger while they seem like they are only benefiting from running the environment into the ground.

So I've put in my notice. Re-enrolled in school to buy myself time, a network, and a more supportive environment for putting resources into bigger and more pressing problems. What that looks like- I'm not sure yet. There have been some interesting projects and groups posted here which I've been looking through. Long term plan is to end up back on the west coast within commuting distance to SF.

If anyone has any ideas - do share! (email in profile) Experienced in Python backend development, data scraping, parsing. Interested in simulations and models, IoT, mathematics, physics, and still have a bit of a mechatronics background from school. Love figuring things out and learning, especially tough, real problems.

I just want to be able to look back and say, at least I tried.
> It’s important to note that the FDA doesn’t yet know how certain diets may be associated with DCM in some dogs.

From my read, it's an ongoing research and no results/conclusions have been reached yet. They are posting names of brands as an effort to "being transparent with their investigation".
> I want to pay as I go, at the rates ads pay. 50¢ per thousand pages sounds ok to me.

You often get a ecpm of 50 cents? That seems quite awful, even more so from the US. It should be closer to 10x that.
Maaaybe releasing tools with default unsecured configuration (with paid security addons for Kibana) should be shamed.
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Race is fundamentally different than gender in many ways. Contrary to your claim, you can’t discern race as easily as gender—there are far more racially ambiguous people than there are gender ambiguous people. Unlike how gender proxies for biological sex, race doesn’t proxy for any interesting biological phenomena around which we might organize our culture—thus race is much less information-dense than gender. The likely reason you find racial qualifies objectionable is that your culture experienced racism in its history (e.g., the US’s historical oppression of African Americans), not because it is a completely useless disambiguator (although it can be if the circumstances are right—such as a group where all members share the same race). We don’t have specific pronouns for specific races because (in addition to the previously cited reasons) interactions with specific groups were rarely universal experiences. That said, we do have pronouns that can indicate membership to our people or the people across the river (originally “race” referred to a people or ethnic group—e.g., “the Celtic race”): “us” and “them”.
That survey they throw at you if you try to sign up is just complete and utter garbage, and asks you questions that both contradict each other, are in the wrong order, and ask you things you can't possibly have a good answer for at this stage.
Why would regular VLAN support not work to secure or segregate IoT devices?
What are you using now? I have a ThinkPad T470p and really like it. The keyboard feels really great, although the fn key placement is a bit annoying.
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Asus definitely has the better cookies overlay at 80% of the screen on mobile.
Seriously? You never use StackOverflow? You never enjoyed anything on Youtube?

You are definitely in a tiny minority if that's actually the case.
It's a start. You've got to start somewhere.
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I have posted this before, but please do not think this will ever work. The thing will fall apart (again) as soon as it is exposed to anything but a calm sea. It definitely brought attention to the issue, but that's about all the good it did.

I don't blame anyone for having the idea of making something like this, but I do Boyan and his team for seeing it through to implementation when all preliminary and scale model tests showed clearly that they would fail. Talk about a waste of money and bright minds...
As long as it's enough for them to fix whatever they were doing wrong, I'd say the fine doesn't necessarily have to be punitive
They work just fine because you don't need to log in to your electricity meter to turn your lights on.
Yeah, because that's a lot easier than just running "firejail firefox".. And does your snippet work on Wayland?
I get the warm and fuzzy feeling USB-C gives nerds, cause of the open standard and interoperability, and cause it only takes one attempt to actually plug it in; but I just cannot fathom how Apple replaced Magsafe with USB-C.

Magsafe was one of those magical Apple features from the mid 2000s that just delight and work incredibly well and almost seem like science fiction. It's not like they had shitty power adapters and USB-C was an upgrade. It was the Hofmeister Kink of Apple computers, and they got rid of it. I just do not understand at all.
It could also just be pure statistical chance. Depending on how often opportunities for failure occur it's not infeasible that just by chance a bunch go down at once, especially if they don't all have to go at the same time and just going out within a few days of each other is enough to make people see a connection there. And if they happen to correlate with each other (slack going down means a remote employee cant work for the say which means some bug isn't caught) even slightly then maybe this sort of situation goes from kot infeasible to expected to occur once every few years.
I applaud Google for this, I was thinking about their policy while reading the article.
Same here.
Everything in my 2016 MBP (with touchbar) has been replaced : keyboard twice, full motherboard, screen and one fan recently.

I still own a MBA from 2011 in its original state (0 repair).
I'm happy to pay by seeing ads or by paying money. I'm not happy to have my personal info floating around on the servers of the ad-industry in order to deliver targeted ads.

Subscriptions risk making silos. Once you have paid $5 for site-group-A (one million sites) it's annoying to find that the site you are reading belongs to site-group-B which belongs to some other subscription. This is the HBO-vs-Netflix problem.
I can't stop but speculate if departure of Ive had anything to do with this. I guess there was a lot of push-back internally about this, but because of Ive, they had to endure 4 generations of butterfly switches. Touchbar also is just a resource hog for nothing extraordinarily useful. I haven't seen people use it too often. I bet they did user studies and found out that the Touchbar wasn't the new interaction method they hoped it would be. And now, they are planning to introduce new macs without them. I bet Ive feels bad about having to see his decisions being rolled back. Anyway, I hope the rumored 16' Macbook pro actually caters to the professionals by prioritizing thermals over thinness, and if one can wish, it would be nice if Magsafe could ride this rollback train.
I'd prefer to see something like Matrera Castle. For architecture I find it a bit much, probably because it needs to be structurally sound, but for a skeleton or an antique it could bring more attention to the real parts and still offer a suggestion of what it might look like.
I've got a similar product, but unless the company doesn't want USB-C certification the adapter is _really easy_ to pull out.
Despite not having IPS, I would still consider the Air of yesteryear to be the best laptop (for most people). I had the 2012 and 2014 models and found they were the perfect balance of form factor, build quality, and non-pro performance.

I haven't evaluated the latest Retina Air, but if it improves on the non-Retina air with a better display and TouchID, it's still probably the best laptop for most people.
I don't understand this comment. I am in the EU and never visited the Walmart site before.

Loads fast, looks clean, seems to work fine.
I found the Magsafe adapter cords would fray, corrode, and blacken pretty easily, becoming a fire hazard. Every Macbook I owned, I would need at least one replacement over a 3 year period.

The amount of time taken to re-plugin it in vs. times it saved my laptop from flying, really it was an overrated feature. USB-C comes out easily enough.

Don't get me wrong, I liked Magsafe. But I don't understand the passion for it, it had flaws and was a (nifty) minor feature.
> It doesn't strike me as fundamentally different from suicide. Or killing other people.

Interesting take. Does menstruation strike you as not fundamentally different from murder? Do you consider ejaculation to be fundamentally the same as genocide of hundreds of millions of living people?

> for whom are you even saving the environment, exactly? Obviously not your children, if you don't have any.

Presumably the billions of people who live, and will live, all over the Earth?

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm, trolling, or a genuine disregard for the lives of every who doesn't share 50% of your genes.
I was looking at this yesterday and learned the following. A 100 year flood is a flood that has a 1% chance of happening in a given year. A 500 year flood has a 0.2% chance of happening in a given year. I’m not sure if temperature has the same model as rainfall. Anchorage was settled in 1914 according to Wikipedia, so I’m assuming that there are no temperature records beyond that and that 100 years in this case refers to it only having been settled for about 100 years.
Maybe do a self extractor that's specially crafted to ignore the zip-bomb part and only extract the malware part? Then the self extractor can execute the malicious code after extracting to memory.
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My understanding is that the first fine is a shot across the bow. Now that they've been found in violation, any future violation will hold a harsher penalty.
But if you start that low is gonna be hard to fine later on for more.

e.g. Why I have to pay 10kk when Unicredit Bank pay only 130k?
Mantiz Venus: https://mymantiz.com/products/mz-02-venus. It can do 87W power delivery (so you can run a 15" MBP at full tilt while charging up the battery), has a number of USB 3.1 Get 1 ports on front/back, GbE ethernet, and a SATA adapter that can house a SSD.

While researching eGPUs I couldn't find one that was spec'd out quite like the Mantiz, particularly with respect to the 87W PD. Do keep in mind that like all the other eGPUs out there, the USB ports and anything connected to them share 5 Gbps of theoretical bandwidth. In the case of the Venus, that means the SATA SSD, GbE ethernet, and connected USB devices all share that bandwidth. But I have never seen my ethernet throttle while doing reads/writes to the SSDs and I have 1 Gbps up/down fibre optic internet. I just point that out as a lot of people were upset that all these devices hang off the USB for the Mantiz. But if they didn't they'd just eat into the TB3 bandwidth available to the GPU itself.
Yeah as a non-American I'd love to see WaPo/NyT as part of a $4.99 deal, but I can imagine that they are reluctant to sell access in their home market at that price.
UV does have a bleaching effect on pigments, but that's a feature rather than a bug for white items.