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What's a NATO setup?

A conventional strap is in two pieces, so if one pin attaching it to the watch body fails you lose the watch. A NATO strap loops under both pins as a single piece, so if one pin fails, the watch is still attached by the other.

99% of people you see wearing a NATO strap will never be in a situation where they might have this problem mind you!
You need to step back one more level from "The iPhone buyer does not get a say" to "The phone buyer does get a say"; buy an iPhone or buy an Android device if you have an issue with their business arrangements.

"They are buying a shiny object that makes their brain give them the happy juice."

That doesn't sound unlike many voters of all sorts to me!
Yep, still OpenGL 4.1 and OpenCL 1.1. It goes through AppleMetalGLRenderer on Apple Silicon Macs.

You might want to look at: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zink-mac... though. Maybe there'll be more interest for a direct OpenGL to Metal layer not built by Apple in the future, for having a newer feature set.
Agreed. Apple could be lying, but they (top executives) have stated multiple times that the mac is not an iDevice. They have also stated they have no plans to only allow installs from app store, and they understand the value of tools like brew etc...They are what makes the mac popular with developers.

This could all change, but until it does articles like this feel a lot like FUD. Additionally, completely dismissing the M1 as a 'marginal improvement' shows a level of anti-Apple that is clearly clouding the authors judgement.
No, it means deploy everything we have as fast as we can. If we have a choice prefer the mRNA vaccines as they seem to be more effective. If you are in a city with cold storage abilities (most have this already, though how much...) the Pfizer is better, but only to reserve the Moderna vaccine for those who don't live so close to cold storage.

The Oxford is best only if you either live in a very remote place, or are a very poor place. If you rely on the oxford vaccine it will be a little longer to get herd immunity, but overall your costs will be cheaper.

But I must reemphasize, the above is only about logistics. Because most people live in cities, all vaccines will be distributed in big cities just to get the numbers they need. What ever vaccine you are offered first is the one to take. You personally are unlikely to be offered a choice other than take it or leave it.
I'm not an expert by any means, but I do know that a lot of the speed comes from moving along the CHEAP-FAST side of the CHEAP-FAST-SAFE triangle, without necessarily changing anything on the FAST-SAFE axis. In particular, governments paid for the companies to start producing enough vaccines for phase 3 trials before phase 1 was complete, while normally drug companies would wait for phase 1 to be completed before preparing for phase 2 for economic reasons.
Show HN: Sortzy States, Using sorting for meaningful learning
We have been playing around with this idea that comparative learning is much more meaningful than rote memorization. Then when the pandemic hit and so many kids were forced to learn from home, we decided to push harder and publish something. Sortzy States is the product of that effort and would love your feedback on it as both a learning tool and a fun game.
Trump was never popular, at least if you define 'popular' as having positive approval ratings. Maybe in inauguration week. Not afterward[0]. He was obviously popular with some people, but not the country as a whole.

Not sure why reading a censored German press would give you an accurate view of public opinion, either; and the German citizens' writings will vary depending on which citizens you read, and how circumspect they were about writing.

[0]: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/...
People can disagree about what's related to work. They can do so in bad faith by starting fights for personal prestige, or by trying exclude topics just because they are served by the status quo. Or they can do so in good faith, because something impacts the working life or effectiveness of some people in ways that aren't obvious to others.

My list was about how the US has more issues requiring good faith discussion, which certainly opens the door to bad faith as well.

As far as using "let's stay away from politics" as a magic wand to shut down a topic, you are expecting people to agree with you about what belongs at work without discussion or judgement. I think companies and individuals can make things more efficient by clearly articulating a mission, and by proactively taking a stance about how hot-button issues relate to that mission or not. But nothing is going to exempt you from judgement when people disagree, and there's always the chance that you really are the bad guy. That's life with other humans.
Things that will go wrong in a distributed system
Same experience, we heard "proprietary chip," and the prototype flew to the dumpster.

By the time Apple realised their blunder, the market was already flooded with $10 wifi lightbulbs which used the dumbest protocol around, but, unlike Apple's thing, they simply worked.

Google Thread was from the same opera. Google demanded too many ceremonies, but in the end nobody bothered with Google Home because competitors released products faster than Google's lawyers came back from lunch.
Lacks an ethernet port!
Compared to what?

$2-3k for a dev laptop since forever, innit?
I think OP was wondering why "penis" was excluded from the HN title when it's part of the article's title.
Does Intel has a dramatically superior architecture? Tough to tell right now, given the process deficit.

And anyways, is this transition entirely about performance? Apple is obviously selling it like that, but it seems like they really want the ability to fine-tune the architecture and SoC to their needs. And they’re not the only company with the desire and capital to make that happen; Microsoft, Amazon, Google, they all must desire on some level to finesse systems to meet their specific needs, and Intel isn’t in that business.
I kind of is, if you squint. The payload of the adenovirus vector is DNA.
That's weird. I'm running a mail server at Hetzner for years now and never got a mail rejected. Maybe you just got bad luck with the IP, which could be flagged at Spamhaus, etc.
Full cyberdeck vibes, I love it!
Love this - simple and easy to use. Looking forward to giving this a try. Thanks for putting the work into this - great job!
Pataphysics
>I don’t think there is anything that suggests Apple is going to stop people from installing Apps outside their App Store

Of course there are things that suggest this, such as, that is how iphones and ipads work, and its become increasingly difficult over time to do it on a mac.
This was my entry to HA too. A TPLink HS100 turns on my espresso machine and posts to slack when it has done so. It also posts to slack when I turn it off as it’s a bit of a monster and I don’t always remember to switch it off, so I can check.
Simple additive operation versus economists macroeconomic education for squeezing margins at scale using ML logistics

I don’t really see how you think you’re winning when constrasting how those deals are driven, and ignore deflation of your buying power to prop up the wealth of the gerontocracy monopolizing it

Glad you got a couple bucks off groceries last month. Your count every nickle and dime ways sure are inspired
Hope so, but Apple implemented the wholesale Metal Only (not Metal Only unless you run a command in terminal) update which killed off using Nvidia cards for those of us who bought MBPs for eGPUing Nvidia cards. Considering Apple hardware doesn’t have a Nvidia option and people like me are probably niche to bring their own GPU (even though CUDA exists), it’d be highly unrealistic to think that Nvidia would rewrite their drivers for Metal because the affected users has to be quite small.

I hope you’re right, but personally, I don’t trust Apple to allow me to do what I wish anymore.
Intel has access to most of the same machines TSMC has.

OK, but, where’s the beef? Intel has been stuck for a long time now. Do we know the management and corporate culture can catch up?
> [I]nvestigators have pinpointed a fake Zoom invite opened by one of the fund's cofounders...

By doing so, the hacker was able to install a malicious software program that gave them access to the fund's email system which they used to send off fake invoices [to the fund’s trustees and administrator for the amount of approximately AUD 8 700 000, of which AUD 88 000 was paid.]

Edit: Note that there was a lapse of diligence on the payer’s side as well.
Show HN: Replace any color or object from a video with a transparent background
Well, I should have been more precise. There is GUI for switching system into 'permissive security' mode that does not check system signatures [1] but user still needs to first turn SIP off using terminal in recovery mode.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/TsXQiHj.jpg
Yeah full disclaimer. I started working on it before I saw bvckup2 and then at some point came across it and then could not unsee it design wise so you're right. Some things are very heavily inspired off their awesome design.

Outside of the main window though, lots of other things are quite different and completely independently arrived at. Bvckup2 doesn't have third party storage support so everything else requires a fundamentally different UI to work in BlobBackup. Look at the settings windows and the menus for example.
Good question and unfortunately I don't have access to Google's own data, so hard to verify. But you are correct, that the data seems to be at best misleading. The data is in fact from China and already pretty old. https://brodieclark.com/stop-using-comscores-2020-voice-sear...

But anyway, Google says that 20% of the searches (total amount) in their app is in fact done by using voice https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-strategies/app-and...

Here's a few other datapoints, too https://voicebot.ai/2019/07/09/new-data-on-voice-assistant-s... - 58% of adults have ever used voice search (2019 data)

And here some more https://searchengineland.com/how-much-should-we-care-about-v... - tech savvy users seem to be somewhat probable to using voice in search at least sometimes.

And you are correct that most likely the searches are somewhat specific. If you are doing your philosophy paper, you are less likely to use voice than for example when you are looking for directions to the nearest gas station.

Whatever the case may be, it's clear that voice search IS growing with the advent of voice assistants, ubiquitous mobile and better speech recognition.
That or just write the whole script in Python and avoid a needless Go dependency.
Not the person you are responding to, but I liked Fair Game and The Billion Dollar spy. Cyberspies was also decent, but it's less exciting and more technical.

I don't share arminiusreturns' view on the intelligence community. I know there are the black site psychos, but most of the people I've met in the IC care deeply about the rule of law and making the world safe for all of us.

But they are right that things truly are quite compartmentalized. And yes, when the USA said to Snowden "we won't torture you if you return" that sent chills down my spine. It shouldn't have been necessary to say that.
Higher end bidet toilets have fans to dry your ass after washing. Not what the OP was talking about, but it's a thing that exists.
Requiring apps to be signed is what most of us complainers WANT instead of having a store lockdown and rules about what programs we can run on our computers.
There are a lot of brands and manufacturers. One brand might use multiple manufacturers. Or one manufacturer might make for multiple brands and might even sell some directly with their own brand. Some forms are trademarked (Charvel uses the Fender headstock shape in some of their models). Pickups make a big portion of the sound, again connect different ones together. Some makers insist on putting really crappy pickups in their otherwise excellent guitars. Some might have ok woodwork but all the hardware is bad.

The traditional evolution for a guitar maker is like this: A guitar technician tours with famous guitarists and starts customizing instruments for them. They start their own brand for making new guitars. They have a small team in a small shop and they hand make good but expensive guitars. Then they move manufacturing to Japan. Still pretty good stuff, moderate price, available for the people who really want to get it. Third phase is to move manufacturing somewhere else and sell barely adequate quality guitars with just your brand. Make flashy paint jobs, sell to the masses as "first guitar" etc. Original owners might be out at this point.

Some decades later introduce some old models revived at high quality again.
I saw someone post on a non work slack about their steam library, where they had a bunch of games that previously ran on mac, being decimated, and they meant decimated literally by catalina. 90% of their games were 32 bit.
Or pragmatism. At some point it's better and easier for users to offload some of these decisions to someone else. I don't want to test every piece of food I buy at the grocery store for poison, the same way I don't want to have to deep dive into every app. And yes, I know the system is not perfect, but I'm talking about the general system here.
4chan consists of more boards than /pol/
I'm dubious. If you target an organisation where all or almost all employees have Windows, you don't make a Mac program, but if it's the opposite way around Apple can't do anything about that. I've worked two places now where everybody except me had a Mac.

I think if Apple locks down MacOS enough to actually protect users (not just continue the platform's illusion of superiority) you'll know because ISVs will all say it's impossible to get anything done and abandon the platform.

It's very hard to have a platform that's locked down enough to keep people truly safe as this assumes, while keeping it viable for general purpose third party software from ISVs.

I actually ran into one of the corner cases for this recently. Say you own a Yubico Security Key. With any decent web browser you can use this with WebAuthn or U2F and it's unphishable. But, the Security Key itself is relying on your web browser being honest about the origin.

On an iPhone there is only one web browser, Apple made it, everybody else can only re-skin it a bit. So, no problem, Apple's web browser is honest and any third party software that says "Hi I'm your web browser, I need to sign into google.com" does not work, it isn't your web browser.

On a Windows PC, or a Mac, any program can say it's a web browser, if you're foolish enough to install ZoomUpgrade.exe it can tell your Security Key "I'm a web browser, give me credentials for google.com" and that works, the OS has no way to know if this is or is not a web browser.

Android gives you an interesting middle case. Not only Chrome but also Firefox works. Ah, but only the official Mozilla builds of Firefox. If you build Firefox, name it "Netsharc 1000" and try to install it on your Android, it mysteriously can't do WebAuthn. As well as all those Android permissions you can ask for in the manifest, and the ones you have to ask for explicitly at runtime, there are extra permissions only the platform owner (Google) can grant, and official builds of Firefox have the "I'm really a web browser" permission which allows them to use the Security Key for web sites.
I'm very pro-vaccine, and not disagreeing with your conclusions, but your logic leaves out the consideration that the natural risk also depends on catching the disease, whereas the vaccine is administered systematically.
My apologies! I'm not sure why I misremembered that. Perhaps I was confusing it with Prisma... Which appears to be open-source as well now. Hmm, my mind must be playing tricks on me.

Regardless, thank you for the correction!
I wonder if 'queues' like this are the reason people still stand as close as possible to each other in queues. In some locations this is not a case at all, while in others you will always have somebody breathing down your neck.
Hedge fund managers and high schoolers/teachers might have slightly different security training, but judging by the number of rubbish extensions and sites with notification permissions that I clear out of Chrome, there are definitely people out there indiscriminately installing browser extensions!
A Thanksgiving Day gag ruffled feathers in Mission Control
>which covers r&d and marketing but also the failed attempts that lead nowhere in between.

How do you account for the failed attempts?

As yomly alludes to, pharma startups exist because they don't own the risk - their investors bought it when they were funded. Big pharma does own the risk.
- Replace any object from a video with a transparent background
https://011.video/2020/11/22/replace-any-object-from-a-video...

- Replace any color from a video or a webcam with transparent background
https://011.video/2020/11/22/replace-any-color-from-a-video-...

- Paste any image over a video and make it transparent
https://011.video/2020/11/23/paste-any-image-over-a-video-an...

Chroma keying is déjà vu visual-effects but 011.video web app make it open to everyone.

Thanks for your feedbacks!
Homebrew distributes prebuilt binary packages. It’s possible that the architecture for this is improperly set up and does not understand that different architectures exist: unlike macports, homebrew was born after the x86 transition.

That’s why one user above suggests `-s`: it forces a compilation from source.
I wonder if this is actually new technology at all, or if it is literally Rosetta 2.

QuickTransit, the technology behind Rosetta (1), was also licensed to many vendors for <x arch> -> <y arch> translation. The POWER version was called "PowerVM Lx86". It seems to have achieved similar performance to Rosetta 2, but was discontinued in the early 2010s.

The wikipedia page for QuickTransit has, since at least 2015, had a totally unsubstantiated claim that "most" of the original QuickTransit team now works for Apple (and ARM)[0]. Makes me wonder.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=QuickTransit&oldi...
I had to look that up.

"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz." (31 letters)

A perfect pangram contains every letter of the alphabet only once and can be considered an anagram of the alphabet.
MicroOS and Kubic: New Lighter Minimum Hardware Requirements
This, so very much. That project is amazing. It feels very close to the metal and is very satisfying to do, whilst also being pretty straight-forward for a beginner.

And you can go completely custom using the Arduino IDE and anything compatible (Arduino boards and ESP32 or ESP8266s) and link them in to HA via MQTT, which works surprisingly well.
There are systems that accept writes in multiple places (to the same object). So you could read writes applied in different order on different nodes, though in theory eventually all the nodes will converge on the same object value. This is akin to dirty writes, a consistency level no actual database allows. That’s the distinction between stale and ... eventually consistent.

TL;DR stale and consistent is better than inconsistent.
A5 is too small, at A4 I would be interested. Are those volume/brightness controls on the sides, or are they just decorative?
Yes. My point here is that Thorrez at the start of this thread may have a point:

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I've used Apple for 16+ years. I can leave at any moment.

Most apps I use are cross platform (Adobe CS, Cubase, Resolve), others are web based (Gmail, Basecamp, etc), my music is on Spotify, videos on Netflix and Prime, and my peripherals all work.

>Because you can't just leave Apples ecosystem unless willing to switch devices+ecosystem of course.

Well, I buy new laptop every 4-5 years or so. So if I want to move, I can always do so. If in a rush, I can always sell the old laptop in the first or second year too - with the added benefit that Macs keep their resale value better.
Employers care because they want to maximize profit, not simply make enough money to break even. If enough workers say, “I’ll work full-time for you, and only you, and at a lower rate” then your scenario is dead in the water.

The opposite scenario is more likely: offshoring. If remote work becomes functionally 80% as good as in-person, there is no reason for BigCo to spend $200,000 in SV when they could spend $20,000 in Chile or Serbia.

If you really want to have two “jobs” and maximize your income, just do consulting.
In theory yes what you missed is that it’s actually intended to defraud the back of the house and play less than minimum wage then use tips to barely bring back the difference.
Non tech people didn't care. Tech people could read the many details that Apple provided on specific performance claims.

And to be clear, the presentation claimed "this is a fast mobile processor that's very efficient". Both claims have been very soundly proven. So I'm not sure why they would attempt the deception you seem to be implying. There was simply no need.

The M1 release is fascinating because never have I seen such a frantic effort to dismiss something in the face of overwhelming evidence that it's a pretty great thing. Eh.
I've noticed the same thing.

I admittedly do have an obsession with ranting about Android, but I find that there are fewer reasons to rant than five years ago. So I rant less.

As the Android platform has improved over the years, I find that the main reason I don't want people around me to use Android is the ridiculously short product lifecycle of many Android phones, and the risk of non-techies using unpatched devices.

I honestly think Apple's recent 5-6 years is unsustainable, but the three-year(?!) promise that seems to be a best case for Android is just obscene.

Someone at work said it's partially due to SoC manufacturers not providing drivers for new Android kernels for very long, but I might have misunderstood.
> Every day at dusk, there is a crow highway in the sky.

I've seen that, big flocks of crows flying somewhere every evening.

Where do they go?

More than once I've wanted to follow them.
I wonder if people worked from home using terminals connected to mainframes back in the 70s and 80s.
How do you raise a software bug with an eBook publisher?
Do you have any recommendations on backup tools?

I figured borg is stable and does the job but others, including restic have problems like memory usage concerns and I'm just a single person shop and don't have any huge assets to backup and already seeing restic/duplicacy choke consuming GBs of memory.

What are the tools that are performant and stable?

I'd like to at least use another implementation besides borg in case a bug corrupts the data.

Encryption, retention policies, incremental backup without periodical full backup and acceptable performance (that people don't fill GitHub issues with performance problems) are requirements and deduplication is a plus.
Why Pareto optimality might be wrong for building products
Well..that's been addressed now:
https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2020-11-23-requirements/
So I have 8 sticks of ECC RAM in my desktop. I overclock the RAM , and ECC is nice there since it gives more confidence that the overclock is stable. But more importantly, ECC was really useful once one of the sticks started failing. Not only did the ECC errors immediately point the blame at the RAM (no need to triage random crashes or corruption), it made it clear that all errors were coming from only one of the sticks. Figuring out which stick it was involved some guesswork of the physical -> logical -> Linux utilities' layout mapping, but just replacing that one stick fixed things and the system has been stable since. Definitely glad that I went with ECC for this system.
I’d like to know if the vaccine stops a person from getting infected, or only prevents the onset of severe symptoms.