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It's not, really. Nobody wants to carry support for both 32- and 64-bit forever. You've got to call the ball at some point. Now's as good a time as any.
Does Catalina boast any fixes/improvements/features for business users? Looks like mostly lackluster enhancements for mainly consumer users (Apple Arcade, Screentime, entertainment apps, etc). I would have like to see some UI/UX overhauls in some of the default apps at least.
Haha, it's always great to see a Bo Burnham reference in the wild. He said that about love, though. Not... Microsoft.
Z80 chips are way more common than even x86, by merit of them having proliferated in embedded microcontrollers.
Yep. Had an early 2000(s) Jukebox, 10 GB I think, that I got on clearance at Target. I loved that thing and used it for several years. Being into open source, I discovered Rockbox and installed it. I was already using Linux. In fact, Linux compatibility was foremost on my mind (in those days) when looking at buying any hardware.

I especially liked Archos earphones that hooked over the ears and wrapped around the back of the neck. I had to order multiple sets of those earphones separately.

Alas, all things come to an end. It was replaced with an Archos 504 audio/video player with 80 GB. That was so cool too. I had to learn my ffmpeg settings to convert videos to play on it.

Next, I figured out the format, and technique to put videos onto my flip phone (before smartphones). Cool, neato, but capacity was limited.
A few years ago I had the itch to do this and got as far as buying a hardware development kit one of the NXP LCP chips. They're low power ARM CPUs available in LQFP form (so theoretically hand-solderable) and it should be not hard to port Rockbox to it.

I got overwhelmed at the prospect of starting the CAD schematic and layout for the project (I've done simple microcontroller boards in Eagle, but never one this complex). The daunting task was wiring up all the data and address lines for 2x large RAM chips and 2x Flash chips, and my ADHD kicked in, plus frustration at not being able to use programmer abstractions to do circuit CAD. I also kept not finding the time to port Rockbox on the hardware development kit.

Side note: there's giant hole in the market offerings for hobbyist single board computers. You have microcontrollers with KB's of RAM, and things like the Raspberry Pi with GB's of RAM, but there's nothing with ~16 MB of RAM and a low power 32-bit processor. The chips exist, just no one has created a cheap & compact hobbyist board (i.e. not a hw dev kit).
Adobe is presumably using American banks. Those banks are bound by the same(if not more strict) rules that Adobe is, likely Adobes customers are just screwed out of the money unless the US solves this dispute. Hopefully this drives up adoption of other FOSS graphical processing programs like GIMP/Glimpse, Krita, InkScape, etc
I understand what you're trying to say, but it's not true or real in the sense that the counter-argument is entirely effective. Specifically, "When that thing you're worried about actually comes up, then we'll decide what to do."

Saying, "We're still three steps from my issue but this thing that, in and of itself I have no problem with, can't happen because it might lead to the thing I have a problem with." is not a valid argument.

To try and bring it back into focus, it's a real problem that this "one pic" isn't being shown. It's not a slippery slope conversation, because we're already at the thing I/we have a problem with. No need to argue the "this paves the way for worse things" because this is the worse thing! We're here!
The problem is that they want to keep his ideas and achievements, but don't want to keep him.

They're free to walk away from Stallman and the movement he created, but they won't because they can't let go of the shiny. Instead, they convince themselves they deserve free software and GNU without the nasty man who built it.
Can you also explain the “ty-co” part of it
The web change extremely fast, with all those shiny new frameworks coming in and old frameworks going out, compounded with the lack of awareness by web developers to accessibility.
Ask HN: What software engineering skills are needed post recession/disaster?
With a very real possibility of a global recession and/or climate disaster on the horizon, what software engineering skills and experience will be most important, sought after, or even relevant?
I'm really liking it myself. Unfortunately I've got hundreds of hours wrapped up in making maps that I periodically update, and there's no good path to move them from Illustrator to Designer. PDFs move, but then every path comes over weird... And without the layers and groupings that are otherwise so helpful.
Does the Muslim ban make us safer?
I’ve in past jobs occasionally objected to being assigned a task on ethical grounds. My manager never had a problem with it. There were 10 people on the team so he’d just reassign it to one of the other nine who had no problem with the task.

There is no unified code of ethics that all software developers must abide by, so getting unethical work done is just a matter of moving the work to the next developer in line.
They sign literally everything. There is no human review process involved in notarization.
This page shows you how to unenroll from the beta programs for the various OS’s.

https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/unenroll
Before it was stripped from the ACA, the price for not having insurance scaled with income. At the lowest end it was irrelevant because of Medicaid eligibility; above that it gradually increased from below-healthcare-price to above. So some people could still save money by opting out, but it pushed them towards the market by making the effective cost of insurance smaller.

(Technically speaking, it was a tax rather than a fine. That mostly mattered for legal reasons, but it did also work that way in practice. It applied to everyone, so insured people had the obligation waived, but the people paying it weren't in violation of any law or regulation.)
Citation?

Try sales taxes. The poor aren't excluded from them, yet someone who is poor is far more likely to spend a larger percentage of their income on them than anyone with enough income to save and invest.
I think some sort or retro low-performance OS should start with NeXTSTEP.

Ryzen processors have 80MB of L3 cache! IIRC that may have been twice what was needed to run the colorized versions of NeXT.

A lot of "man the old days were all we needed" recollections of Windows and DOS forget how crappy those OSes were...

But NeXT? That was basically a modern OS, with a bit less anti-aliasing. XWindow systems STILL look horrible compared to it.

It fits in L3 cache. 5-10 NEXT hard disks fit in RAM!

It had a web 1.0 browser, TCPIP networking, all the productivity apps. It had DOOM.

Sure Mach the microkernel was buggy and leaked memory, but kernels... there's lots of kernels now.

I think it would be a great project to start with the NextOS and carefully rebuild it up with good security and multitasking.

It would be fun to run NeXTSTEP on bare metal with RAMdisks (spare a processor to do the writes to SSD), and compare with other systems, see if it feels ludicrously fast or not.
What about a flat transactional tax that occurs any time money changes hands? I found this not too long ago and have been enamored with the idea:

http://apttax.com/execsummary.php
> Sure; but literally any day Tim Cook can say, "Ok China, I no longer play your game. Enjoy having no support or economic progress from us - bye".

No he cannot. He would be immediately removed at CEO and replaced with someone who played ball.

Remember, Apple is a publicly traded company. What you're suggesting is, at a whim, Tim Cook could just completely tank the company. China has far, far more leverage over Apple than Apple has over them plus it's a huge market they're making progress in.
Disagree. Designer doesn't hold a candle to Illustrator. I'm still on CS6, the last version before CC. Even that version, released in 2012, is superior to today's Affinity Designer.

I haven't explored the other ones as deeply but from what I have done, the features seem quite limited. For example, there's a translator for Photoshop plugins to work on Affinity Photo. Very very few plugins work with this translator. Why is there even such a middleware? Because the Affinity plugin ecosystem is very weak.

It's an alternative, not a "decent" alternative. It's the equivalent of Google Docs vs Microsoft Word. If you need something barebones, it gets the job done, and there are a few things it does better. But if you need just one feature of the better software, forget it.
Waves sent one out last month as well. Par for the course really. Audio pros are some of the most distrustful users w.r.t updates because they've been burned so many times.
An owned by Zillow house has been for sale in my neighborhood for 5 months. Meanwhile 5-6 other houses have sold including my neighbors. Myself, my mother-in-law, brother-in-law, and 2 co workers have bought and sold (except me) houses this year with ease. The houses were on the market for less than 30 days with offers at or above asking prices, 2 of them had small bidding “wars”. They had offers at the first open house.

I closed in March and everyone that closed after me has gotten a better rate due to the Fed drop.

Still shocked the owned by Zillow house has not sold.
It doesn’t share a base with ios13.
Whoever coded this change and approved this PR, shame on you.

And therein lies the problem. We want to blame a programmer, or a flack. But it's never one or two people.

The real issue is a bureaucratic system or corporate culture that allows things like this to happen. Everyone can point fingers at someone else and absolve themselves internally of blame.

Taiwan should block shipments to Apple of whatever parts are made there that Apple needs. And I say this as a shareholder.
It is the willingness to pay a price that separates standing for bedrock principles from cheap virtue signalling.
I thought the point was that the software was already so good that people would want newer versions less and less, so they had to change the business model to get a steady revenue.
The idle CPU might very well be due to redis being single threaded. It might be hitting is limits and still show low CPU utilization.

Also, you didn't mention that, but I've seen this happening often, you should never use redis as a primary data store if your data is important.
> not one that's a threat to Microsoft

Until the medical software company sues Microsoft for damages to recoup the HIPAA fine. This is probably buried in some clickwrap contract though. (IANAL; not sure how enforceable such a contract would be)
Wut. China compelling foreign companies to remove references of Taiwan in China is established policy? Even mainland Chinese companies HK/Taiwan offices occasionally get in trouble for missteps.
By "they" I mean the principals involved in social-justice entryism into free software. None that I know of are signatories to that list. They include:

* Coraline Ada Ehmke

* Sage Sharp

* Aurynn Shaw

* Valerie Aurora

* Sarah Mei

* Matthew J. Garrett

* Steve Klabnik

These are some of the loudest voices calling for the removal and systematic reputational destruction of key free-software developers based on behavior which ranges from bad but not worth a purge to downright innocuous.

The list signatories, near as I can tell, are doing damage control on the optics of being affiliated with Stallman and are, to my knowledge, not themselves calling for purges the way the above named individuals and their fellow travellers are.

(Edited to include Klabnik. He expressed the need for a "tech antifa" and approved of the use of violence by the same. I think he counts.)
This true. They have all discovered that the SaaS model is the best model for software sales —which is why the big players are all pushing everything into the SaaS model, which while convenient (financially and administratively), have drawback such as availability and of course the recurring nature of billing where you can’t choose to stay on an old version either because it’s good’nuff or because of compatibility reasons.

Yet, when google mail for business came out everyone hailed the idea; sigh... no more CALs, etc. which is true but now you have to pay recurringly (and msy have to keep former accounts live for compliance reasons)
Percent impact is non-negligible when you consider the impatience of the average consumer.
And if you want an alternative to Adobe Premiere, I highly recommend DaVinci Resolve. Free for most features, then just a one off payment of $299. One of the industry leaders in colour grading and has a composition suite (acquired from DFX Fusion) built right in.
Ahh I see. That sounds refreshing indeed. The constant conflict in every media is really quite annoying and I imagine I'm not the only one who thinks so.
https://www.opensourceecology.org/

This website got posted to HN in the past, definitely something that should be part of the attempt.
I think Capture One Pro is superior to Lightroom in everything but the library system that is offered with Lightroom, though what is provided in Capture One Pro is still very good.

https://www.captureone.com/en/store
No offense taken. KeyDB has different goals than Redis so you’ll see us try things Redis might not. I’m willing to make the code more complex if it makes the user’s life easier in some way.
I’m coming at awk & sed from the other side having used R daily for a few years.

R is not made for cleaning up weird text files. Yes of course it can be done but that’s like the joke that everything is within walking distance if you have enough time. I recently had to use R to fix a 50gb csv where 10 of the columns were long json strings and needed to turn that into a data frame. That experience alone made me buy a book on awk and sed
People from Taiwan are probably counted as Chinese in the demographics.
You are confusing perspective with facts. A cup is filled with water, you can say its half empty or half full. The cup has water is a fact. Whether its half empty or half full is perspective. But at the end of the day, there is still water in the cup.
Converting parks to more housing isn't really a density issue, it's more like does Seattle want parks or not?

Imagine converting Central Park in NYC to more housing.
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Wiegley has probably done more to make Emacs exciting again than anyone since the XEmacs fork.

(Which, hey, speaking of RMS driving off contributors...)
About 8 years ago at breakfast I told my GF I had a book idea. I'd make millions on it!

Live Flat Fucking Broke in San Francisco for only $250 a Day
Your music library doesn’t disappear - if you bought music from iTunes. The music you bought would/could be on your computer. If you bought it within the last decade, it would be DRM free.
well hypotheticals without a concrete example are not much use, I'm left to speculate that they told the engineer either we shoot and eat this baby, or you hide the flag and they heroically hid the flag.

But until I get a confirmation on this unselfish act I'm gonna go with probably didn't think much about it and took the next ticket on his list.

Which hey. I'm not on a high enough horse here to berate the guy, but not on a low enough horse to speculate how noble he must be in secret. (excuse the gender specific pronouns)
My understanding is that we should expect private embedded backdoors and weakened security on firmware for certain regions, and that the rights will be molded to the each local region.

That’s just the great power of influence over an American company, in spite of the clear position from its own government regarding Taiwan.

Say goodbye to all those ideals of universal rights and freedom in the cyber world as it was once long ago theorized. Somehow what sci-fi cyberpunk became almost true without bionic implants nor anarchy in the streets.
Raspberry Pi is 4 gigahertz. Madness! You're in a postapocalyptic world and you find someone's drawer of raspberry pi sideprojects: a solar panel, a low power screen...

... you find a controller
... you find their emulation raspberry pi.
... all of a sudden, the world isn't as desolate.
I literally had to read your comment twice, because you're creating an incentive for the agents of the IRS to strongarm the public because it directly lines their pocket. You're also creating an incentive to bribe IRS agents, because why take 1-10% if a fraudulent taxpayer would readily offer you at least twice that amount...

The reason I had to read it twice is I thought you were suggesting the "organization" in question was the IRS itself.
Also, all of our morality or "sin" taxes are highly regressive: tobacco, booze, pot, soda, etc.
It is complex situation but as a CEO or project leader or random open source developer that I am not that well informed with the latest social media culture how do I know what is a controversial opinions?

I am legitimately asking this, say maybe I think that X feature is nature not nurture, and there is a discussion at an event about X , what do I Google to know if I should talk about X or not. The problem is more complicated if my opinion today would be controversial in the future.
Apple and others also changed the pistol/gun emoji to a squirt gun (https://emojipedia.org/pistol/). It seems like these big tech companies generally want to make cultural/intellectual/political choices and impose their mindset/influence. This is exactly why large tech platforms should not be trusted with managing (read: censoring) speech broadly across society behind the veil of protection as private entities.
I mean most software that's currently maintained has been 64-bit ready for a decade. The issue is that there's a lot of 3rd party ghostware that isn't, and 32 bit bridging to support that code has been popular for awhile.

That software is a lot like vintage gear, there may be alternatives but they aren't the same, and that's the problem.
I think OP's point is that due to the complexity of tax laws, especially for the wealthy who have more non-wage income, the tax rate doesn't capture as useful a picture as actual dollars of taxes paid.
It feels like they've snuck in an element of deterministic databases. This would explain why they don't take the penalty of the 2-phase commit round-trips. What's more interesting is how they've implemented this by just waiting for sufficient replica updates to appear in the database until they're confident in being strictly serializable. Of course, if those updates don't make it because of a network partition then the transaction will hang until it's over. Hopefully they really can count on there never being a network partition. Then again, a network partition would halt all related multi-homed transactions anyway so I guess it's a moot point.
Interesting. The near universal use of Microsoft Office--along with the later various SaaS products--really hollowed out the publication layout market between word processors that were pretty mediocre at layout and high-end design tools that mostly meant InDesign.

(And Scribus always seemed a steep learning curve too.)

I don't have a need at the moment but good to know there are still some tools that may make sense for more casual users.
Thanks for sharing. I would have upgraded for the sidecar capability, but if things are still dicey I’ll wait it out. And like you, I also have a super old version of Word, so will have to switch to Pages. I wonder if this OS update will result in a spike of Word upgrade purchases.
Exit velocity, launch angle, and spray direction are currently tracked automatically using a TrackMan radar [1].

Next season, those will be tracked using a Hawk-Eye system [2].

[1] http://m.mlb.com/glossary/statcast

[2] https://www.sporttechie.com/mlb-ball-tracking-technology-sta...
probably a good thing, since you consistently have side stepped any substantive responses to your apologia.

And anytime your rationalizing harassment by inventing "statistics" whole cloth, you're going to get push back, deserved push back, because thats obscene.
#iamveryvirtuous
You say that as if they wouldn't just easily find someone to replace this engineer without any qualms about doing this. The number of people that don't care about things like this because it doesn't affect them on a personal level is still far to large for a personal protest like this to have any impact.

Really, the pressures should be on Apple and on China, not some low level engineer who had to write the code for this.
Why the chatbot hype fell short
Yes, yes, Stallman did many good things, he was right about a lot of things, and we are all indebted to him, but... "The Leader of GNU Projects" is not an award or honorary title. It's an actual role with expectations.

The question is not how much work Stallman has done in the past 20+ years (few will have an issue with that) - the question is whether having Stallman at the helm of GNU benefits GNU projects, right now.
That may well be true. Certainly, and reserving judgement on exactly what this means, nobody who could lead it quite like Stallman.

But, I find the implication hard to accept.

It would be to say that Stallman’s continuing presence is essential to the success of free software; surely a frightening responsibility for any one mortal person to carry through their remaining years!

Free software has had success as a movement. To believe otherwise is to take away more than just Stallman’s position, but his entire contribution to our modern society!

That means there are others who will, and for a fact do already, take care for the well-being of the GNU projects. Not all of these will believe in everything Stallman has said or represents, and things would certainly change without him.

A large and successful movement lives beyond its founder, and grows to challenge the new status quo. If it fails to grow, new movements fill the vacuum.
I put the blame on both. We have a responsibility to exercise ethical discretion in our work, and we have the power to do so. If you get fired for refusing to remove the Taiwanese flag from iOS, then take to your blog, set a fire under Apple's ass, and wait for the interview offers to roll in.
An idea: In situations like this, encourage a whistle-blower in Apple to come forth to disclose who was involved. If the wrong doer knows they will be publicly exposed and forever branded for the wrong doing, they might be a little less likely to do it.
There's your tax bracket and then there's what you actually pay after deductions, loopholes, etc.

The common argument is that the 70% rate of the 1950's was never actually paid by anybody and the effective tax rate was much lower. By looking at actual taxes paid that entire argument can be skipped.

Anybody who studies historical taxes professionally should know this, so when they use a worse measure it looks like they're doing so because it fits their narrative.
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