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It saddens me that Apple used to make (almost) perfect laptops – price aside – and it's no longer the case, leaving a bunch of geeks looking for a replacement. In 2017 after searching the market, filtering on required specs and reading reviews, I came to the conclusion that there are no perfect laptop: every time there's a compromise to be made.

For me, I had requirements that were previously met in the MBP: good battery life, good processing power, and not too bulky. I didn't really care about camera or touch screen or fingerprint reader. Based on this, I finally found the Dell Precision 5520 which is the workstation version of the Dell XPS 15". Everything was configurable (OS, CPU, GPU, RAM, battery, screen) and with a good build quality and small form factor. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was an option, meaning drivers were configured and supported by Dell – a relief, after some experiences using Linux on laptops years ago. Now I've changed the OS to Manjaro, added a 2nd RAM stick for a total of 32GB, configured a bit the power settings with `powertop` and I'm really happy with my portable powerhorse lasting >10h when coding.

As for the Dell client service, I happened to use it a month ago because my 2 years old battery was now swollen. As I took the 3-year warranty extension "Next business day", I called on Monday and Tuesday the technician was there to change battery and touchpad (that can sometimes break when the battery swells) and it was all. Fast and convenient !
Windows and windows subsystem for Linux
Seconded. Happy T480 user here.
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Civilization and Its Discontents [pdf]
Not really giving an alternative. But I have just bought a fully specced Mid 2014 MBP. I already have a T460s which I cannot decide whether to replace with a X1 Carbon or wait for a new scissor-style keyboard for MBP. But as I ran into the issue of not being able to upload React Native Expo Apps to TestFlight I had to buy a used MacBook.

I must say that even though I an very fond of the Lenovo keyboards - and they are great. The overall feel of a MacBook is just better. The keyboard pre-butterfly is one of the best ever. The trackpad is another level even though sitting with the T460s and T470s at work, it seemed like their trackpads was on par, but they really are not.

The X1 Carbon should be up there, but there is just something about the full experience of the product where MBP wins out. That is at least my experience going a bit back and forth.
I guess the point is: No matter whether you are privately or publicly insured in Germany, a transport in an ambulance, an emergency helicopter ride, a long-winded illness like cancer, or any other medical treatment won't ruin you financially. The same goes for most (all?) of Europe.
It's absolutely true you need to be able to read the "words" or even phrases in the music, not just the letters. You can only do that with significant look-ahead.

But you also need to know how which fingers to use.

It's very much not just a case of playing the right note at the right time. It's about playing note sequences using fingerings that lead smoothly to later note sequences - all at speed.

That means including thumb-under and other moves that aren't at all intuitive and are totally non-obvious to beginners.

Apps like these don't just fail to teach that, they don't recognise it as a thing that needs to be taught.
There's actually little research that they do, beyond placebo. It works a lot better in animal trials than with humans. Probably because of differenced in our ability to actively cool ourselves.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/4/296
I have to back you up here, ultimately I just want to get landing pages and websites done, and Wordpress + Divi gives me that... I’m also now using Wordpress as a static site generator with WP2Static plugin and deploying to Netlify, so now I can get 4x100 for LightHouse. I’ve experimented with Hugo, middleman, Eleventy, Gatsby, Gridsome, Nuxt, Sapper and a bunch of others... but I really just want to hammer out high-performance (page speed and SEO) sites quickly and easily. I hate to say this because I love Gatsby to bits, but ultimately the customer pays for sales instruments from me not my CAAS / JAMStack fetish and tinkering with the latest frameworks. Now I need wordpress forms that integrate with Netlify functions and I’m sorted.
Nice to see someone try to solve this problem!

Wishes: HDR.

A much larger size, like 85” class or whatever size is currently practical to manufacture.

An open standard for the app/control protocol in case the company goes under.
Weightlifting, microdosing shrooms.and light therapy.

Never tried them all at the same time, but these three things at different phases in life, were effective, for at least one season.
There's a huge additional authoritarian step required to push MITM of all traffic. You cannot do that without people at the endpoints noticing. DNS-based "filtering" can pass unnoticed by many people; full MITM of all traffic cannot.

When a regime does something that only a small subset of people notice, it's easier to suppress that small subset of people, with a combination of PR and just ignoring them.

When a regime does something that everyone notices, it has to be prepared to be visibly acting against a large fraction of its people.

DoH won't stop a sufficiently determined regime from attempting to control the Internet, but it will stop less determined regimes from doing so quietly and getting away with it with minimal resistance, and not every regime is prepared for the implications and backlash of implementing country-wide MITM.

And on a more local scale, DoH also increases friction towards smaller entities trying to quietly control access to the Internet, such as ISPs or random wifi hotspots.
> Because for-profit healthcare is immoral

The [majority of hospitals in the US are non-for-profit](https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals). Needless to say, they are not able to provide a cheaper service than the for-profit hospitals. So there is some factor, unrelated to profit, which makes healthcare expensive.

If profit was causing healthcare expenses to rise, then non-for-profit hospitals should be be able to maintain lower prices than for-profit ones. They can't. So what's driving up the cost? The answer is pretty simple: government intervention.
> Does Mozilla and Cloudflare seriously think they will just go "oh ok, I guess everything is unblocked again now". No, they will either force Cloudflare to do the same or force local ISPs to implement even stronger filtering controls.

We have an actual worked example to look at:

The British government decided that all pornography in the whole world should require proof of age so that British kids couldn't see it. They got all the legislation done, they got civil servants to write them a "White Paper" explaining how this would work, they selected a censor to manage the inevitable rulings saying that this or that pornographer didn't obey the rules and enforce DNS censorship.

And then, just weeks ago after much "delay" and "reconsideration", they U-turned. Because the part where you enforce the rules by "just" censoring DNS isn't practical under DPRIVE. You say they'll just "force" local ISPs to implement "even stronger filtering controls" but the only "stronger" option is to proxy all of HTTPS.

How were the IPSs going to pay for this? Mandatory price increases? Or are the government going to do the work and just raise taxes to pay for it? "Vote Conservative: Higher prices, worse service, more taxes, more censorship. Corruption and incompetence are our watchwords" ?

This works fine in China. The government wants to spend your money on a "Great Firewall"? Nothing you can do about it. Not so much in a country with anything resembling democracy left.
> What at first began as peaceful mass demonstrations has sparked sporadic violence, with protestors setting fire to buildings and damaging property

As engineers, we should be more careful about the consequences of what we build. It can be used for the good, or for the bad. What will those engineers think when there is first dead person (either violent protester, pacific protester or policeman)? Will they feel responsible?

Pacific protests are allowed every day. Violent protests with people setting fire to cars, bins, etc; and people throwing rocks or acid to the police must be prosecuted.
I have new Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu and I'm satisfied with it. Camera has moved in these new models.

Dell Thunderbolt Dock (TB16) is is disappointment. Others report problems as well.
Left the Apple ecosystem 10 years ago, never looked back.

My day to day work is done on a 15 inch LG Gram + Ubutu 18.04.

I just love it: super lightweight, fast, rugged (been dropped easyly 10 times, still working fine)

The dev env is vastly superior to what I had on my MBP where I constantly found myself struggling with out-of-date software and OSS stuff that just plain doesn't work on the mac.
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Huge +1 for this. On-site support has saved my XPS (and by extension me) a few times now. If you’re going to go for a Dell laptop I’d get ProSupport or better.
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SF Mono is awesome. Using it for a long time.

The link you posted https://developer.apple.com/fonts offers to download and install .dmg -> .pkg. I usually install SF Mono via /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts. This folder contains all SF Mono fonts in .otf format. If you open them and install, it vill be available everywhere. You can copy those files and install it on Windows or Linux computer.

Also this extension is musthave: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-font-sett...
I set SF Mono as default monospaced font for chrome. IDK why ugly Courier font is still default in many software.
The original image might’ve been 3200x1800 but it sure ain’t on imgur, unless I’m missing an obvious ‘view raw/original image’ option...
Counterpoint: my two year old Surface Pro 4 developed a battery-swelling issue, and Microsoft replaced the whole laptop right away (well, as soon as I worked out how to contact the right level of tech-support).
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Now it makes sense why may 2018 MBP always gets hot while my previous 2015 only rarely does.
How bad is it really? They do have to issue warranties at least in Europe, right?

I'm thinking about shelling out for a Surface Pro 6, but I don't want to buy a potential cat in the bag.

(We have some mandatory legal protections over at Poland/EU that apply to on-line sales, but I'm not sure if they apply if you buy a product as a business. Need to check up on that.)
How is that different than the OS "letting you" change the DNS servers? It's much easier to change browsers than operating systems.
It seems to depend on a person. I was ok with over 40 C in winter in Iceland, but that involved moving between geo hot tubs and freezing air a few times - starting from 30C and going up. There was lots of warning signs around that pool though and not many people were happy to try.

I'd be afraid to do it regularly though... felt interesting / nice, but also "this is extreme, maybe I shouldn't be doing this".
Creatively solving problems is good. Creatively doing things differently just to stand out is not (in UX at least).
Do have have experience using a language with sum types and exhaustive case analysis?
I really like my Surface Pro 4 i5 which is a few years old.
But source code is very different from prose. Are there any studies on fixed-width vs. proportional readability specifically when it comes to programming?
I had similar problems. I bought a Razer Blade Stealth 13, but I cannot recommend it. There are hardware bugs, the biggest one being, 1 out of 3 times if you plug/unplug the power, it goes to sleep. Happens on both Win and Linux. It's well known and there's no fix from Razer.

My takeaway: other laptops also have bugs; I'm back to using a MBP & I hope the next-gen MBPs are good again.
Today’s correction isn’t much like the dot-com bubble
Imgur won’t support Reddit’s NSFW communities anymore
My point is Apple care is not the only suitable option. I didn't select any additional support, it came with the base model (which was refurbished).
I get that Pop!_OS is nice, but Ubuntu 19.10 is super polished out of the box as well. Even though System76 is arguing it is much more than just a reskinned Ubuntu, my final verdict is that it is just a reskinned Ubuntu.
Nooo, please don't make your research for free. Do a patent first, then you can make it free for fellow researchers while heavily tax any commercial company using this. I am sick and tired to see research published for free to use by everybody only a few months later a micro-increment of said research is done by a big pharma company who of course now will patent it and boom, none will be able to freely build upon that because "hey, we're a big company and we want our mighty $$$ in our pockets". And when finally a new application of said simulation will hit the market will cost an arm and a leg - see current insulin prices for example.
Try running something like EasyRes on your Mac, you can then switch to the actual resolution of the monitor. It’s somewhat insane how much stuff fits into the screen of my 13” MacBook.
System76[0] makes some nice laptops (I have an Oryx Pro and i like it a lot), and there's the Lenovo X1 Extreme[1].

[0]: https://system76.com/laptops

[1]: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/X1-...
>> The military has experience with this, such as having men survive with rudimentary shelter outdoors through a Korean winter.

Soldiers are all young healthy men. Homeless people are not. There are both men and women, middle-aged and old, with chronic conditions etc.

Additionally, soldiers have access to good equipment, including water- and wind-proof clothing, and provisions. The homeless often don't have those.

It's one thing surviving the Korean winter with the kit provided by the US army and army rations (if not three proper meals a day), and quite another to survive it wrapped up in donated blankets and newspaper.

Finally, soldiers are trained to work together and support each other. The homeless often have no idea how to do this.
from another article

> You can see them in the front line, looking for melee with the police. They are covered, some wear helmets and elbow pads, communicate by radio and do not get rid of almost anything. They are the 500 anti-systems, which the police divide between revolutionary independence activists and anarchists, mostly young people, who are at the forefront of the riots that have had their epicenter in Barcelona since Monday. This nucleus has a reinforcement of another 1,500 that add to the altercations.
In a careful rereading, that question is actually not as stupid as it sounds at first, the author does in fact not believe that Stanford (unlike New York) is a Roman city so that the creators of the linked site ignored NY due to cultural bias.
>the first time I tried out ubuntu i kept clicking the right side of the window for the X and minimise buttons

You can change this, but the option is hidden away somewhere (gnome-tweak-tool or some dconf option maybe).
Why? All you need is the rules that govern French writing. They clearly exist, else humans couldn't read French either. It can't be harder than English where the rules amount to "look it up in the dictionary".
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Maybe look at Surface Book too? Bigger screen, discrete graphics option, two batteries, bigger touchpad. I have one for work. Not sure what the Surface Pro 6 is like physically, but Surface Book 2 beats Surface Pro 4 at almost everything.
I'm using a ThinkPad E480, with 2 monitors attached. Lubuntu 19.10. It's my main dev machine running Postgres, VirtualBox, Elixir, Node, etc. Battery is still amazing after 4 months.

I've always wanted to buy a MacBook Pro, mostly for music production, but the ThinkPad is a fine beast by itself. For music, I use Studio One 4 on Win 10.
I've tried using Soundex in practice, and I found it to be too coarse-grained to be really useful. Metaphone is much better, even if it's more complex.
I love this analogy, and it's remarkable at how much sense it makes when I look at the choices I make in my day to day life generally.

Hotel-chic is very clean, very minimal, very sparse. Just enough to have the necessary conveniences that appeal to everyone, with absolutely nothing personalised for any individual.

As of about 10 years ago, I made a conscious choice to stop customising my desktop (and then later, mobile) experience away from the defaults as much as possible, as I was fed up of having to document and then re-deploy all of my customisations every time I had to reinstall for whatever reason, which was far too frequent for my liking.

At the same time, I'd been moving home roughly every year for the 7 years prior already, and had grown weary of all my physical effects. I started disposing of more and more of my things (inadvertently marie kondo-ing my life before it was a "thing" I was aware of) and decreasing the personalisation of my physical space down more and more.

I now essentially live a hotel-esque lifestyle, with most of my personal customisations fitting in a small corner of the room. Added bonus of this is with the frequent travel I need to do for work, I can take one or two items with me, and the hotel room instantly feels like home.

I guess this explains why I'm relatively happy as an Apple user. The lack of customisation doesn't bother me, as I don't customise anything outside of the bare minimums (wallpaper and privacy settings, thats about it).

It also explains how I'm able to use Windows 10 at work without killing anyone, while my colleagues are all using tiling window managers under Linux and looking at me like I'm crazy for not wanting to spend a week tweaking and customising my environment....
I like the look of the Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2, but I'd want to know if it is saddled with NVIDIA Optimus GPU switching, and whether that works in CentOS 7.7 or CentOS 8.0 with the NVIDIA drivers. Anyone had any luck with that?

It looks like NVIDIA's drivers support PRIME for sharing between integrated and discrete GPUs these days.
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People can make comments that get the news wrong. That's not "False News"

Also it's a quote, which people are allowed to get wrong.

Also seems to be a correct quote -

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hezbollahs-nasrallah-saud...

[Edit] Seems to be true, FB is removing a lot of Palestinian content, although it is in the media, although not in HN media, perhaps a clever question to have asked - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FBblocksPalestine
This is a great example of why someone else should write the high level description for somebody else's work. Without the baggage of what was hard, fun, easy, interesting (and the desire to sell/market), an outsider can focus on the importance and utility of a work.

Thanks for the description.
Yup. These days a shocking number of people never test on Windows or a 1080p monitor.

Windows is my primary dev environment. I don’t think many people are even trying to look good there. So I’m not sure Consolas will ever be dethroned. Not for me at least.
"Never used macs" maybe you should try them. I'm still using a 2013 MBP, only issue is that I had to finally replace the battery about a year ago.
MacBooks used to be good. Can you still buy a 6 year old thinkpad?
F1 cars are super heavily regulated.
116 is absolutely nuts. I went to some hot springs this summer in colorado and even there hottest tub topped out at 113 and while I was able to work my way up to that one, I was uncomfortable and left after 5 minutes. I cannot imagine trying to spend 45 minutes straight in a tub 3 degrees hotter!
ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It's a beautiful laptop and works well with Fedora after a couple of tweaks.

I've got an XPS 13 for work which is nice too but runs windows. Pros and cons are:

ThinkPad: Better keyboard by far, more rugged, better bios for Linux that supports normal sleep states

XPS: Can charge on either side, better speakers
I had a MacBook Pro daily driver, and had the same concerns as the poster.

I'm now running a Yoga x390. It was the most I've ever spent on a laptop, and it was worth every penny. It's the perfect size, weight, battery life, performance combination, and is an absolute treat to use.
Im my country, towns with 10000 people have their daily newspapers, albeit short ones. 100000 seems really a lot to have no media, that's the size of my home city and we had like.. 5 competing newspapers, IIRC (today there are dozens of competing websites)
You can give a virtual machine full control of one of your graphics cards.

https://wiki.debian.org/VGAPassthrough
> You have to type ["copper chain" contraceptive], including the quotes, which then takes you to some German and Austrian sites.

Seems that "copper pearls" (without the quotes) or "copper IUB" yield the result immediately, but both terms seem to be commercial in nature - I smell a slight attempt at rebranding going on.
> Selfishness will break America.

Selfishness is healthy in moderation. It's what helps people come to the conclusion that they have a shared interest on which they can collaborate.

> Before your country collapses under its own debt, America will be filled by slaves and a clique of companies and billionnaires owning them.

So the answer is to bankrupt the billionaires so everybody is living a terrible life?
If your bath starts out >116, it almost certainly doesn’t stay that hot for 45 minutes.
On a Surface. Top quality hardware and a 3:2 aspect ratio screen.
This is more like Pokepwn Go
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Agave[1] and Lekton[2] are among my favorites.

[1]: https://app.programmingfonts.org/#agave

[2]: https://app.programmingfonts.org/#lekton
That is a truly fantastic site but it doesn't mention https://dank.sh/ which I first heard about in this thread.

Just to nitpick.

But I am right now going through every one of those fonts in the app to compare with the one I've used for almost a decade now.
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This seems a bit speculative. Research is carried out all over the world, and at least when it comes to health many countries aren't as hysterical (excuse the pun) as the US about political correctness.

I agree somewhat with the GP, though. There are ways to discern mental issues, but very few physicians will ask patients about their mood unless problems are really obvious.
The current version has an externally accessible SSD and other repair tweaks. Check the blog posts on it.
Ok fine, Adobe CC works on other OS's, but deploying for iOS doesn't, and neither does Sketch.
> The only alternative that doesn't have strictly worse incentives are if the government builds and assigns all housing. I'd bet that turns out to be worse in practice, but if it has ever worked out anywhere ever I'd be interested in the case study.

This is how Singapore works. It has been working great there.
I think a couple of these stretch the credulity of being criteria of a “safe” device, compared to your original list.

The hardware/software must be fully documented reads as “must be open source”. There needs to be some incentive for quality vendors to get in the game, and most (all?) of them want to take some measures to ensure no one steals their design.
I've always wondered what the point is of shaving a couple of seconds from ones time. What you suggest is a worthwhile pursuit. It's a little like war, a new technology can completely turn the tables until everyone uses it.
My favorite for programming and terminal, Luculent:

http://eastfarthing.com/luculent