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On new Macs the T2 processor should really bring down the overhead of this to basically zero. Perhaps you should try turning it on and seeing how it goes (although if you really care about security, it might not work all that well right now).
no delete key? what is their problem?
Context (Late-night interview link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JgG0ECp2U

The lottery analogy is quite accurate, yes.
> not having a sandbox is less of a problem when you run FLOSS (in the context of PPAs that's relevant i think)

I disagree. Source auditing is irrelevant for day-to-day software use.
FWIW, TechniSat in Germany still produces dumb smart TVs with recording but without the data grabbing.
> what makes paul stick to old plain website?

It requires no effort to stick with HTTP. Yes, it's not rocket science to use HTTPS, but it requires a non-zero amount of time to enable it. He probably has better things to do with his time.

Besides, it's his personal website... He can do whatever he wants with it.
You have Intel to blame here. The ARM MacBooks will change everything.
You should get your work computer fixed / replaced asap. It's not acceptable to use a crashing computer.
Looking forward to the release, and will definitely get a copy!
Form over function any day. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/25/13409258/...
> There's this Illusion in public that what the public sees is the directors initial vision. But largely it's the work of hundreds of people, morphing over time to try and find what will be right.

Critics can have this illusion, too: Auteur theory posits that films have an author, that author being the director, and you can see that director's style manifest in the films they make. Sometimes, sure, this is obvious: Hitchcock, Kubrick, Tarantino... they all made or make films with a distinctive stamp on them.

Where this theory runs aground is where your comment comes in, filmmaking as a collaborative process. Citizen Kane was, for example, definitely a collaboration among at least three people: Welles, Mankiewicz, and Toland, the director, screenwriter, and cinematographer, respectively. They each contributed to the film as a finished product, a thing of words and images.

And then there's the failure of the auteur: Ed Wood, Tommy Wiseau, people who had creative control through working outside the Hollywood system and, frankly, blew it. Plan 9 From Outer Space might be the Citizen Kane of laughably bad science fiction films, but it's not the Citizen Kane of films. To make a baseball analogy, Wood tried hard, had plenty of heart, got up there, swung for the fences... and spun around like a top a few times before landing flat on his face, never even whiffing the ball. There's a reason Burton made a sensitive film about him and his efforts.
> Engineers avoid work that needs doing because they’re afraid of becoming entangled with a nightmarish task

not most engineers I know; they need to make money and will just do whatever to make that money.
Is the Life of a Programmer Lonely?
SSL (well, TLS now) serves three purposes.

1. Ensuring you are getting the information the website author intends for you to get. i.e. data can’t be manipulated in transit.

2. Ensuring the information you are getting is in fact coming from the domain you are requesting it from.

3. Preventing others between you and the website from seeing the information sent back and forth.

I think you questioned the need for TLS here assuming 3 was the only purpose of TLS?
Another small C compiler by the same author: https://github.com/rui314/8cc
Agreed. Serialization is not really possible with this tool, due to the following:

> A key that requires quoting must not contain both single and double quote characters.

You can't really serialize user data with that restriction.
OMG this is funny :D I wasn't aware about this, thnx. Looks like it's a thing and the company can even skyrocket in the near future! I only read the about us section there.

I also noticed they pronounce the name differently. Actually, igel is a german word and is pronounced "Eagle" but they pronounce it as I-jeel
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Not all styli have erasers, but a very substantial fraction do. Detecting it is a basic operation when you’re using the Pointer Events API (event.button == 5 and event.buttons &== 32). I use not supporting this as a proxy for other basic errors of implementation, such as using mouse events instead of pointer events. This is why I say it’s a very bad sign. It’s a simple thing that I can point at and say, “this thing is half-baked; they have very probably done a bad job”, without needing to go through a larger battery of comparative and subjective tests.
Which functional programming languages have managed to build a solid user base?

What language would you recommend to someone trying to get into FP? I was considering Haskell but don't know enough about the ecosystem to make an educated choice for the language.
This supposed "biggest problem" doesn't actually exist. Lists of dictionaries work fine, and I don't see any reason they wouldn't be useful for configs either. Maybe you should actually try it before dismissing it so shallowly?

This:

list of dicts:
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key 1: Hi
key 2: there!
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key 1: I'm a list
key 2: of dicts!

parses as

{'list of dicts': [{'key 1': 'Hi', 'key 2': 'there!'}, {'key 1': "I'm a list", 'key 2': 'of dicts!'}]}
I can tell you that it's not about knowing my colors, the colors of the apples you linked look as different as white vs black to me. And they would look just as distinct even if I didn't know my colors.
It's always good to be wary, but so far it seems that most studies in this area are in agreement, and that this phenomenon isn't specific to language, it seems to be the same for musicians.

So in theory you could potentially realize similar benefits without learning another spoken language.
Lightroom is the same on Windows. Those issues are a Lightroom problem not a Mac problem.
Delete = Fn+Backspace.
> Bluetooth · It’s lame

If you think Bluetooth is lame on MacBooks try even activating BT on Intel NUC, Dell Latitude, etc.

If I had to pick few strong arguments against MacBooks these would be miserable memory options for both RAM and hard drive, and overall extortionist prices in Europe.
>It turns out you can't formalize anything that doesn't have proofs -- in other words, it basically only works for what we'd call "mathematics" or "pure logic". You can't formalize literally anything else in philosophy, at all.

What do you mean by "doesn't have proofs" here? It's demonstrably possible to develop a formalised philosophy: see Spinoza's Ethics for an example. It's impossible to prove that one formalisation is more "correct", but the same applies to mathematics, via Gödel's second incompleteness theorem.

>The regress argument has nothing to do with ethics in particular. It applies just as much to any non-proof area of study, including all of science, history, and even ordinary observations and recollections.

It also applies to maths in the form that a system cannot prove its own consistency. Yet that doesn't stop us formally analysing, comparing and making use of different mathematical systems.
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I'm about to upgrade my old 2012 MR Pro this year and with the recent Pro negativity am now unsure if I should go Pro again or just get the latest gen Air - seems that the processor is the same, I'd go 13 inch anyway, memory/hd I can upgrade to levels I'm comfortable with and don't need the Touch Bar. Is the graphics card a lot slower/unusable if I fire up Creative Cloud Apps just every once in a while? I do use it like 10 hours per day - but 0 gaming, just coding/design mostly with an external screen..

Anyone else thinking about this? Is the Pro worth it over Air?
How so. Can you provide some concrete examples?
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In all seriousness, given that "good chunk of the influential people have gone through the same few schools, socialize in the same circles, etc" how come that "things are rigged and that competitors at higher levels know each other personally because even their kids attend the same schools" is seen as conspiracy theory and "fair meritocracy" interpretation is seen as self evident not requiring any evidence?

It is not just top. Pretty much everyone have seen how this or that incapable person comes the ranks or how someone got leadership because he is son of the right person. Right person can be owner, or is not like it would be even illegal. Even the president is someone like that, someone whose achievements are all build on lies and excessive benefit of doubt due to his family of origin. The advisor is guy exactly like that too.

But somehow, telling that this is how things work is still conspiracy theory.
What kind of values are [<whitespace>a] and [a<whitespace>] supposed to be? They look like typical YAML syntax traps to me.

Why should JSON never be used for configuration? It is sufficient for declaratively expressing anything I have encountered. Do we really need references or other stuff from YAML? For configuration this seems unnessecary, provided that the program, which interprets the result of parsing the JSON is well written.
That is an interesting thought. Perhaps it is possible to arrange a type of nested structuring when this is needed. Like a CSV inside a value. C for "control code separated" of course :-)

Very thought inducing... I think the main impediment is that these characters are not visible and not so easy to type. If they were, we might not have got the number of CSV variants that have evolved.
$2,447 per VM?

That sounds very high, wouldn't it be cheaper to hire a sysops to handle this if you have many hosts?

I get that this is aimed at enterprise, but still sounds exorbitant.
I also agree with the first 2, BT is inconsistent, i hate the keyboard and i would easily switch it with my MBP 2014 one. Screen is fine for me, and it overheats so much that does not have this cold metal feel. :D

In general i can live with the all the aforementioned, but i hated the previous 2 year period with the random Wifi disconnection issues; it sometimes made my work unbearable.

Hence, i would say that the biggest issue with MBPs is the deterioration in apple software.
How is that useful?
Real af, that's the Carlo Collodi story I remember. I don't know if Tolstoy's буратино was any more saccharine, but it's doubtful. Fairy tales as recorded by the Grimms are also generally dark (and folk songs generally filthy).

Thomas Bowdler, LRCP, FRS (an inspiration for Orwell's crimestop?) was an english bowlderiser who flipped up Antony+Cleopatra, among other plays, which causes one to wonder what that melonfarmer did with lines like:

"She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed:
He plough'd her, and she cropp'd."

Bonus script: https://web.mit.edu/johanna/Public/skinhead.hamlet
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I do this all the time. Sometimes I even send in patches too.
the 16" has 3072x1920 whereas the 15" 2014 had 2880x1800 - so maybe driving 23k extra pixels is a problem!

Seriously thou, mine does struggle when driving the retina display and a 4k especially with games refreshing at 50+ fps.

I have had blutooth struggles too - until I bought a Bose head set, which works perfectly with the macbook all the time and even displays great range and resilience to things like walls. The magic keypad and trackpad have always worked perfectly - conclusion 3rd party protocols and chipsets can be crap.

Touchbar/control strip is brilliant, especially for powerpoint, the extra preview is perfect.
I will die on this hill with you.

I would also add that we should be striving to release uncompiled JavaScript, since it is more auditable, more debuggable, and is naturally distributed. Dev dependencies are often basically compilers (Babel, React, TypeScript, Angular, etc), and JS compilers should be avoided if possible.
What essay/article/book drastically changed your view of topics you care about?
The base argument here is that if agencies can arrange deals with management to enrich the agent for millions, but the agent claims they cannot get a few extra dollars for the agents actual client, then things are broken

sounds fair, but also sounds like a lot of similar situations across different industries - which for all intents and purposes can be called "lack of trade union".

It's going to be a long road.
I switched from a MacBook to ThinkPad T480 with Archlinux and it's the best decision I've ever done in my software development career. I don't understand the obsession for macs as a developer machine when every year macOS just keeps getting heavier and slower with unnecessary translucency and animations and less reliable hardware. My colleague had to send his mac in twice already for keyboard and speaker repair on a fairly new mac. Not to mention some ThinkPads are a fraction of the cost and upgradable.
What goes up must come down in the equilibrium. The more amphetamine salts you take the harsher the crash and withdrawal.
The 2012-2015 processors were just fine, did new ones get any slower? Nope.

Blame Apple for being so obsessed with thinness over cooling requirements.
Well, no. Anti-vaxxers are for example primarily liberal, because they believe that it’s the establishment that is trying to control them.

Vaccination is actually a pretty conservative option politically.
Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit
How do promotions work? ie buy Google pixel 5 and free bose qc 22
I've noticed this promotion on google store the other day. They offers is as follows: buy a Pixel 4/4a (5g) and get Bose QuietComfort Series 2 for free. OK. Great. Seems like a good deal.

I've read through the T&Cs and found that the promotion is done via partner - Opia (https://www.opia.com/). What they do is provide smart promotions to drive volume and
maximise future value. After reading a bit on their website, I found this:

"By meticulously analysing customer behaviour in your market, we will source gifts that are highly regarded by your target audience but offer a low cost to your business."

I'm struggling to understand how come Bose QuietComfort 2s (~220GBP RRP) is a "low cost to your business"
I have an even stupider question: How do I have a key with a colon at the end?

this:: right
this: left

Will my program be able to tell its right from its left?
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2021 is the year of the Windows laptop.

Take the new Ryzen 4800 series, bolt it on a sub-1000 dollar Asus laptop and put on Windows-Subsystem-Linux 2 (WSL2), you get native Linux development on a laptop that can play high res games.
Apple were interested in making sleeker machines not faster machines.

They went so overboard that yes while the CPUs, SSDs and RAM are all faster the overall machines don’t feel faster in general use and yes do feel buggy.

Apple had to admit an embarrassing mistake with the MacPro fiasco, then another one with the keyboard. Eventually they’ll fess up to screwing up the MBP and MacOS itself.
> Lot of negative feelings towards the latest generation of macbook pros lately...

This has been true for decades. Every time a new lineup is released, Hacker News declares this to be the last straw.
> Why does it try to pretend like there is no filesystem?

I've seen this complaint before from Windows users interacting with Finder, but I've never understood where it is coming from.

Aside from the "Recents" tab, everything is organized into files and folders, just like any other file system explorer. The sidebar is mostly shortcuts to different folders, and I always navigate down in a nested folder hierarchy to find my files.

Is it that the "Recents" tab is the default view that gives this impression?
“It’s still the best general-purpose computer user experience available from anyone, but I see little evidence that anyone with their hands on the steering wheel understands why the good parts are good.“

I like the Mac platform and still prefer it over the alternatives, but this sentence really sums up my thoughts about the development of macOS.
So an immigrant cannot be as informed as a "native" based only on the fact that they were not born there? What sort of claim is this?
I've been doing this for a while now and I just can't get anything done if such anxiety takes over, although I'm a junior developer I'm often found in situations to make decisions like a senior dev.
And I don't know what to do about it, which makes it worse.
1. Does anything use org-mode for data files (other than Emacs and things trying to be compatible)?

2. The addresses are of course fake; the zip codes don't match either. Same with the phone numbers. "KateMcD@aol.com" may be real, but "margaret.hodge@uk.edu" isn't.
I don't know - that's why I think more funding is needed. Directing that funding against likely targets seems a sensible idea.

Until someone finds some bacterial or pathogen cause for Alzheimer's and dementia, funding should go on the "we don't use it we lose it" assumption. Yes there may be other factors of course, and given the surprise over stomach ulcers it's entirely possible the use it or lose it idea is wrong.

But science funding needs to be a smart money play not a scattergun.
I can definitely see many of the Simpson episodes being taken down within the next decade. Physical media will always matter for this reason
The problem with thinkpads is that they are even more expensive.

On the bright side, you can get them really cheap refurbished.
My work-mandated MacBooks have been the worst machines I've ever used.

Hardware aside, I honestly don't understand why anyone who writes software would write software on a closed source OS.

The excuse I most often hear is that "they have better things to do than mess with Linux configuration". That's a healthy viewpoint, for say, a scientist or an artist. But if a software developer does not like hacking around with software they are probably in the wrong career. In my opinion, giving up control over your most important tools for a bit of short term convenience is bad economics.
Yep, I would never confuse those two. And I can tell that the images on the “bottom” are somewhat different.
Why Europe Wins
It's funny that opening the activity monitor causes extra heating most of the times.
I had the same problem with my 2012 MBP constantly overheating until I recently opened it up and removed a pad of dust that had accumulated between each fan. There was no way for the hot air to escape anymore. Problem solved, I've not even heard the fans run once since.
I'm a Linux user. All I need are paths, and they're hidden.

Unfortunately I have to interact with finder when I want to use things like Firefox or Jetbrains IDEs.

You can't traverse the filesystem tree without descending and then reascending, and for complex paths it's impossible to know where you're going.

Finder is garbage at finding and exploring.
Standardization is much more important than perfection. This is a horrible idea.
So the logic is, because some incidents were far-right PR moves, therefore all incidents are?

This article says some incidents are antifa PR - shall we apply the same logic, and dismiss anything that makes the right look bad as antifa PR?
The author wrote Redis.
I'm genuinely curious what you hate about Finder. What makes you think it tries to pretend that there is no file system?

I personally love Miller Columns and the lack of them in any other file browser is one of many things keeping me from switching to Linux. Navigating my entire file system just with arrow keys feels like a breeze.

If I remember correctly, Windows 95 opened a new window for every folder you clicked on. I recall very messy desktops on being five levels deep.
I wish somebody could sell hackintosh-ready laptops in the form factor of 2012-2015 mbps, just with newer processors and USB-C. That’s it. I would buy 5 tomorrow.
These prices really seem to be aimed at the "those who can pay" market. What I'm surprised at is the 99.99% uptime - I thought given their foray into telecoms they'd be offering some very complex cluster-driven solution to go higher on uptime.

My guess is this is a way to commercialize their snap packages and auto updates (plus reboot-less kernel updates) in an market where the alternative would be to hire sysadmins, and therefore they benchmark their pricing on that basis. One VM is cheaper than your first sysadmin, then they're an approved supplier so you go back for more and more.
Cool and how do I delete the entire word in front of the cursor? On windows thats easy, control + delete. On Mac, somehow I never remember how to do it and end up deleting the entire line of text. It's just stupid.

Also, want to delete a file? Yeah that's going to be a different keystroke, the delete is only for text.

But wait, you'd think that surely you could just remap that little fingerprint key which does absolutely nothing when pressed? Nope, it's unmappable. :-)
I've had a 2017 TouchBar 15" model since it was brand new. Almost all of the issues listed in the article annoy me (particularly Bluetooth...)

Problems with the hardware:
- When I use any of the USB-C ports on the left to charge it, performance tanks... why? because for some reason it overheats when you do this and the CPU gets throttled.

- When I use a high-speed USB-C device (USB 3.1, Displayport, etc) in the ports on the left, the WiFi stops working. This always seems to get blamed on cheap cables, but this answer does not satisfy me.

- The TouchBar is awful in many ways, but the most fundemental failure is that it regularly doesn't detect key presses! I tap a key, I can see the "highlight" effect, but nothing happens.

My gripes with macOS:

- Performance when using an external monitor is pretty poor. When I have my Dell U2720Q connected, WindowServer starts using more CPU and the interface gets noticably sluggish.

- With the macbook having "the fastest SSD on a laptop" and APFS being "designed for SSDs", I expect some decent performance when dealing with disk IO. But particularly Archive utility is always very slow to extract files, and Finder always has a (small, but annoying) delay when listing folder contents.

- Updates take ages and are MASSIVE.
- The XCode 12 update, which I had to rush to download after apple released iOS 14 with no warning, was 11GB and took ages to download, and ages to extract and install.
- macOS minor updates also have large downloads and take between 30-60 minutes to install
Looks like the author has been using mac since 2014.

Pretty sure he will come back to MacBooks after using something else for a while.

MacBooks are considered one of the best not because they don't have any problems, but because they have the least amount of them.

I switched to Mac 2 years ago and not looking back. Even though I am using 2017MBP with garbage keyboard, I replaced it for free and can replace again for few more years so it's not even a problem.
I was imagining some kind of doorway device - but yeah, that's a really interesting approach.

Again, what is safe .. but it the infrastructure is there ...
I got my first windows laptop in 10 years last April, and I love it more than my last thre MacBooks. Some people will swear windows UX is terrible, but I’m a huge fan of Windows 10. The only thing I miss are a few apps, like OmniFocus and iMessage (since I still use iPhones).

It’s funny. At one time, the integration between iOS and OSX was a selling point. Now, with so much cloud support, OSX integration doesn’t matter. In some ways, Apple made decoupling from their ecosystem very easy.
For starters, I think in the Finder there is no way to see your current path, a file's path or to manipulate the path with the keyboard.
There is a common core of ethics , do unto others as you would be done by, and maybe a few more. These aren't universally accepted but they'll do.

You pick your axioms and go from there. Like mathematics. What's the problem?