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One of the defining features seems to be that it has no text messaging facilities, and can only make and receive calls, because texting apparently leads to "immodesty"[0]:

> Texting is not only a waste of time, the [rabbinical] authorities found, it encourages "immodest" exchanges which would not happen on the telephone or face to face.

I just... I know religion is a difficult topic for many people. I was raised Catholic (CCD once a week through 8th grade, completed all the sacraments, attended Mass nearly every weekend until I was 18 and left home), but became an atheist when I was in my early teens (privately, as my parents would have punished me had they known). I found a lot of things wrong with Catholicism, but one of the big issues I had was many parishoners' blind adherence to dogma, and their sudden inability to think critically where any aspect of religion was concerned. This struck me as something that could be -- and it turned out, is -- easily abused by religious leaders.

So this prohibition on texting just seems like a method of control to me. It feels cherry-picked, and the reason for banning it seems contrived. There are so many other ways to be "immodest" that it feels weird to focus on something like this. Where do these things come from? It seems so arbitrary and capricious.

Orthodox Judaism seems full of things like this, especially the prohibition on doing certain things on the Sabbath. I remember reading about how it's not ok to use an elevator on the Sabbath, and workarounds like elevators that automatically always stop at every floor, or waiting for a non-Jewish person to use the elevator to piggyback on their usage. It just feels so intellectually dishonest, like finding ways to follow the letter of the rules while completely ignoring their spirit.

[0] https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-01-25/kosher-phones-britain... (linked as a source from the posted Wikipedia article)
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LTO doesn't suffer from those things. Shock can destroy the case and dislodge the leader pin of an LTO cartridge but AFAIK it can't damage the data on the tape. Water is bad for the transport but as long as you dry your tapes out they should still work. The operating specs for LTO are crazy, you can read and write them under all practical atmospheric conditions.
LG crammed a 17" 16:10 display and 2 NVMe slots + 1 SODIMM slot (with additional 8GB RAM soldered to the motherboard) into a sub-3 pound chassis in the Gram.
Well, I don’t have any books or blogs, but I can list a few things I’ve learned raising 4 toddlers in the last 6 years:

1. Don’t be over protective. It’s hard not to be. But you’ll need to remember that you’re their security blanket, not their parachute. You need to let them fall down, get ouchies, throw fits and make mistakes. You’re value is in being there to comfort when it hurts, not save them from the hurt itself.

2. Don’t go buying everything in the store. Wait till you REALLY know you need it. So many people get caught up in the “I NEED EVERYTHING AND HE/SHE DESERVES IT!” Mentality. Don’t do that. A couple exceptions: a good swing and a pack’n’play.

3. Buy diapers at Costco or Sams Club. Don’t fall for the brand name marketing, they just need to catch shit and it doesn’t have to be organic, grown from pure heavenly angel hair to do that. The best ones we’ve found are the Costco diapers.

4. Enjoy the little time. Everyone says it, so it’s almost cliche, but it really does go by in a flash. That little chubby hand gripping your finger will soon fade away to a little kid and eventually a grown person. It’s the hardest part of being a dad I deal with, you wake up and the little hand is gone... So, just slow down. It’s hard because people tend to have kids right as careers and life is taking off. Prioritize the kiddo time, even when you don’t feel like you can.

5. Talk to your kids even when they’re little. Don’t baby talk, but actually talk. It helps them develop and you’ll teach your little one to express themselves with words instead of uncontrollable emotion.

Lots more, but every journey is different. The above is the more ubiquitously applicable ones I can think of. :)
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Hmm. Sounds like an iPad then. So is the plan really:

Macbook Pro 2020, newest even thinner than butterfly keyboard.

iPad Pro keyboard cover now the most travel, best typing keyboard among Apple portables.

2022: iPad OS on iPad Pro now the professional portable, MBP discontinued.
Apple also has the willingness (and resources, but those resources are a consequence of that willingness) to double down on tech it believes in.

If Apple Watch hadn’t been an immediate success, I’d like to think they’d still be pushing hard to make it so.

Most of its competitors have far more offerings with much less commitment behind any one of them.
Sorry, Intrabank.
Linux has gotten to the point that it is no longer necessary to look at MacOS for a stable Unix environment. I don't need much from a laptop just decent keyboard, performance, battery life and for it to not thermal throttle, but unfortunately this seems to be incompatible with Apple's vision of the perfect MacBook. If this is the direction Apple is taking I cannot see myself buying a MacBook in the foreseeable future.
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I'm not even quite sure why Google does it. Can't they just check and fetch updates while Chrome is open? What's it matter if Chrome is out of date if it isn't running? Are they trying to push off updates to the middle of the night or something? That doesn't really make sense, since people probably mostly leave their browser open anyways.

I had Chrome installed "just in case" (mainly for the dev tools for the rare occasion I do web dev) and I just uninstalled it and the updater. It's not worth the surface area...

Now to get around to nuke all this junk that Citrix Receiver installs. Ugh.
No it's not. async/await's semantic is similar to coroutines, and is implemented by them.
I was thinking these were just older phones so I was surprised to see a Galaxy s10e in a kosher store when I checked just now. The value-add: It has 1) No browser and 2) no way to connect to the internet except through approved apps.

There is a pretty interesting market for various internet-interface devices among religious cultures.
That would seem to make sense, using readFileSync() instead.

I assume it would really do much the same thing as the await example. Is there any difference?

If they do the same thing, then what's the benefit of async/await? I guess it's that you can now write your own "fs.readFileSync()" or something like that in JavaScript when needed.
And the way the TC39 works, it won't progress until multiple vendors can implement it.

Being implemented by multiple js engines is how JS features become standardized.
Haha right, I feel like these should always be popularized as `set -eu` and `set -o pipefail` rather than making it look like you an `set pipefail`. I wonder if that chap has been uselessly printing options at the beginning of scripts for a while now.
I can't speak for all cases but there are often unknown medical conditions involved. My aunt got the flu one year and it weakened her heart so much that she required a transplant and while she lived for a while after that, she died at 27.

Please vaccinate yourselves and loved ones even for the flu.
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You can do that :) See here for search syntax https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/... (there is a faint link under the big search bar). Let us know how that works for you.
Very similar but few key differentiators:

- no SSH/console

- has an API

- not for general use

- runs from squashfs in RAM

- has a custom init system
How on Earth is USO a scam? It's an ETF.
I had the chance to visit Baikonur a few months ago. The place (which is in Kazakhstan) feels utterly remote and the surrounding landscape is amazingly big and empty to a European like me.

It was very impressive to get within a few 10m of a Proton rocket before launch. They had some fascinating museums too. The rest of the place had a very sad feeling. There are lots of abandoned launch sites and buildings dotted around, with many miles of bumpy tracks and railways connecting them. You could see the collapsed building where a Buran shuttle and Energia rocket were destroyed when the roof fell in. There's a huge complex you can visit for launching the Energia rocket, the programme of which was dropped at the fall of the Soviet Union.
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my #1 UI hate is single click in omnibar selects all. WTF
I'm not saying that intelligence and bias are orthogonal. That discussion requires a much deeper consideration of human cognition and psychology :)

I'm just saying that model bias is a very easy thing to explain (usually, data imbalance).

You can also fiddle with the label ratios to change the bias - which is also a good way of showing that the models aren't really intelligent.
Let me add back to the criticism pool then (and I say this as someone with a long history of enjoyment of Apple products): while Apple touts the amazing health and safety features of their watch, they price it as an expensive status symbol/fashion item that the majority of people could never justify buying.

It's classist as fuck: potentially lifesaving tools for the relatively wealthy, and screw everybody else. If they want to get on their high horse about making the world a better place, maybe they should be pricing it in reach of more people instead of lining their already very, very bulging pockets.
Most Universities are non-profit, and almost all of them take Federal money. Classifying them as a business isn't accurate.
interesting that apple brought the hammer out for zoom but doesn’t do that for chrome
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There’s no real downside to saying a big number when pitching a company’s executives on an IPO. It’s not like it locks the bankers into trying to price the IPO at that number, it doesn’t cost anything, the worst that happens is that journalists and pseudonymous message board commenters snark about it.
Here's an example of how you might get a race condition in JS:

async function deduct(amt) {
var balance = await getBalance();
if (balance >= amt)
return await setBalance(balance - amt);
}

One way to resolve this would be with a mutex to protect the balance during the critical section (which is async). What would you suggest instead?
As a previous user of their mental health system I can agree from personal accounts. The system is a disaster and has been for over a decade.

Want to see a therapist? Wait is two months but we can prescribe you some drugs within a week if you'd prefer that. Feeling a potential serious adverse reaction to those drugs? We'll call you back in a month, maybe, or enjoy your ER visit. First time patient needing some new medications? Here is a three month supply, see you again in three months, hope they work out and you don't need any adjustments.
The tapes and robots are cheap. Drives on the other hand...
It seems Apple no longer asks their customers what they want. They just tell customers they want thinner while the customers groan
I'm not claiming it ever worked, what I actually wrote was that perhaps Softbank believed in the proposition that it could work.

The alternatives are either that Softbank believed in WeWork's fundamentals, which honestly feels unlikely, or to believe that they went in early, then discovered that nobody else would invest, so they kept putting more of their own money in to avoid closing the business and taking a write-down.
Wow, there are at least two linked stories where people are running pods without resource limit. Without. Resource. Limit.

At my workplace, I've been whining that we really need resource limit for... well much longer than I'd like... while thinking few other places will be crazy enough to think you can just start jobs without limits. But apparently many people do! Why are we running Kubernetes, again?
An important system - reminds me of how where the F1 safety + medical car is automatically scrambled if a crash is > 20G on impact.
Well, with Swift UI the exclusive to Swift writing is on the wall. I dislike Swift and love Objectivite-C, but I expect Swift is it going forward.
> What does Gmail offer that you can't get on other services?

whitespace. precious, precious whitespace
I think if you want to do a great job, a four year CS degree should take about four years. You could maybe shave off a year by working through the summers and really pushing.

I’m pretty smart, and I worked HARD in my degree program. I did do some extracurriculars in adjacent fields that I could have skipped: psychology courses, a handful of advanced writing and math courses. And I took a handful of masters level classes that required a lot more time and focus. So probably there’s an easier path. But overall I would say doing a great job in serious CS classes is a full time job for all but the most exceptional students.

Sure there are genius types who could do it all in 18 months, and yes you could skim through it as a C-student on much less time. Or even as an A-student who just did the minimum to get the grades.

But if you really want to learn the material, it’s not easy and there’s plenty to occupy your time.

On top of that, there are all kinds of side projects that your education should be spurring, and which will feed back into your coursework. I learned PHP, SQL, and webdev in my spare time.

I just don’t look back and think “wow, there was a lot of wasted time there”.

In fact, for many courses (Statistics with Calculus, Electrically Engineering) I regret just doing enough to get a grade and deeply wish I had strived to understand that material deeply.

But I guess I’m kind of disproving my point... maybe with no extracurriculars, no graduate classes, and no side projects I could have done it in 2 years?

I guess, but I wouldn’t have gotten nearly the same benefit. Those things were part of what really made my degree formative.
> Would you not also agree that a fair process is a desirable goal for any society?

Process is necessarily probabilistic. The more "fair" things are for the accused, the less often victims rights will be vindicated. (Hence the phrase "better to let 10 guilty men go free than have one innocent man go to jail.")

That process is essential where criminal penalties are in play. But it's not clear to me that the same weighting is warranted in every situation.
I switched to a budget lenovo ideapad because i needed a windows machine. It turns out its way more comfortable to use than my mac and i keep coming back to it.
Just because code is written in an asynchronous style doesn't prevent correctness errors that would not exist with locking. For instance, using everyone's favorite example, a bank:

In no particular order:

1. Pizza company debits by balance by $5
2. I withdraw $5

Assuming both those operations can yield due to e.g. async requests and that they can be resumed at any point, I don't know which order they will yield or resume in.

Consider this interleaving:

1.1. Get balance, I have $5
2.1. Get balance, I have $5
1.2. Set balance to $0
2.2. Set balance to $0 (but there are total debits of $10!)

With locking:

1.0. Acquire account lock
1.1. Get balance, I have $5
2.1. Get balance: wait on lock
1.2. Set balance to $0
1.3. Release account lock
2.1. Get balance, I have $0
2.2. Can't set balance, will overdraw!

With regards to resource contention, anything that causes a waiter graph cycle can cause deadlocking, regardless of single- or multi-threading. I can't think of a compelling example here, but nobody expects to have deadlocks yet they still happen :)
I've been using a secondary iPhone SE as my "gym phone" and I really love it. Majorly cuts down on time wasting.

No web browser. No Instagram.

Just podcasts, Music, and Netflix.

AirPods work perfectly, and Overcast syncs my podcasts with my main phone. Seamless.
I find that Apple Watch notifications are very useful because I can limit them to important ones (someone texting me, someone calling me, calendar events, reminders) and leave everything else to my phone.

If my watch tries to get my attention, I know it’s reasonably important. If my phone does, I don’t have to pull it out of my pocket if I don’t want to.
> I do wonder, though, whether young men are becoming more cautious about who they have sex with.

This seems to be part of the point of these efforts, and also socially desirable. Don't take advantage of marginal situations; don't toe the line. Don't do anything you can't defend later. Those are all good things to tell young men.
> “If you need to work out whether someone can do something, ask them to do it. Talk to them about things they have done as a first step. Don't overthink it.”

I agree very much. It’s why I would be substantially less likely to hire someone for a software engineering job if they don’t either have (a) a somewhat standard bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and communicate clearly about knowledge gained through coursework or (b) previous work experience already delivering software engineering solutions.

If instead they have self-taught academic certification and no professional software experience, it’s too unlikely they can do the job when I ask them about doing it, regardless of their ability to talk about CS topics traditionally associated with tech interviewing.
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I don't think speed would help. If Softbank were the only people putting in the last few rounds, that suggests that nobody else wanted to invest in this business with this governance.

People already knew what kind of business WeWork was. Sure, they were getting press, but when actual institutional investors looked at it, they must not have liked what they saw.

That has been going on for the last few rounds, so I suspect that they couldn't have gone public then, either. Nobody was buying what they were selling, except Softbank. And once the S-1 dropped, the press and social media saw all the red flags together in one document.

Those red flags would have been just the same if they'd gone public earlier.
Dumb example but knowing why or when to Google something like how to find the smallest item in a list shouldn't necessitate a 4 year $50k+ degree
The upgrade path is always "upgrade the device" and/or "buy a mac pro".
What if you both had beers? You'd both be considered to have committed an offence?
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So use a Promise like a lock then. If it exists, wait on it. If not create one…

Of course you don’t need to use the existence of a Promise as your Boolean in this case. You can simply use the Boolean state in addition to the Promise because your code is not going to yield while atomically setting one Boolean variable.
Did they not fuck up the 2016-2019's enough already?
I'm shocked at this new development!
No need to beg Apple for expandability anymore on their laptops or desktops. Windows has gotten good enough especially with WSL2. Developers have more options now. I just got tired of waiting for Apple, and gave up when a Mac Pro starts at 6k. People want a headless, expandable iMac that’s affordable, kind of like the old cheese grater Mac Pros. Apple isn’t budging.
"Users can unlock their computers with their signature ASMR sound."
If Apple truly wanted to kill the Macbook line, they wouldn't do it by spending millions of dollars over several years purposefully producing crappy products they don't believe in. They'd just announce they were killing the Macbook line.

That hasn't happened, so presumably, Apples believe that laptops fill a niche which tablets don't.

Well, what is that niche? The primary difference between a tablet and laptop is that the latter has a keyboard. If you're buying a laptop instead of a tablet, you probably want a good keyboard!
I don’t doubt, but I was trying to find up to date information if Google hasn’t changed their algorithm about this and couldn’t find anything besides a reference to 2012 changes: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/do-exact-match-domains-s...

Is there a more up to date source?
What a terrible story and a fantastic telling of it.
Apple has slowly started bringing out frameworks that are Swift only, and in addition the SwiftUI runtime is... well, Swift only.

All the old ObjC stuff still works, though, there's nothing stopping you using it. I released an app recently that was 50/50 ObjC/Swift (for a few weird reasons) recently and it's really painless in comparison to some other modern stacks.
The article mentions “new Date()” as the alternative to the performance API. Unless you’re supporting IE8 you should prefer Date.now(), which saves you the object instantiation if you’re just reading out ms.

Also, performance.now (and the date methods) have their precision hamstrung in some browsers for privacy and Spectre mitigation.

Of course, for perf use the dedicated APIs. Just don’t expect microsecond resolution to be accurate.
> Linux has gotten to the point that it is no longer necessary to look at MacOS for a stable Unix environment

You can add Windows 10 as an option too. WSL2 and Ubuntu is a nice combo. It’s pretty close to native.
> Judaism seems full of things like this, especially the prohibition on doing certain things on the Sabbath

Specifically Orthodox Judaism. Most Jewish people (at least the ones I know) don't bother with all that stuff.

Same as Christianity, there are a lot of non-religious Jews. They follow Jewish culture (e.g. holidays, cuisine, and tradition), but don't adhere to strict dogma. Most of my Jewish friends will eat pork if you offer it to them, even if they wouldn't usually eat it at home because it's not a cultural norm.
The bike computer pairs to the phone, phone (I believe) contacts emergency services. There was no smart watch involved, just saying their watches aren’t the only things they make with that capability.
LTO turns out to be garbage on the key measure of "can I read my backups a little while down the road", because you'd be surprised how quickly a new LTO drive can't read old tapes.

It's unpleasant having to buy old drives to keep with your tape archives because you won't otherwise be able to read them any more.
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Makes me wonder in how many other [recursive] ways progress is held back by a lack of it.
Unless you’re leasing, I don’t think parents would be thrilled to have a seat unusable after a few years. And even if you are, sometimes you’re transporting people or large items other than your child.

People want safety, but they also don’t expect to actually be in a serious accident.
The artifacts of the social construct are all around us, starting with most Western religious texts, so... people's confidence that everything is biological and that everyone who spent millennia on indoctrination was just wasting their time surprises me. Redirecting people's biological urges is exactly what society has tried to do for ages. At this point it's gotten pretty good at it. So why do we assume that the things people are directed at in gendered ways is anything close to indicators of gendered natural ability, affinity, or talent when it comes to the brain?
Nothing. They estimate an average compression based on an average dataset with uncompressed text data. That wouldn't work for things like already compressed video, audio, encrypted data, and so on.
It's a better way to mitigate against zero days in the browser, where you might get exploited even before you find out the browser is out of date.
Because the Apple Watch is made by Apple, the company that has taken pride in incompatibility as a defining feature since its first mainstream products.