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Can we not drag the standard trolling points into another thread? Anyone who’s done the numbers for real knows that “far more expensive” hasn’t been accurate since the 2000s and, well, the AMD GPUs in many Macs would suggest that you’re not very interested in making an accurate comparison.

Most people have multiple factors in their buying decisions. This means that Apple is able to avoid giving a negative on performance for people who value battery life and heat, and the competition will, as it always has, benefit everyone by punishing Intel for the mismanagement which has left everyone getting less for their money.
What about Deno, rather than Node? (I know almost nothing about either, sorry if this is a stupid question.)
No bank has ever charged me to hold my money. I'm 64 and lived the first half of my life in England and since then in Norway.

The only charges I have ever paid were for borrowing money.

Is it that the UK and Norway are unusual in not charging or is it the US that is unusual in charging?
Just as they remove plenty of other Unicode characters here.
Can someone explain what if any differentiators or advantages AirBnB has over its actual or potential competitors? What's their moat?

I recently rented a house for a weekend which was listed on both AirBnB and VRBO. I looked at both listings to get a more thorough feel for reviews etc. After a few days of contemplating whether to select this particular property, I ended up booking it on VRBO and I don't think there was even a reason why I picked one site over the other. If a butterfly had flapped its wings in China I'd have picked AirBnB.

I don't recall the user experience being much different on either site, and it seems like any property these days gets listed everywhere, so why is this particular market and AirBnB in particular such a darling?
What people seam to forget is, that SOC is the future, and an upgrade should be as simple as switching one chip. This also comes with a lot of benefit with locality and performance.
Discounts and design lead time.

Unlike modular desktops - you can't just drop in an AMD CPU into a laptop chassis and expect everything to work.
Pretty sure this is already a thing for NUMA systems, e.g. an Intel system with a pair of N-core processors. Each processor gets "its own" half of memory. Memory which belongs to the other processor is slower to access.

See also Linux cpusets (cset command), which can be used to control which NUMA nodes a process has access to.
The pledge itself is creepy but isn't a free speech issue. Compelled recitation of the pledge by agents of the state, like schools, at least to me, is.
So does catching covid
Why do you think they're good and smart, why do they think Covid19 is a hoax? Surely a good person would try to do the safe thing even if they had doubts.
Benchmarking JSON Parsers (OJ vs. SimdJson), 2x Faster Than StdLib
Take a look at this: https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing/t...

At the end of the day though, the allocation prior to trading starting in the secondary market is almost entirely discretionary on the part of the issuer and underwriters, and hard to access for the small-fry investor especially if there is a lot of interest.
Apple has already launched the Macbook Pro 13" M1 which does come with a fan for probably less throttling. The 16" version wasn't updated so I'm thinking they're planning something special for those.
What I don't understand is why there isn't a simple button when you land into a HTTP page to switch to HTTPS.

In the browser bar, to the left the address, you get an icon of a padlock, with a red slashed circle across it, and the word "Not secure".

Why can't you click on this to get a popup to switch to trying the HTTPS version of the URL?

You can click on it, you get to a read-only tree of information providing info about the site.

If you right click on it, you get a context menu popup about customizing the toolbar.
I don't think that makes any sense, considering that the RAM is not on the same die as the processor. It's on the module, yes, but they're not making it on the same process.

I realize this image is a schematic representation rather than an actual photograph, but here it is.

https://www.apple.com/v/mac/m1/a/images/overview/chip__fffqz...
> Given that we're seeing the same spike in our big, coastal metro areas

When taking the differences in total population and population density into account, the spikes in sparsely populated states like OK are nothing like the spikes in densely populated states like NY.
My experience on a similar trip was that virus diligence bottomed out in the Dakotas. I went to a restaurant, and their mask warning said something to the effect of "please wear a mask, if you don't we'll assume you have a health condition." Of course, the restaurant was filled to capacity without a mask in sight.
To be fair, a developer-worthy M1 machine is still going to be 'a little while'. But once that machine is out the previous model quickly ceases to be an option, so I have to sort it out based on speculation.
Thanks for the link, downloaded to read this evening :thumbsup:
I never update a machine I really need. My 2014 Mac Mini is on High Sierra and my 2015 MacBook Air is on Mojave. No updates even to Catalina for them.

Incidentally, because of lots of music, pictures, and videos, I boot the Mini from an external 4TB ssd. I have to hold down option. It doesn't even ask about the internal drive.

Another example of my motto of "good enough is good enough" is that my photo handler of choice is Picasa. Works fine on High Sierra. On Mojave, it complains five times with a popup before it starts, then runs OK. Weird.
Here in the Netherlands Jaap van Dissel (who holds a similar position to your Robert Redfield) remains unconvinced of the effectiveness of non-medical masks and argues they may do more harm than good. But admitting to trusting his expertise and judgement will probably get you downvoted around here.
Of course it's not "really" true and of course it's not "given"... it's just the sentiment. And the sentiment affects decision making a lot.
I like using terminal file managers for quickly traversing many nested directories, where I'm not sure where I want to go. I can use it to browse around and hjkl is familiar as a vim user.

With ranger[0], I can even use it as an alternative to cd, which is often the most convenient (I usually want a terminal in the last directory I browsed to, not the place where I opened the file manager[1]).

I hope to find a way to use nnn similarly, but it (like ranger) doesn't seem to support this out of the box.

[0]: https://github.com/ranger/ranger

[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/342064/ranger-cd-in...
Luckily that's a problem that academics have been working on since the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access

You'd be surprised how many modern OSes are at least partially NUMA aware. Even Java already has a non-uniform aware allocator.
> Early in my career, I noticed a mindset among senior developers disparaging ORM's with "I'll write my own SQL, thanks."

Hopefully they were justified in their choice.

Most senior developers I've worked with who started with this mindset, be it about an ORM, a framework, or some library that they did not understand or wanted to spend some time to learn, ended up just proving that these abstractions were not completely useless after all. How? By recreating their own vastly inferior and headache inducing implementations.

I believe that there's an additional layer of skills between seniority and mastery. The former seems to be just about time and experience, whereas the latter adds a dimension of pragmatism and detachment. You become just a craftsman using tools with indifference to nimbly navigate complexity. You don't blame your tools, you just understand them, strengths and weaknesses. You know when to leverage them and when to ditch them.
Bitcoin doesn’t compete with cash. It’s a speculative security. If I am holding cash and expecting some inflation hedge then I’m probably not an investor, or maybe I’m a stupid investor who won’t have much cash for long.

It’s this funny quasi status that I see lots of statements around. We need a digital currency. But currencies shouldn’t fluctuate or be primarily an investment since that makes it sucky as a currency.

For example, I had a friend who grew up in post-communist Yugoslavia. Their grandmother would send them to the grocery store with a thousand dinar (or whatever) to buy vegetables for dinner and the price would go up during the time to walk to the store. That sucked.

If I want to get a salary of 1 Bitcoin a year, and that varies in value from buying a month’s rent to six month’s rent that is not useful.

No currency is guaranteed to lose or gain value over a mid to long term. Venezuela will go away and change their currency, few are holding Venezuelan currency except people who live there and must use it to live. People there don’t want to switch to Bitcoin for many reasons like it’s volatile, shitty for transactions, and not as widely used. Last I heard they are trying to use dollars and maybe euros unless their government bans.

There are more countries that just use the dollar [0] and don’t think it would be wise for any to switch to Bitcoin. For all it’s weaknesses at least the US$ is fairly stable and tied to the USG that has some accountability. A country tied to a currency as manipulated as Bitcoin will be in a bad space.

The first stable government that comes out with a digital currency will be in a good macro place. But it won’t be a good speculative investment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_use_of_the_U.S._...
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BtcPayServer is decent
> Why do I have to transmit my requests from my phone to the cloud and then have it come back down to the device in my home?

Because if you could access it locally it wouldn't be in the cloud
It sounds stupid because that analogy doesn’t work. A surgeon can’t properly do most kinds of surgery on themselves, some are down right impossible. There’s nothing a mechanic can’t do to their car that they can’t do for their costumers.
I'd make a bet on Intel not turning around without new leadership at least willing to fling a gravitationally-significant pile of money at TSMC in the short term and significantly improve their pipeline in the medium to long term. They're so far behind now they're basically betting on everyone else screwing up. It's not just their position, though, it's their rate of change... their chip releases aren't getting faster as fast as AMD's or ARM's are, not by a long way.
Former Facebook leaders are now transition insiders
They're already selling a 13" MBP with this chip and a fan to reduce throttling
Canada Is Allowing People with Depression to Do Psychedelic Mushrooms
> Their machines are still far more expensive than Windows

Are they? I just checked now for US prices:

13‑inch MacBook Pro (Intel Core i5) 32GB = $2059

13-inch Dell XPS (Intel Core i7) 32GB = $2099

These are both the cheapest options available for my desired configuration (32GB RAM and 13-inch screen), and MacBook has far superior build quality, trackpad and OS.

Probably for different specs MacBooks are comparatively more expensive (if you need powerful CPU or GPU) but for a "developer" use (where my main constraint is RAM, i.e. the number of apps I can have open at once) Apple isn't actually that expensive.
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>we have made a very big mistake by turning this issue into political one. For example, by criticizing Trump on his COVID-19 plan

Huh? "We" have made a very big mistake by turning this issue into a political one. However, the mistake was in failing to criticize Trump from the very beginning. Twitter should have canceled his account when he put out that tweet calling COVID a hoax (in March?). Corporate America should have stood up in a united fashion and put out a pro-mask/anti-Trump message. Every health care administer should have put out PR immediately debunking Trump's nonsense. The idea that we should have avoided criticizing the guy who stupidly made this thing political in the first place is just crazy to me.
The ram is not on the same chip/die as M1, it's another chip that's put in the same package. Increasing RAM will not affect apple's yields at all since the RAM dies are not made by apple and are not 5nm
Yeah, this.

Once something is publicly shared, it is permanently public, no matter what the platform tells you.
Like the sibling post said, you're probably seeing certificate errors caused by the portal, not traffic being allowed to captive.apple.com.

With http, a captive portal system will intercept your connection and redirect you to the portal authentication page. Most modern devices deal with it automatically by checking those plain http urls when the network comes up. For example, I think the way it works on iOS is that when you connect to a WiFi network the OS tries to hit http://captive.apple.com which triggers the redirect and prompts you for authentication.

With https, there's no way to have a valid TLS certificate for a random site the user is connecting to (ex: captive.apple.com), so you get a TLS error if you're attempting to connect to an https site while the portal is trying to redirect you for authentication.
I agree completely since for large projects 16GB is barely enough to run Bazel. I know that's kind of sad but often Bazel wants to load large graphs into memory. Combined with the fact that the graphics are stealing part of main memory, I don't think I'm going to be happy with 16GB. I ordered one anyway, but I don't expect to be too psyched about the reality of it when it gets here.
For some projects, linking non-stripped binaries can take huge amounts of virtual memory. At least on ELF/DWARF platforms with the Gnu linker.

Not sure if that applies here, since I assume the Mac will be using the LLVM linker, and Mach-O != ELF.
By definition, the median IQ is 100.
This feels fishy somehow; we need a more thorough in-depth look at exactly what is being compiled in both instances (I've seen projects that build half the object files on different architectures). It's likely not a 1:1 comparison on actual amount of code being compiled and linked.

It will be awesome if accurate, but I think we need more data.
Servo was never tightly integrated with a sizeable browser project. It shared some components with Firefox, but the only time Servo itself was inside an actual browser release was Firefox Reality for AR. Which still exists, though I'm not sure what the future of development for it will look like.
I've found apps made with JUCE https://juce.com/ always look great and have really good responsiveness.

Now on the JVM front, I think one problem it has for desktop apps is the memory usage of the JVM is just terrible for desktop apps. It's clearly optimized for backend services assuming they are the only app running trying to squeeze all performance out. But a desktop app needs to be lean, and currently I'm not sure the JVM is tuned to those use cases, and Java is missing a few features for lightweight objects that could help as well with memory usage.
i bought a likebook mars for this same app reason. has an sd card and can run syncthing too so i can read pdfs without fuss
> I hate to be so blunt, but 50% of the population has IQ below 100.

This is by design. IQ scores are a normal distribution with a mean of 100...
Not to mention the e-waste and the inability for users to upgrade their own devices.

I wonder what the performance cost was of having standard memory modules. I suspect it wasn't significant and this is more of a move to prevent upgrade and increase consumption and waste.

This is another reason I really don't ever want to own another Apple device. They want more and more control over the system and they keep moving to policies that reduce the ability of regular people to repair. The performance benefit doesn't really seem worth it if I can't run any other operating systems except macOS on it.
> With ranger, I can even use it as an alternative to cd

cd on quit works in nnn as well... and many other file managers.
We've got a Windows 10 box at every TV. Aside from games, it's just so much faster and ad-free compared to using a Smart TV/Roku/Apple TV/etc. They're also easier to operate with a Logitech K400r keyboard and touchpad. Add an XBox controller and a decent GPU and it's just like using a console but with cheaper games.

You don't need to build an expensive gaming PC either. My 4 year old i5/GTX1070/16gb/SSD still plays all the games I want it to. I can even play at 4K. I expect this $900 machine to last me at least a couple more years.

If you just want to watch YouTube/Netflix/etc on your couch and do some very light gaming though, check out what you can get for ~$200 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B8VX5HZ
What can you do on Linux that you can't do on macOS?
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Traveling makes absolutely no difference when both the place you're traveling from and the place you're traveling to have widespread virus transmission.
Spain did do real lockdowns and it worked. And then they stopped doing real lockdowns. So it is in fact supported by the evidence.
I'm not so sure. Some people simply need Windows and now you can't Bootcamp on ARM Macs so people will take the best Windows laptop instead.
Ansible/SaltStack are far from minimalistic
Ok, I have an upcoming writing project and decided: why not? So I made my $19.99 purchase for a good cause.

But Hemingway is a bit of an island. Once you have a document ready, how do you use that creation?

You can export in .doc format (good).
But one can only import a .docx format.

Why is that?
First of all... WOW! This is an exciting project. Second of all, the blog is beautifully designed and has a hilarious author portrait at https://tonsky.me/projects/. He appears to be from either Florida or Okinawa, not sure which.
It's not magic memory, it's LPDDR4X-4266 or LPDDR5-5500. These work just fine without being in-package, so it's purely a cost cutting decision.
I think the pre-existing condition is what scares me the most. There have been studies on people who recovered from SARS, and these people still suffer from fatigue and brain fog over 4 years later.
I actually feel like 16GB is pretty much the sweet spot. I've built a desktop PC recently and didn't bother with 32GB and haven't had any troubles. The only time I've run into limits is when I was doing things like running games and big IDEs at the same time which seems like a waste in any case regardless of how much RAM is available.
All CPUs throttle, all of the time. It's been years since anyone shipped a high-performance processor without a closed-loop dynamic thermal control system.
I don't think the constitution requires you to smoke? Just like it doesn't require you not to wear a mask. So given you can freely choose to wear a mask and help save lives and reduce the severity of this pandemic, why would you not?
Given the build quality, screen, performance, and battery life- Apple isn't really premium pricing anymore.

The Dell XPS 13 starts at 999, the Lenovo X1 carbon starts at 949- at equivalent pricing- and the new Air outperforms both of those.
OTOH in zero g a mirror needn't support its own weight. A shade would eliminate temperature fluctuation. Naively I'd expect it should be practical for a very large, very lightweight telescope mirror to be built in situ in space instead of trying to launch and unfold one built on Earth.

I guess the big problem for that right now is that for humans to do the building, it'd have to be in low orbit, a less-than-ideal environment for a long-lived scientific instrument. (Just kibbitzing, am not a rocket scientist.)
Wonder how SPAs will load on Intel after developers get used to building them on M1.
It's not just Taiwan, it's all of East Asia. At this point it's beyond irresponsible for people to keep comparing the US's handling to other Western nations – EA showed how it's done (in both democratic and autocratic societies), but we have some weird cultural blind spot that makes us not want to see.
I was doing a proof of concept work on transferring a mercurial repo to git, following the official documentation. I then used push --all to copy all the changes to the shiny new bitbucket server (corporate decision, we didn't had the choice...) then wonder why all the tags were missing. Apparently, by default push --all doesn't push the tags...
The point being made is that the processors that they will package with more memory are going to exist on larger dies. When you increase die size you decrease yield so you need to have a mature process.
Yeah that's the reality. It's true that Apple hardware is expensive, but the reality really is that you can buy less expensive and also cheaper products than Apple sells. But if you want to buy something of the same quality as an Apple product, you're paying Apple-like prices.

There are cheaper Android phones than the cheapest iPhone, but if you want iPhone-like specs and vendor support and build quality, you're paying $600-$1000 just like Apple charges. You can buy $200 Windows laptops or Chromebooks but if you want the MacBook-like performance and vendor support and build quality, you're paying $1000-$2000. Compare the excellent Galaxy S to an iPhone, or the excellent Dell XPS (or X1 Carbon or Surface etc) to a Macbook and you'll find similar excellent performance and similar excellent build quality for a similarly expensive price.

The reality is that Apple only competes in the higher end of the markets. There are cheaper options but anything that's directly comparable to an Apple product is going to be priced similarly to an Apple product.
I think it almost has to be that way, no? If it was available on the website or third party clients, it would be trivially easy for someone to write an app that archives everyone's "ephemeral" tweets and stores them permanently, defeating the entire purpose.

I mean, I foresee that happening anyway, but my guess is that this is an attempt to make it more difficult/less widespread.
I'm not a huge fan of targeted advertising but this strikes me as pretty hyperbolic.
Here is The Verge's test with 30 minute Cinebench loop.

It seems that from now on the only difference between Air and Pro is that Air throttles down to about 70 % in sustained mode while Pro's cooling keeps up.

(Also, even thermally throttled M1 destroys my current 4C/8T 4 GHz Haswell desktop, which is beyond powerful for everything I need.)

https://twitter.com/keff85/status/1328740865926459400
NY: 231 cases per million
SD: 1609 cases per million

https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/
People in the healthcare system are doing the best they can, putting their lives at risk to help people, with insufficient resources.

Every should be very, very angry. It should be directed at politicians and corporations, not middle or working-class individuals trying their best.
I'm still on the first Win 10 free update version from 3-4 years ago. Never updated. The OS begs, threatens and finally just attempts to download an update without my permission but fails everytime as Ive taken great pains to keep my disk space at less than 5gigs. Works fine except everyfew hours i get blasted witg a fullscreen "windows could not update"

I get that Mac is a dodgy OS. Windows is pure gangsterism.
I'll try phrasing it better next time, perhaps using OR or ||...
But only after 10+ minutes of full load according to tests. And only after 30 minutes do you get noticeably performance drops (around 20% or so).

For developers, for instance, I really doubt you're going to commonly have 30 minutes of full load in your normal workflow.