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The other brands don't have macOS. Running a Mac isn't just hardware.

People were annoyed because they don't want to run a different OS. Yes, you could get cheaper/powerful hardware somewhere else... but it's not macOS. Hackintoshes need not apply here.
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Only a few more iterations before we have the complete row of Fn Keys!

That said, I'm glad they bumped up the base to 512GB and the keyboard is improved.
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They removed it? Is this how far Apple is out of touch with technical users?
I've been interested in thin mechanical keyboards on laptops for a while now. Do all 2019 models have it?
Yeah, but that extra inch, man!

I agree, though. My old 2011 MBP was fantastic. A few months ago the video card finally died, otherwise I'd still be using it. Modern macbooks barely seem to have any keyboard keys anymore.
Unfortunately, I think this model is still the older model without the new exclusive ESC key and the 9th gen CPUs
It's amazing to see such a positive response to such weak sauce with the touchbar. Our expectations really have fallen through the floor. There is no reason the escape key needs to be physical that doesn't also apply to the function keys. So why has Apple admitted the touchbar doesn't work, but still forces you to use it for F keys. With this form factor it wouldn't have been difficult to have function keys as well as a touchbar- but Apple don't seem interested in actually solving this problem.

I'm very tired of having to settle for serious shortcomings in what used to be such a great product.
When it comes to function keys, you either use them lots or rarely and for the former, yes - a physical key is prefered by far. However I see the advantages in other situations with the touchbar, however it would be great if the users had a choice. How hard would it be to have the touchbar in a modular design form that was user changeable and they could fit a row of keys instead?

However, there is always the option of an external keyboard. But then you end up carrying even more peripherals that you end up with a really thin light laptop and a second bag with all the adapters to enable to you to use the laptop in the way you want. For some it does feel like you got sold an electric sports car, yet end up having to tow a caravan about to carry all the spare batteries and other accessories you had in your previous car.

But certainly an opportunity to embrace modular design and allow the end user to customize in a way that has benefits and would win over pundits.

EDIT [spelling and fat finger W's]
Follow the money. It was cheaper to stick with that design for 3 iterations than it was to change it.
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That's actually a thickness increase of 0.7mm.
If I were your wife I would be even more turned on when you told me you saved $20,000 and no one can tell the difference
and by the way, where on earth are Larry and Sergei?
Got my 2019 top spec but then revert to get a macbook old stock for daily use. The macbook 12 inch is great. Work nicely with my ipad. Can’t do two screen even the 2nd screen did show. But all is fine. The 15 cold feet.
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"The price is usually given in CPM (cost per mille - cost per thousand impressions), so if an ad has a cpm of 10$, one single impression is worth 0.01$ ! (The average cpm, at the time of writing, is around 1$ if you were asking)."

This is the fundamental core of why journalism never made the jump from newspapers to the internet, and why we have the absolute cesspool of clickbait and seo-chum of a 'news media' that we do now.

Its got nothing to do with ethical standards or cultural shifts or the reporters/writers/editors not wanting to do much much better. Rather, at less than a penny per pageview, the only possible way to pay even a single salary is a plummeting free-fall down to the lowest common denominator and the basest of instincts. That is why facebook was able to make a biz model of it and every other site can't.

($45,000/year salary + 33% biz-overhead) / ($1 CPM x 5 ads per page) = 12 million pageviews per month.

You cannot get 12M pageviews per month in any local city, much less the ~100M it would take to have a small staff and an editor. Hence, all the local journalists are gone.
Can't wait for a review of how the thermals work.
> Can you try and not distort arguments? Nobody except you argued this.

Earlier:

>The ability to try different approaches and run different experiments to see if it results in different outcomes, and make fast adjustments

How is that not "move fast and break things"?

> And by the way, in the cases of kids with extreme behavioural issues

I specifically said children with disabilities. I think it says a lot about you that you're trying to re-frame that as kids with behavioral issues.

I don't think you're arguing in good faith.
They'll go right back, don't worry.
I like the Touch Bar a lot. Not having esc was the only gripe I had with it but I personally much prefer the multifunctional bar over some static f keys
So I actually watched this video (which is clearly just an ad), and I still have no idea what this machine would be used for.

It seems to stir a liquid and pump it out, but that's all I got.
This was a bit tongue-in-cheek -- I was referencing FirefoxOS, and insinuating that mozilla should have stuck to their guns (and maybe changed their batshit market strategy of racing other android vendors to the bottom-most market segment) and kept FirefoxOS in their portfolio.

If a phone OS isn't a strategic bet, I don't know what is. All the people spending money on the librem would have happily bought FFOS phones, if they made proper high spec ones (I still have one of the highest spec FFOS phones ever made and it wasn't that impressive).
Found a completely good one!

"Elon Musk's advice on success"

Bad: 0.0000 - Good: 1.0000
How long ago was "just released"?

Pretty sure Apple employees are locked into heavy NDAs (like many others in tech).
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> Yes, you could get cheaper/powerful hardware somewhere else...

would you agree with this change to your description?:

"Yes, you could get [better] hardware somewhere else..."
Though it is also a basic legal principal to determine if the circumstances that gave rise to a law are still in effect, and if not the law may be rendered moot. So much so that laws that haven't been enforced for an extended period of time can be challenged & overturned on exactly that basis if someone suddenly finds themselves on the wrong side of such a law. I'm just making that distinction though; In this particular case, there is still a continued interest in controlling what enters & leaves the country. The specific issue with this court case revolves around whether personal electronics are truly comparable to items that have traditionally been subject to searches. The court says no, they are not comparable, which seems to make sense: Such devices are less like cargo or luggage and more like personal papers, journal, etc.
After a family trip or outing with your friends, there are lots of photos on everyone's phone. How do you share them with each other? Which android/ios app do you prefer?
And my Quadra 950 cost three times that in 1992 dollars.
It's good to see that the physical escape key is back!
Dang. My 15” is already a hit too big for airplane work and this won’t help. 13 is too small as a daily driver. Can a guy get a 14”??
Let's be honest though, travelling is becoming less fun in the era of mass travel. I'm not saying everyone doesn't have the right to travel or something like that, but I think only a fool would argue it's a better experience visiting x tourist hotspot when that involves having to fight it out with thousands of other people doing the same thing.
I find it bizarre that Apple hasn't cottoned on to the market for 14" laptops yet.

Easily the best tradeoff for me between screensize and carry-ability.
practicing psychiatrist, but armchair scientist, I suppose.
thats the old model with the flawed keyboard, no ESC key etc.
And that's the big thing that keeps surprising me: that there's no laptop maker that produces high quality laptops with their own custom super nice Linux-based but Mac OS-like OS on it. Everybody seems content saddling their hardware with Windows.

Thing is, Mac OS isn't as great as it used to be either. They used to be brilliant developer laptops, but Apple seems to want everybody in their walled garden.
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Bad: 1.0000 - Good: 0.0000

This thing is broken.
For the health care data, Google goes through that data as it goes through any data that is hosted on GCP. Yes we are storing data for them and providing services ontop of it, but that is what cloud does. See:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/cloudblog.withgoogle.com/topics...

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/healthcare/

(I'm a Googler, opinions are my own)
They're just notoriously bad at admitting being wrong. Just look at how many keyboard iterations it took to get back to the old working keyboards.

For me personally think this could work, not having an esc button was a deal breaker for me but this might just convince me to finally upgrade my old mbp retina
I guess I don’t see the point. Ruby and Python fit the bill okay.
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6016 x 3384 @ 32" for that screen, pretty nice. I'll take 4!

(if I won the lottery)
I am actually using CapsLock for typing capital letters. I learned it that way when I first got computer and it stick with me. Plus it's much easier to write capital, accent letters from my language because I don't have to hold two modifiers (Shift+Alt), just one.
And we use silicone thermal paste on top of a piece of silicon ;-)
It's the opposite for me. I would use the €4000 HP ZBook from work on the subway or on the street. But I wouldn't use my €1000 mid-2015 MacBook Pro because I know I wouldn't be able to buy a new one if it got stolen or would break.
I did glance up and the address bar to double check that I hadn't ended up on their mobile site. Very odd design.
> Already, people lead full lives in big global cities like New York and London without any of the trappings of what passed for normality in the middle of the 20th century, like a detached house with a yard and no racial minorities or working-class people within sight. The rest will adapt to this reality, just as early 20th century urbanites adapted to the reality of suburbanization a generation later.

What patronising guff. Some people love city living, a lot can't stand it. You may be happy to live without a back yard and without your own space, that doesn't mean that we all will, nor does it mean that many of those already in cities aren't already compromising.

Yes, let's build train networks. No, let's not pretend that means everyone will be happy to live in a box ten floors up, or that this is somehow inevitable.
I wonder how many developers purchase MBP that don't require to build iOS apps or install xcode.

I realize i don't even look at other laptop makers just because i need to build iOS apps (which in theory shouldn't have any kind of relation) That's probably the textbook definition of monopolistic abuse.
You really don't though? The top of the line comprable configuration has a significantly worse display, 75% of the SSD storage (that's also significantly slower), a worse graphics card and costs ~$4700.
The problem with a bunch of gold or a house is that she can’t carry them around with her throughout her day. With a diamond ring, she can.

Why is that important? Maybe it’s less important today, but if you turn on her and she has to strike out on her own, then her engagement ring becomes a bit of wealth she has access to in an emergency. In that regard it may seem rather silly (why not a bank account?) but in the past, women didn’t have bank accounts or other easy ways to access wealth.
I am still pretty astonished at the strict lack of the ports you would expect on a typical pro laptop: Ethernet, HDMI and at least one USB-A in particular. As someone who occasionally forgets to bring dongles with me, it's a bit of a shame.
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They do if everyone put it

Do everyone put it?
Did you actually follow this?

His rant was basically just of a list of stock arguments from the scientific racism era.

After he got fired his fans started a fundraiser on a white supremacy website.

His arguments were stock white supremacy and the people who adopted him as a hero were stock white supremacists. This isn't hard to figure out.
Really it was more "able to provide for" as opposed to "would wind up worse off if married". The commitment was far more financial in the past than relationship sense. In some cases jewelery was divorce/unexpected widowing reserves that she could be sure were there and hers.

The social context mutated yet the artifact remained - mostly out of the resistance to thinking known as tradition and the desire to sell overpriced baubles.
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the 13-inch models are from 2017
There is actually: https://www.wpcom.org/resource/wpengine/

Though we don't recommend it due to bad pricing policy, bad reputation on TrustPilot and from other testers, and personal experiences. There are way better hosting alternatives that is currently listed and marked with yellow background on our platform.
Google photos, create an album and just add people, I've done many times with many people and works great
Well having a Gen1 2016 MBP I feel quite reassured that they didn't drop the concept altogether, because that mean better support for my current machine.

Yes it's a little gimmicky, main feature being that you can swap between customized buttons and ad-hoc sliders when adjusting things. But still nice that they didn't throw everything aboard and manage to compromise between reintroducing ESC and keeping innovation.
I'm not sure I understand this question but it's pretty doable -- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/B2G_OS

The comment was tongue in cheek -- mozilla had already done everything I suggested (the effort was called FirefoxOS), but they mismanaged and abandoned it. The renewed focus on Firefox the browser (if that had anything to do with it) was good, but some of the other stuff they started pushing like WebVR is/was pretty short-sighted in my opinion.

If mozilla wanted to set themselves up as the open alternative to apple/google, keeping a phone in the portfolio is/was pretty important. Maybe the cost was just too unsustainable but from what I can see it was mismanaged more than impossible to make profitable.
The NYPD kept an illegal database of juvenile fingerprints for years
I would have to agree. A company decrypting my encrypted traffic would not be okay.

I would be okay with them knowing I visited the banking site on company time (if I used their equipment, their DNS, etc) but not with decrypting the SSL encrypted data I'm exchanging with the bank or obtaining it in some other way such as a keylogger.

Though again, I'd probably avoid the issue entirely by using my own device and data connection if I didn't trust my employer. (I'm a bit spoiled, working in IT: I'd probably know if my employer was doing shady things with the data)
jk is the way to go! It is the fastest for me to type vs jj or kk.
MKBHD already has an overview video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDAv4qOU_04 (with apparently real hardware).
Would you prefer it had 2 cameras?
Eh, I don't like these types of searches, but your argument from slavery doesn't really hold either. If it did, then any law that coexisted with slavery could be rendered equally invalid: "It was routine to imprison people for robbing banks... Yes, but it was also routine for people to own each other, so..." and so on.
You must be talking about CA again, the issue resolved many years before the first post on HN. That’s because there’s really nothing against FB.
One of the reasons I'm keeping my MBP w/o touchbar. Although initially I thought I was missing out, I found that by discontinuing this model, they're only proving how great it is.
Probably all the words that are not in the dictionary like uihdwaiuwhdakhkjdgu get the same result. They are probably spam.
Agreed. They look/feel so gimmicky IMO.
Did you try embracing the bar? It saves a lot of time in apps that integrate it well and you can customize it easily for other actions that fit your needs more. It’s especially nice when it doesn’t just display buttons but also sliders and pickers. I also prefer this way Of adjusting my MacBook screen brightness, volume and other quick actions. Of course if you just set it to display F keys it’s a downgrade.

I use it a lot when I’m not on an external screen in media apps like photo or video editing, but I’m also the kind of person that never found f keys useful
With the 15" MBP being EOLed into a 16", it's hard not to wonder if the 13.3" displays might become 14". Makes a big difference at the size, as the X1 Carbon is able to prove.
Weddings are becoming insane in the UK. I went to a friend's wedding a while back where they had a carved piece of glass showing the seating plan for the dinner. Cost hundreds. They divorced a couple of years later.
i know that invoking evo-psych is a thought-terminating cliche for many people, but saying “there are measurable common traits that could be associated with physical changes in the brain” doesn’t even fall into its realm
"In the past, Perl applications could be found on most computers."

I'm not sure I could fill a bus if I located every programmer in my area who ever used Perl on a PC. But as someone points out the tone of the page appears to be tongue-in-cheek.

On the other hand, I think "(worse yet) Java" would make a great .sig line.
Except that the Spectre paper already takes degraded timers into account and suggests to use a Web Worker thread that increments a value in a loop as a replacement.

This is not misinformation, _you_ are spreading "certainty" of safety surrounding a dangerous idea.

https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf

Even if I was wrong, and very wrong, why the hell would you choose to be less safe? this whole thread chain is absolutely baffling. Buy an AMD CPU or leave the mitigations on. Everything else is needlessly opening yourself up.
“And they didn’t throw away the good parts of the butterfly keyboard — including excellent backlighting and especially the increased stability, where keys go down flat even when pressed off-center. The keys on this keyboard don’t wobble like the keys on pre-2016 MacBook Pro keyboards do.” — https://daringfireball.net/2019/11/16-inch_macbook_pro_first...
Personally I find a classic Unix layout to work best for me. I’ve mapped the caps lock key to CTRL. I use that far more than I ever use caps, it feels quite natural to me after about a week or two of adjustment.
The proper spelling of his name is Swartz.
I think what happened to Perl is that its approach (puns, whimsy, ornate symbols, multiple ways to do the same thing) suddenly became extremely unfashionable with the rise in popularity of more clean and simple languages like Python and Ruby (although Ruby had a much more whimsical US community in the past, it's not part of the core language community in the same way.)

Almost overnight everything about Perl seemed very old fashioned. Maybe their style of programming will suddenly become popular again? But doesn't look like it's coming soon.
A lot of workplace cultures survive and even encourage discussiong differing views without making every place a battleground. And even encourage civil exchange of views between people who hold different views.

It's in vogue to use the ideas from the Nonviolent Communication book to make this work better. But those ideas are of course politocal.. as is the debate on whether to allow political discussions.

Also it's pretty hard to separate political discussions from work if you're doing something that impacts people's lives.
(I'm leaving out jobs where the societal impact is clearly negative, there discouraging discussion might be rational for the employer)
This... sounds... like... they... listened to their customers!

Listening to customers is a fine art. It can be a bad thing if you listen slavishly without thinking. You'll end up with a haphazard ball of features. This looks like they listened and understood what power-user customers wanted: a true pro machine that remains quite portable and aesthetically pleasing.

IMHO the 13-inch Pro should just be the MacBook, and of course the Air is great for people who want a tiny lightweight "ultrabook" type machine. You'd have:

Macbook: the current 13-inch Pro

Macbook Pro: the 16-inch

Macbook Air: the ultralight

I really hope this is the mid-oughts Apple coming back. Bravo!
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It feels as though Apple looked at the two biggest complaints, and gave the smallest concessions they possibly could.

• The keyboard uses scissor switches (and thus hopefully won't completely die), but still only has 1mm of key travel.

• They added back an escape key to the top row, but the touch bar is still there—and there's still no function keys as a result.

The keyboard, okay, maybe Apple really needs those thinness metrics for marketing purposes—but would it really have killed them to up the travel to 2mm? And, why the heck are they so dug in on the touchbar? While I admittedly only have anecdotal evidence, I think it's relatively clear at this point that neither users nor developers have taken to it in any significant way. Just kill it already. It's been three years—if people haven't discovered how amazing it is by now, they aren't going to have a sudden awakening.
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Most devices look terrible as a result.
Yeah that's my point, I almost wish the thing would become obsolete more quickly but it stubbornly refuses to :)
I'm curious, do you usually blind type? If so, what advantage does it bring to you to look down on your keys? Also, in an optimal seating position (elbows at 90 degrees), do your fingers obscure the visibility of the touch bar?
Yes.

Because logically you improve everytime, primarily why Cook
comes onto stage every year saying:

"This is our best iPhone yet"

or insert whatever apple product you want.
> that there's no laptop maker that produces high quality laptops with their own custom super nice Linux-based but Mac OS-like OS on it

That would be System 76 https://system76.com/laptops/adder with their pop OS linux distro https://system76.com/pop
According to the System76 site, they charge $1798 just for the SSD.
> Eh you're probably ant fucking

I must admit, I'm unfamiliar with this terminology.
I was thinking to buy that line of MB, but since September I fully switched to Linux after being OSX user for the last 14 years. I ditched my mbp for a Dell XPS 7390 (latest model, 16GB RAM, i7 10th). Me and my girl couldn't be happier.

Me, because I ditched that monopolistic machine, which you can't fully enjoy if you are not in Apple's ecosystem. The only Apple machine I have is macbook. Even my desktop was a hackintosh. As a developer Linux gave me extreme freedom. The only thing I miss, is the touchpad but I learned to live without it.

My girl because I gave her my Macbook Pro 2015 and moved away from windows, win-win situation, the machine will just "work"
Remember the insane flurry of Erlang posts some while back? That had to be a record for flooding about one language.
The tough thing about the touch bar is how often it freezes. It's hard to get used to it when all that is noticeable is the few times a week it does it.