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> IMO to be revolutionary the iPad should convince you not to buy a laptop

The key thing sitting in the way of that for me, at least for the most part, is the lack of true background multitasking. I understand the need to avoid the battery problems of the Android ecosystem, but there needs to be some way to take an app and say 'yes, I really want to let this sit active indefinitely until I intentionally quit it'.

For a simple example, consider an IRC client: it's useless if it drops the connection every time you turn off the screen or switch to another app for too long.
That's because we don't count decades. We say we live in the third millennium, and in the 21st century, but nobody calls this the 203rd decade. Instead we call it based on a common property of all the years in the decade (the count of these years can be abbreviated as twenty-something).
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How can it function without a drive?
>Why not CPI-W

If I'm trying to assess if a typical 25-34 year old is better off now than in 1996 why on Earth would I use a measure which only assesses a specific section of the population which constitutes less than 30% of the U.S. population? CPI-U covers about 90%. Barely anyone uses CPI-W.

>Why not C-CPI-U

I would love to. Unfortunately C-CPI-U figures only go back to December 1999, bit of a problem if I'm trying to work from Q1 1996. Also, C-CPI-U tends to be a bit lower than normal CPI-U meaning that 17% increase would actually be slightly larger if assessed with C-CPI-U.

>How many hours/wk are those people working to get that purchasing power?

Since we're using median earnings I'd need median hours worked for the same age range at the same times in history which is not something I could find. That said, weekly hours worked by employed individuals have been decreasing for decades. That trend shows no signs of reversing. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRS85006023

A lot of the rest of the questions are harder to answer given available data but most are also of pretty questionable usefulness when trying to assess the financial well-being of a "typical" millennial relative to the previous generation. If your question is specifically "Does the typical working millennial have a worse material standard of living than their parents?" the answer is no.

If you want a more complete and accurate answer then use the data from primary sources to figure it out yourself. Every person that data has to be filtered through before it gets to you adds an extra layer of bullshit because when dealing with economic stuff you should assume that everyone has an agenda. That's true for Huffington Post articles and for random internet comments, like this one.
If all of them disappeared into thin air one night then nearly the entire global aviation system would come to a screeching halt. It’s the device of choice among air carriers for navigation charts. Paper backup isn’t even carried anymore. We just carry extra iPads and batteries.

I’m not sure any of the charting apps used by air carriers are even available on another OS at this point. I’ve never been aware of JeppFD Pro on Android and I believe they dumped Windows as well.

There are other options of course but as far as I’m aware in the US it’s all iPads and JeppFD Pro. The feds are familiar with it and a regulatory framework is created around it so it’s the path of least resistance. And as a pilot, I’d say most of us are pretty satisfied with it.
I don't think I can substantively disagree with anything said here. Though I can think of a few places where iPad has revolutionised things; most notably point-of-sale. Especially for small businesses, I commonly see iPad and other tablet form factors used for retail point of sale.
Using an old desktop my dad gave me to spin up some websites getting 1,000,000+ unique visitors monthly. It has some basic specs: 12gb RAM and 8 cores from a decade or so ago.

Was using Raspberry Pis before, but given that many Docker containers don't support ARMv7, I'm just utilizing the luxury of AMD64 (and using Docker Compose, Traefik, and Wireguard to do scaling and networking).
You mean the “find on this page” function? Type a word in the search bar on a page then scroll to the bottom of the overlay that pops up.
Let's suppose I'm contracted to provide concrete for a bridge. I provide substandard concrete, because it's cheaper, and I get to keep the profits.

I do this for years across many jobs and make lots of money. I launder most of the profits to friends and family, by overcompensating them for their "jobs" at my company.

Then, 10 years later the bridge collapses and 14 people die, due to the poor concrete.

All I get is an ankle bracelet and fines? No worries about jail, because what I did isn't a violent crime?

And if I can't pay the fine, because I don't have the money, then all I need is an ankle bracelet?

Woo-hoo! So my friends and family, who made millions from my theft, can support me as a destitute man, while I wear the ankle bracelet in early retirement.
There is a manual of sorts: Tips.app

There’s also an iPad User Guide you can download in the Books.app.
After a few years of frustration with trying to make my iPad useful for coding, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 and keyboard case for about 200GBP. Install Termux from the Google Play store (no warranty voiding rooting required). `apt install clang` and off you go.

The iPad I had before this was undoubtedly prettier and had a better UI, but the cheapest iPad is twice this price and after years of buying apps, faffing with file sharing, and even porting one or two interpreters across to iOS I never managed what takes 10 minutes on Android.
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I've built a good ol' web app which runs in fullscreen mode on an old iPad 1, turning it into a "smart" picture frame. Runs on top of Trello, with a small backend in Go for caching and proxying. Works great.
I think several companies are routinely called out for nefarious privacy invasions. Ring is extra interesting because of the hypocrisy in claiming they're in the home security business, while actually gathering and selling information that can be be directly counter-productive in that effort (such as when a customer is likely to be home or not).
> opposed to the primary function of being a fork bomb

/me realizes that every organism is a fork bomb
More interesting to me is the process the medical industry has to go through to deal with the testing kits. Apparently they are in short supply. Lots of good nuggets in this thread. Yes, it's Twitter, but this can be cross-checked.

https://twitter.com/luchenhist/status/1220497118755987456

* Testing is a long process
* Kit distribution is supply chain constrained due to holiday
* Only severe cases are being tested
* Hospitals are overwhelmed
* People not getting tested are being turned back
* Government offering compensation for testing but only if it's actually Coronavirus

The author has other interesting Tweets as well. Might be worth a follow if this is of interest.
> An iPad pro with Apples keyboard, is more useable for most common day users than most windows based laptops.

Do you think a young novice user with such an iPad, rather than a windows or mac laptop, would be as likely to develop a more advanced computer skillset? iOS seems easier for common users because it's more regimented, but I wonder if that same trait might leave less room for creative exploration of the machine itself. I can't say I have a lot of experience using iPads, so I'm curious what others think.
Is there a mirror somewhere?
> Dealing with them in a more elegant way than inelegantly crashing goes all the way back to 1962 in a near-forgotten language called LISP.

Even as someone who isn't a Lisp programmer, I find the idea that Lisp is a "near forgotten language" to be a bit of a stretch.
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You don't need to actually consume bats to have the viruses transmitted across species. Bat droppings could contaminate/infect some intermediary animal.
Reminds me of the skit about the Monty Python creature of the name "The Black Beast of Aaaaaaargh."
I thought about Linux but while it should be possible to use the iX500 with Linux you would lose OCR. I did some tests and compared the OCR of the included ABBYY FineReader with Tesseract[1]. Tesseract was not good enough for my use case. So I still use the iX500 on Windows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)
It’s cheaper per TB to buy 16s rather than 2x 8 TB, or was when I did it a 2 weeks ago. The cost of more bays pushed me there more than anything.
Gas, which in my experience is far more prevalent in the UK than electric heating.
The terms you're looking for are Linux Live USB, or netboot. Both often make use of local RAM disks.
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Of course it's misleading. It's PR/virtue signaling by wealthy privileged european nation.

It's like how Ireland was one of the great recycling nations of the world. Did you know that they recycled nearly all of their plastic? Turns out that they just ship their plastic to china.

https://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-plastic-waste-3786393-Jan2...

Sort of like how Norway is pro-environmental and anti-fossil fuel nation. Did you know that they have a trillion dollar soveriegn wealth fund and they are courageous going to divest all investments in oil companies? Of course you did because of all the PR about their divestment. But did you know that the money in the trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund all came from the oil they sold? Did you know that norway is the 4th largest oil producer per capita?

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

Wealthy european countries love to virtue signal and pat themselves on the back and they are especially hypocritical about it.
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That's the thing: we don't know. We don't even have data to make a guesstimate. That's the scary part: we can't tell if that is more likely.
Gas. In fact, I don't think I have ever lived in a home with electric heating as the main source.

I have, however, lived in a shitty rented flat with a crap landlord and needed to buy a portable electric heater because the CH was rubbish and/or broken.
> ... I was introduced to the people who built computers at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. It was a type of people I did not know, I found them very strange and they did not inspire confidence at all. Later I learned that I had been introduced to electronic engineers.

Brilliant. I'll be sure to share this with my electronic-engineer colleagues on the High Tech Campus (the former Philips Research campus) here in Eindhoven. :)
I wonder if this knock-off problem I keep reading about is something specific to the US. I've ordered ~200 things over the last 3 years from Amazon, and I've never received a knock-off either. I've never even heard of that happening outside of internet comments. Plus sending things back to Amazon is usually fairly trivial.
According to wahern's quote above it was to "avoid incurring overhead in run-time code to check for special case", like the ability to accelerate mod power-of-two by convertig to AND.
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FANTASTIC thank you!

Works in Safari anyway.
Saw a lot of great videos on YouTube about turning old laptop screens into standalone HDMI monitors (with a simple $12 board). That now explains the the stack of taken-apart laptops in the flat where I've been unable to get them to release the screen...
One way is to burn a CD/DVD live image that has your configs added and configure it to mount a mergefs(iirc) on top of the read-only /home so all writes go to /tmp/merge.
spare us this politics click bait, we are tired of this climate change propaganda everywhere. If you believe it, good on you, if not then not, it is not going to change anybody's opinion
Continuous civilization only means the defining characteristics of civilization remain unbroken through regime change.

Only China and India have had continuous civilization from the ancient to the present. That remains true even though the Yuan dynasty were foreign invaders.

Contrast that to the Saxon invasion of Britain or the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs or the gothic conquest of Italy.
Really cool!
But can you tell us what you use Wireguard for?
I use an old laptop (single core, 1g ram) as a remote desktop client. Since I work regularly in two different locations this allowed me to buy only one workstation which I keep at one location and that old laptop allows me to use it from the other one. TBH I initialy did it as a fun project/experiment but was amazed how well it worked[0] and stayed with it.

[0]That being said both locations have a fibre and the distance between them is below 20 miles so neither bandwidth nor response times cause any issues
Hilariously the pencil can't even be used to switch apps. You need to swipe from the bottom with a finger for that.
See also these articles:

https://londonist.com/2009/02/inside_the_trial_of_the_pyx

> "Now, don't drop any coins," says genial goldsmith Warren Benbow. "It's remarkably difficult to find them on this carpet."

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/feb/03/britains-coins...

And this article about the Queen's Remembrancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Remembrancer
Hm okay. If it’s not “compatible” with streams, higher-order functions and whatnot I can see why it’s not popular. A pity, really.
That's not true. It's used as mapping and/or communications device in many trains and aircraft. Also many business representatives use it to do demos or just to keep the CRM updated. I am using it to sketch software architecture during meetings (on the projector).
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In my experience that has more to do with the artificial limitations devs put into ipad software. Take MPC drum machines for example. iMPC Pro 2 could replace all hardware MPCs if they wanted to but they would cannibalize their hardware if they did that so they made the ipad version a toy instead.
> For a simple example, consider an IRC client: it's useless if it drops the connection every time you turn off the screen or switch to another app for too long.

I believe the "correct" way to do it would be to have a server in the middle, which keeps the connection alive, buffers the necessary data, and sends a notification to the device when appropriate. That is, unlike a desktop or a laptop, a tablet or smartphone is not designed to be a fully independent device.
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This has been such a pet hate for years on systems with a mouse as well as iPhone iOS, that I assume it is nigh impossible to select text reliably and conveniently, for some unexplored reason or other. It's always the case that I can get a selection backwards up to the first letter but missing it, or including the first letter and some extra junk from the lines before, but not simply up to and including the first letter.

Right now replying to your comment on Windows, FireFox, with a mouse, I have just discovered a new text selection mode I've never noticed before[1] - double-click-and-drag selects whole words. Consistently up to the new word boundary on the right. That means it's possible to select an entire sentence up to (but without) the period. Or including the period and a trailing space. But not the obvious one to want - a sentence including the period and no trailing space.

[1] I know double-click commonly selects words, and triple-click selects sentences, but didn't know of double-click-drag.
In 2012 I used to work around the Liverpool Street Station area. I quite liked it, especially the Lloyds building, but at the time there were already a lot of constructions going on.

I haven't been there for years until recently, and the change there is crushing. It became cramped, insanely large buildings everywhere, Lloyds barely visible and tiny with the Cheesegrater next to it. It was an eye opening experience how much can change in a relatively (building age wise) small time.

EDIT:
2009 vs 2019 views of the LLoyd's building:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5140007,-0.0812995,3a,75y,...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5139823,-0.0812983,3a,75y,...
False equivalency with Europe where a lot of people skip cars in the metro regions because public transport actually works. For example in Stockholm 37.5%[0] of the people own cars while being the by far richest region in Sweden.

[0]: http://miljobarometern.stockholm.se/trafik/motorfordon/bilin...
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The analysis of the Ring app found 11 trackers and 30 permissions needed: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.ringapp...
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The fact that this is possible is a symptom of the wider problem - the OS should ensure that it's impossible for the other app to know if Xprivacy is running or installed.

Instagram should be running in a sandbox that gets truth only if the user actually wishes to give it the truth, and if they want to demand unnecessary info from the user (e.g. access to data about other installed apps), then the app should be either lied to by the OS or banned by the platform provider.

There's an inherent conflict between the needs of the app developers and users. The device manufacturers have to take a side in that conflict, presumably the side of the user who's paying them for the device.
We'll see about that. There's a growing mass of quiet people who slowly started to keep their things longer, try to repair (either themselves or by someone) them again. There are movements around it - see Repair Café and Restart Party. But indeed, it could do with some push from the loud ones.
What is your solution in practise?
As no one has brought it up yet. Playing civilization on the 12 inch iPad Pro is awesome. Unfortunately it's a drain on the battery.
The tattoo industry pretty much relies exclusively on iPad Pros and procreate. I'm sure there are plenty of other niche examples like this.
One of the biggest assholes in tech is right about something for once.
> they're trying to plan things

Each divorce starts with a marriage. Each delay starts with a plannig.
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Related to this, reading some Chinese science-fiction (mainly Ken Liu's translations of full books and collections of short stories) has made me realize the gap in knowledge I have with regards to Chinese history. In some of the time travel-related stories some dynasties and other historical events are mentioned as easily as we do our Roman or Greek histories for example, which of course makes sense.

Does anyone have any recommendations on books covering the major Chinese historical eras? This article and the diagram in it are a great start that I would love to dig deeper into.
That’s what I’m wondering too. Anyone know if there’s a torrent of the entire archive?
As a daily user of iPad Pro 11” it would be very difficult to adjust back. Sure, the device does not provide me the comfort of doing 100% of my tasks at all times.

The combination of portability (form factor, battery life, LTE modem), with the growing support for the apps. I’m yet to see device that would replace it for me. I have had to take my MBP with me for quite some time.

iPad essentially fuels my remote-first work style.
Is there a better way to help people in other countries than charity?
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Sounds funny, but I would like to join some room without registering first. I don't see why this service needs my E-Mail adress just that I can have some seconds (minutes? hours?) of fun.
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So they're under exploitative working conditions and they protest against... climate change? Honestly, I can't understand.
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Agreed — moving the cursor and selecting text has become almost unusable for me on iOS 13 [1]. It's a shame, because I always used to be impressed at how easy and natural it felt. I really hope they figure this out and reinstate the old approach.

[1] As I was saying only the other day: https://twitter.com/jawj/status/1221038674193932288
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I'd be hesitant to assume that you're on your own and therefore, 'weird', as there are other modes for showing gratitude that other people employ- keep an eye out and share the love.
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> If you watch waiters that are removing plates during a typical cruise ship meal many/most contain uneaten portions.

Lunch and on some lines for dinner perhaps, but the line I've often travelled on you have the executive chef walking round at dinner and inspecting the returned plates to assess the quantities remaining (and whether any dishes perform better than others).

It's the buffet that has the potential for greater waste, but you often see them rotate leftovers for a couple of days.

They're certainly not great, but I've seen greater per-person waste in hotel breakfasts (or basically any free buffet scenario as you say).
You're right, its not on there. May have been missing from initial data set for some reason.
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What apps do you use for coding?
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Since the GP mentioned it is a machine from 1998 I would expect it to be PII with a clock above 200MHz. Since the Moore's law actually worked in the 90's that machine will be a lot more powerfull than that 586 (from 94-95 I guess).

On top of that curves and chacha20 could be used for ssh to reduce the CPU load.
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As the parent comment suggested, start with building houses properly. UK building standards are no where close to where they need to be.

Then, the active heating input requirement is negligible.
They do support a fair number of FHIR resources (as required by meaningful use stage 3): https://open.epic.com/Interface/FHIR and even more within their curated marketplace: https://apporchard.epic.com/
China is also far and away the largest consumer of coal.
It's rather unfortunate that there are already two other unrelated projects called pyLucid:

- https://github.com/jedie/PyLucid https://www.pylucid.org/en/about/
"An Open Source web content management system written in Python using Django-CMS."
- https://github.com/yelantingfeng/pyLucid
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In Denmark we largely heat our houses using waste heat from electricity generation. This will have to be migrated to large scale heat exchanges as fossil fuel power plants are phased out.

I agree with GP regarding British housing standard. It's shockingly bad
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I always wonder if ipadOS should have a permanent dock or not, it would reduce the screen space but makes split-view much more discoverable.