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> Dont make me jump through hoops to find computery stuff.

I'm curious what "computery" stuff you're looking for? If you're trying to modify stuff a "normal user" wouldn't touch, you'd be better off on the command line. Finder isn't meant for people who want to muck around with the system because everyday normal users shouldn't be messing with system files.

Personally I hardly ever use Finder. Cmd+Space to launch apps and then I use those apps to manage their document types. I develop using VSCode and I'm on iTerm I'd say 75% time anyways.
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5 years ago I destroyed my dells screen, thrre was someone driving to my place the same day and he replaced the screen on site and I could work on. Where would apple ever do this?
The best you can do is constrain your environment in a general direction. In my own life, when I try hard to do something I really don't want to do, it ends up being a set-back. Time wasted.

If instead I go deep on what I enjoy, I am happier in the short term AND long term. When I was younger, I would "waste" time on strategy/tactical games. But I think I actually gained some long-term planning skills from this, and developed a taste for "slow thinking" from this activity. And now those games are boring to me.

Last weekend I buried my head in functional/algebraic programming, even though my conscious brain was saying it was a total waste of time and distraction from my real tasks/goals. From the experience, I've learned that functional programming really isn't the silver bullet I want to believe it should be. But I trust myself enough to believe that even if the payoff isn't obvious, or even if it doesn't apply in my professional life, that my brain giving me enjoyment for the activity is enough of a signal that it was time well spent...even if I really can't justify it to anyone including myself.

You can point yourself in a general direction by setting up your environment towards that direction. Buy books in things you're interested in even if you never end up reading them. Give your body sunshine. Never go grocery shopping when hungry, and fill your fridge only with good foods. The key to letting your unconscious brain take over is that you only give it access to the sugar that your executive planning brain believes will work.
I knew a few people who worked at Whole Foods before they got bought; they seemed relatively happy with how they were treated.
Sampling frequency 8 kHz/13-bit (160 samples for 20 ms frames), filtered to 200–3400 Hz.

The AMR codec uses eight source codecs with bit-rates of 12.2, 10.2, 7.95, 7.40, 6.70, 5.90, 5.15 and 4.75 kbit/s.

Fax machines on the other hand go up to 33kbit/s.

PS: People can produce and hear frequencies well above 3400 Hz, but for phone calls people just don’t notice clipping those frequencies. If anything it helps by removing some background sounds.
The advantage of cubicles over offices is rearranging work groups on a semi-regular bases. You can create a new work group, assign a third of your employees to it, and then rearrange all of the cubes on the floor so that all of the work groups are together over a weekend.
> Assuming this is the real true reason (I would trust Tim, but you never know, so just being explicit here), it takes huge balls to do something like this.

Agree:

People can quit and say what they want.

People in high paying jobs can quit and often find an equivalent replacement; perhaps have one lined up before they leave; in such a case the impact is limited.

But if you quit on principle and take a public stand on it other large companies are more likely to treat your decision as a sign you are dangerous. So it takes not just the ability but also the willingness to take such action.
In my case, I'm using a different, easy password, for test servers that contain no important production data or are in a especially privileged network position. If they were connected to AD, I would be forced to present my "real" password.

On production servers on the other hand, the amount of people with root is probably much smaller, and there might be bigger wins by being able to centrally enforce password policies or whatever the sysadmins want to do.
So 5% of mosquitos in one area has the microbe.

If it has a survival benefit for mosquitos, it will reach 100% by itself. Since that hasn't happened, I'm a little worried that there are some caveats here.
> ...now we need the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, a mentor that customizes information that matches a student.

In case you didn't get the reference: https://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/11/building-young-...
yes, certainly there are successes, but it's good to realize that that's only about half of attempts. if you're an involved shareholder, it's eminently reasonable to be skeptical of executive strategies that feature m&a centrally.
> 1. Does Horizon support an equivalent to the 'Variant Manager?'

No, but there's been some discussion on it: https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon/pull/347#issuecomment...

> 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?

There's https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon-pool-convention, but that's still work in progress.

> 3. Is there a way to set paste mask expansion like is done in Altium?

Yes, you can set it globally in the board.
UIViewRepresentable is never used. Just for getting a SafariView and a UIActivity one (for sharing).
> they admitted it wasn't really about the money

Did they give you an actual reason?
Sorry for the glibness I am just really bored with these complaints, it really feels like the same old bikeshedding. As far as I know there is no way to make a transactional state machine without having the concept of a single, reordable work unit. Daemontools did not solve this or present a different model that was more workable. For every developer that rewrote their daemon to get rid of forking, we got more new developers with outdated learning material coming over who expected services to work like they did on some other crazy environment like Microsoft Windows.

I don't particularly care about who was a "winner" or a "loser" either. In general you cannot get away from TOCTOU on Unix without taking extreme care and avoiding things that would seem reasonable, like storing filenames in other files or using the "kill" command. In practical use I have seen no inits that make any concerned effort to solve these issues at all. That is a situation in which we all lose.
First of all, I haven't said I use PS/2. Quite the opposite. Trying to group all ports in the same place as a very outdated one is being intellectually dishonest. Things like FireWire and VGA are already on the way out and are not present in new laptops, but laptops used today still have them.

If I have "extremely niche needs", then why do almost all laptops sold include Ethernet/RJ-45, several USB-A ports, HDMI output, card readers, etc.?

Not everyone has bought into $50 USB-C dongle land.
Apple Pros:

* macOS
Note: this is a video. Here are the slides: http://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs_els2020.pdf
I wish antitrust legislation in the US was brought back or enforced. Forbidding direct comparisons is an anticompetitive practice if I've ever seen one.
Get a sheet of microfiber cloth, cut it to your screen size, and place it over the keyboard/trackpad before closing your laptop.
We absolutely need people working in warehouses. Our society would collapse far faster without them than if all of us reading this would go away.

And that means we need to treat them with respect, and pay them properly.
Generate faces with any features you want
I searched a few emails in some local copies of data breaches and found real results
Do you think your company will go back to WFO eventually or will some of the WFH changes stick?
lol. take this box off the shelf and put a label on it. omg so evil
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> Or have I been watching too much Silicon Valley?

Too much, or not enough.
Oh, that's a misunderstanding then. I think what was meant by "test every commit before allowing merge" was testing each individual commit in a PR branch, not just testing PRs before merging. I don't think your solution does this. :-(
Not if that's all the calories you have - then it adds up to a week's nutrition. But sure, as a trivial additive for fun, deer can work for a tiny fraction of the population.

My state of 3M had 100,000 deer harvested last year. That's deer for 3% of the population. One deer each. Not gonna put a dent in our food supply. That was my only point.
Thanks for that link.

> Historically we've always materialized the full output of a CTE query

Do you know if this means that CTEs are written to disk? I didn't think this was the case. (In the case of materialized views that qualifier means the view is written to disk).
maybe minorities are the only ones protesting
The real disaster is that people are cynical enough to believe and continue to popularise this myth.

Most people think of themselves as fundamentally good. Considering someone who has made decisions based on (well-argued) ethical beliefs to be dangerous would contradict their image of self. And if there's one thing people abhor, it's being inconsistent in their believes about themselves. Ergo: nobody not working for Uber or Facebook is going to have a problem with a do-gooder.

If you don't believe me, consider this: Do you believe this guy, Tim Bray, had both the power as well as the mindset to hire someone who had made a similar stand at a previous job?

Or consider the overwhelming majority in this thread seemingly supportive of this action, and registering disagreement with the idea of not hiring such people. Do you believe they all change their opinion if they are ever promoted into management? Would you?

There is also a vast universe of companies that just aren't in a position to generate the sort of ethical controversies Amazon invites, either by being small or by selling innocuous products.

As a cultural phenomenon, this idea is similar to believing that corporations never do anything that isn't in direct pursuit of shareholder value (they frequently do, sometimes even quietly where it doesn't even generate positive PR).

In a certain sense, these are examples of Keynesian Beauty Contests, where everyone considers the girl-next-door type to be pretties, but bets on the blonde playmate with fake breasts to be chosen by the majority.
I will never buy a dell again, had an XPS 9550 (£2.7k 32gb ram, top of the range) - they had a chip in to detect a valid dell power adapter and that went so they wanted over 600 to replace the motherboard.

I bought a macbook and use the dell charger (udb-c) to charge my macbook.
Really glad I bought this year's MacBook Air instead of waiting for this. Seems like a much better deal to me
When people say the workers are incapable, some folks mean that there are systemic problems with capitalism (particularly in the US). The workers don't have a deficiency, the system is designed to keep them where they are.
It's a treatment for mosquitoes, not people.
Spending Stimulus Checks. Curses and Energy
Great article if I ever get back into DB-based development again...
Flattening the Truth on Coronavirus
I've got another trick to use in place of a Magsafe type cable. Get a cable that is a few feet longer than you need, and attach a couple magnets a few feet apart on the cable. Then click the magnets together. Now you have a cable with a loop that is held closed by the magnets. If someone trips over the cable, the magnets come apart and pull out slack from that loop, instead of pulling the cord on the back of the laptop.

Not quite as good as having the cord detach, but it still helps in the majority of minor trip-induced cord pulls (depending on how much clack in the cable you leave bundled between the two magnets).
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I've had nothing but problems with 9570. Constantly overheating. It's a good day when I can get even 3 hours of battery life.
I assume you mean writing an Emacs lisp interpreter in Common Lisp — which could be done with a small lexer, a lot of macros, and some library support. That would probably be a win.
They have a good track record. The covid19 outbreak seems to have caused some bumps.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/costco-thr...

https://www.kuow.org/stories/costco-tells-office-workers

https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-workers-stressed-coro...
I would say that absolute best predictor of getting a meeting is strong introductions. I hate to say this, but you'll have an easier time with a strong network.

A trusted introduction can even overcome a bad deck in some cases. But there should be no reason to have a bad deck now-a-days as there is ample reference and knowledge share.

First-time founders: Please don't pay for access. Services like this, in my opinion, are dubious at best. Work on building a network, blogging, open source, meeting other founders, going to VC events, tapping your alumni network, etc.
> Red Hat wanted it done

Red Hat had zero interest into a new init system when Lennart started systemd. They had just moved to upstart and Red Hat customers don't really care about init systems. Red Hat customers pay for their systems to be stable and to have someone to call when something goes wrong.

Systemd gives Red Hat no competitive advantage whatsoever.

I'm probably not going to make myself a lot of friends by saying this but I don't really understand the systemd opponents.

The components systemd is slowly replacing or sitting on top, most of the low level userspace of linux, is mostly garbage and poorly documented garbage at that. PAM is aweful. I don't even want to talk about ConsoleKit. Cron has one of the worst configuration format ever and I'm certainly not going to miss fstab. I would find journald a step in the right direction even if the only thing it brought to the table was the ability to configure logging from the service file and not have to fiddle with logrotate.

Networkd gives you a nice, uniform and well documented way to configure both interfaces, rules, custom routing tables and vpn tunnels from declarative files. Who in their right mind can miss the hodgepodge of scripts that was there before ?
> he should take steps to move away from it

Unless - as it often happens - someone in high places need to keep justifying a business decision taken 1-2-3 years before.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782280
Wait until you find out about wars and genocides!
I mean, Kitchener, ON is a nice place, but...
They have presumably already paid for this semester. That's the issue. They paid for one educational experience and environment and it's been switched to one that is presumably lower value in many respects.
13.4 added key remapping for hardware keyboards. I have caps lock mapped to control and the globe/international keyboard key mapped to escape.
It was demonstrated that it works quite well right up until the point where you start using quotation marks - " and/or ' in your code.

Then it breaks.
Ubuntu 20.04: Welcome to the future, Linux LTS disciples
"You're welcome"

This is my favourite.

Don't we (Canada/Ontario) already pay an e-waste fee on purchase?
Yeah. But coming from a marketing executive like Phil, this kind of "not coming out with it" doesn't mean "never." It means "not coming out with it this next upcoming version." I think the rumor will stay alive.
How come nobody has implemented an Oracle compatibility mode for PostgreSQL?

Or in general, why don't databases support each others SQL dialect? It can't be that much work, at least if one is content with only supporting the majority of applications, and seems pretty essential for popularizing a specific database.

Looking at the article, supporting Oracle syntax seems trivial in all cases except for adding full MERGE support.
That's a nice one.
The “Scary Stuff” warnings are important because anyone competent will ignore them and anyone not competent will be scared away. As they should be, because potential for abuse here is rife.

It works.
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If the employees were unsatisfied with that arrangement, they would bring the union in. That's the point.
I'm not sure if you're claiming that Linux is a "major desktop operating system" (desktop added for clarity based on the context of your statement), but if you are your statement is badly misinformed.

I use Linux in (many) VMs where I have to in order to run esoteric toolchains for embedded stuff. There is no distribution of Linux that provides bulletproof basic desktop usability anywhere near the level of OS X or Windows 10. Nothing even in the same ballpark. And I've used Linux since the days when Slackware came on a set of 3.5" floppies, so I'm not some Linux hater or incompetent here -- I've got a significant amount of experience with the OS in many of its flavors. When you can get any distribution of Linux to accurately handle plugging in external monitors every time, maybe we can talk.

Xcode is an excellent IDE - it's second really only to Visual Studio.

My only complaint about Macs today is the Touch Bar, because they replaced my f-keys with it and it's useless to me as a developer. That's at least partially mitigated by my das keyboard.

Nearly every other dev I know uses a MacBook Pro. The Mac Pro is a production machine for movies, it's not really part of the discussion here.
Not every writer can be a big blogger. For example, there is only one Scot Allexander. If you want to do it as a hobby, it's very good as well.
The day has come. Last year or so ;)

Macbook, Ipad Pro, Cheap phone (Moto G / Pixel 3A) everything on my desk shares just one power brick.
We have a pretty optimal layout, imho. We have several "pods" which are an open 30'x30'x14' room that opens to the main corridor, which get divided into up to 7 cubes via 7' dividers (very modern and colorful, not the vertical carpets of yore). The center usually has whiteboards and chairs for collabs.

So you get interaction with coworkers, but can bury yourself in work readily (also everyone has noise cancelling headphones).

Kinda miss it, it's way nicer than my home office.

There's definitely way less structure now and I am suffering for it.
I think you're missing the point where I treat the "top class desktop operating system with top class unix environment support and tools" as a whole, and not as two separate things. To me MacOS is the top class desktop operating system with top class unix env support, nothing else gets close to this definition. Other operating systems could get close to other definitions, maybe even surpass it, but not to this one.
It’s easier to micromanage staff, and much more convenient for playing office politics when on site - hence management is usually against wfh. It boggles the mind.
Not if other foods were unavailable (the assumption).

Why is that your assumption?
I wouldn’t trust these data, not because there is anything wrong with the analysis but because the inputs are inaccurate. What VCs say was the reason they were interested is not necessarily what made them interested. It may be what they tell themselves or tell you, but I think the decision criteria are rarely that objective or explicit. Decisions are made, then back justified with a plausible explanation.
>unionization

I am confused why there weren't wholesale strikes in the grocery, retail, warehouse, gig workforces during the shutdowns. Workers had complete power to force change.
This is certainly all true, and with Oracle, absolutely everything is negotiable. Nobody pays list. It still isn't cheap. If you are going the Oracle route, you might even consider hiring a consultant to do the buying, because relationships and knowing the Oracle way can make a huge difference.

Also, Oracle Database itself is more than just an RDBMS and has an enormous amount of features that have no analogs in Postgres or any other non-commercial system. Take a look Oracle's data warehousing components, like advanced analytical SQL, pattern matching, and the especially cool modeling: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DWHSG/sqlmodel.htm#DWHS...
Potentially, I've never seen a study relating personality to ATP.

The usage of "energy" here is a metaphor for how the dopamine system is invoked in the brain. Introverts have less dopamine released in a social interaction than extroverts do, and that gives the impression of "tiredness" or "having less energy".