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What percentage of the mac user population are they? 5%? 10%?

80% of mac users are like my mother-in-law: The Mac is a machine that does their taxes, emails, word processing, small business stuff, browsing, movie watching, and sometimes video chat if they're not doing that on their phone.

And if a company that depends on the creative industry is selling its software outside of Apple channels, I'm sure they'll have the foresight and budget to make sure their software works on the new machines.
But it's impossible to tell, from just a video of a crowd being pushed down the street, whether or not there's a good reason they need to be moved.
Not sure why downvoted, if the clause actually reads like that it seems like insurance companies stacking the odds in their favor. Like a casino that reserves the right to kick you out if you're winning. Even if I can deduce it might be delayed, that's far from certainty. I take insurance only when I reasonably expect to encounter incidents. Does this make all my policies invalid? When the company "reasonably deduces" that there will be no delays do they give me the money back?

I hope they are reserving this clause for such obvious fraud cases where they can prove prior knowledge and intent. Like the case of this woman who even created fake identities to carry out the plan. Otherwise I see them being stuck in court forever either trying to prove that a random customer had some sort of insight that they didn't despite literally being their job and investing (tens of) millions in this. Or trying to prove that they didn't knowingly sell a policy with the expectation that they will never provide the payout, which is misrepresentation of the service at the very least.
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I think you are missing a vital point though. In computer science these relationships ARE master and slave by definition. One is an all beholden slave to a all powerful master and that's ok because it's a computer and it doesn't have feelings like that. If it's referencing anything it's simply a clever way to process an analogy for what it's doing. To think that this is where we need to focus our time is a bit silly when you could be out in the streets.

To me it feels like GitHub wants to have the illusion of being progressive while changing something that nobody considered even remotely offensive literally 24h ago
I don’t this is true. With rent prices in SV getting out of control people have started leaving the city, with most heading to texas or further east. If the decision to live/work in CA was based around the protections provided by CA then why is the exodus starting?
While I agree it's worth money, I'm skeptical that the average American sees any of that money.

All the money made being an imperial power just lines the pockets of the rich.
how true! i own a brompton. strida was worse. i also own a low gravity worksman delivery bike.

yours is the best concise exaplanation of trail ive heard.

THANK YOU.

still, almost all folding bikes have shit steering. lots of trail AND a small front wheel!
WRT the comment on whether being gay is a choice:

I am gay and I spent a solid decade of my life hating myself for it. I am talking about hating myself to the point of considering suicide. When I was younger I tried to force myself to become straight before I just ignored that part of me until I began accepting myself. If I could choose not to be gay, then I wouldn't be gay.

I understand the point you're making about culture's influence on sexuality, but my life is not some sort of political narrative like you seem to be suggesting. This is the experience of most gay guys I know.
The total murder rate in Switzerland appears to be less than 200 per year; you're welcome to try to find more stats in this if you speak German: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home.assetdetail.11147486.ht...
The advantage of APRS is that there is a HUGE network of digital repeaters (digipeaters) across the US (and probably world-wide though the US is my main interest). APRS also has several internet cross-over listening points so you could hook into a service like https://aprs.fi to listen for updates hitting the network from your weather stations.

The licensing requirement isn't steep in the US; if memory serves its 35 questions, all multiple choice, and the question pool is published. Readers of Hacker News should be able to pass the technician exam with about a week of light study and that gives you full privileges from 30 MHz and up (APRS runs between 144 and 146 MHz depending on which country you're in).
I just wanted to say that this looks very nice indeed.
Would that mean a complete ban? I don't think that would be great. There is a lot of value in collecting statistics for the sake of analyzing user behavior. I also see the value in targeted ads and I'd say that it would probably be beneficial for the user (but I always opt out, because it's not worth it for me). Semi-automatic consenting could solve this, I think. E.g. I'm happy to provide non-tracking usage statistics for most small startups and I'm OK with Amazon tracking what I'm looking at on their site so they can give me better recommendations.

But I might not know what exactly 'consensual agreement' as a legal expression means.

BTW, this is pretty much the same issue as with ToS's. Some sites will try to DoS you.
> So you don't care about Bitcoin, but you want to leech of the electricity being used to secure it in order to perform something which you think is useful? Right.

No, I want the world's energy and carbon footprint to reduce, rather than have people with a decentralisation fetish invent new ways to incentivise thrashing.

> Theft is never a useful feature. There is always a loser. Money printing is theft

Yeah never mind, you're clearly very deep down this particular rabbit hole and nothing anyone says is going to change that. Best of luck, but I'm glad your views aren't all that prevalent.

> Tether has nothing to do with Bitcoin

Tether has everything to do with the bitcoin markets and the price of bitcoin, which is the only thing basically anyone is interested in.
I wonder that same thing. This changes it from really clever to insider trading (ie. fraud).
> The bug was introduced by the (increasingly infamous) ‘Windows 10 May 2020’ update and it breaks an important feature for many: Fresh Start which allows users to reinstall Windows 10 without losing their data.

The title feels a bit click-baity. Affected users are, if I am understanding the article correctly, just those who would've used Fresh Start to reinstall Windows during the period of time where the bug was present, and it doesn't seem that all use cases of the tool were affected.

However, if it did leave you with the urge to quit Windows, Linux Desktops aren't the mess they were a decade ago (WiFi generally works out of the box now!) Pop!_OS comes with a tiling manager by default which is wonderful if you have multiple editors/terminals open often.
How does regulation work for illegal drugs, prostitution, or other black markets, which can overall amount to double-digit percentages of economies?

Bitcoin only needs the black market to be a huge success. If it can avoid any surveillance ramps, that is ideal. It doesn't need to be everywhere.

IMO, the surveillance on/off ramps are going to have a hard problem ahead of them, of their own making. Black markets are only going to accept "cleaned" bitcoins because they won't put themselves at risk of being surveilled. The "cleaned" bitcoins will not be usable on AML exchanges. The "unclean" bitcoin can be cleaned through CoinJoins and such, at the risk of whoever obtained them in their unclean state, but once cleaned, they'll be back on the black markets.

Trading fiat currencies for Bitcoin will happen mainly in person, with cash, to avoid the surveillance.

You will be able to tell, to an extent, whether bitcoin are clean or unclean through their transaction history - a clean coin will be one which originates as the output of a CoinJoin. All transactions on the black markets will be a CoinJoin of some kind.

For most purposes, this won't matter because the majority of trade will be conducted over the Lightning Network, which has sender anonymity, and will very likely get receiver anonymity in the near future. Node operators can use Tor to avoid being surveilled - and the transport protocol used is fully end-to-end encrypted and authenticated.

Since the majority of trade will be happening on the black markets, exchanges which built their castles in KYC land will eventually fail. Nobody will care for "unclean" bitcoin if they are too heavily regulated. There will probably be a premium on clean bitcoin due to the risk involved in anybody who decides to wash unclean bitcoin.

Savers will not care if they have to resort to black markets to protect their wealth from theft or seizure. As long as they can find some local black market vendors who'll trade them for some other goods or fiat cash.

For governments to attempt to stamp out the black markets, the solution involved will be much worse than anything you could imagine being caused by Bitcoin - complete totalitarianism is the only way it could be enforced, and your open internet will be finished long before then. Careful what you wish for.
Drawdown is one of the most comprehensive and well-sourced books about solving anthropocentric climate change. If this article alarms you, in their technical report they lay out how switching to a plant-based diet is one of the most effective ways you can decrease your ecologial footprint: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/plant-rich-diets
She impersonated real people.
I think wind it particularly hard to get right. However, any station contributing to the CWOP can be looked up on 'weather.gladstonefamily.net' for really nice quality control stats against other local stations. For reference, here is one I randomly picked in the Nashville area that is passing quality control for pressure and temperature, but failing the wind QC:

https://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/AP187
I would also like to see either a narrowing of the scope of the kinds of things the police are expected to handle or a broadening of the kinds of professionals employed as police.

There are plenty of calls where a mental health professional should either handle the situation entirely or at least be the one calling the shots.
The N64 really is blur central, because of this post-processing you point out but also because of the severe texture limitations (and primitive kinda-bilinear-but-not-really filtering they used) meant that you had small resolution textures stretched onto massive polygons. The fact that cartridge ROM space was also expensive didn't help since few cartridges went above 32MB (I think the biggest official N64 ROMs use 64MB cartridges, but those were pretty rare). Meanwhile a CD could hold one order of magnitude more data at no additional cost.

As a result I subjectively find that despite having significantly weaker hardware, no perspective correction and no subpixel-precision PSX games often end up looking a lot more impressive. And that's got a lot to do with the incredible texture work these games use: https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/243918-vagrant-stor...
The homepage tells you nothing about what this is. Even if I go to the GitHub I get "Native Elements (NE) is not a CSS framework"...great so what is it?
Yet police have one of the safer jobs in the USA. Loggers, fisherman, roofers, truckers, farmers, and construction workers all hold more dangerous jobs than police. A police officer is more likely to die in an accident (car or otherwise) than by violence.

And despite this, it's continually hammered home into their heads that they have a very, very dangerous job. Yeah, you're correct, it's fear from the lies told to them.
This! In my country there was a push back by teacher unions because the expectations on teachers has grown over the years. Laws now prohibit many forms of punishment, some schools now have metal detectors at the gate to stop students coming in with knives.
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The risks posed by emerging technology is rapidly outpacing our ability to manage them, both technologically and philosophically. Reservedly, I'm convinced that the best thing that could happen to humanity would be some event that drastically slows technological progress, such as an event which reduces the population to somewhere between 10,000 and 1,000,000 individuals but without nearly causing extinction. Ideally, those remaining people would be especially intelligent and pro-social. This would give us far more time to get our act together by building a robust epistemology-driven civilization where our ability to handle advanced tech outpaces the emergence of such tech.
Also Breonna Taylor: Kentucky is a "castle doctrine" state, where it's legal to shoot intruders. So the police arrived at her home to serve a no-knock warrant, her boyfriend shot at the intruders, and the police returned fire and killed her.
> If I lived in those areas I would have liked to see the curfew enforced as harshly as possible because if it is not enforced then I will lose the local businesses who I depend on to live in that area.

In Chicago the curfew didn't start until 9pm. The impression I had during that first week was the curfew was to get most of the law-abiding citizens off the street ("essential workers" were excluded), so the police had less uncertainty to deal with - they were just completely overwhelmed by the amount of rioters and looters.

> Perhaps in first world countries life has become soft and comfortable so there is some expectation of civil behavior from everyone in society, but clearly that has not happened in the USA and many other countries.

Rather agreed here; if anything that week has me leaning towards needing more police, not defunding them.

Quick edit: It seems they're also now on 12-hour days with no time off, apparently expecting more chaos in the coming days.
People cheer UEFI failures because Microsoft's actions with Secure Boot and such could align with an effort to eventually completely lock out the ability to install other operating systems on bare metal on hardware you own and don't rent from Microsoft. Microsoft isn't making OEMs only install their own platform keys now, but there's nothing guaranteeing the future will be the same, especially since they can claim to support Linux on Windows through WSL.

Also the whole scheme is not better than making boot configuration read only with a hardware switch, or storing your bootloader and /boot on a read-only medium, assuming you are using full-disk encryption.
Most of the pro grade hardware does come with those assurances, usually with support and replacement contracts as well. And make no mistake, they may replace things a lot -- at my old gig we had a lot of visits from Dell. To Dell's credit, we had a LOT of gear to cover, in several different colo spaces.

Point is though, they price the cost of replacement into those guarantees. Doesn't mean the hardware will last longer, just that support & replacements are
This is just a CSS framework that allows you to apply pre-baked styles by adding attributes to your HTML elements.
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It would be great to have an open weather station platform where you can just plug in new modules to measure new things in an easy straightforward way... An Arduino + modules for the weather world.

I've been wanting to build a fully autonomous (solar panel + cellular network) for a long time...
Possible but unlikely IMO. For one thing it would be trivial to detect. To be a suitable attack surface it would need to wear out ~>100x faster than the most robust pathways (months instead of years). I am spectacle that manufacturing allows for that degree of flexibility. I would be more worried about two related issues:

1. If someone figures out how to focus execution that you'd normally assume distributed in a single area. The simplest example would be to write the first line of cache over and over again; that kind of thing has extensive protection but the principle is reasonable. I'm not sure what you'd use for this.

2. Aging related issues can be worked around; if a subunit loses performance you can give it more time to settle and reorder the pipeline around it. That would open up entirely new classes of timing attacks. You run a quick scan of every combination of execution paths (to find the biggest overlap of underperforming transistors) and you'll be able to make attacks using any number of extremely hard to predict timing combinations.
To quote John Gruber — "Mac is the platform that attracts people who care."

Honestly, Apple did a great jobs. They did care about their product(well, until recent buggy OS fiasco) and that attract people who value the same thing. Doesn't mean Windows people don't care, of course, but Windows always give the utilitarian vibes, the OS for everyone (especially in the old day)
We do that by keeping culture and politics out of tech, what do they have to do with active software development, anyway?

If that doesn't work and the Americans still keep imposing the toxic cancel culture on us, then I'm afraid it ultimately gets to nothing short of low-level mudslinging, I see no other way.

Just as only a thorn can take out another thorn, or nail can pick another nail, we must use cancel culture to out these American "cancel culturists" out of our projects and spaces. In other words, us normal folk must also unwillingly have to resort to cancel culture to defend and protect our spaces from those who pollute it with cancel culture, its a bit ironical but the only available solution. Does that make sense?
He went a really long way since 2013 and his debuts with CryptoCat : he got a PhD in one of the top European crypto research team, on formal verification of crypto implementations.

I would confidently guess that's way more legitimate that any opinion you could formulate against this audit, based on ad hominem attacks.
Everything is a financial instrument. Some are simply not labeled as such. This is how humans operate.
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>> their last few transitions being fairly successful.

Their last transition is specifically what brought me to the Mac after having been away for a decade.

I switched to Mac exactly because they were going x86, because I knew I'd be able to virtualize Windows (although it took a year to happen), which was a win-win for me. I'm guessing a lot of people who used Windows at work plus developers on Linux wanting a nice GUI (remember, we're talking mid to late 2000s) were responsible for a lot of Mac growth back then.

I have to wonder how many people will switch back if x86 were to get totally abandoned.
You would think so, but it turns out that this ("subdomain takeovers") is a very common mis-configuration for a lot of *aaS services. Enough so that some bug bounty programs won't pay out much for it or at all because it happens so much and they don't consider the shared-suffix issue very important.

On the provider side though, requiring ownership verification (txt records, etc) introduces friction on the on-boarding process. It's likely any reasonably competent provider that doesn't implement verification has had a serious internal discussion about it and decided it's not worth thinning their funnel for.
That they encourage folks to migrate off them and have much more limited supply of the older instance families seems to imply it.
OK so terminology: touchtype to me means that you learn the fingering the keyboard in a specific way. Not just that you can type by not looking at the keyboard. I can do that. I just never bothered with the "correct fingering".
In my experience, this is more for data protection reasons than anything else. Companies are simply paranoid now about any computer on the network for fear customer data leaves. At my company, when we have worked with third parties who demand this (which is common), this is the reason. All the other issues you cite can be solved by dictating a tech stack to your contractor - they will follow, as can of course be sued if they do not. Non-functional requirements like these are relatively easy to gather.
As a rule of thumb, coming from my dad who served in the German federal police and was sent to every single castor transport (nuclear waste to be stored in Germany, quite a controversial topic) up to 2007/8, countless fottball games and G8/20, NATO conferences, demonstrtions decrease in violence with increasing numbers of children, women and older people. Applies to both sides, except for the children of course.

The worst thing they ever used, as far as I remember, was water cannons and riot shields.
This change means that sufficient nagging on popular social networks can bully entire companies into submission. Where do we draw the line between technology and being offended?

The whole notion of "we are doing it to fix things" is a lie. Changing words that mean something in technology does absolutely nothing to fix the underlying problem - hatred.

The cheapest way to buy yourself conscience is to sit at home and do absolutely nothing of value, but to appear as if you "care". This is precisely what changing terminology does - it buys companies conscience.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this noble cause, I just can't wait to invest yet more time to fix all the problems caused by naming change. And yes, there's us who deal with software not working when you rename a branch. Telling me it was already broken if naming change breaks it - thanks, it magically makes it go away.

There's a huge number of us who work in maintenance field and we can't construct or design systems to satisfy every possible great practice out there - namely, we inherit old, crappy systems that no one wants to deal with and work on and we make them run.

Changing something that worked under false pretense of doing it for greater good - while jeopardizing entire jobs because of failing software - has anyone given it any thought?

Sure, someone you never saw is not offended any more by a naming convention in a field they never interacted with. But I'll be there, with many of my coworkers fixing older systems on the fly, praying nothing goes down at the wrong moment, enabling the ones who depend on that software to do their work.

While I understand the motivation behind this.. let's call it movement - I can't understand that very little thought has been given to consequences and to who will suffer because of the changes.
Makes sense. Actually it could very much work without the active participation of the web sites, at least for cross-site tracking. Because we can collect and identify and categorize those cookies.

And now that we're talking about it, Firefox does have something similar accessible from the URL bar, called "Enhanced tracking protection".
The wayback machine is fantastic and powers content like this:

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/apple-website
So, mainframes all over again?

I doubt it. It's way more likely that the computers get more disposable and we replace everything. If for no other reason, because manufacturers won't see a point in making the rest of the electronics outlast the CPU.
This is the most concise explanation of what this project is. Why couldn’t the author save themselves the trouble of all that write up and just use that one sentence?
> How does regulation work for illegal drugs, prostitution, or other black markets, which can overall amount to double-digit percentages of economies?

Very few people want bitcoin for itself, most are in it purely to get rich through speculation, and even those who use it to transact will find it less attractive if it can't easily be converted.

Your Heath-Robinson process of money laundering there is hilarious, and reads like a how-to for lengthy jail terms.
They did. OP also neglected to mention that this was forced by the music industry threatening to sue them into oblivion if they didn't put it behind a pay wall.