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I am most creative when I'm invited to attend a lengthy meeting that becomes boring. Doodles on the page lead me to wonder is there some better way to do all of this? anyone else feel this way, too?
Oh I like your answer so much better than mine
Seriously Apple, just stop blaming your users. Camera covers are a totally reasonable response to the threats we all face. If your precious computers can't have them installed, build one in.

I am a longtime Apple hardware user, but it's just getting so hard to keep using them...
"For All Mankind" is an absolutely amazing show from Apple. Alternate history of if Russia got to the moon first. Lots of historical footage (sometimes augmented). I loved watching it. Maybe too niche for a breakout hit but it is extremely good.
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> don't you think humans already tried that in the past 10 000 years ?

Often what you are saying is true. Except in this case we have access to new technologies that have only existed for a small percentage of that 10,000 years. It might be worth re-examining what we think we know about growing food in light of these new technologies. That is, things that would have been ideal but were practically impossible may now be possible.
As long as you are looking for a capitalism-free solution, you will need something else than Office.
Something I noticed specifically with webex is that the latency isn't nearly as bad in audio-only mode. Not as good as Mumble or Discord, but you can actually have a decent phone call.
It messes up any attempt to recollect of the locations of certain features in the bar. Some iterations of the ribbon even fold groups into menus under single buttons, so the exact path to feature then depends on the width of the window. This turns the ribbon into a pretty inconsistent user experience.
Everything is impossible until proven otherwise.

You imagine a 'thinking' machine all you want. Doesn't change to reality of the situation that no digital device comes close to thinking.

Some find this frustrating. So, they reduce the idea of a brain to a digital computer.

Ita a confusion of the Model with that being Modelled.
A photo of you, is a representation -- or model -- of you. But, it would be silly to become so enamourwd with the photo that you begin to think YOU are a representation of the photograph.
Standard corp policy? Google disallows dropbox on devices that can access Google internal data as well.
So in theory they should have no control on the apps you install on the personal side. Is this just moral obligation, or are they requiring full control of the phone even outside the work profile?
There's still the audio problem.
Two fun asides:

1) Latitude on another planet is straightforward: take the rotational equator, divide into 90 degrees north and south, done. But what about Longitude? Here on Earth, the prime meridian is Greenwich, because reasons. On Mars, it's indexed to a certain crater. But on the gas giants? Yeah, we still don't have a good plan about that.

2) Paul Krugman's thesis (yes, that Paul Krugman) is on relativistic economies. As in, my planet is in a deep gravity well, your's isn't. My clocks pas a lot slower. Now, how do I calculate interest? What about letters of credit for ships traveling between places to ship goods? His conclusion: let's hope there isn't money by then, because interest can't work between relativistic time frames.
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Another thing you can do without 2FA on a device that is already authenticated is generate an app-specific password which is like a persistent backdoor to your account that degrades your security until you either revoke the ASP or change your main password (which automatically revokes all ASPs).
Hey, please edit out swipes like "use your brain" from your HN comments. They only make things worse. I realize that it's frustrating to represent a contrarian/minority view on the internet, but there's really only one way to do it effectively and that is to prevent the frustration from boiling over and stick to neutral information. Otherwise you just give people an additional reason to reject what you're saying, which ends up discrediting whatever truth you're advocating for. I've written about this elsewhere in case it's helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Also, please note this site guideline: Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's possible to have hardware kill switches that can't be compromised via software. Apple opts not to include them.

Purism laptops include them.
https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
But if you are a large enterprise, you’re not going to just pay list price.
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> seamless integration option

My experience with PHP on Windows has been continously terrible. Was there some trick I missed? I have never seen any options in a vanilla IIS to enable PHP.
>its hard for me to understand the motive but alas here we are.

Some personality types probably just like having the feeling that they hold power over other people.
They purchased Onico and Onico is one of the best vendors for Devops support.

When a company is being spun out by a private equity, I am always hesitant to invest in it. I prefer when a company goes to market with their original investment thesis because you never know if the private equity is harming one of their other companies to grow another one.

I.e. Rackspace and Onico are owned by the same subsidiary, suppose Rackspace charges Onico an extra 20% compared to what they are already paying because Onico doesn't plan to go public, however, the extra 20% Rackspace gets looks better and causes a better return on their investment. At the same time, the subsidiary has an incentive to inflate their stock price and not be a bag holder.
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Biden is a Democrat the same way DPRK is democratic. That is in name only. He is very much on the right side of the spectrum, the reason he's considered left is because the Republicans have moved so far to the right over the past several decades that you can call yourself a Democrat for being what would be considered a moderate Republican in the 80s.

The policies he's for are what the Conservative Party is for in the UK.
Also at:

https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.babson.edu/content/511ecf86-ab40-...
If I understand correctly, this is a limitation of x86_64 backwards compatibility rather than a limitation of Windows. Enough of the 16 bit behavior was preserved in 32 bit protected mode for Win16 apps to run, but nearly all of it doesn't work in 64 bit long mode (things like virtual 8086 mode aren't available in 64 bit mode). There's also all the GDT, LDT, TSS stuff on 32 bit x86 that was either dropped or reduced for x86_64.

Your only option at this point is to use a virtual machine. Intel has supported real mode VMs since Sandy Bridge and I'm not sure when AMD got it, but all of the Zen parts definitely support it.
It's not frequent, but the desired number of times is 0 :)

There's been a few times that my camera has activated in a meeting, and shown a black screen because of the cover.

My Lenovo Ubuntu machine has cover built into the casing, which seems ideal.
For my Macbook, I use a thin (<.1mm) plastic sliding cover.
Recent Apple laptops have a separate SoC dedicated to secure boot as well as making sure macOS has no direct control over that camera indicator light, and more

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/29/what-apples-t2-ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Silicon#T_series
Tricking a [EDIT: thanks 'spyspy!] WaPo journalist into visiting a consulate and then chopping him into pieces with a saw while he screamed and cursed you? Dropping bombs to kill hundreds of thousands of Yemeni children? Making the people of Saudi Arabia somehow less free? Those things were pretty bad sir! But now you've gone too far! How dare you peep on our first trillionaire while he's courting outside his marriage?!? At long last, have you no shame?!??
Purism laptops include camera, mic and bluetooth physical kill switches. https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
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Japan also started protecting forests and managing them sustainably a long time ago[0], in the Edo period (1603-1868).

[0] https://www.nippon.com/en/features/c03912/
I'm creative in meetings, but probably have better ideas after the meeting is over.

L'esprit de l'escalier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier
Reading through the FAQ, looks like the kernel can run on 1 physical core and SMT/hyperthreading isn't enabled (maybe that's changed).

Seems cute but the WSL has the full support of the Windows scheduler which is gonna make the practical choice of tool obvious for folks with Linux workload requirements.
IMO, the most brutal week was realizing that nothing you will ever use on the job will use H-M type inference. Back to smashing rocks together.
No, These quotes are directly from the academic publication[1]. You either have not read the publication or are gaslighting.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768086
Yeah, that's my Romanian kitchen. The bottles are Transnistrian cognac, local red wine, and the empty glass that looks like a cooling tower is a Turkish tea glass. These are the rocket fuels that built Pinboard.

The white bottle is just Greek table salt, though. No fun pills.
> I can count on the finger of my hands the number of times when I needed to write explicit types in Ocaml

Do you genuinely rely on whole-program type inference? Writing fewer than ten explicit types in your whole career writing OCaml really surprises me. For example even the OCaml standard library is not written this way.

I find in practice most people explicitly type their top-level functions as if you don't this it can cause type errors at the point of use to 'poison' the function types and cause very confusing errors far away in the program. Do you not see this when you program without any explicit types?

We can see this in other projects for example Crystal which had to back-track on their goal of whole program inference, because it just doesn't really seem tractable in practice.
Don't even get me started on voting systems.

TL;DR: Just use range voting and put in the candidate with the highest rating. (Note that Senators' terms are staggered so there aren't two up from the same state at the same time, but if there were you could easily send the two with the highest ratings instead of the one.)
it will be more difficult to do later when you have a family and when you are on mortgages.

It is also more difficult to convince a friend to become a co-founder when they have mortgages and a family.
The problem is in the design: by not providing a hardware switch, all we have is trust. As we can see from the past, unfortunatly it's not enough.
A ~10% conversion from free to paid is something quite a few companies would sign for on the spot. Depending on the industry you can see < 1% to < .1% and still be happy. All that matters is whether or not the customers that do convert stay long enough to make it worth your while. If 50% converts but they all cancel after month 1 that's a lot worse than if 10% converts and they stay for 30 years.
Gruber has an article about this; he mentions someone who is a former Apple engineer saying it's now implemented entirely in hardware.

https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams
The valuing of (short-term) economic benefit over sustainability is precisely what is fueling climate change.
Gambling addiction is very real and should be treated as seriously as drug addictions. (Serotonin is quite a drug, even if we do manufacture it ourselves in our own glands.)
i used to use LibreOffice back in the day when MSOffice was too expensive. nowadays i just use google docs and google sheets. i'm sure 90% of people out there use a browser/cloud based office product. if LibreOffice wants to remain relevant, they should make some sort of cloud based product (if they already have, i'm not aware of it).
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The REPL has spoilt me. Working with languages without a powerful REPL, even ones with a shell like JS/Python/Lua/Ruby feels like a regression comparable to moving from zsh to windows cmd.
Type error. your lambda doesn't have a valid static type signature. You would wrap that around a union type:

wtf = A of string | B of float

And then you'd return A("abc") or B(2.01) and your function would be () -> wtf
Which is why a whole industry exists focused solely on helping you understand your AWS bill and how to optimize it. Right?
This very interesting piece might be of interest for you : https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/how-to-pick-a-pepper/

It took one of the protagonist ten years of testing to find a machine capable of harvesting special-bread peppers. The breakthrough your are looking for isn't for software engineering only - or even at all -. It's a combination of mechanical engineering, biology and hacking. Venture-led startups often lead to short-lived niche products made to impress silicon valley. It's not sustainable, and it's not the future.
In F# (which is very similar to OCaml), you’d have to explicitly cast the return value to “obj” to get this to compile.
> 'You're asserting without evidence that "cancel culture" exists as "a thing" worth discussing. I assert it doesn't, it's just a bunch of jerks, and ask for evidence about its impact.'

Your original response was that the listed pathologies 'were not that bad', but that they were only found in response to people who were genuinely 'vile and awful'. Now you're saying those pathologies are invented. Which is it?

You say I haven't provided evidence of its impact. In three of the four responses since my original post, I've given examples: Helen Pidd, J.K. Rowling, and The Atlantic piece linked to upthread. I could go on citing endless individual cases, but as I have tried to emphasise, the problem as I see it is a collective one: a culture degrading the public sphere.

You write in another of your replies: 'If you want to talk about individual instances of injustice, I'm there with you. If you want to paint a whole culture of internet progressives on the basis of a tiny handful of spiteful retributions, I think you aren't arguing in good faith.'

If individual cases can't prove anything, what evidence will you accept?

> 'Just something that you're personally upset about'.

I have to tell you, I am not the only person to notice the existence of a new 'cancel' culture, or to object to it. There was a prominent Harper's letter circulated on exactly this subject just a few days ago:

https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
It's been a few years but I had a client that needed some secure remote file access capability "like DropBox" so I spun up an ownCloud VM and it had a surprising amount of collaboration tools built-in. It had all the groups, permissions, sharing, etc stuff you'd expect, and you could open and edit Office documents in the browser (it was a web-based Zoho Word/Excel type editor if I remember correctly.) It also had automatic versioning so if someone jacked up one of the files, they could roll back to whenever.

For anyone looking for that sort of thing, ownCloud might not seem like an obvious choice but I was pleasantly surprised.
I have a coworker who grew up on a farm. When asked about the experience he has almost nothing positive to say about the experience. Working on a farm, even in modern times, does sound like a significant step down from the relative comforts of city living.

If advances in technology can decrease the burden on farming then we may see people willingly choose that lifestyle.
What are you trying to say? All I get from this is boot-licking absurdity.
To speak further of the conflicts of history, many tribes, including the Muscogee (Creek) tribe involved in the most recent Supreme Court decision in Oklahoma, were slaveholders. After the Civil War, the terms of the Reconstruction Treaties contributed to their land loss.
I see, so it's akin to a breach of contract your second scenario. How is this controversial then?
That's not realistic. It will never be profitable.
Looks awesome! Will definitely check it out.
We had specific guidance to not have cameras on because of the bandwidth load on the VPN. For cost reasons, they've also turned off access from the 800 number to dial in to meetings.
It's not only about the mathematical factor. It's about which usecases are possible.
> Running an “old” computer is definitely not “learn the internal of Linux” as you seem to imply.

Running Linux involves learning Linux, which is really hard work unless you have the steep part of that learning curve behind you, or really enjoy this sort of thing. The vast majority of people don't enjoy this. Less-than-optimal hardware choices make running Linux another order of magnitude harder. That's takes a lot of time that could be spent with kids, friends, hobbies, work ...

> I say that it should be a choice you can make.

Which it is. Get a Dell or a Thinkpad with good Linux support, or pretty much any desktop PC with decent components and run Linux. Probably will be a bit rough, Linux on desktop seemingly always is, and you need to be able to do that or climb up that learning curve, but it'll work till the hardware physically gives out in a place that can't be repaired. If you do this, there is a lot more choice than in all closed ecosystems combined.

However, the vast majority of people apparently opt for closed or semi-closed ecosystems that give them a device that works and the apps and services they want, with as little hassle as possible. I'm like that with a lot of things, too; that Macbook just works and Spotify is fantastic. Trading lower costs and a very specific kind of (for most, relatively abstract) freedom for convenience and much lower time invest doesn't strike me as less valid a choice than yours. There are only so many hours in a day and years in a life.
Cloudflare Workers are effectively useful for WebAssembly
Actually I miss Access the most. As an Excel replacement it has what I need to do my taxes and to set up voting sheets and schedules for conferences.
Linux kernel in-tree Rust support
I can’t speak for Ocaml, but in Elm, an if expression as well as a function must return the same type. Therefore the code you posted would be invalid.
It doesn’t have to be the thief that lost it.
And how about the psychological effects on these people of being bullied by a large group of people online?

I don’t know what I’d do if it happened to me, but I know it would leave me in an even worse state mentally than I am in, because I know how it feels like to feel that other people don’t want you around.
> Which ideals? The ideal that speech should be free from criticism is self-contradictory.

The ideal that we don't try to suppress speech we disagree with, but rather we encourage it to debate it.

> Criticism itself is speech, and so the claim that speech should be free from criticism is itself a condemnation of forms of speech.

You're confusing an idea with its expression. There's no inconsistency between free speech ideals and criticizing the idea that speech should be restricted. However, it would be inconsistent to suggest that someone oughtn't express that idea and especially to try to actively prevent someone from expressing it. In other words, anyone welcome to express a belief that censorship is a good thing, but I'm not violating free speech ideals by expressing disagreeing with them; quite the opposite!

> joshuamorton 25 minutes ago | parent | on: Blog Anonymously

Which ideals? The ideal that speech should be free from criticism is self-contradictory. Criticism itself is speech, and so the claim that speech should be free from criticism is itself a condemnation of forms of speech.

All we can settle for is that no speech is unlawful. Because of that, I don't claim to support any particular "ideal of free speech". None of them are resolvable without contradiction.

> I don't believe I've seen anyone fired solely for their abstract support for free expression. Care to give examples.

You misunderstood my post. I was certainly not arguing that anyone has been fired for expressing abstract support for free speech. Rather, I was saying criticizing the idea of restricting speech is not inconsistent with free speech ideals, but rather trying to stop someone from expressing their desire for speech restrictions (and especially by trying to get them fired) would be inconsistent with free speech ideals. However, no one is trying to stop anyone from expressing their preferences for speech restrictions and certainly no one is trying to get anyone fired for expressing those preferences.
Dude, go visit the Pine Ridge Reservation and then come back here and say "prople today are generally not limited by the historical context from which they come.

Or the Standing Rock reservation, or ...
Ok, let’s test that. So how do you decide if someone on a forum who you have never met has either:

1) listened with empathy, but still disagrees

2) ignored your argument, but replied with the same answer.

You cannot. So its just a linguistic device to bully other people in a conversation until they agree with you.
“has been” isn’t the case, it was removed in Windows 8. It worked on some Windows 7 variants though, with a separate download of tools.
It's so interesting that we've arrived in a state where people, for good reason, cannot trust "their" devices in the slightest. On the computer where you do all your online banking or taxes or whatever, you don't feel safe without sticking something over the camera.

Makes me very proud to support Purism laptops with their camera/microphone hardware killswitches and FOSS software (I know FOSS is not the same as secure, but at least incentives are aligned). On desktop I use FOSS software and physically plug in a webcam for meetings.
Unless that world is itself the profit
Not so simple. Kind of hard to run a farm and grow your food when "land belongs to all". And who'd be stupid enough to put up a building on land they don't own?
"Social Anxiety: People worry about other team members’ views of their ideas."

One way of dealing with this problem is to do Anonymous Brainstorming https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=2579

The idea, in a nutshell, is that there is a facilitator. The members of the team do not meet in person. They send their ideas to the facilitator, who aggregates the ideas and sends the complete list out to the members of the team. This is intended to remove the social effects that might interfere with some of the team members participating fully, or other members dominating the process because of their perceived position in the hierarchy, or their better social skills.

An advanced version of this involves rounds; everybody sends their ideas to the facilitator, the complete list goes out to everybody, the members critique or support some of the ideas,
the facilitator adds the new input and sends the revised list back out to the team, and the process repeats (presumably until there is some agreement on the best idea(s), or everybody gets tired if doing it).

My recollection is that this process can be very effective at problem solving, but it certainly isn't as quick as getting a bunch of people in a room to hash out some ideas.
If one wants to get technical, there's already a pretty rich agreed upon vocabulary for cash aid, including CCT (Conditional Cash Transfer), UCT (Unconditional Cash Transfer), BI (Basic Income), UBI (Universal Basic Income).
Why do enterprises even initiate conversations with third parties if they won't immediately give you a price? Just move on to someone who will. If your options are $10,000 or <price unknown> its obvious option #2 will be more.

If businesses categorically rejected working with companies that can't provide up-front estimates, they wouldn't be a thing.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23789853.