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Apple laptops have become a joke if you have serious needs and want to maximize your ROI on hardware

If you are not dying of thirst in middle of the desert, you wouldn't buy a 60 dollar water bottle

Unless you'd buy it anyway to show you can
I'm on a maxed out 2013 Macbook Pro and I will fight tooth and nail to keep this laptop functioning for as long as possible. It has a decent keyboard, still powerful processor (2.3 GHz Intel Core i7), 16GB RAM, dual GPU. and MagSafe!!! Beloved MagSafe why on earth did they kill you I will never understand..

I had the Apple store replace the screen and battery about a year ago. The screen was suffering from the anti-reflective coating (1) recall, but I missed the repair program window. In every customer support conversation I had leading up to the repair, they would hint at "consumer protection law". This was a clue that if I then said "CONSUMER PROTECTION LAW" they would be forced to do the recall for free even though it was out of date. They ended up giving me the screen and battery for free.

Apple Store failed to identify and fix one issue that plagued me though, which was spontaneous black screen and poweroffs, especially when running on battery below 80%. It seemed like a power issue, or heat issue. I lived with it for two years, lugging a power brick around whenever I moved spots. With the Apple Stores closed due to covid, I contacted a local third party mac repair person. They said they've seen this before, it's a CPU power issue, and if you run a small script to keep the CPU out of really-low-power state it will stop happening (2). And they were right! So if you're experiencing this annoying problem as well, try this python script:

from time import sleep
import os
while True:
sleep(0.0002)

You may have to tweak the sleep value - higher values will let your CPU relax more but may trigger the power issue. Lower values will increase the CPU load but decrease the chance that the CPU hits this condition.

I've been running this script for 2 weeks now and no freezes. It generates about 6-8% CPU load, so obviously my battery time is suffering, but the alternative (random freezes all day) was so annoying that I'm okay living with this.

1: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/17/apple-extends-free-stai...

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/9pyort/apple_macbook_p...
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I like the matter-of-factness of this phrase:

"One Friday afternoon in 1921, Steinmetz hopped in his electric car and headed off for a weekend at Camp Mohawk"

Also, it just goes to show that GE back in those days was able to just recruit promising talent without knowing what they'd eventually do or come up with. Nowadays GE is not taking these "risks" anymore, probably because the return is uncertain.

But how can a company get ahead of the competition (let alone be a force of positive change) if all it goes for is certainty?
Sorry, wrong terminology!
For team use, awesome free one is next cloud plugin Passwords:

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/passwords
If airflow travels through something and you don't work in a dust free environment, it needs to be cleaned periodically.

It's too bad that OS' weren't more wise to this. Right now there are certainly millions of desktops and laptops that are running far below their potential because it is forced to thermally throttle, yet there is no indication for the user beyond things being slower than it once was.
Exploring 'Other Ways of Knowing': The New Religious Threat to Science Education
I recently did the same on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012) A1425 while performing a battery replacement. Definitely helped to have a thorough cleaning. Documented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYFDDxUxHA
I found it.

The language was: "If your App is rejected, we have a Review Board that you can appeal to. If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."

This language was on the current "App Store Review Guidelines" page [1] from when it was first published around September 2014 [2] until on or before June 18th 2016 when the bullet vanished. [3]

I think this is a very important line because this page featuring this language appeared literally a month or two after I published an appeal for our late app, Gliph, which was pulled from the app store over Bitcoin transfer capability. [4]

I don't think we were trashing Apple, but the press does like to make hay out of these moments.

I'm not sure how anyone could interpret this line except as having a purposeful chilling effect on trying to build public support for your private case with Apple.

This is particularly notable because I believe there are multiple occasions where Apple changed course solely because something got press coverage.

Perhaps Apple is okay with going to the press, but only if you do so with positivity? How is this really possible if you're making a case that is in opposition to the findings of Apple? Also as I mentioned, you can't control the editorial decisions of press in giving a story a negative spin--the press makes money from clickbait.

So this line had speech-limiting implications.

--

Having gone through a ton of updates of this page on Wayback Machine, I think there's a great study to be done on the evolution of content.

Two things that stick out to me are that the language used to be pretty heavy handed, even dark. It read like someone who was kind of mad.

Now it is very positive sounding and has a last updated date.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140903022336/https://developer...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20160618044341/https://developer...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580250
I just replaced the battery on my early 2011 13-inch MacBook Pro. The original battery gave out ages ago and so did the Chinese aftermarket battery. Other than replacing the battery and replacing the old 320 GB 5400 RPM HDD with a Samsung SSD, there's not really been any issues with it.

I was actually surprised how usable the computer still was after all this time, although the thermals suck quite hard. I imagine the 2011 thermal paste is nigh on useless at this point. Granted, I don't use the laptop much these days, but it'd still serve for basic browsing when needed.
how fast are tese blas and jvm implementations? what’s the redistribution licenses?
> France is phasing out some of its nuclear and does not plan on replacing it

A statement they keep making to placate anti-nuclear advocates but keep postponing and postponing. Because there's no way to reliably generate the majority of electricity using wind and solar, and only small parts of France are suitable for hydroelectricity.

Diversification doesn't matter for energy that comes from heat engines. Just like how many countries successfully grew their economies with > 80% fossil fuels plants, there's nothing wrong with powering a country entirely on nuclear power. Sure it's good build alternatives where it's cheaper. But the main draw of nuclear power is that its output entirely controllable. Diversification is much more important in renewables where you don't control the weather.
I have noticed many implementations appear to be able to capture the password and have it auto-filled, or maybe my password managers are somehow able to handle them. I’m not against it when it works like that, as there are sometimes valid reasons for the design.
It's also due to Nvidia's unwillingness to collaborate. AMD allows Apple to maintain their own fork of AMD's drivers for macOS. From what I've heard, AMD also keeps a handful of engineers on premises at Apple campus to assist with work on this fork.

Presumably, Apple wants the same from Nvidia, but Nvidia is notoriously secretive and protective and wants exclusive control over drivers for its hardware.

It's easy to pin this on Apple, but Nvidia's lack of openness shows in FOSS too — where AMD has open sourced the Linux version of their GPU drivers, making AMD GPUs work great out of the box with Linux and allowing for the drivers to follow along with the latest in desktop Linux developments (Wayland, etc), Nvidia has stubbornly insisted on keeping their drivers closed, making for a frustrating install experience, and has actively impeded the development and adoption of Wayland.
It is very similar to a prediction market. But ideally, the experience would be more casual and "contest-like" as opposed to focusing on trades and rewards.
scary times we live in. Google/Apple , Visa/mastercard are monopolies that we have to live under.

why are people accepting them even if they appear to be "doing the right thing" at the moment.
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This is fantastic and could be so helpful so many people. A piece of feedback on the sales page: it does a good job of describing the person who would be /gifting/ the service and they (we) need some guidance on how to gently bring it up to the recipients and sell them on investing the time and energy into it.
You can prune unused containers and images if didn’t know it already
So note #1: swollen batteries are not a normal state of the battery. This is a sign of a defect and battery that is swollen is a safety hazard and should definitely be immediately replaced. Do not throw batteries in a garbage can. I don't know how it is done in US, here in Poland most large shops take used batteries for proper disposal.

Note #2: every breathing computer keeps accumulating dust and requires cleaning every couple of months of years. It is worth it if only to keep the noise down.

Note #3: it is not safe to vacuum the laptop as it can cause static discharge. Technically, even just waving a charged object over a piece of conductor can induce a current and damage susceptible component. The damage might not be immediately apparent and may cause various types of malfunctions. If you have no other way of doing it at the very least ensure it is done in humid environment (over 70% humidity but the more humid the better).
The way I'm seeing things, RiscV will be in the same business position ARM is in now, in about 5 years. Apple might switch to that, and if so I'd also expect no further migration after that (as it's an open architecture).
That's like saying "why not choose a 20 character password and just use the first 8 characters of it?"
> To the True Believers it didn't matter that by this time ~2003, Intel was fast and much more power efficient. You'd be lucky to get 40 minutes of battery life from a PowerPC based Mac laptop at the time when Intel laptops could run for a few hours.

You’re calling people True Believers and then just making things up like a period flame-warrior. I supported both at the time and there really wasn’t a significant difference in battery – both could last around 6 hours in light usage, especially since if you disabled Flash, or 3-4 for things like developers or scientists.
I ended up rubbing it off. Used a mouthwash for it (alcohol didn't work, perhaps "microcrystals" did the job). If you do that there will be lots of micro scratches on screen, but it's still better than looking at stains, and quite pleasant in dark.

I couldn't get the replacement (didn't know "stain-gate" was a thing).
Wine is not an emulator, as you may know. It runs the executable directly on the processor, embedded in a Windows compatible runtime.

You probably mean something like Rosetta...
Have a look at Perl's Template Toolkit. It used to be state-of-the-art for text and HTML templating.
repo: https://github.com/Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver
I completely agree with you. Any book would be at best a memory aid or a reference.

One step above the "small community of off-the-grid preppers" would be to come up with ways to make today's societies more resilient to systemic hick-ups, small and large, using either the means available already today or those which are very close in the technology tree.

Doing so would require a lot of decentralization, e.g. by localizing production of electricity and other consumables and making these smaller units more autonomous. Think not big cities with a power plant each, but rather groups of houses sharing solar panels and a wind mill.

Then again, this would probably be a kind of a pipe dream, as decentralization is by definition not completely under centralized control. This creates all kinds of friction. For example, if everyone produced their own electricity locally, what would the power companies do? And what would the state do with the lost tax money? There are plenty of problems like this, and I doubt one can find a win-win situation where the nowadays centralized things would not lose in some way.
The benchmarked Mac in his post is running the latest 10th gen Intel that everyone else is using.
More about Apple's CPU architecture story can be found at https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1592625055-Why-Apple-Mac-..., An interesting read.
Ask HN: Building Wiki for Java projects. Looking for pointers
Looking for your wisdom/experience here.

I'm building a specialized Wiki to document Java projects. What are the most important needs for a product of this kind? Diagrams? Code completion? Automatic API documentation? What would make it easy to write architecture documentation?

Thanks in advance - any input is appreciated!
boomers know the quiet desperation of alienation isn't new to this century.

when mindfulness doesn't work, maybe the school system can try mixing in some disco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U13xOvDa19U

On-topic: I agree that reducing stress is more likely to be effective than attempting to teach kids coping methods for stress.
> it was not an act intended to deceive the public.

According to the government, the government didn't intend to deceive the public. Of course if a government were willing to deceive the public, it's practically tautological that the government would be willing to deceive the public about their intent to deceive the public. In other words, liars say they aren't liars, because they're liars.

A lot of people think that's exactly what they did. From a legitimate law enforcement perspective the program was a sick joke, so speculation as to whether it had other motivations the American government is unwilling to discuss seems fair.
Hi Everyone,

We are redoing the Show HN for VOTEism.

The first time we did a Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430800), there was a very valid suggestion from the HN Community that we open source the code. Accordingly we have published the code here: https://github.com/VOTEism.

A brief about VOTEism ... again :)

The Covid-19 situation forced many things to shift online. We wondered what it would be like to conduct democratic elections online. While that is the far-far future, we set about building something that could get us a step closer towards that future.

VOTEism is a secure political opinion poll app to express your preference for one electoral candidate or the other. VOTEism currently works for the 2020 USA Presidential Election only. But we hope to take it to all countries where democratic elections happen.

Current political opinion polls are riddled with low sample sizes, interviewer biases, push poll tactics, self voting sock-puppets, and worst of all, the lack of privacy. VOTEism seeks to change that.

Your vote is encrypted with a public key on your mobile device and is decrypted with the private key on an air-gapped system. 4096 bit keys are used. Anonymized and aggregated results are published on the VOTEism mobile apps.

VOTEism is built, published and funded by a small and independent software company (AskDesis INC.) based in the United States. We have no political, governmental, corporate, or media affiliation. Please take time to read our transparency policy here: https://docs.voteism.org/transparency

We hope you find VOTEism useful. Feel free to ask us anything.

Links:
iOS: https://ios.voteism.org
Android: https://android.voteism.org
Docs: https://docs.voteism.org
Source Code: https://github.com/VOTEism
Any companies or organisations working on this ?
Nothing of value has been lost
The limiting factor of producing solar panel at these immense scales is the cost of raw materials. As other posters pointed out this study is already assuming that the cost of solar panels and wind will be barely greater than the cost of materials.

And yes, if the US tries to increase it's solar capacity by a factor of 50 in the next 15 years (and especially while other countries try to do the same) these materials will become more scarce and thus more expensive.
XMM is still extremely useful. There was a recent report that using clever techniques ESA are going to keep it going for another 10 years: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Teaching_an_...

XMM has a smaller field of view than eROSITA, but more light gathering capability (effective area), particularly at higher energies. It also has different types of instruments, such as the X-ray gratings.

eROSITA is really designed for doing surveys with its wide unobstructed field of view, and it will be doing just that for the next 3.5 yrs. We really need XMM to follow up in detail the most interesting sources we discover during the survey.
Note that that is SPEC, which is a synthetic benchmark that chip makers have been playing games with forever because it's quite sensitive to compiler optimizations. Much the same issue with browser benchmarks when you're using Apple's browser engine on Apple's chips -- expect them to have specific optimizations for the code in common benchmarks.

I'd really like to see some independent benchmarks here. It'll be interesting if they actually release a macOS device and then we can see how it runs GIMP and 7-zip and Firefox etc.
Answering Multi-Hop Open-Domain Questions with Graph-Based Recurrent Retrieval
Possible front operation for the Avon Barksdale Organization?
If this subject interests you, I'd highly recommend the book "Sunfall" by Jim Al-Khalili. It's the physicist's first venture into fiction and is based around the threat of coronal mass ejections and a flipping of the Earths magnetic field. He also weaves hacking, encryption and other science themes into the plot.

As you might expect from a theoretical physicist, it's based on solid science, with a small amount of poetic licence that he describes in the afterword.

It's been described as "The Day After Tomorrow meets Neuromancer". Not sure I'd quite go that far, but it's a damn good read.
Yep, I'm a computer scientist and the I'd say probably the majority of the papers I read are from ACM conference proceedings, weirdly the journal/conference prestige split seems to be reversed in CS compared to other disciplines.

Outside CS however it does seem that traditional journals (published by Elsevier, Springer, etc.) are still very much de rigueur.
A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company with a Search Startup
There is no efficiency - juste pure energy needs. You cannot probe a quark with lower energy.

Then there is nothing to use from such experiments. The research is purely academic, it is not like the cure for cancer is hidden behind a gluon.

I can understand dumping even 20B€ in research which brings something tangible. Making sure that the structure of a quark is what we think it is is not one of these.
Yes, the 10th generation of the Facebook/email CPU

Nobody would use that for real work, Apple won the laptop market when developers started using it, now they are killing them for tablets, which are gadgets, not work machines.
Alison gopnik’s ‘the philosophical baby’ is excellent
Likely just can only seed/torrent via older s3 regions is all.
I didn’t read it that way at all. All this article is alleging is that the gunman was connected with the RCMP in some fashion. Not that the RCMP actually wanted him to go on a killing spree.

I’m thinking more along the lines of a confidential informant gone off the rails.
DEFI certainly
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Well that's super weird. A few things stick out to me:

That sounds like quite a lot of money. Much more than I would expect the RCMP to routinely hand out to anyone as a payment. And we don't know for sure it's actually from RCMP. If it was, I wonder if it was meant to be buy money for some kind of controlled buy of drugs or weapons. Was he even involved in large-scale drug trafficking? I guess they aren't saying exactly what their relationship, if any, was with him.

Some are claiming that this suggests that his mass shooting was a planned false-flag operation. But if it was, why give the guy a huge pile of cash in a way that would look suspicious later? If you wanted to organize a false-flag mass shooting, I would think it would be much easier to find some random nutter of questionable stability that you could wind up and talk into it. I wouldn't think giving him half a mil in cash would factor into the plan. If it was, better to have a cop pick it up from Brinks and give it to him in a parking lot somewhere or something like that.

The money seems to have disappeared too. If it was really his money, you would think some family member would be a lot more interested in recovering it.
I have already tested the quiche patch from Cloudflare, and even reported a bug on it that was fixed.

Can someone comment on differences between the two patches?
Our Model of Truth Is Broken, It’s Time to Rebuild It
And who knows, maybe Jobs didn’t set them on anything. Maybe he bought PA intending to use their existing bus technology but someone at PA pulled him aside and said “Hey, we don’t think you should waste your time with this. How about we design [what is now their ARM line]?”
Out of curiosity, what is your software stack?
There is a somewhat lighthearted book (and a sequel) on this:

https://www.experimentingwithbabies.com/experiments/

which covers a lot of simple experiments (that should be harmless), the theory behind them and what result you can expect to see. Children develop quite fast, so you've already missed the first half of the book! But book 1 covers up to 2 years, and you can look at the sequel for beyond.

It includes things like the spot/mirror test, seeing what toys kids are interested in based on what adults look at, etc.

(I feel I should point out I don't have kids, but I would definitely want to try this out if I did. As far as I can tell none of these experiments should cause any ethical concerns, but you should be the judge of that since your child can't give consent!)
> mean for Bootcamp users?

And 'hackintosh' enthusiasts?
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Like all "free speech" platforms, it prompty turned into a Nazi-infested hellhole. It's like a law of Nature, or something.
Judge: Bolton can publish book despite efforts to block it
Biiiingo.
> It’s usually easy enough to remove the bottom cover of any laptop without particularly special screwdrivers.

"particularly special"? The screwdrivers needed to open up a Macbook are special enough that I've never seen them used for any other object. So are you just glad that Apple didn't decide to create a new screwdriver standard for each Macbook model? :)
Related (maybe) but tangential, does anyone know of a good web to text converter? Back in the day you used to just use Lynx, is that still the way or has it been surpassed?
Apple might, but they probably won’t. They don’t have a strong history of choosing the open options over their roll-your-own solutions.
but.... "Defendant Bolton has gambled with the national security of the United States. He has exposed his country to harm and himself to civil (and potentially criminal) liability," Lamberth wrote. “But these facts do not control the motion before the Court. The government has failed to establish that an injunction will prevent irreparable harm."
> Leadership was actually super reluctant to switch and it took a demo from an engineer showing the massive improvement to convince them.

Is there any truth to this or is it just apocryphal and-then-all-the-executives-stood-up-and-clapped.