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I haven’t thought of it this way before but I think you’re right. External monitor support does break randomly and hardware support through dongles is extremely flakey.

A small excerpt from my personal list of woes:

- Using a USB-c <-> DVI cable gives the monitor a purple hue. An HDMI cable does not. Also, this isn’t an issue in bootcamp.

- Can’t use the serial debugger of a Particle Photon because it can’t use the dongle’s USB-A interface directly.

- Sometimes the Touch Bar goes completely unresponsive for ~10s. Sometimes, after a reboot or after waking from sleep, it just doesn’t start at all.

- At one point the speakers started blasting white noise at the loudest volume for no apparent reason. Closed the lid, opened it, same thing. Rebooted the machine and never encountered that problem again.

- If a certain kind of network error occurs when setting up Time Machine then System Preferences will hang completely for ~5 minutes.

In many ways the experience is what I would expect if I could run Linux on this machine: Hardware kind of works with lots of random bugs.
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> It's pretty remarkable how someone can be so condemning of condescending elitist behavior while simultaneously being a condescending elitist jerk.

Had the exact same thought!

> I can't speak to apple computers not working with projectors

I can. I organize hack days all over the globe and have to deal with lots of different types of laptops from virtually all manufacturers. Apple laptops (even old ones going back to the mid-2000s) virtually never have an issue connecting to a projector as long as you have the right adapter (my gear bag has like 15, but most of those aren’t for Apple laptops, I think I primarily use ~3 for them). I certainly can’t say that for Windows (admittedly mostly due to shitty laptop hardware, not Windows’ fault directly), let alone Linux.
No, the blog Tokyo Shimbun said that.
> The outlier in software installation is Windows, where it is still encouraged to install executables downloaded on the internet.

Windows is definitely a laggard with respect to package management. But even Windows has choco these days, https://chocolatey.org
A shameful moment in Spanish history.
Clickbait? I can tell you this: ING is more concerned with the seating position of their employees and slowing down their existing IT down than with something relatively risky and innovative like issuing their own digital currency. Like their economist says, they are waiting on ECB to make the first move, after which they will comply with the standard to continue their core business of multiplying money 48x.
I will say that Mac OS is incredibly disk-hungry (and MBPs get vastly more expensive when you add options like bigger (still not that big) disks). I don't want to become a Mac OS hobbyist and figure out how this happens (I like Mac OS overall because it's a BSD and I'm a BSD guy, but it is not my hobby BSD of choice) so I ended up just spending a few bucks on some "cleaner" program that purged a surprisingly huge amount of disk the first run and purges like 5 gigs a week thereafter.

I honestly don't know why it uses so much disk.
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Algorithm helps autonomous vehicles to avoid pedestrians
In theory the small investor who has the freedom of not being obliged to track the index and is small enough not to be troubled by low liquidity could potentially exploit these advantages?
Homebrew will remain unaffected, since it does not set the quarantine bit on its binaries (which are usually invoked from the terminal anyways). Homebrew Cask opts in to Gatekeeper so it’ll be subject to notarization requirements.
Replace USSR with the Netherlands and we have a similar memory.

Also, apparently that song has a long history in electronic music:

https://www.popcorn-song.com/versions.php
Even ROI can't be counted separately, as both companies can count the same conversion as theirs (up to 30 or 90 days layer if I recall correctly). You really need to use 3rd party for validation.
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It's very interesting to me whether this behaviour is because SoftBank still believe significant value can be wrung from the corpse of WeWork or whether this is simply an exercise in hiding losses in order to pave the way for the other funds SoftBank are work on.

So let's examine the first condition - SoftBank needs to put around $3Bn into the company to get through the year. Let's say that's right, it's going to cost them that amount, and over the next year they completely stop the burn rate. That essentially means you end up with a IWG sized company, with more debt, arguably a huge hangover of extra over-head, and broken processes. IWG has a market cap of $3.5Bn. So let's assume neutrally WeWork can get back into a normal situation for an office rental company- that is a bad investment, you're better off letting the company go bankrupt..

So the second situation seems more likely. WeWork is trying to hide the scale of its problems until the next fund has been completed. I can't help but think that people are going to catch on to that - they caught on to WeWork and now SoftBank are really going to be subject to way more scrutiny.
Thanks. Just corrected my comment.
from one man commie dictatorship that poses one political and economical threat to a one party commie dictatorship that poses no such risk. This is no brainer.
I'm not remotely convinced by the article. It's clear the author thinks he has clickbait title and just ran an article on it, it's compltely beneath HN, Linux == macOS? Please.
This is not a discussion I intend to extend, especially in the context of this silly article.

I will say that you can write whatever the hell you want on the internet and the reach you'll get will probably be the free pass or not, it's not for you or me to decide.

He can say whatever he wants, people can upvote whatever they want, commenters can comment whatever they want. I'm just trying to justify a viewpoint you could be taking when interacting with this article...
Spot on. The smugness it takes to compare a paid product that spies on you to a gift from [paid and unpaid] volunteers.
See follow up blog post

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/10/chinas-new-cybersecurit...
I’m happy to defer to your knowledge of military topics, but that still doesn’t sound like a reason to blame specially the EU — an organisation which doesn’t have its own military, and whose members mutual defence arrangement explicitly comes second to any NATO obligations that member states might have.

Blame the UK or the USA for not holding Russia to the agreement, if you like, but blaming the EU makes a bit less sense than blaming the OSCE.
I’ve paid the ticket, then I must travel.
Plugging a dongle or clicking on a DMG file and dragging an icon is no comparison to fiddling in the terminal following precise commands where mistakes can brick your machine.
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. That opinionated dev comes across to me as having strong opinions, which he expresses clearly when relevant. But when I disagree, he sees my point and is willing to do it my way if I insist, which I rarely do, because he often has a good point.
No offence, but what did you expect.

Trying to secede in a country where secession is illegal, is... you know... a crime.

You can secede in federalist countries, but most republics prohibit secession -- since most of their constitutions are based on France's model.

So, a prison sentence was pretty clear for most political observers. The only way they wouldn't get prison terms was if the secession succeeded, which it did not.

Technically speaking, I'm surprised they weren't charged with treason -- the de-facto charge in such cases. Good thing the EU requires members to abandon the death penalty to join. Most high-level treason charges usually end up with a noose around someone's neck.

Also, please downvote me. Actual statement of facts aren't welcomed here.
Why do we spend so many trillions of dollars in wars and pointless witch-hunts like "the war on drugs" instead of searching for cures and treatments for all these major diseases, knowledge about the human body would be ages ahead if we had realized that decades ago; but like they say the second best time to start is now, and as weird as it sounds the solution is to focus the adults of tomorrow into such ideals, meaning actions like showing them what is like to deal with such terrible diseases, teaching them about all the pointless pursuits where we have wasted unfathomable amounts of money so they may not repeat the same mistakes.
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I've found I got this to work reliably when I connected the same monitor to the same port every time. I'm not sure how well other OSes handle this though.
I had medically diagnosed insomnia for a period. If your insomnia is anything like mine then you'd have a decent idea about if you're going to sleep that night or not. If it's 1am and I'm still wide awake then I'm not getting quality sleep that night. What do you have to lose by going to your PC at that time and working for 6 hours before work? You're going to be tired tomorrow anyway any attempting to sleep for another 5 hours isn't going to help.
I know a lot of developers who get by fine without Homebrew. Either they use another package manager or they’re happy with downloading applications and packages from the internet and using those.
Hm, odd. Maybe it has some `if desktop then disable touch handlers` kind of code somewhere.

note to coders: don't do that, lots of laptops have touchscreens :-)
I'm living in a country without Apple Store. When my Macbook broke, I went to authorized service center. They replaced SSD. It took over a month. So if it would be my work machine, I wouldn't be able to work for over a month. This is just unacceptable.
I guess it shows how proprietary software/hardware hinders speed of development.
I agree, it's somewhat below the standard, but then again, we decide the standard together.
Depends, a small protip, if you have an apple product that died because of water. Go to an apple reseller in a country without apple store. Most of the times they will turn a blind eye on the water damage and just repair it since they get paid by repairs.

At least this was my experience a few years back.
>It was also amazing to me that no home computer manufacturer ever had a plan for a serious gaming home computer system that matched (or came close to) the arcades in visual quality.

Actually the X86000 from Sharp was pretty much this. It had perfect ports of arcade games and was also used as the development system by Capcom among other arcade companies.
It's true though.

Note that he says Linux and Apple fanboys. You can still like either while being realistic about their flaws and shortcommings.

Also, learn to take a joke.
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realistically emergent systems aren't designed or thought about

I'm aware of how they work. I'm arguing that someone who builds a system is responsible for it even if they don't know how it works. Ignorance, even in the face of a system so complex that no person could ever understand the underlying causes of what it does, is not an excuse. No one should be able to hide behind complexity.

Developers must either build in protections against their systems going wrong or they shouldn't deploy them.
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The token 12-18 month international boycott and sanctions that came after Tiananmen. America was most reluctant and one of the first to cave back to business as usual.

Now that we're seeing some of the downsides of globalisation, perhaps the world community could hold its nerve longer. Or perhaps not as that's not a profit making stance.
That NATO would bomb Spain into stone age and liberate Catalonia.
I don't think HN is hosted in China. Why should it be?
> MacOS decides to rearrange them arbitrarily after reconnecting them

Not had that problem personally in at least 3 MacOS major releases. What version of MacOS are you using?
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Flash wasn't "graphic design" it was a unique cross over of design and code in harmony and at the time most graphic designers I encountered used to say "web designers are not real designers" they only considered print work important.

Funny how things change.
Talking about this to certain devs is like talking to them about sports. They just don't get the learning curve was the most accessable for the average user, not just those who know how to program.

We know there are better technologies security wise and performance wise. It's not always about what is 'technically' better rather than something that people enjoyed using and opened the door to creative personalities for the web. There is a time and a place for both and I think there has been neglect for the other side of the brain.
My father has been going on about cloud coverage lately. The conspiracy being that they have a cooling effect and invalidate some liberal climate change agenda.
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For your first problem, perhaps some monitor auto detection has gone crazy with a colour profile. Have a look under System Preferences -> Displays -> Colour (you need to have the monitor plugged in to tweak it.)
>In many cases the things he claims are past linux behavior remains the same today. Perhaps he hasn't used Linux in recent years?

I'm not sure what hardware you're using. On my end Linux so stable I haven't had a crash in years. Though, I have had some Firefox updates not render sites correctly. That and the default desktop behavior isn't ideal. Setting Force Full Composition Pipeline makes everything run as smooth as butter, similar to how OSX feels. It really should be the default behavior. All in all, Linux is far more stable and usable as a desktop today.
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Or you could just strike a match underneath the detector, which is what the manual for my detector says to do. Set it off after a few seconds.
Pricing can help. Build more roads but charge.

Also having been in for example Singapore and Manila there are major differences. (Singa's better)
looks very unfinished to me, am i missing something?
An extendable Go cache library that brings interesting features
That sounds lot like the UNIX philosophy:

Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

Write programs to work together.
An awesome underrated game from the MS-DOS era was Quarantine[0] (cyberpunk cab driving with super gore, funny writing and fantastic soundtrack). It was difficult to run due to EMS and free memory requirements.

[0] https://www.myabandonware.com/game/quarantine-2a8/play-2a8
Their donate page says they host 45 PB of data (45k GB). That is a mind boggling amount of data to have available online and can't be cheap. This is absolutely a cause worth donating to.
Excellent reply, thank you.

Again, this is not aimed at you but the general posting without underpinnings that goes on far too much.

My problem is that when this plane is discussed there are some strange posts that I don't trust (they try to spread blame to the pilots, to question other countries' flight safety, smear things out). Also there are claims from people who may have just done some reading, and kudos to them but they aren't experts.
Without more info a post like yours may fall into either of these camps, or you may be an actual expert, or quoting one. Clearly the latter here, so I can trust your info now.

> about these things is not compatible with a 5 minute HackerNews comment

Actually they are. If a verified expert they can present a lifetime of experience in a short sentence, then do. With any luck these threads will become a fraction the length and much more informative.
How do you personally find the balance between blue light keeping you awake verse mental stimulation keeping you awake? I don't do any math or coding in the ~2 hours before bed, as a general rule.
My favourite EGA game was The Land (roguelike).
Define "political" lobbying for improved minimum wages is political as would be climate change.
All current MPBs have a Touch Bar. Apple no longer sells any without one.
Hasn't happened to me. I'm running 3 external monitors when my MacBook is docked at home, 2 when I'm at the office.

Not once the order was not correct when reconnecting.
They're still going to be factors that a human already thought was relevant to making investment decisions. Machine learning data pipelines don't write themselves.
I have to say that I was outraged and reminded how much I hate the culture of machine maintenance glorification culture popular among the Linux people. Top-notch trolling.
I live in a country without an Apple store (Iceland) and I have no problems. There are multiple Apple Authorized Service Providers here that provide excellent support and service. And Iceland is a teeny tiny market so I imagine it's even easier in most parts of the world.
Writing code is not the only 'real work' in software development teams
Babbage wrote about using tree rings to study the ancient climate in 1838: https://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/charles-babbage-and-climate-cha...
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Off-topic: This is an article I would consider spending 1-3 dollars to read. But the only option for me is to subscribe. Therefore I won't be reading it and they won't get my money. I know that on demand paying for articles hasn't been made to work yet. But it still feels like there is a potential here that isn't being serviced.
Good to know: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more- radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/

To be clear, I was not defending coal. But I do have to ask over what time period radioactive coal wastes "kills a lot more people than nuclear," because being alive is fatal. I think the variance matters even if the mean is lower.
>Also, please downvote me. Actual statement of facts aren't welcomed here.

Facts we know (at least some of us, closer to the situation).

"What did you expect" is more loaded, as it also invokes political, and moral expectations, and can be misconstrued as "they got what they deserved" (as opposed to a neutral "they got what the law states").

And even the law can be bend, when there's a large public will -- e.g. the government is forced to reach a compromise, etc.

So, "secession is prohibited" is not enough to warrantee the current outcome.

As an example, dictatorship is also prohibited, but more than a few dictators or wannabe coup arranged for cosy non-jail deals when they were thrown out and democracy was restored...
This seems a particularly odd take.

You weren't forced to upgrade. It was offered and you accepted. You would have still got security upgrades on V9 (from Google) for some time. Many people don't get an upgrade, let along a choice of refusing it.

Re UX, you don't have to use gestures. You can opt into the "traditional" three-button system.
Because enough people in society want vengeance and retribution more than they want rehabilitation and research.
The best part about that website is the OLED-optimized dark+green theme.
What a fascist state. Jailing for 9 years civilian leaders that organized peaceful protests. Shameful. A movement of more than 2 or 3 million of citizens, that's the way they handle political issues.
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Why should anyone downvote you? You are absolutely right. The sovereignty of a nation resides in all citizens of that nation. That’s definitely the case of Spain as it is the first article of their constitution. What happened in Catalonia was treason, and they were jailed for it. In my opinion, the sentence was actually a soft one. Violence was involved trying to take over, public funds were used illegally to help with the rebellion attempt, and the 50% of Catalans who are against separating from Spain had to live through such chaos.
Yes. I installed Catalina for Sidecar, only to discover the feature wasn’t supported on the 2015 MBP.
Why did this even get upvoted? Every point is factually incorrect.
Chase HQ, Wec Le Mans and the Crazy Cars series were excellent on the Amstrad CPC. There’s an upcoming homebrew title named Vespertino which looks like what the Outrun conversion should have been.
Dirt paths are created by people making the same choice when there is not enough difference in grass levels for someone to notice. It’s only after a significant number of people make the same choice that feedback occurs.

Other systems may or may not be created in a similar fashion.
Radiation isn’t the only way coal kills people.
I'll give you that. But to a kid playing it on lunch breaks, on the computers we used to do our school work? :)

It's also a hell of a lot easier to play with a Voltmace Delta mouseport joystick (and you can say the same for ArcElite!). It may have had keyboard keys, but I'd need to look that up.
No more trade secrets, so companies like ASML that have a physical presence with their know-how in China are now also legally screwed? Any of their chip making device can now be legally reverse-engineered, starting January 1st? Any produced wafer, chip design, IC, whatever is currently in China, can now legally be taken from your company and used by your competitors? Sounds like a good time to move out of China, as otherwise you will have government-backed competitors with your tech in 1-2 years.