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> In the event of a real emergency, preppers will be a convenient source of resources and supplies to be exploited by whatever roving bands are marauding the landscape. If you nerd out on preparedness, you're just increasing the chance that the local Blood King will turn your skull into a goblet when he comes looking for the stash of canned goods you bragged about online in the Before Times.

That's why meatspace social networking is part of prepping for some people: they recognize that, if there is a collapse, the way to survive isn't just to have stuff for yourself, its to have a well-prepared tribe. To be (well, hopefully kinder and gentler than the title sounds, for most preppers who take this strategy) the Blood King, rather than worry about him.
Correct. I understand in that case.

I would love for uBlock to find a workaround.
I keep reading in the tweets how all Macs are unusable. Is this an OS bug that doesn't effect older OSes? I'm on Mojave on my 2017 MBP, and have had zero issues at all.

When was `trustd` introduced?
Sort of. The equivalent of "virtualenv" would be more "rvm gemsets", which is what people did before bundler. Bundler is doing something different.

Bundler is not a "node_modules" style setup. It does not require dependencies to be in a local path (although they can be, the default is they live in a system-wide location, and this does not limit functionality). It also does not support more than one version of a dependency in the same execution environment (as node_modules does) -- that really would be impossible in ruby too.

It's possible something about python's design would make the bundler approach impossible, I don't know. But it's not "dependencies are installed globally" alone, as that's true of ruby too.

We would probably all benefit in understanding better how these things are handled in other environments. And I include myself here. I think ruby's bundler really set a new standard for best practices here, and many subsequent managers (like cargo) were heavily influenced by it, although many don't realize it. But meanwhile many don't even realize what they are missing or what's possible.

Like the basic idea of having a specification of top-level dependencies (including allowable ranges) separate from a "lockfile" of exact versions in use of ALL dependencies... is just so hugely useful I never want to do without it, and I think is compatible with just about any architecture, and yet somehow JS is still only slowly catching on to it.
Regardless of the motivation of the creator, I'm sure the next person to pick up this tool won't have any qualms about sending spam.
> you can't just take raw overlap in tastes, because some people like "everything", and the fact their tastes overlap with mine does not mean I'll like everything else they like.

I think that these recommendation systems, especially youtube's, are much more nuanced than you're suggesting. And I say this as someone who finds these recommendation systems lacking and of limited utility compared to discovery from reading Pitchfork, for example. They're trying to balance quite a lot of inputs and actually somehow make money from it.

Also, "genre" and "mood" of a piece of music are not easy to define, let alone measure. You're asking for a lot and I don't think what you're asking for is realistic from a piece of software.
Exactly. For all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth around replacing X windows with Wayland, no one has stepped up to maintain X.org since Red Hat stopped funding its development. Old code isn't bad because its old, its bad because engineers decided it wasn't worth the minimal effort required to accept and release security fixes.
This is happening to Macs running Catalina and Mojave, not just those that upgraded to BigSur.
Why does it need development of new features to not be dead?

Calling it dead implies that projects that are currently using it shouldn't use it anymore, but projects for which cairo as-is suffices will continue to work with the features that cairo already has, so why would they need to migrate?
I agree. I feel like good companies like Stripe want to keep growing. With this, comes the need to increase revenue to cover the extra costs. I don't know if it's investor pressure, or the fear of being stagnant, but some companies are arguably better off the way they are. There's no need to grow at all costs.

If you want more users, double down on marketing to existing users instead of pissing them off. Although it's really hard to measure, happy users do the marketing for you and bring in more customers.

First they started charging for international cards (with the "grandfathering" for years excuse), now this. I've already migrated off of Stripe and now actively recommend people think twice about going with them. Instead, I'm recommending Braintree... aka Paypal. It seems we've come full circle already.
Most games that survived the 32 bit -> 64 bit change and run in Catalina should run under Rosetta2 with no changes.

Performance? Who knows.
The collapse of civilization and the destructive power of nuclear weapons is hyperbole now..?
I agree with your point about it being a principle, although I would add that the decision to build a product in this manner is also a principle.

Furthermore, I would sort of disagree with the answer to why people would buy this. In terms of "most people buying a computer", the overwhelming majority of Apple customers are likely ignorant to this issue, and will continue to be.
I don't care for downvotes:) Welcome to Jailbreak your Mac. Third time: I hate to repeat my self but this articles keep piling up. Vote with your money first, then if you have a way search legislative measures. They will never stop to search a way to profit more. This is just a beginning. Fully closed macs are coming. I don't care anymore for iPhones, my professional problem is with apple desktops and laptops. If we follow Apple logic in near future I will have to Jailbreak my personal computer that costs arm and a leg and cannot do 3rd party repairs on it. I am filling now very good about the decision to invest in multi platform software and avoid mac only apps. On a phone side someone suggested Fairphone (https://www.fairphone.com/en/) as an alternative. I can see a lot a value in this proposition, after rooting and removing Google crap/spyware.
Does newest VirtualBox work for Linux guests on Big Sur? I heard there were issues in the past...
They got rid of that
Complex customers can use 0.5% extra service from Stripe, they could even build their own solution. Billing, recurring, invoicing can be done here. What could be interesting is setting up a billing service that the client brings its own Payment Service (checkout.com, stripe.com, adyen.com).
I want it for that same reason, but with another bit which isn't known yet (I think). If the discrete card supports gvt-g then it'll be the cheapest and easiest way to share full hardware acceleration of a gpu in a vm with a single card. This then also still lets the host use the gpu at the same time. All the offerings from amd and nvidia cost a lot and nvidias even require special licensing.
Not to mention, easier to test. I had a branch of my code where I had finally figured out how to reliably test the stream/observable variant, but it was just an ugly mess.
Please provide a link. Here’s what they have shown on the last WWDC:

https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=6114
Well, you're using the wrong distributions then. Use something stodgy but solid like stable Debian or a recent but not bleeding edge version of Mint and you should not have all too many things on your shit list. It won't be empty - printing will still trip you up every now and then, just like it does everywhere else to give an example - but it will mostly ' just work' unless you're trying to install it on truly exotic (as in "released this week") hardware. The overall facepalm experience will be comparable to that on Mac OS, better than that on Windows. Add to that the fact that it is free in every sense of the word as well as the glaring and welcome absence of draconic "features" like the one discussed in this thread and those Linux distributions will start to look very tempting.
1) handling local component state in a store seems terrible.
And the Redux devtool will be flooded with commands that are from local and global state access making both indistinguishable and therefore undebuggable.
2) ngrx seems like overengineering^10 and you have more flexibility and much less cognitive load by using Mobx with Angular.
That's exactly my point, it happens automatically by relevance ("how many times did it get recently refreshed"). It's not you going in to actively close out memory "tabs". All your "tabs" are open.
It's actually well accepted in biological research, plenty of evidence for it, surveys of women, OK cupid had a blog about it (before they wiped all that).

Also all of literature would suggest otherwise. Look at any documentary talking about a man who is considered attractive and see what word they use first. "Tall, dark and handsome" - notice the order. The list goes on and once you start looking for it you'll be surprised. Look at romance - novels - see how many of the men are short.

You could also speak to some women and ask them about it. If you ask enough you'll get at least some honest responses (not disparaging women, equally men may often be deceptive on this kind of question).

I'm also not sure I understand your argument - both men + women contribute to height, male height is only part of the equation (my dad is normal height my mum is very short and I am short for example). Also nutrition has been HUGE in stunting growth, societies with better nutrition have a very big increase in height (which also suggests sexual selection plays a role I'd say).

Height is also in a pretty narrow range anyway, +-2SD.

Finally I'd say that if you were significantly shorter than average and male + had tried your hand with dating you'd have a very raw and immediate series of data points that would be pretty compelling.

This isn't really a controversial point, in the same way men have a preference for a certain hip/waist ratio in women ("why don't all women then have that hip/waist ratio" you might ask following your existing argument...!)
This thought is exactly what the company I work for is thinking: https://www.paystand.com/about (B2B SaaS payments, fixed monthly fee)

The majority of the current payment cost (2%+) happens when paying by card. But as you say a payment right now is just moving bits. The main reason why cards charge so much is due to Risk. If you read about "interchange fees" you will see how Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, etc. classify different cards into different levels and charge a different exchange rate for each of them.

But the thing is, this system and networks were created last century (around 1960) and nowadays there is better technology to assess risk and to perform the transactions.
http://archive.is/XzCUW
And more downvoting :) people really do not like to be told the truth on this issue. So strange to me.
> It can do that because rubygems manages multiple installed versions of packages

Oh wow, the default python dependency manager only lets you have one version of each package installed system-wide?

Yeah, that is a limitation. As opposed to rubygems (the first dependency manager although as you say not originally built-in to ruby) which has system-wide install, but always let you have more than one version installed.

Without fixing that one way or another, there's no sensible way, true. virtualenv is certainly one way to fix it. I wonder if there would have been a more rubygems way to fix it.
When the privileged classes have had generations to generate social networks that connect privileged people with privileged people (arguably one of the greatest privileges white people have, along with generational wealth and societies general presuppositions that go along with it), is it so bad to actively recognize that and go against it?

Racism says an ethnicity is better or worse than another intrinsically.

This is recognizing a section of our population has been, by and large, historically kept from making those connections and intentionally favoring them, not just for their sake but for the sake of their children’s children, by working to get them the same levels of connections the privileged class has historically had.
They're available refurbished.

https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac/macbook-air

I've bought a lot of Apple refurbs, they are like new in every respect.
Why do you want to measure the productivity of the engineers in isolation when their ability to deliver value depends on other people? Too often the answer to that questions boils down to 'ammunition for the blame game'.

If your engineers can't deliver value because of say product, who cares how productive they are? Measure business outcomes - you will get what you measure. If engineering is being measured by the ability to deliver business outcomes but engineers can't because of other people, the software engineers are going to let you know* and it's an important thing to learn about and fix.

*this assumes you have competent managers and engineers who are willing to communicate with those managers, but if you don't have that, this is sort of a moot point.
Just checked this out. Awesome channel!
I’m not sure exactly what you mean so maybe I’m missing the point, but pre-NeXT Mac software handled multiple monitors back in at least the early 90’s, maybe even the 80’s. A friend of mine had 4 displays on his Power Mac 8600 for example. I wouldn’t call this a new challenge (for Apple at least), but rather a disappointing regression.
I've never used anything I liked better than Maven Central + Gradle. Why can't everyone just copy the Java ecosystem when it comes to package management.

(Although the maven package ecosystem seems ideal to me, Gradle is just "good enough" - it's mostly the standards around versioning and tooling dealing with versioning and everything being there that makes it good to me).
Are they the ones who received one billion eur from the EU? Holy cow...
Evidence-base X is the best X humans can muster.. except for Love
you talk about localized conflicts far off US mainland, and what most here talk about is more on scale of global all out nuclear war
Acquiring fewer things is not mutually exclusive with not discarding things. They may even be positively correlated.
Is that an authentic quote from the books?
While that may be true, due to custom ARM instructions that Apple uses, it might be difficult to port various other OS onto it. We'll see though.
The collapse of civilization can't be a hyperbole. What people especulate that maybe bring it about can be.
Well I for one think no one would be using PayPal if Elon didn't have those luscious locks.
If it were unreachable then the daemon would fail fast. A slowdown on the other hand just makes requests to the daemon queue up.
Everybody should just switch to Skia.
New human resources if not allocated on Skia should go on next gen renderers like fastuidraw
You could absolutely use a simple certificate revocation list instead of OCSP. I don't know how large that would be, though. It could run into problems if there was a heartbleed like issue that required revoking many certs.

All the extra connections are enough of an issue that there's OCSP stapling, where a web server attaches a copy of the OCSP check to the response.

Seems like it'd be possible to inject a file into Cool.app/Contents/ocsp.staple in a downloaded .dmg.

That could be considered valid for a few days so that, for the common case of "download app and try it out", there's no need to phone home.
You can login to a chromebook (unless it's a first time setup) even if it's offline. Login stuff seems to be handled locally. Eg: if you update your Google password, you need to log in to your chromebook with your old password one more time and re-sync.
I think it is because a lot of people still believe and repeat old trope which are demonstrably false these days. Despite having the worst keyboard, buying third party apps to have features which most of the other OS in the market provide as standard, more lock down of their OS every year, Apple fans continue to buy them. Appke's powerful marketing, which is full of weasel words, keeps them in their own bubble.
Same, yet Apple's System Status still has marked the software update issue as resolved
There was even a proposal a few years ago to make Cairo part of the C++ standard library:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n407...
great, so it has what 18 months before being killed off?
I think DDG is more of a legitimate competitor in the search space than other engines running off the Bing index. My understanding is that they've been pretty transparent about using Bing and Yandex as sources for its product, have done quite a bit of work to tailor the results they spit back, and maintain their own knowledge graph for features like instant answers. They seem to function more as a metasearch engine.

From ehat I've seen, search engines like Ecosia and Qwant aren't very clear about what they bring to the table, beyond serving as a proxy for Bing that doesn't store as much data on you.

I don't think there's anything explicitly wrong with that. But I don't think they really merit anybody's attention either. Especially since they don't explicitly advertise what they are.
It's only a matter of time and money: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mashable.com/article/apple-sear...
Consumer-oriented novelty obsession (new == better + secure) and code churn "job security." If something works and is quality for what it does, it works. Does "ls" really need to be perpetually maintained with minor, inconsequential refactorings if it already works perfectly?

If something has bugs or lacks features, then it needs maintenance. "Maintenance" for pushing out versions to fulfill expectations of "maintained" is pointless.
And since when CSGO is a GPU-demanding game?

You think "real games" are for "hard triers only", but it's just your point of view.
Yeah, I phrased that poorly. I meant to say that the the destructive power of nuclear weapons and the likelihood of full out nuclear war causing the total collapse of civilization is considered hyperbole now..?
I know 40 years seems long, but that's just one generation.

Looking at it from another perspective, that's incredibly quick for a useful idea to spread through the whole human race.

And some of that time is basically pre-internet, or at least widely accessible internet.
> The bank argues that those working from home are saving money and the tax creates a fairer system.

While some might be saving money from not driving to work every day, they're spending more in other places like their heating/AC bill, Water Bill, groceries if their employer provided any kind of food or snacks.

In my case I'm actually spending more working from home.

I was taking public transit to work which was affordable, my company had great snacks (but no full meals) so I could get by without eating breakfast and eat at work instead, my heat was automated to turn super low during the day while I was gone, and I didn't need to shell out for an AC Unit since I was gone for most of the day anyway.
He's not commenting how the problem should be viewed. He's communicating how he thinks most people view it. IOW, you're arguing what should be while he was talking about what is.
The email seems to imply that it's "dead" in that while it has an active community and active contributors, it doesn't have any active maintainers.
I think he's referring to a General Practitioner who IMO should really practice what the preaches. If doctor is unhealthy it doesn't exactly instill confidence.
Blend2d is still slower than skia. The only renderer that I know that could outperform skia is fastuidraw
Does a surviving civilization need/want to rely on the same processes that (may) have led to their outcome?
oh, well no that is certainly not the point i was making, actually ive never heard this narrative. maybe a cultural difference if this is being purpoted in the usa? nevertheless it doesn't change the point that accurate data > inaccurate data..
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Yes, we encourage customers to reach out to us, and this policy has (before today) already been applied to them as well.
As an Apple user of 10 years: I had no idea macos phones home like this.
Speaking as an ex-Google user and an ex-Apple customer (still tied to Apple Music and iCloud for family phones), I'd compare Google to Russia - not particularly benevolent, a bit chaotic/random, citizens tend to shrug and accept their lot. Apple is more like Singapore, slick, seemingly benevolent, citizens honestly question why the rest of the world isn't run the same way.

EDIT: I'd add another way in which Google is like Russia and Apple like Singapore. Everyone kinda knows that Russia's leaders are a bit/a lot evil. There's still a debate about whether Singapore's leaders are evil.
> they are trying to correct for society-wide discrimination

Ironically, it turns out that discrimination against minorities + discrimination against majorities = worse outcomes for everyone.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-pai...
But x86 and Intel are losing badly in the highest growth part of the market: mobile/smart phones.

Now $699 M1-based Mac mini is way faster than any Intel box in that price range and many that cost much more.

The benchmarks that are starting to come out are just nuts, favoring the M1.

Of course not all of the pieces are in place; that takes a while. But those developers that are on top of their game released universal versions of their apps that take full advantage of the M1 SoC and all of its benefits: unified memory, 8 CPU and GPU cores, Neural Engine, etc.

It's day 1 of Big Sur being available and customers haven't gotten their M1 Macs yet, though they'll have them in a few days.

In a couple of months, once the dust has settled and developers have gotten their hands on shipping hardware, people's understanding of what performance is possible on consumer-level hardware will be changed for good.

There are Hollywood studios already planning to replace their high-end, pro Macs with M1 Mac minis because they'll be faster than what they have: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/12/hollywood-thinks-...
Apple's plan to make you very very dependent, Enjoy
The Dell XPS range is probably the closest available currently.
A business doesn't pay the VAT, so the $700 basic M1 Mini is £583, which is $772.

The 10% might still be to account for the instability of the GBP.
Hokkaido town deploys 'Monster Wolf' robots to deter wild bears
I'm not entirely convinced of this argument myself, that it's impossible for us to "truly" understand how brains work .

However, I entirely agree with the sentiment: We don't necessarily understand brains now, but we don't dismiss their capabilities just because we can't explain precisely how they do what they do. By the same token, complex tools like deep learning shouldn't be dismissed just because we can't satisfactorily interpret them.
Exactly? Their comment doesn't follow at all. cirno asks why continued development is necessary. That isn't addressed at all by telling them to volunteer. They're asking why anyone at all needs to do that. The point being that cairo should be very mature and stable by now.
Honestly I found the multiple versions approach more complex, confusing and more hacky. A virtualenv is just “node_modules” that also contains a Python executable.

It’s a directory - you delete and create them at will, fast, and don’t worry or care about the system Python. Having some crazy setup that patches “require” to handle concurrently installed package versions seems insane, especially if you cannot actually use them concurrently in the same Ruby process. So, segmenting them by project (aka virtualenv) seems like the best solution.