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People have complained a lot about this decision by Apple, but I respect it. They're using their leverage over the ecosystem to cut off a huge piece of cruft from not only their own codebase, but many other codebases like Rust's that can now point to their decision in the face of criticism. And the only cost is that old binaries (not old code, old binaries) will no longer run without being rebuilt. Plus, this will probably never need to happen again because 64 bits can address 18 million terabytes of main memory.
Right, but in python, especially with use of the third party libraries, I can glue together something using less than 20 lines of code.

I once had a script that recorded the microphone, converted the waveform, passed it to TTS to turn it to text, translated it, then converted it back into audio and played it. All with under 30 lines of Python.

Meanwhile with C++, just trying to manipulate some strings will take that many lines. I guess we have different definition of "easy to use".
The developer edition ships with Linux (Ubuntu) instead of Windows.
> Time dilation is only 1/2 the story. The other half is distance measurements get distorted.

Yes, that's why I mentioned length contraction. They're results of the same transformation I believe. So they're directly related. Same as mass and every other supposed "constant" in newtonian mechanics.
I remember when Dean Kaman introduced ginger/Segway as a transformational revolution in personal transportation...

If only he’d thought of electrifying available people-powered systems and miniaturizing as well adding capacity rather than re-inventing things. Of course hindsight... but what if he’d seen things differently.
> I think your entire criteria for determining whether a language or feature is good boils down to its intuitiveness to experienced C programmers ...

I see this tired argument over and over. It is especially thrown out when some esoteric language syntax is criticized.

In this case it seems to miss the authors point entirely. My understanding of his argument is that the C language maps reasonably well to machine code. Adding new features to the language could hamper that intuitive mapping between the language syntax and the actual machine code generated.

A valid criticism (which others have made) is that the actual mapping between C code and machine code on modern machines is far less intuitive than one might expect. Another valid response would be a demonstration that "closures, pattern matching, and templates" can be intuitively mapped directly to machine code.

I would be happy if I never see the "you are too blinded by your own language to understand" argument ever again. It borders on ad-hominem and extends no benefit of doubt to the original author.
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OS X Lion was the first version to use an x64 kernel, and there were definitely x86 (32-bit) versions of the OS and apps.

In particular, the quicktime runtime / codecs (until quicktime x) was only x86, and various VFX apps on OS X had to write RPC code to communicate with it as a 32-bit process from 64-bit land.
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> each "CUDA core" is approximately equal to a SIMD lane on an x86 core

It's not really, that's why Larrabee failed.
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Not much data. You don't need to save actual videos, the server already has all the data so there's no network cost, and you don't need to store the data for very long. Developer cost to implement the feature would far outstrip the cloud costs.
The funny thing is that Best Buy also price matches bestbuy.com :)

Every time I go in there I have to ask the cashier for the price on the web site. The stores and site have different prices. I guess it makes sense because you capture 5% from everyone who doesn't bother to do that.
And, what makes me want to dive into this the most, there's some Clojure! Will definitely have to take a look a this one. Thanks.
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From what I can tell it is generally more expensive because the only place you can get it is from dell directly so you pay more than on other retailers which do not sell the developer edition.

However, on dell's website it is cheaper than the "normal" edition.
The obvious problem here is that in this case open source software is being used to take away other people's freedoms.

Not really, there's no reason to consider that distinct from using it to kill people or whatever other problematic behavior.

Trying to pick "bad" things to proscribe makes a license fundamentally not open.
Your optimal solution fails under the other axiom of Dark Forest theory - technological jumps. A species that's too powerful for you to deter needs to face the possibility that you may suddenly experience a period of rapid progress, making them unable to defend from you, and they may not even know it before your weapons reach them. So the optimal strategy for them is to get rid of you while they still have the advantage.
I might be wrong but I believe on the 13" XPS (not the 2-in-1 I have) you can change the automatic brightness in the BIOS. I can't do it in mine but I think this was a recent change to the 7390 2n1 only. It's CABC if I remember correctly.

FWIW, I have a 2016 MBP (maxed out) and now a 2019 XPS 13 2in1 4k and while I haven't used it anywhere near as long I think my XPS blows my MBP out of the water. I feel like I'm working on a 2005 laptop when I switch to the MBP and it's only saving grace is OSX. I also got the 4k/i7/32gb version for $985 from the Dell outlet during Black Friday. Insane price.

Not sure if your touchpad has the Windows precision drivers like mine does but I haven't noticed any issues with my touchpad compared to my MBP. I like it but I also use no gestures. I refused to even look at laptops that didn't use the Precision drivers/touchpad.

I'd say after a month of having it 100% of my issues/annoyances are Win10. I'm getting more used to it, Win10s tablet mode is actually pretty awesome but then 20% of your apps will be UWP (native tablet mode) while the others are regular exe/msis. It's bit of a jarring experience and I feel like I'm fighting Windows constantly.

And the thing that really blows my mind, this being a convertible tablet, the on screen keyboard is absolutely horrid. It takes less time for me to write things with the pen even factoring in my horrible penmanship that I have to slow down with for it to read it correctly. Course, this is another Windows issue. Microsoft owns Swiftkey now, it'd be nice if they integrated it.
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The consequences of using an inspect statement are local to the statement. So the syntax is a thing to learn, but probably not a harbinger of language complexity. It's a leaf node.
Those should not be put in the same category.
That is excellent. I would love to see this pattern spread around the world.
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It's just a programatic meta analysis. And no one's get sued for having an out of date meta analysis.
Microcenter's locations are, using metro areas as a location metric:

LA, Denver, Atlanta (x2), Chicago (x2), Kansas City, Boston, DC (x2), Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Minneapolis, NYC (x5), Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Houston.

If you live in the NE, you probably recognize the closest store just by the name of the city it's in. If you don't recognize any names, then it's probably several hours away.
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This almost seems like the plot of the James Bond story Casino Royale.

Basically, SoftBank has taken the money of some very unsavory characters (people who are literally willing to cut your body into little pieces) promising big gains and has lost a significant chunk of it.

Now, like Le Chiffre, they are desperately trying to gamble big, hoping that they can make up the lost money by high risk strategies.
I've had similar treatment. It is so awkward for both me and the employee.

I always got the feeling the stores management, and corporate were stuffed full of sleazy used-car style salespeople.

Just tons of mis-aligned incentives that resulted in a very poor customer experience.
Wish I had read this comment before the post. Thank you.
There's lots of Clojure! (in relative terms. In absolute terms, there's not much of it because Clojure is so concise and powerful that everything is implemented with very little code :)
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Noted, thanks I'll keep that in mind next time I post.
This whole thread is like a bad case of broken telephones and one guy seems to be getting the bad end of the down vote stick.

1. Person A talks about submitting videos of hackers and being ignored.

2. Person B says that "detected hacks" are acted on in waves as part of arms race with hackers, says nothing of "user-submitted", instead generalizes about "detected hacks".

3. Person C gets uppity about companies ignoring hacks, irrespective of the potentially-valid reason as mentioned by person B.

4. Person B insists that the bans happens in waves. Says he wasn't talking about "user-submitted" stuff as he was talking in generalities.

5. Person D jumps in says "thread is absolutely about user-submitted stuff".

I paraphrased and generalized too for a bit of dramatic effect, but the thread is definitely broken and if someone stares at it for a bit, they would probably see how it went bad and that probably no one is technically wrong.

6. Person E jumps in with meta-commentary about the discussion that led to this point.

Edit: Formatting.
During first half of 2020 a well known person who predicts against climate change will sacrifice herself or will be sacrified, and this sacrifice will start a new era, changing the way we behave and think. Greta, I'm looking at you...
I can relate to that. I used to stop by the nearest Fry's store if I was in the neighborhood, even if I wasn't looking for anything in particular.

I would just walk the aisles to see if anything looked interesting. And sometimes you would see people you knew, or knew of.

On one of these random walks, I ran into Linus Torvalds in the Campbell store. Good times!
“... from its own-brand cereals ...” so you’re safe, Cap’n.

I learned a new term: pester power.
I think that essay a bit unfortunate worded:

'The Lisp in his 1960 paper was meant to be a formal model of computation, like a Turing Machine'

That's more about a paper from 1960 where McCarthy presented Lisp to a certain audience of mathematicians.

The actual Lisp programming system which existed at that time (and had a manual) was designed and developed from 1958 onwards.

Again: 'The Lisp in his 1960 paper was meant to be a formal model of computation, like a Turing Machine'

But the Lisp programming system they developed since 1958 was actually an implementation of Lisp on an IBM 704.

The language, its programming model and its implementation were developed since 1958 -> together. It was an iterative process over several years: ideas were formulated, code was written (often on paper) and then tested practically on a computer. Step by step.

More detail on the early years is by Prof. Herbert Stoyan:

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...
DEA registration is the only way you can order reference standards for these particular scheduled compounds. the DEA is feds. they don't give a shit about the state laws, and don't permit registered labs to do testing for organizations that are state-legal and fed-illegal.

so the labs that can get reference standards aren't allowed to do the testing.

that doesn't mean there aren't labs that are doing taking samples and then sending reports back. it just means the reports are lies, and the information printed on the labels is meaningless.

your state can require things all day long, that doesn't mean anything productive is happening.
They didn't two models ago and there was a special kernel hack/package installed specifically to keep the windows key from doing anything since there wasn't an accompanying license, it took less than a minute to remove but still annoying.

The last model didn't have that keyblock though so I guess they got over it.
I think it's you who missed the point.

If your algorithm requires any serial coordination between execution units, you're hosed, whether you're using CPU, GPU or really anything that can be used for computation.

There are a set of algorithms that are "embarrassingly parallel", and that's where for example many graphics tasks fall. Same is not true in general.
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switch is an extremely useful control structure, though needed rarely. It's basically a kind of computed goto, something not found very often outside C/C++ anymore.

If there's a real inspect, people will be able to stop treating switch as a deficient approximation to one, and maybe appreciate it for what it is.
32-bit Apple mobile devices stopped with the launch of iPhone 5s (~5 years ago). Apple dropped support for 32-bit only desktop CPUs ~7 years ago (Lion) and 32-bit only mobile CPUs ~2 years ago (iOS 11). Apple dropped support for 32-bit apps completely in iOS 11 and in macOS 10.15 (this latest release).

TLDR: No recent Apple OSes support running 32-bit at all.
Another official statement was

> Barring unexpected challenges with Gigafactory Shanghai, we are targeting annualized Model 3 output in excess of 500,000 units sometime between Q4 of 2019 and Q2 of 2020

Source: https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/0b913415-467d-4c0d-be4c-92...

Of course it's not yet Q2 2020.
I'm quite familiar with the US health system; it's fantastic, best in the world for the top few percent, as good as the rest of the world for another group, poor to non existent for the rest of the population. Your fantastic health care comes at the expense of your poorer neighbours having essentially no health care. That you're ok with that could be considered a snooty attitude as well.

My point is that these other systems work, maybe people working at the FAANG companies, in financial services etc. might see a slight decrease in their quality of care, but the systems would all still work and would be much less of a share of your GDP.
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Hi.

1. How big is the engineering team and how is it expected to grow?

2. What are your engineering principles? (the link seems to require a permission?) what are some unique challenges?

3. "KA's mission is to make world class education accessible by anyone from anywhere" -> what is KA's 2020 focus to make this mission more realistic?
Random people are not in obiligation for Facebook to constantly reverse-engineer their binary code just because they do not want to publish their sources. This is not a criminal trial, but engineering. A mere doubt might be well enough to look for other solutions.

All that money and effort is probably better spent in e. g. developing alternative communication systems.
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I think I bought my home monitor from that TigerDirect many years ago. I remember being amazed at how quickly they shipped it, I think I had it at my home in Minneapolis a day later.
I used to drive down there from Portland to get parts that I needed right away. Haven't been there in years though, as it had definitely started going downhill in the early 2000s. I always hated the receipt checkers and used to walk right by the line of people waiting to get out after they paid for merch.

I did go to the AMD roadshow in the parking lot one time, and both my friend and I won Athlon CPU/Mobo combos, that was cool. That may have been the last time I was there. Sounds depressing.
Like 'SkyMarshal, you too are forgetting the second axiom of Dark Forest theory - unexpected, rapid jumps in technological advancement.

Us humans, we've eliminated or learned to protect most of the fauna that poses any danger to us. But if we would be realistically worried, that tomorrow the bears or wolves might start carrying firearms or beam weapons, we'd wipe them out to the last, out of justified sense of self-preservation.
I also have a BBS02 about 1.5 years old. I get about 15 miles range which is plenty for me, I've only ever run out once and that's because I was still trying to figure out its max range.

I will say that I don't especially recommend it unless you want to pedal a lot (or live in a very hilly area). If you're lazy like me I'd recommend a hub motor - having to change gears constantly and every time I come to a stop gets really old really fast.
During first half of 2020 and very well known person who predicts against climate change will be sacrified and it will become the begining of a new era that will change the way we think and behave. (Greta, I'm looking at you...)
Looks like https://bitwarden.com/ meets all your requirements

Its open source(https://github.com/bitwarden), so self hosting is possible as well => https://help.bitwarden.com/article/install-on-premise/

Disclosure: I've been using it for a year now. $10 per year paid plan. Just renewed again.
Ten years ago it wasn't common for dlc to have unlimited purchases or even for the cumulative price to double the base cost. Now, it's rather common for games to have gambling mechanics that put a floor on the cost of time limited items that is measured in the hundreds or thousands of dollars.

I have less of a problem with buying a game and its season pass for $120 than I do when I buy a game and season pass for $120 to find thousands of dollars in iaps required to get everything. This trend is disgusting and I for one have written off all companies with even a single product engaging in this. This includes Blizzard, rockstar, Microsoft's label, bungie, Activision, ea, etc. To earn my purchases they'll need to ditch all the unethical iaps and find an ethical and sustainable business model. Though I'd rather see them go bankrupt and firesale all their ip to indie studios.
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Do/have you use(d) this? Any screencaps? :) No classic theme was one of the deal breakers from me going from 7 to 10.

Worth mentioning here that XP support only really ended last April (POSReady).

7 is supported at least 3 more years:

> Windows 7 ESU include security updates for critical and important issues as defined by Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) for a maximum of three years after January 14, 2020.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878/faq-about-e...

But MS really doesn't want you to use Windows 7, unless you are an "IT Professional" :)
> it is certainly not 0 evidence

It is evidence of something going on that we do not understand. That does not immediately mean aliens any more than it immediately means magic or god.
What would I do all day?... I have a hard time not coding every day as it is.
It didn't have to be that order for DNS, JANET NRS [1] had the most authoritative part on the left.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
Definitely not windows-specific; they're standard USB, so should work anywhere.

As for holding in your lap, the cord on mine (kinesis advantage) is long enough that I can comfortably take it off my desk and put it in my lap. YMMV, of course, depending on how you have your desktop set up, but I doubt that's an insurmountable problem.
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21935359
That and you're actively helping/backing-up an already skilled player. The definition of teamwork. Everyone plays a role, and they don't necessarily have to be rockstars to do it.
His plan was to get into big politics and an exec role was a way to find his campaign. 10 years is a totally believable planning horizon. I doubt he cares much about the petty issues with his former boss, but I'm sure he'll flex on them in the future.
One mistake people often make is to puff up their submission titles with superlatives and, well, treat it like an ad. It's not. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html has more, but basically, either use the exact page title (as long as it's not misleading or linkbait), or use a neutral, clear description of the content.

In general, this probably isn't a good approach for HN:

> I'm just trying to hustle

Just be a thoughtful and assume everyone else is one too. Don't force it :) Consider actively participating rather than just submitting/commenting on your own stuff; it'll give you a much better idea what fits.