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> Sorry for the snarky comment but that you can clearly see the promoted KRunner search box flickering and reflowing in the promotional video is exemplary for the quality differences between mac, windows and linux desktop environments.

You don't need to be sorry, just give me slme freedom when I answer, I'm not tryingnto be snarky but to explain something extremely important :-)

I used Mac for three years. In my opinion it had some extremely weird behavior by default (CMD-tab couldn't switch between instances and to make matters worse there is no configuration option or tool you can use to get sane behaviour.) And bugs:

- opening a dialog in one browser window would lock all windows from that browser. Good luck looking up the documentation for where the files you are supposed to upload are without either closing the upload dialog or opening a different browser.

- keyboard shortcuts vary wildly between apps: In one app CMD - Shift - leftarrow selects tobthe start of the line. In Safari however it meant go back. Guess how I still know after 8 years. Yes, filling out forms and losing everything because I wanted to select a lkne of text.

Windows also often used to drive me mad. It is better now but the performance tax when compiling is still 30%! And even their own dotnet applications use 3 seconds to start on their OS vs 127 ms or something in a virtual Linux machine on top if that Windows box.

Crazy bad performance and latency issues and insane keyboard shortcuts are UX problems just as well as flickering and reflowing.

KDE isn't worse. Just different. For some of us it has already been the least annoying option for years already.
> A nanometre is one billionth of a metre. That's roughly the speed a human hair grows every second.

That’s a great fact to impress friends and family with.
What is the source? Mainly are we talking about cash or are we talking about money created by banks via credit?
They say here (from within the past 15 mins):

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/10/13/210785...

> Verizon 5G Nationwide service is available today to more than 200 million people in 1,800 cities around the US.

I'm sure there's some trickery going on here, though?
The charging cable does not really last very long. I need 3/4 charging cables in different places. I actually bought a few third party charging cables/charging pad as well.
Making things right 100% of the time costs a ton. Sometimes the business is willing to pay: something related to money or legal compliance, the serious stuff.

Sometimes it's cheaper to have things work, say, 90% of time, and maybe manually fix some stuff when badly needed, on a best-effort basis. Often it's the only viable way. Usually, if there's no written contract, best-effort is the only treatment you can expect. (Even Google's support is said to be much better for paid users.)
I would even say that simply knowing which things are essential and which are "legacy things for backwards compatibility that most people don't need to know about" is nontrivial, and I'm not even sure that there is substantial consensus among the C++ community about exactly what is in the "legacy/compatibility things" bucket (no doubt there's wide spread agreement that some features are in this bucket, but I imagine there are a lot of features that are controversial).
It's very difficult for a corporation to measure changes in employee or team productivity in many white collar professions ..specifically software development.

I personally don't know of any large corporations that track it well enough on a corporation wide level to be able to tell you if any change significantly affected developer productivity.

But the check they write every month for rent is very easily measured and reduced.

Also I was specifically told by the VP who was in charge of making the decision for his division why he was doing it, and it was costs savings.
Alternatively, it might turn out to be a pretty good counterbalance to China's tampering with their money supply to keep the yuan artificially much cheaper than it would be in a free market.
I'm admittedly new to this but there is mention that the supply should double every 10 years, which it looks like it hasn't (or just right at), are we playing catch up?

Is the 10 year from an inflation target?

2004 - 2014 was an 80% growth.

2001 - 2011 was 60% growth

2011 it was 9600, today it is around 18k, seems like we're on track to 2021 and playing catchup.

What am I not understanding?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
Japanese uses an alternate simplification (麺) for the sense of noodles, and doesn't merge it with 面. Generally you wouldn't expect Japanese person to have exceptional difficulty recognizing 拉麺, though.
I honestly can't wait to buy it. I'm so tired of my 6.7" phone.
Is no one going to talk about the heath risks of 5G radiation and we will eat up their and Verizon's marketing?
> I suppose that means if a photon, say, is reflected by a mirror, that should collapse its waveform and any measurements after that should not have any effect on it?

I'm not sure if that example is the right one to use, but yes, that's roughly my understanding.
Here's an alternative: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/the-ballooning-money-supply-...
At least they didn't tell us how courageous it was
I mean it helps them lose new first time customers and lose previous customers as well (once you're off the wagon, you're off). I'm all for this.
Probably to allow more people to use existing charging cables, and accessories, as a way to limit e-waste.

I dunno if I buy that rationale, but they certainly were touting e-waste as the reason for omitting the pack-ins.
That was actually much more substantial of an upgrade than I previously anticipated. The stronger glass, MagSafe being able to stick your phone magnetically to surfaces, and the Dolby Vision HDR recording are what really got me. Not so much 5G.
Just imagine if they used a standard connector on the phone...

They could also eliminate the USB to Lightning cable that comes with it. Think of the environmental benefits to being able to share a cable with other devices.

How many millions of USB -> Lightning cables are they still going to be manufacturing, because they want to use Lightning for whatever reason.
Odd note,the amount of wealth on display in their demonstration home was astounding. Then again just the amount displayed across portions of the Apple campus and the cost to create such an event.

The Western world talk about distribution of wealth among the wealthiest and poorest people always tend to overlook how the people of the Western world of are of the first category and those in the later see no difference in a billionaire or other member of the same.
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70,000 city here. 5G pole went up outside my window last week. Tried to get the pole moved but not successful :(
Oh! Oh! Oh! I want to play. The Palm Pre had a magnets to align wireless charging 11 years ago.
So I see lots of comments about certain defaults or options some people would like to see in the blank, not customized KDE.

But here's the thing, many defaults are just choices made by some dev, designer.

In KDE many options have nothing to do with the MacOS or Gnome defaults, even more, the defaults have been choosed specifically to avoid a known behavior or default in MacOS or Gnome

Luckily for everyone, KDE has so many customization options that you can make it work like almost any GUI you know, the popular one is of course MacOS aesthetics, but some guys like to configure it to behave just like Windows 10.

You could also create your own kind of GUI, nothing like any other GUI available.

The lesson is, in KDE most defaults can be changed, and that's mostly why it still exists as a software project probably.
People keep predicting inflation, but it remains stubbornly below the Fed's target rate of 2%, which is itself low compared to 20th century averages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Consumer_Price_I...
Apple’s product pages are pretty cool and definitely clean in terms of visual assets and copy, but the usability is brutal.

Seems like it started with the AirPods page and will likely continue.

Would much rather have a page that is as clean but less scroll effects.
_That_ party? Those are wedge issues specifically because they apply to both parties.

> fear

"LGBTQ lives are at risk" vs. "rioters are burning down our cities"

> racism

"systemic racism is a problem" vs "critical race theory is a problem"

> abortion, guns

self explanatory.
Given that the lineup has almost the same price as last year's models, they probably are.
In theory yes, but empirical evidence form the past decade has shown usd money supply quadruple while inflation has easily been at target every year.
Apple is tearing me apart between Mini’s size and Pro Max camera.
Still no headphone jack :(
Good for you. Then you can set the taskbar to not group applications :-)
They’re still including a cable in the box, but not a power adapter. Seems ok given the adapters don’t really wear out, but having another lightning to USBC cable never hurts.
I've done some experimental setups using hypercubic routing and algorithms inspired by 80s supercomputer designs from the nCUBE corporation, and the 'spawngrid' is a lighter-weight plan 9 take on containerized service architecture, so I'd say the answer is yes.
No matter how much they tout the video and picture quality, it's still behind DSLR and pro's can't use it until it beats DSLR at it's own game. LIDAR was interesting but I only see very limited use case for it.
MagSafe for iPhone
It's the annual incremental improvement, and many will like the smaller form factor too I'm guessing.

But the whole 5G hype is lost on me. Specifically, none of the carriers or handset makers are telling me how much the data will cost. Maybe I'm a little price-focused, but that determines for me whether I'm excited about it.

If I'm just burning through my existing data limit faster, what's the point? What's the pricing of this new data capability?
They have to bite the bullet at some point
Apple makes the best phones hands down but my only problem is with iOS. Granted it's been more and more "Androidesque" as of late but still.
I agree. I think it will sell like hotcakes.

I use an iPod Touch (smaller than the Mini) as my "low-end" test device.

Whenever I'm using it, I feel envious, as my regular phone is an XSMax.
Of course, that's why they own as much of the phone development supply chain as they can and costs of phones dropped to $1000+ for consumers!
If you are interested in rallying the base then go ahead and mock like late night comedians, but if you want to have a discussion with someone who may not be wearing the same jersey as you then you may want to be more precise.
Presumably https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/current/default.h... is the source for the claim posted. Shows a 12 month increase in M2 of 23.3 percent.
...looks like iPhone 5
Turning off JS revealed practically the same website, but go on.
This was written in 2015. What's worse logic: his code or HN thinking that shit talking him five years later in a forum we don't even know if he sees is constructive?
Doesn't that depend on thing like foreign trade volume and long term demand abroad for US Dollars? I wouldn't suggest that we keep printing money at this pace, but it seems like for the moment there's more than enough appetite for the Dollar and it's trading fairly strongly against other currencies.
Very powerful upgrade. You could use this latest iPhone to control a spacecraft that takes you to the lunar surface and back.
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It felt more like Verizon 5G event than Apple event.

I wonder how much they paid Apple for this?
If you do the experient with an entangled source and two Stern Gerlach detectors oriented the same way it's not so interesting a bit like the marbles in envelopes - either they both red of green. The interesting bit is if you rotate them a bit the correlation varies like cos(the angle) between them. So correlation 1 at 0 degrees, 0 at 90 degrees, -1 at 180 degrees and about 0.98 at 10 degrees. But how does nature or whatever know the angle between them when they are far apart? In most 'hidden variables' scenarios the correlation at 10 degrees is more like 0.89 or a linear change and that is basically the essence of Bell's theorem and experiments - you can't get the correlations without the particle at one end kind of knowing the set up at the other, or 'non locality' as Bell called it.
My current folk wisdom is that only three things reduce automobile vs cyclist incidents.

More cyclist means less incidents (per capita). Something about safety in numbers and culture adjusting to new reality.

More mom cyclists. Something about perception management, where hard core cyclists trigger resentment and mom cyclists gets automobilists to calm down.

Set asides for cyclists. The Dutch model. I haven't experienced it, so take with salt grains. The half measures in my city may have helped, but mostly they still suck. Too many "railroad crossings", broken continuity.
The lifting body idea is interesting, shape it so that it's got a flat side that self orientates (basically like an uncontrolled shuttle) and 'glide' (if you can call mach 1 gliding) it in, neat. You'd want to be very sure it was going to come down where you expected or you might affect rental prices.
The newest Surface Pro X
>Uh, both Japan and Chinese use different simplified glyphs.

Wrong. Though there are divergences, Chinese in mainland China use simplified Chinese characters (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_character...).

Kanji is more closely related to the traditional Chinese characters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#Local_developments_and_d...) than the mainland simplification.

>I would be surprised if you indeed learned the traditional characters while learning Japanese.

Kanji is closer related, or exactly the same as traditional Chinese characters (used in HK, Taiwan, etc.) than simplified.
The rule of thumb when it comes to sizing gaming audiences is:

- Mobile: Billions

- Console: 100s of millions

- PC: 10s of millions

In other words, a decent mobile game (not Fortnite or LoL, but something like Among Us) can get 100s of millions of users, a good console game can sells 10s of millions of copies and a PC game can sell millions of copies.
The most disappointing aspect to me is that the difference between the Pro and the Pro Max is no longer just the size. I'm quite fond of the size of my 11 Pro and I don't really want to be upsold to the Pro Max if I want the best.
They seem to be the only company making a small flagship phone.

Ever since the Sony mini phones stopped getting updates I lost hope.
I stopped buying all lightning cables when I got an anker wireless charging stand.
> There's a famous paper by Dijkstra where he claims that using anthropomorphic terms for computers is a sign of immaturity of the discipline.

If you take the word "computer" out of the sentence this statement is likely backwards. Putting the word computer back in doesn't change that.

Look, for example, at Dennett's seminal book, "The Intentional Stance" for a philosophical discussion of the expressive and reasoning power behind statements like "The thermostat tries to keep the temperature at 60 degrees".
managment does this explicitly to exert control over engineers; I have seen this at least twice in several decades
> arent as durable

I've heard a lot of opinions about iPhone charging cables, but
"durable" was usually not the common description.

Solid charging cables will probably outlast multiple cables that
come with phones in the box and often have warranties longer
than any you get from Apple by default.

Also I have at least 5 USB charging cables lying around here and
not a single one has died so far. It is undoubtedly better for
the environment if I can just keep using them for 5+ more years
instead of getting a new one with every electronic product.
like that crazy machine they had that disassembled an iphone but probably was made for the video not to exist in recycling factories, like soldering ram to logic board, like when they decided to stop having white macbooks... To me it sounds just marketing. Apple, take measures to improve repairability, produce replacement parts for longer periods and allow upgrades to existing hardware if you want to be green.
None of the carriers or handset makers are telling me how much the data will cost. Maybe I'm a little price-focused, but that determines for me whether I'm excited about it.

If I'm just burning through my existing data limit faster, what's the point? What's the pricing of this new data capability?
>"A relatively small number of organizations in a few specific industries actually realize the full benefit of unlimited storage. "

I love statements like the above, coming from a Google spokesperson.

It basically implies "even though you are a customer but because you are small we don't care about your needs, even if it most customers like you don't utilize unlimited storage so it doesn't really cost us anything, but we want to make more money from you anyway".
Most of your points are not relevant to my original statement of the code being generic - they are talking more about the architectural decisions. If I want to use DynamoDB I can do so in EC2 or Lambda, serverless doesn't dictate that. You also seem to believe one chooses Lambda because of complexity reduction and that's not really the only reason. I can very easily port a node/express API backend that connect to RDS to any other cloud provider. What about serverless makes you think that's not the case?
I think you're hinting at the fact that all language acquisition ultimately boils down to vocab acquisition for the long tail to mastery.

As for why people complain about vocab, it's probably because the dropout rate for language learning is huge (look at the completion rates on duolingo or popularity of beginner resources vs intermmediate vs advanced). By the numbers I suspect most learners are struggling with grammar, and most will drop out before "finishing" with grammar and being left with the long tail of vocab.
LIDAR: Cheap enough for a $999 phone but too expensive for a $35,000 car.
True. MagSafe is what got me. Apple is genius in how they keep pushing accessories part of the ecosystem.
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Wow, the mini is only 7.7mm larger than the 2016 iPhone SE. Apple actually listened and made new powerful compact sized iPhone.

Too bad i recently dropped my 2016 SE and got the new SE which sucks..
In the past I've heard it called a "Beard second" :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard-second
Really? Still? Let me break it to you. THERE WILL NEVER AGAIN BE A HEADPHONE JACK.
it is hard at times to determine if the background you see is computer generated or not. I am not sure that difficult in distinction is a good trend
Lots of YouTube channels and forums quote this but I can't see a mainstream news or government or tier 1 bank mention it...
Wireless charging... Now with a bulky connector that attaches itself to the phone using magnets!

Did we just innovate ourselves all the way back to Magsafe that laptops (used to) have since 2006?
Pretty minor improvements over the 11 or even the XS. I think I'll sit this one out.
I’d stop holding my breath for that, considering they are even removing the Lightning headphones from the box.
I hope this will finally stop iPhones from shattering so easily.

I remember a few years ago my iPhone 7 screen shattered while in my pocket, and just 2 days after the 1 year warranty had ended. I've never been so mad as when the "Genius" assistant told me the metal frame just sometimes bent and caused the screen to break. Seems this couldn't happen with ceramic.
I'm pretty sure lots of people will accept their phone to be 5mm thicker to allow more room for a bigger battery.
Did you also notice that everyone wears white shoes when on that auditorium stage? I wonder how many other dress code-related tips or requirements every presenter is given?
Torvalds' Just For Fun really inspired me. You should be having fun doing it.

Of course, fun is definitely relative. But, I believe that hacker-geeks find lots of fun building stuff.

In fact, I'll be bold enough to propose that if someone is having trouble with a side project, they might not be having enough fun doing it for it to be justifiable, and may need to do some soul-searching to find out whether they should continue with it.
There are many people using static site generators like Hugo to output clean HTML like you describe. I find Hugo’s approach to static sites produces much cleaner/smaller HTML than Next.js or Gatsby because you’re in the mindset of thinking about the direct output of the templating language as opposed to JSX syntax which abstracts away the raw HTML.

It’s perfect for personal sites, landing pages, documentation, etc.
How close are Turkish and Japanese? I know there is a proposed "Altaic language family"[1], but I'd love to hear the perspective of someone who actually knows two such languages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages
Hmm, yep, could be.

Although I personally feel it may just be innate appreciation or love of the craft. It's interesting to compare Stripe with other providers such as PayPal, AWS/Amazon, Square. AWS is (and has been) focussed on selling to developers, startups to massive companies. Yet, their product pages aren't as slick as Stripe's. They built out their product with the ethos from the Retail side -- frugality, ship fast & often etc. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No, you should install the plugin as it will bring your site up to a good base level of SEO quality - you’ll still need to fill out texts and images but the plugin will tell you where and what you need.

Generating backlinks is a skill you can aquire, but devs tend to sneer at it since a) it looks a lot like sales and b) there A LOT of shady practices
We’re 15 years into the smartphone revolution now. I think people have enough wall plugs and cables by now.
I just moved to Ballard, and we have a few homeless encampments (the closest one to me is at Ballard park). I'm really surprised in how bad it isn't here: the residents are mostly well behaved and don't leave needles or anything like that hanging around (and they don't poop on the streets since the city installed a bunch of portable toilets). It is still kind of a bummer, but it is far from a deal breaking nuisance.
The iPhone SE has a devoted following because of its size. There is a huge market for people with smaller hands.

I was hoping for the headphone jack to make a comeback but I think that’s a lost cause at this point
"Across the iPhone family, we’re removing the power adapter and EarPods that often go unused, but including the fast-charging USB‑C to Lightning cable that most people need."

Ouch. Do most people really not use the power adapter?
Of note: the iPhone 12 mini appears to be slightly smaller and lighter than the (current) iPhone SE (2), so is basically the phone those of us who prefer phone-sized phones have been asking for for years. The price differential of $300 seems reasonable (in Apple-adjusted numbers); if I hadn't bought an SE this past month (unfortunate toddler-related water incident!) then I'd be right in there.
Here is the comparison between various news models : https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
These days almost everyone is buying AirPods to go with their new phone, or using the nice headphones they already have. While I’m sure there are still some people who are brand new to iPhone, at this point the market is so saturated that the large majority already have multiple chargers and headphones sitting around.
I was a bit surprised on how much time they spent on the camera tech. I didn't time it, but it felt like they spent more time on the camera than things like 5G?
In Switzerland the 12 Mini is available from the 6th Nov, and the normal from the 16th of October. Bummer.
still Lightning connector

where is usb-c as in macbook pro(s) and ipad(s)