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That's all true and fine. But is there anything I said that hints that I'm a company trying to sell an Android phone without Google? If not, what are you refuting exactly?

I said that we don't know what Apple software is doing because it's all closed source. You then spent the last several replies trying to convince us that the same is effectively true of Android. It's not. You know how I know? I'm writing this reply from a Pixel 2 running LineageOS without Google Play Services. Is it a pain in the ass to do this kind of setup? Yep. Do I miss out on TikTok? Probably (I don't want it, so I don't know if it requires Play Services). Is it closed source? No.

In any case, refuting my claim that we can't trust Apple by arguing that we also can't trust Google doesn't actually refute a thing.
For me as a developer by far the biggest concern is definitely technical alignment with production infrastructure. It has been such a boon in the last few years to be able to fire up docker and run to such a large extent the exact stack that ships to production. It's very unclear to me how close an alignment it will now be possible to have on future MacBook Pro's in this way. Between that and lack of nVidia support, it's definitely going to give me a significant push towards a non-Apple laptop for my next purchase.
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If they were going to do this, they would have done it when they needed a big new feature and instead they put out the touch bar. Apple's answer to people who want something like this is the iPad Pro with the adaptive cursor and the keyboard case with the touch pad.

I could be wrong, it's just my instinct.
I don't know anything about how frequently Eastern European and Middle East countries act on DMCA. But I do know that this frequently occurs with US ISPs.
It’d be very unfair to the streamers if they were forced over to FB Gaming. Good on Mixer and Facebook for making sure that didn’t happen.
best scifi book I've ever read. such a shame i discovered it by chance at 28. I guess Asimov is not popular in .pl cause rarely can find his book in public libraries
funny thing is that describing gender role aged like milk
> So you check DNS - your cache infrastructure calls lime, which has updated and gives the correct answer, it seems like everything is fine

Been there, done that, got burned. If you're mucking around with DNS records that are going to be verified by someone else, never trust your local lookups, always try to verify through a fresh third party that everything resolves correctly before you submit.

Because oops, something went wrong, the verification hit a wildcard entry with a cache time of days, and now you have to wait that long before trying again, because that entry isn't budging from other resolver's caches...
Sounds about right, actually. ;)
The processor architecture is not that relevant if you are working at the abstraction level that electron or swift-ui or similar provides.
It is very clear that the order allows it (but that doesn't mean that's what is being enforced; as with the Muslim ban, it's quite possible that on top of whatever disputes there are about the policy in the text, the enforcement, especially initially, may not align with the text). In relevant part, and note the conditions are “and” conditions:

Sec. 3. Scope of Suspension and Limitation on Entry. (a) The suspension and limitation on entry pursuant to section 2 of this proclamation shall apply only to any alien who:

(i) is outside the United States on the effective date of this proclamation;

(ii) does not have a nonimmigrant visa that is valid on the effective date of this proclamation; and

(iii) does not have an official travel document other than a visa (such as a transportation letter, an appropriate boarding foil, or an advance parole document) that is valid on the effective date of this proclamation or issued on any date thereafter that permits him or her to travel to the United States and seek entry or admission.
Link to PDF: https://brussels.evolang.org/proceedings/papers/EvoLang13_pa...
Buy shares. That’s what I’m doing.
> Your entire data load might be worth $100 a year.

That is a considerable amount for many.
Apple kept mentioning pro apps like maya where you need highend GPUs. Gaming isn’t a big use case on a Mac. Our video production team uses highend macs with discreet gpus. If they don’t plan to offer comparable solutions to current line of desktop machines, we’ll be forced to switch platforms. I don’t see how an integrated gpu can compete with a discreet GPU with specialized dedicated ram and a memory bus that’s 10x of a CPU using ddr4x.
Agree - I think there's a silent majority thing going on here. Because I only saw negative comments on any thread I looked at about this. That's what prompted me to comment in the first place. Clearly, a lot of people do agree (or I'm just super persuasive :P)
But is the bulk of AVX code by time spent running, code that was generated by autovectorizer? The SIMD in openssl and ffmpeg is written by hand. I bet the code that spends a lot of time on the CPU, especially the code that runs a lot while humans are waiting, is written by hand.
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> Hacker News is full of people who think XFCE is the height of desktop experience.

There are those of us who will have to choose a new DE because Big Sur apparently won't run on our perfectly capable pre-2013 MBPs, and have to choose the least clunky. In that group, Xfce is indeed the bees knees.
This is the right link: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-announces-mac-t...
Lmk when they enforce these guidelines for their own apps
I mean, we can't make kidneys in a lab, so you probably have to ask someone for theirs if you need one. FB is useful for connecting with people, so naturally people would ask there.

What solutions did you have in mind?
This seems to be the primary issue I see at work right now. People without kids are loving wfh and people with kids are struggling with distraction causing some of them to come back to the office just to work remotely with the rest of us.
That way would be: do what Germany did before the 90s and the privatization wave.

Every city/county had their own "Bauhof" with a couple of construction workers and machines for all kinds of maintenance that a city had: snow plowing in the winter, pothole fillings and greenkeeping in the summer, pipe laying/maintenance, traffic lights and general lights maintenance, other infrastructure upkeep.

Today much of this is mandatory outsourced to the lowest bidder, with no way of accounting for regionality or quality.

To make it worse, cities and counties used to have capable public servants in architecture and supervision, which meant that for those projects where external help was needed (think construction of new projects) that work could be properly supervised and issues either prevented in the planning stage or caught during construction and remedied before that became too expensive. Nowadays, thanks to more and more budget cuts, pay in public service is a third to a half of the private sector which means that even if there were a budget no one would apply. In IT the situation is even more dire, which is why almost all major government IT projects fail, with the additional complexity that most IT projects have way too many stakeholders and no leadership.

We as Western societies need to roll back that privatization mandate, at least for areas where it has obviously failed.
Being all-remote makes it harder to get acquired. Even if the acquirer is forward thinking, there are many complications to be addressed (compliance with existing hr/payroll/etc).

Last I've checked Gitlab was en route to IPO which makes sense given their unique structure.
> One interesting question I think is outstanding - from parsing the video carefully, it seems to me that devs are going to want ARM linux virtualized, vs AMD64.

Hahaha, look for a user-agent at 1:44:26 :) They use old Intel Mac for a virtualization demo.
I am unclear what statistics you're interested in, but would be happy to look into it if you can clarify which claim I made that you dispute.
Fixing the traffic lights would go a long way towards improving traffic flow in Seattle. How much time do you spend sitting at a red light when there's no cross traffic? How often are you and the 5 cars behind you abruptly stopped to let one cross traffic car through?

Lots of traffic lights already have cameras on them. Hook 'em up to an AI and a goal of maximizing throughput.
> when much of their policies seem to be based on a lack of empathy

This is a misunderstanding. The difference is not in the presence or absence of empathy, but rather in how that empathy is expressed: private interaction or government programs. The libertarians are not lacking in empathy; they just don't see it as a suitable justification for political action.

Of course, if you only discuss the problem from a political angle, and consider only political solutions, then it would indeed seem like they aren't interested in solving it at all, when in fact they are very interested in finding a solution—just one that doesn't involve force.
Also seconding! I've worked for a diverse spread of founders (some good, some bad) but Tracy stands out as truly exceptional.
Whatever. The dude’s a PHD in mechanical engineering with a very specific focus needed by this lab. It screws us over and it also screws over the lab. We should be so lucky to welcome an engineer like him into our country.
I am a very happy user of Mojave, and Apple needs to make a a much bigger effort to convince me to upgrade.
I’d pay for a decent macOS keybinding theme for gnome, any price. Who gives a damn about the look, app marketers?
It's not clear to me what the modern concern would be with nuclear powered military rockets. ICBMs don't have particularly high performance demands by modern rocket standards, and modern ICBMs are built with solid fuel boosters because they're simpler to deal with in every way. A nuclear powered ICBM doesn't make much sense; I don't think they'd make those and if they did, I don't think they'd be more alarming than the ICBMs which already exist.

So what would the military even use such engines for? Maybe an X-37 successor, but why would that be particularly alarming?
I guarantee many of the privileged predominantly white ACAB crowd never lived in areas where their own mom had a higher than average risk of being sexually assaulted or brutally beaten for fun whilst being on public transport during evenings.

Their heads can’t fathom such notions and it’s hard for them to comprehend the idea of different opinion. I’ve taking a different approach IRL of not showing my cards on the subject and just agreeing with them.

The first chance I get, I will accuse them of racism and homophobia to HR so they can have some of their own medicine. It’s the only way they learn.
> For example, in the city of LA, 53% of the city's unrestricted general fund budget went to the LAPD.

> For everything else, there are parallel infrastructures for the haves - private education, private healthcare, privatized transit, etc.

Education isn't part of LA City government, education comes from school districts which are not funded or controlled by cities in California (if any Mayoral candidate in California other than SF tells you they're going to fix the schools, they're either lieing or unaware of the job of their office; SF is an exception because they are a combined city and county and school districts are supervised by the counties in which they reside)

Same with healthcare and transit --- those agencies are separate from cities too, so city funds don't go there.
> The constant instability of your entire life as an immigrant is not worth putting up with. Might as well go somewhere else

Even with all the hassle, it is still worth it working for big tech. People won't make nearly as much elsewhere.
I grew up in a very fundamentalist (Christian) area, so the lack of it feels very familiar.
There is also overwhelming pressure on minorities to not only succeed and be perfect but to gain positions of power to make it easier for those that follow. It's incredibly difficult to do that as an IC (for either gender).
Yeah. My point was, that BEP 46[0] doesn't have any archive/log functionality.

[0]: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html
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The H-1B program is essentially the only way for most skilled immigrants to enter the US. Suspending the H-1B program is effectively a near-blanket ban on skilled immigration. Even if you think some companies abuse the program, the answer is not to go full North Korea and shut down the country to immigration. It's like banning food because some people eat unhealthily.
For what it’s worth...

My 2013 MacBook Pro Retina Finally bucked the kicket, so I’m waiting for the new ARM based range with the new OS before I make any decision.
China can bomb TSMC, no doubt.

But landing troops (they can't march, it's an island, and the difference between amphibious and land based operations matters a lot) would be extremely difficult, and not obviously in the PLA's favor. See, for example:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...
When I've taught friends to code I start with a program flow chart to describe the logic of the program.

Then when things get bigger than a single file/class I introduce the dependency diagram, which helps figure out which components depend on what... This helps you separate concerns logically

Some good tools which help:

- https://code2flow.com/

- https://draw.io/
Japan colonized areas of northeast Asia and Southeast Asia pretty brutally over the course of 50 years or so. In addition they forced some of the population to learn Japanese. It wasn’t a kid gloves colonization.

For that matter the US was a colony of the British Empire and yet came to do well. Russia had suitors attempt colonization a few times but as history tells us that failed, they have vast resources, they have had some great minds yet have come up short. I think imperialism is a distraction. From your POV Korea should be dump. It was colonized by Japan and later had US approved military dictators -a big no no in your books. But see where they are today.
Nothing is anyone's fault, huh. He's not a murderer--he's just brutalized and oppressed.
What's wrong with xfce?
> Take for example the A12Z. It has 8MB of L2 (not L3, it's L2!)

It's not really that clear cut. You could also argue that the A12Z has 8MB of L3 and 0MB of L2. The L2 in the A12Z is shared while the L2 in the Intel CPU is not.

Similarly the latency of the A12Z's L2 is a lot higher than the latency of Intel's L2, but also then still lower than Intel's L3. https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13661/A12X-lat.png & https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14664/ICLlat.png

So it's not "traditional" L2 as you're familiar with it, it's more like an L2.5 or something. Although still accurately called L2 as it is the second level of cache, it's just that Apple went with a rather different cache hierarchy & latency structure than Intel did. But it's really not at all accurate to compare the 8MB of L2 on the A12Z to the 2MB of L2 on Ice Lake. Those are very different caches.
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It doesn't look great when you are presented with evidence then try to find some reason to disbelieve it.
idk. I basically have my office in my bedroom right now and I find it to be fine. I guess what helps is I already had 2 large monitors and a second hand high end office chair so I find this setup just as good as my one in the office just without the standing desk. I guess what helps is I live with 5 other adults so I don't feel like I am missing any kind of social element that I would have got at work.
In the Platforms State of the Union, they specifically listed Numpy as one of the open source projects that they built for Apple Silicon (along with Python 3 and others). Go to 20 minutes and 35 seconds on that video.
Moore's Law really has 2 aspects - scaling and economic. The original quote states: "The complexity for minimum component costs has in-
creased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year". This basically says things scale at a certain rate (the time frame was changed from a year to 18 months in a later revision), but also that it is cost effective to do so. The scaling is still happening to some extent, but the cost per transistor has flattened out more so. Performance and power efficiency were never part of Moore's law, and are better covered by Dennard scaling
I am not defending that cherry-picked example question.

I am defending questions that are earnest but which are missing some foundational understanding of the subject matter which is usually needed to ask an answerable question. What you might call "prodding" can also take the form of polite advice or guidance. It NEVER HAS TO BE "prodding" by downvotes, VTC's and harsh commentary.
> On a desktop, with a mouse, I have near-perfect precision. I don't need overly-padded icons and windows because I have the precision of a mouse.

You do, but not everyone does. Consider the accessibility needs of people with motor-degenerative diseases like Parkinson's or Huntington's. Won't they be better-served by larger click-targets?
And thus Borg was born.

Yes. Basic Dijkstra producer-consumer one-way queues are simple and elegant. But the error cases are hell.

OK, so if the consumer wants to make the producer stop, it sets an abort flag. That's a shared variable. (Does it need a lock? Does it need a lock or fencing on ARM, which has weaker memory concurrency guarantees than x86?)

So, producer sees the abort flag set and closes its end of the channel, right? Maybe not. Maybe the channel is full, and the producer is blocked on a send. OK, so, when the consumer aborts, it has to enter a drain loop, doing receives and discarding the result until it gets an EOF/channel close. That will unblock the producer, and then the consumer can exit.

But what if the producer doesn't have anything to send right now? Now the consumer is stuck waiting for the producer to send more data, and the consumer can't exit.

Should the consumer close the producer's end of the channel after setting the abort flag? Now there's a race condition between checking the abort flag and sending. Add a critical section that covers both actions? Now the producer can be blocked while in a critical section. This creates a potential deadlock if the consumer wants to set the abort flag while the producer is inside the critical section. Now both ends are blocked and there's a deadlock.

But it all looked so simple in theory!
It’s less than what you may think it is. It also highly depends on your lawyer, I know a couple of people who you may think may not qualify but their lawyers ended up writing a lot of stuff (not made up obviously, just lawyer like language that drags on) and they ended up getting the visa. Out of those one of them got an rfe but they still pursued on and qualified. EB1 on the other hand is far harder.
> They explicitly said that it can perform both static and dynamic translation for JITs

Can a JIT be static? Isn't that not possible by definition?
I have spent 18 years in this country and am still on a H1 due to bad luck (was at a company that had layoffs which meant my GC application got audited) and terrible immigration laws (restricting green cards by country of birth). My friends who went to grad school with me are now citizens. Some folks that came on a L1 visa used a loophole to become citizens. And am still on a visa despite being valuable to my company and getting paid top dollar (top 0.5%). I can't make any long-term decisions (regretting my decision to upgrade my home 2 years back). My child is a US citizen and is old enough to realize that she wants to live here. Not sure why I have to be in this predicament. This is a rant. Not all H1-Bs are created equal. The law applies to everyone equally though.
Now that's some innovation!
> In order to support the growing population the police force must continue to grow as well.

Do you have a source for this claim? I mean we can all claim it is intuitive but just how many police, how "well funded", what equipment, and what jurisdiction?
The H1Bs still help to limit cost, on top of all the other toxic reasons.
> If you win the auction you get to serve your own pixel to tag the user, corroborate the data from the auction, etc.

That's not a scenario specific to real time bidding though. You could also just buy a regular ad and do that.

> if you want tie the data with the information from another identity graph, you only need to win one identifier once and serve both pixels, your party's and the third party (cross cookie syncing).

How can you associate the data from bids you didn't win to the data you get from ads that you did win and serve? Even with cookie syncing that doesn't necessarily reveal when a past/future bid opportunity matches a user you already know (unless you bid on it and win)
You may well be right. As far as I can recall, though, as of the last time I was regularly using Prolog, trying to do serious work on a (say) 1000x1000 array was a recipe for disaster.

The exception would be Turbo Prolog, but it was a rather restrictive subset of the language. Fast as hell, though.
Yeah definitely. It's almost like an enforced maker schedule.

In workloads that are more collaborative it's less clear though.

>people doing the actual work were happy WFH and simply getting stuff done.

I felt the same effect in my personal productivity too (real or not). Not convinced it worked on a team level. More duplication, more teams doing incompatible work etc. Sure getting stuff done...just the wrong stuff half the time (and very proud of their productivity!). Ironically resulted in me micromanaging them more (remotely) because the organic/grassroots collaboration & coordination is just gone.
I feel exposed :D. I really enjoy using XFCE and run it on all my machines.
Well, these big companies are willing to hire these people outside US which means the job in the US goes away.
There are certain hypothetical cases where that is true. In this case, most of the choices are better than the app people are required to use today.
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One must not forget that AppKit is pretty awful compared to UIKit. It is much easier to accomplish things with UIKit.
SwiftUI helps though and will end up being the way of making cross platform apps
It is going to go extremely poorly. Guess we can't hire any non-US postdocs anymore with the exception of Canada/Mexico since they have a NAFTA visa that isn't on the list. I also suppose that if the ones we have leave the country and need their J-1 visa renewed, they will be stuck until 2021.
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And if you ever make a bridge across a river... be prepared to add like 4 more next to it. My cities always end up looking ridiculous like that.
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If there is a pay option, you could just pay for searches. You set the price threshold by choosing to pay a la carte (or not.)
They did show this in the keynote.
Considering they're selling a device with a 10.5" touchscreen and an A12 SoC for $500 today, I think they can go even lower than $800 for a device with only a slightly larger LCD and no digitizer.

While they won't be competing with Chromebooks for general education use cases, I could very well see Apple trying to upsell schools on a $599 alternative that happens to run GarageBand, iMovie, and even XCode.
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