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Literally nothing about Lenovo even holds a candle. Every Lenovo I used is a cringeworthy piece of plastic hot trash that deserves to be in the garbage. Comparing it to MBP quality is absolutely laughable.
No need to wait or wonder. Google Equifax.
Snapchat has 170M daily users as of 2019.
> The US has its problems, but you have been listening to propaganda by anti US forces (you might want to figure out who they are and what their agenda is!)

I think if you think these things are anti-US propaganda, I think you might want to examine the bias you have when you observe your own country.

The death penalty may be rare but it's something that shouldn't exist, especially in a well-developed country and even moreso in a country that frequently proclaims itself the embodiment of freedom, democracy and liberty.

Having grown up in a country that is very restrictive on gun ownership, I feel largely the same about civilian firearms.
I used to buy Intel boards because they were more likely to work well with the latest CPUs of the day. I've switched to SuperMicro boards for our desktops (which are mostly dual Xeon boxes) and have had few problems.

I wish they'd come with a TPM. The integration issues are frequently around the TPM and getting it recognized. It's required for BitLocker whole disk encryption which is part of our standard build. (If a machine or drive goes AWOL, we don't have to worry.)
The ancient Egyptians had it so easy. It's probably as close to the garden of eden as you can get.

Every year, the Nile would flood, bringing in rich alluvial deposits.

All the farmers would have to do is to sow seeds on there plots and then let the pigs trample it under the soil. No ploughing necessary.

While the crops grew, basically untended, many of the farmers were paid (no it wasn't slaves) to build the many public monuments, pyramids, temples facades obelisks etc.

There are even records of workers going on strikes if they didn't like their work conditions.

The narrow Nile valley was also really easy to defend, which preserved Egypt from invaders for most of its dynastic history.
It's probably referring to the fact that the keyboards with butterfly keys fail a lot, with dust rendering some keys unresponsive.
This is exactly it. I need a horse, it can be slightly faster, not required though. There is no horse vs car improvement between iPhone 6s vs iPhone 11, but they removed jack and increased price for no good reason. Btw. I do not think that there can be a horse vs car bump in UX for phones. Maybe I am my imagination is limited. :)
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I got my wife a colored sapphire (champaine). She loves it but the moissanite stone was a no go for her as her perception of it was that it was a fake diamond. The cost for the sapphire vs. the moissanite stone were the same so I just wanted to mention this alternative.
Yeah I'm not sure what Google's value add is. It might be like how Simple Bank was partnered with BBVA to run the back end (before BBVA straight up bought them).
Pretty sure they have been illegal for way longer than 20 years, for example the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 and discriminating based on sexual orientation has been illegal since 1992, at least in California.

The big political fights we are seeing in USA are not local reality. It is like me being in Sweden saying that we aren't progressive enough since Poland has a lot of conservative views, and that therefore we need to add even more protections for women and minorities in Sweden until they are properly accepted in Poland. If someone told me that I have to be engaged in their rights in Poland or I am a misogynist and homophobic then I'd just sigh and ignore them.
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Good luck even trying to sell 100% of a diamond.
Can you explain what happened?
There's been substantial interest in RenTech this week!
Pointless, just spin up a GPU instance in AWS. I use a MBP for ML but anything that needs GPU is better off running OFF my laptop.
Friendly reminder:

it's == (it is | it has)

It's my responsibility to correct grammar. it's been tough for the Lions this year.

its == (the thing belonging to it)
You should always judge a book by its cover.
Just to counter all the people who don't use F keys. I use them all the time. F11 multiple times a week because I have some icons on my desktop for applications I don't use that often. F2, F3, F5, F6, F7, F8 daily because I still prefer Midnight Commander to anything else.

F3 in Eclipse CDT to jump to function/variable declaration. IIRC, F12 does the same in MSVC - useful if you have bootcamp in the laptop. Same as F2 to rename files in Windows.

And, of course, Fn + F1/F2 to adjust screen brightness.
Because they're in cahoots with the big diamond consortiums, to push new diamonds.
These guys are using mostly Perl 5 though. They basically forked 5 years ago and call it Perl 11. They have a good relationship with Perl 6 devs/maintainers and even incorporate some of 6 in their work (that's where 11 comes from 5+6=11). AFAIK they are working with them to get Perl 6 to use the name Raku and drop the link to 6 and let Perl 5 continue as it was with new development instead of Perl becoming a completely new language.

Anyway it's complicated and I only follow along sporadically but as someone who used Perl 5 for over a decade when it was more popular I welcome some kind of resolution where Perl 5 is just Perl and what is now Perl 6 becomes a new, different language with only a tangential relationship to Perl 5.

I don't dislike Perl 6, I just remain biased towards 5 due to past experience.
acronyms?
Big difference: I can rest my finger on a fn key while looking at the screen, and not need to look down before pressing it. Not possible with the current implementation of touch screens / bars.

The biggest thing I miss about tactile keyboards (on a phone, anyway) is the no-look interaction without necessitating input. Maybe tactile navigation is the term. RIP HTC Tilt2.
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I live on the keyboard using vim/spacemacs, yet I almost never use the function keys. It's kinda annoying when I have to work with ncurses apps that insists on function keys (I am looking at you, htop).

Then again, I hardly ever use the touchbar either.

I tried to give this a good go. I remembered when I was the young kid thinking about all those old fogies who could not adapt to changing technologies, and now, I am the one yelling "get off the lawn!"
I've always just typed constants and SQL with my pinky on the left Shift key. It feels easier than having to toggle Caps Lock all the time.

In situations where I'm excited and messaging my friends to yell, I've typed entire sentences mostly holding down Left Shift. After some experimentation, it looks like even for normal sentence capitalization, I never use Right Shift unless I'm typing one-handed.
Each to their own, but I've set mine to always and only display the brightness and volume knobs, and I still find it significantly slower to adjust those, than on my old mbp.

But in all fairness, the F-keys on a mac never really worked like function keys, they've always been more of a row of OSX-keys. I can understand why Apple felt a need to innovate that space, but I am not impressed.
More data is more data.
Just to be clear, artemonster isn't talking about using an FPGA. Verilator is software that complies Verilog to C++, so you'd still end up with a software emulator.

The upside to this is that Verilog makes it very easy to model parallel hardware. The downside is that you have to model the hardware at the clock-cycle, "flip-flops and Boolean logic" level of detail.
Disney+ does not work on Linux devices
The article says Nike agreed to sell on Amazon so Amazon would crack down on counterfeit Nike merchandise. The question is will Amazon stop checking now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(crime)

... promises to protect the target business or person
from dangerous individuals in the neighborhood and then
either collects the money or causes damage to the
business until the owner pays
that’d be illegal in the US, right?
When I clicked the link, I was full of hopes. My retina MacBook Pro is starting to feel tired.

Then the bad news started flowing. Technology-wise we are really not there. Where’s my 4K/UHD screen, for instance ? 16 inch and not enough space for the numpad?

I am, still an Apple fan, but i’s summarise this new machine as “Inching forward, still a massive failure” pun intended.

I wish they could do a Sonic movie-alike U turn.
Yes, I stated as such. I don’t work at Apple, but I am a Product Manager. Pricing is a critical part of product market segmentation. Apple’s pricing is a deliberate choice, not an accident, and they absolutely give up margin for volume.
I donn't miss any keeys, somee eeveenn work twice as eefficieennt.
A single one might not be that big, but they add up (if there are several suchs checks to do in your speculated branch, instead of doing them when they appear during speculation intel chips pooled them up all at the end), and they disappear if the speculation was wrong (speculated the wrong branch ? Didn't lose any time on permission check).

They're the >~10% of cpu perf intel chips have lost in the last few years with all the mitigations.
This really pretty stupid
I've known people who have remote worked in tech with just satellite. It's not ideal/cheap and there are definitely compromises especially as video becomes more and more part of everything. So it can be done today, albeit with compromises.

5G could potentially improve the situation as well.
This is right out of the playbook. See this article for some very candid advice about how companies retain great employees.

[1]: https://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html
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> The 16-inch MacBook Pro features a new Magic Keyboard with a refined scissor mechanism

Probably one of the most important features, even if mentioned in passing, given the problems of the butterfly mechanism.
Yup, the lack of USB-A (and the removal of the ESC key) is the reason I stopped buying MacBooks after many enjoyable years of using the MBA11, 2 x MBA13, and the 2015 MBP13 (arguably the best laptop ever made). Every peripheral that I own is on USB-A. Adding USB-C is great, but why remove USB-A? I just don't get it.
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I'm not sure I see any part of that quote even suggesting "50% of your coworkers... should be paid less because they're genetically inferior to you".

And regardless of the correctness of firing him, him getting fired is a little stronger than "people tell[ing him] that [he's] kind of a dick".
I said rumors due to saying "a couple". I know that azure is pretty public about it, but I didn't think AWS and Google were.
I'm not sure that's entirely accurate, I would have assumed the chances of dying by gun assault was even lower. How was the probability of dying from a gun assault calculated? With car accidents you can generally assume random distribution, but you have to do some math with gun statistics before you can assume random distribution (remove suicides, remove gang-related deaths, etc.)
Turns out Trump was onto something:

"Planning sophisticated covfefe" Bad: 0.0002 - Good: 0.9998
If I'm to have an engagement ring for (presumably) years and years, I'd much rather have something that I'd want to wear and fits my own personal interests/taste.

I'd take a stone that's a beautiful color over a diamond any day.
In 2019 is loads easier for cannabis business than it was in 2014. There are state charter banks and CU that will take the business but it's a high fee account. (Pun intended)
Yes, a16z famously lets everyone call themselves “partner” as a form of title arbitrage

https://vcstarterkit.substack.com/p/how-vcs-choose-twitter-b...
Rust?

I’m still crawling like a baby with Rust but I’m quickly getting familiarized with low-level language notions while finding the struct/trait system notebook intuitive than Python.
That's because the design of keyboard prevents it. There should be a gap between F4 and F5 and also between F8 and F9.

If the gaps were there, I know I would use it. On my desk where I use the Mac around 60% of the time, I have an USB keyboard that has the gaps and I'm touch-typing F keys on it. It's the only thing I really hate when I use the laptop's keyboard directly.
Maybe people just disagree that it's an obvious downgrade? There are benefits to the touchbar, and yes people who prefer the touchbar over the function keys do exist - I'm one of them. Have you tried really using it, or did you write it off and ignore it as much as possible?

For example, the fact you're talking about tap-tap-tap to change the volume leads me to believe you're not aware of the swipe-to-change function. You don't have to tap the volume button, you just swipe over it in one go. A single tap-swipe. In my opinion that is a superior experience than indeed having to tap the correct F-key a few times. Is that so hard to believe?
Seems like the judge has a small conflict of interest.
Rather than some sort of intentional cyberpunk dystopia I think in part what we are seeing is some pressure by American tech companies to emulate Chinese tech companies such as Tencent. One app to rule them all, perhaps would make a good catch phrase. Some of it is a mix of offense and defense, just trying to copy each other and expecting zero margin while preventing a loss in market share.

The national law avoidance, tax avoidance, are both being dealt with by EU. Google is being incredibly cagey about how much of a material impact this is going to have on their business. I don't believe they are complying with GDPR, among other things. Google / Alphabet has basically handcuffed themselves and thrown out the keys in the EU vivisection room.

If you examine Google / Alphabet's position in the US, they went from being the most frequent visitor of the Obama White House (something like weekly visits) to be vilified by the far right, the far left, and the center. The customers that still trust Google have been left largely in the dark and don't read the news.

I've been negative on Google for about a decade now, arriving to the party far in advance of everyone else. I saw the tricks they were pulling back then when they were celebrated.

Yesterday's story about Google working with Ascension was extraordinarily shocking. There are, of course, serious privacy issues, and that dominated the headlines. What is truly appalling is that Google is using their artificial intelligence / machine learning work to help a major healthcare company "extract more revenue from patients" (WSJ.)

Google has veered so far off course, one wonders if Larry Page and Sergey Brin may be suffering from head injuries or dementia, or just drowned themselves in their own hubris. It starts to sound a lot like OpenAI, where there tech firms believe they are going to do something so substantial, are execute above and beyond what anyone else is capable of, that the entire world is there's for the taking.

It is more likely that these companies will cease to exist, by a wide margin. With or without regulators. The more pots they stick their hands in, the less consumers will trust them. We already see it here on hn, people no longer bother to try new Google products because we don't believe those products will still be around in a few years. What happens when the early adapters reject your products?
Zero-burden-of-proof state government edict (an Indiana tax warrant) based entirely in fiction caused them to throw up their hands and say “there’s nothing we can do!” as they took $150 for Chase’s lawyers’ time and handed the remainder over to Indiana in full.
Thank you for raising this very significant detail to the comment section!
Goals:
Host all OpenJDK Git repositories at https://github.com/openjdk/.

First, LLVM and now OpenJDK? I would be happier if this was creating an official mirror but no; it's the entire project.

There is nothing wrong with having a self-hosted GitLab/BitBucket instance these days. Migrating to Github is basically a no-go for a project like OpenJDK since once GitHub goes down it takes everything with it.

Since OpenJDK is using Mercurial this also means that they have to convert all their mercurial history into Git! Is it really worth the move?

Alternatives

1. Keep using Mercurial and the existing OpenJDK workflow. (For repos as large as those for the JDK, we do not expect it to be practical to use hg-git or similar tools to retain a client-side Mercurial version of a server-side Git master repo.)

2. Use GitLab EE as the external source-code hosting provider.

3. Use BitBucket as the external source-code hosting provider.

Out of all options: (1) is the best option. (2) is sort of OK but GitLab can be replaced with "open-source hosting provider".
Precisely.

I do not comment on google platforms at all because I’m so stuck with gmail due to making an account when it came out and I was young then. Whenever I have a choice I avoid their products.

I’m even avoiding publishing hobby stuff on Play Store nowadays as a bad submission due to error will, you guessed it, lead to total ban.

Just as you said this works against their interests. As consumers we must diversify.
As much as I enjoy Twilight Zone comparisons, it is pretty hyperbolic to claim that Google is working toward the equivalent of mind control rays because they are obsessed with consumer data. People’s lack of openness to advertising attempts is going to continue to be a barrier to ads being perfectly effective, whether or not Google has banking data on top of Gmail data and regardless of how specifically targeted the ads are.

People will still have free will (to the extent they ever have) no matter how individually tailored ads get.
It's very common for people to purchase engagement rings on loan. I had a friend who sold jewelry back in the 00s and he said it was pretty rare for someone to pay cash for engagement rings. Most people got 12-36 months loans.

It's possible this changed between 09-13 because of the recession, but I'd bet it's very common now that the economy is doing really well.

This might not be a mortgage, in the sense of being a lifetime payment. But it's a (semi-)secured loan.
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We do it but our kids share rooms. The girls are in one room and the boy in the other. They will complain when they’re older but that’s life. Most people aren’t willing to have 5 people in 1050 square feet.
People in dense cities don't have social networks based on proximity, where did you get that idea? On the contrary, the big city is where you can disappear, and live almost anonymously. The alienation comes exactly from that: the lack of forced interactions with the same people pushing you into forming social connections.
What information are you looking for? The article describes the performance and results of these new machines for an admittedly small election:

- "The machines, VotingWorks said, were inexpensive to make, easy to fix and no problem to set up and take down. The hope, the organization said, was to produce shorter lines and more reliable results, a wish that seemed realized on Nov. 5."

- "After the initial trial and a second user test at a retirees potluck lunch, the county election commissioners enthusiastically allowed the company to test the machines countywide during the general election on Tuesday."

- "The machines took poll workers less than two minutes to fully construct, shortening lines and keeping voters calm. Poll workers uniformly said they loved this feature, as it made the machines easier to maneuver and take down."

- "“Everything went just fine,” said Amy Burdine, Choctaw County circuit clerk. “Just as expected.”"

You realize that voting accuracy can be determined on the day of the election with these machines? By the way the operation is described, voters use the machine to mark choices digitally, and a paper printout is produced, allowing each voter to look at and confirm the result. According to the article, there were few, if any mistakes or complaints.

What other metric are you interested in?
The trouble with Alon is that he starts with the conviction that we should build more fancy trains, and then works backwards comes up with policy arguments so that makes sense.
Although it turns out "covfefe"0 by itself would not have been a hit with the HN crowd. That is probably why it went on Twitter.
As seen with the #MeToo movement among others -- there have been people, there are people, and there will be people whose voices are silenced. Not always explicitly.
Buy her a house? Buy insurance? Put all your pay into a joint bank account?
are you recommending iptables as an example of 'better' ?!
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To me, the proper place to put the touchbar's screen would have been where the Macbook Pro branding is below the main screen. Integrate it such that it can be operated both by touch and FKeys. I don't look at the keyboard, I don't want to be made to look at the keyboard. Put the damn thing where you're spending 99% your time looking. Don't much care where they stick the fingerprint sensor.

FWIW I use FKeys all the time, and I'm going to retain F6 step over, F7 step into and others forever as that seems to be the default across many IDEs, not just XCode.

FWIW2, I don't like the new Pro retaining a touchpad the size of a football field - I had lots of rejection/false activation issues with my brief ownership of a 2016. The 2015 I replaced it with, and previous MBPs haven't.
It would be possible, but the police is not know for cooperating in investigations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence
It's worth pointing out that OpenSCAD was started by Clifford Wolf, who went on to develop Yosys, the synthesis tool used in these open FPGA workflows.
>Most computer users aren’t hardcore users.

I know at this point it's mostly marketing, but we are talking about a "pro" model.
Dudeee, samee!!!
For me, this is the takeaway quote : "The biggest change is that I finally don’t feel like it’s constantly fighting me. Its design doesn’t feel spiteful."
Agreeed
> There are some really powerful pieces of software on Linux, but almost none of them are designed half as nicely as most Mac software.

That is probably not because Mac developers are inherently more "design affine" but because there is a very clear design standard on MacOS while Linux is basically a complete clusterfuck with 20 different desktops etc. So it's not as much a matter of getting Mac devs to also make stuff for Linux as getting Linux to be more standardized.
CTRL-[ is standard Vim mapping for Esc.
What about a network stack? Are they running one of those exposed to adversaries? http://www.misc0110.net/web/files/netspectre.pdf
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When talking about a camera for video conferencing, having especial high resolutions does not matter. Having good quality 720p (sharp, little noise) is way better than having bad full HD. Even TV in 720p holds up pretty well on large screens as long as the source is good quality.