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> I don't think it would be that hard to find some discarded HP desktop or laptop to work on.

In the short term, you're probably right. Most modern desktops and laptops will hopefully last a decade or two (maybe three).

In the medium term, even these will start to break down. One of the key points of failure will be thermal paste; these modern CPUs run quite a bit hotter than a Z80 or 8086 or what have you, and the thermal paste has a finite lifetime (especially the cheaper stuff used in most mass-produced desktops and laptops). Unless you've got a whole bunch of the stuff stocked up, or you're able to setup an immersion cooling rig (with a coolant that's non-conductive and non-corrosive), these PCs will eventually overheat and die. Flash memory and hard drives both have similarly-finite lifetimes, too, so there goes the vast majority of mass-produced storage media (thankfully flash memory longevity is driven by use, so it should be possible to stockpile flash media).

Older chips like the Z80 or 8080/8086 or 6502 tend to avoid the thermal paste problem entirely (by not requiring any sort of heatsink at all), and have simpler memory interfaces (which makes it easier to wire them up to replacement memory, including potentially hand-wound core memory or hand-wired SRAM in a worst-case scenario).

In the long term, even these scavenged Z80s will probably eventually wear out. Hopefully by this time at least some degree of chip fabrication will have been bootstrapped back into existence, in which case replacement Z80s and 8080s/8086s will most likely be possible much sooner than replacement 386s and ARMs.

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> x86 PCs and ARM-powered mobile devices are very plentiful, are fairly modular without requiring more sophisticated tools, and avoid a high barrier of entry (i.e. deeper EE experience)

Possibly, from a certain point of view. Apples-to-apples, though, this is very unlikely to be true. Z80-based computers tend to be electrically simpler (by a pretty wide margin) than x86-based or ARM-based computers. There's a lot more supporting circuitry between the CPU and memory/peripherals/etc., which means more components that can fail (and be difficult to replace, especially given the tighter electrical and latency tolerances of the average x86 or ARM motherboard).
I loved it and I loved Rockbox too.

It was my first USB 2.0 storage device I owned too. Soooo fast!
I've lived in Seattle for a long time. Many decades. It was never 'very drivable'. The geography has always made getting in and out a challenge.

> I feel [children] already are [safe] on neighborhood streets

Much of Seattle's neighborhood streets don't even have sidewalks or traffic calming devices. 25mph is a suggestion, at best, when people are trying to get around the lights on Aurora, for example.

> I've personally heard public transit horror stories from friends several times...

The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'. You already seem to dislike public transit, and may surround yourself with people who feel similar. Could also be confirmation bias.
Very cool Adam.

You are officially the worlds expert on using server sent events in intercooler. ;)
I'm sure for Apple it's QC, build process, documentation, examples, and constraints around building new things--maybe sharing stuff between iOS or preparing for a transition to ARM. Who knows? Apple tends to support the old OS for a few years, so while it does suck, it should be manageable.

It drives me nuts that installers and license managers are old and crufty. I do understand why. A few times now I've encountered situations where the installer cannot run even though the software it installs is fine.
I should get back into that show. I don't recall why I stopped watching.
This is completely different functionality than the parent comment's code. It's only joining on one "column", not two, and it only returns the values in that "column", while the parent's code returns complete rows from the dataframe.
Krita, Inkscape & Libreoffice suite I guess ? Also Texlive for publishing.
Or just embrace modern hardware and use threads. This is the experience many people have running Redis in production with 21st-century hardware: https://twitter.com/rbranson/status/540565059337195520
Whether or not the kernel should be doing this is one issue, but VeraCrypt should be using whatever the kernel provides rather than rolling their own.
Aka not a product requirement... Users are trusted etc... Works great until it doesn't..
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It's entirely pointless to copy and paste the comment I replied to instead of at least attempting to clarify in case I misunderstood.

Why would they face prison time for complying with the law?
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Isn't it possible that people view the karma threshold as a barrier to entry they can take advantage of? What's to stop some organization from making 100 accounts that accumulate karma and then start engaging in low-signal astroturfing/shilling that is harder to distinguish, especially if others cannot counter them without similarly organizing a group and accumulating karma over time?
It’s own vs rent and the internet has enabled tech firms to operate as rent seekers. I personally think owning is the way to go for important things, but many people don’t see the distinction any more.
> Having "locale icons" rather than geopolitical-region flags is probably the most stable arrangement we can have

Agreed. The only other way to draw locales would be to country outlines: which would most certainly open a Pandora's Box of socio political issues.

What Apple has effectively done by invalidating the locale, is to remove the Taiwanese language.

As an aside though: from a personal point of view there's quite a few emoji that I'd like to see hidden, such as the poop and middle finger. There's no need for such things, & yet this locale is removed? Weird politics.
The workers in this case were employed by a contractor to Amazon. They were not Amazon employees.
Unfortunately it seems that the anti-socialist sentiment is so strong that even a friendly and positive comment like this gets downvoted into light-grey oblivion.
Sorry, I mixed up the comment thread in which I was responding. I thought you were replying to the comment mentioning Linux adding a jitter entropy source during early boot in an effort to mitigate the lack of other entropy at that stage.
In addition, it's for sale to entities which are not lawfully entitled to such data.
Did you do the thing the guidelines suggested? (Emailing the site admins?) What was the response?
That's not the point. Apple gave every developer ample time to update their software. This has been in the works for years and there have been 2 major OS releases that specifically called this out for developers.
Most redis users are running multiple instances regardless. That some of them happen to be on the same machine is largely a detail.

It would make a little difference if there was a single hot key, but that's a bit unusual. Typically there's some subset of keys that are hot, and you can get them to hash across instances. People also tend to cache those values on the clients, as banging on redis constantly is a waste.
Sounds like an embedded key value store, ie. RocksDB. I've used it with great success in constrained environments and also when pushing cache to the edge for stable, low-latency, high volume APIs.
Thanks! There's so much potential there, we're excited to push the limits.
Isn't this the problem that municipal bonds are supposed to solve?
Looks like it's the end of the road for my Dashboard usage. I know it's basically been deprecated for years, yet it remained vastly more useful for me than it's replacement in Notification Center

It was still the fastest way to access:

- Multiple calculators

- Multiple sticky notes

- Multiple unit conversions

- Stocks

- Weather widgets

Notification center as currently implemented is just not cutting it. The amount of widgets I can quickly access is dependent on screen size, and worse, they're moving targets! — The weather widget causes all the ones below it to shift up and down while it loads. Not to mention I can't see my notifications when in Widget mode.

What a sad state of affairs for what was once a very powerful feature.

EDIT: For fun here's Steve Jobs' intro to Dashboard widgets https://youtu.be/XQQPTtdzBig?t=4872
> Microsoft Windows 10 sends all new unique binaries for further analysis to Microsoft by default.

That's not only a privacy concern; it's blatant copyright infringement.
Bookmarked for later consumption. Thanks for the recommendation!
It's mostly telemetry data. /s or not /s not sure.
>Without a clear territory under exclusive control

But isn’t there? Taiwan has borders and a military.
actually JB6000 was still USB 1.1 I think, only the JB Recorder would add USB2.0 speed
Isn't there a pretty objective and non-political case that Taiwan is it's own country? It has its own laws and government, and has presided over its own affairs for more than 50 years. Whether the CCP wishes this was not the case doesn't affect the reality on the ground.
I'm in Germany. I am not turning into a business for this. I dunno how you could even say that with a straight face in Germany... Have you seen the paperwork? I asked at Deutsche Bank, but they could not help or think of another bank that could help.
It depends where in Capitol Hill where you're trying to get to/from since Capitol Hill is much bigger than the station's walkshed, but definitely during the rush, east-west roads with bus routes are very slow, especially across I-5. I've definitely spent way too much time on the 8 or the 10, but unfortunately the First Hill station was never built due to poor geology.

Definitely much worse if some large event is happening (Seattle Center, Convention Center, even some games at the stadiums can screw up Downtown traffic.)
I live in Amsterdam and I love it, public transport is amazing and cycling lanes are one of the best in the world. I never used a car here and never felt that I have to. Yes, rent is expensive, but it's like that because there is demand for it. If I wanted to live in the country side, yes, I would leave 20 km outside the city, but why would I want to leave that far away when I that means spending hours daily just to get where I want to? I fell in love with being able to bike or take the tram to get where I need in 15mins average.
In the Italian version of A Fish Called Wanda the mock-Italian is replaced with mock-Spanish.
I've been using Hostifi for a year+ I think now. If anyone is looking for a similar service, I highly recommend: https://hostifi.net

Pricing is better IMO if you have any serious number of devices. The founder has created as an open startup (https://rchase.com) and has been making good profit, so less concern of it going under too. No offense to OP on that, but switching to something like this can be a bunch of time personally, so want a clear path for startup.

Finally, and this is an personal story I know. But the support on Hostifi is fantastic. They have a knowledge base and their team is more than happy to help when issues come up. Which is great because I love the software, but am not a personal expert.
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It's not a huge deal if this only blocks people from accessing Adobe Creative Cloud.

But this essentially blocks people who have purchased content from hundreds of other parties.
Adobe is the global guardian of most of the DRM-ed ebook ecosystem, controlling everything that's not Amazon or Apple.

What happens if a person has bought hundreds of Adobe DRM-ed ebooks from random bookstores?
They can't access _any_ of their legally purchased material? Them reading is now illegal?

This is shitty situation we have cornered ourselves into. The global digital ecosystem put it's entire trust into American companies, and it's slowly reaping what it sowed.

This is a good time as any to link to [Defective by Design](1)

[1] https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
Don't pretend like the US government has a good justification for this. It's purely another attempt to destabilize the country even more.

The entire purpose of these sort of sanctions is to hurt the public enough that they start putting pressure on their government to make a change that the sanctioning government wants. In this case the US wants Venezuela's government to be replaced with one who would be more friendly to US oil companies taking all of their oil and paying a small portion of it's value to the politicians who allowed them in.

The main reason Venezuela has been solvent up til now is that they have a lot of oil, which the government sells and uses to pay for social programs. But since the price of oil went down they've been having some money trouble. Combine that with the fact that Maduro knows as much about monetary policy as Trump knows about tariffs and you've got a deflating economy that's only made worse by sanctions, which again, is their entire purpose. They are specifically trying to ensure that Venezuela's government collapses so that US companies can move in and rob the region of it's resources.

Don't get me wrong, the best thing Venezuelans could do is probably throw Maduro out on his ass, but replacing him with some US-friendly bootlicker is worse than no solution.
I'm curious what modes of transportation you would like, other than scooters? You've ruled out the practical common ones.

Walking is great and effective. Biking works well too. Public transport is there for you too. Keep 1-2 extra "station bikes" parked in practical locations around town. Then you can use whatever method you want based on the circumstance.

You can't ride an electric scooter on the sidewalks (or the paved areas in front of shops and such); it's just too chaotic, with stones and gaps and things that won't do well with scooters. And you would have to be pretty bold to ride a little scooter on a bike path along with all the people who are on bikes (you WILL have a collision at some point, and you'll be on the losing end when compared to a big Dutchman on a 50lb steel bike)... or worse yet, a big moped will run right over you.

My advice is go there and be open minded and flexible. You'll find a mode or combination of modes that works (everyone else does).
UK pronunciation is two syllables "WUSS-tar", and most people here get it right because Worcester Sauce is a big thing.
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it's pretty simple. the physical data acquisition devices (ATLAS is an example) collect data at rates in the 100s of terabytes/sec https://home.cern/science/computing/processing-what-record)

No storage system can store that data (and most of it is not useful) so they have a series of hardware triggers and buffers that reduce the data down to roughly what modern (general purpose) hardware is capable of handling. They tune the thresholds to match what consumer hardware is capable of.

With regard to supercomputer filesystems: nobody wants to use GPFS. CERN's EOS sustained (theoretical) 3.3TB/sec in Apr 2015, so it's not like they're uncompetitive with the largest supercomputer...
Studies around singular they/them:

[1] it was in use long before the prescriptivist grammar movement (yes, I know you've raised that this has shifted but I just wanted to highlight that this is not a novel use): https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/328b/81dbcbeba4bf5c7210de59...

[2] If the gender of the antecedent/referent is not known, using singular they/them speeds up comprehension. If gender is known, it slows it down compared to using the known gender pronoun: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293036/

[3] Some nice examples of less ambiguous referents: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00437956.1993.11...

To address your points, though:

1. Not sure where these passengers came from, but sure, if you can insert entities into the referent then any pronoun is potentially invalid.

2. Of course you can, but (a) context will fill in the gaps and (b) if that doesn't work, you can usually interrogate the author/speaker (and (c), if you can't interrogate the author/speaker, then yes, they've failed in their composition - but that doesn't necessarily mean that singular they/them is the problem, or is infeasible in all contexts.

3. Sure, there are many things that are acceptable colloquially and not professionally, and vice versa. Does writing on an internet forum fall more in line with formal or informal writing? I don't think it's clear.

4. See the above; sometimes it "confuses" people, sometimes it doesn't (and the unqualified assumption that it does is perhaps an indication that there's some motivated reasoning at play)

5. I don't myself have any issues with writing to avoid pronouns, however if you pointedly avoid pronouns with one person and then use them with another (let's say you use them with a cis-female and then avoid them with a non-binary person) that's not really welcoming or sensitive, and it seems apt to brand them as such. If you're avoiding pronouns equally in all situations, that's different. But if you're selectively avoiding pronouns where they don't line up with your personal viewpoints, then you might be seen as insensitive or hateful, and you might not be welcome everywhere. That's kind of how life is, and you just need to deal with it.
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Regulations exist for many reasons, and it's more often due to either illogical, emotional demands of a voter base or a powerful incumbent using regulation to prevent competition, than it is any idealized notion of justice or safety.

I'll venture you're in a stable, post-industrial democracy such that you can treat regulations as having inherent justness or rightness. Imagine if the question had been asked by someone explicitly not in such a place, and was instead asked as "I live in northern Afganistan, what stuff won't get me in trouble with the sharia law interpretation of the regional warlords?" or "I live in North Korea, what stuff won't get negative attention from the party officials?". Would you say that every regulation in North Korea or in ISIS-controlled territories are about stopping people from "screwing people over"?

Regulations aren't inherently good or bad, it's just any rule enforced with the threat of government violence for non-compliance.
I used to pick up copies of the Times every day when I attended college. And all due credit to the Times, they've managed to break a lot of highly important stories throughout their history, but it does seem to me that the quality of the paper has somewhat suffered over the past few years. The author does attribute this somewhat to the "Trump Bump", the term coined for media outlets fixation on the President because the stories simply garner increased attention. Of course, some stories are good and others are sloppy but they recieve attention either way, look no further than the constant (though negative) attention that Trump gives them.

I prefer less conjecture in my news. Ideally, I just want the known facts to be delivered to me without political bias and I want to be encouraged to make up my own mind. If I wanted, like you said, to hear the biased arguments from the left or from the right on a given issue, Id just tune into MSNBC or Fox News. For my money today, the Economist delivers what Im looking for to a much greater degree than the Times does.
Their choice was before the sanctions. If they had chosen "Media + Key" = Adobe software access, instead of "Subscription", people would still have access to those applications.
> Going from NYC to the Adirondacks for a backpacking trip? Can't beat a car.

Incidentally: https://www.adirondack.net/directions/getting-here-by-train/
Disruptor benefits from lock free access using a ring buffer. You can get amazing results with a single thread but that aspect isn't central to the pattern.
DDoS attacked already. Tsk.
You make general conclusions based on your non-general results. For many the car is not expensive, is not a pain, and their roads aren't constantly full. What trends you might want to reverse may be based on an even narrower view of reality than what makes them persist.
They could have chosen to sell users the right to use a product in perpetuity, as this whole thread is about
They should make public transit free. Why should it need to make money if it's a public benefit? If everyone is better off the more people use it, why not optimize to maximize it's utilization?
Puyallup is a good one. Tough for many americans to say (who aren't from the region).

Pronounced "pew-all-up" for those who are curious.
Is there a reason you don't freeze the version MacOS, disable all the updates(if possible), disconnect it from internet to prevent the zero-day attack on it and continue using it in mojave or whatever your gear works the best with?
Does this mean I won't be able to play 32-bit Windows games with CrossOver?
I wish I could upvote you twice!

I’m one of the minority of Manhattan residents who use a private car instead of transit. My schedule and routes are unusual enough that transit doesn’t serve me. Even when doing a more traditional UWS->Financial District commute, I often prefer to drive because of the knock-on benefits: I can shop at Eataly and bring home some goodies for the family; I can make stops at a few stores along the way that would otherwise be too far from the standard subway commute route. I don’t enjoy sitting in traffic, but it’s so much easier for me than any other alternative. I pick my travel times to minimize delays for myself (and presumably others) and I’m tired of being labeled an entitled snob, an idiot, or a murderer of cyclists.
I recently needed to commute to the airport in Amsterdam during rush hour and, in trying to figure out how bad traffic would be, stumbled upon this[1] YouTube video.

It's incredible how many people are able to commute at once using the bike lanes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXWKQCavjck
And how much they tolerate it, as it's so embedded in their engineering culture and I imagine "backwards compatibility" is drilled into your face when you start working on Windows at MS.

It's not easy to get into the mindset of fixing every problem a 3rd party app creates.

Some will say Apple is offloading tech-debt onto client apps, but Microsoft is allowing client appts to offload tech-debt onto itself, and it's big enough to take that burden on so its users can still use the stuff they bought.

I dunno, sometimes I hate having to do it but it's all about user/dev experience and if you're optimising for your own employees you're making it worse for everyone else who makes your OS/machinery worth buying. There's got to be some compromise, coz it sounds like if you buy into Apple then you're SOL if they can't be bothered supporting your hardware.

Which, additionally, must contradict their environmental aims. It's not good for the environment if upgrading an OS means you throw away your printers and scanners and buy compatible ones.
Adobe chose to link operation of paid copies to the say-so of a remote server, rather than allow independent operation of paid copies. Had they chosen the latter, the gov't order would have been largely moot; what they chose proved devastating.

Designing a fail-safe system involves acknowledging that you may not know why the system may fail, just that something must be done to mitigate the problem if it does. International sanctions proved to be such an unexpected point of failure.
I was more upset that Archos took our original design with a 4 line LCD and a rotary encoder and reduced it to a single line and U/D/L/R buttons - missing the whole point of "all" your music with you, thus needing a way to browse it fast...