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There was a discussion on this a week ago in the Perl subreddit where some key community members (Ex: Ovid) chime in.

I think it is a good plan to make Perl faster, but I'd rather they pitch in and help Johnathan Worthington with the Perl6 (now Raku) effort. Perl5 is a good language, but there isn't enough to get me to switch from Python. Raku on the other hand is very cool and I can see the benefit.

Edit:

Perl6 (now Raku) isn't just a version change from Perl5, but is an entirely new and powerful language. It seems to have pulled some of the best aspects of Python, Ruby, Perl, and some things from Haskell/Lisp.
I am very happy about this and the Mac Pro -- it seems like Apple is finally admitting where it has room for improvement in hardware.

Which, of course, makes me wonder whether they will ever abandon their hubris with software. There really ought to be a Rosetta-style compatibility layer for 32-bit and GC apps in macOS. Sadly, I don't think that will ever happen. Anyone know whether it's possible to install Mojave on one of these?

I've been a Mac user for thirteen years this month. I'm not sure I can buy another one.
GP did say that:

> Now they are going to build a plant in Europe. Probably next will come India, and then maybe Latin America or the Middle East, and there I suppose Israel would be the best location.
Millennial here. When I got married we skipped rings because ring culture is bullshit.

(It was her idea before anyone asks. I suggested we get non-diamond or lab grown, and was pleasantly surprised when I learned she also thought rings are dumb)
Huawei is / will be doing just that!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/09/12/huawe...
My empoyer doesn't have a lot of power over me. I'm a programmer not a coal miner.

I don't want to be in a union. I don't want to join some club. I don't want to pay dues. I don't want to read newsletters or listen to speeches or be involved at all in the grubby, underhanded manuevering for power that would come with a union. And I'm tired of people condescendingly telling me that I'm wrong for feeling this way. I'm not wrong. Power corrupts and labor is no more pure than mangement. If labor gets the upper hand it will abuse its position.

The solution is a balance of power between labor and management. In my case, I feel I have plenty of power. In the case of Google employees, I feel they have plenty of power. Broadly speaking, programmers (in the US) have plenty of power.

If you want to do good, volunteer at a soup kitchen. Of course that would be hard and would involve looking at things you'd rather not see.
Most of the points in this post are not accurate. There are more guns in civilian hands here than there are people.

"The Small Arms Survey stated that U.S. civilians alone account for 393 million (about 46 percent) of the worldwide total of civilian held firearms" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_ownership

"Most of them are in the hands of well trained people who are harmless"
I am not sure what you base this on, you don't need any training at all to buy a gun, just ~24 - 48 hour waiting period and if you have a concealed carry permit, you can generally walk out with the gun after paying. Depending on the state, training to carry a concealed weapon can take from 2 - 8 hours. Some states don't even require training if you want to open carry your weapon.

In 2010 there were ~20,000 suicides involving a gun. In 2016, there were 11,004 gun homicides. The US leads the world in mass shootings, especially in schools. Accidental gun injuries are most common in homes where guns are kept for self-defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...

Getting shot by the police is a leading cause of death in young male people of color.

"you might want to figure out who they are and what their agenda is"

Indeed.
Not really, "better" hardware is subjective in a laptop. For all the complaining people do, Apple is very good about ensuring that the hardware in their machines works as expected and hits a solid baseline performance level for given tasks.
Pretty sure that was a dodge all quote.
a couple of months ago I bought a fully decked out 15" for $6k CAD; for the same amount, I can now get a 16", and double the storage and slightly better graphics.

What the hell! I'm going to try getting a replacement from Apple. The 15" upgrade that I got was just announced too when I got it.
You don't think Democrats get a personal gain out of this?
Meh, it's just a matter of efficiency, the bulk prices they get from manufacturers, the fact that they're basically using the same assembly lines for 10 years, with the same suppliers &.

TV got much much cheaper in the last 10 years too and that's not because manufacturer cut their margins, mass production + mature tech + price/perf going down = price stagnates or drops.
I've not found a good source for Moissanite in the UK, as in, one that doesn't seem overpriced - it's almost like there's a conspiracy to prevent any good deals on engagement/wedding rings.
This is exactly why lower tier local newspaper "publications" started splitting already short articles into 3-5 pages, and why 10-item lists require 11 or 12 pageviews to read where pages 4 and 9 are just an ad.

For context, to get 12 million pageviews for a local newspaper website, if you're in a small metro of ~250k people with 5% readership, that means every single reader would need to generate nearly 1,000 pageviews a month each. Even at 2 pageviews per article, that's approaching 20 articles a day M-F.
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Certain groups/bubbles look at their friends who, like themselves, tend to be college-educated, relatively well paid, young, childless, etc. and conclude that everyone is (or at least wants to) move into urban cores. In fact, there is a general migration out of areas like the rust belt and many very rural towns to places where there are more jobs. But the migration into urban cores is mostly fairly specific demographic groups into a relatively small number of elite cities. Which is a notable change from the net outflow as recently as 20 years ago. But it's still a relatively modest shift in the scheme of things.
> Hackintoshes need not apply here.

If it's just about running MacOS, they absolutely apply.
My first laptop was an Apple PowerBook 140 and I've owned a succession of Mac laptops since then (Wallstreet, G4 Aluminum, 2012 & 2017 Macbook Pro) and yet I'm typing this on a Surface Pro because I had such a poor experience with the 2017 Macbook Pro that I'll probably never go back. That keyboard was such junk that I literally feel like Apple robbed me. I really regret not returning the computer within the two week window for a full refund. I realize this rant isn't very productive but I still hope the ghost of Steve Jobs reads it.
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Why do they get away with saying the world’s best pro notebook“ when I don’t see anything materially better than the dell precision 55xx and 75xx line?

More pixels in the 15.6
Xeon chip 5ghz
128GB ECC memory

I guess I’m wondering what metric singles this one out as being best?
A bit disappointed it still sports an LCD screen, although expected.

I guess LED screen is left for the next iteration of innovation.
I love how the facebook discussion on this thread has turned in to Amazon and google discussion. Bravo facebook PR, Bravo.
"the worlds best pro notebook" ? According to whom ?
> The only one who could distinguish it had to use a thermal conductivity gun to do so.

It is extremely easy to distinguish a moissanite from a diamond using a reliable, low-tech test: the moissanite can't scratch a diamond, but a diamond will scratch the moissanite.

The problem, if you're a jeweler talking to a customer, is that this will damage the moissanite.
It seems like the classic reaction to the GDPR - add a stupid cookie banner and it'll be fine. Truth is, it's not compliant.

If you want to be compliant you need to ask for consent before loading any of the creepy/stalky shit like Google Analytics and Facebook Like buttons.

Unless you're gonna do it properly you might as well not bother at all as you're still in breach of the regulations no matter what.
I'm 30+ years in. AMD shipped huge numbers of 8086/8088s as a second-source; you might have had one and not known it. But I'm guessing that's not what you mean. :-)

There was a good bit of time where Opterons where everywhere on servers, including things like the whole Sun x86 line. At one gig we had datacenters full of IBM blade servers stuffed with dual Opteron boards; they were a big success in the market. I know at one point another gig's non-US folks had significant installed base of AMD-based Fujitsu servers.

Didn't see as much on the desktop/laptop side, though I did carry a AMD-based Thinkpad for a short while. Apparently HP sold a successful, low-end, AMD-based business desktop.

YMMV...I think it's a matter of 'I haven't seen any tigers in my back yard, therefore I doubt they exist'.
Wow, that's pretty great! I'm not sure I'll change my mind until I actually touch them, but that's pretty great, kind of removes my stereotypes of scissor keyboards.
> We are now developing the RPerl compiler, which provides startup optimization, serial runtime optimization, automatic parallelization, and memory usage minimization.

What would a modern high performance language look like though?
I see it at as a language with AOT compilation, high performance implementation of a decent actor concurrency model not shared memory one, vector/matrix abstractions, primitives and operations. At the same time I see automatic parallelization in multi core context as something only hurting high performance.
Yeah I guess people carrying around transmitters is too easy to exploit for surveillance and it's just irresistible.
> physical escape key

I'm happy we VIM users have been loud enough to get the most important key back. :-)

I know there's Ctrl-[ but it's 20 years of muscle memory to retrain, and I don't want to do that.
Not saying it completely makes up for difference in price - but there is no way I'm buying a new laptop with 1080p screen
>> "I plan to rewrite Linux in Rust - Linus Torvalds" <<

Maybe it's sohpisticated because Linus is going to RIIR?
I wouldn't. Maybe on pure specs, yes. But there is just no substitute for me for the trackpads Apple builds into their laptops. And the overall quality and longevity of the devices. I've only bought/got a new Apple device because I could, never because I had to (ie: it was broken/unusable).
I did I can't muscle memory anything because of the lack of tactile feedback. I have to look down everytime.

I use the F keys a lot for intellij
Half the value of SwiftUI comes from Xcode's GUI builder. Does this plan to support that?
Don't forget that the Touch Bar costs an additional $400 for consumers.

The 2015 model was the best MacBook Pro. Perhaps the best laptop yet.
I bought an MBP 15” back in 2013, and still use it to this day. I might benefit from an upgrade, but haven’t seen an immediate need to.

Seeing this new 16”, I am so glad I skipped upgrading and waited. I still might not, but at least I won’t be dealing with regressions if I do.
Not really an accurate picture of the big global cities in the middle of the 20th Century, either. If anything, the working-class density has declined in core areas of New York and London, hasn't it?
As the keyboard replacement program starts ending next year for the earliest lemons it will be interesting to see if Apple voluntarily recalls and replaces anything with these.
To be fair with bitcoin you can at least pay (in some places).

Also the worth of bitcoin is (kinda) backed by the worth of the electricty which is used to mine blocks (and consequently new bitcoins).
You mean like pretty much everyone who doesn't care that their Venmo transactions are public by default? Or so I've heard.
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When I was a junior dev and was stuck on a problem (had to cap myself at 1 hour max because otherwise I'd spend the entire day) the first question my mentor asked was 'what have you found out?' and 'what is your thought process?' By regurgitating and trying to condense the things I figured out he could already point me to the right path and/or correct some wrong assumptions I made. It really helped me grow as a developer to not just be handed the answer.

But yeah, he did sit with me beforehand and explained how he mentors people.
There is nothing wrong with Windows.

What surprise me is on the laptop keyboard layout has dedicated Print Screen and Insert keys but no Home and End keys.
Or maybe you have some kind of debilitating disorder that needs medical/psychological attention, like dysthymia.
Who uses their arrows for gaming?
I do that on my Macbook Pro. The only drawback is when I go to any other machine that doesn't have Caps Lock remapped and I'm toggling caps lock on/off all the time.

Particularly annoying when you're a vim user :D
> The certificate is only valid for the following names: packages.rperl.org, phpmyadmin.cloud-web0.autoparallel.com

I hope step 1 is to get a working TLS certificate.

Edit: Oh, I see. https serves the wrong site...
And the whole china 1
Woops! Thanks!
A RAT is a remote access tool.
There are tiny USB ones and WiFi ones that are okay, but it would be a neat option. It better be unlocked of course for a laptop.
OK, but let's see in 6 months or a year if the keycaps all start breaking off, and the switches either freeze up or double-type.

trust needs to be regained.
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>Bad: 0.1236 - Good: 0.8886

This says something.. though I'm not sure what :)
He does indeed make the very same point and his review suggest he thinks of the author as more or less a proudly scientifically illiterate witch doctor whose patients' behavior bears not resemblance to that of his own patients.

This does however not prevent him from then recommending the book to one of his patient whom apparently is instantly cured by it.

Somehow the intro and ending seem at variance with the rest of the piece and I'm not sure your -- plausible -- reading entirely resolves this.

Lots of people presenting with a "disorder" is of course an imperfect indicator that the disorder has some objective basis in fact[1], but there is no real suggestion that Alexander thinks this is the case here. I'm not sure what to make of this piece.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(medicine)

> Local official records indicate genital retraction endemics in Hainan Island and Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, China, as early as the late 19th century.
Co-founder of Geocodio here :) Glad to hear our free tier model worked for you all. Would love to send some swag your way -- send me your address! mhansen (at) geocod (dot) io
Let's face it iOS and need for software for it is keeping Apple computers alive. If one day it would be possible to develop iOS apps on other operating systems Macs sales would crash.
The standard for releasing new software is that it should be better than its own previous self, in some way. It doesn't have to be better in all ways, or best in the world in any way, so long as the overall value proposition has improved. What rubs many people the wrong way about Apple is that they always claim to be the absolute best in all dimensions, as though engineering tradeoffs or accommodation to users' priorities and preferences are only for lesser companies. "Our car is the fastest and the most comfortable and the most fuel efficient, so you'd have to be an idiot to want anything else." It's the computing equivalent of snake oil, and people react to that.
He doesn’t know, hence the “probably”. It’s a good guess though, based on the known reliability of the wireless Magic Keyboard.
You have to actually look at it to use it, which makes it categorically worse than the older real keys. Also until you have access to it on desktops and all of the laptops it doesn't make sense to adapt your workflow to it if you use multiple computers.
I’m sure someone has suggested this at some point but why not physical keys with an lcd underneath each key? This would allow those keys to be fully customizable and be worthy of the “Pro” designation.
If that’s true, I haven’t found it when I’ve shopped for a laptop to install Linux onto. This wasn’t always the case, but right around the time of Windows 8 when everything needed a touchscreen and chromebooks were eating the low end of the market, good affordable hardware seemingly disappeared. I would have to spend $1500 to get something in the same ballpark as an entry level MacBook and it would still have profoundly terrible touchpad (whether running Linux or Windows, it never mattered), a mediocre keyboard, a plastic body, and noisy fans.

Chromebooks do offer better hardware per dollar than other computers, but you are (or perhaps were) pretty locked-into the ChromeOS, or at least none of the workarounds seemed palatable. So if you like ChromeOS then there is better value hardware out there, but Mac is it for the rest of us.
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Every time I read another headline like this (and the healthcare one from yesterday) think of that scene from the Matrix. I realize it's not exactly a perfect metaphor, but nonetheless I have visions of an Agent Smith character saying something like this:

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify Google and Amazon and Facebook and I realized that you're not actually businesses. Every business on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. A disease, a cancer of this planet.
The size increase makes me hope for the 13" becoming a 14"
I've got only 0.9773 good with:

Can you pass the butter?

But exactly the same score with:

Cannot your passed their butter?

Couldn't hill-climb past that.
I was instantaneously thinking about machine learning from UCI data set repository.

Talking about dangers of AI!
I'm pleasantly surprised that Apple decided to implement a physical escape key, the inverted "T" arrangement along with redoing the keyboard.

While I don't know if we should be applauding Apple so heavily, it's good to see that they "listened" to customer feedback and made these changes. I know that I'll be looking forward to getting one after my 2015 MBP gives out.
If they care at all about making the touchbar a thing then the best way to do that is make every mac developer get one on their daily-use laptop. I still think of it as a novelty more than a functional feature, but I don't think any third party apps would support it if it didn't come on every MBP.
Are ya'll voting on the title alone?
Besides the privacy risks with full on moving your banking to Google, I think another big issue is when they decide this product isn't profitable any more, and/or some other department in Google comes up with banking 2.0 and you end up having to move all your bill payments, auto draft, etc back out.
If we thought killing Google Reader was bad, killing your bank app would be even worse.
Hi there. Thanks for pointing that out. My blog is usually read only by a bunch of nerds and when I put the first cookie banner, GDPR was not even a thing. I've added one that is compliant with the spec. Hope it's fine.
Rent prices doubled since early 2010. Berlin is not mountain view, normal people actually live here and can't afford it anymore.
Thanks for the advice, but I prefer to use what small influence I have to encourage better and more thoughtful discussions.
Except for the keyboard fiasco, obviously
This argument as THE SOLUTION really needs to stop. As an example I mapped caps to ctrl a long time ago so this won't work without compromises.
Same here. I have the most spec'd-out Fall 2013 MBP and it's still perfect to this day.
The lack of it on 2016 mbp made me re-assign the caps-lock key to ESC, and in fact this is the correct place for it anyway - much more natural than as an extra F-key.
> Zuckerberg (Bad: 1.0000 - Good: 0.0000)

At least it gets something right ...
Does it even make sense to advertise online? I know that sounds like a dumb question but despite being told that ads DO work on me I don't think I've ever bought a single thing online because of an ad.

If I want to advertise my product or service I'm afraid it will just be me dropping a couple thow for ads that no one will ever click on. Maybe then the ad company would blame me for not having a compelling enough ad and I'll have just thrown away my money. I wish advertising were more formulaic so I had a better idea of how much I'll get out given how much I put in.

Alternatively, maybe online advertising can work if you think outside the box. But I have serious concerns about buying $2000 worth of customers from Facebook.
ya he has pearl vision lol... needs to get his i's checks
When I was in the market for the 2019 model (bought a second hand 2015 instead) I tried the touchbar and really liked what it offered in terms of context aware controls. But I quickly realised I could never incorporate it into my workflow since I use my laptop docked most of the time. Meaning I have an external keyboard, without a touchbar. So all productivity gained by a touchbar would only work when I'm not behind a desk. Making investing into the touchbar useless and leaving it as just a gimmick indeed.
You're going to get some responses where people say System76 and Pop_OS!, but it really only visually looks decent and optimizes much of the Linux laptop experience. It still doesn't have, for instance...

- Application support for graphics editors that people need in 2019... you can either run macOS or Windows for this

- Built-in cross-device syncing like iCloud/CloudKit

- Smooth integration with peripheral devices (e.g, HandOff)

This list could be extended for quite a ways, as people seemingly want to ignore part of what still makes macOS great - you have very well done product integration across the entire stack. I want it to "just work" in 2019 so I can live my life instead of tinkering with an OS/hardware combo.

The analogy I like to give people is that buying a Macbook is kind of like buying a BMW after years building your own tuner car. I'll always enjoy building my own, but man... if my daily driver breaks, I just wanna pay someone to fix it. Gimme the luxury feel already.
> Sure, over time the sapphire will scratch a lot easier

Huh? The sapphire will scratch easier... if you spend a lot of time rubbing your hand against diamonds.

Sapphire is one of the hardest stones there is. It's the 9th point on the (ordinal) 10-point Mohs scale, with 10 being diamond.
Roman water pipes ended up covered in (substance I don't recall the name of), and so not much lead leeched into the water. Water jugs made of lead were probably more of a problem.

The same holds true for modern lead pipes. They work fine, until they don't.
>The oversized caps lock key on keyboards is an inexplicably bad UI choice anyway.

It's probably largely a relic from typewriters when it was originally something of a mechanical necessity and then made more sense than today in the context of filling out forms etc.
I just checked what it is. Isn't it a bit expensive?

$70/m for a mobile plan seems ridicilous.
Thats true for a lot of luxury goods. Try selling an expensive watch for the same price you paid for and you’ll be in for a big surprise. Some collectible items go up in price but in general thats not the trend.
There's a tiny one in the Apple Watch, the iPhone, the iPad, and in laptops from other manufacturers.
Wait a bit and you can get a higher quality version at a lower price. It's called Apple's Refurbished units. They've been through QA twice. :)
OP was asking if "German federation" was "a more literal translation of Bundesrepublik Deutschland", which it definitely isn't.