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I know, I just can't understand it. With anything open-source apple ports are 3-rd grade after Linux and Windows. Sometimes even after *Bsd :)

Good PC laptops are much better if you're using them like a developer would (move it twice a day, code on it for hours without moving).

Thermal design is awful on apple laptops, they are basically running half-speed by design. Can't fix anything if it breaks.

Why would people value brand over all these concerns is beyond me. Must be consumer patriotism, like with Harley-Davidson :)
> The company, along with Lyft and DoorDash, spent more than $200m to deny drivers the wages and benefits we’re entitled to

I wonder, why does the author think they're entitled to wages and benefits beyond what they agreed to?

I'd understand the sentiment a little more if Uber was wildly profitable, but it isn't. If Uber isn't treating the drivers right, they don't have to drive for Uber. Or they can go and try to change the laws and regulations to be more fair. But no one is entitled to anything.
I got married recently. We really enjoyed the shared photo album feature of Google Photos. Apple has this too, but Google Photos is platform-agnostic. It works on Android, iOS, and the plain old web. We were able to set up a shared photo album, text a link to friends, and they could add all their photos to the album pretty easily.

Trying to organize that using other apps would be difficult. Apple requires everyone to have an iCloud / iOS device. Other services require someone to sign up / download an app. Since most people have a google account already Google Photos was very easy for this use case.
It definitely depends heavily on the market you're living in - some are very heavily subsidized, others are not.
As a counterpoint, I recently had a $30 off promotion for uber eats. Ordered a couple of hamburgers, and the food tab came to $29 - which was zeroed out after the promotion.

Delivery fee + service fee + tip meant I still ended up paying $18 for the service. I can't imagine I'd ever be a buyer at the full price.
I think a lot of people perhaps underestimate the value of an iPad that's not signed in to anything, and is just loaded chock full of epubs (and perhaps offline maps). You don't even need to turn on the Wi-Fi.

Computers can be simple tools for reading and study, if you want them to be, and make deliberate choices to that end.

The last few months I've spent a lot of time consciously re-engineering my screen time into what I want it to be and do, not what is easiest or most convenient. Getting off of most mainstream social media has helped tremendously, as it's truly insidious how engineered it is to seem like the most important, engaging thing in the world.

I'm doing much better now that I'm not exposed to strangers screaming about nonsense for a few hours each day.
Cause that's how tribalism works.
Right. Another great example, which confounds the liberal-conservative aspect some people will see in Prop 22, is soft drug legalization.

How many states have legalized personal marijuana usage due to action initiated in their legislatures? How many have done so due to ballot initiatives?
It used to be common knowledge that those "ready to abandon the possibility of America" were kids in college with little influence and that they'd grow out of youthful extremism.

But by writing this, Barack Obama seems to saying that this isn't the case.

> I recognize that there are those who believe that it’s time to discard the myth—that an examination of America’s past and an even cursory glance at today’s headlines show that this nation’s ideals have always been secondary to conquest and subjugation, a racial caste system and rapacious capitalism, and that to pretend otherwise is to be complicit in a game that was rigged from the start. And I confess that there have been times during the course of writing my book, as I’ve reflected on my presidency and all that’s happened since, when I’ve had to ask myself whether I was too tempered in speaking the truth as I saw it, too cautious in either word or deed, convinced as I was that by appealing to what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature I stood a greater chance of leading us in the direction of the America we’ve been promised.

> I don’t know. What I can say for certain is that I’m not yet ready to abandon the possibility of America—not just for the sake of future generations of Americans but for all of humankind.

I see this as a philosophical debate boiling over into the public. Radical philosophers have been saying for a long time now that everything is a question of power and domination, that anyone pretending otherwise is complicit, and that -- in the final analysis -- the mere classification of things is a violent act. On the other side, you have people who are essentially liberal pushing back, insisting on the usefulness of ideals, pointing out that incremental progress is possible, and arguing for the necessity of a common language to talk about the world we have in common.
> I kinda like Tizen, but Samsung is really shockingly bad at open source.

I'd say the biggest advantage of opensource is that it allows "shockingly bad" code to gradually turn good, rather than being thrown into the garbage bin right away 99% of the time despite of potential for improvement.

But you negate that if you don't actually get less bad people into the project, which is the case with most projects that say "send patches, and we may not throw it away after you concede all rights to your code"
Why did all the southern states become red directly following the passage of the civil rights act?

I think you are ignoring the elephant in the room because you don't like what it says about America.
A module, by definition, is a singleton (for parametrized modules, a “once per type” object)

C has (unparametrized) modules, calling them “compilation unit”.
Not much I don't think. This has a few examples:

https://github.com/rossberg/1ml

There isn't special module syntax. Modules are more-or-less just structs, and the structs can contain types.
The interesting thing about this community is that technically it could create its own OS. That is a threat to nation state level institutes that want to prevent that.
I was a QBasic kid as well, but I think it was pretty clear to me even at the time that QBasic was a mickey mouse environment. You couldn't get into 32-bit mode, or dynamically allocate memory with pointers, much less blt sprites or backgrounds around at a usable speed.

I'm not saying it's exactly equivalent, but there's certainly a perspective which could argue that a) the free JavaScript interpreter available on every device is more featureful and interesting than anything available to us 80s and 90s kids, b) low-cost SBCs running free open source operating systems and compilers are more accessible and better supported than the commercial compilers that few could have accessed back then, and c) the overall ramp from curious/creative gamer kid to capable hacker is much smoother now than it was then, with a lot of interim options between JavaScript and commercial environments in which to gain comfort and achieve interesting results (thinking stuff like GameMaker and RPGMaker, modding communities for existing games, hacking/homebrew/porting communities for consoles, etc).
> food + 1 dollar + tip to the driver (which I'm perfectly OK with!).

In many cases there's a markup on the food over the restaurant's prices. There's delivery fee that's generally $2-$3, a service fee that's hidden in the "taxes and fees line item", not to mention a small order fee etc on some orders.
And, of course the tip. This I do not understand. It went from tipping the waiter a bit more because you were well taken care of at the restaurant dining experience, to pre-paying a tip to the driver before knowing if the food's good or if the delivery is late etc. The restaurant doesn't get any of the tip. Anyway, a subsided food delivery that you got is not sustainable.

To be honest I do not understand the tipping culture at all. Its expected to tip a restaurant staff if you eat at the restaurant, but not if you get the food delivered. But, expected to pre-pay a tip the driver who delivered the food (irrespective of quality of food or delivery) but not the USPS/UPS/fedex driver who delivered anything else even if he/she carries a heavy package over a flight of stairs. Its expected to tip a uber/lyft driver even on a shared ride with other folks but not a bus/metro/train driver. None of it makes sense to me :)
A conversation with Edward Snowden's (unknowing) data smugglers
For 1000+ price to be scalable, Apple cannot rely on just consumer market of wealthy people earning 6 figure salaries of people in tech buying for personal use. They need the professional market which is my point. [2]

I have considerably less problems troubleshooting Chromebooks for the technically challenged than I have ever had with macOS or windows combined [1]

[1] TBF Windows has improved, S Mode, seamless upgrades etc have helped its user experience to improve. It is funny that windows is considered the more complex OS, their user friendly practices like strong backward compatibility and focus on GUI based workflows shot them to mainstream in the 90's, times have changed indeed.

[2] They are not going to lose professional user base overnight there will be stickyness, anecdotally I bought the first 2017 touch bar MBP, for 10-15 years Apple had delivered good hardware for me, that is the last Apple I will buy in a while. There is some stickiness in the professional market however the brand loyalty is very limited, if a device does not fit your needs you find one which does . You may feel sad you still need to make money though so you move on.
Those questions apply to literally every computer.

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5706
Elon Musk Says He May Have Covid, Calls Antigen Tests “Extremely Bogus”
Even English speaking countries don’t have that high Macbook usage, because the premium sticker price is extremely high; unlike in phones, where an iPhone is comparable or in some cases less expensive than equivalent Android flagships, Macs tend to be several hundred dollars more than even their flagship laptop or PC counterparts, and from my personal experience a computer running Win10 is not that flaky compared to some Androids I’ve used.
This seems specious. Others absolutely have competing options, Apple's photos the most notable (since it's by the other Phone OS maker). None as good as Google photos imo (at least not that I've tried), but on release there was nothing as good as Google Photos either.

And now that they are charging, presumably there's space for competition to arise again no? Just as if they started charging at the outset?
* Their home page boasts to be "The only search engine that respects your privacy.". DDG has been there for much longer. I could not trust them after such obviously false claims.

* They promised (to the public and their investors, which includes the state funds) that if they used Bing, they were improving they own engine which was handling more and more queries. Studied showed it was not the case, that many searches showed outdated results and repeating entries (to make think they have many search results).

* Their previous boss was a tyrannic Jobs wannabe. He wanted Qwant to become as trendy as Google so he kept launching half-baked products (Qwant maps! Qwant mail! etc). Constant chance of priorities and new projects were devastating for developers (especially when the search engine was still very weak). He was finally pushed out of the company.
We managed to get 2 autocracies in one century. One was totalitarian, the other was authoritarian. The authoritarian one is vastly more infamous, but the other wasn't that nice either.
Up until this year, I had using BYOD MBP for both work and personal development, I'm on the late 2016MBP and it's been a great setup that allows me to both interact with corporate's exchange server, edit power point slides, WebEx screen share, and still develop for Linux servers.

End of last year, I switched jobs and have been forced onto a Windows laptop. I had been using VSCode, so after fighting with WSL1 and Docker on the work system for months, I installed a dedicated console only linux VM (under vmware workstation) within Windows and I use the VSCode's SSH remote option. It's pretty much seamless. The VM runs docker "natively" within it, the core part of vscode is running within the VM itself. There used to be a bit of confusion if you open a new vscode window, then you had to use that to open a second ssh-connected window. But last month, they changed that so you can connect the current window. When you open a folder or file, it's all like browsing the "remote" VM's filesystem. VSCode also now can auto-detect when you're starting a program on a localhost port and creates an ssh tunnel from your desktop to the remote system (you can also set these up manually if it fails to detect it). Sidebar: Now that WSL2 is available, I could see migrating from my Linux VM under VMWare to a WSL2 Linux VM under Hyper-V, but that's another level of effort for about the same end result.

Just prior to the pandemic, I had set myself up a linux desktop and made that my primary system (relegating my MBP to secondary/couch use). My work laptop was on a stand to the right and my MBP was on a stand to the left. I would use vscode to remote into either the VM on my work laptop or develop personal stuff locally. I also setup VSCode on the MBP to remote into the desktop. During the pandemic with kids home, I had to migrate from my detached garage/home office to inside the house. So I rarely touch my desktop directly and do my (personal) dev work remotely on it from the MBP.

In the future, should it come time to replace my MBP, I don't think I'll use another Apple. Since I can't BYOD it for my current job, and I don't need Outlook and PowerPoint for personal use, getting a hefty Linux laptop seems just fine for personal. If they would let BYOD MBP on the corp VPN, I'd consider it.
Every June we hear dozens of statements like "We're so excited to see what you do with X. It's so new and amazing." And yet, they barely lift a finger to help developers understand how to use X properly. SwiftUI is a perfect example.

Their developer forums are apparently a place to talk to yourself.

Something is deeply wrong with them and I can't tell if it is merely a case of extreme oblivious arrogance, or if they are self sabotaging, perhaps unconsciously.
Yes. Their ridehailing unit makes profit every quarter.
It's not a little bit. The process demands of a large company can suck the life out of a small one pretty easy. I've seen it happen.
Should this binary classification, devised prior to this whole model of work was invented, still exist?

It's like not updating your horse carriage road laws to accommodate automobiles; because everything is either a pedestrian or a horse carriage. If there's no horse, a car isn't a vehicle; it's a pedestrian.

Makes no sense.

If you think Uber drives deserve more than 120% of min wage, then you can argue that, but I don't see why you have to argue employee vs IC.

P.S. Most Uber drivers, when independently polled, are for Prop 22. It's the unions that were pushing this, so they can collect union dues and grow their revenues.
I think Arduino has us partially covered there, allowing kids to get into electronics easily with some wires, sensors, and C code.

And for cobbling together a computer out of microelectronics there's CollapseOS
https://collapseos.org/
Reading the article made me realize Obama must've kept a journal, if he can go through his time in office. I imagine Trump can only open Twitter and scroll back 8 years...
I'm legit planning to just download it all, store on multiple drives/computers, send a copy to my brother in another state to stash in his vault, and then clear the 2TB and start over.

Unless they boost the storage.
Oh no, the film is too good to skip through :)
Well, people got used to the taxi rides being dirt cheap. It will be very hard to convince them otherwise: number of people who ride Uber is in any case much higher than number of people who drive for Uber, so in any democratic society measures supporting them, will fail.
Yeah the people in charge of this definitely didn't take any game theory at uni...

There are quite harsh penalties for destroying artifacts etc but yeah, I'd rather take that risk than financial ruin.
Employees working from home should pay tax to support those who can't
Who is the megalomaniac? Elon Musk or Richard Shelby?
Dell XPS 13 is a solid choice, network card/wifi card may have to be changed out, but they support ubuntu natively. Cheap to buy used and generally very good.
I suspect it is a pocketbook issue. Californians don’t want to pay more for transport and food delivery. Political ideals often give way to cheaper goods.
I'm not a trump fan by any means but obama was just another 8 years of bush. he didn't do much to end the wars, wall street got a raise especially those at the very top, no one was held accountable for the financial crisis, he gave more and more jobs away to china, obamacare gave huge profits to the insurance industry (which is why you didn't see republicans repeal it even when controlling the senate and house), he leapt at the chance to help tech companies who didn't need it, he limited civil liberties, and so on. It's so frustrating to see liberals bend over backwards to defend him.
Why are Russians so depressing?
58% of them voted for this proposition, based on results a few days after the election.
Whether it's IT or Finance (purchasing rules), CEO/VP have the power to force them to make an exception or change their process if there's a clear business benefit.
If you are happy to just ‘work with what’s presented’, why not buy an Apple device or ChromeOS machine?
Lessons in Losing, from Cleopatra to Thatcher
Oh, I did not know that! Will check it out.
Putting aside that clearly my point was that no special treatment was given to him as a result of his disability:

Just because the business as a whole is not turning a profit does not mean the business loses money with each and every action it takes.
Great stuff. Well witten notes with clear and extensive examples. I actually used this just a few months ago to pass my calculus exam. Feel like I learnt a lot more than from my overly dense and formal textbook.
I think you can enable tap to click
Through the very mechanism people are complaining about today.

If your machine is offline then it switches to a fail-open system and uses its cache to verify the binary and if it's not in the cache then it skips the check and allows it.

If your machine is online then it switches to a fail-closed system so that if you can't reach the servers because of something malicious then it blocks.
Did you just call me an apologist for racism? Right after I was advocating for people to find more common ground?

And people wonder how Trump happened.
This got me right through Calculus II :)
Just because your company has 10k employees doesn't mean they need 10k licenses for everything they buy. Often only 10 people in one department in one country need that one specific thing.
Speaking as someone ashamed at having never taken Calculus, I didn't know there were 3 of them...
I’m in Santa Barbara and I’ve had a number of drivers who are not full-time.

Students, retired people, and my favorite was a guy who would take 1-2 trips on the way home from his job to put into a travel savings so he and his family upgrade their vacations.
'just doesn't work' and 'doesn't just work' are two very different statements. You said the former, but I've only spotted people saying the latter in here.

Also if you have to argue with someone that linux does work for them, you've missed the point.
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend good endpoint security software?
We're switching from Symantec Endpoint Protection after it got acquired by Broadcom and they really messed up the transition.

I've been looking into security software for my boss and it irritates me the amount of security software companies out there who will flat-out refuse to provide me a quote unless I sit through a 30 minute presentation about how their software is better than anyone else's.

I don't want to get a quote, I want to see clear pricing for a number of devices or tiers of functionality.

We're looking for protection for 10 workstations and 2 servers.
> “the gap” was closed by Apple, by letting their system degrade.

100% agreed. And I would even go so far as to say that Steve Jobs had such a strong vision of how things could be, that it was his greatest mistake to put someone in charge who did not (Tim Cook).
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This is a terrible argument. If every single small thing that could happen to you was explained to you before you made any decision, I can guarantee you would never make any new decisions.
> And the sole reason I didn't give that money to the SaaS company was because they couldn't work with our procurement process. We're now investigating a much more expensive solution from a much bigger company.

Bingo. My guess is that it may be efficient for many small companies to offload the burden of dealing with procurement processes to a single specialized entity.
Haven't tried it on Big Sur, but maybe `defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1` does the trick?
Simple migraines fall into this category.

Umm I can’t see, walk straight, or think normally 4-5 days a weeks. Disability, your faking it.
Doctor, it can’t possibly be that bad, your lying.
How are things down in the bunker?
I used to run a dedicated vm just for this (jump host), now I just run Tailscale on all of my machines. I have nothing but good things to say about Tailscale, it just works.
Some time ago I wrote sth similar for the Azure cloud, in case someone uses MS: https://github.com/lowleveldesign/azrdp.
And where does the line go?
Yes, let's cherry pick this one example to invalidate all ML strides in image recognition under the guise of racism, surely that seems reasonable.
Maker faires perhaps, but crypto parties seem a lot like pyramid scheme parties on steroids.
So you didn’t like that Obama was chummy with Wall Street, and then voted for a billionaire?
In some places you need to wait hours for a test, and days for the result. I guess some people want it fast.
When I work for myself, I nap at the slightest sensation of drowsiness. I’m not productive nor efficient while sleepy. Yet I’ve wasted so many hours in mindless stupor for my employers (especially after lunch) because napping on the clock is taboo.
Alpaca launches Zipline-Trader,trading platform on top of Quantopian’s zipline
If the law had been more narrowly tailored to making ride shares responsible for work accidents I think you'd see a lot more support for the law.
> Or they can go and try to change the laws and regulations to be more fair.

Wasn’t that the whole point of AB5? To change the law so Uber/Lyft drivers are paid what they deserve?
Does anyone have a link to the original Google document that describes the "plan"? The closest I've found is an article in FT that summarizes some of it[1], but it's short on details.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/d9d05b1e-45c0-44b8-a1ba-3aa6d0561... (may be paywalled)
All regulation and 'labor protection' does is accelerate the investment and transition into an AI anyway.
One year after the pandemic ends: The total PC market (including tablets) had 23% YoY crunch.
I fully agree with you. In a society where people would not have any existential fears, employed or not, Uber would not get away with what they're doing anyway. But I think the argument is orthogonal to what I meant.

In context of the system that Uber drivers are living in right now, Prop22 is a step in the wrong direction: it gives affirmation to companies that actively deprives gig workers of the rights we talk about above.

Of course it'd be better to solve this problem at a higher level, but I'm happy to argue against proponents of steps in the wrong direction (e.g. Prop22).