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When you enact a bad policy, you can always claim it would have been worse if you hadn't acted. It's not like we can go back in time and see what would happen if the policy wasn't enacted.
The pushed a change to fix the DNS propagation 45 minutes ago[0]. Edge servers continue to proxy but no new records are being served.

[0]https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/57shkf1841kh
I haven't felt like Apple has been making products for me recently until the Macbook Air release and now this. Sane price points, and the exact features I need. Not sure what changed over there, but I'm really impressed.
Yes. It's deliberate facetious. It's making the point that school gun violence is so widespread, so rampant, so unchallenged, that the only way to avoid it has been to shut schools completely.

You shouldn't quibble over definitions, worry about narratives or attitudes. You should consider what can be done to make schools safer environments for our children.
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Yeah, this could easily incentivize unethical behavior like the phone hacking scandal in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hac...
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Exactly, look at the logarithmic curve of deaths and you see a clear flattening so no "exponential growth" as you where saying.
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It's rational, you just haven't seen the data causing people to ask these questions. Perhaps because aforementioned newspaper outlets aren't showing you.

Here is some.

Graphical comparison of UK (hard lock down) with Sweden (not much lockdown e.g. restaurants and shops still open)

http://www.theblogmire.com/a-comparison-of-lockdown-uk-with-...

There's basically no difference.

Switzerland's proportion of positive tests as a fraction of all tests (i.e. is it spreading) shows no epidemic and no effect from lockdown, again, presented visually here in the tweet that's a reply to the first:

https://twitter.com/FScholkmann/status/1249703752904425478

In Switzerland the apparent reproduction number started to fall before lockdown began (see the shaded graph):

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-lockdown-impact-covid...

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ansteckungsraten-flachten-berei...

(you can delete the paywall to see the headline and summary)

There are other reasons to be skeptical. Epidemics naturally come and go very quickly. The "lockdown" concept comes from epidemiologists. These people have a history of proposing extreme measures that turn out to have had no effect when compared to control groups, or when people simply realise that the epidemic entered decline before the recommended measures were implemented. If the lockdown ends up having no effect it'd be counter-intuitive but entirely predictable from how things worked out in the past. For instance, look at the history of foot-and-mouth disease in the UK.
> Lack of headphone jack is still unacceptable

I was thinking the same till I bought an iPhone 11. The tiny adapter for 10 bucks is not that much of a hassle. I have one in my backpack and one at my workplace. I also bought a wireless charger. All that is not expensive compared to the phone itself.
Can't clear our cache via api or manually, so our cached HTML pages are stuck until the natural expire happens -- which are set somewhat long. Not great for a blog / news site. for example, if we publish a story, our front page won't reflect it.
> "Good faith" is, literally, the term of art used in the legal profession to define the criteria for honoring a contract or order.

No. Honoring a contract and a good faith attempt to honor a contract are not the same. A good faith attempt does not exempt you from the consequences of failing to perform a contract or comply with a legal order. In some cases it is a mitigating factor, but it is not by any means universal.

If the French court wanted Amazon to make a good faith attempt to do something, that is something they could have ordered. But they ordered compliance, not an attempt at compliance (as is their prerogative).

> Obviously, no, the court could be a total jerk about it and demand ridiculous things.

You mean like a 24h deadline for compliance with a large set of changes to operations?

> The whole point behind the "rule of law" is that we trust each other (Amazon, its unions, the courts) to be reasonable, tell the truth, and honor our agreements in the spirit in which they were made.

Tbh I'm not seeing the connection between rule of law and social trust. You can have high trust societies with less rule of law, and low trust societies with more rule if law. They are separate, loosely connected dimensions.

> People who insist on looking like this as a war with combatants are the ones who are missing the point.

I am not such a person.

> I mean, look, the court in France is trying to protect workers. That's a good thing. You agree that's a good thing, right?

I'm not sure I could make any such blanket statement without knowing the state before, the desired state as indicated by the court order, the evidentiary and legal bases of the decision, etc. The impulse to protect the vulnerable is good. The means by which societies choose to implement that impulse can cause harm, and I judge actions by their results, not their causes.
In the blog post if you read the person complained about it, so said can give a try to Guix. I think both Nix and Guix are good, personally I like Guix being familiar with lisp and scheme feels very natural to work with Guix, with Nix need to learn new declarative syntax.

Linux kernel itself is GPL, so not sure what’s the issue with Guix. Obviously Guix package repository only support libre software, but if you need to use proprietary repository try Guix-nonfree[1].

I am happy Guix and GuixSD exist. Check the gnu Guix mailing list archive both have same roots but are sufficiently different[2].

[1] https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree

[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg002...
I’m 38 and working as a developer at a well-known investment bank. I’ve been thinking of running my own specialty coffee shop. Been working as a developer for my whole life (front-end primarily). The day to day work is okay, and the problems are challenging. Definitely not working on mundane CRUD apps, but still it isn’t as fun as it used to be in the past. I started with programming because I found it rewarding to build things, to master the art. But programming today has switched from being a “master of tools” to “master of change”.
I'm on the same boat.

I contacted Atlassian support via my personal email account and they informed me that somehow my subscription is tied to my personal account, but I need to use my former work email to login.

I can't do that, so I've lost access to all my personal boards and apparently to my Gold Subscription too.
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It works for me at night, with/without glasses and also with a massive headset on. I haven't had any issue with Bluetooth so far (it was painful with a OnePlus before). Battery has been surprisingly decent too. The issues I have are a very slow Google Maps and the display is absolutely useless in a bright environment.
Imagine explaining this to someone in 2019: “Yeah, and we’re excited the new SE went back to Touch ID because it still works with the face masks we’re now required to wear!”
auto-focus is horrendous though. It's often quite frustrating to use. Wish I'd gone with the Olympus..
Sure. Given code which works for a lot of people, versus some organization composed of people, the fault is probably with people and not with code. This follows from the formal properties of code as mathematical objects, plus the property of probabilistically-checked proofs: If code works for a lot of people, then the code is expected to work generally with high probability.

Moreover, there are lots of folks having professional success with Nix, and having consumed enough of their stories, I think that the stumbling blocks that the parent identified are faults of their organization and not of Nix in particular. To see this, first replace "Nix" with "Brand X" and note that the complaints are generic to any community-developed software which doesn't have B2B resellers. Then, consider your own experience learning Nix, and note that usability, poor documentation, and a feeling that things are deliberately cryptic are all common to learning any new tool or programming language.

We can comfortably conclude that Nix did not prevent itself from being adopted by the parent's organization. Indeed, it would seem that Nix made itself extremely attractive and adoptable, else it would not have been under consideration!
This is also the entire model of the fashion industry.
Backblaze does use RAID (erasure coding): data is striped across 20 drives, with 17 needed to complete a read. See:

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html

"For Backblaze Vault Storage Pods each is one of 20 pods needed to create a Backblaze Vault. A Backblaze Vault divides up a file into 20 pieces (17 data and 3 parity) and places a piece of the file on each of the 20 Storage Pods in the Vault. We use our own implementation of Reed-Solomon to encode and distribute the files across the 20 pods, achieving 99.99999% data durability. We open-sourced our Reed-Solomon encoding implementation as well."
0 out of 100 controls and 6 out of 500 gives a very wide confidence interval. You could easily get those numbers with 1% false positives and no true positives in either group. Is your prior for false positives low enough to rule that out?
Not really a big fan of the Lightning connector.

IMHO it’s a poor design.

The socket on this iPhone 6S+ is wearing out because the springs are in the device and not the cable. It’s hit and miss if the phone charges now.

(I keep it still because I want an iPhone with a 3.5mm headphone socket).
>raising a middle finger

>Which one seems like a smarter response?

Amazon's response seems reasonable to me, under the circumstances. Your characterization of their response is unfair.
Are you representative of the country at large, though?

I think the parent comment was using we to refer to the collective.
and you have to worry about whether your headphones are charged.
About 80:20 by units sold, I would say; leaning slightly more toward the latter by volume of drives sold, by the fact that businesses buy the larger NASes that take more drives in them, because they're actually somewhat serious about RAID recovery.

But you've got to further subdivide the use-case: a file server for a business is still not necessarily doing "random writes." You can create and replace as many small files on a filesystem as you like, and in a modern filesystem, you'll only be doing large batched writes to the disks themselves. It's only when you're writing within existing files—i.e. writing to a database of some kind—that you see a high number of random-write IOPS hitting the disk.

Mind you, there are a lot of things that turn out to have databases in them. A Chrome profile has a couple of SQLite databases in it. An iTunes library contains a database. Etc. These are the things that—if you stuck them on your NAS, and then pointed the relevant program at them from your PC—would constitute the NAS performing a "Desktop" workload. And, obviously, if you run Postgres on your NAS—or on a system that mounts a NAS disk over iSCSI—then that disk is doing a "Server" workload.

But the average business's use of e.g. shared Excel worksheets, does not "heavy random writes" make. Document/productivity software is almost always of the "on save, do a streaming overwrite of the whole file on the remote end" variety—which, again, is not a random-write workload, since the ftruncate(2) at the beginning allows the filesystem to grab a new free extent for the overwrite to write into.

Most software that knows that it can be used in a shared-remote-disk setting is built to accommodate that shared-remote-disk setting by attempting to minimize random writes (since this kind of workload has always been slow on the kind of storage used in NASes and SANs, especially when your filesystem or software RAID does checksumming.) These days, it's only the software that absolutely can't help it—that needs random writes to be performant at all—that still does them. And it's pretty obvious, to anyone using such software, that they're not using "NAS friendly" software. Mostly because it's so dang slow!
I think you would be surprised just how many people see their job as a means to an end in Seattle/Bay Area, especially outside of the startup world. At FAANG and other big companies I think there is actually very little Kool-aid drinking compared to the smaller companies. And at a subset of those companies, people work normal hours and don't brag about things like working on side projects at home. Especially many of the parents I've worked with have been great engineers but at the end of the day just want to go home and spend time with their family, and it's fine from both a career and social perspective.
I’ve had the opposite experience with Face ID. Touch ID for me worked maybe 1/10 times. Something about my fingers, it would never work. I had to enter the passcode every time. Face ID on the other hand works consistently every time, all the time. I nearly never have issues.

I do miss old reachability though. I can never activate it on the first try.
> Five years later, you find out that person still has access to all of your work trello boards.

That's not how it works and not how it has worked.

It used to work like Github does, where access control to boards is by account, not by associated email addresses.
If they'd have minimal bezels, for comfort, in an iPhone 5 body we'd have about ~5.2" available for the screen. Unfortunately keeping the bezels for the fingerprint reader, earpiece, and front camera (~60% screen to body ratio) means that while it would fit better in small hands, the small screen may not give a great experience with today's content (sites, apps), or our eyes.

My old iPod Touch 5th gen. was quite a shocker for everyone who nostalgically reminisced about the good old times of small screens. I guess it depends what one expects from the phone.
I'm sorry for the loss you and his other friends/loved ones have experienced.

Do you feel like the article was accurate and fair to the people involved?
If you haven't, look into TV broadcasting zoom lenses. Insane, heavy, turret mounted. Cool gear. :)
My comment is global in scope as many governments have imposed essential business only rules and Amazon is getting roasted for continuing selling non-essentials though their business is classified as essential. This was covered in the article and is one of the main reasons why they're being ordered to shutdown and only sell essentials.

The same media attention is happening in the US, even vloggers with different demographics are getting their kicks in, Louis Rossman who kicked off the right to repair movement made a video about Amazon selling dildos at prime speed when ppe is delayed weeks.
Indeed, I think it's been a vicious circle of lack of demand leading to lacklustre products.

This phone does look close to flagship in terms of cpu etc, though may be missing various features - multiple cameras etc - compared to actual flagships.

I'd like a tiny flagship....
Linkedin was always a predatory organization, and now they are empowered to do what they actually wanted to do without the risk of going bankrupt if they miscalculate. Github is also empowered to do what they actually wanted to do without the risk of going bankrupt if they miscalculate. This is what you end up. You can't fundamentally change an organization by acquisition without destroying it. For example, Skype was destroyed like that. Github and Linkedin were not, and you are seeing them acting with fewer constraints. Linkedin is using their newfound power for evil, Github much less so.
Too bad the gold color option is gone.
Much of the performance problem comes from layers on top of NTFS itself- it's not just the virus scanner. Ext4 might be faster but I doubt it would be enough to ditch WSL2 for those use cases that need it.
Yes, we are discussing an article about US statistics but I shouldn’t have assumed that in my more general comment.
Still have a Nikon D70 from ~2004 that has only about 6 megapixels but will take better photos than any phone made today even using lenses that were made in the 1970s. It is hard to describe to people without showing them but the sharpness of photos is amazing with high quality lenses.
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One other thing is the perspective when taking pictures of wide architecture or natural formations, small cameras, even 35mm tend to distort what a scene looks like, say compared to a medium format camera. Though PC lenses for 35mm fix that too.
I am not certain but I think 3D touch referred only to touching app icons and opening a menu which you can still do but it is no longer as feature rich if the app supported it. All the other features you've listed are still present in newer phones.
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Your comment has little empathy. You may have started out loving it and was naturally good at it. But, as life goes on, you change, your circumstances change. It's one of those phrases that mean little until it happens to you.
I bought an S10e a while back because I didn't want to use iOS anymore. At the time it was the smallest Android phone with a headphone jack.

It's decent hardware, a little too large, and with some terrible Samsung-bloatware on it - not ideal, but there are no alternatives.
No we didn't, we watched a supply chain shock which could've been prevented if we had some common-sense regulation to require supermarkets and grocery stores to enact purchasing limits if their demand curves start behaving anomalously.

Distributed systems in software are hard. Th idea it'll somehow be easier when you need to truck tonnes of physical goods around is wishful thinking - the same failure modes still apply.
Why don’t we still have a universal micropayment system?
I can't figure out what you mean, can I go someplace to get tested and put my mind at ease that I'm not about to die or kill my familymembers? That's the only "relative" that matters here.
I sure enjoyed my copy of the Anarchist Cookbook as a teen. :)
There are actual policies (the easiest one is stopping mandates for huge amounts of free/discounted parking at all new homes & businesses) that make it possible for people who would rather not drive to not drive, and many 'pro-car' people come out to oppose their implementation.
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This seems a bit expensive. I recently bought a 25lb bag of flour from Sams club and it was 6.50, or about 26 cents a pound. They also had plenty in stock. Costco also has it for a similar price. Last time I bought yeast there it's also cheap - about 5 or 6 bucks for something like 2lbs(which is a ridiculous amount of baking yeast). Baking a lot can make this practically worth the cost of the membership.
AFAIK HBM has always been on the interposer which is no different from the AMD chiplet approach.
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But composition is step #0. :-)
I have taken some of my best shots on my iPhone 7. But there's no joy, maybe because of shutter lag. And also the good image to bad image ratio for me is horrible. Maybe 2000 deliberate shots per year and a handful keepers.
Unless my reading comprehension is off this morning, that claim seems incredibly misleading.

It seems like they're using two different definitions of school shooting. Even though there have been multiple shootings at schools in March of 2020, it's been decided none of them count because they either didn't involve students or because they were caused by negligence and not a desire to intentionally harm someone.

However they're not judging other years as stringently. I spot checked a few years in their cited sources[1][2] and about half the years I looked at seemed iffy.

For example, look at their data for 2009. Neither of their "school shootings" actually happened at a school.

For 2004, the only school shooting was a suicide, which is technically a school shooting but probably less of a threat to students than the 4 shootings at school this March that were caused by negligent discharges.

The only incident they have for 2006[3] was someone who was beaten to death, not sure how that counts as a shooting. (QUICK EDIT, I'm wrong about this one, I thought the events were listed in chronological order but they aren't so I missed some actual shootings)

[1]: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED519244.pdf

[2]: https://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/violent-deaths-and-sch...

[3]: https://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/violent-deaths-and-sch...
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I wonder how much of the form factor was determined by:

(a) space required by newer components
(b) leftover (i.e. unsold) iPhone 8 materials
Its not just CNN, all of them are doing it. Another really bad one: EBay!

At this point we need to realize that websites are just placeholders for virtual billboards that they then sell to advertisers. It's a really bad incentive for them to add to their website, as it fundamentally changes their revenue model. It's no longer about (as an example) making sure you find the right product (and lots of it) so that they can make a large cut out of the sale. Instead, they prioritize "eyeballs" and ridiculous page after page views of exactly the same products because they get more ad-views that way.
Of course there are! And it's all part of SV culture.

A few years ago I tried to sign up to LinkedIn only to find out I already have an account. But it was not my account - it was someone else's, who has a similar name (and apparently thought my email address was his? I don't know...). I could reset the password and log in to his account. I was a bit scared when I contacted LinkedIn support, because I was worried they would accuse me of hacking. Eventually they disconnected my email from his account.

Now, I know that LinkedIn isn't a SaaS platform, but you would think that such a big company wouldn't make such rookie mistakes. Even if they launched without email confirmation, and added it later, there should be some mechanism to "fix" the old accounts.
The cost of switching ecosystems is too high for most of us. Loss of iMessage alone is a non starter for me personally.
"Sweden -- the only Nordic country not led by a woman -- where Prime Minister Stefan Löfven refused to impose a lockdown and has kept schools and businesses open. There, the death rate has soared far higher than in most other European countries."[1]

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/asia/women-government-leaders...
These kinds of events are in fact normally counted.

A veteran committing suicide in the parking lot of a long disused school counts as a ‘school shooting’.

It’s dishonest.
Does this apply to Red Pro drives too?
Good insights.

Small nitpick, I have no idea what the terms "EOS" and "L10 meetings" mean.
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> I was also extremely bothered by the fact that the cursor cannot live outside the current viewport and scrolling the buffer would drag the cursor as well.

I can see how that would be annoying. I can also see why the developers might not have noticed. When I'm in Emacs, I tend to navigate using the keyboard, which means I scroll by moving the cursor and dragging the viewport with it.

So they probably added the ability to scroll without moving the cursor so Emacs would have the feature. But if they never really used it, they wouldn't have noticed the shortcomings in their implementation.

Sorry for the rambling, not sure if I really had a point to make ;)