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I could understand iOS 13 being buggy as they are trying cramp more features in every year. But the thing is, there is nothing on Catalina that felt new, unless you take removal of iTunes and new PodCast / Apple Music App as new.

99% of the macOS remain the same. The removal of 32bit Apps are long time coming. I just dont understand why it had so many problems.
This could be fixed by your Bank or VISA with e.g. virtual credit cards.
Oh my God, JUST READ THE ARTICLE. This is not a proper response to such a high quality, detailed article, where the author talks about the exact reasons why it's fine giving multiple well supported reasons. This kind of comment is really lazy.
Evaporation can cool things to below ambient air temperature. It's why we sweat.
Why were jobs in Switzerland affected?
>- Security / Privacy (eg Telegram)

But Telegram offers just as much security and privacy as Slack.
Copenhagen doesn’t have 40 degrees Celsius heatwaves in the summer nor winter blizzards that make you feel like you’re in Siberia, while places like the US East Coast (and I guess even the Chicago area in the Midwest) have them both.
At a global level things are undoubtedly getting much better, in terms of human quality of life. Hundreds of millions of people are rising out of poverty, violence is on the way down, women’s and minority rights are expanding in most of the world, and most of this is happening in developing nations that need it the most.

I worth though that we are doing thus by passing the costs down to future generations. Fur a techie analogy, it’s like looking at the balance sheet if Blackberry in 2008. Profits were on the way up, at a raw financial level they were doing better than ever, but there core business was rotting away.
> Now imagine how many bikes you could fit on a two lane road vs how many cars

No need to imagine:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9F9_RUESS2E/S7tbclwxiPI/AAAAAAAACmw/uI...
I had terrible tearing with my default Ubuntu 19.04 install last week, too. I'm using an Intel integrated GPU. The solution was to create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf (and the directory, as it didn't already exist but does get checked by X11 if present) with the following content:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"

Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

No more screen tearing, in my case!
>>Consider the journalists publishing the information as an extension of the accounting department.

Well, they are not. And accountants can face penalties from lawsuits, losing their license, to jail for revealing client info, unless directed to.
Actualy, handling an error should be cheaper then handling a proper request. Just because an error most likely means an early exit of the handling server -- which means less time-to-answer, i.e. cheaper. (This does not cover any kind of DoS attack, which is always difficult to handle, regardless of an error or non-error answer)

However, effectively we agree with derefr, saying that HTTP status code design did not have this pecularity of cachable vs. non-cachable errors in mind. This is definetly a shortcoming.
That's incorrect. Legally, verbal primarily means using words. The technical difference is whether an agreement is written or spoken/oral.
What false dichotomy?

Modula-3, Mesa/Cedar, Component Pascal, System C#, ...

You get the productivity of automatic memory management, RAII, stack and global memory allocation and unsafe blocks just like Rust, with C's speed as well.
Only if you ignore the costs of getting into Yale (and failing to get into Yale), as well as the costs of not coming out with the necessary connections and pay.
I search arbitrary topics, that is how i learn. Infering _anything_ from my search history would br madness...
> startlingly good weather year-round

In Sweden people take the bike even when it's minus 20 degrees and snow everywhere.
Our window to escape this future in narrowing. Here in the UK 3 years of Brexit arguments have sucked up all the oxygen. While on the other side of the Atlantic a science denier is squatting in the White House.
Discord is deactivating accounts without phone numbers
They should have more automated tests. But considering this article does not surprise me at all.
That also mean probably almost no exploration/fuzzy tests.
The kernel may be one of the few exceptions.

Considering the secrecy infra-team I would expect almost no integration tests.

That also means that Apple products are pretty bad when it come to security contrary to what Apple's marketing wants you to believe.
3 - libreoffice impress.

For Numbers I like gnumeric over libreoffice Calc, but nothing really holds a candle to excel unfortunately.
> over a third of voters remained at home on Election Day 2016

Isn't that an unusually high turnout?
I study at FIU... I just don't see the point this bridge. Why would you spend 10+ million dollars on a bridge to cross a street, when the same problem can be solved by a simple crosswalk? We already have one of these bridges... and the majority of people don't bother to use it and simple take the cross walk. It just such a waste of money.
That's because Australia is populated by Northern Europeans who follow a Northern European lifestyle. This is completely as odds with the climate in most of the country.

In turn this partly explains Australia's high emissions.
*-Oriented Programming, by Graham Lee (2015) [video]
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Assuming you’re talking about two adults and one kid, two bikes? You can easily transport two kids and an adult with a bike+trailer. Alternatively, in the Netherlands, you see bikes being used as school busses, with 4-6 kids in a big bucket in front, and an adult pedaling it around. You can buy them from various importers elsewhere.
I think a lot of applications will be built without the need for developers, significantly reducing the number of professional developers needed.

Also, testing will be fully AI automated, other than some initial configuration there won't be the need to write tests manually.

Anything that can be done by robots and AI will be done by robots and AI. Things like driving, house cleaning and cooking (at least for restaurants) will be fully done by robots.
> You can't transport a family of three or a baby as safely in a vehicle smaller than a car (as they lack things like walls and air bags)

Most families of three can drive their own vehicles, though. And air bags are really only necessary because of... you guess what.

The "not everyone can ride a bike" argument is vastly overplayed. Not only can almost everyone ride a bike -- but even the ones that can't get a better road environment if fewer people go for the single-occupancy personal automobile as the default. It just occupies so much space that is 99% completely unused.
FYI = Agreements are either written or oral (spoken).

Verbal just means using words.
How bad is it? really
This reminds me of the “don’t use sms for 2fa” arguments.
Your response applies equally to a world where every kid has their own privacy-enabled, perfectly secure free software phone with data monitored and occasionally transmitted by an AI agent that is programmed jointly by the child and a technically-minded parent.

Meanwhile, the article is about third-party data slurpers sitting in between the school and the Chromebooks that are supplied to a captive audience of millions of minors. The tradeoff here isn't between security and freedom. It's between whatever security the third-party claims to deliver and the risks from what the third-party actually does with the data to turn a profit. We have to gain insight into that fundamental question before we can begin reflect on your point.
This "good weather" argument against biking is so bizarre and disconnected from reality... Have you ever noticed that the most biking friendly places in the world are in middle-to-northern europe? Copenhagen isn't a particularly sunny place. Many people don't care, if you give them good infrastructure they'll cycle with every weather.
Are you complaining about the public using public space intended for that usage?
But that does not mean that parts os US that have favorable conditions should not improve bike infrastructure. You are comparing one city (88.25 km²) to a country (9.834 million km²)
Are infinality patches still being updated?

Those were about the only reason I could tolerate a standard Centos or RHEL desktop, but I'd heard the maintainer 'disappeared' and nobody has picked them back up.
Parents who sue schools over their privacy has every right to be.

Fines dont always have to be about monetary compensation. You can make it criminal, then things would change. There are other ways other than money to act as detertent. Shutting down private schools could be one.
It wasn't necessarily the right move. He/she likely had asymmetric information about where Google was going and how likely it was to continue succeeding.

If they couldn't sufficiently exploit that, then that's on them (assuming they had access to all the relevant metrics).

It's great to diversify, but blindly selling isn't some sort of virtue to optimize for...
The genetic point could be controlled for by looking at the children of lottery winners.
To counter that: windchill also works at air temperature above body temperature due to evaporative cooling [0], as long as relative humidity does not reach extreme levels. Proper sports clothing (allowing good moisture transport) and sufficient drinking help with that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler#Physical_pr...
I thought so too, but the only time I've had this issue is after upgrading Firefox today. It's not happening anymore, so I'll just chalk it up to a weird one-off for now.
> Even when I was running Windows, I would wipe my computer every few months. I kept a "Backup Image" handy with all my settings already installed. I've spent far too many hours trying to undo damage I've done to my systems by installing random software from the internet onto my workstation; I've come to value the option of resetting my computer to a known, healthy state immensely.

I often thought I was the only one. On Windows, macOS and even Ubuntu I was reinstalling my OS at least three or four times a year. I had install scripts and GitHub repos designed to reconfigure my machine after each install. The process always took a full day.

Now I'm on NixOS. I have three .nix text files, .emacs, .bashrc and that's about all I need to backup in order to clone my environment on any machine.

I've also stopped reinstalling my OS all the time, as I always know my machine's state, just by looking at those few files.
- The Great Dieoff near the equator. Large parts of India and the Middle East become uninhabitable. Hundreds of millions die. The countries further from the equator do not let them in. World population will be lower than it is now. Most of the dieoff will be older people.

- US loses Miami and New Orleans to sea level rise, but otherwise does OK.

- "Machines should think, people should work" - computers will be doing many management jobs, including direct supervision. Physical robots will still be niche.

- More strongmen. Types like Putin, Netanyahu, Li Keqiang, and Trump will be the new normal.

- Intense surveillance, with behavioral tracking and evaluation, is the new normal. Government and business will cooperate in this.

- Energy will not be a problem. Some materials will be more expensive, but no mined material exhaustion in the next 50 years. Except for water.

- Food will only be a problem where water is a problem.

- Many antibiotics will stop working. There will be alternatives in the developed world, but they will cost more and be more complicated and custom.
You clearly don't study any subjects in the fine arts.

:-p
Wether is mostly a clothes and a comfort problem. I grew up on the countryside in the Alps and used the bicycle the majority of my life to commute, and that includes rain and snow. The days where cycling are impossible or dangerous depend on where you are living, but in my case it was around 4 days a year.

However I think when citylab is writing about the balance between cars and bicycles, they are refering to cities, where you (A) wouldn’t ban cars completely because of delivery and people with mobility problems and (B) the usage of cars by everybody has very tangible problems attached to it (space, noise, pollution, air quality).

And when we are talking about balance we are usually talking about one that is extremely on the side of the car anyways. Even in european cities there is are often two 1 meter bicycle lanes for six 3 meter car lanes and as a cyclist who often rides on crowded bicycle lanes while the streets next to me are empty, I can just dream of the things that could be done with the space of one car lane.

I have also lived for some time in Denmark and the Netherlands, where cycling is extremely widespread and I know what difference the infrastructure makes. When you cycle in a big german city you have to be constantly on the watch to not get overlooked by motorists, in the Netherlands nearly everbody cycles and the infrastructure is so much better, that cycling feels (and probably is) much less dangerous. This is also why it is more popular there.

That beeing said, I don’t believe that cycling alone will be the solution of the cities of the future. Cheap and good public transport systems and a clever network of delivery routes will also be needed.

And those who really need a car will certainly be granted permissions to use them (as they are now when it comes to all european historical city centers/pedestrian areas). The spry Euro-oldsters you mentioned seem to swear on E-bikes, because they can use electricity when they have to go up steep hills or just feel like it. Gives them the security they will make it even if their powers are running out. They would probably say sth. like: “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes”
Copenhagen might not quite have 40C heatwaves, but it certainly has winter blizzards that make you feel like you’re in Siberia.
This article paints the interstate highway system as some sort of evil incarnation without even giving so much as a breath to the idea that the Interstate highway system is one of the largest and most successful civil works projects of all time. The Romans had their aquaducts. The Americans have their highways. Prior to the Interstate system, it would take as much as two months to travel coast to coast. Eisenhower was part of an Army convoy in 1919 that did just that. It took them 62 days. With the interstate system, it can be traversed in just a few days. You have no idea how blessed you are to live in an age where transportation is so freely available. While our passenger train network may suck in the U.S. and rush hour traffic is awful, we have a phenomenal road and air travel network.

Meanwhile, I support bike/scooter lanes in dense urban core areas. They're not a solution for most people though, unless you can afford to live in the densest and usually most expensive parts of a city.

Autonomous buses should be within reach this decade. I can't think of a better mass transit solution more easily fitted into the existing systems than autonomous buses or micro buses that could fill more niches and provide reliable service 24/7.
Expertise only matters if you're hired, at least hired to review the calculations of the engineers: "the probable cause of the … bridge collapse was … calculation errors made by FIGG Bridge Engineers, Inc." and "Factors in the collapse included … inadequate peer review".
The Internet Archive Is Digitizing LPs to Preserve Generations of Audio
It’s a little less than 50 years away by now, so the schedule is clearly getting tight, and it is also a huge undertaking, so nothing should be taken for granted, but given current technology, it might actually be possible for a human to walk on the surface of the moon by July 20 2069.
That's really not a good excuse.

Doing the right thing should be a much greater desire than minor inconveniences.

Are there other reasons you don't like FFX or prefer other browsers?
I see, yes, Euclid's axioms are not the most intuitive approach to different geometries.

What is nice is to have the tools to examine what the properties of a given geometry are, and given that geometry is a matter of curvature, it's not going to be decided by the tangent plane, it's going to be decided by the second derivative. You can get at that explicitly by embedding your space in a flat space like R^N and looking at the second derivative, or you can do intrinsic operations like parallel transport. E.g. look at small variations in the tangent plane from point to point. But the second derivative is key. Geometric algebra lives in the cotangent plane so it alone is not going to detect issues of curvature in your underlying space. This is true even though a lot of important calculations about differentials and volume elements are happening in that cotangent plane, so it's an important thing to get right, but it can't detect issues of curvature and thus it can't 'prove' the pythagorean theorem, which is a flatness statement.
Bike lanes are the WeWork of Civic grants. Do nothing, cash checks.
Not the original comment, but I have run into a specific set of regulatory scenarios where the immutability of any event log is a big problem.

The data retention policies for users who leave the platform is set to 30 days by GDPR, which requires the data to be deleted and expunged by the storage system in ways in which normal users cannot recover - or in another way, the data needs to "offline".

This is not actually that "all data older than 30 days is thrown away", but that "all data for users who have deleted their accounts need to be deleted from the start of their account creation, 30 days after they say forget-me".

Kafka (or Pulsar or Pravega) or any of the other immutable commit log implementations make forgetting a small slice of data from a large set a complicated and nearly impossible task to accomplish.

You can accomplish some part of this with log compaction assuming you have a definite primary key for all updates (i.e the log needs to be partitioned on a key to do compaction along that key). If there's a way I could declare a primary key as a device+event_timestamp+metric, but delete by a user_id column, let me know and I'll be happy to find out how to do it.

However in its original form, Kafka is still very useful.

Being able to hold data in Kafka in those periods of time is extremely valuable and naturally lets the system lose part of its state with the ability to replay itself back into the same state from a saved checkpoint.

If you store 7+ days of Kafka data and flush the newly arrived data-set into a persistent, but mutable columnar store every day & maintain the partition/offsets on commit, then you can recover from a complete loss of the mutable store's in-memory data by replaying the log from where you left off.

The row-major nature of its storage still hurts though if you plan to do all your analysis off it directly, because you'll burn through the disk bandwidth for no good reason.
The war on general purpose computing will arrive, finish quickly and be won by the totalitarians.

Normal computers will not be permitted to produce code. All developers will have to submit passport and dna before being allowed to work. Computers capable of producing code will be accounted for centrally, it will be illegal to own one without a licence.

Cash will be done away with by the following means or similar:

https://blogs.imf.org/2019/02/05/cashing-in-how-to-make-nega...
The amount of value steam provides on top of payment processing and distribution is immense. Valve basically single handedly created Linux gaming. Their client is so many years ahead of everything else with the forums, workshop, broadcast streaming, streaming to your tv, gamepad support and gamepad virtualisation as well as a mountain of developer side APIs for things like inviting friends to games.

Apples 30% would seem a lot more fair if it was possible to side load and install alternative app stores

In comparison apples offering is little more than "we have a huge captive audience on a proprietary system. Pay us or miss out on half of the market"
Yes. Thing is this are de-facto only two platforms alive. Yes. Mobile (and desktop) developers life suck. But someone has to write all that software.

And, IMO, iOS/macOS/Cocoa/Xcode is best out there. And most importantly - most stable. Nice boutique experience, nice API, good documentation, everything is integrated and working.

Other platforms are even worse. Way worse. I am also doing Switch, KaiOS, Xbox, PS3/4, did Symbian and like dozen more obscure ones.
Sadly, war.
having $300K in GOOG and not selling it, is no different than having $300K in cash and using it all to buy GOOG.

If you wouldn't do the latter, you shouldn't do the former (but yes, if you would have invested all your cash into google, more power to you to keep all your google stock as google stock)
You have to remember what these store are replacing.

In case of Sony/Nintendo you pay togt access to their closed hw and ecosystem (for much less than 30% by the way). In case of apple you pay to be included in a catalogue but you can also sell directly to customers.
With respect, what you're saying is absolute nonsense in the context of ground rods. They're hunks of metal clad in copper and driven into the ground with a sledgehammer. They're so simple that there's literally no part of a modern PC that's analogous. The ones you can buy from Home Depot for $15 are identical to the ones I buy from a professional electrical contracting supplier for $15 - they come off the same factory lines from the same manufacturer.

There are other components used in contracting that have a bit more product segmentation, but the whole "frequently radically different things that may only be tangentially related" bit is wildly exaggerated. We use the appropriate components for the job, and often that means the same stuff you could buy at Home Depot. You're paying for that knowledge of what's appropriate/necessary and the labor to do the work, not for super-special premium contractor ground rods.
apt-get and yum and pacman and the rest do not enforce containerization.
The entire debacle with the city council wanting to spend years "reimagining what the city could be" instead of getting back to work building new infrastructure immediately is why Christchurch has taken so long to come back to life.
> World population will be lower than it is now.

Almost all demographic predictions say this will happen, and that's without any major catastrophe.
Apparently, according to an internet source I have not vetted, you lay the 8 foot rods in the bottom of the 30" deep trench.
Austin is 30th largest. 11th right now is actually Phoenix AZ.
I seriously don't get the obsession with using a referendum to change the electoral system. Who came up with that idea? Better to change it, and then maybe seek endorsement after a couple of terms.

The point of a referendum is to stop change, not to get good, publicly endorsed change.
maybe not. Probably lottery winners are addicted gamblers, have poor impulse control and so on.
Sadly, I agree.

Let me quote https://collapseos.org/why.html here :

“I expect our global supply chain to collapse before we reach 2030. With this collapse, we won't be able to produce most of our electronics because it depends on a very complex supply chain that we won't be able to achieve again for decades (ever?).”

And a related discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21183805

I might disagree with the given date, but I think some sort of industrial collapse will probably happen in the next century, basically because the earth has finite resources, and we have been consuming them at an unprecedented rate in the human history. Added to the climate change, it will lead to a massive unrest that we are not ready to deal with.
I'm using High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G5019)and I don't have an update for Safari 13