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I agree. When I started my current job 6 years ago I choose the Mac because of the terminal. Then, when I could get the new Macbook Pro I stayed for Keynote (imho just the best tool for presentations) and Sketch (as an analyst I sometimes need to create dashboard mock-ups). Now I use Figma exclusively for that as I also use a Windows machine and sometimes a Linux one. Well Figma is usable on all of them and were it not for Keynote I would ditch the Mac totally.

In my agency Mac is there because of tradition from developers and designers. More and more developers jump ship to better hardware and use Windows with WLS2 or Linux. Designers tend to stay with the Mac even if they switch to Figma. Some years back it was PS -> Sketch. Now it is Sketch-> Figma massively for a year or so.
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In his essay in particular there's a ton of stuff that's just wrong.

Nancy Pelosi is not the mayor of SF for instance (or the DA, or on the state legislature), city policy is not her job or responsibility. There's more than just that - the essay is riddled with inaccuracies and confused misunderstandings the author dismisses by just saying 'they don't pay attention to politics'.

If I wrote an essay riddled with technical errors staking a position about technology and then dismissed details as 'I don't pay attention to maths' would that be similarly accepted? It'd be dismissed as stupid. Why is it different for politics? [0]

The belief that everyone is equally bad/corrupt is wrong and it just makes you a mark. People attempt to signal intelligence or deep wisdom by pretending they're above the fray, but it's not actually smart or wise. [1]

The essay is rambly, over-confident, and in the end even mean spirited.

> What is it that makes it utterly impossible for an educated/intelligent person to hold the view that US/Western politics is so dysfunctional and corrupt across the board that even a crazy-seeming rank outsider like Kanye could be better than the status quo?

Clearly it's not impossible as evidenced by the essay, but it's still wrong.

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jeyvzALDbjdjjv5RW/pretending...
I think the most interesting thing here is that Amazon can effectively claim a seller's property is fake based on reviews that everyone knows are regularly gamed. Then they can refuse access to the inventory and make the claim, without having to provide any evidence, that the questionable inventory has in fact been destroyed and not just passed on to another seller behind the scenes.

Accountability is entirely absent here. On the seller side and on Amazon's side.

The fact that Amazon had physical control of the questionable merchandise and had no obligation to retain a small sample that would be useful for the owner to defend himself on the challenge of it's authenticity or for Amazon to demonstrate that it was counterfeit is troubling.

I don't have a problem with counterfeit merchandise being identified as fake. I think it is extreme to destroy it all. The existence of eBay, Harbor Freight, Walmart, and Amazon are proof that people will pay for inferior products that look like the originals but are not as durable or beautiful. Once a counterfeit is identified it should be relabeled for sale at a discount since it is a fake. Just like art.
It seems like “pride” should be reserved for things like acting ethically, being environmentally friendly, treating employees well, making a positive impact on the world.

The platform you chose to build on is more of a business decision. One that I’m guessing Sketch is increasingly trying to rationalize to themselves.

Being proud they build a native app isn’t going to help them compete with Figma.
Huh, thanks for that.

When lore’s been in your head long enough, I guess you just forget to question it.
Imagine being a government agency experimenting with unethical weapons and practices carried out on foreigners.
Now imagine an amarican thinking that's unheard of...
Firefox 83b on a 4K display shows the flickering line.

The Chromium-based Edge on the same computer however does not have the line.

I'm guessing Google has reduced their QA testing on non-Chromium browsers...
It's just meaningless bits of red meat chopped off to give the base something for a news cycle. Almost nothing ever comes of it, in the long run....
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If you know the way, then please teach us.

Because with time I somehow learned to ignore domestic/neighbor sounds, marketing calls, etc, but not when your damn workflow stutters because you cannot distinguish a stupid icon. It is not a cynicism, it is a natural confusion. You don't appreciate every thing in your life, do you?
Your blog post sounds like your philosophy was to search for and find goods that you would enjoy using and give you peace of mind. His philosophy sounds more like "get what works, if it breaks replace it and try again." The longevity and quality of his items don't seem to matter so much as their ability to fulfill each stated purpose adequately. Your philosophy sounds consumeristic in the face of his more utilitarian sounding examples.

Taking the example of your flatware - why not just get some cheap stuff from Walmart? It will work well enough. The mouth sensation and feel in hand is secondary to the purpose of feeding yourself. I'd buy it because it looks nice but the cost of that vs a 20 piece set from Walmart? You can donate the excess to a soup kitchen.

My unasked for $0.02. I'd read your rebuttal. Please write it.
Yes Walmart is the textbook example of a monopsonist being able to extract steady profits while creating a race-to-the-bottom for prices among their suppliers. Great for end customers, but harmful nonetheless.
AFAIU, catching any illness is likely to reduce your vitamin D levels. For one thing, the active metabolites are created by the liver and then the kidneys. https://www.cdc.gov/nutritionreport/99-02/pdf/nr_ch2b.pdf Illness can depress this process. See, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360762/ Furthermore, if you're bed-ridden then you're not likely getting sunlight, and it only takes a day or two of no sunlight for your serum levels to drop significantly.

Of course, none of this is to say that there's no reverse causative relationship as well, but people really need to take these correlation observations with a huge grain of salt. And also take note of extremely inconsistent results when controlled trials are attempted.
> Also if you want to ask me questions about my thinking as a user who thinks a lot in these problems space, feel free to email me (I will want it to move to a phone call, but don't want to post my phone number on hacker news).

Thank you for your offer, I could not find you contact info anywhere though, so I left my contact in my profile if anyone wants to get in touch for collaborations or anything at all really.
True, if anything it just seems to do nothing. Though don't let me distract from the rest of the code. Just seems like initially simple code slowly encumbered by if-conditions in response to real world obstacles and feature creep.
Figma have a free plan which works perfectly fine for my purposes (implementing designs given to me by designers, and very occasionally making my own).
The issue is due process which is missing
This clause honestly seems like one that could end up like Google’s once celebrated “Don’t be evil” motto.

It really depends on whether the powers that be on Earth and StarLink are around to play the proverbial game of chicken when the time comes.

I kind of wish for a Terms of Service clause that was silly, yet ultimately impactful on Earth on timescale that I can live to see.
Except teams benefits from Figma far more than on sketch. Design systems, plugins, multiplayer for holding critique/retros/planning, version control, etc put Figma far ahead of Sketch.

I manage a design team and there’s no way in hell we would go back to Sketch.

To even think that having a “native” app has any bearing isn’t accurate at all. Sketch is so slow compared to Figma. You aren’t using multiplayer everyday but when you do need it, there’s nothing like it.
The harder part of this proposal might be finding a visionary who could lead the effort.
> What percentage of coders do programming on a turing tape? Is this partial evidence that turing tapes are trash? Does that question even make sense?

Yes it is. Turing machine models are very limited, and a programme to let us achieve the things we can do with Turing machines (mainly runtime analysis) with a better model (i.e. a lambda-calculus style model) is a very good idea.

> The thing is, almost all of pure math is itself is a bridge between different areas of math. Some of these areas are bridged by category theory, some are bridged by other kinds of math, which have less catchy names.

I'd be equally interested in a programme of doing metamathematics in some non-category-theoretic model that was still "normal" mathematics in the same way that category theory is (and ZFC isn't). But I'm not aware of any such competing effort.
I hope they fail here in Aus. Something something tall poppy syndrome.

Local retail first.
> [Amazon] is fundamentally just another middleman, and will not stand the test of time. True innovation, like the silicon chip itself, stands the test of time.

> Most importantly, Tesla continues to innovate.

I'm not sure what his definition of innovation is, here. Both Amazon and Tesla took existing technologies and ideas, put then together in a novel way, and iterated on them. Is it because Amazon (excluding AWS) doesn't build something physical? And if we include AWS, how can you argue that changing the way software infrastructure is managed not innovative?
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Well said. My lifestyle choices have incurred a high cost — I’ve always lived alone when possible.

The idea of an employer daring to adjust my pay because they think I should get a roomie (or make any other decisions about my cost of living) is crazy.

Over the years various employers have entered into negotiations, mid employment, to change the terms of my contract. More often than not it’s been a good opportunity for both parties to seize the opportunity for some fresh air — new job for me somewhere else, new chump for them!
> no version control, no comments, unconstrained with multiple ways to do something, limited scalability past a certain size or data, no user facing “front end”

I don’t think you and I are using the same Excel...
I fully believe this, and feel terrible for this seller, having had a similar experience.

For nearly a decade I ran a successful side hustle on Amazon from something that was just making beer money to making more than my day job (grew to $6.5 million/yr in sales at it's peak) and ran into the same thing earlier this summer.

Competitors attacking listings with false claims to try and shut your account, or listing down was a regular occurance(search for false 'used sold as new' -- the old version of this), and a headache that could be addressed although it often would take at least a weeks worth of effort and fights with the automated systems. This last series of attacks -- also counterfeit claims in my case -- no such luck -- the process has changed, the invoices from the same suppliers and letters of authorization from the manufacturer not accepted.

As it stands I am waiting on them to destroy roughly $120,000k in inventory that they refuse to release. Maybe more because their inventory tracking is garbage and it's not uncommon for items to be lost for months in their warehouse only to magically reappear... The tracking and inconsistent handling of returns is such a mess I can't exactly tell as anyone using FBA at volume just has to accept there will be variance between their known inventory and what Amazon says you have...

Fortunately, the market I targeted was heavily impacted by COVID so outside of a modest push associated with the back to school season I dodged a bullet as I essentially shut down on the 'buy side' when that all flared up and focused on getting back to cash.

I'm also lucky that I started scaling things back and looking to build out other channels about this time last year when they and WalMart started just automatically price matching one another, including prices from their respective 3rd party sellers, driving prices into the ground -- even below wholesale in some cases.

Amusingly, they have noticed I stopped sending new inventory in and some of their listings are now going unfilled and call at least once a week trying to get me back. (Amazon benefits tremendously from not tying up their cash on inventory and using 3rd party sellers to keep their stock.) When I tell them I'm willing to come back once they help me resolve this issues w/ a real person or even go and physically inspect the inventory they have impounded they go silent.

I thank them for helping to accelerate my long term financial goals, but to be honest, having been free of them for a few months now, the weight of not living in constant fear of jumping through their hoops has drastically improved my quality of life.
I just got a complement from my manager and he says he likes all the utilities that I write for the company because I concentrate on the most used features and put them to the fore. I use the 80/20 rule a lot in the TUI utilities that I write and I think regular GUI people could do better by doing the same. I mostly work on backend load balancing stuff but we all take turns on some more mundane script writing. A lot my teammates just throw in tons of options with no ordering or priority to make using the tool a little bit better. All those "little bit betters" add up over time as the number of utilities grow.
Much easier to run Linux on encrypted partition and have a Windows 10 VM in KVM.
>Frankly, I just don't see the general population willing to pay as much for news as it did in the past. The big stories will be available for free somewhere and even local news can be found on Twitter/social media.

The Wall Street Journal seems to be making its paywall work. I think the New York Times's semi-paywall is doing OK, but that's more to do with the massive surge in readers it gained after ramping up its attacks on Trump after the 2016 election.

In specialty publications, The Athletic is doing well enough to hire new beat writers. Patch is making a profit with ad-driven hyperlocal news.

Otherwise, I agree that straight news publications that aren't the Times or the Journal (and maybe the Washington Post, but it also benefits from anti-Trump sentiment, even aside from the bottomless Bezos cash)—that is, without the brand name—just don't seem viable. When the brand-name publications handle national and international news, Reuters and AP handle other stuff, and Craigslist took away classifieds 20 years ago, where is the room for the average city journal? The answer that most sensible people came to years ago is "There isn't". The only other viable model seems to be ownership by a) nonprofit charities, or b) wealthy people who enjoy the attention from owning the local newspaper.
I’m starting to think that we have so many willfully ignorant people that it just might be time to burn it all down and go for herd immunity. What’s 30-40 Million deaths, really?

Big Don says it’s a hoax, maybe we should treat it like a hoax, no reason to admit people to the hospital for a hoax.

It will certainly take a lot of pressure of the hospitals.
same here, it depends on how they use the OS for. I develop with cross platform language most of the time ( Go, Rust, C++ ), WSL2 with Windows does the job beautifully :)
Lightning port is there for legacy reasons. It use to be much better than the USB options. Now USB-C is good enough, and when they kill the lightning port a billions of cables will become useless in just a handful of years.

I’d honestly prefer to see the wired charging port go away completely. Wireless charging is cheap and good.
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They all look too much alike and that's a terrible thing for an icon. They seem to be changing them just to be changing them.
You left out the part where he tried to recall the inventory and it didn't work.
I'm sure they have this data and have shown figures in meetings already.
Taxis basically predate the app boom. The world has changed a lot since 2011. I suspect that if Uber leaves, some scrappy people will be able make a simple app that does 90% of what Uber does that consumers actually care about, but without the need to pay back billions in VC funding
Isn't the point of dual booting that there are things you can't do in a VM, like gaming?
Well. Being in a corporate job (agency I work for got bought some years back and we need to have compliance with the corp requirements) I can say that my Mac and my Win devices have the same level of spyware. While at least on Windows every program (as far as I am aware) follows firewall rules without circumvention. Not so on a Mac were Apple tools like the store circumvent the firewall rules I set up [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816

So I believe both platforms are problematic. Does Windows try to do way more data collection by default? Sadly yes. Is Mac without fault? Sadly no.
It’s really not because multiplayer is there for walking through designs, leaving comments, or working with another designer. I work on a team of 10 and I don’t see anyone else in my designs unless I’m handing off to a dev or doing a review. At that point it’s amazing, as I can link anyone in our org a design and they can open it.
They should have swiped someone from Apple for their icon/gui updates. That's for sure.
The first mistake was dealing with amazon.
Why are there no down-vote buttons for bad submissions?
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But did they match the record of the wholesaler?
I'm curious: why not run one or the other in a VM? Looking at Mike's resume, the technologies he is working with (LAMP stack, Ruby, PHP) seem like they would run perfectly fine in a VM.

I've been doing embedded development (with a Linux based toolchain) on a Windows 10 host with Ubuntu in a VM, and it seems to be plenty nice on modern hardware (and a lot of RAM). And I don't have to make a choice to boot back and forth: Two systems for the price of 1.5. :)

Edit: My question aside, I fully appreciate the article's primary goal, which is to document the nonobvious hoops the author had to jump through to get dual boot to work. Thanks!
Thanks! Yes, we know the Authlayer (now Zefi) guys very well as fellow founder friends.

1. Sure. Here is one of our case studies with a new Neo-bank that got launched recently in India - https://medium.com/fintech-for-everyone/enabling-the-banking...

2. Yes, that is by design for this early stage as the pricing varies based on the API choice and volumes. Happy to walk you through over a call based on your product/use-case anytime - https://calendly.com/raunak_dembla/introduction-to-decentro?...

3. Absolutely. Our model is always in sync and up to date with regulations, since we work directly with the banks and their compliance teams.

4. Currently, it is all REST APIs but we will roll out web SDKs too at a later point in time.

5. I think one of the points worth mentioning is how in SEA, the money flow works differently than in the Indian scenario. For example, there is no concept of a nodal account in Singapore, unlike India. Of course, now India is also transitioning to an escrow from the nodal altogether.

6. We have shared some details here and will be adding more from time to time - https://decentro.tech/careers. Specifically, there are a couple of layers that we add for encryption, encasing and archival.

7. Interesting mention. We will check it out :)

Cheers.
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The more interesting point for me is how the people and the politics have changed. I don't see as many hardcore geeks who breathe the stuff as a I used to, and the politics have got from more libertarian to progressive. Maybe it's just the scene growing up?
But critically, the entities are not competing for the same audience. People are not choosing between Fox News and MSNBC, people are choosing between Fox News and Brietbart. While it would seem like there is an opportunity for a service that caters to the middle, in reality I think people largely prefer to have their world views and priors confirmed rather than challenged.
That is until you use TPM to decrypt your windows partition automatically. If you boot the Linux boot manager on another drive, Windows won't decrypt its drive automatically. So you have to boot the Windows boot manger. At which point is easier to just select your boot drive on Startup.

You can however use other tools to encrypt/decrypt the windows drive besides bit locker and it will work.

TPM2 to decrypt your Linux drive on boot is a bit of a pain too.
You’d need to correct for age distribution, which I guess is difficult to do. Many sunny countries have younger populations than for example Western Europe
While I understand your frustration, I really don't think that's a good idea (even if said ironically). We shouldn't aim to increase suffering, and I'm sure many of those who believe it's a hoax have had lives unfortunate enough to predispose them to that kind of conspiratorial thinking.

Just a few days ago I was on a business trip to Pittsburgh, and one of my Lyft drivers was an immunocompromised man with a donor kidney. He spent half the ride talking about "COVID nanobots" and "civil race war", and the other half talking about how hard his recovery had been and how his illness had ruined his marriage and split apart his family.

Noxious as his views were, I felt the urge to give him a hug, and I think that sort of compassion goes a long way (even if we can't literally hug one another these days).

As Edward Snowden said of Trump in an interview with Brian Williams of MSNBC some time back, "I think Trump is a man who's never known a love he didn't have to pay for, and what he sees in his supporters are people who love him unconditionally ... that's why he does what he does."

I think there's a lot to be said for more compassion and love, as corny and useless as that may sound on the surface.
I am pro and don't use cloud software in production, actually this is a clause in contract for my clients. They care about quality not trendiness. Downvotes on your comment are telling me that this is the new JS topic. Oh no.... :)
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