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Anything that breaks within the warranty period Apple fixes for free, and often even outside the warranty period. I, like many others, have had an Apple genius waive a repair charge out of warranty if the device should not have failed.

And whether your claim of their outsourcing is true or not, Apple is still on the hook for warranty on the repairs. I highly doubt it’s common.

Lastly Apple has by far the highest customer satisfaction in the industry in a good part because of how they handle repairs.
Would it be difficult to just patch the binary that controls updating to just go back to the previous behavior?
If an individual is unable to figure out how to show dotfiles in Finder on MacOS do you really want them making commits?
Yep. I hate stock imagery, because it’s 100% overhead and conveys nothing of value, and by dint of its uselessness and irrelevance, cases where imagery is relevant are less likely to be heeded; but because of human psychology, stock imagery works.
The answer to the first question, is that I absolutely avoid watching TV (including YouTube/Hulu/etc. equivalents). I also have an "only on Sundays" rule for Facebook.

The answer to the second question probably changes a lot, but I think the long term answer is probably:
1) Jonathan Haidt, "The Righteous Mind"
2) Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "Antifragility"
3) Peter Turchin, "Ages of Discord"
Compared to the dropbox option, yes.
If you must run Windows 10 I strongly recommend the Enterprise LTSB (Long-Term Servicing Branch) version. You have much more control and can strip out most of the garbage.

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out how to get a single copy of Enterprise LTSB. Hint: windows 10 enterprise ltsb gen2
Like others have said, you would never type that long thing in Powershell, just `irm wttr.in` (even shorter then curl).

People for some reason always show long stuff that is only used when you write scripts to share with others and not interactivelly - you could do the same with curl if you use --long-parameter-names but somehow people are biased when talking about posh like aliases and other things do not exist.
The threat model of Blizzards anti-gold farming department vs. your national government's secret police isn't the same.
For those unfamiliar with it, PlantUML enables you to create many types of diagrams (both UML and Visio-like) using code. Quick overview here:
https://crashedmind.github.io/PlantUMLHitchhikersGuide/about...
But you can't make a sign that says "We want to radically change the duties of law enforcement but we aren't exactly sure what that should look like and need to start a national discussion so that we can move forward and fix what is clearly a problem."

At least not a very good sign.
Another anecdote, I got bronchitis in my early 20s due to black mold in a slummy apartment I lived in and never fully recovered either. I still have really bad sinus issues, and whenever I surf I get horrible week-long inflammation in my sinuses unless I'm consistently snorting flonase.

Probably not nearly as bad as everlasting flu symptoms, but it's interesting there's a pattern of infections that never quite go away.
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Yep, and those parts of the world will happily pay $99/yr for email.
I'd be curious to see how the software accounts for a self-fulfilling prophecy of "you always find what you are looking for".
The Renaissance lasted for hundreds of years. Communication with people outside europe was a nontrivial thing and excluding it (as has been done deliberately in the past) does history a disservice.

Like I said, this isn't a change for the sake of it. Professionals believe that these analysis methods produce better scholarship and pedagogy than the alternative.

Of course expanding the range of topics offered is a key element of this as well. Unfortunately, universities are truly awful at hiring people who are experts outside european or modern history. My grad school (I did a degree in CS but know a lot of historians) is arguably the strongest program in the country and has one person doing all of China forever. Academics have less flexibility here whereas somebody who is teaching classic "western civ" style courses can expand viewpoints to meet modern scholarship.
Yeah, ignore is removed going forward. The forced reboots from Windows are absolutely obnoxious, though, no argument.
> Software and technology are only one corner of the innovation playground, and the US has been so focused on the noisy kids in the sandbox that it has failed to maintain the rest of the equipment.

This about sums up the topic. The article itself even spends most of its time pondering this alluring idea that the VC ecosystem could somehow be reformed to solve societal problems.

The problem isn't an insular background of potential founders. It's that a business can only achieve outsized returns by operating on scalable things - such as computing technology or casual replaceable labor. There is no Uber for <concern of marginalized people>, because marginalized people are an input which those services require to operate! Nobody is delivering groceries during a pandemic from a place of options.

> [Nikki King is] in a constant scramble for money, relying on grants, donations, and Medicaid reimbursements.

The money funding an organization that directly helps people is coming from government and charity. There is no monetary profit in this - if there were, Ms King would now own a successfully bootstrapped cashflow positive business. Instead she continues to scrape by.

Ultimately we've got the best society money can buy. Our assumptions of mutually beneficial transactions in a free market creating distributed wealth are not panning out. Instead we've gotten an ever-growing wealth imbalance, with the main goal of the wealthy being to perpetuate themselves. There are many theories on why this has happened or what to do about it, but suffice it to say as long as it continues our problems will only get worse.
I think individual dwarves could still be modeled as cells, if there was an additional layer (or a single cell?) holding their future actions.

The automaton would lose the nice property of being spatially isomorphic to the screen, and the possible states would explode, but if my understanding is correct, it could still be a cellular automaton.
Here's one real-world example of ending and replacing a police organization:

"As a result of the ‘Rose Revolution’ of 2003, the government began a process of reform by sacking all the existing police and creating a smaller force of new recruits, with the help of the international community. The reformed police force became one of the most well-regarded institutions in the country."

(https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/siezing-mom...)
Fantastic.

When can we install the 1TiB video player/codec/plugin, that'll allow us to stream 4K movies on a 1Mbps connection?
Purchasing Enterprise is definitely super annoying but it's not out of reach for an individual.

You can only purchase Enterprise through Volume Licensing and you have to find/choose a reseller (VAR in msspeak). But you buy one license of Windows 10 Enterprise and 4 cheap user CALs and you're done. You don't actually have to have a business or anything. Any reseller will just put your own name as the business name.

(If your machine didn't come with pro then make that 1 Pro license, 1 Enterprise license, and 3 user CALs.)
This again comes off as empty PR speak. "We're taking this seriously, trust us" with no acknowledgment of anything being broken to begin with. The more meaningful work at this point is not growing or preserving Facebook's inertia - I know, heresy - but fixing an architecture that has become toxic.
> Back in 2016 in Toronto, I chose a condominium specifically because it had Beanfield fiber

I'm in Toronto, thank goodness this is becoming more common, not less. I was recently condo hunting and I noticed most new buildings had Beanfield or their competitor, FibreStream. The building we ended up with has the latter, so we're getting 500Mbps symmetric/no cap.

Yay for not having to annually fight with Bell for a "promotional" rate anymore!
While Valve Index is clearly superior I don't think you should dismiss the Quest. Not a single person I've shown it have thought it was a bad experience. On the contrary they finally "get" VR after it and many bought one immediately after so I truly believe the Valve Index community is wrong here lumping Quest together with subpar experiences such as Cardboard.

Don't get me wrong, Quest is suited for completely different games than Index but for titles like Beat Saber and Superhot it's the perfect hardware and they are also the kind of games that will bring VR to the masses. Also of course the fact that you can just put it on and start playing without any setup whatsoever.

Subjectively I disagree with "Hand tracking" and "Head tracking" (you have duplicate bullet points for 2). I haven't noticed inside-out tracking being inferior at all when comparing. It works much better than I ever would have expected.

I also think talking about feeling ill being something common is doing VR a disservice. It used to be a common problem most people experienced but not anymore. I'm not saying people can't get ill or feel dizzy nowadays but the problem is not in the same ballpark as before. However, if people do experience the same even on the Quest they should definitely try the Valve Index before dismissing VR completely.

I'm planning on getting a Valve Index myself soon so I'm not a fanboy.
I do find the typed query builder interesting, I don't think it's fully "there" yet in terms of functionality. I think they need to ditch the whole 'definitive single state' database model and just lean hard into the typed query builder. I'd seriously consider it if they were to implement similar functionality as the Java JOOQ library.
>The real question is what is the ratio of abusers and bullies to helpers and law upholders.

The ratio is tilted heavily in favor of abusers and there has been ample evidence showing this since the dawn of modern policing. Modern policing descended from slave patrols and it shows. The militarization of police is a more recent abomination, but not the root cause.

There is a third category beyond abusers and "law upholders": those who stand by and do nothing, thereby enabling the abusers and silently endorsing their behavior.
I've tried it years ago, and I couldn't even get it to bootstrap one node. It was, at least at the time, an insanely complex and fragile system.

Has anyone some recent real-world experience in MAAS?
I'm assuming that it's basically a port of GraphQL+DataLoader, so basically using recursive descent to manage hash joins.
I'm not entirely familiar with the Rust type or the latest Go proposal but is there a way to do this without possibility of cleanly compiled source panicking at run time?

Something like if Result didn't include those possibly panicking functions and wider types ResultOk and ResultErr had the corresponding functions guaranteed not to panic. These types would only be accessible from Result upon checking.
The company tells The Verge that no layoffs will result from today’s decision. “Our commitment to growing and developing careers from this diverse talent pool is stronger than ever,”

Impressive, but pretty curious how they plan to successfully pull this off.
Computational Linear Algebra for Programmers (2017)
Why insist on sharing important policy updates as a Facebook post, which is clearly not meant for that purpose? That wall of text is completely unreadable.
Thanks for clarifying. So condescending is not necessarily mansplaining. But mansplaining IS condescending.
By definition, yes.
By far the most important reason for dynamic linking for C is semantics: static linking semantics are stuck in 1978 and suck (more on that below), while dynamic linking semantics make C a much better language.

In particular, static linking for C has two serious problems:

1. symbol collisions -> accidental interposition (and crashes);

2. you have to flatten the dependency tree into a topological sort at the final link-edit.

Both of these are related, and they are disastrous. They are also related to the lack of namespaces in C.

Besides fixing these issues, the C dynamic linking universe also enables things like:

- run-time code injection via LD_PRELOAD and intended interposition

- run-time code loading/injection via dlopen(3)

- audit (sotruss)

- reflection

- filters (which allow one to move parts of libraries contents to other libraries without forcing re-links and without forcing built systems to change to add new -lfoo arguments to link-edits)

- use of dladdr(3) to find an object's install location, and then that to find related assets' install locations relative to the first, which then yields code that can be relocated at deploy time (sure, "don't do that" is a great answer, but if you statically-link then you think you can, and now you just can't have assets to load at run-time)

- use of weak symbols to detect whether a process has some library loaded

and others.

C with those features is a far superior language -- a different language, really -- to C without them.

(EDIT: A lot of the semantics of ELF could be brought to static linking. Static link archives could have a .o that has metadata like depedencies, "rpaths", exported/protected symbols, interposer symbols, etc. The link-editor would write and consume that metadata. However, it's 2020, and the static link ecosystem is stuck in 1980 because no one has bothered, and no one has bothered because dynamic linking is pretty awesome. Still, it could be done, and once in a while I think I ought to do it to help save people from themselves who want static linking.)

> Do your installed programs share dynamic libraries?

> Findings: not really

> Over half of your libraries are used by fewer than 0.1% of your executables.

The C library most certainly gets shared, as well as libm and such. The rest, it's true, not so much, but it does depend on what you're measuring. Are you measuring C++ apps? Yeah, C++ monomorphization leads to essentially static linking. Are you measuring Java apps with no significant JNI usage? You won't find much outside the libraries the JVM uses.

> Is loading dynamically linked programs faster?

> Findings: definitely not

Dynamically-linked programs will load faster when their dependencies are already loaded in memory, and slower otherwise. The biggest win here is the C library.

> Will security vulnerabilities in libraries that have been statically linked cause large or unmanagable updates?

> Findings: not really

Correct. But, being able to update libc or some such and not have to worry about updating consumers you might not even know about is a very nice feature.
YC's model has never been to fund startups for long, only to get through the batch and then hopefully raise longer-term funding at Demo Day. When Scott and I were in the Winter 2009 batch, we got $15k. Costs have gone up since then but not by that much. $150k and $125k are both more than enough to accomplish the primary purpose. Actually I wish they'd lower it further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k
This is great for urban areas, but connectivity in more rural parts of the country is shockingly bad, and doesn't seem to have as many elegant solutions as densely populated urban areas do. I live "out in the country" now during COVID and I'm now paying $60 for 250MB/s down, as opposed to paying $70 for gigabit a couple months ago living in the city.

It cannot be understated how badly the more rural parts of the country are being screwed by big telecom right now.
its an honest question but it is not possible to give an honest answer currently.
Before Windows 10 I would just disable the Windows Update service and enable it on my own schedule when I wanted to do updates. I've had my machines stay undisruptive for months on end, sometimes up to a year without rebooting, and the reboots would be initiated by me (hardware changes, power outages, or updates that I actually wanted to install.)

Since Windows 10, Microsoft has caught onto this and added a new service that checks if you disabled the Windows Update service and re-enables it automatically, and sets permissions that initially deny you from tampering with it that then makes this a little more challenging to get around, but still possible to do manually. I later found Windows Update Blocker (WUB) which does all of this for you in one click. I have been using it ever since, and have never again been nagged by any update or experienced an unexpected reboot: https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-5/
Direct link to the (long list) of criteria: https://phpinsights.com/insights/code.html

(And continues with Architecture, Complexity and Style.)
I believe the original reasoning for Dynamic Linking wasn't performance gains, but security gains -- someone described the driving story to me as essentially a found vulnerability in a very common library required updating and re-compiling everything on every system, scarring sysadmins globally and permanently; the space saving and performance aspects came up as later "bonuses".

I have little memory of the details of the story, and I'm not 100% sure it's true, but it's a much more satisfying and reasonable argument for dynamic linking than performance/space.

Of course, the more modern solution would probably be a good package manager -- if its trivial to recompile things, and track what needs to be recompiled, then dynamic linking seems to gain little, but bring in a lot of its own headaches (as we know today)
> Is your argument at this point summed up as "they haven't been caught misbehaving at scale, so let's generalize their entire profession with the benefit of the doubt"?

I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt. I'm saying that it's reasonable to assume that complete information suppression by a conspiracy of bad actors across independent localities is likely impossible. This is why most conspiracy theories are false. Information suppression is hard and even more rare is uniform behavior across many thousands of individual police departments.

It's definitely true that police act in their self-interest and corruptly sometimes. But sometimes is a term that represents vastly different circumstances with tons of different causations, effects, etc. Just saying "cops are unaccountable power-abusers" is simplistic, unproductive, offensive and wrong. There's an opportunity for conversation about reform, but the rampant groupthink, stereotyping and dogmatism is killing it.
Please note that the feature to defer still exists and can be found in Group Policy.
That’s a straw man.

I never claimed that anyone can make up their own definitions, only that setting the bar at “literal meaning” is unrealistic, as that’s not how language actually works.

See: catching a bus by the skin of your teeth so that you and your friends can have a night out and paint the town red.

Chances are you understood exactly what I meant, but taken literally that sentence is utter jibberish.
Maybe when there's a potential difference over a large area, getting regulated at once. In the picture it's more extending over an area than a length.
I mostly don't agree with this as I know too many cops. The racism is tricky- if the only X people you saw were criminals, without any balance on the positive side it can very easily get into some sort of loop. And lots of places are like that in the US, for a variety of reasons- the cops see the bad side of X, without a balance of neighbors and other helpful examples to counterbalance. They're part of the problem, but they're also caused by the problem.
As an insider it is quite frustrating. The discussions seem to be just polarized to ends that are both ridiculous. "No police vs police should be more violent." "Open borders vs deport everyone and build a wall." Etc. The vast majority of people don't hold the positions on the extremes, but we talk like they are the representative voice. And look even at these comments. I said "These people are not the representative voice" and people are responding "But I know people that believe this! They aren't the majority, but they exist!" How is that the top response to my comment?! The comment is ironically the problem I'm specifically addressing. But I don't know what is unclear and how to tackle this. Feedback needed.
Not the person you were replying to, but I can speak as someone who lived in a country that was essentially lawless as a kid. When there isn't a unifying civil authority, mobs do in fact take whatever they feel like if you have the least bit of something worth taking. It leads to ubiquitous misery.
I've had a couple decent experiences in the Apple store in Chandler, AZ mall. First was a battery replacement in-warranty, second was a pickup, then a return/exchange. The battery replacement did take longer than I would have preferred about half an hour, but not bad in general. A few years later, I got a mid-2014 rmbp, and didn't know they'd soldered on the RAM and that the storage wasn't upgradeable... wound up forking over for a top end model.

Of course with each progressive release being a little more cumbersome, and never really liking iOS devices. Some of the security locks that you can't turn off (enabled 2fa then sold off one of my two devices, don't know how the 2fa code got delivered to the device I was trying to re-log into, but was lucky in the end). I gifted my last mbp this past xmas, and haven't looked back.

I am mostly on my desktop or work issued laptop now. Hoping to see an upper-mid to high-end Ryzen model with at least 64gb ram and at least an RTX 2070 level gpu. All the current gen Ryzen laptops are seriously gimped in one way or another.
I agree with that impression, and actually find it really puzzling that disarming police isn't a central message. I think it's very likely that if the police on George Floyd had been unarmed that eventually the bystanders would have intervened (at least I hope).
Same in San Francisco, it's pretty ugly, my dad said "it looks like third world country cabling" when he visited.
There's a substantial correlation between the behavior of academia and that of a cult. In my field of fundamental physics, we are so specialized that when people leave, they essentially never return. If conditions were to change in such a way as to make it possible for people to flow back and forth between serious research and the real world, the culture would normalize.

The reason that doesn't happen, though, is that academia is a lot like professional athletics. Whether most of the participants know it or not, they're doing it for some combination of love-of-the-field and a lottery ticket. We're all willing to tolerate sub-standard working conditions precisely because we absolutely love our field and are willing to do almost anything to stay in.

I've left lots of money on the table in order to remain in physics as long as I have because the work is, when it is good, so very fulfilling. Unfortunately, I'm about to leave because some of the structure, built for good-hearted reasons but presently suffering colliding dependencies, now substantially impedes my colleagues and me from getting good science done. I know that when I leave, I essentially cannot come back. There will be another younger, smarter ISL waiting to fill my position the moment I'm gone.
"To clarify one point: there is no newsworthiness exemption to content that incites violence or suppresses voting. Even if a politician or government official says it, if we determine that content may lead to violence or deprive people of their right to vote, we will take that content down. Similarly, there are no exceptions for politicians in any of the policies I'm announcing here today."

To me, this is the most interesting development. It'll be interesting to see where the line gets drawn in practice on what constitutes voter suppression and/or speech that could lead to violence. The bigger question is whether we should be entrusting Facebook to draw that line in the first place.