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I have volume and display brightness buttons, also a mute button and play/pause. They are permanent and don’t switch with the application. Pretty much like it was before the Touchbar....

I tried to use the Touchbar for a while without customization but I never could get the hang of it. It just seems useless.
What are the most essential or coolest add-ons to get for a new MacBook Pro?

Is there a good all-or-many-in-one dongle with several USB or other ports?

Are the any options for extra power supplies?

Is there a good dock for using it with a big display on a desktop?
I meant on a more global scale. Each corporation through competition or acquisition of people became evil.
How long does one need to stay in the US for that not to hold ?

I lived there for one year, and bought a lot of stuff in the US for personal use (like clothes). When I moved back to Europe, I just moved everything with me without paying any VAT.

I was worried that they would make me pay VAT from socks and underwear to laptop, phone, and everything. Asked about it, and was told that I didn't had to pay anything.
An ecologist friend explained to me once that humans can often do things that slowly increase the percentage of some species at the cost of others.
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If a blog doesn't have rss, then it's probably not worth my time.
Ya, I found a lot of those paved but single track roads to be safer at night because you can at least see oncoming headlights.
I started working remotely on my home desktop due to Covid. I bought a webcam for meetings. On Linux it usually works fine, except about 20% of the time it crashes and can't be brought back up.

I can fix _that_ issue with a script that disables and re-enables the USB hub it's part of, but that script, in turn, causes the kernel-mode uvcvideo driver to crash with a null pointer exception about 40% of the time I run it. Once I get in this state, a reboot is the only way I can find to fix the issue.

Not a distro thing -- it happens in both Ubuntu and Fedora as well as with a stock kernel built from the latest git source.

Webcam is working 100% fine with no issues on Windows.
Prussian military, British military, French military. I am speaking about middle ages to modern era. A lot of management and scientific progress happened there, and it was a way for the lower classes to rise in a more meritocratic way. It was also a mechanism to learn sailing skills so you could become a trading merchant.
The obsession with Snap stuff is not winning friends and influencing people, either. Installing stock apps via snaps and auto-updating them (whether you want to or not) doesn't give folks warm fuzzies.
And how would people know?

Google has ~ 1.5 billion users. If something happens to 1 in 1000 people, then a) it won't happen to most people, b) most people won't know anybody it happened to, and c) maybe it happens to a friend of a friend. If they hear about it, they will likely say, "Oh, I'm sure there's a reason."

A reporter might hear stories about people who lose their accounts. They might even find those people. But so what? Right here in this discussion we're hearing those stories. Could this be happening to a million people across the globe per year? Sure. Does anybody know the true number? Nope.

So if you could discover the hard number (which you can't), maybe you could get a tech reporter to write about it. Then Google PR would go into action. They'd say correctly that it's a small fraction of their users, that keeping everyone safe is a difficult problem, and that they work hard to make sure everybody who should have access does, but sometimes people get swept up in Google's crime-fighting. All of which is true! Then they'll turn back on the accounts of the people the reporter actually talked to. PR will say that they've made process changes that have solved the problem, the reporter will include the happy endings, and that will be the end of it.

Just for comparison, tobacco kills about a half-million people a year in the US. It's totally unnecessary, but it's profitable for the tobacco companies. As long as it's killing somebody else, people are basically fine with it. If they can be chill about that, they will certainly be chill about you losing your Google account. They'll think you probably did something.
SQLite doesn't work reliably on NFS, which rules it out for any PXE-booted system with an NFS root.
I’m out of the loop - where does Google commit to turning off IMAP? Is there any other standard that non-Google mail clients can follow?

Will Apple Mail lose Gmail compatibility or can they upgrade to something?
Thank you for the article! It's too bad that your conclusion, that systemd doesn't/shouldn't matter, wasn't able to be grasped by the community.
I somehow knew this would be the first comment. Unfortunately, for these industries, where you sell real goods at affordable prices (not over-inflated fantasyland prices to your "enterprise" customers) margins are razor thin. This is the sector of the economy that has been YoY consistently left behind since the Bush-Oil eras drove prices sky high. Trying my best not trying to sound snooty, but again this shows once more that the majority of people here really haven't ran a business like this.
I would say both the X and T series are MacBook Pro competitors. The T series aren't usually as compromisingly thin as the X Series but still aren't much thicker than an Ethernet port so they're still thin in my book. They're definitely way thinner than the P series machines.
Your comment comes across as partisan, rather than factual.

As an example, major news networks blatantly lied about the Covington kid because it fit their ideology.

Major news networks are untrustworthy, you just happen to support the narrative some of them are selling.
I think the author is saying "opportunity cost" when he really means "ROI".
The implication that race or gender is involved in the firings is pretty silly.
There are indications that severity of infection is proportional to the initial viral load. I'd imagine that being locked in close quarters on a warship would subject the sailors to a higher viral load than you'd expect in the general population, and subsequently they'd have on average more severe infections, so it could be lower than 50%.
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Are you coding on it? I'm a bit worried about the thermals, and whether I would get fan noise when I'm compiling or running my 3 minute test suite.
> Most people think of themselves as fundamentally good.

Everybody thinks they are the hero of their own story. In fact, its almost required that individuals view themselves in this way. If you think you are evil and cannot justify your actions, it is really hard to get out of bed in the morning.
The existing package ecosystem is one of the main value propositions of Emacs. Otherwise a re-implementation with a different extension language could have replaced it a long time ago.

> There are some small semantic differences but they could be handled by porting code.
I suspect there are more than just small differences. And someone would have to do the work to port the code. I suspect that if packages that people use don't work, they will just avoid using the new version of Emacs, as opposed to abandoning the package.

It's not an impossible project, but it's not clear to me it's easier/better than the proposed solution.
It really stuns me how “MacOS” doesn’t appear anywhere in the Pros (or the Cons). That’s literally the main discriminant between choosing an Apple machine over any other brand, and there’s no mention of it.

By missing that main difference the comparison is reduced to pure comparison of commodities, and of course the result is that the Apple machine is ‘unjustifiably’ more expensive. The Apple ecosystem is literally why people buy Apple machines rather than any other brand.

I’m also mystified nobody else brought this up.
Drugs in the west are also expensive because successful drug companies pay their employees a lot of money (a cost that affects profit) but are still extremely profitable (by carefully figuring out what each regional market can afford to pay to maximize their revenues). These companies know that westerners will spend significant fractions of their income for medicine.

(I also agree that having large amounts of cash and runway is necessary for a successful trial).
that's sound from an intentionality perspective (you should actively choose what to pursue and what not to pursue based on your unique set of accidental gifts), but performance is different from learning. while we each (very likely) have differing learning horizons, it's highly dependent on interest and motivation not simply raw "intelligence".

you could learn as much about playing violins as world-class violinists if you were as obsessive about it, even if you couldn't play as well. those not-quite-world-class violinists likely know as much, but just don't have the same combination of accidental (physical/psychogical/biochemical) gifts that give them a miniscule edge.

"ability" is often an illusion of opportunity costs. it's less "can't" and more "won't".
In my experience, small companies are fine until the point they get board members who have run bigger companies. Which is quite early on. The only answer is to run your own company, with all the trade-offs that entails.
You're claiming that 1/2 to 1/3 of employees are criminally stealing time or product from their workplace. I need some robust citations for that, because it's ridiculous on its face.
Believe me, it's a mystery to many of us living here as well.
> if all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail.

This is a very old and popular meme. But as an "armchair epistemologist", who also happens to be growing rather weary of endless armchair economic and political critics "telling it like it is", whenever I encounter memes like this, my first question is always: "To what degree is this meme actually true?"

It seems like not just a fair question, but an important one.

> For people involved in the energy sector, but only really know coal, the only way they can comprehend maintaining and expanding business is to maintain and expand coal operations.

"the [only way] [they] [can comprehend]" seems like a rather extraordinary claim (and you know what "they" say about extraordinary claim), that would require rather intimate knowledge of the thoughts of of multiple people.

I'm curious, how did you come to possess this knowledge? By what mechanism?
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In my opinion, it won’t do anyone any good for him to quit “in solidarity with” the fired workers. If he wants the situation to improve, he should remain VP and use his power to help make things better. Now he‘ll probably just be replaced with someone who is less sympathetic to the workers.
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> no one should care how much it cost you to be ethical

Well, sure, no one should care, but from a purely pragmatic perspective, privileged people tend to hold in higher regard the actions of other privileged people. Sad, but it's how systematized injustice self-sustains. And if Tim including that detail makes even one other highly compensated executive, somewhere in the world, treat with just a tiny bit more respect the concept of walking away from golden handcuffs to push for ethical change... it's worth Tim treating that detail with gravitas.
The shared USB controller wasn't the issue, the lack of USB 3 was.
+1 for Runbox. Reliable service and better price than Fastmail for my circumstances, at least.
I never documented the "quit" command for a MUD client I wrote on VMS back in '89. For years I got emails from users who couldn't figure out how to exit the app.
My gripe with the touch bar is that for every IDE you have to customise it to see the function keys by default. It's so damn annoying. Why can't the default layout be just the Fn keys ?
No. Postgres has in-memory bitmap indexes, which are built on the fly while scanning the index and used to more efficiently combine AND/OR clauses, but that's not quite the same thing. There have been several attempts at adding on-disk bitmap index support to Postgres, but they've all been abandoned.
> Looks like 90% of them had the disease on April 11. By April 20, 60% were asymptomatic.

That's not what the wikipedia says...
94% of the crew has been tested for Covid, with 678 positives. Infection rate ~15%.

From those infected, ~60% didn't show symptoms.
Even worse is when you evaluate hiring. It isn't unusual for a high-turnover entry-level type employer to have 15% or less of candidates who agree to fill a position still employed with the company 6 months later.

The pure drag of having to deal with this, especially when it comes to all of the paperwork required, by law, to be completed with every single new hire makes this alone a huge expense.

The vast majority of those employees left of their own will, not because they were fired. Usually when the leave, there is no notice. They just don't show up leaving management short handed and wondering whether the employee will show up the next day. Consequently, the policy can be to over-staff so that whenever some percentage isn't showing up the employer can still meet production needs.

The employer cannot simply increase prices and pay people better. For the most part, employers already have prices at the highest their customers are willing to pay. Setting prices higher will result in loss of customers, less profit, then layoffs or business closure.

Employees at this level are astoundingly uninterested in performing well, or, in other words, there is a reason they are working entry-level positions. This makes management yet more difficult because managers may have to become near micro-managers of cat herds trying to get the company to produce whatever it is supposed to produce.
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> Using strong and secure algorithms solves that (and other) problems but can also introduce noticeable latencies at the same time, due to the overall number of necessary cryptographic operations.

My knowledge of crypto is a bit rusty. What are some 'strong and secure' commutative cryptographic algorithms?
I asked my mom if/where they got yeast in the 50s and 60s, and she said that once a week, a lady would arrive on horse/donkey and trade everyone for their eggs.

They probably had a train connection link somewhere that went to/from a big city and that’s how it all worked.

They had milk and pork, but generally sold/traded that for everything else they needed: oil, salt, sugar, etc. And of course some monetary savings for their escape!
I've found the best way to learn something is to be willing to make the attempt despite limited confidence. This sort of fearlessness makes a person seem like an idiot, but as long as you keep learning from mistakes you keep getting better.

The people who spend all their time trying to not do something stupid, end up just learning how to not look stupid and how to do it the way the person before did.

Does Elon Musk look like an idiot on Twitter? Totally! Is he learning? It's a pretty good bet. He's a human being who is willing to take the risk of looking stupid. It's a luxury afforded to most billionaires.
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And you aren't even mentioning the case of degree programs that are in some essential sense about learning to use equipment costing in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in some cases whose availability is strictly controlled by the US government.

I got my undergrad in Nuclear Engineering, and I learned to use Gamma Ray Spectrometers costing easily 30,000 dollars and did Plasma Physics experiments in a Vacuum Chamber setup of similar cost, all the while supervised by people who knew how to safely perform experiments with radioactive material and comply with relevant government regulations. And I was mainly about Computational Neutron Transport - I got what was considered a bare-minimum grounding in Experimental Nuclear Science. This is to say nothing of programs with research reactors students can use for experiments (whose ranks my alma mater sadly left just as I arrived).

This was basically true of all the non-CS engineering disciplines. Perhaps one could cobble together an equivalent to a Mechanical Engineering or Civil Engineering degree from my alma mater with CnC Routers at Hackerspaces and the like. But I really can't imagine that working for Nuclear, Aerospace, Biomedical, the Semiconductor side of EE...

Or rather, I can, but it would require an enormous investment into high-fidelity simulation of the relevant equipment. And that is a dangerous road. At the moment, we verify Engineers' ability to use equipment in a very robust way - having them actually use the equipment to perform engineering tasks and measurements. If you rely instead on training simulators you need to be extremely vigilant about their fidelity (and you will almost certainly fall back on minimum duration of instructor-monitored usage of real equipment, like the nuclear and aerospace industries require).
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Seems like he tried to. From the post on his website (HN discussion [0]):

> At that point I snapped. VPs shouldn’t go publicly rogue, so I escalated through the proper channels and by the book. I’m not at liberty to disclose those discussions, but I made many of the arguments appearing in this essay. I think I made them to the appropriate people.

> That done, remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23065782
It touches deeply the systematizing part of my heart.

Just a month ago I spend more than I care to admit time on taking screenshots, comparing Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal UI side-by-side: https://medium.com/@pmigdal/doom-2016-vs-doom-eternal-ui-sid...
Yeah, money is always the bottom denominator. A thief doesn't care if you're black or white, as long as you got the green.
if you really want to force the restaurant analogy, you could say it's sort of like when the restaurant is having a bad night. the service is really slow and some of the dishes don't come out quite right. if it's just a fluke, a good restaurant will comp most of the meal without you even having to ask.

the problem with this analogy is that a restaurant just isn't very similar to a college. it's really important to a restaurant not to lose a good customer over a single bad experience, and it doesn't cost them much to comp a single meal (it costs even less to give credit towards a future meal). a college doesn't have to care that much about any particular student, but giving refunds causes serious cashflow issues.

that said, I don't think what the students are asking is necessarily unreasonable. if you go to a cheap state school and you're still getting the degree, I'd say you don't have much to complain about. if you're paying $60k for world-class facilities and face time with world-class researchers, I'd say the institution should do at least something to make you whole.
Startups will often have many obvious relatively simple things they're not doing. They're moving very quickly, but they have a small team and have to ruthlessly prioritize.

A larger company is generally not moving as quickly, and the scale of the things that they're choosing not to do for opportunity-cost reasons gets much smaller.

I worked for a money transfer startup at one point. You could use it on Android and iOS but not on desktop/web. We just hadn't gotten to it yet. If they're successful but still mobile-app only in five years, though, I'll expect that it's for reasons like "we looked into web but fraud rates were much higher" instead of it just being a matter of priorities.
Perhaps, but it reduces the size of the secondary market so consumers have less choice and may opt for a new one instead. This is the real advantage to Apple.
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Sure, one possible explanation is that this is in the process of happening naturally. Next year 5% will be 6%, and so on.
Unless he realized that the company is too far gone.
He was quite clear, he tried to use the leverage he had without quitting, but at some point you have to draw the line and say "I can't change things from the inside, so either I put up with it or I leave". If Amazon starts to lose top talent because they can't treat their employees with respect and dignity hopefully it will force them to change, and if it doesn't, hopefully it'll cause them to fail.
Is amazon one of those companies with a hundred VPs or does the title actually mean something?
My GF has a 2019 macbook pro and is using a silicon keyboard protector to avoid the touchbar as well.

I want to upgrade my macbook, but I've laughed so often at its 30$ fix for its 2000$ laptop that I just can't update to a macbook with touchbar with a straight face anymore.
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Yes, although note in the Eisenhower matrix, you "delegate" urgent but less important tasks. If there's no one to delegate to, that falls apart a bit. Now, if you're so under-resourced that you're doing nothing but putting out fires, that's a problem. And you probably have to add resources (of whatever type including delegating to a third party), fix root causes, or decide that what you're treating as urgent really isn't.
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The whole point of the piece was to avoid a series of booleans in function arguments. Active and Blocked isn't really a scenario I've seen anywhere. Use enums when the states are mutually exclusive is what I'd like to reinstate.
So basically, you are willing to sell your morals for scientific progress in the name of helping people? You sound conflicted.