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>there is still no physical escape key

Yes there is, it's clearly there in every picture of the keyboard.
Good that they went for more less the same setup as in 16 inch model. The escape key and old keyboard switches really do make the difference for me.
> Sqlite is battle-tested though, it has one of the most comprehensive test suite and is used on billions of devices already.

That's great, but you've completely ignored theamk's argument that sqlite is the wrong tool for the job.
What's the target audience for 14'' 6-core? Perhaps not as wide as a 13'' 4-core that's significantly cheaper. Those looking for a highest spec mbp would probably look into 16'' anyway
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Also, store bought bread today lasts a lot longer than store bought bread from when I was growing up. I can't imagine the chemical concoction that allows for this...
Cubicles were an especial hypocrisy. They cost more per office than carpentered walls. In which case they made no sense at all.
A few questions from an Altium user:

1. Does Horizon support an equivalent to the 'Variant Manager?' This is something that will allow variance of build outputs (different component populations, different schematic text, etc).

2. In the docs it seems to mention submitting parts to the default pool. If people submit parts to the pool are there style guides somewhere? (line widths, US vs EU resistor symbols, etc)

3. Looking at a random SMD footprint (SOT-363) it looks like the paste window is equal to the pads. Is there a way to set paste mask expansion like is done in Altium? (Automatically offset paste window from pad by some amount)
I'd say most people want their country to "win" against others, they want to be richer than other people and want their country to be the richest sat the expense of other nations.

That's racism/xenophobia, isn't it?

Brexit seems to be predicated on the idea that Brits would rather suffer than risk the possibility that mutual benefit would be weighted towards others in the EU. That's pretty extreme racism (albeit founded on greed) IMO, and is endemic in British society AFAICT.
The page says there is a dedicated esc key on the newly designed keyboard
4 cores is actually more than enough to do almost all development. I work on a four core PC right now (i7-4770k) running Linux and couple VMs and containers, one VM dedicated to running Windows 10 which is in turn running Citrix client. I have two 4K monitors and bunch of hardware. I work on webapps, backend software, have couple IDEs running at the same time and probably Zoom session, not to mention huge amount of Chrome tabs.

It all works without hitch and if there is a hitch it is typically Chrome or Gnome misbehaving, not lack of cores.
People work in less profitable industries and choose less-profitable majors all-the-time. Teaching, non-profit, nursing and research are fields where the pay doesn’t always match the schooling or knowledge required.
Looks quite neat, the segregation by languages works well.

Suggestions:
- Dark theme.
- A nicer font for the search results page (some mono font perhaps?)
Lunch rooms! Don't get me started. My son got exposed in the lunch room at work. Masks and gloves everywhere in the plant, except of course that doesn't work in the lunch room.
So, no model with physical F-keys available anymore… touchbar only.
Not butterfly, scissor.
In case anyone is interested in learning more about Org-mode, there are a lot of wonderful tutorials out there. I've found the trick is to start small, usually just with some tasks, and let it grow from there as your needs change.

Some great guides:

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Do you think he would feel safe speaking up about this (or any) injustice if he weren't financially secure? That's sort of his entire point, imo, since the people Amazon fired certainly don't have that luxury.
My apologies, my eyes glossed over the tilde key and thought that was the end. My enthusiasm has returned!
I had the same thought. That guy sounds like it's as simple as walking into the woods and shooting an elk. I don't think he has any idea how difficult it can be.
When I am working on 2 projects at the same time I have to wait until the github actions publishes the npm package, so I use this tool to track when the ci has finished and then install the package on the other project
Yep.. 14”.. otherwise I’d have ordered the 32gb/2tb top version
That’s what’s always held me back from hunting; there is a huge amount that has to be learned in a really short period of time. It seems to me that you should probably know what to do before you shoot the animal, and not plan to figure it out later.

It seems that hunting is a skill best passed down directly from seasoned hunter to new hunter.
It does not work on some group accounts.
I own one and this is just not true.
Apple is still behind Lenovo.

They don't have the TrackPoint, only glossy screens, not even 16:9, no Linux support, only one battery instead of two replacable ones, and so on.
s/easy/possible/
But the size of the 16 inch is huge compared to 13 inch. Not too comfy to hold it on my lap when travelling by train. Finally there's an option.
Yup. This is a classic case of something making the news because it is atypical.

I found it funny that the article stops just short of implying that hunting is driving gun sales when despite the obvious 800lb gorilla (Covid driving the sales of any/all emergency preparedness products).

I didn't even know gun rentals outside a range (pay money to shoot stuff you can't afford to own) or B2B (e.g. security or armored car company leases handguns from a gun shop) context were a thing but it makes sense in states where the only thing you'd need a full sized rifle cartridge for is assigned tags via a lottery so every season you have plenty of hunters who suddenly have a tag that they might not be equipped to fill.
Objectively not, but in practice a lot of people are locked in Apple ecosystem, for long time MacBooks were the only good laptops for development with support of communicators, graphic tools etc.

It's changing with Linux and WSL, but can't blame people to stay with macOS if it works for them.

Personally I'm using linux and thinkpad, but even x1 carbon falls short to MacBooks in areas I mentioned before.
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> There's also something about the competitive aspect of seeing other people in person do better than you or have better ideas than you. Which is hard virtually.

Maybe even this is not that hard.
People already compete virtually on mobile and console games of all kinds of complexity just to see their names at the top of a "leaderboard"
What I find irritating is the fact that you have to get the 2ghz CPU in order to be able to get 32gb RAM. It feels like artificial price inflation because the refresh is definitely not as exciting as people had hoped (no 14" micro LED screen, like every single "leak" suggested).

Also, the base CPU is an 8th gen chip, you need to fork out a lot of extra $$$ to get to 10th gen.
Laugh as much as you want but to me (and many others) it actually is. I would look at other manufacturers for their hardware, but sadly it's all non-MacOs and I value this operating system above anything else for my needs (work and personal).
Especially an Elk! Last time I saw elk hunters they had horses to pack out the meat.
Racism positions the fulcrum, you still have to push the lever yourself. And thus still participate in its effects.
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And how do these scissors work with beard follicle? It's all the same to me, really, if it can't survive piece of hair. For the past 20 years I have been using Thinkpads.

My last one is T440s which I bought immediately it was available and still wait for it to die. I would like a MBP but seeing what the Thinkpad went through I just don't think so. I spilled stuff on it not once but twice, once hot latte and once a liter of mineral water in a bag. I had to open it and stand it on its side while open so that water drains out of it... Then I had to disassemble it and dry individual leaves of which the screen is composed of.

I had to take the rest of the day off in both cases to save my laptop but other than that I was ready for work the next day, files intact, tools in place.
As someone who finished a Baccalaureate online, I’d say these students simply aren’t prepared for the mind shift to having to learn independently. Most of my professors seemed to loathe having to teach an online class and merely threw together a mountain of almost random assignments and research papers as if to say, “if you can survive this, you can have a degree”. Most of my courses didn’t even offer video lectures and were taught by low-paid adjuncts that never responded to email. You were left alone to figure it out. It’s a whole other ball game when you don’t have the deep support system of being on campus. I hope this brings improvements to online education in general.
No butterfly keyboard on these models. That, at least, is on its way out.
> macOS

Hold on, I would actually buy a macbook if the hardware wouldn't be annoyingly incompatible with Linux.
It's astonishing how far the MBP has fallen in ten years. My 2010 MBP was and still is the perfect laptop design. Look what Apple has taken away from us: MagSafe, SD card slot, optical audio I/O, RJ45, USB-A, even the top row of our keyboards. What have we gained? The same internal advances that are in every other computer, a gimmicky touch bar, fragile keyboard mechanism, and USB-C.

What's really sad is that none of this decline was necessary. All they had to do was leave the perfect laptop alone, and go on upgrading the internals. Were they selling the 2010-2012 MBPs at a loss or something?
Many people would cite "no macOS" as a positive. However, you are bang on about the worse speakers and microphone.
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There is a tiny fraction of the available game to feed America. A single deer would feed a family of four for, what, a week? So, every family needs 52 deer per annum. Forget it.

This is sort of why civilization is based on agriculture. Not hunting-and-gathering.
I feel like a broken record but I must push back on the 'quality'. Just in personal experience, we've had macs swell up, keyboards repeatedly fail, expensive repairs.

Maybe the fit-and-finish is high grade but actualy _quality_ is alarmingly low, IMHO, especially for the price.

And if you're on a machine from 5 years ago, maybe you missed the recent plummet.
Yeah, I agree. These upgrades are kind of disappointing.
There are also `fr`-prefixed strings, which do substitution but no escaping, and `br`-prefixed raw byte sequences.
Now with quad core ability!

Never been a mac person, but I do agree it appears to be a bit lackluster. Its not the same comparison, but for ~1800 a new home workstation with 2070 Super / 3900x 12 core CPU becomes a pretty powerful machine.
Which version of Python would you bundle? The community can't even decide on a runtime.

This sort of mess caused Apple to ship Python 2.7 with OSX for 10 years and will stop bundling it at all in future [1]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_note... (search for python on this page)
Any living thing must somehow get food and shelter, and that requires work. I don't think it's limited to an economic system in particular.
I don't get the use of the terminology here.

Opportunity cost is the cost associated by not reaping the benefits of an alternative not being picked. This is a cost from the perspective of the party making the choice.

So in this story, 'opportunity cost' is not an explanation why something didn't happen. It is a side effect of something not happening.

You could say the real opportunity cost in this story is the startup teams having a bunch of unhappy users. The explanation for the missing features is simply: they did something else.

So better: "Never attribute to stupidity what is adequately explained by prioritisation"
Objectively worse? No. You are right that competitors are not objectively worse for lacking MacOS. Still, there is a large population (myself included) who is most comfortable working in macOS and considers the “Apple tax” lower than the switching costs of changing OSs.
For the non-native speakers, what does 'exposed' mean in this sentence?
> elogind is a stub piece of systemd and systemd refuses to make any commitment to maintain compatibility.

You do realize even the Linux kernel doesn't make any commitments regarding API stability, right?

That's kind of an explicit choice to allow the maintainers to move forward with the limited resources they have without too much red tape.

There's always *BSD, if you want compatibility back to the Sun days in some cases, (Win32 is another option). Linux is about being as modern as possible without having to worry much about backwards-compatibility and all the cruft that comes with having to maintain that.
That's a pretty common rationalization to justify a certain hands off management approach. It's easier to scale certain businesses by just running them at arms length.

My first job was on a small family farm at age 12 -- we worked very hard but were treated fairly and well. The owner of the business would be hip-deep in the muck with us and was fully accountable for everything that happened on that farm. After that I moved on to different jobs in the mall, culminating in a semi-commissioned sales job that got me through college.

In that environment, you learned very quickly that most of the workers in that mall were completely disposable, and a significant population were discarded when the car that was handed down to them broke down or they were unable to float insurance. No car == bus, and more bus == more late arrivals, which resulted in termination.

The worst employers were run in a hands off way with straw-bosses (ie. people making 7.25/hr vs. 5.75/hr circa 1995) running the place, and the hire/fire decisions were made by an owner or manager at arms length. This was common with the smaller retailers, some behind the scenes jobs, and the food court. The turnover was 50% a week in some cases, and they would just over-hire and fire (or drop hours to nothin). The best paid gigs were janitorial and back of house restaurant workers -- they worked hard, but had steady work and often made off-book money. The easiest gigs were places with a salaried manager, and they usually had a cadre of full-timers backed by a bunch of part-timer people.

In the middle you had places with commissioned people, and there was always a tension between having too few and too many employees. Too many and your best salesmen would leave (and profitability drops, as you need salesmen to move margin enhancers like service plans), too few and you'd lose volume.
> Just set ENABLE_RESOLVE=0 when compiling and resolved is gone?

From HHGTTG:

"But the plans were on display …"

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a flashlight."

"Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"
The 13 inch pro will get hotter faster.

The idea is that the additional room in the boost clock should allow you to open new chrome tabs and load GMail slightly faster, but if you're doing any sort of sustained performance task, you're going to hit thermal limits within a minute or two.
Not even close. All plastic, much worse touchpad and coil whine in all models I cared to check up on.
I also own a Precision M3800 (the business version of XPS 15). It is on par performance-wise but not in fit and finish (rubberized wrist-rest? what was Dell thinking?) Granted there are many generations of the XPS 15.
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This is terrible, I'm [genuinly] surprised that other people recommend fastmail.
To be fair, they fixed the keyboard mechanism. But agree 100% on all other points.
I was hoping for a 14" version. Let's wait for the next version either with ARM or AMD CPUs and better graphics.
I think it's worth mentioning that this blog was shared and lauded on HN instead of a ground floor worker's narrative. So yes, it's not really attempting an impact on this audience.
And not only for running processes, but also for files on the disk. If you mount an image on the host and make a file owned by "root", then mount that image in a container, the container's "root" now owns it too.

Edit: Note that userids are the same, but usernames are not managed by the kernel (handled by /etc/passwd or LDAP or something), so userid 1001 inside the container is userid 1001 outside, but they might have different names if you "ls -l" from different places.
Nobody has to be laughing at anyone else, just saying that other platforms and ecosystems are also viable.
Still a lot of bezel on these, I was expecting to see less, at least down the sides.
> * Comes with Python out of the box

Not for much longer.

"Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default, and might require you to install additional packages. If your software depends on scripting languages, it’s recommended that you bundle the runtime within the app."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_note...
Imagine the hate Google will get if they charged $50 for support. People will say it's a 1 month earnings in some countries.
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2020 seems like the sort of year that this would make sense happening, at least from a narrative point of view.
Hell no... for reasons not on my part I have one of these. I won't list the problems but I'll just say this: I just want my 2015 Macbook back.
I haven't owned a mac in a while since employment now supplies me with a laptop. But my experience with this point of view is that it's about holistic vs. non-holistic thinking. When someone points at specs and tells me that X is better than Y for price, they're getting to that conclusion by ignoring a whole bunch of variables. To take this to the extreme, I had a friend genuinely say, "Why did you spend $90 on a baby monitor? You can just get a RPi, Camera, microphone, and wire it together for like $45."

I have an xps-15 for work and it's... it's okay. It's decent hardware. But I want a mac because I need a non-Windows environment and I'm just dead tired of all the jank in Ubuntu. I no-longer try to undock it because doing so is either a full reboot or the resolution/scaling gets messed up and video memory corrupts (my fonts became colour vomits).

For me, buying a Mac is basically, "here's a ton of money. Now I don't have to think about these things for 7 years." (except the last few macs questionable hardware absolutely ruined this peace of mind...)
>Is it just me or is Apple starting to fall woefully behind non-mac hardware competitors in both price and perf?

Since forever... Ok, perhaps adding the SSDs was a great touch. However, Apple is considered a fashion brand, where you pay more for the brand, itself. In virtually any regard Lenovo business laptops are a better price/value proposition: easily extensible - more memory, m2 slots, docking, pcb with conformal coating, easily serviceable keyboard, touch pads, replaceable battery, etc. A lot better thermals, like a lot. And when it comes to perf. it's not even remotely close.

And yes, multiple USB-A slots, HDMI, display port, rj-45, no dongle nonsense.
>3.7 million kids graduating this year, 70% of them planning on going to college, and probably 100% of their parents wondering if they should encourage their kid to defer for a year until things get back to normal.

I can only imagine. It's by no means a given that all universities will even be open for the fall term--and it's hard for me to imagine it makes sense to start college under those circumstances. Of course, it's also not a given what the options for other activities will be if you just go ahead and defer for a year.
The guy in the article mentioned he planned to bring a horse to haul the meat.
It should be noted that many modern systems are quite resistant to solar flares. Not by design, but mostly by chance.

Specifically, solar flares induce currents in long untwisted pair cables. If the cables have high impedance loads on the ends, high voltages will result, frying equipment.

The telegraph was an example of a high impedance long wire.

In modern equipment, long length high impedance lines are rare. Telephones are one, at around 900 ohms, although nearly all cables are twisted so barely affected. Power lines have an impedance below 1 ohm. Most Comms goes via fiber. Cable TV networks have a grounded shield so unaffected. Small household devices are small, and therefore don't have long lines to get big currents.

I'm sure a solar flare would break some stuff, but the vast majority of devices are more resistant than people expect.

The most vulnerable thing in today's world is probably actually disused phone lines, which are currently disconnected from anything else, so infinite DC impedance, yet very long, and could cause sparks and fires since they typically have paper insulation which is only good for 1000v or so.
There are a small number of companies that do that, including 37signals. I think that few companies do that because setting cultural norms and rules like that is very hard, especially when companies are growing.
Not "us".
The best way to prevent spreading diseases at the office is to not require your employees to go to the office - assuming WFH is compatible with the company's business.

I work at a FAANG company which was aggressively opposed to WFH before the covid-19 crisis. As matter of fact, I recently changed teams within said company and during the informational interview I asked about the team's policy on WFH - the answer was that "our team has a strong 'collaborative in-the-office' culture, so we don't encourage WFH"

I am not kidding, we're talking about one of the most advanced companies in history and they required domestic travel+hotel for trivial half-day, mostly passive interview training that could have been done easily over teleconference, that's how much this company values physical presence.

Fast forward a few months, everybody is WFH in the company and the sky hasn't fallen. Actually, my productivity vastly increased because I'm fortunate to have a solid WFH environment at home (despite kids/wife around).

While I'm not proposing mandatory WFH for tech companies, neither saying that it works for everybody, I believe our top companies could lead and finally allow people who demonstrate that they can be productive at home to just stay home - permanently.
A bit disappointing the 32GB ram option is only available on the £1,799 model (which, when added, bumps the price to £2,199)

Interestingly on that model the RAM is running at a higher speed (3733MHz LPDDR4X vs. 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory)

I'm still running my MBP from 2015 which is mostly fine, but Firefox and co. eat the RAM so would be good for an update. Although for work I use the 16" 2019 model with 32GB and Firefox uses 27GB of that quite easily...

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The article did a good job articulating that the "end users" of an init system aren't sysadmins, they're distro maintainers. If most distros have switched then it must make things better for them.