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The TouchBar is fine and looks nice.
The problem is not the TouchBar itself, but how Apple decided to not care about many usability details complementary to the TouchBar (besides the ESC key).

Something really stupid (related to TouchBar design) happened to me about 2 weeks ago.

I watched a movie using an external TV, and I set the laptop screen brightness to zero. The movie ended, so I shut down the machine using the TV as a monitor.

Next day, when I turned on the laptop (without the TV). Zero! No sound, nothing, only the artificial "ESC" key in the TouchBar. My first reaction... "ohh the brightness", it happened before with older MBP models.

But... Where are my brightness keys!? For some reason, there were not displayed. (after a little bit of search in support forums, I found that some users were not seeing TouchBar keys during login too).

I connected the TV again... nothing.
I tried to login... but since I couldn't see the login screen, I ended in the password recovery mode.
In total desperation (that included trying to reboot in recovery or to do a SMC reset without any visual and auditive feedback), I found by chance that the screen displayed the right brightness if I open/close the lid.

When I saw the password reset mode screen, I was happy. But if I restarted the brightness remained in zero! and no TouchBar...
After another trial & error of open closing the lid, I saw the pass recovery screen again. Then I deactivated FileVault to reboot in recovery mode, and finally, I saw the brightness keys in the TouchBar!!! (it was a WTF moment).

I searched in a lot of forums if it was possible to change the brightness with another key combination, but it wasn't possible. My secondary keyboard is a MagicKeyboard that is Bluetooth only... so I almost have to contact support for a very stupid design decision to not give the users a secondary method to control brightness when the TouchBar fails.

BTW previous Mac models emitted a sound during power on... that would have been helpful. It's very hard to know if your computer is working without any feedback. And it's also very hard to hit the recovery key combination without auditive feedback.

I like the aesthetics of Apple design, but as an Apple user for many years... the change of priorities in the hardware user experience is noticeable.
someone deserve it :-)
On 5 July Amazon turns 25, here's a look back at how it changed the world
Note that this quake was not on the San Andreas - it was in the Eastern California Shear Zone, a separate fault system near Death Valley. The epicenter was about 125 miles away from LA, and almost closer to Las Vegas (which also felt this quake). The limited damage was largely because it was far away from any populated areas - the nearest cities are Ridgecrest (pop 27,000) and Trona (pop < 2000).
Obviously no consistency guarantees. To be fair, strong consistency models don't work for client side caching and strong eventual consistency while works, almost no one in the world implements it yet.
Which is fine if you keep that laptop in its own isolated network. Otherwise it might end up being used for gaining access to other machines in your network.
Bitcoin forces reexamination of custody issues from first principles.

Do countries smaller than the largest 100 corporations really need their own central banks ? And if they are themselves consumers of the ecb or the fed, they have custody issues also.

Democracy is the custody of people’s power with elected representatives. With immigration people can reallocate the custody of that power.

Not all people need 100% 3rd party custody of money.

Also, bitcoin makes it easy to detect theft and audit 3rd parties more easily.
We found a way. It's called thorium. Waste is only radioactive for a century and iirc it's a lower energy. They can also use current waste as fuel.

Reactor tech is 40 years old. If your phone is 4 years old, one might consider it trash. Imagine how good they'd be if the industry innovated even as slow and conservatively as medicine. Oh, there's also liquid sodium and fast breeders.

FUD keeps the tech from advancing.
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The end of satire: Mad magazine to cease regular publication
If you re-read you'll find that I suggest an incremental epoch to avoid any issue :-D however starting with the idea of time to later hint about a better solution is a lot more understandable IMHO.
Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree. I just don't think it's worth my time to update it to watch YouTube and open BBC Good Food from time to time. The laptop never leaves the house, my assumption is that the attack surface for it is literally zero.
Flaws could be discovered in modern communication such that they can decrypt it in 30 years time. How good is 30-year-old crypto today?
Because Japan has way more earthquakes. Relatively, we are pretty well prepared in references to buildings. Now food supplies and power? I feel like people aren’t mentally prepared for that.
Well, that would be org-mode. If you set an time estimate [1] it will give you a desktop notifiction when your time is over. Thanks to clocking in and out [2] you can record your time. And, well, it's org-mode, you can do basically everything if your are willing to learn it ;)

And at the end of the day you can generate a nice table that shows you, how much time you spend with what.

[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html
[2] https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html
Its going to happen soon. The signs are all around.
I have got the 2015 15" model with Radeon R9 M370X and it supports 4k@60Hz over DP.
Has anyone who previously preferred static typing converted (at least for certain projects) to using Elixir? I won't even put plain Node into production anymore, TypeScript at the minimum, but otherwise OCaml or Go.
> publishers actually vetted the products

I work in ad technology for a publisher. We put in a lot of effort to make the tech fast, lightweight and secure for our visitors - we hate bad ads too. We screen our partners, use whitelists and monitor what JS is running on the site.

This being said - things sometimes slip through the cracks. Somebody with a browser-based 0-day will pay huge CPMs to insert their ad and own thousands of machines. We can't
prevent this - if you have any ideas on how, I'd love to hear it.
Using x2go means you get a persistent desktop: your apps are left running when you close the session, and you can resume where you left off when you reconnect.
" is lying or is from one of the upper castes and therefore don't know what it feels like to be a non-Brahmin."

Seriously brahmins barely make up 5% of Indians. Before British rule, Indians switched caste just like people move between classes in the UK. The British used caste as a divide and rule tool to create further wedges between different castes so it was easier to rule them all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-48619734

https://www.jerusalemonline.com/how-the-british-empire-inven...
Take with a grain of salt. This is pseudoscience at best.

There were some reports of earthquake lights[1][2][3] and earthquake clouds[4][5][6] recently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light

[2] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/men-film-glowing-sn...

[3] https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/789760/Colorado-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_cloud

[5] https://weather.com/vertical/video/strange-clouds-seen-in-co...

[6] https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/20/boulder-rare-helix-clo...
It helps to wake up the computer :-)
There's no HDMI 2.0 support in 2015 MBPr AFAIK. So no 4k@60Hz over HDMI. You must get DP.
The Airbnb for America's Extra Crap Is Here
Two Minute Papers: Neural Avatar Technology (Improved Deepfake Tech.)
One person has been confirmed to have died after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The fatal design flaw of building cities next to water however killed thousands of people from the tsunami.
What about we who like the new keyboards (sans Touch Bar, personally) but understand (being intellectually mature adults) that people's preferences differ, probably at least in part because their typing styles also differ?

To be honest I expect this group greatly outnumbers your number 2), but being quietly satisfied with a thing is not a state of mind as conducive to jumping into an internet flame war as one of contempt for those who don't agree with your own subjective opinion of a thing or things.

The big problem I have with the new design is the reliability. I haven't personally had a key stop working, but it seems to be a real problem, and I do think the keys on my machine that has them (12" Macbook) have gotten fairly mushy after just a few years of use. That shouldn't happen—a really good keyboard will last for decades and/or tens of millions of strokes per key.
Sidechains allow you to migrate to a completely different system without losing the storage of value property.
If we are splitting hair, a 6.4 can technically be more dangerous compared to a 6.7 if the waves and the oscillation of the building coincide and amplify.
Gold has practical, useful applications. Bitcoin is pretty much wishful thinking at best. I’m not sure if bitcoin is worth the CO2 emissions mining it created.
The US government accepts payment for taxes in USD. Even if an American wants nothing to do with USD, and conducts all their exchanges through bartering, they will need to acquire some at some point in order to make tax payments. The value of USD can't fall to 0 as long as the federal government retains the ability to impose taxes.
Please get educated about how law works so you dont feel compelled to comment on things you obviously are not familiar with.

There is a reason why we just dont say “life in prison”.
You can make all the changes propagate to all the relevant servers and clients.
ThousandEyes does this.

https://twitter.com/thousandeyes/status/1146862826566250499
> And that you were able to provide the US based documentation

I don't recall needing to provide any documentation? I'm also not American so I couldn't provide "US Based documentation" whatever that means.

There also wasn't any back and forth interaction with support to get unbanned.
When I looked into it, adding on earthquake insurance would cost more than my regular homeowners insurance, and like you said would still have a huge deductible without even covering most of my belongings
My startup uses Phoenix, along with a Vue front-end. The combo is an absolute joy to use. The benefit that has had the most business impact for us so far is developer productivity.

A couple of months ago we met with a prospective client to discuss their use cases and conduct requirements gathering. They really liked what we showed them, but the CFO wanted a dashboard that displayed the data in the app in a specific way. We shook hands, told them we would contact them soon, and parted ways. It was around 9 AM when we stepped outside the client's office and got back in our cars.

By 5 PM that evening, we had a stunning, fully functional dashboard built and deployed to the demo environment. It utilized a few new database tables that aggregated data, some data processing done by Elixir, passing that data to the Vue front-end and displaying it using Charts.js and a few other UI libraries.

I sent a quick email to the CFO with the URL. He responded ten minutes later with, "holy cow, why didn't you show this during our meeting if you had it already?!" :)

We are meeting with them again later this month, hopefully to sign them on as a client.

(For reference, I've used Rails and ASP.NET with C# before Elixir, along with JQuery back in the day, and then a bit of React. Can't speak about other frameworks and languages.)
Despite Everything, America Remains a Nation of Hot Dogs
Too bad that borrow checker is incomplete and unsound, with no intentions or ambitions of improving.
My current side project is in Elixir/Phoenix and it's sweet. Currently on 1.8.

I'm hoping to move to 1.9. The language just fit my ideology better, Jose Valim just stated that the language is mostly complete. All major planned features are completed unless something come up. The language isn't bloated, it's small and sweet, and it doesn't go out of the way to add random unnecessary features to the core.

I was fullstack since ~2008 and it is becoming pretty hard to be fullstack when frontend moves too dang fast for me. So the pace of Elixir and Phoenix is amazing. I know these two technology are relatively new but compare to its peers it's boring tech; as in it's battle proven and it's not going to radically change that often (at least not for the sake of hype or reinventing the wheel).

The community over at elixirforum is nice. There seems to be quite a few camps. The ones that stands out to me are the web dev and embedded camps.
Try an entire liquor store: https://twitter.com/zomo_abd/status/1146843583988658176/vide...
Mozilla Finalist for UK ISPA 'Internet Villain' Award 2019
Working on my macOS image viewer app, VoidView. I hadn’t been serious about polishing it but now I’m adding some simple quality of life improvements, especially for making artists that use apps like Bridge or PureRef for displaying references happier.

https://github.com/ESWAT/voidview
This liquor store got pretty messed up: https://twitter.com/zomo_abd/status/1146843583988658176

edit: someone posted this a few seconds before me but i'll leave it up for posterity
All major ad networks audit every single creative. The problem is javascript can change at anytime, and the publisher is the most exposed and also the most removed to be able to discover and mitigate. There have been some movements to whitelist the JS providers but volume is incentivized so most networks look the other way for now.

Adult ads are definitely not better and are served by even looser networks that allow anything. That industry has pioneered things like popunders, clickjacking, and monetizing every possible action on a window while serving as the primary vector for malware and browser bitcoin mining. I'm not sure what blog posts you've read but the only strict standards they would have is on getting paid.
Also as Warren Buffett put it:

"It’s a gambling device… there’s been a lot of frauds connected with it. There’s been disappearances, so there’s a lot lost on it. Bitcoin hasn’t produced anything."

But it's a good gambling device and people like to gamble. I both think it's kind of nuts and hold a few bitcoins.
Any reason you can't achieve this today with DynamoDB+DAX?
Huh, we also just had a 5.8 magnitude one off the coast of BC, Canada [0] around 9:30 PM last night.

[0] http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2019/2019070...
A big portion of the film is about insects - it also contains some wonderful footage (with some high-tech macro photography) of plants and the garden where it all takes place.

Good point about a water droplet's behavior, how it seems to be "alive" in some aspects - all due to physical/chemical reations. I think it's related to the question of what "alive" means, and how it's different from inert, non-living material.

With slime mold, much of its behavior is just like water - spreading, dripping, with surface tension, etc. - but there's definitely a difference (perhaps only subjectively), that an observer would say it "feels its way" toward a food source. I suppose the fact that we ascribe "feeling" to it, means we consider it alive, aware, and perhaps conscious.
It goes even further: because Dhall supports functions one can write a function that will migrate old configs to new format. Migration function can also be type checked (it must accept old config format and emit new one). Of course all of this without TC.
Spot on! This is called Brahmamuhurtha in Hinduism, when I explain to my english friends there are 4 types of Yoga they give me blank faces. I try and explain that if you believe in the science of the physical yoga that you do, invented by Hindu sages, then they clearly knew something and were onto something, try the others. But unfortunately I find most people will only follow something if its commercialised and mainstream.
These are great tips but, quite honestly, some of us are just naturals at it.
Came from Java. Was an adherent to static typing everything. Dialyzer via Dialyxir is imperfect but helps you bridge the gap, especially with the error message improvements available via my Erlex library. You can turn on an optional Credo rule to require @specs for every public function, and adapt the rule trivially to require on private functions. Dialyxir is notably imperfect, but it catches a surprising amount of bugs, especially with some of the optional flags.
> Rust has accumulated its complexity over four years, and it's already comparable to C++.

It’s not. C++ constructors alone rival the entirety of rust, and grow in complexity with every release.

You’re just so used to the unfathomable complexity of c++ you don’t realise it exists anymore.
When I explain to my english friends there are 4 types of Yoga they give me blank faces. I try and explain that if you believe in the science of the physical yoga that you do, invented by Hindu sages, then they clearly knew something and were onto something, try the others. But unfortunately I find most people will only follow something if its commercialised and mainstream.
Stupid question:

Will doing a “opkg upgrade” give the same effective result as flashing an updated stock/sysupgrade image?

Asking because it’s annoying remembering which packages I need to reinstall.
Look up gl.inet units. For example the GL-iNet 6416.
Despite the downvotes, I somewhat agree with you: It is not about the app you use, but THAT YOU USE IT. It does take some commitment and I think, people tend to hop from app to app instead of building the nessecary mindset. In fact, a clock and a peace of paper can do the job just fine, if yout want it to.
Major ad networks already vet every creative. The problem is javascript which can change at anytime. Banning javascript in creatives is not a technical problem, it's a business and politics problem. Same with just about every other issue in adtech.

I'm not sure who you think I am or why you're accusing me but none of this is down to a single person.
DD-Wrt and Tomato are more specialized and both follow a strange and obtuse development process (hope you like reading neverending and always out of date forum threads). OpenWRT uses a more typical open source process with heavy utilization of GitHub. It's much easier to follow and participate.

As far as I am concerned, the OpenWRT community is the only one that has it's shit together.
Almost. The kernel will stay the same.
Not the submitter's fault, but I'm pretty sure the title is inaccurate
AWsS can do server-side encryption of assets like S3 buckets, and you can also set policies that require uploaded content to be encrypted client side.

But just having PII is a huge risk, even if it is encrypted or anonymized. Best not to have PII at all, unless you know how to properly build a digital Fort Knox that you are confident can properly protect that data.

Hell, best just not to have PII at all — it’s a huge liability.
“We still have a net loss of about 10bn trees a year,” Crowther said.

This is a horrible number... I wonder what the true loss is, without the component of planted trees?
This looks brilliant in its simplicity. I’ve been using Tyke.app for a few weeks as a task list, and it’s perhaps the first that seems to work for me. Getting timers + fast task entry seems like a useful addition. Bought it, the price is perfect.

Some feedback. Starting the task automatically when it’s added feels stressful. Same when I restart the app - it starts ticking. Not sure how to reset it either.

Would like to be able to add tasks without specifying a time too, and switch to it without having a timer start - just as a reminder of what to focus on.

Can I turn off the active task somehow, and show the icon again? (i.e. have access to the list from the menu, without explicitly selecting which one I’m working on atm)
Wouldn’t the non-allocating module remain useful and the allocating one just get lowered to depend on alloc rather than std?
Thanks for the encouragement:

https://github.com/ronomon/zip
It means it’s legal tender for all debts, public and private.
"With OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 and later, most SST 4K (3840 x 2160) displays are supported at 60Hz on these Mac computers:

MacBook Air (Early 2015) and later
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) and later
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) and later"

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206587

Earlier years will only do 30Hz, which is fully usable for development/office work.
For anyone wondering, SGV refers to the San Gabriel Valley. (Correct me if I got it wrong.)
I was living in east bay during that time and just returned home from school. When the earthquake hit I could see the road create waves like a flipped rug. Fortunately no damage to our house.
> Gold has practical, useful applications.

Yes. But they don't remotely justify its value, which has been established long before its technological applications.
From a non-US point of view, it is indeed a very surprising aspect of the US legal system.

Making jail time linear seems like a strange fit for finite human lives. Are there many other legal systems in the world that work like this ?
Except for a small window around the peak in December 2017, if anyone bought bitcoin anytime during its existence, they would be profitable now.
From a cursory look to SANE and SCL it looks like Dhall still offers some more:

- functions

- a powerful typesystem

- remote (HTTP) imports with sha256 checksums
Website is now a Godaddy parking page
The GL.iNet GL-AR750 is a bit bigger at 88x68x24mm @ 66g vs 65x35x20.5mm @ 45g but does have OpenWRT preinstalled.

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar750/

Edit: it is also dual-band, unlike the GL-iNet 6416 or other smaller units from same vendor.
Bitcoin is not an investment. It has no underlying rate of return. When you invest in stocks you get dividends. When you invest in bonds you collect coupons. When you invest in real estate you collect rent. Bitcoin is speculation. You are just hoping somebody comes.along and pays more for it than you did. In that sense it's more like gold and silver.
I'm pretty sure much of SF (marina, south beach, mid soma) are partially built on landfills are considered "liquification zones" by the city.
It was pretty close to Trona. Having driven through Trona, life sucks in Trona and today it sucked a lot worse.

Lots of shaking here in the greater LA foothills, but no damage (though this house does have earthquake insurance).
How many languages have an Dhall implementation? One?
Different country, but for the Christchurch earthquake in 2011:

- our equivalent of CEA (EQC) did indeed run out of money, although it’s mostly reinsurance and govt backed

- insurance companies went under, because even for a small city (400k), costs ran to $40 billion

- it’s now very very expensive to get earthquake coverage, in some parts of the country you are paying multiples of what less earthquake prone parts of the country pay, so people don’t bother. so they’ll lose everything next time, and we’ll foot the bill as a country

Scale of California probably means amplification if these effects, hundreds of billions in losses.
Sorry the same people who peddled "Its not happening" for years, don't get to switch over and start with "its too late to do anything about it" as a new excuse to not act.
In 2010 there was a 7.2 centered 30 miles south of the socal border that caused $1B of damage on both sides.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Baja_California_earthqu...
i still believe that this companies were their business model permits them to pay a bay area engineer 100k+ a year are them paying engineers with the same level 50% or less on other countries or cities based on their location is super immoral.
404 for me...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190704184600/https://www.pbs.o...
Trying out a hardware side project this time. Figuring out a way to track your surf board or kite board once it's lost at sea during a session. It's a pretty interesting challenge.