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This happened to me. Twice. I bought a 16" mbp when it was released because the keyboard of the previous mbp gave me carpal tunnel. I immediately added a camera cover like I always had done on macs. My screen stopped working a few days later, but mbp still worked on my external monitor. I took it in and they replaced the display for free via applecare.

Once I got my mbp back, I added the camera cover again (stupidly). The next day I opened my mbp, and had a line down the center of my screen. That is when I realized what had happened. I then told Apple exactly what I think happened. And to their credit, the replaced it (again) for free.

Over the next weeks, I received 3 different calls from Apple staff, with seemingly increased responsibilities. They all asked detailed questions investigating what I thought happened and in what sequence.

I am not surprised to see this support article.
> There is no requirement to "know a truth" to address the issue of free will.

How can I believe this to be true if you haven't proven to me that a mind can know a truth yet?

> The starting point would be: Come up with a definition that does not devolve into infinite regression ("god did it", which just moves the question "up one plane" and so does not provide a solution) or smoke and mirrors (and illusion over determinism).

How can I believe that it moves the question "up one plane" when you haven't proven to me that a mind can know a truth yet?

Etc. Most philosophers will cede to this line of reasoning and at best call it boring ala Russell and then continue from there. But they're doing the same thing that people that believe in free will do. They're either denying the battlefield or they're moving the goal posts or they're not coming up with a cohesive definition of a mind or a truth or what have you.

My point is that you can mock the free will folks all you want, but coming down on the other side of the argument is just as rooted in belief sans evidence. There is no proof or hope of a proof that a mind can know a truth that is not circularly reasoned so any firm belief that there is no such thing as free will is a delusion, short of maybe divine intercession.
> How do you decide what is considered looting connected to the protests versus traditional robbery or larceny?

There's a video of the people looting the store and several arrests were made. But you know that because you reviewed all that context, right?

> There was no past tense on being a cop there.

You do realize that I mentioned that he's dead, right?

But let's humor this for a moment... the fact that he was an old retired cop trying to keep his friend from losing his income and ending up in the proverbial poorhouse somehow makes his murder less awful to you?

Of course, that would only last until you found out about Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller or Dave Patrick Underwood, one assumes. Or will I hear more complaints if I neglect to mention that neither is black and the second is more of a security guard than a cop?
Huh. They were supposed to invest a boatload in Wisconsin too.

Funny how that never seemed to happen.
You can actually put the ballot in the box. You or someone you trust can stay as an observer until the voting is done. You or someone you trust can watch as the ballots are removed from the voting box and counted.

I think it has been recommended before, if you want to see this, sign up to be a poll observer. You will get to see the whole process.
https://youtu.be/wLmiWPHPqhU?t=250 this might be interesting :)
What really irritated me was the suddenly imposed three device sync limit. Being forced to pay for 2 TB when I didn't need any more space than I already had just to get my files on all my computers really rubbed me the wrong way. Like you, I wish there was a 5 GB / $3/month plan.

On top of that, they're losing sight of the deep OS integration that made them so appealing to Steve Jobs. When a screenshot is automatically saved to Dropbox I'm no longer presented with the option to "Show in Finder" but instead "Show in Dropbox" which instead of snapping open a Finder window slowly launches their kludgy app that isn't at all visually or functionally harmonious with macOS.
Mostly I just read a lot of DSP articles and picked up random techniques from forums. There are a few good books now that would save you a lot of time if you wanted to do this today though.
Dropbox is successful because 90% of their users have no idea of what you just said and the other ~9% can't be bothered with all that stuff and just want to pass files around.
Then why doesn't anyone use it? Honest question - Mobile Firefox stands at less than half a percentage point marketshare.
is there some reason you can't get a random id associated w/ your ballot?

then just list all results (by that id) on a website somewhere.

you hang onto your id stub, and can tell if your vote was mistallied or left out.

this can work w/ a digital or traditional analog system.

(maybe need some more work to figure out how to ensure there aren't just extra "ghost" votes padding the results.)
I've always wondered if there was something you really could do to neutralize a reaction that "really wants to happen" like that. Presuming you're in a well-equipped chem lab and have access to all sorts of non-mundane substances... maybe you could pour liquid helium on the fire? (It'd splatter from the Leidenfrost effect, but the flying Helium droplets wouldn't harm anything in any chemical sense, "merely" a physical "being very cold" sense. So, suit up against frostburn, and move away any glassware to ensure it isn't shattered by the opposite of unequal heating.)
I can’t say if that’s still the case but that study is seven years old.
Wages would not be effected by this implementation, just the amount of government aide disbursed to each person. But you bring up an interesting point that it may not incentivize people appropriately, what might work better?
you mean audiences didn’t flock to “gayme show”? did they try at all to make content they think people want rather than blindly just getting celebs on it?
Don't put keys on your car, because people forget their keys.
You can't use the fact that some people are not using something properly to say something does not make sense.
Which storm will pass? Don’t think Biden winning will change Xi’s or CCP’s behavior?
Exactly, and grandparent post was a great question. Another nasty dimension (in the LBO model referenced) is that by playing crazy financial games the PE firms can often wager very little of their own money AND take money off the table fast by issuing dividends. So it's basically a low-risk / risk-free way to suck the blood out of a company.

In my experience whether you think that PE is lawful neutral or flat-out lawful evil tends to come down to your opinion on the most brutal forms of capitalism...
I have a new X1 Carbon, and I don't have a MacBook to compare but I can't imagine needing my laptop to be lighter or thinner. It easily fits into any bag and I can carry it with one hand with no worry.

I will gladly trade a millimeter of thickness for increased functionality. It's the same thing where apple will ruthlessly optimize for thickness to the point where they can't cool the CPUs. They literally prefer form over function, as if the tool I use all day every day is an art piece.
Isn't this Windows RT?
A capacitor would also mean that you could quickly switch the camera on and off without triggering the light.
OK, never mind, it just takes a while for it to be deleted (around 10-15 seconds). I've just been impatient.
For tech workers who dominate HN and are the first to say that their free time is worth whatever their total comp is, how many get overtime pay?

How many people who put in extra time actually get recognized by their company for doing so at their equivalent hourly rate?
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I think Zoom has proven that they have exceptionally good product vision. I'm not sure Dropbox has over the past few years.
> Says who? Do you have any UI/UX study to back up that claim? Most of us on this page seem to believe the opposite is true.

I never said people found it good. I said, implicitly, I found it good. Perhaps I should have made it explicit in my comment.

Also, it doesn't matter whether most of you believe the opposite was true. I was talking only about myself.

No need to be so, aggressive, perhaps.

> Exactly the opposite. That is, a ribbon _may_ be relevant to a feature-poor application, but much less so to a feature-rich application.

Compared to the alternatives, the Ribbon has more density, in the sense that it packs more buttons and controls than a normal tool bar.

Even AutoCAD uses a ribbon menu. I am guessing because the command density is much more than a normal toolbar.

> You're conflating context-sensitive UI changes with the use of ribbons. That's a different argument. Also remember that if a Table toolbar or sidebar appears, you can have the same effect - better perhaps - without ribbons.

My point was that the context sensitive UI is more apt to be used with a Ribbon system, than alternatives, like in 3DS MAX, where the context sensitive stuff comes up on a right-click. Or in Office itself after we highlight an item.

I reiterate, it is a personal opinion. No need to get so defensive about it.

Some people want their commands and work area to be separated. Some like it otherwise. I prefer the former. When I click my table in PP, I don't want something overlapping it with a menu item, that is not stable, and disappears after a while or after another interaction. It's distracting to me.
You can give argument though. It is concievable it is possible to prove things like: a turing machine (which is an abstract mathematical model, which we absolutely can prove negatives. See for example rice's theorem) can never achieve "human intellegence" (if you come up with a concrete definition of human intelligence). From there you can make the statement: Any physically realized device that is faithfully modelled in terms of computational power by a turing machine, cannot have "human intelligence".

Sure you can't prove that silicon devices behave like turing machines, or even that they really exist, but for the sake of this discussion, what does that matter?
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Hi, I'm a woman too and you can read my opinion on the matter in a nearby comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798157

I don't suggest that you take my opinion as the final word, either. It's a complex issue, and nuanced discussion is necessary and should not be vetoed by a single voice.

And to be sure, I largely
agree with the woman in question: there are much bigger problems at hand. But as stated, the effort level required to discontinue using lena.jpg is zero.
8% is terrible.

Imagine what the Customer acquisition cost ($10-$20?), that means the customer conversion cost is $125-$250.

With a $5-$8 trial you can see how the economics of this simply do not work.
It's a good point worth a discussion.

Enterprise purchasing is more similar to a marriage than it is to buying a latté. Even down to having to get internal stakeholder buy-in (akin to "meeting the parents"). Price matters but it doesn't matter nearly as much as being able to navigate the evaluation and procurement process adeptly, so it's worth it for the vendor to filter out tourists, and the right buyers are looking for a longterm partner as well so they're down to do the dance (ie they're not just looking for a fling on Tinder).

This feels like a bunch of sales/marketing bullshit, but it's not - it's just a byproduct of the fact that change management at a big company is hard and people are people (ie are difficult).

I work in product/engineering, and we spend a lot of time thinking about how to tune our product to help enterprise buyers make purchases successfully. It's hard but rewarding. Tiny example, having a product that is flexible enough that you rarely have to say "no we can't do that" in a sales cycle is really powerful.
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That's not a converter if you mix both translation and 'kanji to romaji' at the same time in the same word. That's like mixing two sets of tools in one when only one was needed.
Google Drive has this feature, right click the file > get shareable link > Anyone on the Internet with this link can view
Random comment - I assume your username is an attempt at wit, but even I did a double take

Suffice to say it was complicated. I was reading about the tribes that aligned with the Confederacy and the fate of black slaves owned by tribes post-Civil War.
> If you attend a school where students historically perform much better on coursework than on the exam, your predicted score on the exam will be lower. On the other hand, if your school tends to perform better on the exam than in coursework, then your predicted score on the exam will be higher.

This is terrifying. It works for the average student, but distorts the performance for any student who isn't typical or better than their school.

It seems that it would be better to just ignore the testing component of the IB score this year when judging students. Instead they modeled what the students would have gotten on the test, and then judged them based on their modeled performance.
Diluting free speech to stop cancel culture isn't worth it.
and how do we know this map is even close to accurate? they were busy killing each other long before we got here.

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My point about emotionally charged language is that it's deceptive. It's a trick some people use the draw in the reader and get them to identify with the writer instead of the argument they're making. So when I see emotionally charged language I rewrite it in my mind to use neutral words so that I can see without emotional bias what argument the writer is making and reason about it objectively. Emotionally charged language is a sophistic device, it's used to obscure and confuse instead of enlighten.
Good spotting of a PR sub.

Here's another iteration of the PR 'news' piece:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/07/03/next-g...

I'm really impressed by the reach. Hats off to them, if it's not the case of a coincidence.
It's better based on what criteria?
The “versions of MacBook laptops and iMac desktops” they are referring to are the ones from more that 8 years ago that didn’t have the hard wired LED. Nowadays there is literally a wire from the sensor to the LED. If the sensor is on, the LED is on. It’s got nothing to do with firmware.
> Non-Muslim Uyghurs who make themselves useful for the government don't seem to be doing so bad for themselves

The fact that certain individual Uyghurs are not targeted is not evidence that the reason oppressed Uyghurs are being oppressed is not "because they're Uyghurs". It's evidence that being a Uyghur can be mitigated.

But if you prefer, "because they are members of a group with very questionable allegiance". This phrasing picks up the other Turkic groups in the area while still clearly excluding the Hui.
Ff7 probably shouldn’t be there since it’s chapter one of an unspecified number of chapters.
I did say maybe -- I think vote-by-mail is great and all the example are -- but there this very small chance which we should be vigilant about.

And eight disrupted votes is much better than thousands of disenfranchised voters.

There is also this: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/24/28_mil...
AFAICT, Hive/Snowflake are the only overlapping concerns here, and I can see why they would have both (Snowflake may be the better product, but at the end of the day Netflix owns their Hive install).

Everything else solves different problems at Netflix scale. I'm spitballing here but Cassandra could be used for metadata serving (high throughtput, embarassingly parallel reads with high uptime), RDS for their billing system (transactions, ACID, etc), Druid for realtime OLAP and Presto as an interface to Hive/Snowflake.

A smaller company wouldn't need this level of complexity (if you aren't large, you could probably serve your metadata from MySQL, and just use Snowflake as your OLAP engine).
I came in during the "toolbar" era, but ended up using the command line quite a bit. It was custom ACAD macros, and then AutoLISP, that got me back into programming after a long hiatus.
California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on India’s caste system
I wonder if this will be the start of an Exodus of manufacturing away from China. Corporations are constantly under scrutiny with their brand messaging and signaling with respect to various conflicts involving China, Hong Kong and the unrest within the United States.
India on the other hand, is a Democratic republic, might help alleviate some issues.
If India plays its cards right, they may pave the way for a manufacturing revolution for their 1+ billion people. For better or worse, only time will tell.
I think you're missing the key dimensions of the issue here.

Jesus is ultimately a metaphysical figure, his skin colour is irrelevant.

Are you going to be the 'Young Stazi' going around from Church to Church with the Pantone cards making sure he's 'Pantone Lion 17-1330' and not a shade off?

And will you do the same for the Buddha, who was almost assuredly 'Brown' (Indian sub-continent), and not 'East Asian' as often depicted?

And what about all the Black and Asian Jesuses? You're going to take those down as well?

We're gonna call out 1/2 the world as "RACIST!" now?

And "That's a Lie." ... of all the concerns and 'evil lies' that people tell about Jesus and it's going to be his skin colour (?!?!) which, you're not even sure of? And maybe not, for example, the bit about 'turning water into wine'?

It's Month Python crazy.

Just FYI:

- Jesus was probably a real person (Moses was not, Mohammed definitely was, Buddha probably was) , though obviously, if you're into 'historical' Jesus, he probably didn't turn water into wine. But the 'historical Jesus' isn't that interesting, it's the metaphorical/metaphysical person/creation that is the foundation of the Church and the Teacher.

- His 'skin colour' was probably what see now in the Middle East and would have been identical to most Romans or Greek and would not have been seen as 'brown' as one would have to go to Ethopia/Nubia for that kind of thing even then. Jesus could have been fair skinned like many Greeks. In '19th century' terms people from the 'Middle East' are Caucasian - meaning 'White'. If a Lebanese citizen told you they identified as 'White' would you deny them that? The point being, the identification of Jesus as being 'White or Not' racially is not only missing the point, it's not even possible to define.

- "But son of God? Only if you consider every man a son of God" once again, not even in the ballpark. For starters, not 'every man' was Abraham Lincoln, to start, and not every man started the the most influential and enduring social movement in world history.

- Shawn King is an artist, making a name for himself. He's a rabble-rouser, getting his name spread around the world by making racist statements that others are only too willing to publish.

Now - if Shawn wanted to say 'Hey, that White people depict their Lord as White, when he probably was not, might create a problematic perspective' and if Shawn also wanted to concede that this is actually common among religions and there's a universality to it, and wanted to have a discussion about this - that would be some intellectual rhetoric worth an evening on Charlie Rose if he wasn't cancelled.

But he and his enablers at CNN are (painfully obviously) not interested in any discussion, rather, in attacking what they perceive to be 'White Culture' as the source of all of their problems.

If Barack Obama, and avowed Christian and serious intellect, for example, wanted to talk about the issue of 'White depictions of Jesus' - now that would be fine, and he'd have the ear of half the nation. But Shawn needs to be cancelled because he has nothing to contribute but racist antagonising.
A...few... additional notes on combining Tor with vpns/proxy/ssh/tunnels (some whonix specific, mostly not)

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Tunnels/Introduction

TLDR tho is that you're right. Don't do it unless you have to, and you don't have to.
You describe the iOS app store as some kind of zen garden of curated software, when it's full off the same kind of spammy apps that pollute other app stores. When the app inventory numbers in the million plus, it is impossible for every one to be reviewed for quality, or to be distinct from others already in the store.

The purpose of the App Store was to ensure that Apple got a cut of every dollar flowing through the store. Gatekeeping quality requires more than blocking developers from uploading fart apps.
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> I was surprised when reflashing a burner Xiaomi device to see the bootloader contained a nod to the CCP

Anyone is concerned about privacy should never use a Chinese made product, hardware or software.
Not just Apple. I have Lenovo yoga. Put a sliding cover. Now I have cracked display cover though led panel is ok. Don’t do it folks
I have personally used a camera cover on 4 macbook pros and 1 macbook air, I have friends and colleagues who have done so as well, I've never heard of anyone having an issue. Just my 2cents.
Because we still don’t truly understand the underpinnings of consciousness
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Ironically, OP itself contains "Katsu curry" which is a half-back-romanization.

I myself am not too sure what to think about カツ becoming Cutlet when カツ is a shortened version of カツレツ, which itself is the katakana version of Cutlet. Technically, カツ would be Cut, but then English doesn't have that notion of using Cut to mean Cutlet.
Which human rights does my position violate? Please, enlighten me.

YOU do realize that human rights don't include a blanket prohibition on people treating you differently due to your political opinions?

Also, how do you reconcile these "universal" human rights in a state that violates them?
Since this is getting a few votes, I might as well ask the question that led me to this page: How do Belorussian Kalduny differ from Polish Pierogi, Ukranian Vareniki, and Russian Pelmeni?
> What single player / local multiplayer games on GOG have DRM?

#1. This question is not asked in good faith; games purposefully include centralized internet multiplayer, while not including local multiplayer, and this is itself a form of DRM.

#2. Northgard applies DRM even to single-player modes. You cannot use them without simultaneously connecting through the Steam^W GOG client.

https://www.gog.com/game/northgard
> With India’s labour cheaper compared with China, and the gradual expansion of its supplier base here, Apple will be able to use the country as an export hub

While there are negatives, I appreciate how globalization of manufacturing helps lift poorer economies (albeit it slowly and not always agreeing with the politics of the newly-built middle classes). One might expect manufacturing in mid-Africa in two decades.
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How do we know there isn’t a secret spy camera hidden somewhere else in the laptop? How do we know Apple didn’t hide spy nabobots in their products that spread all over our houses watching everything we do?
My guess is that most people believe that their own family is functional, but that other people's families are creating delinquents.
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