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> I think what you're implying here is that it's ridiculous to spend a few hours of a few officers work day to save a life.

No, it's ridiculous to keep a threat going for so long. Remember that it is a threat? For how long exactly should these officers be expected to have a machete wielded at their face?

> Better to kill someone, at least it's over quickly and doesn't need as much... salary?

That's not how it would work in a standoff like this. First, you present the gun. That might change the perpetrator's mind. Then, you fire a warning shot. That might change the perpetrator's mind. Then, you shoot at the legs. If that doesn't change the perpetrator's mind, it's going to seriously impede their ability to cause harm.

If the perpetrator chooses to initiate an assault, all bets are off. They're getting shot, but also injury to others is likely going to be prevented.

> The point of the video is that, indeed, they are effective at keeping someone occupied until the properly equipped force shows up, and that it is possible to do that without just killing people when they are freaking out.

How do you know that this was effective? Show me a situation with an attacker actually ready to initiate an assault. The situation couldn't have been brought under control. For example:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/22/police-briti...

https://news.sky.com/story/police-officer-critical-after-bei...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-49273979

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/man-charged-stabbing-p...
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I don't use Spaces since I don't like how I get switched into different spaces just by clicking an app that has windows open in another space. I've tried to use it a few times since it came out a decade ago (that long, or longer?) but just couldn't get used to being thrown around all over the place.

My ideal setup would be that a user NEVER gets switched into another Space/Desktop, even if they click an icon in the dock, or Cmd-Tab. If there's a window in Safari in another space that I wanted, I would switch sequentially to that space and find it.

I do like to hear how other people work and if they like features that I don't; helps me gauge how far along on the curmudgeon timeline I am!
Sadly the machines from the repairable / upgradable era are getting to the end of their lifespan; at least with normal MacOS and standart software.

I'm writingh this on a 2010 mbp on it's third battery, second ram upgrade and new-ish SSD and i'don't know if my next machine will hold up ~10 years when nothing is easily replacable.
When the new Macbook's came out, I did think they were priced a bit too reasonably. Apple must have thought so too...
upon which ~ at which time.

Possibly more of a British English usage; I'd appreciate somebody with better formal language knowledge giving a less shallow insight.
I upgraded my 2018 Mac mini to 32gb ram.

It has the maxed cpu and performance is fantastic.
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Also a ridiculous number were made, so there's a lot of them out there, despite Trent Reznor destroying many of them on stage!
That's like saying people who steal for five it back because that's an admission of stealing. Of course it is. So what?

Not apologizing doesn't make them less wrong. It just means they are covering up whatever they did wrong.
I have been a faithful Apple/macOS since 2002. Always very happy and proud.

I have now switched to Windows on my Macbook Pro and I'm liking it. It's not as polished as macOS still, but I think (and hope) it's getting there. I don't think I'll ever buy another Apple machine. Windows has turned around since those times, I recommend you give it a try if you're thinking about it or you're unhappy with how Apple has become nowadays.

I almost feel free to choose whatever machine I want next and not pay a hefty price for it. Or pay it, if I want to, but it will be my choice, not imposed.
Apple has pretty much always placed an emphasis on compact (by the standards of the day) form factors for its laptops. Just buy from another manufacturer if that's not your thing. History has usually proved them correct. People used to complain about the lack of a CD drive.
That may or may not be true, but why excuse a corporation for what would be insulting, pathologically rude behavior in an individual?

Wealthy entities (including even moderately rich humans) can't admit error for legal reasons. That seems like a recipe for continued abuses, frankly. I'd like to see that changed.
Back when you could upgrade the RAM yourself, everyone did just that. I bought a Mac Mini with 2 GB in 2011 and maxed it out to 8 for what felt like pocket change. Apparently, Apple didn't quite like people bypassing its ridiculous markups altogether.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lODs0bj_0
I'm mean I know it would be nice to toss him some money. And it sucks when companies ghost people. But really isn't the point of open source that everyone can do what they want with the code? And if you're not distributing the actual code, why do you owe them anything?

If I gave credit to everyone who influenced the code I write, the file would be huge. Does the world have enough disk drives to hold all the credit where credit is due?
There is now bidding for developers of the site. Here is a link to some better journalism about this topic: https://socketsite.com/archives/2019/09/city-seeking-develop...
I thought they offered me Azure credit? Maybe he preferred that.
LDS has some weird and deeply problematic traditions but this is just religious bigotry and elitism. The Catholic Church is known for being an international pedophile ring but we don't shame Parisians for being Catholic. Check yourself.
The thing is that li ion batteries bare these 10 years ahead. So to be competitive now, a battery chemistry bmust be either 10times cheaper (rough estimate) or fill in a niche application (high density, very stable). A battery that is just five times as cheap will never catch up to the learnings of li ion manufacturing.
The more and less expensive places are owned by the same companies in most cases. The flagship gets the newest cars. When they get a bit older, they get moved to the mid-tier prices, then to the cheapest places, before sold as used cars in wholesale. So that would be Hertz-Dollar-Thrifty, And you can quickly find out many of the rest. I don’t know how Enterprise manages its fleet though.
Also see benchmarking - 'times as fast' vs 'times faster' vs 'times slower' etc etc etc eternally confusing.
>blacks represent only 13% of the population but commit 52% of the crime

Odd, my dogs are barking
Nah.

Unscrewing a cover and popping up some ram is not a “professional” task. It’s something anyone with passing familiarity could achieve.

Shove your ram in some obscure place so the owner can’t access it, now you need a professional if simply to offset the risk something goes wrong while you’re fiddling.

User serviceable parts are just not an Apple priority.
Ok, so using that exact line of thinking.

Netflix isn’t a necessary public good or service - why can’t Comcast throttle it? Is it because I don’t get to say what you do or don’t use Netflix for? Then why does someone else get to determine what political speech I do or don’t get to see? They’re both over the Internet aren’t they?

It’s far more nuanced than “they’re a private company”. Even at base level let’s say FINE, you should still want them to follow the spirit of free speech especially if not required to do so.
Yet, these notebooks last really long. I usually use them for 5+ years. My mom has been using her‘s for almost 10 years and it still feels fast (for her needs).

And it‘s easily recycled afterwards. The RAM is rarely the issue and I know few non-technical people who ever changed their RAM in a notebook.

Sustainability is really important, but I don‘t think upgradable notebooks make a significant difference at all.
Yeah we use this on our Chrome Extension Next Up to avoid sending data to our server. Keeps everything cached locally and lot less data in transit
Disagree with the overall "do I have anything more compelling to do" notion.

You can have a perfectly good and valid life as a human on earth without having set foot in a university. When you decide to attend a university, you always do so at the expense or other perfectly valid things.

I think everyone should go if they can, and simultaneously I think three- and four- year degrees are too long for most people. We need to establish a program to get degrees in shorter installments, say 1.5 years each.

In other words, tech companies should seriously start considering hiring people with Associate's Degrees (or equivalent) where applicable, to turn this degree into a real viable option. I can take anyone with a brain from zero to working coder in 1.5 years of full-time study, including the maths.

I can't speak for other fields, but for tech I'm pretty confident this will be great.

Anyone should be able to sacrifice a year and a half and a reasonable tuition to be able to get the college experience. I think we can make it much more accessible.
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Is it easy to install your own RAM in MacBooks these days? I used to do it all the time 20 years ago and I know times have changed.
For me the worst thing about this entire fiasco is really Microsoft's brazen unapologetic predator behaviour.

They've invited Keivan to their headquarters with a bait, giving him the wrong impression that they wanted to help him with the project when really they wanted to extract valuable information from his experience. He's been working on AppGet for a while, ran into issues, thought about problems which users are having, dealt with certain challenges and iterated until he got to a certain understanding/vision of his product. This is all very very valuable information not published anywhere in an open source thoughts database. It's just the experience and knowledge that only lives in Keivan's head and Microsoft knew that they had to bait him with some false promises and hopes in order to get access to that information which he might otherwise not have shared with a competitor. Also they didn't forget about Keivan. They knew what they were doing. At the beginning of the process someone put in their calendar to contact him the day before BUILD 2020 to send him this email, which is why he got the email the day before the announcement of WinGet. This was no coincidence.

That is fraud in my opinion. Who cares about his source code, they stole much more valuable stuff from him. Anyone who doesn't see that is ignorant or blind.

Keivan should take legal action.
Just curious, since you mentioned this: where do you get your up-stop felt?
I see some on newegg, but not much selection: https://www.newegg.com/p/2E2-003M-000G6?Description=lpddr3&c...
Also, Bill Gates took really intense courses at Harvard. For example, he took Math 55, which appears to cover more in a single semester than a lot of applied mathematics programs cover in four years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55
I think the most “duhhh” moment was moving the headquarters. Of course they lost a ton of experienced and qualified staff when they moved the headquarters to Florida. Why wasn’t this seen coming?
Yeah, on those rare spec chips that are not on the retail market, Apple probably have to place custom order to the memory chip manufacturers for a low-yield production, which is definitely causing the unit pricing to be much higher than the mass produced memory chips. Economy of scale. (even if Apple is still a big customer, it's still a small order to make if no other computer makers use that spec of the chips)
Original source was posted to HN a few days ago:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23367153

It likely got no views because the title is worded in such a way as to avoid the actual topic at hand. Given how it's written, my gut is that it was titled to avoid being picked up, so I'm glad a news source caught wind and is calling them out with an appropriate title.
Where do you suggest housing these people. What if they refuse accommodations.

Not sure if sf can legally just ship them to say Modesto where housing is cheaper
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I had the unfortunate opportunity as an Accenture consultant to work on the Hertz redesign. It was a shit show and hands down the worst project I've ever been on. I left Accenture but not sure how much I'm allowed to talk about it.

Needless to say, leadership across ALL disciplines (mobile, front-end, backend, etc) was a fucking joke and they didn't listen to the red flags we brought up in literal sprint 1.

Sorry to hear about your Hertz experience.
Wheel of Time, and JoJo Part 2. A few other things, but not focusing on them rn.
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Economy of scale means freeloaders are too expensive a burden, preventing keeping up with closed source, for projects of unbounded complexity, like OS ecosystems. Sad but true.
How did you find your advisor? Are/were you in the Chicago area while doing your PhD? Did the fact you were doing it part-time require you to pay a tuition?
And you get a whole lot of people leaving for moderated platforms because they're tired of arguing with white supremacists.
It's a reasonable question. The main reason is a desire to support the "open" development model of the hardware.

I think most people interested in a device like this would be better served with a Chromebook, of which there are numerous, with much more diverse hardware options. They already run Coreboot and are about the most open laptop devices currently sold in large quantities.
Someone should point out to Trump that Google is classifying his emails as spam. It’s true, because I signed up for his newsletter and mark it spam.
Every major city seems to have its own flavor of this. See also:

New York budget crisis [0], Chicago [1], Dallas [2], etc

[0] https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/05/31/new-york-budget...

[1] https://www.wbez.org/amp/stories/how-covid-19-could-hit-chic...

[2] https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-budget-crisis-prese...
You can probably run a smart company from Florida if you start there but can you transplant a company from New Jersey to Florida and expect it to survive?

These corporate HQ moves don't seem to work out well (e.g. Boeing)
Im sorry to ask but why is that inappropriate?

If you are coming to my house, dont i reserve the right to kick you out if you say something i deem offensive?

NOTE:

SWITZERLAND does this already and have for the longest time. There is a reason why they are the longest living democracy on earth. They care about cohesion and will enforce it if necessary.
Those are for iMacs, and cost $719.99
AppGet is open source, under the Apache 2.0 license: https://github.com/appget/appget. That means basing a new project off AppGet - including using its source code - is legally permissible.

edit: This is explicitly not a judgement of ethics.
I’m still running a 2014 MacBook Air. It’s fast enough, but I do want a more powerful machine for video editing. Is there a Windows based machine that’s likely to still feel as new and solid after 6+ years as an aluminum bodied MacBook?
Most of the kubernetes clusters are deployed with EKS, GKE or digital ocean or other managed providers, none of them are bootstraped, you dont have to know how to install kubernetes to use them, and you are not supposed to be even concerned about that. So having a quick way to setup one locally for testing or learning makes sense.
You dont have to know how to build a car, to learn how to drive.
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The company is bankrupt, but Hertz is a success story for the executives who got rich and got out.

The incentives encourage destruction through short term value extraction at the expense of long term health.
impossible. It's soldered on the mainboard.
This Planet Money episode (21 minutes) goes into detail about the scheme you mention. Excellent listen.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/02/458222801/epis...
Didn't the Fed say it will buy up to $500B of municipal bonds as part of the new QE program?
> why does the package you want to split out need to remain part of the monorepo

It becomes more difficult to maintain and you lose the advantages of a monorepo (atomic commits/branching, etc.)

Submodules doesn't work well with branching, and publishing to package manager now means you need to symlink.

It becomes quite painful quickly if the open-sourced dependency changes a lot.
CA has always been about boom and busts. Governor Brown knew this and kept a tight fist on the purse strings... to the chagrin and annoyance of the “we’re rich, let’s spend” crowd. If it were not for his fiscal conservatism it’s be even worse. Of course SF is the poster child for spending copious amounts of money on pet projects while ignoring the big issues.
Likely on autopilot, since the car made zero attempt to slow down or avoid the obvious obstacle.
Yes that was really low scam artist type behaviour. Still, on the bright side, the more profitable MS are, the more money for Bill and Melinda's good causes
I think Lenovo has the best chassis build quality but still doesn’t quite compare to Apple
Kevin Mitnick destroyed any faith I had in what being a hacker was about.
That sounds great.
People just is like the cassette/volumes, recording history, which is more vivid.
The RAM has been soldered onto the logic boards for quite a while now. Probably approaching 10 years for the first models without removable RAM.
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Is there dedicated DevTools support for Solid like there is for React, Vue, Svelte, and co.? If not, is there a convenient way to inspect state, props, and the component hierarchy?
Fun, money, and work/life balance.
Digital books are great in many ways.

* Lightweight, I can literally carry a whole library

* Searchable, no need to take notes of where a sentence is

* Accessible, in the sense of dynamic font size

But where it fall short is the overall experience when using one.

How many time I wanted to compare two (or more) pages from either the same book or two different books?

With printed books, it's easy to leave a finger between two pages and quickly switch back and forth, and optionally annotate or highlight something.

With an eReader it's often cumbersome or slow to do so.

Being able to map a page to a list of physical buttons (I dunno, make that 3 or 4 bookmarks buttons) to quickly jump to a page would make the whole thing much more pleasant in term of user experience.
Not everything has to be black and white. Apple can be supporting old hardware for very long time, much longer than any other manufacturer, and yet simulatiously be shit at making sure their hardware is actually repairable if it does break down. Luis Rossman had a very good series of videos on this, consider this for instance - a chip that controls USB-C charging used to be just a regular chip made by some chinese company, you could order them by yourself for like $0.10 each, a tray full of chips would cost you few dollars at most. So as he runs a repair business, and those chips fail relatively frequently for <reasons>, he could repair a dead macbook for like $50-100(practically charging just for his time to take the chip out and put a new one in). But Apple doesn't like that - so they went to that manufacturer and specifially asked for that chip to be modified, so that it only works with their machines, and asked that they are the only buyer of that chip. So now if your macbook dies because this chip failed, you cannot replace it with a new $0.10 chip - you need to buy a whole new $1000 motherboard from Apple.

This is not planned obsolescence - this is going out of your way to make the repairs harder. I can understand when certain decisions are made for engineering reasons(like say, having the ram soldered on), but this kind of thing when Apple goes to the manufacturer and asks for a version specific only to them so that no one else can buy it, ever - that's just anti-consumer, and I hope the hand of the law will come on them super hard due to this.
> They had zero extra fuel on board.

Nitpick: it had excess fuel on board. Even beyond any institutional safety margins, the first stage landed on the drone ship. That portion of the mission required the stage carry fuel in excess of the requirements for its primary mission.
Most professionals aren't using Apple in the first place. The world runs on Windows desktop PCs, and business-oriented models from major vendors like HP are really easy to work on: can replace RAM, HDD or power supply in a minute or two and without any tools. Instruction manuals are simple, clear and well illustrated. if you can tie shoelaces, you can replace RAM.
The first comment on your story says it all:

>I mean, the Geneva Towers work, right? Sunnydale Housing is a pleasure to visit and is really well-kept.

>What we need is more government-owned, city-run housing. That’ll make things better.

Show me an example where the SF government has ever done this successfully and affordable. SF government is pretty clearly incompetent and probably fraudulent/criminal.
Well, too bad that modern front-end developers don't take this into account. I use a high-end laptop from 2015 (not apple) and it could work perfectly well for a few more years if not for 8gb ram. Nowadays a single electron app easily takes 500mb and web browser 4-5gb. Given the prices on RAM in retail I am really upset that I have to drop couple of grands just to have a bit an incremental upgrade and enough ram to browse goddamn web.
The conviction rate is a great example. “Very good reason” like Aaron Swartz trying to share scientific literature with the public?
>>>Can you imagine any prior administration acting this way?

I wasn't alive for them, but I wouldn't be surprised if Truman or Eisenhower would crush Twitter in the age of McCarthyism. Although they tended to focus on individuals rather than companies or organizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
I had iMac in ~2009 had to do virtualisation work, so tried to upgrade RAM, ordered a few RAMs and none of them worked, iMac refused to boot. Gave up on this, never used Apple products again... too much hassle and too much lockdown from manufacturer.
Macbooks are pretty well known to have very little deck flex and general rigidity. Probably the closest you are going to get are Microsoft Surface Books but then the problem is the trackpad won't be as good at all.
> pull the rug from under Orion's feet?

I much prefer multiple alternatives as then SpaceX can't do price hikes. For example, the US has paid russia to send rockets to space since before they cancelled the Space shuttle. But once they did, the prices went up drastically.

The more competing options there are, the better.
The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967. It was meant to evoke that event, which could easily be called “fanning the flames.”