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Yes. Now just avoid running those poor Electron apps which actually impact battery life on all laptops. No user shouldn't need to get a laptop with a i7 CPU with 16GB to 32GB of RAM and a high end GPU to run your over-engineered chat app.

I get this all the time with my MacBook that I use for development. Run 1 or 2 of them is fine, but 10 or more at the same time and it will run the machine down to the ground.
I'm an introvert, but my hobbies are outdoor sports that require other people and sometimes enclosed spaces.

I was dying! I had to go home and move in with family so I could speak to someone more than once every two weeks.
I can confirm. Same thing for, started 3 hours ago. It seems to work again for the moment though (after one hour, no change from my side).

The setting is also gone for me!
This reminds me of the SQL Murder Mystery: https://mystery.knightlab.com/
It is even easier with daemontools, which is much more lightweight and follows the Unix philosophy.

But somehow distro maintainers can never integrate djbware for political reasons. In the case of RedHat, also NIH syndrome.
Agreed. This takes more courage than quitting itself, in my opinion. What if he wrote this letter, sent it to the media, and then worked in good faith within Amazon to change things for the better? That seems like the hardest road, and also the one that might make the most difference.
I really hope you take to heart the sources and links that people will respond with, and not just switch to defensive mode. This is a dangerous topic, and important to get right.
Good that they finally upgraded all mobile keyboards. But otherwise not too many enhancements.

- going to 14 inch like with the transition from 15->16 inch sounded like the obvious thing to do, especially to separate from the Air.

- just quad-core processors in a day and age where AMD launches 8-core low power mobile chips

- no dedicated graphics unit.
What we need is keys with tiny screens on. Tactile feel so you can use without looking AND contextual.

If only someone had made something like this already... oh yeah gamer keyboards have had this for YEARS.
While the discussion of direct vs indirect taxes is interesting, the article just flatly asserts that Swedes are unaware of their tax burden without a shred of proof. That’s not convincing.
Am curious, what happens if an engineer quit like this after writing a blog about the company, does it have a negative impact on their hirability? Do other companies not want him or does it not matter?
Ah, misread. I was just looking into entirely self-hosting this last week.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#ema...
See especially homebox, Mail-in-a-box "complete solutions".

With brief exploration you might also be comfortable with just running the MTA for sending and forwarding, and MDA for "delivery", i.e. reading.
Since this was marked as a dupe, could we not merge the comments here into the other thread?
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Even the last Pro will destroy the Air when it comes to something like video encoding, 3D rendering, etc. Anything that will run full-tilt for longer than 20 seconds.

It is faster in things like Geekbench or browser benchmarks, and if you're buying the Air you're probably not using it to do heavy lifting.
The Makeup of a Dollar [1] would be little affected by a change in working hours, because only the effects of labor are measured, not the actual duration of labor itself.

[1] https://satisologie.substack.com/p/the-makeup-of-a-dollar
Next innovation: Function keys.

"At Apple, we realised the touch was mostly used to trigger the same actions, and we wondered how we could provide a better experience. Then after years of research, crafting the best design, we created the Function Keys. Instead of the touch bar, there would be a row of physical keys to change the volume, the brightness, and media controls."
I don't really care enough to try a productivity tool; I'm happy to try out what Apple offers first, but I've seen nothing particularly compelling. The touchID button on the other hand has been useful from day 1.

I do care about the terrible build quality of the keyboard which meant keys fell off and even wore through within months of buying it. The basics are a lot more important than Apple's latest magic x, and the basics on Apple products used to be top notch.
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I'd really like to know this as well !!
I use the VGA port in many conference talks I give. Modern, digital projectors are still not a guarantee and it is very awkward to go ask around for another laptop or a dongle.

I have FireWire hardware still around that I have no plan on replacing until it breaks.

Around half my games are 32-bit.

I have a library of BluRays with my favorite shows at home. I also bought some kid shows for my daughter 6 months ago that came in a DVD set.

But yeah, go laugh and make a comparison with PS/2. Everyone I listed is still in use today and many laptop vendors provide ports for them. Some will go out soon, some won't for years.
Offices cost more than cubes. An office needs a door, ceiling, lights, lighting control, sometimes a sidelight (window), floor/wall finishes, HVAC, along with a couple receptacles and a data opening. This costs more than an 8x8 cube.
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The resolution part is insane. I use my work Macbook at 125% scaling, which would be equivalent to 100% on a WQHD screen. There are some available on some very specific (expensive) ThinkPads from a generation I don't want and the new Ryzen ASUS Zephyrus G14 (but it seems like they absolutely don't want to sell it, I seriously have found no listing for it after spending a long time hunting down the actual model code).

There are some 4k models, but those bring more weird fractional scaling problems with them (especially bad on Linux), have battery life and are usually super expensive.

Oh ... and it's all 14 or 15" models. I'd happily take a 17 or 19" laptop - I just want enough portability so I can carry it around in a bag while commuting and have it on a desk most of the time, but, while there are some okay 17" offerings (barely any "pro" devices, though, so no swappable RAM) there is not one (apart from the insanely expensive ZBook) offering with a higher than FHD screen.

What the fuck?! Why? Don't most people use their laptops as only somewhat portable work stations? Am I the only one who finds a larger screen with more content useful?

?!?!?!!?!?
> It's never been in-scope for it to figure out how to invoke a particular compiler or linker.

True

> Nix is a package manager, not a build tool.

False. Nix should be the go-to tool for executing and caching all dependency graphs. Just the planning of those graphs is domain-specific and out of Nix's purvue.

Build systems that use Ninja actually get the execution-planning separation right. (Try Meson if you hate CMake.) So basically, we just need to make Nix better than Ninja in every way, and then hook it up to these build systems (directly or with ninja2nix).

Of course, then we will demonstrate all the impurities and non-determinism in people's CMakeLists. That alone is the cultural problem to solve for normie evangelizing. Everything else is technical and there's use bemoaning Nix is just too weird.
I've seen this mentioned a few times now on HN as a drawback of Ubuntu. Are multiple monitors really that much of a benefit that so many people use them?
Step 3: Comments on HN getting about marketing material as if Apple is the only company that does it.
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> You do realize even the Linux kernel doesn't make any commitments regarding API stability, right?

It does for userspace APIs. Linus is notorious for chewing people out for breaking them (example: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75).
It's much more obvious with side projects because there is no one else to blame. You have a complete view of the picture.

I find personal projects very humbling. Even with no one stepping on my toes or setting unrealistic requirements, I still make dumb mistakes and write subpar code.
> The meal was suddenly changed halfway through, but there was no option to stop paying.

Can't the respective student stop paying by quitting the university (of course, he will leave without a degree)?
Are these actually 10nm?

I keep presuming 10th gen chips are 10nm and then realising they’re actually 14++
Eh, I know several of engineers who wouldn't interview at either facebook or amazon, because of their reputations. Maybe not a lot of people quit in disgust on the spot, but I have a hard time believing that the "name value" and "resume value" of amazon doesn't go down a LOT after this. Suddenly it's not something to brag about anymore, but to apologize for.
Or RJ-11!
Sounds like you’re looking for a wiki?
Yep. You can get a MBA though. Not nearly as "airy" as they used to be, given that the screen is 13" too and you can get a decent amount of RAM in there. CPU still isn't great, but probably you're not doing super CPU intensive stuff with a 13" MBP.
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I thought hydroxychloroquine was a much vaunted treatment for malaria?

COVID certainly has a lower mortality right now, but it's only because of the extreme precautions we've all taken. In a world where we didn't bother, I presume that would completely change.
How would they cost more?

I've only seen the full-height cubicle in American films, but most of the stuff -- desk, shelves and so on -- is still required in an individual office. They don't require a real door or doorframe, and electricity and network connections can be run fairly cheaply under the floor.

What am I missing?
the crime is to dishonestly acquire something, in this case the actual charge was fraud IIRC.

They conspired to win the prize in a way that was outside the rules, by obtaining help that they were not allowed to use. so the crime isn't winning it's how you won, and then did you really win or did you cheat.

much like in a sporting event, you can win by taking performance enhancing drugs, just because you came first doesn't mean you won.
> the new inverted-"T" arrangement

I bet whoever wrote that sleeps well at night.

Bill Hicks:

By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing… kill yourself…

No really, there’s no rationalization for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers. Okay – kill yourself – seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you’re going, “there’s going to be a joke coming,” there’s no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It’s the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself…

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing, he’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market, he’s very smart.”…Goddamnit, I’m not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a goddamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
RedHat has several people who take over projects and rewrite everything they see, with little or no benefit other than getting a high commit count.
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If you don't feel like you have a hopeless amount of stuff left to learn you are either a unicorn or the opposite. In this field people who think they know everything are almost always just oblivious to the fact that they are incompetent.

Yea, there are minor Internet celebs in the security industry that seem like gods to most of us, but most of the ones I've spoken to also struggle with imposter syndrome. At the very least they are usually humble.

However, I think there is a small percentage of very vocal people in the community that engage in an eternal dick measuring competition on twitter and elsewhere. They take up enough of the attention to make a lot of us anxious about our own accomplishments.

Passion is the greatest indicator of success in most endeavors, security research included. You seem to have it. I'd say you are likely far more skilled than you give yourself credit for. Perhaps what you really need help with is figuring out a strategy that helps you pivot into a role where you can spend more time on what you love.

Something that helped me early on was actually a comment on HN. tptacek responded to a comment of mine and said something along the lines of "There is probably less that separates the two of us than you think there is." Instead of thinking that I wasn't good enough it got me thinking of how to close the gap between where I was and where I wanted to be. I'm still no industry celeb, I haven't published any white papers, and I haven't discovered any zero days, but I do get to work on cool stuff on a regular basis that actually helps people.
So what is "far-right" that needs to be silenced, and why? Do you also want the "far-left" silenced?
I would argue that macOS isn't the selling point it used to be but it's still less annoying to me to work with than WSL on Windows 10 or wrestling with a Linux distro and shitty display drivers.
9 kcal/g is pure fat; protein is only 4 kcal/g.
I'll amend that a bit, I assume many of the people you speak of are in my camp, and that camp is a bit different than what you described.

Mostly I don't care about OSX. Some days i actually would prefer Linux. The reason I'm on OSX though is because I've been down the Linux desktop road, many times, and between the software and/or faulty configuration experience I use avoid it.

Random problems when I'm trying to work drive me mad. I use OSX to avoid problems.
I've taught some online classes for a few years and at least in my field, I don't think they are very great. I don't feel like a teacher but a grader. I post mini-lectures and other videos to try to get some connection with students but I don't feel that it is as effective.

In a sense I was lucky when this quarantine in place happened because my college does 8 week classes and we were on a break when things started. Therefore, all the classes I'm teaching right now have been virtual/online from the start and I didn't have to switch gears in the middle of a semester. Even in these classes where we do live zoom meetings I don't really feel like I know my students. It is better and more like a real class than online but the added tech issues make it less than ideal.
How many racists would you guess are in the USA? I ask because it seems like you're using a very binary definition of the word.
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One should not take savage pleasure in pointing out others errors to them. This is the pathology that I think we find disagreeable.

"The idea that technical aptitude is somehow inversely correlated with how much consideration a person should receive is a terrible"

Let me rephraze this. A technical person should be able to receieve constructive feedback.

Think of a great editor for a book. Usually a writer cherishes editorial feedback for a book.

The situation is that both parties want the best possible outcome. It's not about egos. It's purely about ding and sich - the technical output.

I didn't mean one should cherish abusive behaviour.

But one should cherish candid constructive feedback.

The candid feedback should come with two guarantees: 1. It's honest and correct 2. It is given with the implicit will to make things better. 3. It's intent is not to abuse the other party in any way. 4. The giver is willing to support the other party until they reach a mutually satisfactory result.

It's not okay to use words to hurt. It is okay to use words to teach. You should not be afraid of giving candid feedback.
I've walked away from tons dude two mega corporations and an agency and at a heavy personal cost may I add but what choice did I have? Selling my ethics was too high a price

Listen every large organization becomes a leftist surveillance state unless we drastically work against that tendency

As systems professionals we should know that by now but we collectively turn a blind eye need I remind you who was selling counting machines to the bad guys during that war in Europe all those years ago? How many engineers had the courage to step into their 1:1 and indict their managers for treason back then?

If you haven't become a corporate outcast by 40 you're a traitor

Edit -- before you say it's my way of claiming sour grapes for my failings as a software engineer you shouldn't be surprised that every corporation is essentially the same corporation with different plutocrats at the helm repeating each other's tired monologues to the same masses of unwashed pizza eating feature trolls

It's the same in north America as it is in socialist dictatorships only here the managers pretend they're our friends and there they're our dads
Compatibility with low power mobile ram is usually the thing with Apple; they care more about long battery life, especially long sleep times, than raw CPU performance.
Its not only about can-I-affort-it. Here in Switzerland, most of my IT colleagues have android phones 1-5 years old that were never top of the line and they are fine with them, including me. With salaries that could comfortably afford them latest top apple phones every generation if they wanted.

But why would they do that? Phones are not secure by default, anybody thinking otherwise is naive and uneducated, Apple is not an exception. What else does an Apple phone offer to IT guy that rest doesn't? The answer for most of us, nothing. We just run an app XYZ. And those phones are just fine for that.

SE being no exception to this, its still way pricier than Android counterparts.

Like most of us, for most use cases we don't buy overpriced status things with decent quality, rather stuff that has good price/quality ratio, emphasis more on quality. Same with cars, kitchen, other electronics or generally home equipment, sport equipment and so on.
R&D

Most (?) human's middle fingers are longer than the surrounding ones so from the ergonomic point of view an inverted T is the only thing which makes sense. Getting your middle finger on the same row as the other 2, or the row above, feels ok. Row below feels awkward. Multiple buttons on same row as well unless the keys are quite big: middle fingers are also not very small. It's likely also why an inverted T is the de facto standard for 'normal' keyboards I guess. So one can only wonder why anyone would ever do that differently. Just for the sake of being different and the revenue that might bring? Which would be a bit of a shame for a company which takes pride in design.
So does perl, sh, etc, and god knows how long it goes back in time, and even when a language doesn’t, it always strikes as a frivolous move to make two characters to mean the same. Either do 's or "s but both... it’s just a fuel for style(9) wars. The only cases when it’s reasonable is sqlite-like ones, when your goal is to support as many legacy habits as possible.
Still it seems a squandered opportunity. Instagram is no substitute for shared spaces.

And 'gamedevs know' about blockbuster team-based shooters, and a very few other big sellers. Remember, most people don't play video games at all. What would they find appealing? Clearly, not what gamedevs are delivering.
not really, if they say coughs were the method of cheating then you can just look at coughs. if their claim was any noise counts,then yes you have to look at sneezes or any other sound. however to be able to use this then you need to know what you are listening for, so a range of sounds is not effective.
Interested! Is there a contact for this role?
No, and not just because he's famous: the tech business is very big and had insatiable demand for talented people.
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It might depend on your typing style. If you hit the keys with force, you might prefer rubber domes/mech keyboards, if you flow around the keyboard just gently tapping the keys, butterfly is amazing. I would easily pay $200 for a desktop keyboard that gives the same typing experience.
Except you aren't even getting the internal advances. They are seriously selling an 8th gen i5 with 8 GiB of DDR3 memory in the base models.
It needs to require pressure to activate, not a micrometer of skin brushing the edge of it, before I'll have to stop disabling most of it to make my laptop keyboard usable.

I find force touch trackpad unusable, too. Can't drag+drop reliably on it—like, maybe a 25% success rate for a click & drag of any significant length. Wife's the same way (except she didn't know the feature existed, so thought her new laptop was broken). Had to disable it on both our machines, which is fine since I don't remember what they said it was for at the event where it was announced, so I'm missing nothing. Both of us are young-ish and have entirely OK manual dexterity and sensitivity, as far as I know.
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Have we already found life on Mars?
Can't you create an "application password" for IMAP?
I find compilation painful even on my desktop, and cost of operation is still on my mind when I’m trying to do a quick demo to people. I feel like people here who are professionals make enough to justify buying away these latencies and distractions.
Absurd.

There’s a word for this:

Gaslighting.

Inverted-T arrow key arrangement? No no, that’s new.
I was curious how the 13 inch was priced so I compared it to a new Dell XPS 13. Dell has a better processor (maybe, [2]) , but I couldn't find the option to upgrade the Dell to 4TB internal SSD, so I compared both with the 2 TB option. Ram is the same at 32GB.

Dell came out to $2399[0] USD and Apple came out to $2999[1] USD.

Dell Pros:

* Row of function buttons (I've used BTT to customize my touch-bar to the point where it's a little bit of a tossup, but years of muscle memory still haunt me)

* Better processor (maybe [2])

* Cheaper

* MicroSD reader

Apple Pros:

* Better Trackpad

* More Ports (Upgraded Dell only has 2 USB-C, while Upgraded MBP has 4)

* Better hardware support

* Better resale value

Objectively, seems to me that list used to be a lot longer on the Apple side. IMHO I think the Touch Bar disappointment is probably over dramatized by developers, it's not too bad a couple years in and BTT has made it so I can run whatever macros I want in any application, so overall tossup in my mind. I still miss mag-safe adapters though. I still don't understand that decision.

Also, I'm happy with the new Magic Keyboard. I have the 16 inch MBP right now, and I will say that even though I prefer the travel of the '12-'15 era keyboards, this typing experience is far superior than the faulty butterfly keys.

I'm hoping given how they've walked the keyboard back, and how the new Mac Pro is actually a Pro machine that they're headed back in the right direction (post Jony Ive). A $600 price difference for this machine is probably worth it in my mind, just given my experience with resale value, longevity and lack of competitors, but there's a lot of room improvement.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/p6RA9HF

[1] https://imgur.com/a/f6ii7h9

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23067768
I have a work provided 2019 13" Mac Book Pro. I was hesitant to let them replace my 2014 MBP because of all the negative press about the new keyboards. FWIW, I now prefer the 2019 keyboard over my personal 2014's MBP, the latter's keyboard now seems mushy and imprecise. So, aside from the touchbar, which I still don't love, I prefer the 2019 MBP over the older model.
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This did happen for me one time in the past, which turned me off Syncthing then. Since that time though, I've tried again and never had this happen. I assumed it was an edge case of some sort that they fixed, but you're saying you've had this experience recently? (As in the last year or two?)