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If you pay software engineers to code up a well understood system with well understood tooling you're doing something wrong imo. You should instead pay for a COTS solution. Software engineers solve the parts of your business problems that don't have well understood solutions yet.
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This is what I’d like to subscribe to.

But then I see the astronomical costs of nuclear in present day, and can’t make sense of it. Especially when compared to the huge fleet of older nuclear plants, which on the whole seem safe-ish at least, and didn’t bankrupt the states who built them.

Can’t quite square that up.
I think it’s fairly simple to avoid this by buying hardware that is proven to be effective with the OS. E.g. buy a machine with *buntu preinstalled.

Same as with mac really.
So we should give up? I reject that attitude, there is always something we can do. It's up to us.
"Disposable, unrepairable, bloated junk" describes pretty much all non-business laptops these days. I don't think Lenovo is special (and the Yoga often reviews as "good for the price")
Most Bluetooth devices work fine for me with Fedora, but I still haven't been able to get my Bose quietcontrol headphones to work correctly - they pair but then start playing random noises and telling me there's an incoming call.

I have some wired headphones I prefer in general so haven't messed around with it too much, but it's been a source of frustration when I've been away from home and needed to do a call with only the Bose ones on me
Agreed. I don't get the fuzz about pip/setuptools/virtualenv. I have shipped and deployed Python code countless times, never encountered an issue a `setup.py` couldn't solve.
On twitter one of the Docker Eng. posted that they are at present working on docker support for Apple Silicon (sorry did not bookmark it so can't provide a link)
We're already used to being unable to deploy code due to a GitHub or NPM outage. I don't think this will persuade the corporate people with the money to invest in switching. By analogy, look at how many staff hours are wasted supporting IE.
There's some confusion in the thread, in the fact that there's a mixup between operating systems and programs (or classes of programs), however the parent was referring to operating systems:

> The alternatives are still completely unusable by most people.

Otherwise the statement wouldn't make sense.
Push is absolutely optional. A great device, but still very much optional.
io1 also has a slight better performance than gp2
x86 is an extremely messy ISA, but what about it has been stagnant? New instructions are pretty much every year.
My favourite was 'How can I help?' with response 'You are surely helping already'.
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You often expect this service to be included with a payment processor that is already charging you for transactions.
Why is it unrealistic to build carbon capture technology that is much more efficient at carbon-capture than trees?

Trees aren't optimizing for carbon-capture, so they're probably leaving a lot of efficiency on the table.
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I was hoping for drop bears.
As with most technical challenges, scale is always an issue.

Depopulating a city is relatively easy and achievable with conventional bombs. A small country would only be moderately more difficult with nuclear weapons. After this, things get much harder.

Sure, enough nukes could finish off the human race, but that's out of the price range for most shoppers in this market. In the long term, climate change might do it, but who's got that sort of time? You're probably left with something like a biological agent, a pathogen of some sort, and still run the risk of pockets of people hiding away or being immune. Still, let's say you did it, it worked, humans are gone. Yay! You destroyed the world! Right?

No. You extinguished one species. You have a long way to go on the entire world.

So you put your mind to it. Defoliation agents for the plants, the cast of Deadliest Catch to get the crabs (you planned ahead and saved them from the nuclear fallout), a few billion tons of boric acid for the roaches-- get it all covered. Yay, party time?

Again, no. If you were meticulously thorough, you killed all life, but really the project has just begun. Everything is dead, but it's all still here. The Earth is still here. And if you thought rooting out the last extremophiles was hard work, you've never had to try & sweep 6 * 10^24 kg of mass under the rug.

Do you break it up? Is that enough? Technically it's still there and if you leave it it will all just accrete back together. So maybe you decide to push it into the Sun, either piece by piece or all at once, depending on on your level of godhood.

Finally, you can relax. Cut yourself a nice piece of "I destroyed the world" cake. Have a beer... ... ... Ehh, maybe don't eat the cake or drink the beer. You didn't really destroy the world, of it's matter sti exists. It's not gone, it's just molten.

So no cake for you. In fact, it will be a long long time before you see any cake coming your way.
Even all they did was be a private middleman that would still be useful.

That’s assuming that the users’ goal is to avoid be tracked rather than just replacing Google with Microsoft.

If Bing themselves wanted to get on the HN first page all they have to do is go all in on privacy.
Prices in France are TTC (Toutes Taxes Comprises, all taxes included), the VAT in France is 20% so if you take 20% off 1400€ you end up with 1159€ which is $1370. So in the end the MBP is a bit cheaper in France than in the US.
https://www.eff.org/cases/2018-dmca-rulemaking

Something they've participated in every 2 years since 2000, as documented here: https://www.eff.org/cases?group=0-9
What if the Southern Hemisphere isn't targeted? Fallout will mostly effect the northern hemisphere, and if there isn't a nuclear winter (or a milder one than projected), then the damage will be largely economic to those nations. But their infrastructure and ability to grow food would remain intact.

I suppose refugees and the political vacuum created would be significant problems.
Linux awaits and then when it comes it borks WLAN driver, because canonical decided to replace a perfectly working one with WIP FOSS alternative, forcing users to switch to cable LAN until it reached feature parity.

Linux awaits and then when it comes it borks AMD driver, because AMD decided not to support older cards on the new FOSS driver, and the old perfectly working driver is not compatible with modern kernels, driver ABI be dammed.

Linux awaits and then when it comes it breaks hard disk encryption forcing a full install, and feeling lucky that I actually backup /home regurlarly.

Linux awaits and then when it comes half of the stuff doesn't work in Wayland.

Eventually I rather just deal with macOS, Windows, Android and leave Linux just for the kernel itself.
You can get an extensive screening for around 120 here in Amsterdam. Probably more expensive if I go through official doctor and have to pay it with eigen risico (first few 100 euros of healthcare you pay yourself).
Interesting. I suppose there are, then, still some serious issues to resolve. I guess for now I can just be glad I did not go with Bose QCs instead :)
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Sorry, but please can you point to any real evidence that Apple allows state-level actors access? From what I can see it is exactly the opposite.

I am not an advocate for big brother.
Our whole cloud procurement strategy is based on this page https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/services-in-scope/

Just yesterday I selected SNS for a project instead of a local provider because AWS put it through the security audits we care about and we don't win prizes for spending time on these decisions.
I'm a bit lost. I was under the impression that Docker (and containerisation in general) works based on kernel namespaces, which, IIUC, is a way to instantiating distinct subsystems in the kernel, on demand. What does hardware support for virtualization have to do with it? I mean, for VMWare or VirtuaBox, yes, I can imagine; but does that matter for Docker? Can someone explain?
1. I'm not that much of a linux-guy but almost everything I derive pleasure from in programming is fairly close to the metal, e.g. microarchitectural benchmarking and tracing are probably the two things I've been doing the most recently and you can't even get close to them on MacOS. If I spend that much on a new ARM machine that's what I want to be doing

1.5) I like the GPL, apple doesn't

2. I like apple's hardware in a vacuum. As much as the company leaves a bad taste in my mouth (there is a deeply pretentious streak to Apple's approach to their users), they make nice cases and such.
If by this decade you mean 2010 - 2020, I have enough Linux examples.
You might be also interested by Olivier Rey's book Une question de taille (not translated into English yet AFAIK), which shows that this 'huge issue' that is the 'matter of size' goes much farther than just the GAFAMs (though they are probably unprecedented in their growth speed ? Maybe only Alexander comes close ?)
"Just well enough" may not be enough to rebuild society with. The Greeks didn't lack the knowledge of how to make a steam engine - they had novelty steam engines - but they lacked the industrial base that could actually make them productive.
Thanks for the mention, even though I am not sure how this will be useful to test an API?
That oscp server must be compiling a huge set of stats on application usage. That doesn't sound right, privacy-wise.
The two party system is outdated. While Democrats fight for unlimited abortion up to birth, republicans fight to end the world. There's no sane middle ground. There is political room for a third middle party.
Dudes are you kidding me? Just subscribed on some interesting comments and not read all comments, but wait a minute. Is only macOS has a big shitty update every year? Look at another technologies, don't you see them?

All world has breaking released apps and some things still watching you, example windows.

My comment addressed to some dudes, not at all things which placed here.
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Why are we entertaining this utterly wrong article? It is myopically naive on a very dangerous topic.
Because they let infocom companies like Skype and Nokia to be sold to outsiders ?
Lately it does effectively sounds like a magic pill.
Signal uses centralised servers controlled by one organisation. It could interoperate with other servers, but the Signal organisation forbids it. I don't see how using Signal leads to freedom from control by an organisation.
In Europe, particularly in the richer countries such as Scandanavia those are generally not a problem. A few years ago a friend from Denmark said that the whole country had 16 homeless people. Obviously there are people who have problems but I think those run deeper than just not being able to afford the basics.
Docker on Mac and Windows both use virtual machines to run a Linux OS, which then runs Docker normally.
Docker for mac is slow that's true, but seamless filesystem and network forwarding means that exactly the same instructions work for linux and mac team mates
IIRC that thought process was where DDG started some years back now. It was developed in the open wrt HN, by a then HN regular.

My recollection is they started by doing their own crawling.

(I want to say the username was Weinberg?? But honestly can't recall if that's right.)

TBH it's probably also the thought that Google started on, as principally we had manual indexes back then.

Again IIRC, DDG got along way with private indexing and then realised it didn't really gain them much and they instead wanted to focus on being a Google competitor. They did that by focusing on instant answers as a distributing feature and by buying results to get closer to the coverage they needed.

Lucky for them Google made their search a lot worse so DDG's quality caught up.
Welp, I won't be updating today then, not unless they fix that.
They really screwed this one up. Negative privacy impact, unreliable services, features lost.
I think the opposite ie that every nice place in the world is destroyed by a well functioning hierarchy. Say Romania, where you had lots of small agriculture - when they joined the EU, big agra moves in and as part of the agricultural policies, small farms are converted to big ones, that follow the worst agricultural practise. This is by design. Where you had unique expressions, once the system is in place, what you have is well-ordered people and Starbucks. It is based in fear. It is not our natural state.

Hierarchies are not transparent. If you are in a corporation, do you know what you boss is aiming for? What his boss's targets are? None of them are accountable. They would fire others in a sec if it was expedient for them. The system itself, makes people act daily like conmen, thieves. It turns people inside out - to take care of others is to fail financially - look at nursing.

Hopelessly naive is right. I don't care. I only have to answer to myself, and my heart and intuition. I don't want to be a part of the ever-increasing dystopia we are creating for ourselves. I judge for myself what is 'good' and act accordingly. I think that at the end of this experience we judge ourselves and our actions here. Our time here might not be all we experience. (Yes, I think the materialistic expression of our lives is a lie too.) I hope I am able to say I took the time to understand myself, to find out what's right, to have taken some actions in that direction. And I don't mean giving to so-called charitable organisations!
I like the structural type system, but it's not my experience that the power of it is unquestionably a good idea to use for long lived projects. The simpler something is, the easier it is to maintain.
This will become less of a problem over time as more M1’s make it into the wild.

What gives me pause moreso than this is the absence of the touchscreen and Face ID, which are very obviously coming in the next refresh (iPad app support without touch?).

As impressive as the new MacBooks are, they’re very clearly a stopgap solution so as not to replace everything all at once.
This is only true if you don’t use GitHub for reviews/issue tracking/etc. You’re correct that it’s trivial to move the code, but that’s only a fraction of the critical history and tooling for a large collaborative project.
Yes, but framing it like that that won't rise to the top and get people to pay attention to all the other important things he has to say.
It works as you understand on Linux. For Windows and macOS, Docker use virtualisation to do contenatisation on Linux kernel instead.
It died off because it's more commonplace now. Lots of people are taking meal replacements.
Yup, yup. I deploy statistical models with Python, and these always have C dependencies.

Additionally, they are part of a larger application, which is mostly managed by pip, which means that I need both pip and conda which is where things get really, really hairy.

I actually blame Google and FB here, as neither of them use standard python dependency management tools, and many of their frameworks bring in the world, thus increasing the risk of breakage.
And probably a ruse to amass application usage stats.
Just continue this thread of contrarianism, I doubt we could eradicate human knowledge from the planet if we tried at this point. It is encoded in our minds, our books and our silicon chips.

We may lose the know-how / capacity to produce certain things, such as we did with Damascus steel or roman concrete, but we are an endlessly resourceful species. I place my faith in our ability to adapt and come up with new solutions as required.
We could have a Chernobyl level even every year or two and it'd still kill fewer people than coal.

There may well turns out to be safer options in the long term, but in the short term almost anything that shortens the lifetime of coal plants is a good thing, because worldwide coal kills more people every year than the nuclear industry has killed combined in its entire lifetime.
Other democratic countries are not that far behind in ideology. There is however more wiggle room with more parties in play.
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Well, i think the (honestly quite basic) climate model that came into being in 1974 is 95% accurate then, since it predicted the rise in average temperature until 2020.

What climate modelists do is take the data from 1950, put that in their models, and see how well ir predict the temperature and hydrometry of different areas. I think what they were working on in the 2010s was how much the artic polar circle was at risk of breaking more often, and what that would mean for the average temperature (not much) and precipitations (probably drier winters/springs in europe). Sadly they did not amke prediction about how much the polar winds descending south would kill buds and take a toll on orchards.
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That's fine for e-mail. My photos are what I want to keep.
Yeah, if PyPi was as annoying as Cran with respect to new versions, then a lot of this pain would go away.

For those who don't realise, when there's a new version of R, anything that doesn't build without errors/warnings is removed from the archive.

This is really annoying if you want something to keep running, but it prevents the kind of dependency rot common to Python (recently I found a dependency that was four years out of date).
Maybe because Germans have a history with state surveillance?
Apple has been a part of PRISM since 2012. Apple is a US company, and bound by law to give access when push comes to shove.
Not sure if you seen the latest incarnation: https://www.ultimate-adom.com/

As far open sourcing the code is concerned, I remember the author said that it would open-up some secrets which players would otherwise will have to discover. E.g existence of "inn of the red rooster"
I'm not disputing that IronPython can be useful (although one also has to consider https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet, which wraps CPython into an IronPython-like projection). But if it can't share the library ecosystem, it might as well be a different language for all practical purposes. And it turned out that there aren't enough people who were interested in a Python/.NET combo for its own sake, so it remained niche. Any new implementation of Python on top of .NET VM would likely get similar reception for all the same reasons.
Maybe there should be!
As a fall-back (in case the universe-destroying resources are busy), you could also sort the list classically if the quantum randomization didn't do it. There'd still be that one lucky-bastard-universe that gets all the sorting done in O(1)...
As a side note though, please never do this. Our simulators would pull the plug really quickly if we deliberately caused state explosions like that.
All things are temporary. If Apple is consistently ahead in efficiency at any given point in time that's what it means to be ahead.
Switzerland won't stay neutral and definitely isn't some untouchable fantasy land; it has to be stored outside the boundaries of individual countries, ergo, decentralized solutions like some other commenters mentioned. Git is great for that. I wonder if, in addition to IFPS and the like that were mentioned, if there is a tracker or index of git remotes out there - just a big list of servers hosting git, ranging from the big ones like github to someone's raspberry pi hooked up to the internet to idk, usb sticks in a geocache.
I find it interesting how everyone is running towards "tests are fake" or "they are just doing it for the money", and no one considers the implications if his experience is demonstrative; how many people test negative, and feel more comfortable spending time with others (family, people they live with etc), while potentially still positive?
Setting up Ubuntu was easy enough. But the file manager locks up regularly, switching between multiple windows of the same app with alt+tab doesn't work reliably, and I actually had to Google how to create a new folder. The stock picture viewer is lacking information such as ICC profile and when I installed the recommended Gimp, it was a mess of windows and the save dialog was horrible.

I suffer through all of it because I need docker with gpu support, but it's honestly a lot worse than what I expected.
Increased Nuclear power means few thousand nuclear plants 1000s of metric tons of nuclear waste generated every year. A 1 giga watt nuclear power plant produces 20-30mton of nuclear waste a year. where the fuck will the world store 20-30000 mton of nuclear waste every year.
Absolute panic is not the best response, even to a civilization ending event. Calm rational understanding is required to evaluate the true nature of the threat. Not to downplay it but purely to understand it. No one is saying disarmament is less critical. Please be willing to examine a truth that might counter a narrative that can be used to motivate the world in a positive direction. To do so should not be seen as herecy. We live in very tribal times please do not assume someone pointing out an inconvenient truth is opposed to everything you believe in.
Knowing you have a stealth ICBM doesn't change a thing if there is no way for the other side to defend against the non-stealth ones, so it wouldn't be a deterrent to most possible adversaries, but the optics of disclosing such a thing developed in, say, the 90s wouldn't be great.

Those that might conceivably try to defend themselves against conventional ICBMs are few and might very well know such a thing exists, it may work as a deterrent in that context.

If such a thing exists at all, not quite sure how you might make an ICBM stealthy, couldn't think of a way to hide launch and reentry signatures...
> Why in God's name do people agree to participate in so-called "telemetry" and submit to whatever changes Apple wants to make in the OS, without question, in the form of "updates".

I have automatic updates enabled because I trust the vendor who makes my distro to act broadly in my interests. If I discover they've done something I don't like, I can switch to a different vendor and get mostly the same software from them instead.

The answer to your question is that these people trust Apple. I don't understand why.
> It is our belief that the repo as a whole represents a circumvention tool in violation of 1201 and therefore needs to be removed.

"Their belief" is meaningless, to get a circumvention tool removed they need a court order.
Mac dominates nothing, the great majority of PC out there are running Windows. If you are talking about hardware then DELL, Lenovo, Asus and co all have excellent high end computers. Becoming slave to Apple is 100% a choice.
Even so, I install Ubuntu on a wide range of machines, laptops included, and I can't recall having any hardware related issues since, oh, 2005 or so?

Parent must be very unlucky, or in fact not realise it is their tweaking and tuning that causes issues.
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I find ADOM to have more intriguing story-line + multiple endings. Also I find few quirks endearing. E.g your first kill matters. If you have killed 50 goblins then you will have to descend that many levels in infinite dungeon for some other questline.
Of course they would.

But given the beneficiaries of open source software it would be hard to construe as charity, really. Just a bung to tech companies.
You do know that "heads on a pike" is a figure of speech? Colbert depicts Stephen Miller's head on pike in one of his shows[0]. Are you going to have the speech police cancel him too? I doubt it. You just don't like ideas you disagree with and you're just looking for an excuse to get rid of them.

0: https://youtu.be/IXUMbz3U920?t=70
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