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Yep, that happens all the time. Some quick fix is added before a trade show and 2-3 years later it's still there and going into the release. The reasons vary but it's usually one or more of: people forgot, issue was created but was never important enough to get worked on, the fix works fine and the comment should be removed, the code path is no longer executed.
That's a heavily requested feature that's in the works. I was focusing on platform independent features in the beginning but this will come eventually.
macOS arm64 doesn't require any instructions that aren't part of the standardized Arm ISA. And about the Secure Enclave, just don't expose the device in the device tree (that's enough w/ stubbing AppleSystemPolicy).
Hah, do they have an "Add a contact to pray for" feature? A Zuckerbergian personal information hoarder/reseller would salivate at the thought of having such info.
The good news for steam users is that you don’t have to purchase the game separately for each platform. The decimated users can build their own Windows gaming PC and easily regain access to all of their old games. I doubt they had any Mac-exclusive games that also happened to be 32-bit only. Do such games even exist? Maybe.
I think that’d be the use of it. Quick and simple stuff that you otherwise don’t want to configure a laptop around performing. It’s not a “use this for hours at a time” and daily driver. Not sure of the breadth of that use case.
> I bet there were people like you back when slavery was legal.

It still is.

Go research Apple's relationship with Foxconn.
Two which i've subscribed in print form recently:

Monocle - Really a general affairs magazine particularly focussed on Urban design, travel, technology, business and current affairs. Global editing staff. Produce some nice podcasts as well.

Courier - Startup focussed in the UK but i find it generally informative and attractive style to it.
> Any individual would agree with you and herein lies the crux: who is "we"?

"We" is a complex system. It is nobody and everyone.

I really don't think humans are actually intelligent. I think we are extremely clever, but a truly intelligent species would learn to countermand the emergent properties of the systems in which it embeds itself and take charge of its own history.

We are not intelligent enough to do that. Clever means we can understand one-cause-one-effect or few-causes-one-effect, and you can see that this is how all our engineered systems are built. They are very sophisticated versions of "hit thing with rock." Our machines are full of single parts with single functions.

Living systems on the other hand are all-causes-cause-all-effects fully concurrent feedback loops. Every part has every function with varying weights, like the weights in a neural network. That's totally beyond our intelligence to understand. We can barely do parallel programming with a few threads... this is like parallel programming where every instruction executes at once.

So far what look like attempts to control our destiny, like communism and fascism, are nothing but resentment driven tribal purges thinly veiled in complex language. They've done more harm than good. Right now just leaving things alone is possibly the best we can do.

BTW I think this is also why the promised dividends from sequencing the human genome and understanding genetics have not materialized. Genomes and the living phenotypes they help form are complex all-causes-all emergent systems much like our societies and economies. We are not cognitively capable of understanding them. Studying biology is like studying alien technology from a civilization a billion years beyond ours.
Sounds the main issue lies in using iMessage/Android Messages for long-lasting permanent group conversations, which seems like a bad idea. Impossible even, since what social group uses the same OS universally?

I use iMessage for what it works well — short temporary conversations. But if one wants to maintain a community there are far better options. Like Rocket Chat, Slack or Discord.
Totally. A portable KVM/crash cart could be useful.
Indeed. I'd happily buy an ARM based laptop but I just can't get go of my legacy software.
ARM claims X1 has about 30% better integer perf than the A77; given how the A77 performs in Snapdragon 865, that would mean the M1 is only about 45% faster single core than the X1.
That's not going to solve the SD card corruption issue. That's not specific to Home Assistant, it's just a fact of life with SD cards. You'd be much better off using an SSD via USB.
Cool. I'll check them out. Stripe definitely seems to be the "thousand pound gorilla" in this space.
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No unit test ?
> Following that, a Pakistani national Muhammad Bhatti made 64 (!) withdrawals from one bank where the money was transferred, as well as a small shopping spree, before leaving Australia.

It should be easy to track the criminal.
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Someone has never been to a doctors office or the hospital in the US or has a very loose definition of rich.
no real idea, but my guess is that its likely true that mRNA fragment production is cheaper, but inactivated vector manufacturing is already scaled up and out globally and mRNA is not-- existing labs around the world can maybe be more easily equipped to scale up production?
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I would much rather face the non-material problems in my life without so much material insecurity.
When the code is chaotic enough it may be impossible to write an anti-cheat that can't be guaranteed to not trip from ordinary in-game code.
That's not correct. In compiled languages, if for example denominator can be computed at compile time, it will almost certainly be optimized to use tricks, the easiest one is to just convert it to a multiply.

A division instruction can take a variable length of cycles to solve depending on the complexity of the division, it has terrible throughput and can be 100x slower than something like an addition, and that's on modern architectures!

Did you ever notice how a calculator can sometimes take a visible amount of time to compute something, and sometimes it was instant? Some instructions are more expensive than others!
Professional game development seems to revolve around the art of quick hacks. Gamers aren't going to care whether your code is clean or not, and they sure as hell won't want to wait for you to tidy it up.
Omg yes. I had an Ecobee in my previous hone and thought it was just kinda okay. 3 weeks ago I moved into a new place that has a traditional thermostat and I’m now aware of how much better that Ecobee was.
Sounds right. I was counting PPC only once.
I don't know how it would compare to a year without Covid, but I've gotten a lot of stuff done at home, including setting up a laser engraver/cutter and quite a few hobby projects.

I was on this path already (I already had an MPCNC and woodworking tools) but I'm pretty sure this year gave me a lot more time to play around with stuff, and so I got further.
Not to mention that even the utility function of the "millenials dilemma" makes no sense here, it's not even consistent like it has to be. What it represents here?

- More wealth is better? Then 0/10 for chill/work maybe is ok, but it make no sense to have 8/8 for chill/chill.
- More fun is better? Then 8/8 is ok, but it makes no sense to have 0/10 for chill/work.
- More fun in the near future is better? But it is clearly stated that fun will be unachievable in the game since work will prevail as the dominant position.
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Not to mention spending hours pouring over the release notes on the album covers. The implementation detail in a gatefold cover for a dual-boot album could be intense.
What is it? Is it laptop? A tablet? A keyboard? I'm confused.
> If you're alleging single-actor control you need to have some idea of who that single actor allegedly is.

Why?

Do you apply this same standard when debugging software, or do you discard the realization of all observed patterns for which you lack an immediate explanation?

It's interesting to observe how the manner in which logic is executed changes when the topic of conversation changes in various ways.
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I think this quote from the page sums it up best:

>DevTerm is a post-modern, digital minimalist lifestyle.

It's more about signaling to others that you embody the "hacker lifestyle" than anything else. Looks cool, your friends will ooh and ahh over it, but probably won't get much use outside of that due to the ergonomics.
So help me understand. What about cases where somebody gets covid, goes to the hospital on day 15, respirator day 20, dies day 25.

Was somebody in that profile only contagious up until day 9?
Hierarchical organizations with strict information controls are terribly vulnerable to group think. Compartmentalization means that even if the US was really using biological weapons the people terrified of brainwashing at the CIA probably wouldn't know that.

And it wasn't just the existence of the US brainwashing program that was a consequence of this belief. Angleton threw every Russian who attempted to defect to the US into jail because he thought that Soviet brainwashing made true defection impossible.
There are other benefits to the architecture change. A strong motivation is that profit margins can be increased by using more efficient in CPU size/speed, battery size, and amount of RAM to deliver the same performance compared to x86 Macs. Rather than pass these savings to consumers Apple can bank the difference. And the consumer wins with smaller/lighter devices and longer battery life. Expect that macOS will continue by adding background processing limit permissions etc.
> "just expose yourself to media (news, social media, "influencers", etc) and they will helpfully convince you that everything you thought before you encountered them was bad/racist/sexist/conservative/etc.

Or on the flip side, turn your dial to Rush Limbaugh or Tucker Carlson and be convinced that NOTHING you've ever said or done as a Patriotic American is bad/problematic.
Are there any drawbacks of using a plugin centric approach? Typically there is loss of expressiveness in code, loss of performance or disconnect between core and plugin development.
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"Zuckerbergian personal information hoarder/reseller"

I'm going to have to remember that one. Ha.
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Oh right, so that means any JIT that expects to generate x86-64 code and run it, can't. Maybe some exceptionally flexible jit implementations run (if they detect which arch to use at run time - sounds very unlikely).
Sounds like the writing is on the wall for 32bit linux but you still have some time.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/statement-on-32-bit-i386-packages-fo...
Definitely; the biggest challenge in software development is keeping things manageable. I think this is why microservices are so popular; the individual services are manageable. But that's a misconception, because the overall architecture becomes a monstrosity, especially if there is no oversight (which in my experiences with the pattern, there wasn't).
Not here in Poland.

Though, it would very logical as a precaution.
> discussions about being able to work for Google and Facebook at the same time, now that everyone's WFH anyway.

At the end of the day you get $x per hour and your hours are limited. This is true whether you you're in-office or remote. So no, you can't be a full time employee of both companies.

> And if the employer can't tell if that's the case, surely that's a problem in any case? What's the difference if the extra time is spent on another job or watching Netflix?

That's a problem of your time not being utilised well. The sudden move to remote this year means that this has happened at a lot of companies and they haven't been able to respond well quickly enough. But to think that you can keep that Netflix time slot indefinitely, or that you can fill it with a second FAANG job is absurd.

Don't assume that your employer is dumb. If you can spend only half of your time on the job and brag about it online, what's stopping your company from laying off half of your team?

I also imagine that these kinds of discussions are infuriating to the people who were already remote pre-COVID and were working the hours they are supposed to. They had a great thing going on but if suddenly everyone else moves to remote and a bunch of people are slacking off, remote work suddenly look less viable from an employer's point of view, not more.

> WFH revolution

It's not a revolution. It's an involuntary experiment, and we don't know what the results will be and which companies and employees it will work well for.
Ivies matter on your resume because they are exclusive and everyone can't go there. You can't let everyone go to an elite institution because then they wouldn't be elite anymore.
The main bottleneck is getting a bunch of volunteers, vaccinating them, and seeing how many get the disease over the next few months. Kinda hard to speed that up, unless you're confident/desperate enough to just skip testing. Maybe if the disease were 10X more dangerous and you had a vaccine that was just a minor variation of a previous one, it'd be worth it.

A little time could maybe be shaved off by speeding up production. The mRNA vaccines have an advantage here, you can basically use an RNA printer to churn out whatever RNA sequence you need.
No, Uber combined all those things together in a way that made them more efficient and more appealing to both drivers and riders.

If driving for Uber is worse than being a cab driver, why didn’t the vast majority of Uber drivers drive cabs before?

You don’t need to create completely innovative greenfield technologies in order to generate value.
generally agree, except the 'cheap'. the top cloud providers offer VMs which are everything but cheap.
Well you could configure BlobBackup to do something kinda like that.

I know some users run backups to their NAS every 6 hours and then run a weekly backup of their NAS to the cloud using whatever NAS software it came with (alternatively you could sync it through your laptop).
And what about disk controllers like the T2? How is that going to be emulated?

The ARM ISA versus x86 ISA is probably the least complicated part of this equation. At least on x86 there were widely used graphics components that were leveraged. What exactly do we know about the built-in GPU on the M1?
You used to be able to open any application directly. Simple and easy.

Then they introduced Gatekeeper, but you had the option to disable the Gatekeeper check for all applications.

Then they removed the option to disable the check for all applications. You now only have the options "App Store" and "App Store and identified developers".

They have definitely made the whole thing harder and harder during these past 10 years. Now if you don't want to pay Apple for a developer license, or you're just otherwise ousted by Apple (like Epic Games), you need to teach your users on how they can circumvent Apple's restrictions.
take a look at NexDock - laptop form factor, without the innards. just a keyboard, trackpad, screen, and battery waiting to connect to a phone, server rack, pi, or what have you.
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Definitely. It’s a similar situation with the aviation too.

Unfortunately, rules in fields like medicine and aviation are written with blood. Someone gets too greedy or too comfortable and you have large numbers of people death or incapacitated.

We already have large numbers of charlatans preying on the hopes of desperate people, must be very careful not to lower the barrier too much or these might jump too. Even worse, people might be targeted by slick psychopaths and coerced into extremely dangerous things, destroying communities when anything goes wrong.

Hopefully though, some mountains might have been moved and some things might have gotten faster from now on.
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This seems like a pretty big stack for a single person to administrate - how much time do you spend on doing operations vs development?
You proved yourselves to be untrustworthy by opting everyone into analytics using Google and hiding the notice in lots of terminal output. You guys doubled down on that by refusing to reconsider, saying unless you were a contributor to the project, your opinion was irrelevant. Mike McQuaid's responses as a representative of the project were user hostile, all while he tried to paint himself as the victim of abuse over the matter.

If you want to regain my trust, remove the analytics function, swear off such things forever, and expel Mike McQuaid from the project. But I doubt that will happen, so MacPorts it is. And I'll encourage everyone I know to use it rather than Homebrew.
That all sounds sensible.

As you say, deliberately committing to lock-in isn't necessarily a mistake. The Amazon Aurora managed database solution looks very impressive, for instance, and I imagine it could make good sense to use it despite the lock-in. In that instance, the service is compatible with MySQL/Postgres, but I imagine it could still be a considerable challenge to move away from it (moving from one high-availability Postgres-based database solution to another).

The upsides may outweigh the downsides of lock-in, but the upside needs to be substantial.
Something like this is much better suited to that purpose: https://brothermobilesolutions.com/products/handheld-printer...
>These two companies have collectively received more than $1.5 billion from the US government [1]. As I understand it, Pfizer have not taken any federal funding. They do have government purchase agreements, but they

So where did Pfizer's capital come from to shoulder these costs? It didn't come out of thin air, they've accumulated capital from somewhere. If not from taxpayers, someone is subsidizing Pfizer's expenses through Pfizer's revenue stream. Taxpayer subsidies really make sense here seeing how this issue effects everyone.
I know of a good production line that has seen improvements in efficiency and safety due to automation with Arduino. I’m sure there are better ways but in terms of bang for buck, it’s hard to see how a non-programmer could have done better.
This to me is perhaps the primary reason I view Android as simply irresponsible as an ecosystem.

The average lifespan of their phones is kind of sad. Most people keep their iPhones for many, many years. But if you try to do that on the Android side you're putting up with a lot of hardware pains or putting yourself at risk using a device that's no longer getting security patches.

Totally understand that people have different cosmetic preferences in operating system, or even philosophically just prefer the Android approach. But it's this fundamental disposability of Android that seems so wrong in comparison to how Apple dutifully designs their phones for long haul support.
> I ran memtest+ for a weekend every 3 months or so on 64GB DDR4 Ryzen system for 2+ years and haven't found anything.

Don't assume that that means there are never any errors. DRAM errors often depend on access patterns: While dialing in the speed and timings for my RAM initially settled on a configuration that did not report any errors in memtest but later during heavy usage (e.g. compiling LLVM with make -j64) reported ECC errors.
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It’s good to know that we can now file assault charges on those maskless mouth breathers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-backer-charged-with-assau...
Gamers Nexus audience is very niche - PC enthusiasts. Apple has a much larger demo that they are targeting.
> Pandemrix, a flu vaccine, caused a notable uptick in narcolepsy in Sweden, Finland and likely the UK.

"The increased risk of narcolepsy due to vaccination was 1 in 18400 or 0.005%."[1] Considering the fatality and long term disability rate of Covid, and the way testing and safety protocols are done for vaccines, I don't really see how there could be an unknown and unseen risk that would outweigh the risk of contracting Covid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix#Side_effects
Pricing is pretty competitive with some alternatives with similar performance/features imo. Arq, duplicacy, qbackup...
UX can guide the user toward what it thinks to be the best option, or it can forbid the user from choosing anything else.

The former helps grandma get her tasks done and lets the power user go the extra mile.

The latter helps grandma get her tasks done, tells the power user he's not worth supporting and blames grandma for it.
It was to manufacturer's advantage for electricity to be standardized. Otherwise they would have to support components for every single distributor. I don't know if it was to distributor's advantage... I think there's probably some argument for a shared grid and lines improving them also.

There's no advantage I can think of for Philips to host non-Philips protocols on their lightbulbs.
this is yet another issue for programmers but not for the business. the product is seen as a black box by the business and if it gets expected output for provided input, it does not matter what is going on inside of it. it makes money and in the end that is the only thing that truly matters.

of course programmers will keep on complaining but in the end, it does not matter. if it works, don't fix it. doing rewrites brings nothing to the business, only to the developers. sure, the rewrite will save dev hours along the way but the rewrite itself is not free so all in all...if it works...

btw this is also why language design of composition instead of inheritance is so important for big projects. you will learn this way way too late if you do not get it already.
They didn't. But there are no driver available for Radeon cards on M1, so for now it is effectively dead.
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Why wouldn't your wife and kid be backpacking with you? Kids are small, they fit in the overhead compartment.
And not only that but option (b) is a virus "that has been genetically changed so that it is impossible for it to grow in humans," according to the article.
You mean a guitar wahwah pedal? I'd say it sounds more like a flanger pedal.
Or a bluetooth keyboard for your smartphone. You can have Bluetooth mechanical keyboards for cheap nowadays.
It's totally up to them. If Microsoft wanted to, they could say tomorrow that Windows 11 will no longer maintain backwards compatibility with X, Y, and Z ancient technologies.

This would anger some of their corporate customers. Possibly even enough that they could get together and fund some kind of Windows Legacy effort. But realistically, if Microsoft decided to stop being backwards-compatible, where are their customers who are stuck with ancient Windows software going to go? Macs? Linux? Neither of those will have the kind of guarantees their purchasing departments require for compatibility.

Maybe, just maybe, if Microsoft stopped supporting everything ever written for one of their OSes, some of the godawful legacy cruft would actually have to be replaced by new software, and some poor corporate IT people's lives would improve immensely...
The little I’ve heard about the M1 makes it sound radically different in one respect: the system RAM is unified with the video RAM and shared, rather than partitioned the way it usually is on integrated video.

Now I don’t know anything about GPU stacks, but I could imagine that one change essentially requiring a rewrite of the entire stack if certain assumptions were baked into the old one.

The new model would seem to allow the developer to allocate a buffer full of stuff and rapidly alternate between CPU and GPU instructions on that buffer, without copying. If so, that’s a pretty huge win for performance.